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and was a member of the State Legislature. 

 John Hendricks, the father of Thomas, was 

 born in Ligonier valley, and not Ipng after 

 his marriage he moved to Zanesville, Ohio, 

 and on a farm near that place Thomas was 

 born. 



When he was six months old his parents re- 

 moved to Madison, Ind., then the residence 

 of his uncle, William Hendricks, who was suc- 

 cessively a member of Congress, Governor of 



over College, at Hanover, Indiana, from which 

 he was graduated in 1841. His brother, 

 Abram Hendricks, went through the course at 

 the University of Ohio and at Hanover, and 

 became a Presbyterian clergyman. Thomas 

 went to Chambersburg, Pa., studied law in 

 the office of his uncle, Judge Thomson, was 

 admitted to the bar in 1843, and returned to 

 Shelby ville to practice. His success in his pro- 

 fession was phenomenal. In 1845 he married 



THOMAS ANDREWS HENDRICKS. 



the State, and United States Senator. John 

 Hendricks was appointed by President Jack- 

 son a Deputy-Surveyor of Public Lands, and 

 long served in that capacity. In 1832 he re- 

 moved again, and located a homestead in the 

 then sparsely-settled county of Shelby, and the 

 county town, Shelbyville, is upon a part of the 

 old Hendricks farm. 



In this home Thomas A. Hendricks passed 

 his boyhood till 1837, when he entered Han- 



Eliza C. Morgan. They have no children, their 

 only son having died in infancy. In the same 

 year, at the age of twenty-six, he was sent 

 to the State Legislature, where he served one 

 term, but he would not accept a re-election. 

 In 1851 he was elected without opposition a 

 member of the convention that was called to 

 revise and amend the State Constitution 01 

 Indiana, and was prominent and efficient in 

 that work. 



