WILLIAM H. BAINBRIDGE, Lawrenceburgh, judge incumbent of the Seventh Judicial Circuit Cort, and an able member of the Dearbon County bar, is a descendant of the old English Stock of Bainbridges, of which his second cousin, Com.Bainbridge, of P.W., and Catharube (Palmer) Bainbridge, was born in the State of Pennsylvania, June 5, 1829.

His father was a native of Maryland, and his mother was reared in Stark County, Ohio, her parents both living to the advanced age of over ninety years. His paternal ancestors were a hardy and intelligent class of people, though his parents died when he was in chilhood, and he was reared by a family by the name of Goode, from the age of six to thirteen years, at which time Mr. Goode died.

This period of Judge Bainbridge's life was passed on the farm. He obtained the rudiments of an education during the winter terms of the district schools, and with this as a basis, by close application to his books during every moment of his leisure time, he acquired a thorough general knowledge such as is rarely attained outside of a regular collegiate course, of which latter advantage he was never able to avail himself.

Mr. Bainbridge resided in Warren County, Ohio, till nineteen years of age. He spent three years in Rushville, Ind., moving to Shelbyville, Ind., in 1851.

Here he began the study of law with Judge Cyrus Wright, an able lawyer of that county, and in the meantime was also engaged in editing a political paper called the Banner, and which he says is the only act of his life, in a political way, that he has any reason to regret; that he undertook the enterprise without due consideration, but soon saw the error of his position as the editor of a "Native American" or "Know-nothing" paper, and true to his convictions of right, abandoned the whole thing as soon as he could possibbly dispose of his press and office.

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Source of this article "HISTORY OF DEARBORN AND OHIO COUNTIES, INDIANA"-1885

SUBMITTED BY: John Minneman