Background
ROYSE, Samuel Durham was born on August 8, 1878 in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States. Son of Samuel and Harriet Eliza (Durham) Royse.
ROYSE, Samuel Durham was born on August 8, 1878 in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States. Son of Samuel and Harriet Eliza (Durham) Royse.
Indiana. University, 97. Amherst College. Bachelor of Arts, 1900. Columbia University, Bachelor of Laws, 1903.
Admitted to Indiana bar, 1903, and since practiced in Terre Haute. Senior partner firm of Cooper, Royse, Gambill & Crawford and its predecessors. Member Indiana State Senate, 1903-1913.
County attorney Vigo County, 1911-1917. Vice president Indiana Gas and Chemical Corporation, Johann Wolfgang Davis Сompany. Vice president and Chairman of the Board Terre Haute Boiler Works Company.
Director Merchants National Bank of Terre Haute.
Peace making is the creative and positive quest for the well-being of humankind and the planet on which people live.
The family has its own complex identity as a small community of covenant love and trust.
Served as captain infantry, United States Army, 1917-1918. Member American, Indiana State and Vigo County bar associations, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Phi Delta Phi. Mason, Elk.; Clubs: Terre Haute Country.