MCBRIDE, ROBERT WESLEY: 1842-1926.
Robert Wesley McBride , son of Augustus and Martha Ann Barnes McBride, was born on Nov. 25, 1842, in Richland County, O. He attended Ohio public schools and, after the removal of his family to that state, schools of Iowa and the Kirkwood Academy. He served in the Civil War as a member of the Union Light Guard of Ohio (President Lincoln's bodyguard).
He was admitted to the Iowa bar in 1867. The next year he married Ida S. Chamberlain and they made page: 197[View Page 197] their home in Waterloo, Ia., where McBride practiced law and served as circuit judge until 1890, when they removed to Indianapolis .
At Indianapolis McBride served as a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from 1890 to 1893 and practiced law in that city from 1893 until his death in 1926.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- Lincoln's Body Guard, the Union Light Guard of Ohio;
with Some Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln.
Indianapolis, 1911.
- Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln; with Introduction
by Albert J. Beveridge. Indianapolis, 1926.
