Sale, Thomas C. W.
Born: 1818-XX-XX Ohio
Flourished: Paris, Illinois
Thomas C. W. Sale was an attorney and Indian agent. In 1850, he was practicing law in Vermillion Township, Vermillion County, Indiana. In April 1854, Sale married Sarah C. Snodgrass. Sale worked for many years as an attorney in Newport, Indiana, before moving to Paris, Illinois. In 1860, Sale was practicing law in Paris and owned real property valued at $6,500 and had a personal estate of $3,000. Sale became acquainted with Abraham Lincoln, who he opposed in several legal cases. In February 1863, he married Rebecca D. Pattison (Patterson), with whom he had one son. During the Civil War, Sale served in the Utah Territory as a special agent of the Indian Office of the U.S. Department of the Interior.
U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Vermillion County, IN, 90; Indiana, U.S., Marriage Certificates, 1960-2012 25 April 1854, Vermillion County (Lehi, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2016); St. Joseph Valley Register (South Bend, IN) 18 May 1854, 3:1; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Paris, Edgar County, IL, 2; Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, Edgar County, 1 February 1863, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; The History of Edgar County, Illinois (Chicago: Wm. Le Baron Jr., 1879), 253; Logan Esarey and Ernest V. Shockley, eds., Courts and Lawyers of Indiana (Indianapolis: Federal, 1916), 3:1058; "Pattison, Edgar Moore," American Biography: A New Cyclopedia (New York: The American History Society, 1930), 41:293; For Lincoln’s legal cases involving Sale, search Participant, “Sale, Thomas C. W.,” Martha L. Benner and Cullom Davis et al., eds., Title: The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: Complete Documentary Edition, 2d edition (Springfield: Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, 2009), https://lawpracticeofabrahamlincoln.org/; Register of Officers and Agents, Civil, Military, and Naval, in the Service of the United States, on the Thirtieth September, 1865 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1866), 139.