HADLEY, JOHN VESTAL: 1842-1915.
John Vestal Hadley , son of Jonathan and Ara Hadley, was born in Hendricks County, Ind., on Oct. 31, 1842, attended Northwestern Christian (now Butler) University from 1859 to 1861, and studied at Indiana Law School in 1886. He married Mary J. Hill on Mar. 15, 1865.
During the Civil War he served in the Union Army for three and one-half years. He was twice wounded in battle, was captured on May 5, 1864, and escaped from Columbia, S. C., to Knoxville, Tenn., on Dec. 10, 1864.
From 1869 to 1872 Mr. Hadley was a member of the Indiana Senate. He was a circuit judge in 1888-89 and a justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana from 1899 to 1911.
A resident of Danville, Ind., he died on Nov. 17, 1915.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- Seven Months a Prisoner. New
York, 1898.
- History of Hendricks County, Indiana.
Indianapolis, 1914.
