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Greater Indianapolis
The History, the Industries, the Institutions, and
the People of a City of Homes
Jacob Piatt Dunn
Secretary of the Indiana Historical Society
VOLUME II
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History of Greater Indianapolis.
• Calvin Fletcher was born in Ludlow, Ver-
mont, on the, 4th of February, 1798. The
town of Ludlow is in the County of Windsor,
and is situated on the eastern slope of the
Green Mountain range, midway between Kut-
land and Bellows Falls. A ridge of highlands
separates the counties of Windsor and Rutland,
and forms the boundary between the towns of
Ludlow and Mount Holly, the latter being in
the County of Rutland. Mr. Fletcher was a
descendant of Robert Fletcher, who was a na-
tive of one of the northern counties of Eng-
land, probably Yorkshire, and settled in Con-
cord, Massachusetts, in 1630, where he died
at the age of eighty-five on the 3rd of April,
1677, leaving four sons, Francis, Luke, Will-
iam and Samuel. Calvin's father, Jesse
Fletcher, a son of Timothy Fletcher, of West-
ford, Massachusetts, was bom in that town on
the 9th of November, 1763, and was prepar-
ing for college under his elder brother, the
Rev. Elijah Fletcher, of Hopkinton, New
Hampshire, when the troubles of the Revolu-
tion arrested his progress. He joined the
patriotic army and served in two campaigns
of six or eight months each toward the close
of the war. Jesse's brother Elijah was the
pastor of the church in Hopkinton from the
23rd of Januarv, 1773, until his death on the
Sth of April. 1786. The second daughter of
Rev. Elijah Fletcher was Grace, a most ac-
complished and attractive person, who became
the first wife of the great American states-
man and orator, Daniel Webster. Col-
onel Fletcher Webster (who fell at the head
of his regiment in the second battle of Bull
Run, August 30, 1862) received at his chris-
tening the family name of his mother. Cal-
vin Fletcher and his oldest son. Rev. J. C.
Fletcher, more than once talked with Daniel
Webster concerning this cherished first wife
(Grace). The daughter of Grace's brother
(Timothy Fletcher) became the wife of Dr.
Brown-Sequard, the famous specialist of
Paris, France. Jesse married in 1781, when
about eighteen years old, Lucy Keyes of
Westford, who was bom on the 15th of No-
vember, 1765, being therefore hardly sixteen
when she became the bride' of Jesse. The
young couple emigrated from Westford to
Ludlow, Vermont, about the lyear 1783, and
were among the first settlers of the place.
From that time until the day of his death,
in February, 1831, Jesse Fletcher lived on the
same farm- He was the first town clerk of
Ludlow; was a justice of the peace, and the
second representative to the General Court
from Ludlow. In that town all his fifteen
children, except the eldest, were born. His
widow died in 1846. Calvin was the eleventh
of these fifteen children, most of whom lived
to maturity. Under the teachings of an ex-
cellent father and mother of more than or-
dinary ability, Calvin early learned those
habits of industry and self-reliance and those
principles of uprightness which uniformly
characterized him in after life. Whilg per-
forming all the duties exacted from a Boy on
a New England farm in those early days, he
soon manifested a strong desire for a classical
education, which was stimulated both by his
mother's advice and the success of his brother
Elijah, who had, a few years before, com-
pleted his college course at Darmouth Col-
lege. In accordance with the prevailing cus-
tom of the early New England families, his
parents had selected Elijah as the one best
fitted by natural endowments and bent of mind
to receive a college education. Such selection
of but one member of a large family was in-
deed a matter of necessity in those days, when
all were obliged to labor hard for the stem'
necessities of life. Through his own exertions
Calvin earned money enough to pay the ex-
penses of a brief course of instruction at the
academies of Randolph and Royalton in Ver-
mont, and afterwards at the rather famous
classical academy of Westford, Massachusetts.
His classical studies were interrupted by pe-
cuniary difficulties at home. His father be-
came financially embarrassed; the older sons
and daughters had already. gone out into the
HISTOEY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
world, and Calvin obtained permission from
his father to go also. His classical studies
had proceeded as far as Virgil, and he had
probably taken delight in reading of the wan-
derings of the pious Eneas. He determined
to be a sailor; and in April, 1817, in his nine-
teenth year, he went to Boston and tried to
obtain "a berth on board an East Indiaman.
He failed to get an engagement as a sailor be-
fore the mast, and thereupon turned his face
toward tiie country west of the Alleghenies.
He worked his way, mostly on foot, to Penn-
sylvania, where he engaged himself for a short
time as a laborer in a brickyard. He had left
home in a spirit of adventure, and had by
no means laid aside his literary tastes. While
working as a laborer he always carried with
him a small edition of Pope's poems, which
he read (particularly the translations of
Homer's Iliad and the Odyssey) at each mo-
ment of leisure. But his brick-making came
speedily to an end. His intelligence attracted
the attention of a gentleman named Foote,
by whom he was encouraged to travel further
Avestward, to the State of Ohio. Mr. Fletcher
has himself described this period of his life
in a letter to Ut. John Ward Dean, corre-
sponding secretary of the New England His-
torical and Genealogical Society, dated March
25, 1861, in which he says:
"In two months I worked my way, mostly
on foot, to the western part of Ohio, and
stopped at Urbana, then the frontier settle-
ment of state, and had no letters of introduc-
tion. I obtained labor as a hired-hand for a
short time, and then a school. In the fall of
1817 I obtained a position in the law office of
Hon. James Cooley, a gentleman of talents and
fine education, one of a large class which
graduated at Yale under Dr. Dwight. He was
sent to Peru (as IJ. S. charge d'affairs) under
John Quincy Adams' administration, and died
there."
During the interval between his school teach-
ing and entering upon the study of law at ^Mr.
Cooley's office, he was for a time private tutor
in the familv of a ^[r. Gwin, whose fine library
gave him an excellent opportunity for read-
ing. In 1819 he went to Richmond, Virginia,
and was licensed to practice by the supreme
court of the Old Dominion. At one time he
thought of settling in Virginia, but even then
his strong love of freedom and respect for the
right of man mn<le him renounce his intention.
He was an anti-slavery man from principle,
and was one when it cost something to be one.
No person who was not living thirty or forty
years ago in the soutliern part of Ohio or In-
diana can realize the bitter prejudice that then
existed against the old-time abolitionist : he
was considered an enemy of his country, and
was subjected to both social and political ostra-
cism. But this did not deter llr. Fletcher,
nor cause him to alter his course. He once
said to one of his sons, long after he had be-
come celebrated as a lawyer in the new cap-
ital of the State of Indiana: "When I am in
tbe court house, engaged in an important case,
if the governor of the state should send in
word that he wished to speak to me, I would
rc]>ly that I could not go ; but if a Quaker
should touch me on the shoulder and say 'a
colored man is out here in distress and fear,'
I would leave the court house in a minute to
see the man, for I feel that I would have to
account at that last day when He shall ask
me if I have visited the sick and those in
prison or bondage, and fed the poor. The
great of this world can take care of them-
selves, but God has made us stewards of the
downtrodden, and we must account to Him."'
A man of this stamp could, of course, find
no abiding at that time in Virginia, and Mr.
Fletcher, renouncing his intention of settling
there, returned to Urbana, where he became
the law partner of Mr. Cooley in 1820. Quot-
ing again from the autobiographical sketch em-
jjoflied in his letter to Mr. Dean, we use Mr.
Fletcher's own words in describing this period
of his career:
"In the fall of 1820 I was admitted to the
liar, and became the law partner of my worthy
friend and patron, Mr. Cooley. In the sum-
mer of 1821, the Delaware Indians left the
central part of Indiana, then a total wilder-
ness, and the new state selected and laid off
Indianapolis as its future capital, but did not
make it such until by removal of the state
archives and the transfer of all state offices
thither in November, 1824, and by the meeting
of the legislature there on the 10th of Jan-
uary, 182.J. I had married, and on my re-
quest, my worthy partner permitted me to
leave him to take up my residence at the
place designated as the seat of government of
Indiana. In September of that year I left
Urbana with a wagon, entered the wilderness,
and after traveling fourteen days and camp-
ing out tlie same number of nights, readied
Indianapolis, where there were a few newly
erected cabins. No counties had been laid
off in the newly acquired territory ; but in a
few years civil divisions were made. I com-
menced the practice of law, and traveled twice
annuallv over nearly one-third of the north-
western part of the state; at first without
roads, bridges or ferries. In 182.") I was ap-
pointed state's attornev for the Fifth Judicial
Circuit, embracing some twelve or. fifteen cou--
ties. Tills office I held about one vear, wln-n
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
645
1 was elected to the state senate, served seven
years, resigned, and gave up official positions,
as I then supposed for life. But in 1834 I
was appointed by the legislature one of four
to organize a state bank, and to act as sink-
ing-fund commissioner. I held this place
also for seven years. From 1843 to 1859 I
acted as president of the branch of the state
bank at Indianapolis, until the charter ex-
pired."
The simple and- unostentatious words in
which Mr. Fletcher alludes to his connection
with the state do not convey any idea of the
struggle he had to go through in reference to
its organization. As senator of the state of
Indiana, he gave great offense to some of liis
constituents by opposing the first charter
proposed for the organization of a state bank.
He resigned the senatorship, and the nest
year another charter was prepared which ob-
viated the objections. This charter passed
through the legislature, and on the organiza-
tion of the bank he became a director on the
part of the state, and thenceforward gave
banking and finance a large portion of his
time and attention. ' Mr. Fletcher was the first
lawyer who practiced his profession in Indian-
apolis. His sterling honesty and strict atten-
tion to business soon gained for him a large
and lucrative practice. Hon. Daniel D. Pratt,
at one time United States Senator from In-
diana, was a student in his oflBce, and has con-
tributed his recollections of Mr. Fletcher in
a letter written after his old law preceptor's
death, in which he savs:
"In the fall of 1833 I entered his office.
He was then about thirty-five years of age,
possessed of a large practice, on the Circuit
and in the Supreme Court, standing by com-
mon consent at the head of the profession in
central Indiana, and commanding the un-
qualified confidence of the community. He
fully deserved that confidence. Scrupulously
hnneft, fair in his dealings with his clients,
untiring in their interests, I do not think I
have ever met a man in the legal profession
of greater activity, energy, earnestness, and
application to business. He forgot nothing,
neglected nothing necessary to be done. This
was the great secret of his professional suc-
cess. ^Ir. Fletcher was a strong man, physi-
cally, morally, and intellectually. In the
early stages of his pioneer life he had to meet
men face to face, and at times, with bodily
force he had to resist those who attempted to
deprive him of his rights. There were no
courts at first in the infant settlement of In-
diana to take cognizance of breaches of the
pence, but each man had to be as it were 'a
law unto himself."
He was equal to the emergency, ana could
defend himself. In the same spirit he stood'
ready also to befriend those who otherwise
might have been injured. He had when young
felt the pressure of poverty, and had learned
life from actual contact with its difficulties,
and while this gave additional force and edge
to his good sense and acquainted him with the
details of humble life, it also aroused his dis-
position to take the part of the poor, the help-
less, and the oppressed. To them his services
were often gratuitous or for meagre com-
pensation. His sympathies were always active,
and he had the faculty of conferring great
benefits, not so by direct aid as by teaching
them how to help themselves. Among those
whom he thus befriended were many of the
colored race, who in his early years vfeie still
in bondage, and who' were only admitted to
citizenship in the closing years of his life.
Several elements contributed to Mr. Fletcher's
eminent success as a lawyer. One of his most
serviceable powers was his remarkable mem-
orv, which seemed to hold all that was com-
mitted to it. In his law office it was he who
kept in mind all the details and who watched
all the points of danger. He was a shrewd
and sagacious judge of men, and had the
faculty of inferring character from circum-
stances generally overlooked. A local chron-
icler says: "When introduced to a stranger,
he would for some minutes give him his ex-
clusive attention. He would notice every re-
mark and movement, every expression of fea-
ture, and even the minutiae , of dress, yet he
did all this without giving offense. He seemed
to be ever under some controlling influence
which led him to study character". He viewed
his cases dramatically, and realized them in
actual life, then the legal aspects of the case
were examined, authorities consulted, and the
question involved settled after cautious delib-
eration. He was not oratorical in addressing
juries, but was a clear and effective speaker.
His most prominent talent was his insight into
the motives of parties and witnesses, and he
was especially strong in cross-examination.
In one case a witness who was compelled by
him on cross-examination to disclose facts
which contradicted his evidence in chief, faint-
ed, and his evidence was disregarded by the
jury. During the process of making up his
decisions on questions of law or policy he pre-
served entire impartiality, and was ready at
any moment to abandon an untenable theory
or opinion. He discouraged all unnecessary
litigation, and had great success in adjusting
cases bv agreement of the parties. To this
point in his character, many well-to-do resi-
dents of Indianapolis have feelingly testified
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
in recent years, and have said that to the good
advice of Calvin Fletcher they owed all they
possessed. His calm, just and effective method
of reasoning with clients who came to him in
the flush of heated controversy and thirsting
for revenge for real or fancied wrongs, was
like pouring oil on the troubled water. "Set-
tle out of court and save costs", was a favor-
ite maxim of his that will be remembered un-
til all who knew him have passed away. Not-
withstanding that his fees were moderate, his
biisiness was so extensive and his industry
achieved so much, that his income was large.
His judicious investments, and his plain and
unostentatious mode of living, led to the rapid
accumulation of wealth. He was an example
of temperance, avoiding the use of either liquor
or tobacco, and never played cards, although
that was a great pastime among the lawyers
in his early days. The bar, judge and people
were then thrown much together at country
inns, and social and conversational talents
were of great advantage to a lawyer. Here Mr.
Fletcher was remarkably well endowed, hos-
pitable to his friends, amiable to those in his
office, and popular with all. Mr. Fletcher,
during his long career as a lawyer, had sev-
eral partners and they were friends to whom he
was deeply attached, and the attachment was
reciprocal ; the prosperity of one was the pros-
perity of all. The two partners with whom
he was the longest associated were Ovid Butler
and Simon Yandes. Mr. Butler, after a pros-
perous career, founded what is now known as
"Butler University'', at Irvington, Indiana,
which is one of the most flourishing educa-
tional institutions of the Christian denomina-
tion. Simon Yandes was a student with
Messrs. Fletcher and Butler in 1837-38, after
which ho took a course at the law school of
Harvard University, and became the partner
of his old instructors — the firm of Fletcher.
Butler & Yandes continuing until the senior
partner retired in 1843. In his autobiograph-
ical sketch from which we have already
quoted, :Mr. Fletcher says: "During the forty
vears I have resided in Indiana, I have de-
voted much of my time to agriculture and
societies for its promotion, and served seven
years as trustee of our city schools. I have
been favored with a large family; nine sons
and two daughters. Three of the former have
taken a regular course and graduated at
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island,
and two a partial course at the same institu-
tion. I have written no books, biit have as-
sisted in compiling a law book". In 1860 he
became a corresponding member of the New
England Historic Genealogical Society, to the
secretarv of which this letter was written. He
was a great lover of nature, taking much in-
terest in the study of ornithology, and making
himself familiar with the habits, instincts,
and characteristics of birds. The domestic
animal found in him a sympathizing friend.
The works of Audubon had a prominent place
in his library, which included a well selected
collection of general literature, and an accumu-
lation of local newspapers (which he had
neatly bound), books, and magazines of in-
estimable value to the student of western his-
tory, which at his death was deposited in one
of the institutions of the City of Indianapolis.
Simon Yandes, Esq., his former partner, in
testifying to the character of Mr. Fletcher,
states that what Allibone in his "Dictionary of
Authors" says of Dr. Daniel Drake, of Cin-
cinnati, is eminently true of Calvin Fletcher,
viz. : "His habits were simple, temperate, ab-
stemious; his labors rncessant". There was
much in common between the two men. Alli-
bone's further description of Drake is that of
Calvin Fletcher: "A philanthropist in the
largest sense, he devoted himself freely and
habitually to works of benevolence and meas-
ures for the amelioration of distress, the ex-
tension of religion and intelligence, the good
of his fellow creatures, the honor and prosper-
ity of his country". The fine tribute of Sen-
ator Pratt, from which we have already made
a l)rief extract, concludes as follows:
"He was a very simple man in his tastes.
Though possessed of ample means no one
could have inferred it from his manner of life.
His family lived and dressed plainly. He was
himself without a particle of ostentation; re-
publican simplicity characterized evei^- phase
of his life, at home and abroad, in his dress,
furniture, table and associations. He was
fond of the society of plain, unpretentious peo-
l>le. The humblest man entered his house un-
abashed. He took pleasure in the society of
aspiring young men and in aiding them by
his counsel. He never tired in advising them;
in setting before them motives for diligence
and good conduct, and examples of excellence.
He was fond of pointing to eminent men in the
different walks of life, of tracing their history,
and pointing out that the secret of their suc-
cess lav in the virtues of diligence, continuous
application to a specialty, strict integrit}- and
temperance. Many young men of that period
owe their information of character to these
teachings of Mr. Fletcher. He taught them to
lie honest and honorable, to be just, exact,
prompt, diligent and temperate. He was him-
self a shining example of all these virtues.
Thev formed the granite base of his charac-
ter. " Others will speak of the religious phase
of his life. It was not common in those days
HISTORY OP GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
fi47
to find men of the legal profession of deep re-
ligious fouvictions and illustrating those con-
victions in their every-day life and conversa-
tion. M r. Fletcher belonged to this exceptional
class. Jteligious exercises in his family were
habitual He was a constant attendant at
church, and gave liberally to the support of
the ministry. The success of his Master's
Kingdom upon the earth lay very near his
heart. He regarded religion as forming the
only reliable basig for successful private and
national life. In his death, the world has lost a
good man, who contributed largely in laying
the foundations not only of the city where he
dwelt, but of the state itself. He was one of
its pioneers and leading men. His voice and
example were ever on the side of virtue, and
he contributed largely in molding the public
character."
No interest of Calvin Fletcher's life was
greater than that which he showed towards
the public school of Indianapolis. He was
one of three who constituted the first board
of school trustees. In recognition of this fact
and because he labored for years in the inter-
est of a system excelled by none in this county,
ihe school on Virginia avenue. No. 8, near
liis old home was named "The Calvin Fletcher
Scliool".
ilr. Fletcher's death, which occurred on the
-2Gth of May. 1866, the result of a fall from
lii? horse a few weeks previous, caused much
public sorrow. He had long made for him-
self an honorable record as a banker after his
retirement from the practice of law, and the
bankers of Indianapolis passed resolutions on
the day after his death, in which they said:
"His devotion to every patriotic impulse;
his vigilant and generous attention to every
call of benevolence ; his patient care of all
wholesome means of public improvement; his
interest in the imperial claims of religion,
morale, and education, and his admirable suc-
cess in securing the happiness and promoting
the culture of a large family, show conclusively
that whatever importance he attached to the
acquisition of wealth, he never lost sight of
the responsibility to that Great Being who
smiled so generously on his life and whose
approbation made his closing hours serene and
hopeful."
Among those who attended his funeral were
a large number of colored people, whose friend
he had always been, and who now testified
their deep affection and veneration for him.
His remains Avere interred in the cemetery at
Crown Hill. Indianapolis.
Mr. Flctclier was twice married. His first
wife. Sarah Hill, a descendant of the Ran-
dolphs of Virginia, was born near [Nlaysville,
Kentuek}^, in 1801, but her father, Joseph Hill,
moved to Urbana, Ohio, when she was very
young. This marriage, which took place in
May, 1821, was a happy one in every respect.
Mrs. Fletcher was a very quiet, lady-like per-
son, and one would judge from her delicate
appearance that she would be the last to en-
dure the rigors of a pioneer life; but she
proved equal to the situation and not only
made a happy home for her husband and eleven
children, but her industry, economy and gen-
eral good management aided her husband very
greatly in laying the foundation of his for-
tune. He cherished her memory and her chil-
dren all held her in most grateful remembrance.
The names of the children of Calvin and Sarah
Hill Fletcher are here noted in the order of
their birth: James Cooley, Elijah Timothy,
Calvin Miles Johnson, Stoughton Alphonso,
'\raria Antoinette Crawford, Ingram, William
Baldwin, Stephen Keyes, Lucv Keves and Al-
bert Elliott. For his "second wife Mr. Fletcher
married Mrs. Keziah Price Lister. No chil-
dren were born of this union.
►Stoughtox a. Fletcher, Junior, was
one of the -eleven children and the fifth of
nine sons born to Calvin and Sarah (Hill)
Fletcher. He was born at Indianapolis, Octo-
ber 2.), 1831, lived in the city continuously
more than sixty-three years, and died in -his
beautiful home on Clifford avenue, March-^8,
189."). The simple record of his noble, un-
ostentatious life is the most fitting eulogy that
could be pronounced. In youth he enjoyed the
benefit of wholesome discipline instituted by
a broad-minded, practical Christian father to
qualify his sons for self-support and useful
citizenship. He had the educational advan-
tage afforded by the best schools of Indiana
and a partial course in Brown University at
Providence. He was trained on his father's
farm in the actual work of husbandry, and
manifested unusual aptitude for agricultural
pursuits in boyhood. He studied telegraphy
and became a practical operator at the age of
nineteen. This was .supplemented by a study
of the operating department of railroads at
an early dav, and he was placed in charge
as conductor of tlie first train that ran out of
the Union Station at Indianapolis, on the old
Bellefontaine railroad, in June, 1853. He ap-
plied himself with such assiduity as to become
conversant with tlie machinery employed and
the methods of conducting railroad business.
He could run a locomotive and understand its
parts as well as the process of construction.
His thoroughness naturally led to promotion
and in two years he was superintendent of the
road. After a valuable and successful expe-
rience of five Years in railroad service he re-
648
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
signed in order to assume the duties of clerk
and teller in the bank of his uncle, Stoughton
A. Fletcher. With characteristic energj' he
applied himself to the task of learning all the
details of banking. It was a matter of prin-
ciple with him to know all that could be known
of any business with which he was connected,
whether it was farming, railroading, telegraphy,
banking or manufacturing. Ultimately he be-
came a partner in the bank, associated with
F. M. Churchman. In 1868 he was elected
president of the Indianapolis Gas Company
and held the position for a period of more
than ten years. He acquired a thorough, prac-
tical knowledge of the process and the cost of
making illuminating gas, managing the com-
pany's business with rare executive ability.
Upon the reorganization of the Atlas Engine
Works in 1878 he was chosen president of the
company and retained the position until his
death. His name, his energy and varied ex-
perience combined to build up and establish a
manufactory of engines and boilers, unequaled
in extent and equipment by any singular con-
cern west of the Alleghenies. A visitor at
the works would readily discern that the eye
of a master was upon every department, and a
trained financier of strong mental grasp was
?na'naging the business. It is creditable to his
humanity that during the long season of de-
pression "he kept the works running at a loss
in order to support the men who had served
him long and faithfully. When impossible to
employ the whole force at the same time, it
was the custom to divide the men, giving em-
ployment to Pome of them one week and others
the week following. By this plan all the
families dependent upon the works were main-
tained. He assisted in organizing the In-
dianapolis National Bank and served as one
of its directors for many years. At various
times he was connected with other institutions
and enterprises of importance, always in such
a manner as to preserve a high character for
honor and integrity.
It was not alone in the domain of private
business or commercial affairs that Stoughton
A. Fletcher was conspicuously successful. He
is entitled to higher honor for his spirit and
unselfish devotion to the community interests
and welfare. He was one of the earliest pro-
moters of the project to establish a new ceme-
tery, selected the site of Cro>^Ti Hill himself,
assisted in the organization of the company,
and was chosen treasurer of the Cemetery .\s-
sociation upon its incorporation in 1863.
Eleven years later he was elected the remainder
of his life. The beantv of that silent city is
due very lavgelv to his taste, enterprise and
liheralitv. Under liis superintendence the
loveliness of a natural site, impossible to dupli-
cate in all the surrounding country, was en-
hanced by skillful landscape-gardening. Mr.
Fletcher was identified either actively or in
sympathy with every enterprise of popular
concern in the city. His counsel was sought
and his support enlisted. He was at all times
relieving want with open-handed liberality, but
his benevolence was not exhausted by personal
contributions to aid the suffering. He quietly
assisted many a worthy young man in def lay-
ing expenses incident to acquiring an educa-
tion. He also united with others to form
charitable associations, whose beneficence ex-
tends to all deserving poor in the city. He
was from the beginning a member of tlie In-
diana State Board of Charities, giving much
time and thought to its work. His philan-
thropy was comprehensive in scope and pur-
pose, assuming other forms than contributions
to relieve the destitute. He offered to the city
the site of a magnificent park, as a gift^ condi-
tioned only upon its improvement and* main-
tenance for the public use stipulated in the
conveyance. He endeavored to promote the
welfare and reformation of the unfortunate
and the criminal. He was president of the
first board of trustees of the Indiana Reform-
atory for Women and Girls. As this was
among the first institutions of its class estaTj-
lished in the United States, its management
afforded scope for the practical applications of
his broad and wholesome views. He was mar-
ried first in 1856 to Miss Ruth Elizabeth Bar-
rows, daughter of Elisha Barrows, Esq., of
Augusta, Maine, whose life, treasured in the
memory of her children, was one characterized
by admirable wisdom in the management if
affairs, by rare unselfishness and tender devo-
tion to her husband and family. She died in
1889. Two sons and two daughters born of
this marriage survive: Charles B. and Jesse,
who were associated with their father in tlie
business of manufacturing, and continued tlit-
management of the Atlas Engine Works after
his death ; :\rrs. E. F. Hodges, of Indianapolis,
and ilrs. James R. :Macfarlane of Pittsburg.
Pennsylvania. In December, 1891, he was
married to ^liss ]klarie Louise Bright, daugh-
ter of the late Dr. John W. Bright of Lexing-
ton. Kentucky.
Even while most actively engaged in busi-
ness Mr. Fletcher found time for travel and
study. He has visited the countries of Eu-
rope and extended his journey leisurely into
Egypt and Palestine, studying the physical
condition of foreign countries and peoples suf-
ficiently to make intelligent comparison and
appreciate the institutions of his own countn-.
During the last few years of his life he trav-
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
649
eled imieh in the United States, usually ac-
companied b)' his wife. His health was re-
newed and his life prolonged by travel. In
many respects he was a remarkable man — re-
markable for the equability of his temper and
the kindliness of his disposition; for the buoy-
ancy of his nature and the adaptability of his
powers; for his success in business and his
clean, honorable methods; for his perennial
courtesy and unfailing generosity. He was a
lover of nature, a lover of art and a lover of
books. His humanity was large. He had
sympathy for his fellow-men and regard for
the welfare of his neighbors. He admired the
poems of Whittier, expressive of human sym-
pathy and kindness. To a gentleness of man-
ner, which invited social intercourse, was united
a sturdy determination which never faltered
and seldom failed of accomplishment. He
lived in a pure atmosphere, above petty annoy-
ances and contentions, patiently enduring'mis-
fortune and suffering, quietly enjoying pros-
perity and the better things of life. His home
was filled with beautiful things, evidences of
culture and refinement, which friends enjoyed
with him and his family. His character was
strong in its integrity; his friendships were
fincere and constant. He attested the dignity
of labor and exemplified the nobility of a
Christian life. The following, quoted from an
editorial article in one of the daily newspa-
pers, fittingly closes this biographical sketch:
"By the death of Stoughton A. Fletcher, In-
dianapolis loses one of its oldest native-bom
citizens and one of its purest and best of any
nativity. There are very few men living in the
city who were born here as early as 1831, and
none born here or elsewhere who better bore
without abuse the grand old name of gentle-
men than Stoughton .\. Fletcher. Some of the
older citizens who knew his parents can easily
understand from whence he derived the quali-
ties that made him so manly and so true, so
gentle and ^=o tender, so admirable in all that
goes to round out character. It is a great thing
for a man to live in the same community sixty-
three vear«, to die in the town where he was
bom and to leave behind him a record as con-
spicuously clean as that which marks the sum-
ming up of Mt. Fletcher's life. He would not
have had his friends claim that he was a great
man. He did not seek notoriety or power,
never held office and was not ambitious for
distinction of any kind, except the love of his
friends, the respect of his neighbors and the
willing tribute of all to his absolute integrity
and high sense of commercial honor. A worthy
son of a most worthy sire, he was true to his
ancestrv, tme to his family and friends, true
to all the demands of good citizenship and true
to his own high standard of thinking and
acting."
Chkistopher B. Coleman. Prominently
identified with educational work and with af-
iaiTS of distinctive civic import in Indianap-
olis, Professor Christopher Bush Coleman is
the incumbent of the chair of modern history
in Butler College and he is also corresponding
secretary of the Indiana Historical Society.
His position in the community eminently en-
titles him to representation in this history of
Greater Indianapolis and its people.
