Joseph S. Dailey

Joseph S. Dailey (May 31, 1844 – October 9, 1905) was an American politician, lawyer, and judge who served as a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from June 25, 1893 to January 7, 1895. Biography Joseph Dailey was born in Lancaster Township, Wells County, Indiana to James Dailey (Lancaster Township's first justice of the peace) and Lydia Dailey (née Garton). His family is of Irish descent. Both of Dailey's grandfathers were New Jersey natives and also both served in the War of 1812. He was the fifth of James and Lydia's nine children. Joseph Dailey's brother, Lewis "Lew" Dailey, enlisted in the Union army following the outbreak of the Civil War and died while fighting in the conflict. The local post of the American Legion in Bluffton was named the Lew Dailey Post in his honor. Joseph Dailey was educated in the public schools of Bluffton before studying law for two years at the local law office of Newton Burwell. Dailey also taught school in Bluffton and elsewhere in Wells County. In 1866, Dailey graduated from the Law School of Indiana University in Bloomington. That same year, he was admitted to the Indiana bar and returned to Bluffton to open a private practice in partnership with George S. Brown.