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Stanton J. Peelle
Hon. Stanton J. Peelle, the present Congressman from the Seventh District, was born in New Garden Township, Wayne County, Feb. 11, 1843. He resided on the farm of his father John C. Peelle, in Wayne County, until 1859, when the family removed to Randolph County, and in 1860 located in Winchester. He received a fair common-school education, and taught school for a short time. In 1861 he enlisted in Company G, Eighth Indiana Regiment; in 1862 was transferred and made Second Lieutenant of Company K, Fifty-seventh Regiment; mustered out July 30, 1863. He then began rending law in the office of Hon. Wm. A. Peelle, in Centreville, but in February, 186i, again entered the service and remained until the close of the war. He resumed the study of law and was admitted to the bar in Winchester in 1866. He removed to Indianapolis in 1869. In 1876 he was elected by the Republicans of Marion County as Representative to Legislature. In the fall of 1880 he was elected to Congress from the Seventh Congressional District.
Source:
History of Wayne County, Indiana. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. 1884. Volume 2