Professor Coleman was bom in the city of
Springfield, Illinois, on the 24th of April,
1875, and is a son of Louis Harrison Coleman
and Jennie Bush (Logan) Coleman. The an-
cestral line is traced back to James Ormsby
Coleman, who was a resident of Virginia in
the colonial epoch of our national history and
who eventually removed thence to Kentucky,
of which commonwealth he became a pioneer,
having been a wheelwright by trade. He con-
tinued to reside in Kentucky until his death,
as did also his wife, whose maiden name was
Lucy Hawkins. Their son, Hardin Hawkins
Coleman, became a citizen of Hopkinsville,
Kentucky, where he was engaged in the fur-
niture business. His wife, whose maiden name
was Barbara Ann Hopper, was a daughter of
the Hopper who, in 1837, liberated his slaves
and removed from Kentucky to Illinois; her
mother was a cousin of General William Henry
Harrison. One of the sons of Hardin Hawkins
Coleman and Barbara Ann (Hopper) Coleman
was Louis Harrison Coleman, father of the sub-
ject of this sketch.
Louis Harrison Coleman was born at Hop-
kinsville, Kentucky, on the 7th of Septem-
Ijcr, 1842, and a portion of his early life was
passed on a farm near Monmouth, Illinois.
After attaining to maturity he became a dry-
goods merchant at Bloomington, that state,
whence he later removed to Springfield, the
capital of Illinois, in which city he continued
in the retail dry-goods trade for many years,
later becoming a banker and manufacturer.
He is a citizen of prominence and influence.
On the 4th of October, 1866, was solemnized
the marriage of Louis Harrison Coleman to
■Nfiss Jennie Bush Logan, daughter of Hon.
Stephen Trigg Logan and America T. (Bush)
Logan, whose marriage was recorded under
date of June 25, 1823. The founder of the
T>ogan family in America came to this country
from Ireland and settled in Augusta County,
Virginia, about 1750. His son. Colonel John
Logan, was a member of the Virginia legisla-
ture and of the constitutional convention of
Kentuckv in 1799. David Logan, son of Col-
onel John Logan and father of Stephen Trigg
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HISTOKY OF GEEATEK INDIANAPOLIS.
TiOgan, removed from Kentucky to Sangam(jn
County, Illinois, in 1832, and in the latter
state he passed the residue of his life, having
been one of the sterling pioneers of the county
in which the capital of the state is located.
Stephen T. Logan was an influential factor in
public affairs in Illinois, having served re-
peatedly as a member of its legislature and
also having been a delegate to the state con-
stitutional convention of 1847. He was asso-
ciated with Abraham Lincoln in the' practice
of law from 1841 to 1844 and was a delegate
to the Chicago convention that nominated Lin-
coln for the presidency. He also represented
Illinois at the national peace conference in
ISGO, and in 1872 he was presiding officer of
the Republican state convention of Illinois, in
the annals of whose history his name is one
of distinctive prominence. Mrs. Louis H. Cole-
man died in 1891.
Christopher Bush Coleman, the immediate
subject of this review, gained his early educa-
tional discipline in the public schools of his
native city of Springfield, Illinois, in whose
high school he was graduated as a member of
the class of 1891. In the following year he
was graduated in Lawrenceville Academy, at
Lawrenceville, New Jersey, after which he was
matriculated in Yale University, where he con-
tinued his studies for four years and where he
was graduated in 1896, with honors, receiving
the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1896-7
Professor Coleman was a student in Auburn
Theological Seminary, at Auburn, New York,
and in 1897 he was a student in the Chicago
Theological Seminary. In 1898-9 he attended
the L^niversitv of Chicago, taking the degree of
Bachelor of Divinity in the fall of 1899. Since
1900 Professor Coleman has held consecutively
the chair of modern history in Butler College,
with the exception of twelve months, in 1904-5.
passed in European travel and in special study
in the University of Berlin, Germany. Since
1908 Professor Coleman has been correspond-
ing secretary of the Indiana Historical .Society,
in whose affairs he maintains a lively and
helpful interest. In this connection he is also
editor of the Indiana Quarterly Maqazwe of
IJiMory, the official paper of the society men-
tioned.
In polit'cs Professor Coleman gave his alle-
giance to the Republican party until 1908, since
which time he has maintained an independent
attitude. He is a member of the Downey Ave-
nue Christian Church, was president of the
Indianapolis Christian Church Union for
three vears. has been president of Butler Col-
lege Settlement Association since 1907, and is
a member of each the executive committee of
the Indiana Young Men's Christian Associa-
tion and the Marion County Board of Chari-
ties. He is also identified with the Indiana
Delta Kappa Epsilon Club, the Indiana Yale
Association, the University Club of Indiana,
the Indianapolis Literary Club, the Indiana
Historical Society, the American Historical
Association, the American Geographical So-
ciety, the American Political Science Associa-
tion, and the Irvington Atheneum, of which he
was president in 1905-6 and of which he has
been corresponding secretary since 1907.
On the 25th of June, 1901, was solemnized
the marriage of Professor Coleman to Miss
Juliet Julian Brown, who was educated in
Shortridge 5igh School, in Indianapolis, and
in Butler College. She 'is a daughter of Judge
Edgar Adelbert Brown and Martha (Julian)
Brown, who still reside in Indianapolis, where
.Judge Brown is a representative lawyer and
where he served on the bench of the Circuit
Court' from 1890 to 1898. Mrs. Coleman's
maternal grandfather was Jacob Hoover Julian,
who likewise served as judge of the Circuit
Court and who was one of the founders of the
village of Irvington, now an integral part of
the City of Indianapolis. Professor and Mrs.
Coleman became the parents of two children,
of whom the younger is living. Ruth, born on
the 15th of December, 1902, died on the 23rd
of December, 1902; and Constance was born
on the 18th of January, 1905, in Berlin, Ger-
many.
Paul F. Martin, M. D. Dr. Martin holds
jirecedence as one of the representative sur-
geons of his native city, where he is now de-
voting his attention exclusively to the surgical
Ijranch of his profession, in which his special
skill is uniformly acknowledged. He was for
more than three years superintendent of the
Indianapolis City Hospital, giving an able and
successful administration of its affairs, and his
professional attainments are of high order, the
result of natural predilection and the admir-
able technical advantages he was afforded in
preparing himself for the work of his exact-
ing vocation. The doctor enjoys distinctive
personal and professional popularity in the
capital city and is well entitled to representa-
tion in this publication.
Dr. Paul Frederic ^Martin was born in In-
dianapolis, on the 2fith of July, 1877, and is
a son of Emil and Elise (Kuster) Martin, the
former of whom was born in the City of Ber-
lin. Germanv, in 1840, and the latter in the
City of Cologne, Germany, in 1848. The father
was reared and educated in his native land
and was in his twenty-fifth year at the time
of establishing his residence in Indianapolis,
where he has since maintained his home and
where he has long been prominently identified
HISTOKY OF GEEATEE INDIANAPOLIS.
651
with important business interests, being now
president of the Indianapolis Chemical Com-
pany and being a citizen to whom has ever
been accorded the highest measure of confi-
dence and esteem. The mother was an infant
at the time of her parents' immigration to
America and the family located in Indianapolis
when she was about two years of age. Here
she was reared and educated and has main-
tained her home during the long intervening
3'ears. The Martin family lineage is traced
back to the fine old Norman stock, and the
Kuster family is of French origin, the original
orthography of the name having been Custre.
Dr. Martin attended the public schools of
Indianapolis until he had attained to the age
of ten years, and he then visited the City of
Berlin, Germany, where he remained for three
and one-half years and where, during the major
portion of this period, he attended the "Beliner
Gymnasium". He early manifested a distinc-
tive musical taste and talent and when but
eight years of age began the study of the violin,
which he continued in the Berlin Conservatory
during the period of his sojourn in Germany.
Upon his return from Germany to Indianap-
olis, Dr. Martin entered the Shortridge High
School, in which he was graduated as a mem-
ber of the class 'of 1894, after which he pur-
sued higher academic branches in Butler Col-
lege, at In'inpton, now a part of the City of
Indianapolis, for one year, at the expiration
of which he was matriculated in the Indiana
Medical College, in which he completed the
prescribed course and was graduated as a mem-
ber of the class of 1898, with the degree of
Doctor of ^[edicine. He did not attain his
legal majority until the month following his
graduation. During the three years of his
undergraduate work in this college he was as-
sistant to the Professor of Chemistry, and this
position he retained for one year after his
graduation, being at the same time resident
physician at the Indianapolis City Dispensan-.
In the summer of 1899. the doctor went to
New York City, for the purpose of doing such
])ost-graduate work as would more amply for-
tify him for the practice of his profession.
He there served as substitute interne in Eoose-
velt Hospital and was identified with the Van-
derbilt Clinic until the autumn of the same
year, when he entered the senior class of the
College of Plyvsicians and Surgeons, the med-
ical dejinrtmcnt of historic old Columbia Uni-
versity, in which he was graduated in 1900 and
from which he received his supplemental de-
gree of Doctor of Medicine. He then assumed
the position of house surgeon of the German
Hospital. New York City, which incumbency
he retained until April, 1903, and during the
ensuing three months he served the regular
term at the Sloane Maternity Hospital, as
resident physician. He then left the national
metropolis and returned to his home in In-
ydianapolis, where, in October, 1903, he became
superintendent of the Indianapolis City Hos-
pital. He continued in tenure of this ofiBce
until January, 1906, when he retired to devote
his attention to the private practice of his pro-
fession, in which his success has been of the
most unequivocal order. As already stated, he
now gives his entire time and attention to the
practice of surgery, in which his services are
in much requisition and in connection with
which he has gained a specially high reputa-
tion.
Dr. Martin is identified with the American
Medical Association, the Indiana State Med-
ical Society, and the Indianapolis Medical So-
ciety, and in connection with his professional
association in New York City he holds member-
ship in the Sloane Maternity Hospital Alumni
x\ssociation and the German Hospital Alumni
Association. He is affiliated with the Phi Eho
Sigma college fraternity. He holds the chair
of associate surgeon at the Indiana University
School of Medicine; is chief of surgical clinic
and consulting surgeon of City and Bobbs'
Dispensary; attending surgeon of Indianapolis
City Hospital, and a member of the City
Board of Health and Charities. Dr. Martin
was married January 6, 1904, to Miss Edna
Mathilde Kuhn, daughter of August M. and
Emma D. Kuhn.
Et. Eev. Joseph Marshall Francis, D. D.,
Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Indianapolis,
was born at Eaglesmere, Pennsylvania, on the
6th of April 1862, and is a son of James B.
and Charlotte A. (Marshall) Francis. After
receiving an academic education in Philadel-
phia, Bishop Francis pursued courses at Eacine
College and Oxford Universitv, and obtained
his degree of D. D. from Neshotah (Wiscon-
sin) College in 1899 and Hobart College in
1901.
Becoming a deacon in the Protestant Epis-
copal Church in 1884, two years later Dr. Fran-
cis was ordained to the priesthood, his pastor-
ates of this period being at Milwaukee and
Greenfield, Wisconsin. In 1886 he was appointed
canon of the cathedral at the former city, and
in 1887 assumed the rectorship at Whitewater,
in 1888 gping as a missionary to Tokyo and
not long afterward being appointed priest in
charge of the cathedral at the Japanese capital,
as well as professor in the Trinity Divinity
School there. It was while thus engaged that
he married Miss Stevens, of Milwaukee, Wis-
consin. Eeturning from Japan in 1897, Bishop
Francis was appointed rector of St. Paul's
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
Church, Evan:-ville, in January, 1898, and in
June, of the following year, was elected Bishop
of Indiana, his consecration occurring on the
21st of September.
AuGi'sTUS Mnui'HY. For a quarter of a
century no citizen of Indianapolis was more
familiar with its manifold business and civic
interests than the late Augustus Murphy, who
for that protracted period was in the active
management of the compilation and publica-
tion of the Indianapolis city directory, being
the local manager of the business of the great
directory publishing house of R. L. Polk &
Company. He was a man of great loyalty as
a citizen and business man, and his genial and
kindly nature drew to. him the most inviolable
friendships. His life was marked by the high-
est principles of integrity and honor and he
lived and labored to goodly ends until he at
last was called upon to answer the inexorable
summons of death, having passed away, at his
home in Indianapolis, on Friday, September
26, 1902, secure in the high esteem of all with
whom he had come in contact in the various
relations of a long and signally useful career.
Augustus Murphy was born at Fulton, New
York, on the 6th of September, 1842, and was
a son of Rev. Daniel and Honora (O'Connor)
Murphy, both representatives of stanch old
Irish stock. His father was a clergyman of
the Protestant Episcopal Church and was a
man of fine scholarship and of earnest devotion
to his high calling, in which he continued to
labor imtil his death. The subject of this
memoir was afforded the advantages of the
common schools and of the college at Fulton,
New York, after leaving which institution he
completed a course in a business college in
Detroit, Michigan, where he took up his abode
in 1860. There he was employed in the post-
office until the inception of the Civil War, when
he gave manifestation of his intrinsic loyalty
by entering the Union commissary service,
continuing to be identified with this depart-
ment of the government until the close of the
war.
In 1872 Mr. Murphy became associated
with the publication of the Michigan Gazeteer,
issued by R. L. Polk, of Detroit, and he was
interested with Mr. Polk in several such pub-
lications. In 1875 he severed his connection
with this concern and removed to Chicago,
where he entered the newspaper business, also
becoming publisher of the Milwaukee city di-
rectory, under the title of :Murphy & Company.
In 1877 he .«old that publication and became
interested with R. L. Polk in the publication
of the Indianapolis city directory, removing
with his family to this city in the same year.
Thereafter he continued as manager of the
j)ublication of the Indianapolis directory until
the close of his life, ever keeping the publica-
tion up to the highest standard and in other
ways contributing his quota to the upbuilding
of the capital city as a metropolitan center.
Upon his death he was succeeded by his only
son, Charles S., who is still incumbent of the
office. He manifested a lively interest in all
that concerned the progress and prosperity of
liis-home city and ever commanded the high
regard of its representative business men. His
political allegiance was given to the Repub-
iican party, he attained to the thirty-second
ilegree in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite
of the Masonic fraternity and was identified
with its adjunct organization, the Ancient
Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine. He also was prominently identified
with various civic organizations that have ma-
terially aided in advancing the progress of In-
dianapolis. He was a communicant of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, as is also his
wife, who survives him and still resides in In-
dianapolis.
In 1871 was solemnized the marriage of Mr.
Murphy to Miss Ida Templin, who was bom
at North Manchester, Indiana, and who is a
daughter of the late Benjamin F. Templin.
Besides the one son Mr. Murphy is survived
by one daughter. Miss Ruth, who remains with
her widowed mother in the pleasant home that
has long been a center of gracious hospitality.
From the Directory Bulletin of November,
1902, are taken the following appreciative
words, which were there given in connection
with an appreciative reference to the death of
Mr. Murphy: "Mr. Murphy was blessed with
a sunny disposition, and had a genial, kindly,
whole-souled manner which attracted and held
friends. He was a man of the strictest integ-
rity and possessed, marked business ability".
Meredith Nicholson. In the domain of
literature, Indianapolis has gained a place of
distinction and pre-eminence and among those
who have contributed materially to its prestige
as a literarv center, stands Meredith Nicholson,
who is a native son of the state and whos§ pro-
ductions, marked by gracious fancy, have given
him a high reputation and a stanch following
among the readers of the best in the fields of
fiction and poesy. It is, of course, extraneous
to the functions of this publication to enter
into manifold details concerning the career of
the many representative citizens whose names
find a place within its pages and in the case at
hand it can be hoped to present only a brief
tribute to this talented son of the Hoosier com-
monwealth.
Meredith Nicholson was born in Crawfords-
ville. ^Montgomery County, Indiana, on the 9th
HISTORY OP GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
653
of December, 1866, and is a son of Edward W.
and Emily (Meredith) Nicholson. Edward
Willis Nicholson was born in Kentuek}' and
was a son of James Nicholson, who was a na-
tive of North Carolina and a scion of a fam-
ily founded in America in the colonial era.
Representatives of the name were found en-
rolled as valiant soldiers in the Continental line
in the War of the Revolution. As a young
man, Edward Nicholson came to Montgomery
Count}', Indiana, where he for a time made his
home with one of the brothers of his mother.
He eventually became one of the substantial
farmers of that section of the state, was a
member of the Montgomery Guards, a zouave
company, which became the nucleus of the
Eleventh Indiana Infantry, commanded by the
late distinguished General Lew Wallace. At
the end of the three months' service, Mr. Nich-
olson enlisted in the artillery, becoming captain
of the Twenty-second Indiana Battery. He
continued with his command until the close
of the war, was with Sherman on the ever-
memorable march to the sea, and his battery
opened the battle of Shiloh, Captain Nicholson
sighting and firing the first gun. Por a .time
during the war he was assigned to detail duty
in the drilling of new batteries in the City of
Indianapolis, in which city he took up his
residence in 1872. Here he remained until
1888, when he removed to Washington, D. C,
where he was connected in various capacities
with the treasury department until his death,
on the 19th of August, 1894. He was a valued
member of the Grand Army of the Republic
and also of the JMilitary Order of the Loyal
Legion of the United States. He was married
at the close of the war to Miss Emily Meredith,
who was born at Centerville, Wayne County.
Indiana, a daughter of Samuel Caldwell Mere-
dith, who was an early settler at Centenille.
where he became editor and publisher of a
newspaper in the pioneer days and whence he
joined in the hegira to California, at the time
of the great gold excitement, in 1849. He
finally returned to Indiana in 1S.52 and estab-
lished his home in Indianapolis, where he
passed the residue of his life. He was a son
of John Wheeler ^feredith, who was born in
the West Indies, of Welsh parentage, and who
served as a soldier in the War of the Revolu-
tion, at the close of which he resided in Penn-
sylvania for some time and then removed to
Ohio, passing the closing years of his life at
Troy, where his remains were interred. The
mother of Meredith Nicholson gave effective
service as a nurse in the South during the
progress of the War of the Rebellion, and she
is now living in Indianapolis, having the rev-
rent affection of all who have come within the
sphere of her gracious influence. Of her two
children, the subject of this sketch is the elder,
and his sister Margaret is the wife of Robert
Peclle Noble, of Indianapolis.
Meredith Nicholson was five years of age at
the time the family removed to Indianapolis,
where he was reared to maturity and where he
attended the public schools until lie had com-
pleted a portion of the first year's work in the
high school. Thereafter he was variously em-,
ployed, having partially mastered the mysteries
of the "art preservative of arts", and also hav-
ing learned stenography. At this period in his
career there was slight indication that he was
destined to achieve so much of distinction in
the field of literature, but in a perspective view
it can be seen that his varied experience had
much to do with fortifying him for effective
literary work. When nineteen years of age he
began the study of law in the office of the firm
of Dye & Pishbaek, and later he continued his
technical reading under the able preeeptorship
of the late William Wallace, to whom a memoir
is dedicated on other pages of this work. While
a law student he began writing and he showed
a natural predilection for this line of endeavor,
with the result that he soon became identified
with newspaper work in Indianapolis. After a
year on the Sentinel he was for somewhat more
than a decade, from 1885 to 1897, a valued
and versatile member of the editorial staff of
the Indianapolis News. Thereafter he devoted
one year to the stock-brokerage business and
he then went to Colorado, where for three years
he held the dual position of auditor and treas-
urer of a coal mining corporation. At the
expiration of this time he returned to Indian-
apolis and it may be considered fortunate in-
deed that he has since devoted his entire time
to literary" work. His first production was
"Short Flights" (poems), which was published
in 1891, and then followed in consecutive or-
der "The Hoosiers" (historical), "The Main
Chance", "Zelda Dameron", "The House of a
Thousand Candles", "The Port of Missing
Men", "Rosalind at Red Gate" and "The Lit-
tle Brown Jug at Kildare". In the autumn of
1909 was published his attractive novel, "The
Lords of High Decision". Appreciative recog-
nition of his accomplishment in his chosen field
of endeavor was that accorded by Wabash Col-
lege, in 1897, when he received therefrom the
degree of Master of Arts, and in 1901 a further
tribute was paid him bv this institution, which
conferred upon him the honorary degree of
Doctor of Letters. ^Ir. Nicholson is a mem-
ber of the Phi Beta Kappa and of the Phi
Gamma Delta. He is an inheritance member
of the Military Order of th^ Loyal Legion,
the Societv of the Sons of the American Revo-
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HISTOKY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
lution, and is identified with various civic and
social organizations of representative charac-
ter in his home city. In politics he accords
stanch allegiance to the Democratic party and
his religious faith is that of 'the Episcopal
Church. In 1906 Mr. Nicholson arranged a
collection of his verses' in a volume entitled
"Poems", the same being made up partly of
productions which had -appeared from time to
time in the Century, Harper's and the Atlantic
Monthly. His essays on social, literary and
political subjects have appeared frequently in
the Atlantic and elsewhere. The published
works of Mr. Nicholson are too well known to
require more definite mention in this article.
On the 16th of June, 1896, Mr. Nicholson
was married to Miss Eugenie Kountze, a
daughter of Herman Kountze, an influential
citizen of Omaha, Nebraska. They have three
children— Elizabeth Kountze, Meredith Junior
and Lionel. Mrs. Nicholson's mother was the
daughter of Thomas Davis, of Sinker & Davis,
a firm that has had a continuous e.xistence in
Indianapolis for half a century.
Charles S. Grout. In the field of prac-
tical benevolence and organized charity, Charles
S. Grout has been able to accomplish a most
beneficent work, and it has been his to attain
a high reputation in this province, to which
he has devoted many years of service as an
executive and administrative officer, being at
the present time general secretary of the Char-
ity Organization Society of Indianapolis, whose
headquarters are at 306 North Delaware street.
He has given close study to the work which
has thus engrossed his attention, has exerted
much influence in the amelioration of suffer-
ing and distress in the capital city, and is a
citizen to whom is accorded the fullest meas-
ure of popular confidence and rega'rd.
Mr. Grout is a scion of families founded in
New England in the early colonial epoch of
our national history, and his genealogy in the
agnatic line is of German origin ; in the ma-
ternal line of stanch English extraction.
Though reared among the green and rugged
hills of Vermont. Mr. Grout claims Iowa as
the place of his nativitv, as he was born on a
farm near the city of Dubuque, that state, on
the .Slst of August. 1859, being a son of Will-
iam W. and Augusta A. (Spaulding) Grout.
William Wirt Grout was born on the old fam-
ily homestead near Cavendish. Windsor County.
Vermont, and there the major portion of his
long and useful life was passed. His death
occurred on the farm which was his birth-
place and he was about seventy-three years of
age when he was summoned to the life eternal.
He was a son of Daniel and Lucy (Adams')
Grout, both of whom were likewise natives of
the old Green Mountain State, where their
entire lives were spent and where the father
followed the great basic industry of agriculture.
Augusta A. (Spaulding) Grout was .likewise
born and reared in Vermont, and there her
death occurred when she was about thirty-nine
years of age. Both she and her husband were
devout members of the Baptist Church, and the
latter gave his allegiance to the Whig party
until the organization of the Republican party,
when he transferred his support to the latter,
of whose principles he ever afterward contin-
ued a stalwart advocate. Of the five children
the subject of this sketch and his sister, Lucy
A., now deceased, were born in Iowa, and the
other three were born after the return to Ver-
mont. One of the number died in infancy;
Elsie is now the wife of Edward N. Woodbury
and they reside in Mitchel County, Kansas;
and Augusta is the wife of Edward Crawlev,
of Wichita, that state. William W. Grout be-
came one of the pioneers of Iowa, where he
secured a tract of government land and ini-
tiated the work of developing a farm, but he
became dissatisfied with conditions in that sec-
tion . of the linion and returned to the old
homestead in Vermont after a few years' resi-
dence in the Hawkeye state.
Charles Spaulding Grout, the immediate
subject of this review, was a child of about
two years at the time of the family removal
from Iowa to Veimont, and he was reared to
maturity on the old Grout homestead farm,
to whose work he early began to contribute
his assistance, in the meanwhile duly availing
himself of the privileges offered in the public
schools of the locality. At the age of eighteen
years he was matriculated in Black River
Academy, at Ludlow, Vermont, in which well
ordered institution he was graduated as a mem-
ber of the class of 1881. Immediately after
his graduation, at the ' Suggestion of Mila F.
Ritzinger, of Indianapolis, who was tempora-
rily residing in Ludlow, he came to this city,
where he assumed the position of salesman in
a tea store. About one year later he was given
the position of timekeeper of the Atlas Engine^
Works, with which concern he continued for
a period of eleven years.
In the autumn " of 1893 Mr. Grout was
chosen incumbent of his present office of gen-
eral secretary of the Charity Organization So-
ciety of Indianapolis, and to its administrative
and practical affairs he has since given his
attention, bringing to bear marked capacity
for the handling of the manifold details of the
benevolences of the organization and showing
that deeper human sympathy which transcends
mere sentiment to become an actuating motive
and the producer of definite results in the
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655
succor and aid of "those in any way afflicted
in mind, body or estate". He was also the
organizer of the Mutual Service Association,
in 1903, a corporate organization of young
women and one which purchased and has ef-
fectively developed the Mutual Service Park,
devoted to co-operative work in an outing and
boarding home for working young women. A
noteworthy outgrowth of Mr. Grout's work as
general secretary of the Charity Organization
Society is the Fairview Settlement, one of the
noble institutions of the capital city. This
social settlement, organized and conducted ac-
cording to the most approved system of prac-
tical helpfulness, has as its purpose the pro-
viding of houses rent free for mothers support-
ing families through their own efforts, and
none can doubt the beneficence of this work,
as it enables such devoted women to make
proper provision for their children and give
them educational and other advantages which
^vculd otherwise be in the realm of the impos-
sible. Mr. Grout's service has been one that
may well be designated as consecrated, and he
is constantly studying ways and means to
further the work committed to his charge, hav-
ing a high sense of his stewardship and an
abiding human tolerance and sympathy. It
should be stated that the Charity Organization
Society is an incorporated institution and has
for its object the bringing together of the
charitable efforts in the city and the developing
of such agencies as tend to be of the greatest
good to our poorer people.
Loyal and public-spirited as a citizen, Mr.
Grout takes a deep interest in all that concerns
the progress and prosperity of his home city
and he gives his influence and aid in support
of all measures and enterprises tending to con-
.serve the general welfare of the community.
Though never desirous of entering the arena
of practical politics and never a seeker of
political office, he is a stanch supporter of the
cause of the Republican party in a generic
way, though in local affairs, where no issues
are involved, he gives his support to men and
measures meeting the approval of his judg-
ment, irrespective of partisan lines. Both he
and his wife are zealous and valued members
of the North Park Christian Church.
Mr. Grout has been twice married. In 1888
was solemnized his union to Miss Minnie F.
Staggs, daughter of Mrs. Sarah F. Staggs, of
Riverside, California, and she was summoned
to the life eternal in 1890, leaving no children.
-In 1892 Mr. Grout was united in marriage to
Miss Emma Doran, who was bom and reared
in Indianapolis, and who is a daughter of
William M. E. Doran. Mr. and Mrs. Grout
hiive no children of their own, but adopted
four, one of whom has died.
William H. Thomas, M. D. In both the
paternal and maternal lines the honored sub-
ject of this memoir was a scion of pioneer fam-
ilies of Indiana, and in his native common-
wealth it was his to gain much of distinction
as a physician and surgeon and to hold the
inviolable confidence and esteem of all who
kne-«' him. He was for many years one of the
best known and leading representatives of his
profession in the City of Indianapolis and here
he continued in active and successful practice
until the time of his death, which occurred on
the 30th of September, 1903, only a few weeks
prior to his seventieth birthday anniversary.
He served with utmost loyalty as a gallant
soldier of the Union during the greater por-
tion of the Civil War, and in all the varied
associations of the "piping times of peace"
his loyalty and fidelity were of the same in-
sistent type, making him a strong and noble
character and a citizen whose influence ever
worked for good.
Dr. William H. Thomas was bom at Water-
loo, Dekalb County, Indiana, on the 22d of
November, 1833, and was a son of Hewit L.
and Charlotte C. (Helm) Thomas, the former
of whom was a native of the State of New
York and the latter of Kentucky. They be-
came the parents of three children, all of whom
are now deceased and of whom the subject of
this sketch was the youngest. Hewit L. Thomas
was a son of Lyman Thomas, and was about
eight years of age at the time of the . family
removal from the old Empire State to Fayette
County, Indiana, where his father was a pio-
neer, there continuing to reside until his death,
at a venerable age. Dr. William Helm, the
matemal grandfather of Dr. Thomas, was a
native of Virginia and a scion of one of the
patrician families of the historic Old Dominion.
