MINTURN, JOSEPH ALLEN: 1861-1943.
Joseph Allen Minturn , widely known patent attorney, was born in Athens County, O., on June 20, 1861. He came to Indianapolis at the age of fifteen. He was educated at Pennsylvania Military College, majoring in civil engineering and chemistry and graduating with honors in 1880. After graduation he began to study law, was admitted to the Indiana bar and began practice as a patent attorney in the early Nineties. He served in the Indiana Legislature in 1901.
He enlisted for service in the first World War, was discharged because of his age (he was fifty-five) but appealed, was reinstated and served overseas in the Quartermaster Corps, being discharged with the rank of captain. Joseph Allen Minturn was an amateur painter, engraver and illustrator, illustrating some of his books. He died on Apr. 3, 1943.
Information from the INDIANAPOLIS STAR for Apr. 4, 1943.
- Inventor's Friend; or, Success with Patents
…. Indianapolis, 1893.
- Price-Regulation Under Patents.
Indianapolis, 1916.
- The American Spirit.
Indianapolis, 1921.
- Frances Slocum of Miami Lodge; the Dramatic Story of the
White Girl that Became an Indian Princess and Her Relation to the Stirring
Events Through which the Northwest Territory was wrested from the British
and Indians. Indianapolis, 1928.
- Brown County Ballads.
Indianapolis, 1928.
- Historical and Other Poems.
Indianapolis, 1939.
