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Martindale, Elijah B

journalist, jurist, was born Aug. 22, 1828, in Wayne county, Ind. In 1861 he was appointed judge of the common pleas court for the district composed of the counties of Henry, Madison, Hancock, Rush, and Decatur, Ind. In 1876 he purchased the Indianapolis Journal, the leading republican paper of the state, and assumed its active control.

MARTINDALE, HENRY CLIFTON, congressman, was born May 6, 1780, in Berkshire county, Mass. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1823 to 1831, and again from 1833 to 1835.

He died April 22, 1860, in Sandy Hill, N. Y.