From Kentucky he came to Indiana in an early
day and he was one of the sterling pioneers
of Fayette Coimty, where he died at an ad-
vanced age, having reared a large family of
children. He was one of the early physicians
of Fayette County, and there lived up to the
full tension of the strenuous labors devolving
upon a member of his profession in a pioneer
community. He served in the Indian war
in the early days and was an influential citizen
of the county which long constituted his home.
Hewit L. Thomas was reared to manhood
in Fayette County, this state, where he received
a common-school education and where his early
discipline was that secured in connection with
the work of his father's pioneer farm. Some
time during the early thirties. Mr. Thomas re-
moved to Cass County, this state, where he
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HISTORY OF GKEATER IXDIANAPOLIS.
engaged in agricultural pursuits. In 1855 he
ruinoved to ilinuesota and established his home
at Afton, \\'ashington County, where he be-
came a prominent and influential citizen. He
there served as associate judge, and during the
administration of President Lincoln he served
as a member of the committee of three ap-
pointed b}- the president to adjust some In-
dian claims in Minnesota. After the close of
the Civil War Judge Thomas returned to In-
diana, taking up his residence in Galveston,
Cass County, where he passed the residue of
his life, which was prolonged to the patriarchal
age of ninety-one years. His widow, surviving
him by two years, was ninety .years of age at
the time of her demise. Both were devout
members of the Baptist Church, in which he
long held the office of deacon.
Dr. William 11. Thomas was three years of
age at the time of his parents' removal to Cass
County, where he was reared to maturity and
where his early educational advantages were
those afforded by the primitive subscription
schools, in which he had as an instructor for
some time his father, who devoted himself to
teaching during the winter terms at varj-ing
intervals.
In 1854. when twenty-one years of age. Dr.
Thomas celebrated the attaining of his legal
majority by taking unto himself a wife, and in
the following year he removed with his par-
ents and his bride to Minnesota, where he
found employment at the tinners trade, which
he had previously learned. With the thunder-
ing of .rebel guns against the ramparts of old
Fort Sumter his patriotism was roused, and he
was not long in tendering his services in de-
fense of the Union. In 1863 he enlisted as a
private in Company C. Seventh Minnesota
Volunteer Infantry, and with this gallant
command he continued in active service,
through a period of three years and eight days,
marked by varied and arduous operations,
terminating his association with his regiment
only -when the war closed and peace was de-
clared. He advanced through the various
grades of promotion until he became captain
of the company in which he had enlisted as a
private, and he proved a gallant and popular
commanding officer. His regiment first saw
service in the northwest and took part in bat-
tle with the T.ittle Crow Indians at the foot of
the Black Hills. The regiment was finally
sent from the northwest to Memphis. Tennessee,
and in that state it took part in the battle of
Tupelo. The following winter was passed at
East Point. ^Mississippi, from which place it
moved forward and assisted in the investment
of the City of ^Mobile. Tt was in action in the
heaviest battle at that point and also partici-
pated in many minor battles and skirmishes,
after which it was found taking a valiant part
in the historic aud sanguinary battle of Nash-
ville. From the latter city the regiment went
to Jackson, Mississippi, where it was assigned
to garrison duty and where it remained until
the close of the war. The command was mus-
tered out at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and its
members duly received their honorable dis-
charges. The regiment was in command of
Col. William Marshall, and the same was
in service as a part of the Sixteenth Army
Corps, under Gen. Andrew J. Smith. -Dr.
Thomas ever retained a deep interest in his
' old comrades and signified the same by his
membership in the Grand Army of the Re-
public.
After the close of the war Captain Thomas
returned to Cass County, Indiana, and located
in the village of Galveston, where he engaged
in the tin and stove business, to which he de-
voted his attention for several years, at t^e
expiration of which he sold the business and
removed to Indianapolis, where he took up the
study of medicine and where he finally com-
pleted the prescribed course in the Indiana
^ledical College, from which well ordered insti-
tution he received his degree of Doctor of
Medicine. Thereafter he continuously followed
the work of his exacting profession in this city
until the close of his long and useful life, and
it is said of him that during the long interven-
ing period not even a week marked his with-
drawal from the active labors of his profes-
sion, as his final illness was of very brief dura-
tion. About five years after his graduation
the Central College of Physicians and Sur-
geons was organized and he became one of the
founders of this stanch institution, which con-
tinued in effective work imtil it was merged
with the present medical department of the
University of Indiana-. He was a member of
the original faculty of the college, serving as
demonstrator of anatomy during the first four
years and thereafter lecturing on various other
technical subjects. His last incumbency was
that of the chair of nervous diseases, and dur-
ing all these years of service no member of the
faculty held a higher place in the esteem of
the student body or the confidence of the as-
sociate members of governing body of the in-
stitution. The doctor devoted his attention to
general practice and gained high prestige and
marked success as a physician. He retained a
representative clientage and ever commanded
the high regard of his professional confreres.
He was a valued member of the Indiana State
Medical Society and the Marion County^ Med-
ical Society. ■ In politics he was a stalwart ad-
herent of the Republican party and while ever
HISTOBY OF GREATEK INDIANAPOLIS.
657
mowing a vital interest in public affairs, and
■standing exponent of loyal and liberal eitizen-
.-hip, lie never sought or desired political office
of any order.
On the 16th of October, 1854, was solemnized
the marriage of Dr. Thomas to Miss Ann M.
Copeland, who was born in Hull, England,
whence her parents removed to America when
she was a child, finally settling in Indiana,
where they passed the remainder of their lives.
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas became tlie parents of
one child, Edwin C, who is now a representa-
tive physician and surgeon of Indianapolis
and of whom individual mention is made on
other pages of this volume. Mrs. Thomas was
summoned to the life eternal on the 9th of
Aprilj 1900, at the age of seventy-one years,
and her memory is revered by all who came
within the sphere of her gracious influence.
In May, 1901, Dr. Thomas contracted a sec-
ond marriage, being then united to Mrs. Polly
(Tucker) Wysong, who survives him.
Charles E. Wright, M. D. It was given
Dr. Wright to attain marked distinction as a
physician and surgeon and as a writer and
author in the line of his profession. He was
a prominent figure in the educational work of
his chosen calling, was a recognized authority
in his specialty — the diseases of the eye, ear
and nose — and was a man of the loftiest per-
sonal integrity and honor. He was in the most
significant sense the architect of his own for-
tunes, and in gaining so great distinction and
success he showed the will to do and to dare,
so that he prpved himself equal to the sur-
mounting of obstacles that would have com-
passed the overthrow and discouragement of a
man of less determination, pluck and perse-
verance. The word failure found no place in
his vocabulary, and thus he worked forward to
the goal of success along many lines. He was
a man of singular simplicity of manners, seem-
ingly unconscious of his intellectual superior-
ity and ever free from professional bigotry or
personal intolerance. He well merited the
proud American title of self-made man, and his
services to humanity were such as to justify
him a place among the world's benefactors and
practical philanthropists, though he himself,
with characteristic modesty, would never have
claimed such priority. In his death, at his
home in Indianapolis, on the 22d of February,
189.3, there passed awav one of the most emi-
nent and honored representatives of the medi-
cal profession in Indiana, and a citizen who
was loved for his many generous attributes
of character.
Charles Edward Wright was bom on a farm
that is now within the city limits of Indian-
apolis, on the 1st of November, 1843, and it is
worthy of note that the old homestead was lo-
cated on East Washington street, where his
parents settled in the pioneer days when the
capital city was but a village. The doctor was
a son of Willis Wright, who was born in the
Ci\y of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and who
was a scion of stanch English stock. The par-
ents continued to reside in Indiana until their
death. Dr. Wright passed his boyhood days
on the home farm, and early began to lend his
aid in its work, and in the meanwhile his edu-
cational advantages were most limited. When
fourteen years of age he left the parental roof
and went to Nashville, Tennessee, where he
found employment through which he was able
to defray the expenses of further school work.
His ambition for a liberal education was one of
definite action, and finally he found it possi-
ble to enter the old Asbury University, now De-
Pauw University, at Greencastle, Indiana,
where he completed his academic studies. In
preparation for the work of his chosen profes-
sion he was finally matriculated in the Medical
College of Ohio at Cincinnati, in which he com-
pleted the prescribed course and was graduated
in March, 1868, duly receiving his well earned
degree of Doctor of Medicine, and thus finding
himself at last admirably fortified for the du-
ties and responsibilities of life, whose prior bat-
tles he had found stern and formidable.
Immediately after his graduation Dr. Wright
took up his residence in Indianapolis, his na-
tive city, and here he ever afterward continued
in the successful work of his profession, which
he honored and dignified by his distinguished
ability and splendid services. For many years
he devoted special attention to the diseases of
the eye, ear and nose, and he became a recog-
nized authority in this field of practice, in
which his success was of the most imequivocal
order. He was a profound student of his pro-
fession and indefatigable in his individual re-
search and experimentation, so that it was but
natural, with his great intellectual power, that
he should achieve a secure place as one of the
essentially representative members of his pro-
fession in the United States. He was a valued
member of the Indiana Academy of Science, of
which he served as secretary in 1868. He was
also one of the active and valued members of
the Indiana State Jledical Society, the Marion
County Jledical Society and other localized pro-
fessional and scientific bodies, besides which he
was identified with the American Medical As-
sociation and various scientific organzations of
national and international scope. He was one
of the founders of the Indiana Medical Col-
lege, in which he eventually became professor
of materia medica and therapeutics, as well as
special lecturer on the diseases of the eye and
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HISTOEY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
ear. For some time he was secretary of the
college and later he was its president for sev-
eral years. He did much to further the up-
building of the excellent institution, which was
eventually merged with others in the Med-
ical Department of the University of Indiana.
Innumerable demands were made upon the
time and attention of Dr.- Wright in a purely
professional capacity and aside from his ex-
tensive and representative private practice. He
was a member of the mfidieal staff of the Indian-
apolis City Hospital, was physician to St. Vin-
cent's Hospital and for four years was attend-
ing physician to the state institution for the
blind in Indianapolis. In 1875-6 he was pres-
ident of the Indiana State Board of Health,
and in 1877-8 he was president of the Indiana
Medico-Legal Fraternity.
During the progress of the Civil War, Dr.
Wright was called into service as quartermas-
ter's sergeant in the camp of instruction in
Indianapolis, and later he became superintend-
ent of the commissary stores at Nashville, Ten-
nessee, and afterward served as chief commis-
sary clerk of the subsistence department of the
Union Army, in the Department of Kentucky.
In July, 1878, in the military service of the
state. Dr. Wright was appointed surgeon gen-
eral on the staff of Governor Williams, with the
rank of colonel. For a long period he was chief
of the m,edical staff of St. Vincent's Hospital,
and he was also superintendent of the state in-
sane asylum in Indianapolis. The doctor made
many and valuable contributions to the stand-
ard and periodical literature of his profession,
and these contributions continued to mark the
entire period of his active professional career.
His thesis on "Spontaneous Evolution" was
published in the Western Journal of Medicine
in March, 1868; his reports of the diseases of
the eye and ear appeared in the published rec-
ords of the Indiana State Medical Society.
1870-77. He was for some time editor-in-chief
of the Indiana Medical Journal, to which his
contributions were many and of great general
interest to the members of his profession. The
doctor was a man of fine literary taste, and in
the midst of the many exactions of his profes-
sional work he found time to carry his reading
over a remarkably wide range and to take an
active part in the affairs of local literary cir-
cles. He was president of the Scottish Rite
Dramatic Association of Indianapolis from tlic
time of its organization until his deatli, ami
was otherwise a vital factor in the promotion
of literary and dramatic study and work in his
home city. He was passionately fond of the
drama, and gained a reputation as an amateur
actor. He was also a great lover of books and
a collector of old volumes, and was well in-
formed on the many works which adorned his
walls. In the time-honored Masonic fraternity
he achieved the supreme honor, in receiving the
thirty-third degree of the Ancient Accepted
Scottish Rite, and he was one of the most ap-
preciative affiliates of both the York and Scot-
tish Rite bodies in Indianapolis. He was iden-
tified also with the Knights of Pythias, in which
he was medical examiner. He was fond of
fishing , and extremely fond of horses, owning
at various times thoroughbred stock.
It was but natural that a man of such broad
mental ken and such intense individuality
should be well fortified in his views as to mat-
ters of public polity and should take a deep
interest in all that touched the welfare of the
community. In politics the doctor accorded
an unswerving allegiance to the Democratic
])arty, and in religious matters he was non-
sectarian, being liberal and tolerant in his at-
titude toward all denominations and having a
true reverence for the spiritual verities as well
as for the faith that makes faithful in connec-
tion with the every-day life of men. He was
generous, genial, democratic and kindly, sure
of himself and loyal to what he believed the
right, so that he never compromised with wrong
or injustice, no matter how attractively or
>ubtly presented. He never lacked the cour-
age of his convictions, and he had no toler-
ance for equivocation or double dealing, deceit
or dishonesty. He was himself sincere and out-
spoken, and petty trickery' and malice brought
forth his unreser^-ed expressions of contempt.
He made life count for good in its every rela-
tion, and those who knew the man as he was
will long cherish his memory. He was equipped
with the elements of greatness, and he showed
this in his professional achievement, his strong
and noble manhood and his gracious and kind-
Iv deeds.
" On the 1st of November, 1870, Dr. Wright
was united in marriage to Miss Anna Haugh.
who was bom and reared in Indianapolis and
who is a representative of one of the old and
lionored families of the state. She still re-
sides in Indianapolis, and in her attractive
home continues to extend a gracious and re-
fined hospitality to her wide circle of friends.
Dr. and Mrs. Wright became the parents of
two ch.ildren, — Charlotte, who is now the wife
of Edmund F. Gall, of Indianapolis, and
Charles Edward, who was graduated in the In-
diana 'Medical College, but who withdrew from
the practice of medicine to enter the dramatic
profession, in which he has achieved definite
success.
John- B-«rett Cockrum, specially known as
the able general attorney for the Lake Erie and
Western Railway, with "related lines, is gener-
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
G.59
ally recognized as one of the leading corpora-
tion lawyers of Indianapolis and the state, as
well as a general practitioner, with a notable
private and public record, and a Republican of
activity and wide influence. Both his grand-
father and his father were marked men in
southern Indiana — the former as a pioneer
legislator and one of the founders of the Re-
publican party, and the latter, especially as a
gallant and popular officer of the Civil War.
John B., who was born on a farm near Oak-
land City, Indiana, September 12, 1857, is of
Scotch-Irish ancestry. His grandfather, James
W. Cockrum, was a native of North Carolina,
but at an early day entered government land
in what is now Gibson County, Indiana, and
became one of the leading citizens in that por-
tion of the state. He laid out the town of
Oakland (afterward a city and the birthplace
of John B.), and in 1851 was elected to the
thirty-sixth session of the state assembly as a
representative from Gibson County. In this
capacity he served as a Whig, and a few years
later became one of the most ardent organizers
of the Republican party in southern Indiana,
giving it his hearty support as long as he lived.
William M. Cockrum, the father, absorbed
these political tendencies and was himself an
enthusiastic Republican, as well as a success-
ful farmer and a leading citizen; a strong
man, intellectually and morally. The latter
traits made him the brave and efficient soldier
that he was. In the Civil War he served as
Lieutenant- Colonel of the Forty-second In-
diana Infantry, and received so severe a wound
on the battlefield of Chickamauga that he was
obliged to remain in a temporary hospital on
the scene of action for seventeen days. He
was then removed to Libby prison, where he
was confined for seven months, and at his ex-
change again entered the service, serving un-
til the close of the war. It was a public ac-
knowledgment of his bravery and fidelity as a
soldier when Governor Matthews appointed
him to the Indiana commission which superin-
tended the erection of the monuments to the
state regiments at Chickamauga Park. He is
kindly and gratefully remembered both for his
virtues and as the author of an interesting and
reliable work compris.ing early reminiscences
of Indiana.
John B. Cockrum was educated in the Oak-
land City schools, graduating from its high
school at the age of seventeen and commencing
to teach in the country institutions of Gib-
son County. The latter avocation was pursued
only during the winter months, the summer
months being devoted to the studv of law in
the office of" Hon. J. E. McCullough. then of
Princeton, Indiana, now of Indianapolis. Sub-
Vol. II— 2
sequently Mr. Cockrum entered the Cincinnati
Law School, from which he graduated in
April, 1879.
Immediately after his graduation in law
and his admission to the bar, Mr. Cockrum
commenced practice at Booneville, Warrick
County, Indiana, where he formed a partner-
ship with Charles W. Armstrong, under the
name of Armstrong and Cockrum. The firm
continued unchanged until 1882, when John
B. Handy retired from the Circuit bench and
liecame senior member of Handy. Armstrong
and Cockrum. Of this active and strong co-
partnership Mr. Cockrum remained a member
\mtil his appointment to the position of as-
sistant United States Attorney for Indiana, in
March, 1889. His four vears of able service
in that office were followed in March, 1893, bv
the commencement of his identification with
the Lake Erie and Western Railroad in the
capacity' of assistant general attornev. In
June, 1895, he was appointed to the head of
>*-s Ipcral department, having under his profes-
sional supervision also the Fort Wayne, Cin^
ninnati and Louisville and the Northern Ohio
Railroads, which were operated by the Lake
Erie and Western management.
Ardent and unswerving as a Ronublican, Mr.
Cockrum has alwavs been an active organizer
and a valued speaker for his partv, but the
only marked official honors which he has ac-
cepted were as a delesrate from the First In-
diana Congressional District to the national
convention of 1888 which nominated Benjamin
Harrison for the presidency, and he was also
elected and served as a delegate from the Sev-
enth Congressional District of Indiana in the
national convention that nominated Theodore
Roosevelt for president. Mr. Cockrum has be-
come widely known in the fraternities. He is
a thirty-third degree Scottish Rite Mason and
a Shriner; as one of the leading members of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows was
very active in the erection of their magnificent
home in Indianapolis. He was elected at
Seattle in 1909 as deputy grand sire of the
Sovereign Grand Lodge, I. 0. 0. F., this be-
ing the governing body of the order in the
whole world. In September, 1910, at Atlanta,
Georgia, if the usual plan is followed he will
he elevated to the position of ffrand sire, which
■s the highest executive office in the Sovereign
Grand Lodge and which position he will hold
for two years. He is also closely identified
with the progress of the Knights of P^'thias
and has served many years a« chief tribune
of the Grand Tribunal of Indiana. He is a
member of the Benevolent and Protective Or-
der of Elks, and of many of the local clubs
and social organizations. He was president of
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the Columbia Club at the time of the erection
of the new club house in Indianapolis. In
1880 he married 2kliss Fannie C. BittrofE, of
Evansville, Indiana, and their children are Mrs.
Arthur C. Downing of Indianapolis and Oat-
ley B. Cockrum, assistant general land and
tax agent of the New York Central lines in
Chicago.
John E. Shideleh. One of the well known
and distinctively popular officials connected
with the Indianapolis postoffice is John E.
Shideler, who is incumbent of the office of as-
sistant postmaster. He has held this incum-
bency for more than a decade and it is not in
the least inconsistent to say that no man iden-
tified with the local mail service is more thor-
oughly familiar with the manifold details per-
taining thereto than is he. He has given most
effective service in his responsible office and
the most effective evidence of this fact is that
afforded by his long tenure of the position.
He has passed the major portion of his life
in the Hoosier capital and is here held in high
esteem in both business and social circles.-
John E. Shideler was bom on a farm in
Mill township, Grant County, Indiana, on the
20th of Februarv, 1859. and is a son of David
B. and Anna (Greer) Shideler. His father
likewise was born in Grant County, being a
son of Aaron Shideler, who was of stanch
Pennsylvania German stock and a representa-
tive of a family tliat was founded in the old
Keystone commonwealth in the colonial epoch
of "our national history. Aaron Shideler was
bom in Preble County. Ohio, where his father
settled in the pioneer days, and he himself be-
came one of the sterling and honored pioneers
of Grant County, Indiana, where he took up
his residence as early as the year 1833 and
where both he and his wife passed the residue
of their lives. He reclaimed a farm from the
virgin forest and became one of the substan-
tial citizens of that section of the state.
David B. Shideler was reared and educated
in Grant County, and there was solemnized hi-^
marriage to Miss Anna Greer, who was born in
Ireland and who was a child at the time of
her parents' immigration to America. When
the subject of this review was a child his par-
ents removed to the village of Jonesboro, in
Grant County, where his father was engaged
in the general merchandise business for sev-
eral years. While in Jonesboro Mrs. Shideler
died, her son l)eing three years old at the time.
David Shideler married as his second wife
Sarah Eviston, of Grant County, and she be-
came the mother of Hon. George A. H. Shide-
ler, of Marion, the onlv other member of the
family. On the 24th of April, 1874, after a
residence of a vear and a half in Muncie, In-
diana, the family established their home in
Indianapolis, and here the father engaged in
the life insurance business, with which he was
long and prominently identified, principally as
general agent for the Equitable Life Assur-
ance Society, of the U. S. He continued to
be associated with the management of the local
business of this company until his death, which
occurred on the 31st of January, 1904.
John E. Shideler secured his earliest educa-
tional training in the public school at Jones-
boro and later continued in the schools of the
City of Muncie, where the family took up their
abode in 1872. There it was his privilege to
gain discipline in connection with the printing
and publishing business — a training that has
well been called equivalent to a liberal educa-
tion. He served a practical apprenticeship as
a compositor in the office of the old Muncie
Times, and became a skilled exponent of the
"art preservative of all arts", so that upon the
removal to Indianapolis, in 1874, .he readily
secured employment at his trade. It may be
noted that a fellow apprentice of his in the
Times office in Muncie was Hon. Perry S.
Heath, who later became first assistant post-
master general of the L^^nited States. From
IS' 4 until 1877 Mr. Shideler followed the
work of his trade in Indianapolis, having been
employed in the printing establishment of
Wright, Baker & Company, then one of the
leading concerns of its kind in the city. Al-
bert R. Baker, a member of this firm, took a
deep and kindly interest in young Shideler
and became one of his stanch friends. The
a.<sistant postmaster recalls with sentiments of
deep appreciation and gratitude the many fa-
vors extended to him by Mr. Baker, who did
much to aid him in a material way and by the
offering of well tim.ed counsel. It has always
been a source of pride to Mr. Shideler that
$65,000 of life insurance placed on the life of
Albert R. Baker at Mr. Shideler's solicitation
furnished the ready money at his death that
saved his estate to his family. Mr. Shideler
felt he could justly claim that as being a par-
tial repayment of Mr. Bakers early kindness
to him.
In 1877 ^Ir. Shideler became associated with
his father in the insurance business, and he
continued to be identified with the line of en-
terprise, as representative of the Equitable Life
Assurance Society, for more than a score of
years, within which he made a splendid record
as an underwriter and as an able executive.
He was most successful in this line of enter-
prise and insistently maintains that one of the
most beneficent forces that has entered into
and permeated modern civilization is that of
well ordered life insurance. He holds that its
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
functions are in the protection of those who
are nearest and dearest to the individual per-
son and that thus they touch the home — that
conservator of all that is best and most endur-
ing in the scheme of human existence. Mr.,
Shideler continued to be actively engaged in
the life insurance business until he accepted
his present office of assistant postmaster, in
Febi-uary, 1898, as has already been noted in
this context. He has done much to bring about
the admirable systematization of the work of
the postoffice in Indianapolis and proved of
special influence in this direction when the of-
fice was removed to the present magnificent
federal building, in 1905.
In politics Mr. Shideler has ever given an
unqualified allegiance to the Republican party
and has shown a zealous interest in the pro-
motion of its cause. He and his wife hold
membership in the Tabernacle Presbyterian
Church and he is affiliated with Oriental Lodge
No. 500, Free & Accepted Masons, besides hold-
ing membership in a number of representative
civic and social organizations in his home city.
On the 17th of July, 1878, was solemnized
the marriage of Mr. Shideler to Miss Alice
Rutter, who was born and reared in the vil-
lage of Wheeling, Delaware County, Indiana,
where her father, the late John H. Rutter, was
a physician of large general practice and a
highly honored citizen. Mr. and Mrs. Shide-
ler have four children, namely: DafEo B.,
Jackson E., Thaddeus R., and Hollie A., all
of whom are identified with business interests
in the City of Indianapolis.
John A. Moriarty. A representative busi-
ness man of the younger generation in his
native city is John A. Moriarty, who is as-
sistant general manager of the Indianapolis and
New Long Distance Telephone Companies, and
who was called to this responsible position
through the appreciative estimate placed upon
his services by the directors of this important
corporation, which represents one of the valued
public utilities of the capital city.
Mr. Moriarty was bom in Indianapolis on
the -Sd of October, 1873, and is a son of Will-
iam C. and Emma (Reaume) Moriarty, the
former of whom was born in Ireland and the
latter in the Province of Ontario, Canada. Will-
iam C. iUoriarty was eight years of age at the
time of the family immigration to the United
States, where he was reared and educated. He
became specially skilled as an accountant, and
as such was emploved for many years. He
passed the major portion of his life in In-
dianapolis, where his death occurred and where
he ever -^mmanded unqualified confidence and
esteem as a man of fine attributes of charac-
ter and as a citizen of utmost lovalty. His
widow now makes her home with her son John
A., whose name initiates this article.
John A. Moriarty gained his early education
in the public schools of the old Third ward of
Indianapolis and thereafter studied stenog-
raphy and typewriting, which he followed as a
vocation for a time, after which he was en-
gaged in clerical work in local railway service
for a few years. Upon retiring from this line
of endeavor he entered the employ of the In-
dianapolis Telephone Company, in the capac-
ity of contract agent. After a period of about
four years he withdrew from his position with
this company, but he soon returned to its
service, with which he has since been continu-
ously identified and in connection with which
he has done such excellent work as to gain
the confidence and esteem of the interested
principals in the corporation, as is evident in
the official preferment conferred upon him in
the position of which he has been incumbent
since 1907 — that of assistant general manager.
His promotion to this responsible office was a
fitting recognition of the business acumen and
executive ability he had demonstrated while
previously in the service of the company.
Mr. Moriarty has a wide circle of friends in
the business and social circles of his native city,
and effective voucher for his hold upon the
esteem and good will of representative business
men of Indianapolis is that signified in his elec-
tion, in the spring of 1909, to the presidency
of the Marion Club, the largest and most in-
fluential political and social club of the In-
diana capital and, indeed, of the state itself.
The distinction involved is one of no insignifi-
cant order, and Mr. Moriarty's election indi-
cates not only his marked personal popularity
but also that he has been a stalwart in the
local camp of the Republican party, of whose
principles and policies he is an ardent ad-
vocate.
JiDGE Charles Remstek is presiding with
marked ability on the bench of the Marion
circuit court and holds prestige as one of the
representative jurists and legists of his native
state. He gained distinctive success in his la-
bors as one of the members of the bar of the
capital city, and his elevation to his present im-
portant judicial office was but a fitting recog-
nition of his eligibility and his professional
standing. His devotion to the law has been
of insistent order, implying his appreciation of
the fact that its demands are exacting and that
success comes only to those who are willing to
subordinate other interests and accord an un-
qualified fealty and loyalty. Maker of his own
opportunities and winner of his own advance-
ment. Judge Remster well merits consideration
among others who have lent dignitv and honor
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
to the bench and bar of the fair capital citj^
to which this .historic work is devoted.
Judge Remster was born on the homestead
farm of the family, in Van Buren Township,
Fountain County, Indiana, and the date of
his nativity was July 28, 1862. He is a son
of Andrew and Tamson (Smith) Ren^ster,
both of whom were bom and reared in the
State of New Jersey, where their marriasre
was solemnized .January 6, 1848. Andrew
Remster was a scion of sturdy Holland Dutch
stock and his father, who immigrated from
the City of Amsterdam, was the founder of
the family in America. Mrs.. Tamson (Smith)
Remster was of English lineage and the fam-
ily was established in America prior to the
War of the Revolution, in which her grand-
father, John Smith, served as a captain in the
Continental line. Andrew Remster came with
his bride to the west soon after their marriage,
and after remaining in Ohio about one year
they removed to Indiana and settled in Fountain
County, where he secured a tract of land and
instituted the development of a farm. He
died in 1865, when the subject of this re-
view was but three years of age, and the wid-
owed mother later became the wife of Benja-
min Strader, who died six months later. Of
the five children of the first marriage all are
now living, as is also the one child of the sec-
ond marriage. The devoted mother lived to
a venerable age, loved and revered by all who
came within the sphere of her gentle and
gracious influence, and she passed the closing
years of her life at Covington, Indiana, where
she died in 1901. She was a devout member
of the Baptist Church and her life was one of
unselfish devotion to the happiness of those
about her.
