# Addison Roache

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**Addison Locke Roache** (November 3, 1817 – April 24, 1906) was a justice of the [Indiana Supreme Court](/source/Indiana_Supreme_Court)

from January 3, 1853, to May 8, 1854.[1]

Born in [Rutherford County, Tennessee](/source/Rutherford_County,_Tennessee),[1][2] his family moved to [Bloomington, Indiana](/source/Bloomington,_Indiana), in September 1828.[2] He graduated from [Indiana University Bloomington](/source/Indiana_University_Bloomington) in September 1836.

He studied law in the office of [Tilghman Howard](/source/Tilghman_Howard) at Rockville and entered the practice of law in Frankfort in 1841. Roache returned to Rockville in 1847, and was elected to the [Indiana House of Representatives](/source/Indiana_House_of_Representatives) as a [Democrat](/source/Democratic_Party_(United_States)) in 1847, representing [Parke County, Indiana](/source/Parke_County,_Indiana). On October 12, 1852, he was elected to the Indiana Supreme Court, serving from January 3, 1853, to May 8, 1854. The pay for that office had recently been reduced to $1,200 per year, and Roache resigned after sixteen months on the bench.[2]

In 1859 he moved to Indianapolis and formed a partnership with [Joseph E. McDonald](/source/Joseph_E._McDonald), of Montgomery County, who had just finished serving a term as Attorney General of Indiana. This partnership lasted for ten years, for some time under the name of McDonald, Roache & Sheets. Roache remained in practice well into his eighties, with an office in the Indiana Trust building, "where his advice was frequently sought by younger members of the bar".[2] For several years, he was agent and manager of the New York Mercantile Trust Company.[2]

Roache moved to California in the early 1900s and died there five years later. At the time of his death, he was the oldest surviving graduate of his class.[2]

## References

1. Minde C. Browning, Richard Humphrey, and Bruce Kleinschmidt, "[Biographical Sketches of Indiana Supreme Court Justices](https://www.in.gov/judiciary/supreme/files/browning.pdf)", *[Indiana Law Review](/source/Indiana_Law_Review)*, Vol. 30, No. 1 (1997), section reproduced in [Indiana Courts Justice Biographies page on Addison Roache](https://www.in.gov/judiciary/supreme/files/justice-bios.pdf#page=15).

1. "Addison Roache Is Dead In California", *The Indianapolis News* (April 25, 1906), p. 10.

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