Here is just a portion of an article found doing a Google Books search: Solomon Claypool. At the time of his death, which occurred in Indianapolis March 19, 1898, a speaker before the Indianapolis Bar Association referred to Judge Claypool as "a man against whom no scandal or suspicion was ever known, a great lawyer, a good citizen, a pure and spotless man." The facts of his life serve to justify every word of this fair fame. Solomon Claypool came of a long line of ancestors who were men of affairs, and his parents were pioneers in Indiana. His father, Wilson Claypool, was a native of Virginia and of an English colonial family of that state. When he was a boy his parents removed to Ohio, and near Chillicothe in that state Wilson Claypool married Sarah Evans. The Evans family came originally from Wales and settled in Maryland as early as 1720. In 1823 Wilson Claypool and his wife removed to Fountain County, Indiana, and secured a large tract of undeveloped land near Attica. There he spent the rest of his life as a practical agriculturist. In 1824 Wilson Claypool erected the first frame house in Fountain County, and it stood in a good state of preservation for nearly a century. It was in that somewhat pretentious home for pioneer days that Solomon Claypool was born August 17, 1829. Though his early life was spent practically in a frontier community, he received excellent training both under home influence and in school and college. With his brothers he attended Wabash College at Crawfordsville, graduating with the class of 1851. He was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. He began the study of law with the office firm of Lane & Wilson at Crawfordsville, but completed his preparatory work under Judge Samuel B. Gookins of Terre Haute, where he was admitted to the bar. After a brief practice at Covington in Fountain County he returned to Terre Haute in 1855, and in that city laid the foundation of his great work as a lawyer. ------------- If you want the whole article, go to http://books.google.com/books?id=ZzEUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1233&dq=rising+sun,+indiana&output=text <http://books.google.com/books?id=ZzEUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1233&dq=rising+sun,+indiana&output=text> It comes from INDIANA AND INDIANANS A HISTORY OF ABORIGINAL AND TERRITORIAL INDIANA AND THE CENTURY OF STATEHOOD JACOB PIATT DUNN AUTHOR AND EDITOR VOLUME III THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY CHICAGO AND NEW YORK 1919