Judge Charles Remster was reared to ma-
turity on the home farm and to the district
schools is he indebted for his early educational
discipline, which was supplemented by a course
in the Veedersburg high school, in which he
R-as graduated as a member of the class of
1882. He then entered Purdue University, at
Lafayette, this state, in which institution he
completed the work of the junior year, after
which he withdrew and turned his attention to
the reading of law, under the effective pre-
ceptorship of a leading member of the bar at
Veedersburg. He made rapid and substantial
progress in the absorption and assimilation of
the science of jurisprudence and in 1889 was
duly admitted to the bar of his native state,
in Fountain County. He maintained his resi-
dence at Veedersburg and was one of the suc-
cessful members of the Fountain County bar
until 1895, when he removed to Indianapolis,
finding in the capital city a wider sphere for
efl'ective labor in his profession. He here
gained a large and representative clientage and
he has appeared in connection with much im-
portant litigation in the federal and state
courts, being known as a versatile and effective
trial lawyer as well as a judicious and dis-
criminating counsellor. ' He continued in the
active general practice of his profession in In-
dianapolis until his elevation to the bench, and
at the time of his election to tliis high judicial
otiice he was serving as assistant prosecuting
attorney of Marion County, under Elliott R.'
Hooton, the able incumbent of the office of
county prosecutor. He was elected judge of
the Marion circuit court in 1908, and he
assumed the discharge of his official duties
on the bench on the 11th of November of
that year, having been elected for the reg-
ular term of six years. The members of the
bar and others who are familiar with his ad-
ministration have naught but commendation
for his able and equitable handling of the
business of his tribunal, and not only has he
shown a distinctive judicial acumen and a
broad and exact knowledge of the minutise of
the law and familiarity with precedents, but he
has also carried forward the work of the court
with facility, avoiding the accumulation of
cases and the consequent burden of an over-
loaded docket. Since he assumed office there
have been few reversals of his decisions by the
higher courts, and his course has been such
as to gain to him a strong hold upon the con-
fidence of the bar, those who have appeared
as principals in cases submitted for his ad-
judication, and the general public. In short,
his course has amply justified the wisdom of
those through whose suffrages he was elevated
to the bench.
In politics Judge Remster has ever been
aligned as a stanch supporter of the principles
and policies for which the Democratic party
stands sponsor, and he has rendered loyal serv-
ice in the promotion of the party cause. He
is a member of the Indiana Democratic Club,
of which lie served as president in 1907. In
a fraternal way he is identified with the
Knights of Pythias, and he is a member of tlie
Indiana Bar Association and various other civic
organizations.
On tlie .30th of October, 1894, Judge Rem-
ster was united in marriage to ^liss Isabelle
^[cDaniol, who was bom and reared in Foun-
tain County. Indiana, and who is a daughter
of Samuel ifcDaniel, a representative farmer
of that county.
TiioM.vs B. E.\STMAX, M. D. In a profes-
sion dignified and honored by the services of
his father, the late Dr. Joseph Eastman, to
whom a memoir is dedicated on other pages of
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
this volume, Dr. Thomas Barker Eastman has
well upheld the professional prestige of the
name which he bears,, and is now engaged in
the practice of his profession in the capital
city.
Dr. Thomas B. Eastman was born at Browns-
-Ijurg, Hendricks County, Indiana, on the 8th
of April, 1869. As a review of the career of
his father appears in this work, it is unneces-
sary to repeat the genealogical data in the pres-
ent sketch. Dr. Eastman secured his early edu-
cational training in the public schools of In-
dianapolis, and was then matriculated in Wa-
bash College, in which institution he was grad-
uated in 1890, with the degree of Bachelor of
Arts. He forthwith entered the Central Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons, of Indian-
apolis, in which he was graduated as a mem-
ber of the class of 1893, and from which he
received his well-earned degree of Doctor of
Medicine. In the practice of his chosen pro-
fession his success has been on a parity with
his recognized ability and he is one of ithe es-
sentially representative physicians and sur-
geons of "Greater Indianapolis." He is a mem-
ber of the American Medical Association, the
American Associatiqn of Obstetrics and Gyne-
cology, the Indiana State Medical Society and
the Marion County Medical Society. In poli-
tics he accords stanch allegiance to the Repub-
lican party and in the Masonic fraternity he
has attained the thirty-second degree of the
Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, in which con-
hection he is affiliated with Indiana Sovereign
Consistory, Sublime Princes of the Royal Se-
cret, and he also holds membership in Murat
Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of
the Jlystic Shrine. He is a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi, a literary college fraternity, and
of the Phi Rho Sigma medical fraternity. By
reason of his father's military service in the
Civil War, he is eligible for and holds mem-
bership in the Military Order of the Loyal Le-
gion of the United States.
On the 22nd of March, 1893, was solem-
nized the marriage of Dr. Eastman to Miss Ota
Beal Nicholson, who was bom in Crawfords-
vills, Indiana, and who is a daughter of William
E. and Jennie (Beal) Nicholson. Her father
was a representative citizen and substantial
capitalist of Crawfordsville, where his death
occurred in 1903 and where his wife still main-
tains her home. Dr. and Mrs. Eastman have
one child, — Nicholson Joseph.
David F. Beery, M. D. This is an age of
specializing, in other words, of concentration
of effort, and in view of the wide realm cov-
ered in sciences of medicine and surgery it may
well be' understood that in the lifetime of no
one man is it possible to become familiar in a
practical and adequate way with the vast fund
of information and the technical scheme of all
that is involved in the worl? of the profession.
Thus there is distinctive propriety in specializ-
ing in this exacting vocation, for years of study,
investig:ation and active work along certain
specified lines may alone place ample demands
upon the time and attention, as well as the
mental powers, of the successful practitioner.
Dr. David F. Berry of this article is numbered
among the representative physicians and sur-
geons of Indianapolis, where he makes a spe-
cialty of the diseases of the ear, nose and
throat, in the treatment of which he has been
most successful and gained a high reputation.
Dr. Berry is a native son of the fine old
Hoosier state, inasmuch as he was born on a
farm near the village of Franklin, Johnson
County, on the 25th of April, 1874. He is
a son of William H. and Elizabeth J. (King)
Berry, the former of whom was' bom near
College Corner, Butler County, Ohio, and the
latter in Boone County, Indiana, where her
parents were early settlers. His father was
one of the honored and influential citizens of
the community in which he so long lived and
labored to goodly ends. Practically his en-
tire active career was one of close identifica-
tion with the great basic industry of agri-
culture, in connection with which he gained
marked success. He was a stanch Republican
in politics and served in various local offices of
trust, and both he and his wife held member-
ship in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
On the old home farm Dr. Berry was reared
to maturity and after completing the curric-
uluni of the public schools of the village of
Franklin he became a clerk in various drug
stores in Indianapolis, where he became a skill-
ful pharmacist. He was employed in this
capacity for a period of seven years and his
knowledge of and taste for materia medica
and therapeutics, gained during his experience
as a pharmacist, led him to enter the medical
profession, in which he felt were offered wider
opportunities for effective service. After pass-
ing one year in the study of medicine under
the effective preceptorship of Dr. Thomas E.
Courtney, of Indianapolis, he entered the Cen-
tral College of Physicians & Surgeons, in this
city, in which institution he was graduated as
a member of the class of 1900 and from which
he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine.
In his class he had the distinction of winning
the highest honors in surgery and thus was
made the recipient of the John M. Gaston
gold surgery medallion. He forthwith ini-
tiated the practice of medicine in Indianap-
olis, and he is now one of the prominent and
successful specialists, devoting his attention
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BISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
exclusively to diseases of the ear, nose and
throat and having control -of a representative
clientage, also holding a secure place in the
esteem of his' professional confreres and the
confidence and regard of the general public.
He is a member of the Indianapolis Medical
Society and the Indiana State Medical So-
ciety, and the American Medical Association.
In politics Dr. Berry is arrayed as a stal-
wart supporter of the principles and policies
for which the Republican party stands spon-
sor, and he is affiliated with the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows. He is also a member
of the Marion Club, one of the representative
civic and social organizations of the capital
city. He and his wife hold membership in
the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Charles F. Remy. The bar of the City
of Indianapolis has as one of its representa-
tive members Charles F. Remy, former re-
porter of the supreme court of the state and
now senior member of the law firm of Remy
& Berryhill, whose offices are located in the
Law building. He is a representative of the
fourth generation of the Remy family in In-
diana, with whose annals the name has been
identified since the territorial epoch of its
history.
Charles F. Remy was born on the parental
farmstead, near the village of Hope, in Haw-
creek Township, Bartholomew County. Indiana,
on the 25th of February, 1860, and is a son of
Calvin J. and Miranda C. (Essex) Remy, the
former of French and Irish lineage and the
latter of German. Calvin J. Remy was born
in Franklin County, Indiana, as was also his
father, John T. Remy, the year of whose na-
tivity was 1810; showing that the family was
founded in that section of the state in the
early pioneer days, when the district was es-
sentially an unbroken forest wilderness. John
T. Remy became one of the successful farmers
of Bartholomew County, and there his son
Calvin J. also has gained prestige and defi-
nite prosperity in connection with the great
basic industry of agriculture, with which he
is still actively identified. He is one of the
honored and influential citizens of his section,
is a stanch Republican in his political proclivi-
ties, and both he and his wife hold member-
ship in the Baptist Church. Mrs. Remy is
likewise a representative of one of the ster-
ling pioneer families of the Hoosier state and
is a native of Bartholomew County.
The boj'hood and early youth of Charles F.
Remy were compassed by the beneficent in-
fluences of the homo farm, in whose work he
early began to lend his aid, and to the district
schools is he indebted for his early educational
discipline. He made excellent progress in the
accumulation, of scholastic knowledge and
finally, was matriculated in Franklin College,
at Franklin, Indiana, in which well ordered
institution he was graduated as a member of
the class of 1884, with the degree of Bachelor
of Arts. Later he entered the law depart-
ment of the celebrated University of ^lichi-
gan, at Ann Arbor, where he completed the
prescribed, technical course and was graduated
in 1888, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws,
lie was forthwith admitted to the bar of
^Michigan and also to that of Indiana, and
he then located in Columbus, the county seat
of Bartholomew County, where he entered in-
to a professional partnership with Judge Mar--
shall Hacker, with whom he was. a'ssociatert
in practice for a period of eigliC years, within
which he emphatically demonstrated his pow-
ers as an able and versatile trial lawyer and well
fortified counsellor. In 1894 he was elected
to represent Bartholomew County in the lower
house of the state legislature, serving one term
and proving a valuable working member of
the general assembly of 189.5. He was as-
signed to various committees of importance and
exercised no little infiuence both on the floor
of the house and in the committee room. He
was the house chairman of the Committee on
Benevolent Institutions, and in that capacity
assisted in the enactment that year of the law
]nitting the state's benevolent institutions on
a non-partisan basis. It was the hard fight of
that session.
In 1896 ^Ir. Remy wa> elected reporter of
the supreme court of tlie state, giving most
discriminating and able service in this im-
portant office, to which he was re-elected in
1900. upon the expiration of his first term.
He was the first Republican ever elected to a
state office from Bartholomew County, and he
continued incumbent. of the same until the ex-
piration of his second term, in January, 1905.
He did not become a candidate for re-election.
Since his retirement from this position Mr.
Remy has been engaged in active general prac-
tice of law in Indianapolis, being associated
with James !M. Berrvhill, under the firm name
if Remy & Berryhill. with offices at 911-15
Law building. The firm controls a substan-
tial and essentially representative business, and
its members have appeared in connection with
much important litigation in both the state
and federal courts, also acting in an advisory
capacity for a large and important clientage.
In politics Mr. Remy is arrayed as a stal-
wart in the camp of the Republican party,
and he has rendered efficient service in the
promotion of its cause. He was a leader in
the party maneuvers in his native county prior
to his removal to the capital city, and his in-
HISTOKY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
665
terest in the cause has not abated in the least,
though he subordinates all else to the, insistent
demands of his professional business. In a
fraternal way Mr. Remy is aflBliated with the
Knights of Pythias, and both he and his wife
hold membership in the Baptist Church.
On the 25th of November, 1891, was solem-
nized the marriage of Mr. Remy to Miss De-
borah Henderson, who was a resident of Bar-
tholomew County, Indiana, and who is a daugh-
ter of William Hender--^i. a representative
citizen of Columbus, tha c -r ^-y. Mr. and
Mrs. Remy have one child, , liiam H., who
was born on the 18th of December, 1892.
AViLi.iAM Frederick Elliott, a leading
member of the Indianapolis bar and a widely
knowm author of legal works, is junior in the
lav,- firm of Elliott and Elliott, of which his
distinguished father is the senior. The latter,
Hon. Byron K. Elliott, has spent nearly thir-
tv years of his professional career in the of-
ficial or judicial sen-ice of his city, county and
state, tlie last decade of that period being oc-
cupied as a judge of the state supreme court.
The unusual and splendid services of this ven-
erable citizen are portrayed in other pages of
this publication. William F. is a native of
Indianapolis, born April 29, 1859, and was
reared and educated in that city. He received
a thorough scholastic training, graduating
from Butler College in 1880 and from the
law school of the University of Michigan in
1881.
Upon obtaining his professional degree, Mr.
Elliott at once entered practice at Indianapolis,
and since 1893 has been associated with his
father under the style of Elliott and Elliott.
Father and son are also joint authors of sev-
eral standard text books on law, among which
might be named as the later and best known
works, "Elliott on Evidence" and a revised
edition of "Elliott on Railroads". William F.
has been a prolific and valued contributor to
law literature, having written much for both
encj'clopedias and magazines. Mr. Elliott lec-
tured at DePauw while they had a law school
and for about ten years he has and does still
lecture at the Indiana Law School of Indianap-
olis. In 1897 he married Miss Effie Mar-
quardt. of Des Moines, Iowa. In Masonry,
^Ir. Elliott is of the thirty-second degree and
in his citizenship and private life does not
belie the square and benevolent principles of
his order. In politics he is a Republican. He
is a member of the Sigma Ki fraternity.
Will H. Latta. Among the younger lead-
ers of the Indianapolis bar is Will H. Latta,
who is a native of the Hoo.sier state born No-
vember 5. 1868. He is a son of William W.
and liarriet E. (Jackson) Latta and he spent
the years of his development into manhood on
his father's farm. The son obtained a sound
education, graduating, from DePauw Univer-
sity in 1890 and pursuing a course of one
year in the law school of that institution.
At his graduation in law and admission to
the bar, in 1891, Mr. Latta located at In-
dianapolis, where he has since been an active
practitioner with a growing reputation. In
1894 he married Miss Carrie Hunt, and both
he and his \yiie are members of the Meridian
Street Methodist Episcopal Church, to whose
social, charitable and religious work they are
valued contributors.
DeWitt V. Moore. Among those who are
lending a due quota of aid in the laudable work
of building up the greater and larger industrial
Indianapolis Mr. Moore occupies a position of
no secondary prominence, as he is identified in
a capitalistic and executive way with two of
the important industrial concerns of the
capital city, and he exemplifies in marked de-
gree that resourceful initiative power and that
progressive spirit through which the civic and
business interests of Indianapolis have been so
signally furthered in late years. He stands to-
day as one of the essentially representative
business men of the younger generation in the
capital city, and while it is incompatible with
the province of this publication to enter into
extended genealogical details, it is most con-
sistent that a brief review of his career be in
corporated within its pages.
DeWitt Van Deusen Moore, civil engineer
and contractor, was bom in Perry, Lake Coun-
ty, Ohio, on the 6th of April, 1874, and is the
only child of Rev. Webster Oliver Moore and
Anna Electa (Van Deusen) Moore, the for-
mer of whom was born in Vermont, a scion of
one of the old and honored families of New
England, and the latter of whom was bom in
New York City, of stanch Holland Dutch
lineage. The father is a prominent member
of the clergy of the Christian, or Disciples,
Church, in whose ministry he has long ren-
dered zealous and effective service. He was
graduated in the Northwestern Christian Uni-
versity, now known as Butler College, located
in Irvington, an attractive suburb of Indian-
apolis. He is an influential figure in the af-
fairs of his church and has been for many years
a valued contributor to its periodical literature
as well as one of the able exponents of its
faith.
Because of the somewhat itinerant nature
of his fathei-'s vocation, DeWitt V. Moore
gained his early education in many different
public schools, in the states of Ohio and New
York, and his lack of continued attendance in
any one school and the absence of uniformity
HISTOEY OF GEEATER INDIANAPOLIS.
in the grading systems of the various schools,
made it virtually impossible for him to gi-adu-
ate, though he, perhaps, covered a wider range
of study than did those who followed the cur-
riculum of the public schools of any one place.
His higher academic discipline was secured in
the normal school at Wauseon, Ohio, and his-
toric old Hiram College, at Hiram, that state,
where he prosecuted his studies for one year.
After leaving college, having determined to
prepare himself for the architectural profes-
sion, Mr. Moore went to the city of Cleveland,
Ohio, where he passed some time in technical
study and in working at practical carpentry,
as a prerequisite of success in his chosen voca-
tion. After lea^ang Cleveland he passed some
time in the office of one of the leading archi-
tects of Toledo, Ohio. The broken and inter-
mittent character of Mr. Moore's education gave
him no special standing or prestige from the
standard of mere diplomas or collegiate de-
grees, and his education as represented in his
mastery of his profession must be considered
more as a personal grasping of those things
most essential to his chosen profession. His
knowledge has been gained by a valuable com-
bination of technical study and practical ex-
perience, and none can doubt that he has made
the best of the opportunities presented and
that he has no reason to regret the lack of the
mere superficial honor of a degree. The value
of such an education of hard work is best evi-
denced by his rapid advancement and by the
large and important work designed by him and
constructed under his direction.
Soon after identifying himself with the prac-
tical work of the architectural profession Mr.
Moore became convinced that his maximum
potentiality lay along constructional rather
than the artistic and decorative lines of the
profession, and this decision naturally turned
him toward the field of civil engineering.
With this in view he came to Indianapolis in
the autumn of 1895 and, through the kindly
consideration of "Uncle Billy" Jackson, the
ever loyal friend of young men, he entered the
employ of the Union Railway Company, with
which he remained for nearly seven years. His
labors with this corporation were under the
immediate supervision of the late Martin W.
Mansfield, assistant chief engineer of the Penn-
sylvania Railroad. At the time mentioned Mr.
Mansfield was superintendent of the Pennsyl-
vania lines in Indianapolis and ilr. iloore
was soon advanced to the position of assistant
engineer on the Indianapolis & Vincennes divi-
sion. During the last iowr years of his railroad
experience he carried the work of both the In-
dianapolis and the Vincennes offices, with a large
number of assistants. His association with Mr.
Mansfield was of great benefit to him, especial-
ly in the development of character and broad-
minded policies. Much systematic training also
was obtained during this period, through his
assisting in the preparation of reports and spe-
cial work.
In April, 1902, there came to Mr. Moore the
solution of the problem whether to accept pro-
motion with the railroad company and enter
upon the wandering career of a railway civil
engineer or to leave the service and enter busi-
ness in an independent way. The choice was
made for the latter and he entered into part-
nership with H. A. Mansfield, former city en-
gineer of Indianapolis, under the firm name
of the Mansfield Engineering Company. In
August of the same year the Moore-Mansfield
Construction Company was organized and in-
corporated, and the engineering and construc-
tion business handled by these two companies
has been of wide scope and importance, espe-
cially when is taken into consideration the
youth of the interested principals and of the
companies themselves. The aim of Messrs.
Mansfield and Moore has been to establish in
Indianapolis engineering and contracting con-
cerns which could be depended upon for high-
grade engineering service in connection with
the commercial business of contracting, and
with the attempt also to place the latter on a
systematic and substantial basis. The field of
operations has been varied, and no attempt has
been made to specialize along any one line.
r)ridges, railroads, sewers, streets, buildings,
etc., constructed from the plans of others or
from their own designs, have demonstrated the
facilities and powers of the two concerns and
also the splendid technical and practical equip-
ment of ^Ir. ]\Ioore and his confrere.
In February, 1904, Mr. Moore began to give
special thought and study to the use of con-
crete and reinforced concrete in connection
with building construction. At this time there
was not to be found in Indianapolis a single
building of any importance that was constructed
of the reinforced concrete, nor, indeed, was
there such a building in the entire state. His
first efforts to influence the utilization of this
system of construction met with apathy, not to
say discouragement. However, the knowledge
of the value of the system and of its effective
application in other cities was rapidly gaining
recognition, and ^Mr. ^Moore began the use of
the reinforced concrete in a small way and
finally, during the spring and summer of 1906,
the ^ioore-Mansfield Construction Company had
the satisfaction of constructing under contract
the fine Board of Trade building in Indian-
apolis, an eight-story structiire, all of rein-
forced concrete. Since the completion of tlie
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667
same many other buildings and a large num-
ber of bridges have been constructed by the
company in Indianapolis and in many other
sections of the state. It is needless to say that
Mr. Moore deserved great credit for Ms ener-
gy, prescience and activity exemplified at a
time when this splendid building material need-
ed an exponent. His ambitious, hard-working
disposition is shown by the high standard al-
ready attained, and as a progressive business
man and as one whose achievement is worthy
of note, he may well be classed among the lead-
ing "captains of industry" in the state of In-
diana, as is he one of the popular citizens and
representative business men of its capital city.
In politics Mr. Moore gives an unqualified
allegiance to the Republican party, and he has
taken an active interest in the promotion of the
cause of the "grand old party." Though not
actively identified with any religious organi-
zation he is a believer in the tenets of the
Christian religion and attends and supports
the Disciples' or Christian church, in whose
faith he was reared. He is a member and di-
rector of the Commercial Club, and is iden-.
tified with the Board of Trade, the Marion
Club and the Indiana Engineering Society, be-
sides which he is a member and director of
the American Society of Engineering Con-
tractors, with headquarters in the City of New
York. He is prominently identified with the
time-honored Masonic fraternity, in which his
affiliations are as here noted: Oriental Lodge,
No. .500, Free & Accepted Masons; Keystone
Chapter, No. G, Royal Arch Masons; Indian-
apolis Council, No. 2, Royal and Select Mas-
ters; Eaper Commandery, No. 1, Knights
Templar; and Indianapolis Consistory, Ancient
Accepted Scottish Eite, in which he has at-
tained to the thirty-second degree, having been
president of his class of 1905 ; he is also a
member of Murat Temple, Ancient Arabic Or-
der of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
On the 14th of June, 1898, Mr. Moore was
united in marriage to Miss Flora Mabel Berg,
daughter of Samuel and Pauline Isabelle (Gen-
try) Berg, of Arcadia, Indiana. She died on
the 2.5th of August, 1899, and is survived by a
son. Berg DeWitt, who was born August 24,
1899. On the 19th of November, 1903, Mr.
^loore wedded Miss Dorothy Comer, daughter
of the late John C. Comer, whose wife, Anna
E. (Gilbert) Comer, now resides in Indian-
apolis. Air. Comer was one of the well known
and substantial business men of Marion and
ilorgan Counties and was a leader in the local
ranks of the Republican party. He was sher-
iff of ^Morgan County for two terms, and was a
gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil War.
Mr. and Mrs. Moore have one son, Gilbert
Comer Moore, who was born October 1, 1904.
John C. Euckelshaus is one of the most
prominent members of the Indianapolis bar,
both in pirivate practice and as a representa-
tive of his city and county. He is a native
of the city, born on the 11th of March, 1873,
and is a son of Conrad and Caroline (Karle)
Euckelshaus. His father was born in Germany
and his mother in Indianapolis, of German
parents, the former having resided in the state
capital since he was seventeen years of age;
as he is now in his sixtieth year, it is evident
that he is classed as one of the early settlers
of Indianapolis. Conrad Euckelshaus has been
retired from an old and prosperous grocery
business for sixteen years, his son Henry suc-
ceeding him as its proprietor. His wife is
also in the full enjoyment of an industrious
and useful life.
John C, the elder of two children, first
obtained a public school education, then en-
joyed two years at DePauw University, and
completed his studies by a course at the In-
diana Law School, from which he graduated
in 1895. Admitted to practice in that year,
he has since been a stirring and progressive
figure in professional practice and public life.
Soon after commencing practice he was ap-
pointed county attorney for the poor, became
deputy prosecuting attorney about a year and
a half later, and resigned the latter to be-
come a candidate for the head of the depart-
ment. He was elected to the office of prosecut-
ing attorney in 1900 and 1902, serving cred-
itably for two terms, and in 1905 and 1907
was chosen chairman of the Marion County
Eepublican Central Committee. He is now
serving as county attorney of Marion County,
his first appointment to that office being in
January, 1908. Mr. Euckelshaus has a strong
standing in social and fraternal organizations,
among others enjoying membership in the Co-
lumbia and ]\Lnrion Clubs and the Knights of
Pythias. In 1898 he married Miss Anna C.
Kiley, daughter of John and Catherine Kaley,
of Marion, Indiana, and the children by this
union are John, Conrad and Thomas.
Joseph E. ^Morrow, M. D., has been a resi-
dent of Indianapolis since his childhood days,
and here he has worked his own way forward
to a position of distinctive prestige as one of
the representative physicians and surgeons of
the capital city. As a specialist in the treat-
ment of genito-urinary diseases he has attained
high repute, and to this special branch of his
profession he now gives his undivided atten-
tion, in both the medical and surgical depart-
ments. He has been in a significant sense
the architect of his own fortunes, and thus it
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
is the more gratifying to note his high stand-
ing in his profession and as a loyal and pub-
lit-spirited citizen of the communily in which
practically his entire life thus far has been
passed.
Dr. Morrow is a native of the City of Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania, where he was bom on
the 12th of January, 1853, and he is a son
of Robert and Sallie (Bender) Morrow, the
former of whom waS' born in Pennsylvania, a
member of an early settled family of that
commonwealth, and the latter of whom was
a native of France — presumably of Alsace-Lor-
raine, now constituting a province of Germany.
Robert Morrow was reared to manhood in the
old Keystone state, where he received a limited
common-school education. There his mar-
riage was solemnized and there he continued
to reside until 1857,- when he removed with
his family to Indianapolis, where he followed
the vocation of stationary engineer for a term
of years, after which he was identified with
the'draying and transfer business. He was a
man of unassuming worth of character and
well merited the respect in which he was uni-
formly held in the community which so long
represented his home. He died in Indianap-
olis in 1899, when about seventy-eight years
of age, and his widow still resides here, hav-
ing attained to the venerable age of eighty-
two years (1909). They became the parents
of four children, of whom one son and one
daughter are now living. The father was a
Democrat in politics and his wife has long
been a devoted member of the Baptist Church.
Dr. Morrow was a child of four years at
the time of tlie family removal from Phila-
delphia to Indianapolis, and in the latter city
he was reared to maturity. He attended the
public schools until he had attained to the
age of twelve years, when he found employ-
ment and became largely dependent upon his
own resources. His prescience and ambition
prompted him to seek eventually wider educa-
tional advantages, and he conserved his earn-
ings for the purpose of gaining the desired
end. At the age of nineteen years he entered
the old Northwestern Christian University,
now known as Butler College, located at Irv-
ington, a suburb of Indianapolis, where he
continued his studies for one and one-half
years, after which he entered Shurtleff College,
at Upper Alton, Illinois, where he completed
the work of the sophomore year. From 187fi
until 1880 he was identified with business in-
terests in Indianapolis and he was then mat-
riculated in the ]Medical College of Indiana,
in this city, in which institution he completed
the prescribed course and was graduated as a
member of the class of 1883, with the well
e-.irned degree of Doctor of Medicine. He was
a student of Dr. J. W. Marsee. After his
graduation Dr. Morrow served as interne in
the Indianapolis City Hospital until 1885, and
in this position gained most valuable clinical
experience. Since that time he has been en-
gaged in the active practice of his profession
m Indianapolis and, in view of his recognized
professional ability and the determination, per-
severance and self-reliance that have ever char-
acterized him, it is needless to say that he
has gained determinate success and precedence
and has built up a practice of representative
order. He continued in general practice un-
til 1900, since which time he has limited his
practice to the treatment of genito-urinary
diseases, realizing that through such concentra-
tion in the domain of his profession he can
make his .services more valuable and find am-
ple .scope for his best efforts.
Dr. Morrow has done a large amount of ef-
fective post-graduate work and prosecuted
nmch individual research and study, particu-
larly along the line of his special department
of practice. In 1899 he completed a course
in the Post-Graduate School & Hospital in
New York City and in the New York School
of Clinical Medicine. In 1901 he did post-
graduate work in the Chicago Polyclinic, one
of the fine institutions of that western me-
tropolis. The doctor is attending physician
in the treatment of genito-urinary diseases
at the Indianapolis City Hospital and also the
city dispensary, and in tliis same specialty he
was formerly an adjunct-professor of the Cen-
tral College of Physicians & Surgeons. He is
an appreciative and valued member of the In-
diana State Medical Society and the Indianap-
olis ^ledical Society. He enjoys marked per-
sonal popularity in his home city and is a
member of the Columbia Club, "the Marion
Club and other representative civic organiza-
tions. In a fraternal way he is affiliated with
the Knights of Pythias. His political alle-
giance is accorded to the Republican party, in
whose cause he manifests a lively interest, and
both he and his wife hold membership in the
Baptist Church.
