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JOHN E. POLLOCK, Bloomington; was born Feb. 1, 1843, near West Liberty, Logan Co., Ohio, and is the son of Judge Pollock, now residing and practicing law in Ford Co., Ill.; at the age of 8 years, Mr. Pollock removed with his father to Bellefontaine, Ohio, where he attended the public schools, and even then gave promise of the ripe scholar he was afterward to become. He afterward attended one year at Augusta College, Ky., and, still later, was a student in Miami University at Oxford, Ohio; in the last-named institution, he pursued a regular classical and scientific course up to within one year of completion, being a member of the junior class at that time; he dropped the course to begin the study of law; the latter study he pursued during a period of three years in the office of Judge William Lawrence, of Ohio, now a man of national fame; though young in years, Mr. Pollock outranks many older members of the McLean Co. Bar in length of practice, having been admitted in the Courts of three States and also in the United States Courts, as early as 1865 or the spring of 1866; he passed a creditable examination before the Supreme Court of Ohio at the December term of 1865. Mr. Pollock came to Bloomington in 1866, where he has remained in the practice until the present, and in which he has been eminently successful; he was a member of the firm of Shackleford & Pollock for one year about 1870; his firm style was afterward Pollock & Campbell, and still later, Bloomfield, Pollock & Campbell; for eighteen months past, he has been the partner of Hon. Thomas F. Tipton; he was two years Master in Chancery of the McLean Circuit Court; on the accession of Judge Reeves to the bench, Mr. Pollock was succeeded in the Master’s office by Capt. Rowell.