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Lawyer; president, Indiana Bar Association, 1903–04
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Breen was the son of Irish immigrants James and Margaret (Dunne) Breen; the family came to Fort Wayne in 1863, where his father was a merchant, city councilman and waterworks trustee. William took his B.A. at Notre Dame in 1877, read law with Coombs, Morris & Bell, and was admitted to the bar in 1879 at twenty. He practiced with Judge Warren H. Withers until 1882, alone until 1893, and from 1893 in partnership with John Morris Jr. as Breen & Morris. He presided over the Indiana Bar Association in 1903–04, sat on the American Bar Association's executive committee 1903–06, and was a Roosevelt-appointed delegate to the Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists at St. Louis in 1904. He was president of the People's Trust and Savings Company. He married Odelia Phillips on 28 May 1884.
Sources: Griswold, Pictorial History, Vol. II (1917), biographical sketch and portrait, read first-hand. No second source reached for this profile.