On the 31st of March, 1886, was solemnized
the marriage of Dr. Morrow to Miss Eliza-
lieth M. Richards, who was bom and reared
in Onondflgo County, New York, and who is
a daughter of Elisha and Lydia A. Richards.
Dr. and Mrs. Morrow have one son, Robert E.,
who was born on the 6th of July, 1887.
NiCHOL.\s McCarty, Sr. Not too often and
not through the agency of too many vehicles
can be recorded the life history of one who
lived so honorable and useful a life as did
Nicholas McCartv, Sr., who was an honored
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
66»
and distinguished pioneer of Indiana and of
its capital city. He was a man of signal ex-
altation and purity of purpose, of well dis-
ciplined mind, though his early educational
advantages were limited, and his course was,
guided and governed by the most inviolable
principles of integrity and honor. Simple and
unostentatious in his self-respecting and tol-
erant individuality, endowed with strong char-
acter and generous and lovable qualities, he
could not prove other than a dynamic force
for good in whatsoever relations in life he
might have been placed. As a business man
he was prominent and successful; in public
affairs he wielded 'much influence; and in so-
cial life his personality gained and retained
to him unqualified confidence and esteem. In-
diana was fortunate in enlisting him as one
of her pioneers, and his name is indelibly writ-
ten upon her annals, though more than half a
century has passed since he was . summoned
from the scenes of his mortal endeavors.
Mr. McCarty was born on the 26th of Sep-
tember, 1795, at Moorefield, Hardy County,
Virginia, which section is now included in the
State of West Virginia, and when he was a
child his father died, after which his mother
removed to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He re-
ceived but meager educational privileges, as
the financial status of the family was such
that he was thrown largely upon his own re-
sources when a mere boy. He ever reverted
with satisfaction that he was enabled at an
early age not only to support himself but to
care for his loved and devoted mother, to
whom he ever accorded the utmost filial so-
licitude. In his boyhood days he worked on
a farm in Ohio from there going to Pittsburg.
Before he had attained the age of twenty years
he went from Pittsburg to Newark, Ohio,
where he entered the employ of Mr. Bucking-
ham, who was then one of the leading mer-
chants of the Buckeve state and in whose serv-
ice the young Virginian continued for several
years, within which he manifested the fidelity
and business perspicacity that characterized
his entire career, with the result that his em-
ployer soon placed him in charge of a branch
store near Newark, Ohio. He ever commanded
the unqualified confidence and esteem of Mr.
Buckingham, and their friendship continued
inviolate until the death of the latter.
Through industry and frugality Mr. McCarty
accumulated within a few years sufficient cap-
ital to justify him in beginning an independ-
ent business, though necessarily on a modest
scale. He was led to investigate the advan-
tages and resources of Indiana, and upon com-
ing to the little village of Indianapolis, in
the autumn of 1823, he became so favorably
impressed with the embryonic capital city that
he here took up his residence. Thereafter In-
dianapolis represented his home and the cen-
ter of his interests until the close of his long
and signally useful life. He was a young man
of twenty-eight years at the time of his ar-
rival in the capital town, and soon afterward
he here engaged in the general merchandise
business, by establishing himself in a modest
store at the southwest corner of Washington
and Pennsylvania streets — a location popu-
larly designated as McCarty's Corner for a
period of more than thirty years thereafter.
He was the first merchant to here open a
store of any considerable importance, and his
establishment thus attracted a large patron-
age, according to the conditions then obtain-
ing, so that his success was of pronounced
order from the initiation of his venture. Con-
cerning his business career we can not do bet-
ter than to quote, with slight paraphrase,
from a previously published sketch of his life
appearing in the Commemorative Biographical
Record of Indianapolis and Vicinity.
"With a degree of confidence little under-
stood in his day, he soon branched out ex-
tensively by establishing stores at various
points in the state, including Laporte, Green-
field, Covington, Cumberland and Waverly.
To conduct these branches profitably without
neglecting his central establishment he em-
ployed many young men, in whom he took a
great interest and several of whom attained
success in later life. He aimed not only to
give them adequate commercial experience but
also endeavored to instill into them those ster-
ling principles which made him so respected
as a man, aside from any reputation he may
have won in business life. Mr. McCarty was
one of the greatest merchants of his time cen-
tral Indiana had ever known. He continued
to conduct his original establishment in In-
dianapolis for many years and to the south of
his store he erected a substantial brick resi-
dence, which was the home of his family. On
the property which he thus owned is now lo-
cated the handsome Century building. Mr.
McCarty's enterprise and progressive methods
were proverbial in the early days, and the
stories of his original and ingenious expedi-
ents for overcoming the obstacles that blocked
the path of the pioneer merchant warrant the
belief that he would have been a leading spirit
in any day or under any conditions. But
though he maintained his aggressive energy to
the last, Mr. McCarty never lowered the high
standard of honor with which he set out in
life. He never promoted his own interests at
the expense of those of another — a character-
istic so generally recognized . by all who knew
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him that, in spite of the fact that he was not-
ably successful, he never excited any but the
friendliest feelings among his associates. He
shared his prosperity with the communities in
which it was won and was ever a generous and
public-spirited citizen. But even better than
his public benefactions were the various en-
tei-prises he set on foot and which gave profit-
able employment to many, besides advancing
the welfare of the localities in which they were
carried on. One of the early industries in
Indiana which for many years was a source
of revenue that added substantially to the in-
comes of the pioneer residents was the col-
lection of ginseng and its preparation for
shipment. As early as 1821, following the
advice of Philadelphia friends, James Blake
came to Indianapolis to investigate the possi-
bilities of this business. At that time ginseng
grew abundantly in the woods all about the
settlement, and as the demand from China was
on the increase he arranged to ship the product
from Philadelphia. In a little house south of
the creek known as Pogue's Eun, on the site
of the present depot of the Big Four Eailroad,
he installed a drying and purifying apparatus,
where Mr. McCarty collected the roots sent in
by the farmers to his place at Indianapolis
and his various branch stores. This business,
of great benefit to the farmers, was one adjunct
to Mr. McCarty's merchandising, barter be-
ing common in the early days. Another ven-
ture somewhat out of the ordinary was his
contracting to supply the Indians, and in the
course of this business he became quite famil-
iar with the dialects of two or three of the
tribes on the Miami reservation".
Ever alert, progressive and legitimately am-
bitious not only for personal success but for
the advancement of the general welfare of his
liome town and state, Mr. McCarty's powers
of initiative and effective leadership came into
play along many important lines aside from
the business operations already noted. Thus
we find him actively interesting himself in
the attempt to introduce the growing of silk
in Indiana, about the year 1835. About five
years later he initiated one of the most im-
portant enterprises incidental to his business
career, by his efforts in promoting the cultiva-
tion and manufacture of hemp, to the raising
of which product he devoted much of his
baj-ou farm near Indianapolis, as well as land
in other sections of the state. A considerable
portion of this farm is now within the city
limits of Indianapolis and is occupied by a
number of the city's important industrial
plants. Owing to the financial condition of
the country at the time, the manufacturing of
hemp proved unprofitable to Mr. McCarty, and
he abandoned the same after a period of about
thiee years. He was associated with two
others in the erection of the first steam flour
mill in the vicinity of Indianapolis, the same
having been locatetd on the north side of
Washington street, at the end of the National
l)ridge. No citizen had more confidence in
the ultimate upbuilding of a populous and
prosperous city as the capital of the state than
did Mr. McCarty, and in the early days none
did more to lay substantial foundations for the
same. He purchased in the early days large
tracts of land in Marion and other counties of
the state, and through the great appreciation
in the value of his holdings in the vicinity of
Indianapolis his descendants have received
large financial returns.
Thus far reference has been made specific-
ally to only the business career of the hon-
ored subject of this memoir, but it may well
be understood that his labors and efforts would
transcend this field of endeavor and touch
more closely the civic and political affairs of
his state. He was well qualified for public
service and none had a more deep apprecia-
tion of the duties and responsibilities of citi-
zenship. He was not a seeker of public office
but he had that peculiar aptitude for political
manceuvering and direction that would have
brought him into much prominence had he
cared to enter the domain of practical poli-
tics in a more determinate way. He was a
zealous advocate of the principles of the Whig
party and was influential in its affairs and
councils during the period of its gradual
decadence, culminating in the organization of
the Eepublican party, within but a short time
after his death. He served as commissioner
of the canal fund and in this capacity he
effected the first loan made to the State of
Indiana, his handling of the important inter-
ests involved having been so able and success-
ful as to gain to hini a still stronger hold upon
popular confidence and esteem. He eventually
resigned this office, prompted by civic honor
and by the belief that wrong policies were
being pursued in the connection. From an
extended editorial appearing in the Indiana
Democrat of June 13, 1840, are taken the
following brief statements apropos of his ac-
tion at this time: "We are not so blinded by
party as to be unwilling to award justice to
real merit, let it be found in what ranks it
may. It is a fact highly creditable to Indiana
that the early negotiations of loans by our
fund commissioners were eminently successful.
Previous to the passage of the internal im-
provement bill of 1836 Nicholas McCarty.
the leading merchant of this place, and we
believe of the state, stood at the head of that
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671
commission. * * * When the internal-
improvement bill of 1836 was becoming a law
Mr. McCarty, as a fund commissioner, plainly
told the members of the legislature that it
would be a ruinous policy for the state not to
provide means at that time to pay interest on
the loans to be effected — that if they did not
our bonds would soon depreciate. But the
Whig members, such as Stapp, Evans and
others, would hear no arguments and passed
Mr. JlcCart}''s suggestions by as the idle wind,
regarding them as a clog to the bill. * * *
The result was that Nicholas McCarty soon
afterward resigned the station of fund com-
missioner. He was unwilling further to risk
his high character as a financier in the ruinous
policy the state was about pursuing. * * *
Few men in the state have more foresight
than he. As an instance we refer to a re-
markable fact. Kno^\'ing, as well he did, the
embarrassment this state was running into, he
resigned his office as fund commissioner long
before the pressure commenced. Possessed of
that keen foresight which every real merchant
should have, he would not jeopard his char-
acter as a merchant to continue connected as
an officer .with a ruinous system of internal
improvement. His proverbial discretion in
business and his foresight in financial opera-
tions entitle his opinion to much weight". In
the same editorial Mr. McCarty is referred
to as the "Hoosier Girard", a complimentary
comparison with the notable Pennsylvanian,
Stephen Girard, and the comment is also made
that he was giving his support to judge Big-
ger for governor, because the latter, in the
state legislature, opposed the State Bank of
Indiana as inimical to the necessity for a
United States bank so far as Indiana was
concerned.
Subsequent to the year 1843 the Whig party
had been held popularly culpable for the de-
pressed financial condition of the country and
in Indiana it was much in the minority. Un-
der these conditions the local representatives
of the party naturally sought for a strong
popular candidate for Congress — a man whose
personal popularity could possibly overcome
prejudice against the party. Under such un-
favorable conditions, Mr. McCarty became the
Whig candidate for Congress in his district in
1847, and though defeated by a small major-
ity he showed distinctive strength above the
party ticket in general in the district and state,
when the star of the Democratic party was at
the time much in the ascendancy. Jlr. Mc-
CartVs opponent was Judge Wick, a practical
politician, and relative to the candidacy of
Mr. McCarty and the campaign, the following
words have been previously published : "ilr.
McCarty made no show of oratory and knew
none of the wiles of the politician, but he had
executive ability, strong common sense and a
clear understanding of the needs of the situa-
tion. His addresses were exceedingly effective
and did him great credit as against an oppo-
nent who was trained to the conduct of cam-
paigns and accustomed to public duties. A
few years afterward Mr. McCarty was a candi-
date for the state Senate and was elected, serv-
ing three years — the last three years of state
government imder the old constitution. He
was made chairman of the committee on cor-
porations, and as such jealously guarded the
interests of the people".
In its somewhat pathetic decline the leaders
of the Whig party in Indiana sought in the
campaign of 1852 its most eligible candidate
for governor — one whose popular strength
could not be gainsaid" or whose reputation
be legitimately assailed in the least particular.
The prominence, activity and high personal
character of Nicholas McCarty, the self-made
man, the loyal citizen, marked him as the one
best adapted to upholding the waning fortunes
of the party as standard-bearer for the first
gubernatorial term under the new constitution.
Naught of lethargy or indirectness of purpose
ever characterized Mr. McCarty in any of the
relations of life, and after his nomination for
governor at the Whig state convention of
1852, in face of his own strenuous opposition,
he entered valiantly and ably into the contest.
So determined was his opposition to becoming
a candidate for the office that he successfully
resisted the importunities of the committee
chosen to solicit his acceptance of the nomina-
tion tmtil George G. Dunn, one of the most
gifted men known in the annals of the Hoosier
commonwealth, arose and demanded, in the
name of the Whigs of Indiana, that Mr. Mc-
Carty subordinate his personal interests and
wishes and come to the rescue of the party
cause. Mr. McCarty felt that he could not
consistently make further resistance to the
demands of his party, and he reluctantly en-
tered the race, having been nominated by
acclamation.
The history of Indiana records the cam-
paign of 1852 as one in which Mr. McCarty
made a most gallant and resourceful effort to
maintain the prestige of the cause in which
he was enlisted, and though he was defeated
by Governor Wright, who, as has been said,
"was an educated man, one of the best 'stump-
ers' in the United States, and a man whose
long familiarity with public life had made him
a master of campaign tactics and a ready
speaker who could command attention wherever
he went". It is pleasing to record that Mr.
HISTORY OF GREATER IXDIAXAPOLIS.
McCartv and Governor Wright maintained
the most amicable relations throughout the
spirited campaign in which they were enlisted
as antagonists. They often journeyed from
place to place in company and a mutual feeling
of confidence and respect caused them iavari-'
ably to be courteous in personal intercourse
and in partisan polemics. Apropos of their
campaign the following pertinent statements
are worthy of further perpetuation: "Gn the
stump there was a great difference between
them. The governor was a good talker and a
good reasoner: Mr. McCarty was also a good
talker but not so cogent in argument. He
dealt in repartee and anecdotes and was par-
ticularly happy in the application of the lat-
ter. But the year 1852 was a bad one for
Whig candidates, and 3Ir. McCarty was de-
feated by the Democratic nominee". Having
resigned his seat in the state Senate when he
accepted the gubernatorial candidacy, he re-
tired from public life after this memorable
campaign and never again became a candidate
for political office, though he continued to
maintain a lively interest in all that touched
the welfare of the state and nation.
Drawing still farther from the admirable
sketch of the life of Mr. McCarty to which
recourse has already been had, the following
record is weU entitled to a place in this pub-
lication :
"Practical and great-souled, the interests of
the conununity were his, and while he was am-
bitious to acquire influence and independenc-e
he was wise, broad and humane enough to de-
sire the success of all good people. By force
of early circumstances he had but little oppor-
tunity for learning, but he made the best use
of what he acquired. He had a ready and
comprehensive vocabulan- and a simplicit)' of
statement characteristic of great men in the
various business and professional walks of life.
Realizing his own deficiencies as a scholar, he
did what he could in private life and public
station to secure to others what he had been
denied himself. When Mr. McCarty was nom-
inated for governor, so well was his reputation
for franknes.s established that the Indianapolis
Sentinel had this to say of him: 'Like Henr\-
Clay, everybody who knows Xicholas McCarty
know? his politics — the same yesterday, today
and forever^."
A few years afterwards, while a candidate
for thp Senate, he was asked in the course of
the campaign, in two places outside the citv,
if he favored taxing the schools. In his sneech
in the Senate he said that he had lacked op-
portunitv for education when he was a bov
and would never allow children to be deprived
of the advantages he had missed, by favoring
a tax levied on schools. He had had but six
months" schooling as a boy, so that all his
splendid foresight and knowledge were gained
by his own effort and through contact, and his
career as a statesman show^ how well he suc-
ceeded in his personal education. - Though a
hard political worker he was never known to
seek office, even- office which he held having
sought him. In the Senate he was chairman
of the committee on appropriations.
Mr. McCarty had the deepest reverence for
the spiritual verities of the Christian faith,
and he loved his fellow-men, in his interc-ourse
with whom he was ever kindly, sj-mpathetic
and tolerant, though a natural hater of all
meanness and deception. His life was one of
signal purit}- and honor, and no citizen of
Indianapolis or of the state has ever held or
more fully merited the high esteem of the
people and the affectionate reeard of those
who came within the sphere of his influenc-e.
Hi? generosity was such as might have been
expected of so noble a character, and he was
ever ready to extend his aid and co-operation
in the promotion of benevolent and charitable
objects, in which connection it should be noted
that he was one of those most prominently
concerned in the establishing of the Indiana
Orphans' Home. He "remembered those who
were forgotten", and his private charities and
tangible aid to those in affliction or distress
were known only to himself and the recipients.
At the time of his death a meeting of the
citizens of Indianapoli? appointed a committee
to draft appropriate resolutions, and from the
same the following appreciative statements
are taken:
■'Resolved, That in the departure of our
fellow-citizen. Nicholas McCarty, Esq., we
realize the loss of one who since the early days
of the city has deservedly ranked as a most
worthy, generous and valuable man, and who
by his affectionate heart, clearness of mind
and strict integrity of purpose has warmly en-
deared himself to all who knew him. In the
important public trusts committed to him — as
commissioner of the canal fund, effecting tbe
first loan of the state, as senator of this county
and in other engagements — he manifested re-
markable judiciousness and ability. It was
with reluctance he was drawn into the pursuit
of official station, and with decided preference
he enjoyed the happiness of an attached circle
of familv and friends. His hand and heart
were ever at command for the need of the
afflicted, and his counsel and sympathies were
extended where they could be useful, with
imaffected simplicity and modestr'.
When the shadowy veil was lifted and the
mortal put on immortality in the death of
HISTOEY OF GEEATER INDIANAPOLIS.
673
Nicholas McCarty, on the 17th of May, 1854,
there came to those most deeply bereaved a
measure of consolation and reconciliation in
having, thus touched so noble, tender and true
a life — a life unconsciously consecrated to all
that is best and most ennobling in the schem^
of human existence. In conclusion of this
memoir is given brief record concerning the
domestic life and relations of its honored sub-
ject.
On the 27th ■of July, 1838, in Boone County,
Kentucky, was solemnized the marriage of
Nicholas McCarty to Miss Margaret Hawkins,
daughter of Rev. Jameson Hawkins, one of
the earliest clergymen of the Baptist Church
in that section and several times a member of
the legislature of Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs.
McCarty became the parents of four children
— Susanna, Margaret E., Nicholas, Jr., and
Frances J. Mrs. McCarty, a woman of gentle
and gracious character, survived her honored
husband by nearly twenty years, having been
summoned to eternal rest on the 18th of Feb-
ruary, 1873. Concerning the children the fol-
lowing data are entered:
Susanna McCarrty became the wife of Rev.
Henry Day, for many years pastor of the
First Baptist Church of Indianapolis, and she
died August 30, 1873. Mr. Day died August
1, 1897, and they are survived by two chil-
dren — Henry McCarty Day and Margaret Mc-
Carty Day, of Indianapolis.
^largaret K. McCarty now maintains
her home in Indianapolis, although a great
portion of her time is spent in Los Angeles,
where she has property. She married John C.
S. Harrison, grandson of General William
Henry Harrison and for many years engaged
in the banking business in Indianapolis. Mr.
Harrison died in Los Angeles, California,
April 6, 1904, and he is survived by two of
his four children — Nicholas McCarty Harri-
son, of Indianapolis, and Cleves Harrison, of
Los Angeles, California.
Nicholas McCarty, Jr., and his sister. Miss
France? J. McCarty, the youngest of the chil-
dren, still maintain their home in Indianapolis,
where all of the children were bom and reared
and where the family has ever maintadned a
high social position, well maintaining the
honors of the name.
Aonisox H. NoKDYKE. The throbbing pul-
sations of the manufacturing industries of In-
diana])olis are felt in all sections of the civil-
ized world and the products of her magnificent
institutions have carried her fame far and
wide. In insuring this prominence and dis-
tinctive prestige few concerns have contributed
more conspicuously and worthily than that of
tlie Xordyke & llarmon Company, whose en-
terprise is conceded to be one of the most im-
portant of the kind in the middle west. The
nistory of this company, of which Addison H.
Nordyke was president and of which he was
the virtual founder, is one of significance and
interest, involving, as it does, the building up
of a splendid industry from a nucleus of mod-
est order, and bearing evidence of the well di-
rected energies of men of courage, progressive
ideas and marked administrative ability. The
business has been established in Indiana's cap-
ital city for more than thirty years and has rep-
resented one of the forces that have brought
about the magnificent industrial and commer-
cial advancement of Indianapolis. Mr. Nor-
dyke has long been known as one of the rep-
resentative business men and influential citi-
zens of Indianapolis, and none holds a more in-
violable place in popular confidence and esteem.
Though his service with the great concern with
which he is identified is now largely one of ad-
visory order, as he has relegated the practical
details to the supervision of others, he is still
alert in connection with the business life of the
Indiana metropolis and continues to exemplify
the fact that in his entire career there has been
no element of futility or indirection of pur-
pose. The Nordyke & Marmon Company for
many years gave production to milling machin-
ery alone, but it now manufactures also the
Marmon automobiles, which have gained an
established place among those conceded to be
of the highest type.
It is pleasing to record that Addison Haynes
Nordyke is able to claim Indiana as the place
of his nativity, and he has never lacked in ap-
preciation of the fine old Hoosier common-
wealth. He was born in Richmond, Wayne
County, Indiana, which was then a small vil-
lage, on the 5th of May, 1838, and is a son
of Ellis and Catherine (Haynes) Nordyke, both
of whom were born in the State of Ohio. They
became the parents of five children, of whom
two are still living.
The lineage of the Nordyke family is traced
back to stanch Holland Dutch origin, and the
family was one of prominence in the Nether-
landsj whence came the original progenitors
of the American line. So far as authentic
data indicate, the founders of the family in
the new world were two brothers. These two
brothers are descendants of Peter the Great by
marriage. In Holland it was customary to
refer to people as the South Dykes or the North
Dykes, according to the part of the country in
which they resided. By these appellatibns' they
were known to each other except in the case
of relatives or intimate friends. It was an
easy matter in the Dutch tongue to drop the
"th" in north and south and those of the north
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
buoame knowu as Xordjkes and those of the
south as Soudykes. One of the Xordykes, a
widow, married Peter the Great. A son was
born to them, who for some reason retained the
name Nordyke. This son married and two of
his sons emigrated from Holland and were
the founders of the Xordyke family in America.
One of these sons, Stephen Henry Xordyke, in
company with three sons settled in Philadel-
phia in' the colonial epoch of our national his-
tory. From Pennsylvania representatives of
the family eventually penetrated into the wilds
of the far west, as Indiana and other of the_
central states were then considered, being on'
the frontier of civilization, and with this and
other states the family name has been worthily
identified, in the promotion of material de-
velopment and civic progress. The parents of
Addison H. of this review passed the closing
years of their lives in Richmond, where the
father died at the age of sixty-seven years and
the mother at the age of eighty-four. The
father was a devoted member of the Friends
church and the mother of the Methodist. In
his political proclivities the father was a Whig
and later a Republican. He was a man of
sterling integi'ity of character and strong men-
tality, making his life count for good in all its
relations. He long followed the trade of mill-
wright and through his earnest and well di-
rected efforts gained a fair measure of temporal
success.
Addison H. Nordyke was reared to maturity
in his native town of Richmond, and there re-
ceived the advantages of the common schools —
a discipline which he has since most effectively
supplemented by personal reading and study
and by long and intimate association with
men and affairs. Wliile a youth he began a
practical apprenticeshi]) at the trade of mill-
wright, under the direction of his honored
father, with whom he also learned most ef-
fectively the milling business as conducted
at that period. For some time he was asso-
ciated with his father in the operation of a
grist mill at Chenoa. Illinois, and in connec-
tion with the erection of this mill he gained
his initial experience in the building and
equipping of mills, — a line of enterprise in
which he was destined ultimately to attain
great success and precedence. For a number
of vears he was associated with his father in
the erection of mills throughout Indiana and
neighboring states, and tlie l>usiness thus es-
tablished was virtually the nucleus around
which has been built up the large and im-
portant industrial enterprise now conducted liy
the Xordyke & ;\rarniou Company. The orig-
inal business was conducted under the firm
name of E. & A. H. Xordyke, and the head-
quarters of the same were in Richmond, In-
diana, where the original manufactory was es-
tablished. In 1866 Daniel W. Marmon pur-
chased an interest in the business, whereupon
the firm name of Xordyke & Marmon was
adopted. The firm built up a large and sub-
stantial business in the erection and equipping
of mills, and the splendid development of the
enterprise eventually rendered it expedient to
incorporate the same under the laws of the
state, which action was taken in 1871. In
1876, to facilitate the business still further,
the same Avas removed from Richmond to In-
dianapolis, where were afforded superior trans-
portation and commercial advantages, under
the influence of which the industry rapidly
assumed greater and greater precedence, until
it has become one of the most important of
its kind in the country. At the time of the
removal to Indianapolis the present corporate
title of the Xordyke & Marmon Company was
adopted, and the operations of the concern
are based on a capital stock of one hundred
thousand dollars. The plant of the company
is located at the corner of Morris street and
Kentucky avenue, where large and substantial
buildings are utilized. The grounds occupy
thirteen acres, mostly covered with buildings
equipped witli the highest type of mechanical
appliances required in the production of mill-
ing niachinery. The institution has gained
a high reputation for the superiority of its
products, and many of the best mills in the
middle west and elsewhere have been equipped
by this concern. ^Mr. Xordyke was president
of the company from the time of its incor-
poration until lOO'^', and Mr. ^Marmon con-
tinued to be identified with the business un-
til his death. Since 1909 the company has
given much attention to the manufacturing of
the ".AEarmon" automobiles, and the same have
met with the favorable reception which their
merit* justifv. Since his retirement from the
presidency of the Xordyke & Marmon Com-
pany Mr. Xordyke has devoted his attention
largely to the handling of high-grade securi-
ties, in which line of operations he maintains
his offices in the Union Trust building.' His
life has been one of signal honor and integ-
ritv of ]mriiose, and his ability and powers
were most fraitful in the upbuilding of the
fine industry which perpetuates his name. He
has stood exjionent of loyal and public-spirited
citizenship, and is today one of the honored
and well known citizens of Indianapolis. His
political support is given to the Republican
party, he is identified with various fraternal
and civic organizations, and he and his wife
hold membership in the Tabernacle cliurch, of
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
675
which Mr. Nordyke has been a trustee twelve
years.
On the 34th of May, 1866, was solemnized
the marriage of Mr. Nordyke to Miss Jennie
E. Price, born in Baltimore, Maryland, but,
reared in Richmond, Indiana, being a daugh-
ter of Charles T. Price, who was a represen-
tative business man of Richmond. Mrs. Nor-
dyke was summoned to the life eternal on the
19th of July, ]881, and is survived by two
sons, — Charles E., who was born March 28,
1867, and Walter A. who was born December
30, 1869. The sons are now actively identi-
fied with their father in his present business.
On the 12th of October, 1882, Mr. Nordyke
was united in marriage to Miss Caroline M.
Williams, daughter of Caleb Williams, of
Niles, Michigan, in which place she was born
and reared. Three sons have been bom of
this union and their names, with respective
dates of birth, are here noted: Addison H.,
November 17, 1883 ; Horace W., September
21, 1886, and Robert S., September 2, 1892.
Addison H. died in Indianapolis September
29, 1905. Horace W. was graduated in An-
napolis Naval Academy in June, 1909. Rob-
ert S. is a student in Shortridge.
Hox. Caleb S. Denny. The fact that Hon.
Caleb S. Denny, of Indianapolis, has served
for three times as mayor on the Law and Or-
der platform is an index of one of the strong-
est personal traits of character. Throughout
his entire and long career as an active lawyer
and public man, he has been one of the most
stalwart advocates of law and order in the city
and state. He is a native of Indiana, born in
Monroe Countv, May 13, 1850, a son of James
H. and Harriet R. (Littrell) Denny. There
were eleven children in the family, of whom
Caleb S. M-as the youngest. The original
American ancestors were Virginians, some of
whom participated in the Revolutionary War
and nearly all of whom, strange to say, were
opposed to slavery. James H. Denny, the
father, was so opposed to slavery that he de-
cided to make his home across the Ohio in
Indiana. He first located in what is now
^fonroe Countv, and finally settled in Warrick
T'ountv. The" father of Caleb S. was born
near Harrodsburg, Kentucky, where the grand-
father was engaged in the general survey serv-
ice and in 1850' James H., father of Caleb S.
