W. T. McNeil

    W. T. McNeil, attorney at law, is a native of Montgomery County, Indiana, and was born January 26, 1853. He removed with his parents, Jesse G. and Lavina (Holloway) McNeil, to Benton County in April, 1860, where he was principally reared. His father, who served Benton County as Surveyor for ten years is yet living, and resides in Grant Township, but his mother died April 1, 1882. After attending the common schools of Benton County, he completed his schooling with a course at the Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso. At eighteen years of age, he began his career as a pedagogue, and this vocation he has plied for fifty-six months in Benton County. In May, 1878, he became editor and proprietor of the Oxford Tribune, and conducted that periodical until September, 1880, when he sold out, and in February, 1881, established the Fowler Eye. for over a year he continued the publication of the Eye, making a success of it in every respect; he then sold it, and it was then merged into the Republican, and afterward converted into the Era.

    Since his retirement from journalistic work, Mr. McNeil has devoted his attention to the study of law and working insurance. In politics, he is an uncompromising Republican, and although a member of no church, is of the Methodist Episcopal faith.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883.