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SULLIVAN, Jeremiah, lawyer, born in Harrison-burg, Virginia, 21 July, 1794; died in Madison, Indiana, 6 December, 1870. He was educated at William and Mary college, and was admitted to the bar in Winchester, Virginia, in 1814. He served for some time as a major of volunteers in the war of 1812, and in 1816 removed to Indiana, and, settling at Madison, engaged in practice. In 1821 he was elected to the legislature, and while a member of that body proposed Indianapolis as the name for the state capital. From 1831 till 1837 he was one of the fund commissioners for the state, in 1837 he was appointed one of the judges of the state supreme court, and he was judge of the criminal court of Jefferson county from 1869 till his death. He was once an unsuccessful candidate for congress, and had been appointed by the governor of the state a commissioner to adjust the land question that arose between Ohio and Indiana out of the construction of the Wabash and Erie canal.--His son, Algernon Sydney, lawyer, born in Madison, Indiana, 5 April, 1826; died in New York city, 4 December, 1887, was educated at Hanover college, Indiana, and Miami university, Ohio, and graduated at the latter in 1850. Having been admitted to the bar, he practised for several years, in 1855 removed to Cincinnati, and in the spring of 1859 to New York, where he soon attracted attention by his legal talent and his oratory. Shortly after the opening of the civil war he was counsel for several privateersmen that had been captured and taken to New York, and his acting in that capacity having caused him to be suspected by the authorities, he was arrested and confined in Fort Lafayette for three months. He was assistant district attorney of New York for three years, and public administrator from 1875 till 1885, resigning each of those offices to attend to his private practice. Mr. Sullivan was president of the Southern society, and was identified with many charitable and other associations. --Another son, Jeremiah C., soldier, born in Madison, Indiana, 1 October, 1830, served during the civil war, became brigadier-general of volunteers, 28 April, 1862, and resigned, 11 May, 1865.
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