Denny, came to Indiana and located in Mon-
roe County and with the family, three years
later settled on a farm near Booneville, in
Warwick Countv. Here his death occurred in
1861, just after the outbreak of the Civil
War. One of his sons had already enlisted
with the Fnion army, and most of the others
followed him in the ranks in 1863, leaving
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only Caleb S. at home to care for his widowed
mother and the farm. In 1864, the farm was
rented and the mother and her son located in
Booneville, there awaiting the outcome of the
war. At that time no school was in session,
and Caleb was therefore apprenticed to the
tinner's trade. His education at that time be-
ing limited to a few winter terms of a few
weeks each, his instruction being confined to
simply reading, writing and arithmetic. After
spending one year at his trade, he secured his
mother's consent and entered the school which
had then been organized at Boonville, in order
to prepare for college. Finally in the fall of
1866, he entered the freshman class at As-
bury, now DePauw, University, at Greencastle,
Indiana, but after a course of two years was
again taken out of school on account of a lack
of funds. By no means discouraged, the
young man immediaately commenced to teach
school with the object of earning sufficient
money to enable him to return to college; but
while teaching he was tendered the position of
assistant state librarian, which he accepted in
1870. This necessitated his removal to In-
dianapolis, which city has since been his place
of residence.
While teaching school, Mr. Denny began
the study of law under Judge John B. Handy
of Boonville, continuing his professional stud-
ies while acting as assistant librarian. In 1871
he entered the law office of Judge Solomon
Blair, later studied with Test, Coburn and
Burns, and in 1872 was admitted to practice
in the county courts, and in the following
year he became qualified to appear in the Su-
preme and Federal courts. In the last named
year he was also appointed assistant attorney-
general of Indiana, and after serving as such
for two years entered the general practice of
law, forming a partnership with Judge James
C. Denny, then attorney-general, which rela-
tion continued for a period of two years. He
then formed a partnership with Judge David
V. Bums, which continued for a period of
three years. In the fall of 1881, Mr. Denny
was elected city attorney of Indianapolis, be-
ing re-elected in 1884 and served only one
year of his second term. The cause of his
resignation was his election as mayor of In-
dianapolis, the duties of which he assumed
January 1, 1886. The issues of the campaign
centered in the fight of the "Law and Order"
party against the so-called "liberal policy",
which Mr. Denny asserted was one of license
rather than of liberality. The fight was bitter,
but the Republicans triumphed decisively.
.\fter serving one year Mr. Denny was recom-
inarted by his party, and again elected, and
retired from office with the confidence and
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HISTOltY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
admiration of the public at large. Mr. Denny
then resumed private practice of his profes-
sion, but in 1893 was prevailed upon to again
become his party's candidate for mayor. He
had been succeeded in that office by Hon.
Thomas L. Sullivan, an able Democrat who
had been twice elected by increased majorities,
but ilr. Denny assumed the mayoralty for the
third time by a majority of nearly thirty-two
hundred, to the unfeigned surprise of both
parties, all of which points to the fact of his .
siibstantial popularity. Since completing his
third term in the mayor's chair, he has con-
tinued to practice law with credit and success.
Since returning to active practice Mr. Denny
has also served three times as county attor-
ney. In 1908 he was presidential elector for
the Seventh Congressional district. He is an
active and strong figure in the fraternities of
a, secret and confidential nature, especially
prominent in the work of the Knights of
Pythias in connection with the order he bore
an influential part in the movement which led
to the erection of the Knights of Pythias
building in Indianapolis. He is also well
kno\\Ti for his identification with the I. 0. 0. F.
In his religious affiliations he is a Presbyte-
rian.
July 15, IST-l. Mr. Denny was married to
Miss Carrie \Yright Lowe, a daughter of
George and ^lavy (Wright) Lowe, who wore
residents of Indianapolis, the father being a
pioneer carriage manufacturer. To ^Ir. and
ilrs. Denny, throe children were bom. as fol-
lows: Mary, the wife of Joseph P. Elliott.
Jr., of Riverside, Califoniia, has two sons and
one daughter; Caroline, wife of Horace F.
Nixon of Woodbury. New Jersey, a practicing
law^-er in Camden, has three daughters ; George
L., in partnership with his father, is married
and lives at 41 G9 North Pennsylvania avenue,
his wife being Elizabeth Coleman Hollings-
worth, of Baltimore. Maryland, whom he mar-
ried in 1904. He lias one son and two daugh-
ters.
WiixiA^r A. PicKEXs.. A leader in the
practice of law at the Indianapolis bar, Will-
iam A. Pickens has also represented an un-
usually active force in the social and economic
reforms of the citv. He is a Hoosier of the
pure type, born in Owen County. Julv 2?.
IS.'iS, and brought up in the usual simple,
hearty wav on a prosperous Indiana farm. His
higher education was conducted at the Indiana
State University and at the Law School of the
Columbian Fnivcrsitv at Washington, District
of Columbia.
Mr. Pickens was admitted to the Indiajia
bar at- Spencer, in June. 1881. and was en-
gaged in practice in Owen and adjoining coun-
ties until July, 1893, when he located at In-
dianapolis. Since becoming a practitioner in
that city he has developed marked ability as
a trial lawyer. While at Spencer he served
for twelve years as attorney for the Indian-
apolis and Yincennes Railroad, and for six
years during the same period as attorney for
the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Rail-
road. He is the senior member of the firm
of Pickens, Cox and Kahn, whose general
])racticc covers a broad field. His activities in
the social and economic fields made him a
leader in the fine work of the Indiana Tariff
Reform League, which was organized in 18S9.
Mr. Pickens was not only a conspicuous con-
tributor to the literature of the organization,
but has taken a leading part in the practical
reform of the state ballot law and the promo-
tion of other radical legislation.
Charle.s W. Smith. It is signally con-
sonant that in a publication of the province
prescribed for the one at hand there should
be entered a record concerning Charles W.
Smith, an honored member of the bar of the
capital city of Indiana, where he has been en-
gaged in tlie practice of his profession for
more than forty years and where he is senior
nienibor of the firm of Smith & Duncan, which
represents the oldest law firm in the city and
which controls a large and iinportant busi-
ness, ifr. Smith is a native son of Indiana
and a member of one of its sterling pioneer
families. It was also his to represent tliis
commonwealth as a soldier in the Civil War.
and in tlie work of his profession also has he
honored his native state through his able and
conscientious services.
Charles W. Smith was born on the home-
stead farm in Washington Township, Hen-
dricks County, Indiana, on the 3d of Feb-
runry. 1846. His father. Morgan Lewis Smith,
was a native of the State of New York, of
English lineage, and in the old Empire com-
monwealtli he was reared and educated. In
1S3'3. when a young man. he came to Indiana
and settled in Hendricks County, where he
purchased a tract of land, wlrich he eventually
reclaimed from the forest, making it one of
tlie valuable farms in that section of the state.
In 1834 he returned to the East, and in that
year was solemnized his marriage to ^liss
Afargaret Iliff, a resident of New Jersey. She
was born in Pennsylvania and was of stanch
Welsh ancestry. Shortly after their marriage
the young couple set forth for their new home
in Indiana, and they passed the residue of
their lives on the homestead farm of whicli
mention has just been made. Of their four
children Charles W. was the second in order
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
of birth, and of the number two are now
living.
Under the invigorating discipline of the
fanu, Charles W. Smith was reared to maturity,
and after duly availing himself of the ad^
vantages of the common schools of the locality
and period he continued his studies in Dan-
ville Academy, at Danville, Indiana. He
thereafter completed a course in Asbury Uni-
versity, now known as DePauw University, at
Greencastle, Indiana, in which he was grad-
uated as a member of the class of 1867. In
the meanwhile, however, he had abandoned his
studies to respond to the call of higher duty.
In April, 1864, he enlisted in Company F, One
Hundred and Thirty-third Indiana Volunteer
Infantry, for a term of one hundred days, at
the expiration of which he re-enlisted. Later
he was transferred to a command of colored
troops, in which he became an officer and with
which he served until the close of the war. He
was mustered out as first lieutenant and adju-
tant of the One Hundred and Ninth United
States Colored Infantry, and he duly received
his honorable discharge after his return to
Indiana. He has ever retained a deep interest
in the "'boys in blue" who aided in perpetuat-
ing the integrity of the nation during the
dark days of the great internecine conflict,
and signifies the same by holding membershi])
in George H. Thomas Post, No. 17, Grand
Army of the Republic, in Indianapolis, of
which post he is senior past commander, l)e-
sides which he holds membership in the In-
diana commandery of the Military Order of
tlie Loyal Legion of the United States.
^Ir. Smith resumed his collegiate studies
after the close of his military career, and aft-
er his graduation in Asbury University he
located in Indianapolis, where he became a
student in the law office of the firm of Bar-
bour & Jacobs, having previously devoted no
little attention to preliminary study of the
law. His acqnirements were such j'that in
1868 he was graduated in the Indiana Law
School, in Indianapolis. In the same year
he was admitted to the bar of his native
state and was admitted to partnership with
hi-- former preceptors, Messrs. Lucian Bar-
bour and Charles P. Jacobs, whereupon the
name of the firm became Barbour. Jacobs &
Smitli. This alliance continued only one year,
at the expiration of which Mr. Smith with-
drew from the firm and became attorney for
the Singer IManufacturing Company, of which
position he continued incumbent for two years.
In the autumn of 1 872 he formed a professional
partnership with Roscoe Hawkins, with whom
he was associated in successful general prac-
tice imtil Mav. 1877. On the 1.5th of the fol-
lowing month Mr. Smith entered into part-
nership with John S. Duncan, under the firm
title of Duncan, Smith & Duncan, which has
obtained during the long intervening period of
more than thirty years. Not only is this the
oldest law firm m the Indiana capital, but it
is also recognized as one of the most represen-
tative and substantial. Its course has been
marked by due conservatism and its members
have observed most fully the ethics of their
profession, of whose dignity and responsibili-
ties they are deeply appreciative. Honor and
reliability have characterized them in all de-
partments of their professional work, and they
have long controlled a large and important
business, involving identification with various
heavy litigations in both the State and Federal
courts.
Mr. Smith has been unwavering in his devo-
tion to his chosen profession, and in the same
his labors have been fruitful and beneficent,
as his record at the bar well attests. He has
had naught of ambition for the honors or
emoluments of public office, but is a stanch
advocate of the principles and policies for
which the Republican party stands sponsor.
He and his wife hold membership in the Merid-
ian Street IMethodist Episcopal Church and
arc active in various departments of its work.
He is well known in the community which has
r:0 Jong represented his home and here he com-
mands the unequivocal confidence and esteem
of his professional confreres and the general
public.
On the 12th of October, 1869, was solemn-
ized the marriage of Mr. Smith to Miss Mary
E. Preston, of Greencastle, Indiana, and they
have four children — Margaret, who is the wife
of Professor \V. C. Abbott, a member of the
faculty of Yale University; Mary Grace, who
i< the wife of Henry H. Hornbrook, an attor-
ney, associated in practice with the firm of
Smith, Duncan, Hornbrook & Smith; Albert
P., who is likewise a representative lawyer of
the younger generation in Indianapolis, where
he is associated with his father's firm, which is
now known under the title of Smith, Duncan,
Hornbrook & Smith; and Kate P., who is the
wife of S. P. Minear, a representative mer-
chant of Greensburg, Indiana.
Thomas L. Sulliv.\x. One who has lent
dignity and honor to the bench and bar of In-
diana is Hon. Thomas L. Sullivan, of Indian-
apolis, who is one of the essentially represen-
tative lawyers of the capital city, who has
served with distinction as judge on the bench
of the circuit court of 'Marion County, and who
also was incumbent of the office of mayor of
Indianapolis for two terms. Tlie family of
which he is a member has bceil prominently
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HISTOKY OF GKEATEB INDIANAPOLIS.
represented in the legal profession for a num-
ber of generations, both in Ireland and Amer-
ica, and the ancestr)- in the Emerald Isle is
traced through a long and sterling line.
Judge Sullivan is a native of Indianapolis,
where practically his entire life thus far has
been passed. He was bom on the 6th of Oc-
tober, 1846, and the family home at that time
was located on the comer of North Capitol
avenue and West Ohio street, now in the heart
of the business section of the citj-, — the site
of the fine interurban terminal building. He
is a son of Thomas L. and Latitia A. (Smith)
Sullivan. His father was bom in Madison,
Indiana, where he was reared to maturity and
received good educational advantages. He pre-
pared himself for the l^al profession and
after his admission to the bar of his native
state he was for a number of years engaged
in the practice of his profession in Indian-
apolis. He served a? captain of a company
which took an active part in the Mexican war,
in which he made a gallant record, and a short
time before the inception of the Civil war he
removed to Memphis, Tennessee, where he con-
tinued in practice until his death, which oc-
curred prior to the close of the war. His wife
was a daughter of Oliver H. Smith, who was
one of the honored and influential citizens of
Indianapolis in the early days and who rep-
resented Indiana in the Tnited States senate.
Of the five children Thomas L. of this review
was the second in order of birth.
Thomas L. Sullivan, Sr., was a son of Jere-
miah and Charlotte (Butler) Sullivan, both of
whom were bom and reared in Virginia. Jere-
miah Sullivan was bom at Harrisonburg, that
state, on the 21st of July, 1794, and after due
preparatorv- training he was licensed to prac-
tice law by the commonwealth of Virginia, hav-
ing completed his law course in 1816, prior
to which he had sened as a soldier in the War
of 1812, in which he was captain of his com-
pany. Conceming the career of this honored
founder of the family in Indiana the follow-
ing pertinent statements have been previously
published : "Tempted by the opening west, he
started, in the company of two young friends,
for Louisville, Kentucky, making the journev
on horseback. On his arrival in Cincinnati
he was advised to go to Madison, Indiana,
which was recommended to him as a location
in every way desirable for a young lawj-er.
Acting upon the advice, he was so well pleased
with the prospect that he opened an office, and
he was soon one of the recognized leading
spirits of the legal fraternity of the then new
state. Throughout the remainder of his life
he was prominently identified with the growth
and progress of his adopted home, going back
to Alrginia, however, to marry Miss Charlotte
Butler, of his native town. In 1820 he was
elected to the state legislature, which at that
time met in Corjdon, and to him. belongs the
honor of having selected the name of Indiana's
present capital. He was one of the c-ommis-
sioners appointed to choose a site and name
for a more convenient capital of the growmg
state, and it was at his suggestion that the
new c-enter of government was called Indian-
apolis. His standing in his profession was
never impaired by his extraneous public serv-
ice and he was a member of the first supreme
court of Indiana."
Judge Jeremiah Sullivan was a son of
Thomas and ilargaret (Irwin) Sullivan, the
former of whom figures as the founder of the
family in America. He came to the new world
to escape the rigors of the oppressive laws
forbidding members of the Catholic church to
hold any office of honor or trust in Ireland, —
laws under which his father, a prominent bar-
rister and a man of high intellectual attain-
ments, had suffered the loss of an official posi-
tion of importance. Thomas Sullivan inherited
the alert and receptive mentality ever char-
acteristic of the family, and after coming to
.\merica he made his influence felt in a benefi-
cent way in connection with industrial and
civic affairs. He married Margaret Irwin, a
daughter of James Irwin, who removed with
his family from the vicinity of Chambersburg,
Pennsylvania, to Augusta " City, Virginia, in
1780. The young couple settled in Harrison-
burg, Rockingham County, Virginia, and both
passed the residue of their lives in the Old
Dominion. They became the parents of one
son and one daughter, but the latter died in
childhood. Of the son Jeremiah, mention has
already been made in foregoing paragraphs.
Thomas L. Sullivan, the immediate subject
of this review, was reared to maturity in his
native city of Indianapolis, and though his
father resided for some time in Memphis, Ten-
nessee, as already noted, he himself remained
in Indianapolis, being reared in the home of
his maternal grandfather. Judge Oliver H.
Smith. After duly availing himself of the
advantages of the schools of the capital city
he entered Eacine College, at Racine, Wis-
consin, in which institution he was graduated
as a member of the class of 1869. He forth-
with returned to Indianapolis and began read-
ing law. He was favored in being able to
prosecute his technical study under the ef-
fective preceptorship of the firm of Rand &
Hall, whose members were numbered among
the leading members of the bar of the state.
He further fortified himself for his chosen
profession by taking a course in the Indiana
HISTOEY OF GEEATEE INDIANAPOLIS.
679
Law School, and in 1878 he was duly admitted
to the bar. He at once engaged in the prac-
tice of the profession which his father and
grandfather had so signally honored through
their lives and services, and he himself soo^
attained to distinctive prominence and success
as an able advocate and well fortified coun-
selor at law. He has continued in the practice
of his profession during the long intervening
years and in the same has well upheld the
prestige of the name which he bears. He has
appeared in connection with much important
litigation in the state and federal courts and
his course has been such as to retain to him
at all times the unqualified respect and esteem
of the profession in which he has been so dis-
tinctively successful.
It may well be supposed that a man of so
l)road mental ken and so 'distinct individu-
ality could not be lacking in civic loyalty and
in public spirit. Thus he has shown a deep
and abiding interest in all that concerns the
welfare and progress of his native city, — -a
city that owes its name to his distinguished
grandfather. In politics he has ever been
arrayed as a stanch advocate of the generic
principles for which the Democratic party
stands sponsor, and to his well directed labors
in the cause the party in Indiana owes not a
little. Gov. Isaac P. Gray appointed him judge
of the circuit court of Marion County, to fill
out an unexpired term of two years, and he
made an admirable record on the bench, show-
ing a clear apprehension of justice and equity
in the concrete as well as the abstract sense,
a thorough knowledge of the minutiae of the
science of jurisprudence and of precedents,
and bringing to bear a mind of marked judi-
cial acumen. Though his party honored him
with its nomination to succeed himself, he met
defeat with the rest of the party ticket, though,
he had the support of many of his professional
confreres who were of the opposing political
faith. In 1889 he served as mayor of the city
of Indianapolis, and the popular confidence
and esteem in which he is held in the com-
munity is signified when it is stated that he
was the first Democratic candidate to have
been elected mayor of the capital city within
a period of more than twentv years. He gave
a business-like and progressive administration
and continued as chief executive of the munici-
pal government until 1893, when he retired.
At present he is the president of the board of
trustees of the Citizens' Gas Company, to which
he was appointed bv flavor John Holtzman
for life, tlie office being without compensation.
•Tudge Sullivan is identified with various fra-
ternal and civic organizations in his home citv,
includins the various bodies of the time-hon-
ored Masonic fraternity, in which he has at-
tained to the thirty-second degree in the An-
cient Accepted Scottish Eite. He and his wife
are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal
church, in which they are valued members of
St. Paul's parish.
In the year 1875 was solemnized the mar-
riage of Judge Sullivan to Miss Alice D.
Moore, who was born and reared at Madison,
Indiana, a daughter of Joseph Moore, long a
prominent linker and honored and influential
citizen of that section of the state. Judge
and Mrs. Sullivan have four children: Eegi-
nald H. is following the profession with which
the family name has been so long and honor-
ably linked and is one of the representative
younger members of the bar of Indianapolis,
where he is a member of the firm of Sullivan
& Knight; Catherine M. is the wife of John
E. HoUett, of Indianapolis; Miss Mary L. re-
mains at the parental home, and Thomas L.,
Jr., M. D., is engaged in the practice of his
profession. The family holds a position of
prominence in connection with the representa-
tive social life of the city and the name is
one that has been linked with the history of
the state in a most distinguished way since
the pioneer epoch of the commonwealth. The
father of Judge Sullivan was secretary of the
State Historical Society.
Chart,es E. Sowder, M. D. One of the
distinctive incidental functions of this publi-
cation is to take recognition of those citizens
of "Greater Indianapolis" who stand distinc-
tively representative in their chosen spheres of
endeavor, and in this connection there is emi-
nent propriety in according consideration to
Dr. Charles E. Sowder, who is one of the able
and popular physicians and surgeons of the
capital city, where he has also been preminent
in the educational work of his profession, be-
ing at the present time a valued member of
the faculty of the medical department of In-
diana I^niversity.
Charles Eobert Sowder is a scion of fami-
lies founded in America in the colonial era of
our national history and is himself a native
of the fine old State of Kentucky, having been
born near Mount Vernon, Eockcastle County,
on the ]6th of February, 1870, and being a
son of Daniel E. and Eliza (Cummins) Sow-
der, both of whom were born and reared in
Eockcastle County, Kentucky, where the re-
spective families took up their abode in the
pioneer days of the history of that common-
wealth. Madi.«on and Sibbie Sowder, the
grandparents of Dr. Sowder, were natives of
western Pennsylvania and were of stanch Ger-
man lineage. From the old Keystone state
thcv immisrnted to Kcntuckv and numbered
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HISTOEY OF GREATER INDIAXAPOLIS.
themselves among the sterling pioneers of Rock-
castle County, where they passed the residue
of their lives. In the maternal line Dr. Sow-
der is of Scotch-Irish genealogy, being a grpd-
son of and Mahala (Owens) Cummins,
who likewise were pioneers of Rockcastle Coun-
tj', Kentucky. Mr. Cummins enlisted in the
service of the Union at the time of the Civil
War and was killed in an engagement in the
State of Tennessee. His wife was a member
of a family that removed from Lee County,
Virginia, to Kentucky, in 1785.
Daniel R. Sowder was reared to manhood in
his native county and there he became a suc-
cessful farmer, owning a well improved landed
estate near Mount Vernon. Through his ar-
duous service as a soldier in the Civil War
his health became much impaired, and by rea-
pon of this fact he was' compelled to retire
from active labors while still a comparatively
young man. When the dark cloud of Civil
War cast its gruesome pall over the national
horizon, he manifested his intrinsic loyalty and
patriotism by enlisting in Company K, Four-
teenth Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, which gal-
lant command rendered memorable service in
defense of the cause of the Union. He con-
tinued with his regiment in the field until
1864, when he received his honorable discharge,
on aQCOunt of physical disability. He made a
fine fecord as one of the valiant soldiers of the
republic, but his service made permanent in-
roads on his health and curtailed his business
career. Since 188.5 he has lived virtually re-
tired in the City of Indianapolis, where he is
held in high regard bv all who know him. He
is independent in politics and is a consistent
member of the Christian Church, as was also
his cherished and devoted wife, who was a
woman of most gracious personality and who
was summoned to the life eternal in the year
1888. Of their four children Dr. Charles R.
is the eldest; Ralta is the wife of Oliver Gra-
ham, a representative farmer of Hendricks
County, this state; Balta is the wife of 0. A.
Tomlinson, of Indianapolis; and Elizabeth died
in 1905, at the age of twenty-six years.
Dr. Charles R. Sowder passed his boyhood
and youth on the old homestead farm, assisting
in its work during the summer seasons and at-
tending the public schools during the winter
terms until he had attained to the age of
eigliteon years. He then gave evidence of the
fart that he had made good use of his edu-
cational opportunities, for he proved himself
eligil)le for tlie pedagogic profession, to which
he devoted his attention for seven years, prin-
cipally as a teacher in the public schools of
Hendricks Countv. Indiana. He then, in 1889,
was matriculated in DePauw University, at
Greenoastle, this state, in which institution he
continued his academic studies for two years,
after which he was a successful popular t.-acher
in the public schools until 1896, gaining still
further prestige and more pronounced success
in this line of occupation. In the year last
mentioned Dr. Sowder went to the City of
Chicago, where he attended the Illinois Medi-
cal College for one term. He was then ma-
triculated in the Central College of Physicians
and Surgeons in the City of Indianapolis, in
which he was graduated as a member of the
class of 1898 and from which he received his
well-earned degree of Doctor of Medicine.
Soon after his graduation he entered the medi-
cal department of Johns Hopkins University,
in the City of Baltimore, and after the comple-
tion of an effective post-graduate course in that
admirable institution he returned to Indianap-
olis, where he engaged in the practice of his
profession and where he also became professor
of physiology and lecturer on internal medica-
tion in his alma mater, the Central College of
Physicians and Surgeons, in which he later
became incumbent of the chair devoted to the
diseases of children. Early in 1906 Dr. Sow-
der became associated with several other rep-
resentative physicians in the organization of
the State College of Physicians and Surgeons,
which, through proper affiliation, became the
medical department of the University of In-
diana. In this school he held the professorial
chair of medicine and medical diagnosis, and
through his able services as a member of its
faculty he greatly furthered his prestige as a
physician and surgeon and as an able factor
in the educational work of his profession. In
1908 was effected the consolidation of the
State College of Physicians and Surgeons and
the Indiana Medical College and the coalition
brought about the adoption of the present title
of the Medical Department of Indiana Uni-
versity, the institution continuing as the offi-
cial medical department of the state univer-
sity'. In this admirably equipped and ably
conducted school Dr. Sowder is one of the most
valued members of the facultv, being clinical
professor of medicine and through his services
contributing materially to the success and pop-
ularity of the institution, which has been
brought up to a specially high standard. He
is a member of the board of trustees of the
State College Hospital and in addition to the
exigent demands placed upon him in connec-
tion with his educational work and the labors
of his large and representative private practice.
Dr. Sowder has been a valuable and frequent
contributor to the standard and periodical lit-
erature of his profession, besides which he has
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
served as visiting physician to the Indianap-
olis City Hospital
He is essentially enthusiastic in the work of
his profession and all that pertains thereto,
and he has prosecuted much original research
and experimentation in both medicine and suf-
gei-y, while he is known as somewhat of a
specialist in the domain of internal medica-
tion. He holds membership in the American
Medical Association, the Indiana State Medi-
cal Society and the Indianapolis Medical So-
ciety, and his popularity in his profession is
of the most unequivocal type, being based
upon his fine attainments, his close observ-
ance of the unwritten code of ethics and his
genial and gracious personality. In politics
he i.= aligned as a supporter of the cause of
the Republican party, he is identified with va-
rious civic organizations of local order, and
both he and his wife are members of the
Third Christian Church of Indianapolis. His
fraternal atfiliations are with Oriental Lodge,
No. 500, Free and Accepted Masons ; the Royal
Arch Masons.; Lodge No. 56, Knights of
Pythias; and the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows.
On the 24th of November, 1897, was sol-
emnized the marriage of Dr. Sowder to Miss
Orra Bartley, who was born and reared at
Avon, Indiana, and who is a daughter of R.
Madison and Catherine (Barker) Bartley. The
mother, Mrs. Bartley, is dead and Mr. Bartley
is a resident of Indianapolis. Dr. and Mrs.'
Sowder had one son, John R., who was born
on the 29th of :\rarch, 1903, and died in Sep-
tember, 1909.
Elliott R. Hooton, prosecuting attorney
for Marion County, in his private practice has
been associated with Oran S. Hack for a num-
ber of years, and in both relations has become
a leader of the Indianapolis bar. A native of
Hendricks County, Indiana, born September
7, 18(57, he is a son of John and Catherine
Matilda (Worrell) Hooton. His parents were
also natives of Hendricks County and have
spent their lives within its limits. Thomas
Hooton, the paternal grandfather, was a pio-
neer Kentucky preacher who came to Indiana
at an early day. The father was a farmer in
early life, served in the Civil War and for
years was a clothing salesman. He was too
easy-going and generous to save money and
make a business success, but always bevond anv
suspicion of dishonesty and highly respected,
as well as thoroughly liked. In 1872. when
Elliott R. was five years old, tlie family lo-
lated at Lebanon, Indiana, where the father
still resides. The mother, who was a woman
of strong character, was a splendid source of
inspiration to her five sons, all of whom be-
came fairly successful.
Mr. Hooton, of this sketch, was reared at
Lebanon, leaving school there when seventeen
years of age to work in a grocery store. The
financial circumstances of the family prevented
him from resuming his studies under regular
instructors, his education thereafter being vir-
tually the result of self-discipline. As a means
of self-supi3ort, his employments were varied,
but eventually the youth obtained a position in
a hardware store at Lebanon, which he held
for seven or eight years. For a short time
i hereafter he was a traveling salesman for the
Simmons Hardware Company of St. Louis, but
left the road to assist his brothers, who had
established a store in that line at Lebanon.
Somewhat later he and a brother associated
themseh'es in a grocery venture whose success
was but of an indifferent nature. In January,
1896, Mr. Hooton married iliss Amelia Becker,
of Indianapolis, and in December of that year
established his residence in that city, soon
afterward engaging in the real estate business,
which he abandoned in 1899.
Throughout all the.se ventures and uncer-
tainties in business Mr. Hooton kept in view
his aim for a professional career in the law.
As a final result of his night studies at the
Indianapolis College of Law, he accomplished
his purpose and received from that institution
the degree of Bachelor of Tjaws in 1900 and that
of Master of Laws in 1901. With his admis-
sion to the bar in the former years, he began
that career which has been such a commend-
able and gratifying success. At first Jie prac-
ticed alone, but since 1903 has been in part-
nership with Oran S. Hack and the professional
combination makes one of decided strength.
