McALPIN, Elbert A.

McCALPIN—E. A., passed away at the family home in Greenwood Friday, Nov. 15, 12:30 p.m. Funeral at residence, Monday, Nov. 18, 3 p.m. Burial Greenwood Cemetery.

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, November 22, 1918,
page 1 column 5

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Local Bar Pays Respect to E. A. Mc-
Alpin Who Was One of
Their Honored Members.

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Elbert A. McAlpin was born on December 13, 1870. His life was spent in Greenwood, Indiana, where he grew to manhood, and, in the schools of that town, he obtained his public school training. He then entered Franklin College, from which he graduated in 1893. After completing his college work, he took up the study of the law, as the vocation to which he felt himself drawn, for his life work. After spending some months as a student of John L. McMaster, for many years an honored and efficient judge of the Marion Superior Court, in Ind­ianapolis, he was admitted to the bar of the Johnson Circuit Court on November 24, 1894. He engaged in the practice of his profession at Greenwood and continued there in the successful practice until the progress of the illness resulting in his death caused his withdrawal, and his death ensued on November 15, 1918.

Mr. McAlpin was, throughout his career as a lawyer, an earnest and diligent student of the law; and brought to recognition, not only among his associates at this bar, but in many other courts, where his business connections engaged him, as an able lawyer, and a strong antagonist to those of his fellow lawyers who opposed him in his cases, requiring from all of them their best efforts to carry the issue joined with his.

He was an indefatigable worker, wrapped up in his profession, and devoting his energy entirely to it, and caring nothing for any avocation or recreation. His whole interest was the law, and his own cases. His too assiduous attention to them un­doubtedly undermined a naturally weak physical constitution, and sowed the seed that ripened into the ailment that ended his life, while scarce yet reached the fullness of legal at­tainment that was his mental due.

He was of excellent personal habits, of unusually even temper, and avoided always bitterness in the controversy of trial and court room. He was a man of careful preparation, knew his own case throughout, and was a good strategist in the management of a law suit. As a business counsellor, he had large experience, and was sought after, and relied upon by large business interests.

And, now, whereas, in his passing from his accustomed scene of activity, the bar of the Johnson Circuit Court has lost a member whose career has been to it both an ornament, and a source of pride and satisfaction.

Be it Resolved: That we deeply deplore his departure, and hereby express to his family our sympathy, and our sense of personal loss, not only to us as a Bar, but to the several individual members thereof, in his death.

That copies of this preamble and resolution be spread upon the current Order Book of this, Johnson Circuit Court, and be transmitted to his family, and to the press of the County.

Respectfully submitted.

Elba L. Branigan,
Fred Owens,
Ivory J. Drybread.

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Link to Elbert A. McAlpin’s grave

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry