Biography of William P. Endicott, pages 672/673.  History of DeKalb 
County, Indiana; B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, 1914.



William P. Endicott



	The career of William P. Endicott happily illustrates the fact 
that if a young man possesses the proper attributes of mind and heart, 
with the ability to direct the same in proper channels, he can attain 
for himself not only material success but gain an honored place among 
the factors that shape the destinies of communities. His life proves 
that true success in this world depends upon personal efforts and 
consecutive industry in the pursuit of some specific and honorable 
purpose; it also demonstrates that the road to positions of affluence 
among men, whatever the relation of life may be, open to all who may 
possess the courage to tread its pathway, besides serving as an 
incentive to the young of the present generation, teaching by 
incontrovertible facts that true excellence in any worthy undertaking 
is ambition’s legitimate answer.

	William P. Endicott, a successful lawyer at Butler, Indiana, was 
born on March 28, 1881, near Galveston, Cass county, Indiana, and is a 
son of Abner M. and Orlie A. (Odell) Endicott, both of whom are natives 
of Indiana, and who are respected farming people in the community where 
they live.  The subject on the paternal side is descended from sterling 
old English ancestry and in him are exhibited the characteristics which 
have made his progenitors respected and esteemed in their communities. 
To the subject’s parents were born the following children; Mrs. Nellie 
McCool, Mrs. Lida Hyatt, Mrs. Grace Kepner, Ernest, William P. and 
Thomas H.

	William P. Endicott secured his education in the public schools, 
being a graduate of Galveston high school, and he then entered the law 
department of the Indiana State University at Bloomington, where he 
took the full legal course.  In January, 1910, he was admitted to the 
bar of Cass county, and in the following April was admitted to the 
DeKalb county bar and at once located at Butler, and engaged in the 
practice of his profession. As a lawyer Mr. Endicott has evinced a 
familiarity with legal principles and a ready perception of facts, 
together with the ability to apply one to the other which has won him 
the reputation of a sound, safe practitioner.  His zeal for a client 
has never led him to urge argument not in harmony with the law, an in 
all the important litigation with which he has been connected, no one 
has ever charged him with anything that would bring discredit upon 
himself or cast a reflection upon his profession, and today he is an 
able representative of the legal fraternity in his county.

	Politically, the subject of this sketch gives his support to the 
Progressive party, while fraternally he is a member of the Free and 
Accepted mason, in which he has attained to the Royal Arch degree, and 
to Lodge No. 158, Knights of Pythias, of Butler, of which he is vice-
chancellor.  He is also first vice-president of the Commercial Club of 
Butler and has been a potent factor in advancing the material and civic 
interests of this enterprising community.

	On August 2, 1909, Mr. Endicott married Nellie Davisson, of Miami 
county, Indiana, and they have one daughter, Anna May. Mr. Endicott is 
a most genial and companionable gentleman and has a host of warm and 
admiring friends Among the residents of this adopted city. All who come 
within the range of his influence are profuse in their praise of his 
admirable qualities, and the high regard in which he is held, not only 
professionally but socially, indicates the possession of attributes and 
characteristics that fully entitle him to the respect and admiration of 
his fellow men.



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Auburn, Indiana

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