Mr. Hooton had been an active worker for
democracy for some years before his party
promoted him from the ranks, that event oc-
curring in 1906. when he was elected prose-
cuting attorney for Marion County. His first
administration of legal affairs was .so satisfac-
tory that he was re-elected inl908 and, as the
e.xpressive phrase goes, is still "making good".
He was the first secretary and later president
of the Indiana Democratic Club, and is also
an active member of the Commercial Club of
Indianapolis; is further identified with- the
Knights of Pythias and the Masonic order.
Thomas R. Marshall, the present governor
of Indiana, though incumbent of the highest
executive position in the commonwealth, is es-
sentially one in interests and purposes with his
fellow citizens of the state of which he is a
native son and in which he is a scion of a
familv whose name has been identified with its
.innals since the early part of the nineteenth
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HISTOKY OF GEEATER INDIANAPOLIS.
century. The governor is as thoroughly dem-
ocratic in a generic sense as he is stanch in
his adherence to the principles of the historic
old party that bears the significant name. It
would be inconsistent with the character and
attitude of the man to indulge in fulsome com-
pliment in a sketch of this nature, but his
prestige as a member of the bar of the state
and as incumbent of the high office to which he
has been called by the people of the common-
wealth, render it imperative that consideration
be accorded to him in this publication. He is
a man of broad mind and scholarly attainments
and his well-ordered official policy as governor
is winning him uniform commendation. It can
not be doubted that he is giving the best of
an essentially strong and loyal nature to the
service of the people of Indiana, and this 'serv-
ice will, in the passing of years, assume its
due proportions in the perspective of Indiana
history.
Thomas Eiley Marshall was born at North
Manchester, Wabash County, Indiana, on the
14th of March, 1854, and is a son of Dr. Dan-
iel M. and Martha E. (Patterson) Marshall,
both representative of patrician lineage and
of families whose names have been prominently
identified with our national history since the
early colonial epoch. John Marshall, the illus-
trious chief justice of the supreme court of
the United States, was a grand-uncle of the
present governor of Indiana. Eiley Marshall,
paternal grandfather of the governor, was the
founder of the family in Indiana, whether he
removed from Greenbrier County, Virginia, in
the second decade of the last century, number-
ing himself among the pioneer settlers, first
locating in Eandolph County and subsequently
locating in Grant County, where he secured a
tract of six hundred and forty acres of land,
including the site of the present thriving city
of Marion. He reclaimed much of his land
and was one of the honored and influential
citizens of that section of the state. He was
the first clerk of the Circuit Court of Grant
County. In the maternal line Governor Mar-
shall is descended from a family that had
prominent representation in the Continental
line during the War of the Eevolution. His
mother was a direct descendant of Charles Car-
rol], of Carrollton, Virginia, one of the sign-
er? of the Declaration of Independence.
Dr. Daniel M. Marshall was born in Ean-
dolph County, on the oth of March, 1823, and
his death occurred in Columbia Citv, Indiana,
on the 10th of October, 1892. He received
thorough preliminary training of a technical
order and was long numbered among the rep-
rppentative physicians and surgeons of north-
ern Tndiai'a. For a brief interval, just prior
to the inception of the Civil War, Dr. Mar-
shall was engaged in the practice of his profes-
sion at LaGrange, Missouri, and his uncom-
promising opposition to the institution of hu-
man slavery caused such antagonism in that
section that he finally found it expedient to
return to Indiana. He was a stanch supporter
of the cause of the Union during the war be-
tween the states, and was a Democrat in his
political proclivities. For a long period he
maintained offices in Wabash, North Manches-
ter and Pierceton, and was known as one of
the ablest and most popular physicians in north-
ern Indiana. He was in the most significant
sense humanity's friend, and he labored with
much of intellectual and professional power in
the uplifting of his fellowmen and in the alle-
viation of suffering. He was a consistent and
zealous member of the Presbyterian Church,
as was also his devoted wife, and the death of
the latter occurred on the 5th of December,
1894. They became the parents of one son
and one daughter, and of the number one son
is now living.
Governor Marshall gained his preliminary
educational discipline in the public schools and
he then entered Wabash College, at Crawfords-
ville, this state, in which institution he was
graduated as a member of the class of 18T3
and from which he received the degree of
Bachelor of Arts. It should be noted that he
is a valued member of the board of trustees of
his alma mater, and also that he is affiliated
with the Phi Beta Kappa college fraternity, of
which Chief Justice John Marshall was the
founder.
After the completion of his college course
Governor Marshall took up his residence in the
City of Fort Wayne, where he began reading
law under the able preceptorship of Judge Wal-
ter Olds, who later became judge of the In-
diana Supreme Court. On the day which
marked the attaining of his legal majority, the
future governor was admitted to the bar, in
the year 1875. He had taken up his residence
in Columbia City, Whitley County, in the pre^
ceding year, and there he has since maintained
his home. Concerning his work in his profes-
sion the following statements were made in an
appreciative article published at the time of
his nomination for the office of governor: "His
practice now extends throughout northern In-
diana. He is a lawyer of note, who served
corporations and all other clients alike, but is
not of the sort that forgets principle and duty
to his fellowTiien in the furtherance of the in-
terests of a corporate client who seeks to array
greed against public interest. He has been an
important factor in manv of the most famous
criminal tr-als in this part of the state, and
HISTORY OF GREATEE INDIANAPOLIS.
his pleading before juries always attracts
throngs to the courtroom. He is well known
as a political and court orator. Mr. Marshall
is associated in the practice of law with Wa
F. McNagny and P. H. Clugston, under the
firm name of Marshall, McNagny & Clugston.
Mr. Marshall has been a candidate only once
before in his political career. In 1880 he was
induced to take the nomination for prose-
cuting attorney in what was then a strong Re-
publican district, and was defeated. As a
party leader Mr. Marshall has always been
k-nowu for his diligence. In 1896 and 1898 he
was chairman of the Twelfth District Demo-
cratic committee and did much hard work for
the party, making speeches all over the northern
end of the state. He has always been known
for his liberality toward the other fellow's
campaign fund, but when it comes down to his
own campaign he stands squarely on the plat-
form of anticurrency. He is called old-fash-
ioned because of his ideas about a campaign
fund for himself, but he declares it is a prin-
ciple that is embedded in his soul."
Thomas R. Marshall was elected governor of
Indiana in November, 1908, and in his guber-
natorial policy and administration, it is suffi-
cient to say he is fully justifying the confidence
and suffrages of the voters of the state. He is
a man of principle, and from the same ex-
pediency or powerful influences cannot deflect
him. He is essentially loyal as a man and as
a citizen, and the interests of the people of
Indiana are well confided to his care. The gov-
ernor and his wife are steadfast members of
the Presbyterian Church, and in the Masonic
fraternity, in which he takes deep interest, he
is one of the few men in Indiana who have
attained to the ultimate and honorary thirty-
third degree in the Ancient Accepted Scottish
Rite.
On the 2nd of October, 1895, Governor
]\Tarshall was united in marriage to Miss Lois
Kimscy, of Angola, Indiana, a daughter of
William E. Kimsey, one of the honored and
influential citizens of Steuben County, where
he has served in various positions of public
tru«t. Governor and ^Irs. Marshall have no
cliildren.
Thomas C. Howe, A. 'SL, Ph. D. Butler
College, located at Irvington, which is now an
integral part of the city of Indianapolis, may
well be said to represent the crown of the fine
educational system which the capital of Indiana
claims as its own. and at the head of this
splendid institution stands Dr. Thomas C.
TTowc. who has been long identified with its
wnvk and who has been it? president since
1908. He has gained noteworthy prestige as
nil able and enthusiastic educator, as a man
of high scholarship and has proved himself a
most discriminating and effective adminis-
trative officer. Further interest attaches to
his career as one worthy of representation in
this publication from the fact that he is a
native son of Indiana and the scion of one of
its honored pioneer families.
Thomas Carr Howe was born on a farm in
Charlestown township, two miles west of
Charlestown, Clarke County, on the 5th of Au-
gust, 1867, and is a son of Rev. Robert Long
and Elizabeth (Carr) Howe, the former of
whom was born in Wilmington, Clinton Coun-
ty, Ohio, in 1832, and the latter near Charles-
town in Clarke County, Indiana, in 1844. Rev.
R. L. Howe was a son of Thomas Howe, who
became a pioneer and influential citizen of
Clinton County, Ohio, where he took an active
part in public affairs and where he' was a
stanch Abolitionist in the period leading up
to the Civil war. He continued his residence
in that county until his death. The Howe
family was founded in America in the Colonial
days, and so far as authentic data determine
the original representatives in this country
settled in the vicinity of Sudbury, Massachu-
setts. Later generations found representation
in Pennsylvania and Ohio, as well as in south-
em Indiana. Mrs. Elizabeth (Carr) Howe
was the twelfth in order of birth of the chil-
dren of Joseph and Nancy (Drummond)
Carr. The Carr family settled in Clarke
County, Indiana, very early in the nineteenth
century, and was closely identified with the
civic and industrial development of that sec-
tion of the state. Joseph Carr was a son of
Thomas Carr, who was one of the framers
of the original state constitution of Indiana.
Two of his sons were valiant soldiers in the
war of 1812, and were active participants in
the battle of Tippecanoe, in which conflict the
brother of Mrs. Nancy (Drummond) Carr also
participated : he was wounded in the engage-
ment and, as the result of his injuries, died
on the succeeding day. The Drummond fam-
ily was also one of prominence in Clarke Coun-
ty in the pioneer days.
Rev. Robert Long Howe was a man of strong
individuality and of fine mental gifts. He he-
came a clergyman of the Christian or Disciples
church and for many years was engaged in
active ministerial work, in connection with
which he also owned and supervised the opera-
tion of two well improved farms in the vicin-
ity of Charlestown, Clarke County. He served
for some time as postmaster of that village,
having been appointed to this office by Presi-
dent Garfield, and throughout his life was a
stanch advocate of the principles and policies
for which the Republican party stands sponsor.
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
He died at Irvington, a suburb of Indianapolis,
in ISO?. His widow still resides in Irvington.
They became the parents of three childien, of
whom two sons and one daughter are now liv-
ing. Will David Howe, Ph. D., the younger
son, was born on the 25th of August, 1873.
He graduated from Butler College with the
degree of A. B. in 1893, from Harvard Col-
lege with the degree of A. M. in 1897, and
from the same institution with the degree of
Ph. D. :n 1899. He was professor of English
at Butler College from 1899 until 1906, and
then became the head of the department of
English at the Indiana University. He is the
author of the Howe Readers which have been
adopted in the schools throughout the state.
Carrie Rebecca, the only daughter in the fam-
ily of Rev. and Mrs. Elizabeth (Carr) Howe,
was born on the 25th of August, 1876, and is
a graduate of Butler College with the class of
1897. She is the wife of Professor John Cum-
mings, a member of the department of eco-
nomics at Chicago University.
Dr. Thomas C. Howe is indebted to the pub-
lic schools of Charlestown, Indiana, for his
preliminary educational discipline, which in-
cluded a course in the high school. In 1884
he entered Butler College as a senior prepara-
tory student, and was graduated as a member
of the class of 1889 and with the degree of
Bachelor of Philosophy. In the following au-
tumn he became instructor in Latin and Ger-
man in his alma mater, and in June, 1890,
he was married and in company with his bride
went to Europe, where they passed the sum-
mer in travel, after which he entered Berlin
University as a student of Germanic language
and literature. Dr. Howe passed two years
in Berlin, after which he returned to Indian-
apolis and assumed the duties of the Arm-
strong chair of Germanic languages in Butler
University, a position to which he had been
appointed prior to bis departure for Berlin.
In 1896 he entered Harvard University, from
which he received the degree of Master of Arts
in the following year, and in 1899 that univer-
sity granted him the degree of Doctor of Phil-
osophy. In the year last mentioned Dr. Howe
made a sojourn of a few months in Europe,
and then resumed his laljors as a meniber of
the faculty of Butler College. In the spring
of 1906 he was made chairman of the endow-
ment committee to which was assigned the
completion of the raising of the endowment
fund of two hundred ami fifty thousand dol-
lars for Butler College. This work Avas suc-
cessfully completed in 1907, in the autumn
of which year Dr. Howe became dean of the
institution, its president, Scott Butler, A. 'SI.,
LL. D., having retired on a Carnegie pension.
In the spring of 1908 Dr. Howe was formally
elected president of Butler College, and his
administration has been such as not only to
uphold but also to advance the prestige long
enjoyed by this worthy institution, which was
originally known as the Northwestern Chris-
tian University.
Dr. Howe has practically devoted his entire
active career to educational work. He has been a
very close student of all that is best in litera-
ture; and his intellectual attainments are of a
high order. He is identified with the Modern
Language Association of America, the Indian-
apolis Literary Club, the Irvington Athenaeum,
the German House, the Commercial Club and
the University Club of Indianapolis. For a
number of years he has been one of the in-
terested principals in the Armstrong-Landon
Hardware Company of Kokomo, this state, of
which he is now the vice president, and he is
also a member of the directorate of the In-
dianapolis Water Company. In politics Dr.
Howe gives unequivocal allegiance to the Re-
publican party, and in 1905 he represented
Marion County in the state legislature. He
and his wife hold membership in the Downey
Avenue Christian church, of whose official
board he is the chairman. He is also a mem-
ber of the Board of Ministerial Relief of the
Christian Church in the United States and of
the American Christian Missionary Society,
the national church board for home missions.
In the city of Kokomo, Indiana, on the 5th
of June, 1890, was solemnized the marriage of
Dr. Howe to Miss Jennie Etta Armstrong, who
is a daughter of Addison F. and Mary Smith
(Brandon) Armstronsr. the former of whom
was born in Clinton County, Ohio, and the
latter in Henry County, Indiana. The Arm-
strong family was early settled in Pennsyl-
vania, and members of the same were promi-
nent in public affairs during the Revolutionary
war and the period immediately subsequent
thereto. From Philadelphia, that state, came
the founders of the family to Ohio. Addison
F. Armstrong was one of the prominent busi-
ness men and honored and influential citizens
of Kokomo, Indiana, to the development- of
which along both civic and material lines he
contributed in generous measure. He was en-
gaged in the hardware business in IS.j-), and
with this line of enterprise he continued to be
actively identified until his death in 1903.
For many years he was a member of the citv
council and the board of education. His wife
survives him and still maintains her homo in
Kokomo. She is a member of a familv that
came to Indiana from Kentucky and early
settled in Henry Countv, this state. Dr. and
]ilrs. Flowe have four children, whose names
HISTOEY OF- GEEATER INDIANAPOLIS.
685
and respective dates of birth are here indi-
cated: Mary Elizabeth,- March 33, 1895;
Charlotte Brandon, November 2, 1900; Thomas
Carr, August 12, 1904 ; and Addison Arm-
strong, December 10, 1906.
William Fortune. The history of William
Fortune's activities in behalf of civic progress
contains in large measure the history of the
most important movements in the municipal
growth of Indianapolis during the past two
decades. The breadth of this assertion seems
justified by a review of his work, and is also
affirmed by a statement made in a public ad-
dress in 1903 by Mr. A. L. Mason, who said:
"I undertake to say that William Fortune has
contributed more individual energy and has
achieved greater success in building organiza-
tions for the carrying out of public reforms
than any man of his age in the Middle West."
Before narrating the more personal facts
of his interesting career, a review of his pub-
lic activities may be written as a valuable con-
tribution to the history of modem Indianap-
olis.
What may be called the modem era of In-
dianapolis had its beginning about 1890. At
that time Mr. Fortune was editorial writer on
the Indianapolis News, then under the manage-
ment of John H. Holliday. The extreme
conservatism which then hindered the physi-
cal improvement and commercial development
of the city became the object of attack in sev-
eral articles written by Mr. Fortune, who
urged the organization of the progressive citi-
zens to overcome this obstacle to the city's
gro\vth. The articles were written opportune-
ly and received hearty approval, as shown bv
the manv individual letters sent to the News
commending the suggestions and offering other
ideas for the needed work.
Mr. Fortune's articles had suggested that the
proper organization to undertake the work was
the Board of Trade. But when a resolution to
that effect was brought before the board it was
defeated. Col. Eli Lilly was one of the few
members of the board of governors who sup-
ported the resolution. As soon as this action
of the Board became known, Mr. Fortune ar-
ranged by telephone for a meeting pf business
men at the Bates House the following day. The
twenty-seven men who attended this meeting
became the nucleus of the Commercial Club
of Indianapolis, which was regularly organized
two davs later with eightv charter members.
With Colonel Lilly as president and Mr. For-
tune secretary, the club entered vigorously upon
its work, and within a month had a thousiid
members. The important undertakings which
marked the beginning of a new era for In-
dianapolis were projected while Colonel Lilly
and Mr. Fortune were officials of the club. For
a history of this movement after it had passed
from the individual to the organized stage, the
reader is referred to other pages. After serving
m their respective offices five years, Colonel
Lilly and Mr. Fortune retired, but the latter
coiitimied two terms as first vice-president and
rounded out his career in the work with one
term as president, finally severing all official
connection in February, 1898.
In 1890 the National Paving E.xposition, the
first exposition of the kind ever held, convened
in Indianapolis, with Mr. Fortune in charge.
Its original purpose was to interest the people
of Indianapolis in good street pavements, and
to afford them the opportunity of complete in-
formation as to materials and methods. The
enterprise, however, attracted such wide atten-
tion throughout the country that it quickly
grew into national importance and official dele-
gates were sent from municipalities in all parts
of the United States. This exposition marked
the beginning of modern paving in Indianap-
olis, not to mention any of its more extended
benefits elsewhere.
In 1891 he proposed that a systematic effort
be made to bring large conventions and meet-
ings to Indianapolis. He argued that this was
the best method of advertising the city, and
also had the substantial immediate benefit of
bringing a large revenue to the citizens. A
plan was adopted and a large fund raised for
the work, which has been continued to the im-
mense advantage of the cily.
Mr. Fortune was elected executive director
of the G. A. R. national encampment which
was held. in this city in 1893. Greater re-
sponsibility devolved upon him than was ever
put upon one man in the management of these
encampments, and his work involved every de-
tail of the expense. That was the panic year,
and the difficulty of raising money caused a
fear of a deficit. The expenses of the previous
year at Washington had been $157,000. The
total amount raised at Indianapolis was $120,-
000, of which $75,000 was appropriated by the
city council. Although the Indianapolis en-
campment was conducted on fully as large a
scale as in Washington and the accommoda-
tions for veterans were the best ever provided
anvwhere, at the close it was found that the
total expense was only about $63,000. Over
$43,000 of the citv appropriation was returned
and about $12,000 of the amount raised bv the
Commercial Club was left in the treasury.
An Indiana "good roads movement" was
started in 1892 through the efforts of Mr. For-
tune. A Good Roads Congress assembled in
Indianapolis, with delegates from nearly everv
county. One of the important results of this
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS
congress was the formation of the Indiana
Highway Association. Mr. Fortune declined
the presidency of the congi-ess, but his work in
behalf of good roads was made the subject of
a testimonial from the meeting. He also took
a prominent part in the Good Roads Congress
at the World's Fair in 1893.
The committee of three which had charge of
the relief for the unemployed in Indianapolis
during the winter of 1894 consisted of Mr.
Fortune, H. H. Hanna and Col. Eli Lilly.
The "Indianapolis plan" of relief, adopted and
successfully carried out by this committee, at-
tracted wide attention among charity workers,
and became the subject of several- magazine ar-
ticles and is described at length in a pamphlet
entitled "Relief for the Unemployed". Food,
fuel- and clothing were provided for unemployed
people in need imder conditions which elim-
inated as far as practicable the pauperizing in-
fluences of charity. The plan embraced the
establishment of a food market, where, after
investigation, worthy persons were given credit
for supplies, issued in regular rations, in pay-
ment for which they performed labor under the
direction of the committee. Over five thou-
sand people were supported in this way, and the
plan was so successful in avoiding the usual
results of free charity that for some time after
the close of the relief work in the spring of
1894 there were fewer people than usual de-
pendent upon the Charity Organization So-
ciety.
The Indiana State Board of Commerce is
composed of the commercial organizations of
the various cities of Indiana, brought together
for united action in advancing the public and
commercial interests of the state. Mr. Fortune
proposed and brought about this organization
in 1894. He was elected its president in 1897
and again in 1898 and 1899. The State Board
of Commerce, under the leadership of Mr. For-
tune, inaugurated the movement for the reforms
in countv and township government which re-
sulted in the changes in county administration
made by the legislature about 1900. It is es-
timated that these changes, in the first year of
their operation, saved the people over three
million dollars.
Mr. Fortune was one of tlie original members
of the Commercial Club Elevated Railroad
Commission, appointed in 1894. He and Colo-
nel Lilly spent manv vears in agitating the
abolition of grade crossing? by means of track
elevation. Mr. Fortune was appointed chair-
man of the commission in .Tune. 1898, to fill
the vacancv caused bv the death of Colonel
Lilly. In 1898 the ordinance was nassed re-
quiring track elevation. The ra'lroads resisted,
and it was only after the courts, the legislature
and local political campaigns had given their
approval to the measure that the public
triumphed over the corporations. The city
charter was so amended as to provide for con-
tinued progress in the elevation of tracks.
From the time of its organization Mr. For-
tune was until 1905 a member of the executive
committee of the Citizens' League, being asso-
ciated in this work with Thomas C. Day, T. E.
GriSith, Father F. H. Gavisk, Lucius B. Swift,
A. L. Mason and G. E. Hunt. Though he has
long been identified with the important pub-
lic undertakings which have created the mod-
ern character of Indianapolis, Mr. Fortune is
only a man in the prime of life and naturally
looks forward to many years of continued use-
fulness to city and state.
William Fortune was born in Boonville, War-
rick County, Indiana, May 27, 1863. He is of
French and Scotch descent on his mother's
side — the St. Clairs of Kentucky and Virginia.
His great-grandfather was Raymond St. Clair
and his grandfather was Isaac St. Clair. On
his father's side the family (Fortune-Shoe-
maker) is of French and German origin. Al-
though the St. Clairs were large slave owners,
the Kentiicky branch of the family took the
Union side, and five of the six uncles of Will-
iam Fortune served through the war on the
Federal side. William H. Fortune, father of
William, was one of the first to enlist in Com-
pany A of the First Indiana Cavalry, and
served till mustered out at the close of the war.
After the war he located at Murfreesboro, Ten-
nessee, in the summer of 1865, but met re-
verses which caused him to return north after
eighteen months For the next few years the
family lived at Paxton (111.), Seymour, Shoals,
Mitchell and Evansville in Indiana, finally re-
turning to Boonville.
At these various places William Fortune
spent his youth, passing, his ninth to eighteenth
year at Boonville. In 1876 he became appren-
tice in the printing office of the Boonville Stan-
dard. M. B. Crawford, the editor, took much
interest in training the boy as a writer, and be-
fore he was sixteen years old he was doing
much of the editorial work of the paper. At
the age of seventeen he wrote and published
a history of his native count}', from the profits
of which he was enabled to provide for the
family, which had become dependent upon him,
while he sought a new field of work.
In Jamiary, 1882, he became a reporter on
the Indianapolis Journal. His reports of the
sessions of the Indiana general assembly in
1883-4 were the cause of several rather dramatic
incidents, resulting finally in an attempt by the
Democratic majority to expel him on the last
dav of the session. Enough of the Democratic
HISTOKY OF GKEATER INDIANAPOLIS.
687
senators voted on his side to make a tie, and
the deciding vote of Lieutenant-Governor Man-
son was cast in his favor. A little later he suc-
ceeded Harry S. New as city editor of the
Journal, but resigned in the spring of 1888 on
account of ill health. Then he founded the
Sunday Press, with Mrs. Emma Carleton as
associate editor. It had high literary quality,
with some of the best known people of the state
among its contributors, but its publication was
discontinued at the end of three months, with-
out financial loss to any of the stockholders ex-
cept Mr. Fortune, who assumed the losses.
The nomination of Harrison for president
made Indiana the battle center in the cam-
paign of 1888, and, as the «ptecial representa-
tive of several leading newspapers, including
the New York Tribune, Philadelphia Press
and Chicago Tribune, Mr. Fortune did some
notable work as political correspondent. A lit-
tle later he declined an offer of the position of
Washington correspondent for the Chicago
Tribune.
Soon afterward his efforts were turned into
the new channel afforded by his connection with
the Commercial Club and its campaign for city
improvement. In this field he showed the abil-
ity to "do things" and the energy and enthusi-
asm and indomitable spirit needed in under-
taking imtried plans and spurring others into
activity in the same work. His ambition "to
make Indianapolis a model city" has since af-
forded him a range of effort such that he had
to abandon newspaper work, and his principal
work has since been in connection with the en-
terprises already described.
His management of the National Paving Ex-
position in 1890 suggested to him the need of
a publication devoted especially to municipal
improvements, and, with William C. Bobbs as
business manager, soon afterward issued Pav-
ing and Municipal Engineering as a 16-page
journal. This has since become the Municipal
Engineering Magazine, which is the pioneer and
the recognized authority in that field in Amer-
ica. It is a prosperous publication devoted to
the practical affairs of American municipalities.
He is president of the company which owns the
publication and for a number of years was its
editor. He is president of the New Telephone
Company of Indianapolis and in January, 1908,
was elected president of the Inter-State Life
Assurance Company; is also president of the
Indianapolis Telephone Company, vice-presi-
dent in active charge of the New Long Dis-
tance Telephone Company, to which he largely
devotes his titae ; these being his principal busi-
ness activities at this time.
In February. 1898. a loving cup was pre-
sented to 'Mt. Fortune bearing the inscription
"To William Fortune, from citizens of Indian-
apolis in recognition of his services in promot-
ing the general welfare of the city." The
presentation of the loving cup was accompanied
by an engrossed testimonial signed by one hun-
dred leading citizens headed by the name of
Benjamin Harrison.
It was largely through personal relatiojis with
^[r. Fortune that Wong Kai Kah, the Chinese
diplomat, was influenced to establish his home
in Indianapolis while in America, and through
him Prince Pu Lun was invited to become the
guest of Indiana and Indianapolis for a week
in 1904. In 1905 the Emperor of China, by
letter patent, conferred upon Mr. Fortime the
mandarin rank and also gave him the decora-
tion of the Order of the Double Dragon.
Through the Commercial Club in 1902 Mr.
Fortune offered a gold medal to the pupil of
the public schools writing the best essay on
the topic "Why we take pride in Indianapolis",
the object being to stimulate home pride and
public spirit in the young people. This prize
was afterwards offered annually by the Commer-
cial Club, and the design for the medal has been
used for various public purposes.
Mr. Fortune was the first president of the
Indianapolis Press Club, organized in 1891. He
was one of the organizers of the Century Club
and was its president in 1892. He was presi-
dent of the Automobile Club of Indiana for
two years. He is a member of a number of
cfubs, including, besides those mentioned, the
Country Club, the Columbia Club, the Univer-
.'^ity Club, and the Woodruff . Club, all of In-
Mr. Fortune married, November 25, 1884,
Miss May Knubbe, daughter of Frederick and
Jerusha A. Knubbe. She died September 28,
1898, leaving. three children: Kussell, Evelyn
and Madeline. Evelyn is the wife of Mr. Eli
Lillv of Indianapolis, a grandson of Col. Eli
Lilly.
Salem D. Clark. A young Indianapolis at-
torney of present prominence and greater prom-
i.sc. state senator of Indiana, Hon. Salem D.
Clark is a native of Hoosierdom, born on a
farm in Hendricks County, May 13, 1872. His
parents are Daniel M. and Clarinda (Dicker-
son) Clark, natives of Butler County, Ohio, of
English descent, the father being a farmer and
a carpenter.
S. D. Clark was the thirteenth of fourteen
children and, up to date, has very successfully
defied the fact. After completing the education
to be obtained in the township school, he en-
tered Central Ipdiana Normal School at Dan-
ville and later became a student at Valparaiso
(Ind.) College, where he pursued both com-
mercial and scientific courses. As he had 3e-
HISTOKY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
c-idcd upon law as his profession, but was saili}'
dutic-ic'Ut jn L'lluL-ational funds, lie became an
employe of the Central Indiana State Asylum
for some time, assisted his brother in his farm-
ing, and assumed anything which offered hon-
est financial returns. He finally entered the
Indiana Law School of the University of In-
dianapolis, from which he graduated in May,
liSOS, when ho was also admitted to the bar.
Mr. Clark has been in active and expanding
practice since 1899. His stanch work for the
Democracy was placed in public evidence in
1908, as in the fall of that year he was honored
with election to thej-tate senatorship. His wife,
whom he married November 1, 1899, was for-
merly Jliss Emma Pence, of Wa\-ue Township,
Clarion County, Indiana, and for several years
before her marriage a teacher in the public
schools.
