Tipton-Wells County IN Archives Biographies.....Waugh, Dan 1842 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   HON. DAN WAUGH was born in Wells County, Ind., on the 7th day of March, 1842.
While a boy, he attended the crude country schools of that period, and succeeded
in acquiring a good common school education. When quite a young man, he taught
several schools, as so many men have done who have subsequently risen to
distinction. On the 9th day of September. 1861, the war of the rebellion
becoming colossal in proportions, he enlisted in Company A, Thirty-fourth
Indiana Volunteer Infantry, which was immediately sent to the front and assigned
to the Thirteenth Corps. He took part in the closely contested battles in which
that corps was engaged. He was in the trenches before Vicksburg; he endured the
trials and hardships of the Red River campaign; he was in the battles at
Jackson, Miss., and at Island No. 10, and in that fierce and bitter struggle at
Champion Hills he received a severe bayonet wound in the thigh. Upon being
mustered out of the army, Mr. Waugh returned to Wells County, and shortly
afterward entered upon the study of law at Bluffton, having determined to enter
that profession. In 1866, he was admitted to the bar of Wells County, but in the
following year, conceiving Tipton to be a better field for a young lawyer, he
located in that town. Soon afterward, he entered into a partnership with Judge
John Green, the oldest and one of the ablest practitioners at the Tipton bar.
This partnership continued for several years, and so closely did Mr. Waugh apply
himself, and such aptitude did he display for forensic encounters, that he early
took a front rank in his profession. After the dissolution of this firm, he
continued the practice alone, his success increasing with each year, and his
business growing to large proportions. In November, 1882, he formed a
partnership with John P. Kemp, an able and rising young lawyer, and the firm of
Waugh & Kemp is one of the strongest in this part of the State. Mr. Waugh was
married in 1870 to Miss Alice Grove, a daughter of Dr. J. M. Grove, of Tipton,
and they have three children, named Pearl, Bell and Nina. A lawyer in large and
active practice is very much before the people, who readily place an estimate
upon his attainments and abilities. Thus it has been with Dan Waugh, and the
opinion so formed of him by the public has been highly complimentary, but free
from exaggeration. He is an excellent lawyer, in the strict sense of that term,
and as an advocate he is earnest, eloquent and impressive. Few men in Northern
Indiana can make a stronger or more feeling appeal to a jury, and few have done
so more successfully, judging by the verdicts secured. In addition to this, few
have gained and kept a larger practice and given better satisfaction to clients.
His success at the bar is but the deserved reward of an undeviating attention to
duty and of fidelity to every engagement and undertaking. When his services have
been secured, he regards no work in the interest of his client as too severe,
and when the case is a difficult one, his toil is frequently extreme. In
politics, Mr. Waugh is a Republican, and by his discussions of public questions
upon the stump, he has achieved distinction in his party, and in his own county
particularly he is looked up to by his friends as a leader of party opinion. He
is also a member of the Masonic fraternity. Financially, he is in very
comfortable circumstances, being the owner of valuable town and farm property
and a fine law library. He is yet a young man, very popular with the people, and
his prospects for the future are continually brightening.

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COUNTIES OF HOWARD AND TIPTON, INDIANA.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.

CHARLES BLANCHARD. EDITOR.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO.
1883.


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