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In loving memory
J. Alvin Padgett
History of the Catholic Church in Indiana
Logansport:Bowen, 1898
J. Alvin Padgett, deputy prosecuting attorney of Daviess County, Ind., is a native of this county, was born December 25, 1869, and is a son of William B. and Minerva J. (Seal) Padgett, of well known and highly respectable old families of the county and state. Until the age of thirteen he was instructed in the parochial school and then entered the high school, from which he was graduated in 1889. His first business step was to engage in the hotel business at Sullivan, where he remained one year, and then entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, from the law department of which he graduated in 1892. After passing the following year at home, he went to Vinton, Iowa, where he re-entered in the hotel business for two years, and then returned to Daviess county, Ind., and November 1, 1895, engaged in the active practice of law in Washington, in partnership with his brother, Arnold J. Padgett, of whom mention has already been made in full. His success in the legal profession was assured from the beginning, and his reputation as a lawyer of more than ordinary merit was so early established that on November 17, 1896, he was appointed deputy prosecuting attorney of the county, and has since handled several very important criminal cases in his official capacity. His knowledge of criminal and civil jurisprudence is very comprehensive, and higher honors necessarily await him.
Contributed by: John D. McMullen