Samuel D. Maxwell

Samuel Dunn Maxwell (February 19, 1803 – July 3, 1873) was an attorney and the eighth mayor of the city of Indianapolis, Indiana.The 1850 census lists him as a lawyer with $13,000 in property and his eldest son John (aged 25) as a farmer.[5] By 1858, his wife and youngest son had died, and Samuel Maxwell and his younger children (surviving son Williamson Maxwell, who had become a printer, and two unmarried daughters) had moved about 45 miles away, to Indianapolis, the state capital and county seat of Marion County, Indiana.[7] During the American Civil War, Maxwell cooperated with Governor Morton, and was succeeded by fellow Republican lawyer John Caven in 1863.Maxwell died in Indianapolis in 1873 (aged about 70 years), and was buried at Crown Hill Cemetery.
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