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ELISHA E. DRUMB, attorney of Cannelton, is a native of Perry County, born May 20, 1841. He is one of seven children born to Dr. William P. and Sarah A. Stevens Drumb. In early life he received a common school education in the schools of the county, and at the age of sixteen years he went as a cadet to West Point Military Academy. He attended that institution for more than three years and left it for the purpose of volunteering in the civil war, but on account of a disagreement with his officers, he returned home and that intention was abandoned. He then began reading law in the office of Ballard Smith. Later he attended law school at Chicago. While in that city, November 4, 1862, Hattie J. Portsmouth became his wife, and their three children are named May E., William P. and Aggie C., all living. They belong to the Episcopal Church, and he to the Odd Fellows and Masonic fraternities. In politics he is a Democrat and in 1876 was a candidate for State senator. In 1870 he started the Enquirer, which he edited four years with success. He was admitted to the bar, May 19, 1862.