Judge DeBoice, a Republican probate judge 1930-50, recalls political figures at the local, state, and national level; presidential campaigns, National Conventions of the 30's and 40's, state and Sangamon County politics, his law practice near Clinton, Dewitt County history, and Illinois land barons. He discusses his family history, military service during WWI, the 1918 influenza epidemic, prohibition, and the effects of the Great Depression. He also recalls a 1916 arson trial tried by Tim Sullivan and Clarence Darrow.

7 tapes, 630 mins., 2 vols., 121 pp. Interview by Charles Ruge, 1978 and Cullom Davis, 1979 OPEN See collateral file: interviewer's notes, photograph and campaign literature for probate judge, transcriptions of a 1923 speech made by Lee O'Neil Browne and Attorney Timothy Sullivan's opening statement at the arson trial of John M. Wolf in Decatur, 1916.