Biddle, Horace P
lawyer, jurist, author, poet, was born March 24, 1818, in Hocking county, Ohio. In his boyhood he received an elementary English education, and afterward acquired a knowledge of Latin, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and several eastern languages.
He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and in 1838 opened an office in Logansport, Ind.; rose to the first rank in his profession, and received the highest judicial honors of the state. He was a member of the constitutional convention, which formed the present constitution of the state. He is the author of several books; in science- The Musical Scale; in philosophy-Elements of Knowledge; in poetry-A Few Poems; Biddle's Poems; American Boyhood; and a Glance at the World; and a volume entitled Prose Miscellany. In childhood Mr. Biddle showed an intense love of music, and thirty years after the publication of his scientific work, entitled The Musical Scale, his theory was proved to be true by demonstrative evidence. He still resides in his Island Home on an island in the Wabash river near Logansport, Ind.