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Vaile, Joel F. Joel F. Vaile
Joel F. Vaile, lawyer,
was born at Centerville, Wayne county, Indiana, March 14, 1848; a
son of Rawson and Anne E. Vaile. Later with his parents he removed
to Indianapolis, and subsequently to Kokomo, Ind. After the usual
course in the public schools, young Vaile entered Oberlin, (Ohio),
College where he was graduated in 1872. In that year he engaged in
teaching, and in 1976-78 he had served as Prosecuting Attorney of
the Thirty-Sixth Judicial Circuit of Indiana, and in 1880 was an
Indiana delegate in the Republican National Convention at Chicago
that nominated Garfield for President. History of Denver, with Outlines of the Earlier History of the Rocky Mountain Country, Jerome C. Smiley, editor, (c) 1901, p. 698 |