Biographical Details
Date of Birth: August 7, 1825
Birth Location: Bloomington, IN, USA
Major Study: Law
Graduation Year(s): 1849
Degree(s) Earned: Bachelor of Laws
Date of Death: September 13, 1903
Death Location: Rockville, IN, USA
David Howard Maxwell
Life Experience
David Howard Maxwell was the son of David Hervey Maxwell and the younger brother of James Darwin Maxwell and Samuel Franklin Maxwell. He resided in Bloomington and then in Rockville, Indiana.
Marriage and Family
Maxwell married Anna Flora Smith in 1864. They had four children together. Their first child was born when he was forty and the last when he was fifty-three. He has at least a dozen living descendants in Idaho and Illinois.
Interesting Anecdote
Maxwell’s father, David Hervey Maxwell, selected and purchased the original site for the Indiana State Seminary (now IU). Dr. Maxwell wrote, it is “about a quarter of a mile due south from Bloomington, on a beautiful eminence, and convenient to an excellent spring of water, the only one on the section selected that could with convenience answer the purposes of a Seminary.” Dr. Maxwell was a member of the Indiana Constitutional Convention of 1816, and the manuscript copy of its constitution is in his handwriting (the copy is in the Indianapolis State Library). Dr. Maxwell built a two-story house on what is now North College Avenue. It was the first brick house in Bloomington.
References
- Wylie
- Findagrave.com
- geni.com/people/David-Jr/
- Banta, David B. “The Indiana Seminary” within Wylie
- Maxwell, Louise (1912) “Sketch of Dr. David H. Maxwell,” The Indiana Quarterly Magazine of History September 1912 (Vol. 8 #3) pp. 101-108
- Columbus Republic 12/17/1998