Jaiiks S. Cruse. The interposition of the
reliable and enterprising real estate dealer and
agent has a potent influence in connection with
th(! development and upbuilding of any city,
and among the able and representative ex-
ponents of this important line of business in
Indiana's capital city is Mr. Cruse, one of the
loyal and progressive citizens of "Greater In-
dianapolis".
]\Ir. Cruse was born in New Albany, Floyd
County, Indiana, on the 16th of July, 1858, and
is a son of John P. and Annie M. (Dudley)
Cruse, the former of whom was born in the
City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the lat-
ter in Virginia. Their marriage was solemnized
at New Albany, Indiana, where they continued
to reside iintil 186"2, when they removed to In-
dianapolis, where they passed the residue of
their lives. In his earlier business career the
father was a contractor and builder, but he
eventually became an extensive manufacturer
of and dealer in brick, with which line of en-
terprise he continued to be identified until his
death. Of the two children the subject of this
review is the elder, and his sister, Mary B., is
tlie wife of Henry J. Wiethe, of Indianapolis.
.Tames S. Cruse was about four vears of age
at the time of the family removal to Indian-
apolis, where he was reared to maturity and
where he duly availed himself of the advan-
tages of the public schools. As a boy he l)egan
to assist in the work of his father's brick yard,
and eventually he was given charge of the
books, accounts and orders. Later he assumed
a clerical position in the abstract office of John
H. Batty, with the nmnagement of whoso busi-
ness he continued to lie identified until the
death of !Mr. Batty, after which he was em-
liloyed by the lattci-"s successor for some time.
Within these years he gained an accurate and
intimate knowledge of real estate values in
Marion Couniy, as well as the state in gen-
eral. After retiring from the abstract otKce
he was employed for a short time in the real
estate rental agency of Giles S. Bradley. He
next engaged with the firm of Daiu & McCul-
lough. who conducted a general real estate and
lental agency, continuing in the employ of this
firm for some time and later having being sim-
ilarlj" engaged with the agency conducted in-
dividually by Mr. Dain. Upon the death of
Mr. Dain, 5Ir. Cruse purchased the business, and
during the intervening period of about a quar-
ter of a century he has held prestige as oue
of the leading real estate dealers of the cap-
ital city, where, his business is conducted under
the titk^ of the J. S. Cruse Realty Company.
This company was incorporated under the laws
of the state on the 19th of December, 1908, and
since that time Mr. Cruse has held the office
of president, llie business of the concern is
of wide scope and importance, involving the
handling of all kinds of city, suburban and
farm property, the agency for many rental
properties, rent collections, etc. The books of
the company show at all' times most desirable
investments, and the high reputation of the
interested principals gives to the business a con-
stantly cumulative tendency. Mr. Cruse is also
president of the ^farion Title Guaranty Com-
pany, one of the important financial and fidu-
ciary organizations of the state. His success,
and it has been of no equivocal order, repre-
sents direct result of his own well directed ef-
forts, and he is one of the honored citizens and
representative business men of the city which
has been his home from his childhood days.
In politics ^Ir. Cruse gives an unwavering
allegiance to the Republican party, but he has
never had aught of desire for the honors or
emoluments of public office. He is a member
of the Columbia, Commercial and Marion Clubs
and also of the Indianapolis Board of Trade,
in whose progressive work he accords a hearty
co-operation. In the Masonic fraternity Mr.
Cruse has attained to the thirty-second degree
of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, in which
he is affiliated with Indiana Sovereign C(insis-
tory. Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, and
is also a member of the allied organization.
]\rurat Temple. Ancient Arabic Otder of the
Nobles of the :\[vstic Shrine.
In 1896 Mr. Cruse was united in marriage
to Miss Fannie Jones, daughter of the late
William H. Jones, of Indianapolis, and they
have no children.
Willia:m T. Bnowx has been engaged in the
practice of law in the City of Indianapolis for
more than thirty years and is uniformly rec-
ognized as one of the representative members
of the bar of the state. It is, in the vernacular
HISTOKY OF GREATER INDIAXAI'OLIS.
of the fox chase, a "far cry" from the position
of a mere lad working as a section liand on a
railroad to that of a jDrominent member of the
legal profession in a state within whose bor-
ders this rise has occurred, and yet this, in
brief, indicates the measure of personal accom-
plishment which stands to the credit and honor
of ilr. Brown, who has been in the most sig-
nificant sense the architect of his own fortunes
and who has been dependent upon his own re-
sources from his boyhood days.
William T. Brown was born near Marietta,
Cobb County. Georgia, on the 23d of Septem-
ber, 1850, and is a son of Burrell E. and Keziah
(George) Brown, both of whom were natives
of South Carolina and both of whom passed
the closing years of their lives in the state of
Georgia. The father was a blacksmith by trade
and the family history is one that may be desig-
nated, in the words of Abraham Lincoln con-
cerning his own famih^ "the short and simple
annals of the poor." In his native state the
subject of this review gained the rudiments of
an education, and in 1864, when fourteen years
of age, he came to Indiana, arriving in April
of that year and soon afterward finding em-
ployment as a section hand on the line of the
old J. J[. & I. railroad. He was thus engaged
until the following November, when he came
to Indianapolis, where he has maintained his
home during the long intervening years. Here
he found employment in a rolling mill, and for
several years he continued to be identified with
this line of work, the while he had the ambi-
tion and tenacity of purpose to husband his
limited financial resources in order to utilize
the same in securing higher educational train-
ing. At the head ojf the rolling mill was John
Thomas, a man of sterling character and help-
ful sympathy. He gave to Mr. Brown all pos-
sible encouragement and aid while the latter
was working his way through college, and 'Mr.
Brown has ever felt a debt of appreciative
gratitude to this kind and considerate friend
and counselor of his youthful davs. ^Ir. Brown
was finally enabled to enter the preparatory de-
partment of Wabash College, at Crawfordsville.
and in this institution he eventually completed
the work of the junior year, leaving the college
in 1874. In the meanwhile he had continued
to work in the rolling mill during the vaca-
tions of the college year. Upon leaving college
Mr. Brown became a student in the law office
of the firm of Gordon, Browne & Lamb, of In-
dianapolis, and with such aviditv and such ex-
cellent powers of absorption and assimilation
did he prosecute his studv of the science of
jurisprudence that he gained admission to the
Indiana bar in the Centennial vear. 187fi. In
1878 he opened an office in what is now the
Indiana Trust Company building, and during
the intervening }'ears he has here maintained
his professional headquarters, while he has
moved onward to precedence as one of the lead-
ing representatives of his profession in the cap-
ital city. In 1878 he was appointed chief dep-
uty prosecuting attorney, imder John B. Elam,
and in 1883 he was elected prosecuting attor-
ney of Marion County, of which office he re-
mained incumbent for two years, giving an ad-
mirable administration and thereby gaining
further prestige as a strong and versatile trial
lawyer. In 1897 Mr. Brown was appointed
county attorney, and he held this position un-
til 1900. He has been identified with a large
amount of important litigation in the state and
federal 'courts and has appeared in connection
with the trial of a number of the most cele-
brated criminal causes presented in the local
courts.
In politics Mr. Brown has ever been found
aligned as a loyal and active supporter of the
cause of the Republican party, though he has
never sought or held public office except such
positions as have been in direct consonance with
the work of his profession. In the Masonic
fraternity he is identified with local York Rite
bodies, as well as with the Indianapolis con-
sistory of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite.
He and his wife are zealous and valued mem-
bers of the Central Avenue Methodist Episcopal
Church, and he has been a member of its offi-
cial board for more than a quarter of a cen-
tury. He holds membership in the Marion and
the Commercial Clubs, two of the representa-
tive social organizations of the capital city, and
is also identified with the Indiana Bar Asso-
ciation.
On the 26th of August, 1884, was solemnized
the marriage of Mr. Brown to ]\Iiss Hattie E.
Sperry, of Fulton, New York, in which state
she was born and reared, being a daughter of
Ira and Lovina H. Sperrv.
Col. Ei.i Lilly during his active career in
Indianapolis did not have a superior among
his contemporaries either in the practical
achievements of business or in the civic pride
and energy which have made Indianapolis a
great city. .\s founder of the great manu-
facturing drug house of Eli Lilly Company
he gave the city one of its greatest business
institutions. And through his leadership in
the civic movement which began with the or-
ganization of the Commercial Club, he was one
of the founders of the modern era of Indian-
apolis history.
He was bom at Baltimore, Maryland, July
S. 1839, and died in Indianapolis June 6, 1898.
When he was a year old his parents, Gnstavus
and Esther E. Lilly, moved to- Lexington, Ken-
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tucky, and in 1848 to Gallatin County, that
state, and three years later located at Green-
castle, Indiana.
He was thirteen years old when he moved
to Greencastle, and continued his hitherto lim-
ited schooling in a private school and also iu
the preparatory department of Asbury (now
DePauw) University. For a time he published
the Asbury Notes, the college paper of the
time, this being his' first business experience.
Soon afterward he became a drug clerk, which
introduced him to the field in which he was
destined to make his great business success.
At the age of seventeen he became clerk to
Henry LawTcnce. an English chemist and
pharmacist of Lafayette, Indiana, under whom
he gained both a practical and theoretical
knowledge of the business.
At Lafayette he became a member of the
local company of Guards. This training and
experience was prelude to another conspicuous
period of his life. He was in the drug busi-
ness at Greencastle when the Civil War broke
oui. Though his father was an abolitionist,
and said to have been a station agent on the
"underground railroad," the son had more
conservative views of the institution of slav-
ery, and in fact voted for Breckenridge rather
than for Douglas in 1860. However, he op-
posed disunion, and when the war broke out
he was one of the most enthusiastic Union men
in his vicinity and thenceforth supported Lin-
coln and the war with all the ardor of his
being.
He was one of the first to enlist in what
subsequently became the First Indiana Heavy
Artillery, which was organized at Indianapolis
in Julj', 1861. His previous training and his
efficiency as a soldier soon brought him more
responsible duties. As captain, he was as-
signed the task of recruiting a battery, which
subsequently became the famous Eighteenth
Indiana Batter}'. In two weeks the full bat-
tery was recruited, the oflBcers selected, and it
was mustered in August 20, 1862. Lieutenant
Campbell, of Crawfordsville, a member of the
battery, wrote : "He was an exceedingly young
man for so important a position, as the com-
mand of a battery in those days was more
complex and important than the command of a
regiment of infantry. His youthful and slen-
der appearance was decidedly against him, the
men of the battery thought, as they gathered
together at Camp Morton in the middle of the
summer of 1862. But the first day of active
service in which the battery participated dis-
pelled all doubts as to the ability and quali-
fications of the youthful captain. From that
time on there was no doubt of his fitness and
abilitv."
The words of the same writer may be quoted
as the best description of Colonel Lilly's mili-
tarj- experience. To continue the above:
"The rapid advance of the rebel army under
Bragg and the retreat of Buell to Louisville,
during the latter part of the summer of 1862,
required all the raw troops to be hurried down
to the Ohio River. In this hurried movement
all his admirable qualities as an organized and
disciplinarian were developed. In the space
of twenty-four hours he transformed a green
lot of men who had never seen a piece of artil-
lery, and harnessed and hitched a new lot of
unbroken horses together for the first time
into an effective battery ready for action.
September 1 Captain Lilly drew his guns and
caissons from the arsenal at Indianapolis,
loaded them on flatcars on the Jeffersonville
Railroad, reached Jeffersonville the next day
about 9 o'clock, drew his complement of horses
and camp equipage from the quartermaster,
and by the greatest exertion the battery was
harnessed, hitched and moved down to the
river, ferried over and assigned a place in the
lines of defense around Louisville in the after-
noon of the same day. There his untried men
stood in line of battle, while the tired and
dusty veterans of Buell marched past into the
city.
"During the winter Colonel Lilly's battery
was changed into a mounted battery. Four
more guns were added, making it a ten-gun
battery, and the entire command was attached
to the famous Wilder's brigade of mounted
infantry, and made a part of the Fourteenth
Army Corps under Gen. George H. Thomas.
The first severe engagement in which the Lilly
battery participated was at Hoover's Gap,
Tennessee, July 24, 1863,— the first day of
Rosecrans' strategic advance on Chattanooga.
For four hours Colonel Lilly stubbornly held
his battery on the brow of a hill and poured
a triple charge of grape and canister into
successive charges of two brigades of Clai-
liorne's division, which vainly attempted to
drive the Union troops out of the gap. All
the while the battery received the shot and
shell from two batteries of six guns belongilig
to the brigade opposing it. By deftly retiring
the guns below the crest of the hill so that
the muzzles just cleared the greensward of the
brow, he deceived the aim of the rebel batteries
and greatly shielded his men from slaughter,
as the rain of shot and shell tore up the earth-
work on the crest of the slope. Colonel Lilly
dismounted from his horse and was everv-
where through the battery directing the aim
of his men and encourasring them, his presence
inspiring confidence and courage. He fre-
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GDI
queutly helped a tired powder boy carry up
ammunition from the caisson.
•'The Tullahoma campaign^ which followed
the battle of Hoover's Gap, was very trying on
the battery. There were twenty-one days of
constant rain, which, upon the barren of Ten-
nessee, made movement almost impossible.
With only Wilder's brigade on one side of the
river, Bragg's entire army on the other, it
looked as if they could never get back over
those mountains, had the enemy succeeded in
crossing the Tennessee River and successfully
attacking them. At noon on the 21st day of
August, 1863, Colonel Lilly's guns opened on
the Confederate stronghold of Chattanooga,
right in the face of the whole of Bragg's army,
and to the consternation and surprise of that
great general himself, as the hasty removal of
his headquarters afterward testified. It was
Jeff Davis 'fast daj", and the citizens were
all at church when the loud booming of Lilly's
guns disturbed their surroundings, and they
hastily left their churches without ceremony.
No shells were fired into the • town, but the
skill of the commander was devoted to sink-
ing two steamboats, the Dunbar and the Paint-
rock, which were lying by the shore. This was
successfully done after a half hour's firing, and
the men of the brigade breathed easier as they
saw the boats sink. The combined forces,
consisting of nineteen guns in all, directed fire
upon the Lilly battery from noon till dark, but
their range and aim was so imperfect that the
battery escaped with the loss of only one man
and four horses, all killed by the same shell.
"The next morning a miry-looking man ap-
peared before Colonel Lilly. He said he had.
just swam the Tennessee River, that his name
was Bill Critchfield and he owned the Critch-
field House over in Chattanooga that General
Bragg was using for headquarters, and he
wanted to see Colonel Lilly 'knock hell' out of
his house. The gentleman was soon accommo-
dated, and from his perch in a tree near one
of the guns he had the satisfaction of seeing
several shells go through his own house and
explode on the inside, and the hasty exit of
all occupants. (In this Critchfield House was
published a paper which was edited by Henry
Watterson.)
"In the battle of Chickamauga, which be-
gan about noon Friday, September 18, at Alex-
ander's bridge, Colonel Lilly's battery fired
the first shell on the advancing army of Bragg,
which was really the opening of the great bat-
tle known in history as Chickamauga. On the
Saturday of the great battle Wilder's brigade
and Colonel Lilly's battery formed part of the
main line of battle on the right of the Four-
teenth Corps. About 3 o'clock on the after-
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noon of that awful day Colonel Lilly did as
daring a deed as ever took place m the his-
tory of the Army of the Cumberland. In front
of a part of Wilder's brigade and midway be-
tween the lines of the tWo contending armies
ran a ditch parallel to the line of battle. The
rebels would charge our lines, get as far as
this ditch and then drop into it out of range
of our fire, and our men could not dislodge
thein. Just after a very heavy tire of the
enemy's lines and while this ditch was full
of rebel soldiers. Colonel Lilly limbered two
guns of his battery, galloped out to a point
at the head of the ditch, where the guns could
rake it from end to end, and opened out with
triple charges of grape and canister down that
ditch, dealing death and carnage with every
shot. There stands today, on the battlefield
of Chickamauga, on the identical spot occu-
pied by this brave man, two cannon placed in
position, to commemorate this act of bravery
on that eventful day. During some of the ter-
rific charges made on our lines by Longstreet's
men. Colonel Lilly rode on his horse from his
caissons to his guns, bringing up armloads of
grape and canister to hurl at the enemy. Dur-
ing the pursuit of Wheeler, immediately after
the battle of Chickamauga, when for twenty-
one days our cavalry and mounted troops kept
up a tight with this Confederate general. Col-
onel Lilly constantly pushed his command on
the skirmish line, and whenever the rebels
ma'de a stand his guns were always in position,
and the boom of his cannon was a signal for
a spontaneous charge. So much faith did the
troops have in the etfectiveness of his battery
that when the horses of the guns WoUld give
out by the roadside, the troopers of the brigade
would dismount from their own horses and
give them up for the use of the artillery in
order to have the battery along with them.
"At the battle of Mossy Creek, December
29, 1863, our forces were driven back. When
the order to fall back was received all the
horses belonging to one of Colonel Lilly's guns
had been killed, and one gun was left on the
hill as the troops fell back. Colonel Lilly
went to General McCook, commanding the
L'nion cavalry, and begged of him' to give him
a company of cavalry to make a charge and
bring oft' that gun. General McCook said he
had no troops available except a small body
of scouts, but he could take them. Colonel
Lilly, with this small body of men, led a
charge up the hill to his gun, driving the enemy
liack, and brought the piece safely into Union
lines.
"All through the winter of 1863 Colonel
I.illv operated with General ilcCook's cavalry
in east Tennessee. During the entire winter
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the troops drew no rations, excepting coffee
and occasionally a box of hard-tack. They
lived exclusively off' the country. He never
rested himself until his men and teams had
something to eat. If there was anything in
the country Colonel Lilly saw that his men
had some of it. No commander looked after
his men more conscientiously than did Colonel
Lilly. , He was always on the alert for his
"'boys', as he always called them, and he never
let them suffer if there was anything he could
possibly do to prevent it.
"During the two and a half years he was
in command of the battery he was forty-one
times under fire and was twice struck by bul-
lets, but escaped with only slight wounds.
During the spring of 1864, while the Anny of
the Cumberland was preparing for the At-
lanta campaign. Colonel Lilly came home on
a short leave of absence, when Governor Mor-
ton, recognizing the ability and dash of the
young officer, tendered him the position of
major of the Ninth Indiana Cavalry. This
commission was accepted and he resigned his
position of captain of the Eighteenth Indiana
Battorv and was mustered major of the Ninth
Cavalry, April -t, 1SG4. December 2-ith of the
same vear he was ]iroinoted to be lieutenant
colonel.
"Colonel Lilly left his battery with pro-
found regret, but under the then existing or-
ganization of the Indiana batteries no pro-
motion above a captain could be made, and
he justly deserved a higher command and
made the change on tliat account only. The
battery reluctantly gave him tip. His cour-
age, ability and his devotion to his men had
so endeared him to their hearts that to the
day of his deatli the love they then bore him
lived in memory too deep to ever die out."
r.y the o\crwiiclming forces of General For-
rest, and because of the lack of ammunition,
Jfajor Lilly surrendered at Elk River, Ten-
nessee, September 22. 18fi4, and for some
months, until exchanged, he and his men were
hold prisoners in Mississippi. At the close of
the war he was in command at Port Gibson,
Mi*.-is.sippi. ■
He remained in the south for about a year
after the war. and attempted cotton planting,
on a plantation which he leased. He had in-
different success and furthermore nearly lo^t
his health. Broken in body and with scarce-
ly a dollar he came north and began working
for tJie wholesale drug house of H. Dailey &
Company at Indianapolis. Later his experi-
ence and skill in the drug l)usiness were put
against a partner's capital in a drug store at
Paris, Illinois. In 18T3 he returned to In-
dianapolis, which ever afterward remained his
home.
Following a brief partnership in the manu-
facturing business he began in a modeSt man-
ner the business from which the present Eli
Lilly Company originated. In a small store
room, situated at the rear of the site now oc-
cupied by the Commercial Club building, and
facing on the alley, he began to manufacture,
out of pure drugs, the medicines prescribed
by physicians. He compounded a stock, then
went out and sold it to the trade. His drugs
were of the highest quality, and this and the
skill with which they were put up made them
popular and in permanent demand. His trade-
increased to a point where he had to remain
in the shop all the time, while his brother,
James E., acted as salesman. The process of
business growth went on rapidly, and without
describing in detail it is sufficiently impres-
sive to compare the little shop on the allev
with the present laboratory building in which
the Lilly drugs are made, a complete medicine
bouse with a reputation which has passed be-
yond the boundaries of the United States.
One incident illustrates Colonel Lilly's quick
compreliension and alertness in turning an idea
to business advantage. Dr. J. Marion Sirams
told him of the rare medical qualities of a
plant which Dr. McDade of Alabama had dis-
covered among the Indians. He at once
sought out Dr. McDade in Alabama, investi-
gated the properties of the plant, and made a
contract for a su])ply. A short time later Dr.
.McDade, to his surprise, received an order for
several thousand ])ounds of the plant. The
medicine, through general prescription by
])hysicians, has become a standard remedy,
and the success of the Lilly Company is due
more to that one preparation than to anything
else. Tlie methods of administering medicines
were almost revolutionized by the pioneer in-
vestigations of Colonel Lilly. No one did so
much to perfect and introduce the capsule and
the tablet for removing the disagreeable fea-
tures of taking medicines.
His labors in behalf of the material and
civic improvement of his home city were such
as to guarantee him a lasting place among the
great citizens and builders of Indianapolis.
His ideals of wealth were high, and after he
had founded a solid fortune he directed his
efforts and his means to the welfare of city and
citizens.
One of the first public enterprises in which
he took a prominent part was the creation of
the Consumers Gas Trust, about the time of
the great natural gas discoveries in Indiana.
He made the first subscrintion and pushed the
matter to success. He was at the head of the
HISTOEY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
693
committee for securing gas territory, and his
forethought and executive tact were largely
TL^sponsible for the large arga from which thj
Consumers Company drew its supply.
The natural gas epoch was one of unex-
ampled prosperity in the various sections of
Indiana affected by the discoveries, and Col-
onel Lilly was one of those who foresaw and
sought to utilize to the greatest possibilities
this prosperity for the permanent benefit of
Indianapolis. To improve the city and pre-
pare the way for its growtli to a modern
metropolis, he became one of the foremost
among a group of public-spirited citizens who
may })roperly be credited with instituting the
modern era of Indianapolis.
The first work was the improvement of the
streets and the construction of a scientific sys-
tem of drainage. The plan was laid before
the Board of Trade, of which he was then
an oflficer, but that body was not competent
to undertake so much civic responsibility and
refused to take action. The plan involved the
securing of a new city charter and also a long
:ind persistent campaign in carrying out its
details. The result was that Colonel Lilly and
liis a— oeiates organized the Commercial Club,
in 18ii0, and the history of that organization
tell> the ultimate success of the plans for city
building. Colonel Lilly was the first presi-
dent of the club, and he was both an orig-
inator of methods and an executive in secur-
ing practical results. At the beginning there
was not a mile of paved street in the city,
and no system of drainage, and the present
conditions in this respect have been brought
about since the Commercial Club took hold
of the work twenty years ago. It was due to
Colonel Lilly's forethought that the Commer-
cial Club erected its building and thus became
a permanent organization for the city's wel-
fare.
(,'olonel Lilly was general director in mak-
ing the arrangements for the national en-
rainpnient of the Grand Army at Indianapolis
in 1803. The successful issue of that encamp-
ment, in the face of the difficulties of a panic
vear, the liberal entertainment of the guests
but without the usual deficit in the treasury
of the management, are among the achiev-
ments of the city for which a due amount of
credit must be given Colonel Lilly.
He was a liberal contributor to every charit-
able enterprise from the time he became a
nian of means. Several years prior to his
death, he and his wife established tlie Eleanor
Hospital in remembrance of an only daughter
"lio died in childhood. Both public and pri-
v.-itf chiirities benefited by his generous but
'iiinstontatious jrifts.
He was an active member of the George H.
Thomas Post, G. A. E., and of the Indiana
Division of the Loyal Legion. Also a member
of the Commercial Club, the Columbia Club,
and' Christ Episcopal Church. After the Civil
War, on national issues, he was a Republican,
l>ut somewhat independent in local politics.
He never took active part in party affairs and
declined numerous offers of political prefer-
ment.
In ISfiO, at Greencastle, Colonel Lilly mar-
ried Miss Emily Lemon. She took the pride
of a wife in his military career, but died in
18(io during his unfortunate experience as a
cotton planter in Mississippi. Josiah K. Lillv
was the only child of this marriage. Colonel
Lilly married, in 1869, Mariah C. Sloane, who
is still living. The only child, a daughter, by
this marriage, died in childhood.
JosiAii K. Lilly, president of the Eli Lilly
Company, is a son and the only child of the
late Colonel Eli Lilly. He was born at Green-
castle, Indiana, November 18, 1861, and was
twelve years old when the family home was
permanently established in Indianapolis.
xVfter a common-school education he entered
his father's business. Then, in order to equip
himself for his business specialty, which re-
quires professional as well as busineES training,
he attended the Philadelphia College of Phar-
macy. After his. graduation in 1382, he be-
came superintendent of the Lilly laboratories,
and upon the death of his father succeeded to
the presidency of the company.
]\rr. T^illy continues the public-spirited ac-
tivity of his honored father. He has been
identified with public movements of recent
voars, most conspicuouslv in connection with
the building of the splendid Y. M. C. A.
home at the corner of North Illinois and West
New York streets. He was president of the
-Vssociation during its recent campaign in
raising a quarter of a million dollars for the
erection of this structure. He is still a direc-
tor of the Association. He is also a member
of tlic Commercial, Columbia and Country
clubs, and of Christ Episcopal Church.
He was married at Lexington, Kentucky, in
1S82, to :Miss Lilly M. Ridgely of that city.
Their two children are named Eli and Josiah.
Judge Jaiies A. Pkitchard has been a rep-
resentative nien)l)er of the Indianapolis bar for
nearly two score of years and is now presiding
with marked ability on the bench of the Clarion
County criminal court. To the practice of
his chosen profession he has l)rouglit a broad
and accurate knowledge of the science of Juris-
prudence and ready power of applying the same
a« an advocate and counsellor, so that his suc-
cess as n practitiiiner during tlie many year> of
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
Dctive work prior to his elevation to the bench
(v-as of the most unequivocal type, giving him
prestige as one of the strong and versatile
members of the bar of his native state. On
the bench he has given ample manifestation of
his judicial acumen and his rulings and de-
cisions have been fair and equitable, ever con-
serving the cause of justice. As a legist and
jurist he has ably aided in maintaining the
high standard of his profession in Indiana, and
his position well entitles him to specific con-
sideration in this publication.
James Ambrose Pritchard was born in Fair-
view, Fayette County, Indiana, on the 25th of
October, 1846, and is a son of Rev. Henry R.
and Emeline (Birdsell) Pritchard, the former
of whom was born in Bourbon Coujity, Ken-
tucky, a scion of one of the honored pioneer
families of the old Bluegrass state, and the lat-
ter of whom was a native of Butler County,
Ohio, where her parents settled in the pioneer
days. Rev. Henry R. Pritchard came to In-
diana when a young man and for sixty-five
years he labored with all of consecrated zeal
and devotion as a clergyman of the Christian
Church. He also became the owner of a good
farm, to the management of which he gave his
personal attention, and on the old homestead,
in Bartholomew County, the son, of this re-
view, passed his boyhood days. The father was
a man of fine mental equipment and unassum-
ing nobility of character, so that his influence
was ever exerted beneficently in the aiding and
uplifting of his fellowmen. He passed the
closing years of his life in Indianapolis, where
he died at the venerable age of eighty-one years.
His cherished and devoted wife, a woman of
gentle and gracious personality, was summoned
to the life eternal at the age of eighty-two
years. Of their four children all are now
living.
Judge James A. Pritchard, as already stated,
passed his boyhood days on the farm, and when
he was eight years of age his parents took up
their residence in the village of Columbus,
where he received the advantages of the pub-
lic schools, after which he prosecuted his aca-
demic studies for three years in Miami Uni-
versity. After leaving college, in 1867, Judge
Pritchard began reading law under the able
preceptorship of Herod & Herod, of Columbus,
Indiana, and he was admitted to the bar of
his native commonwealth in 1873.
In 1873, when in his twenty-seventh year,
Judge Pritchard came to Indianapolis and en-
gaged in the practice of his chosen profes-
sion, and through his ability, energy and devo-
tion to his work he soon srained a definite stand-
ing at the local bar, wliile the passing years
were marked by cumulative success and prece-
dence in his profession, in connection with
which he eventually retained a large and rep-
resentative clientage and appeared in connec-
tion with much important litigation in both
the state and federal courts. He continued in
the active practice of law until the 1st of Jan-
uary, 1907, when he assumed his position as
judge of tlie Clarion County criminal court, to
which responsible and exacting office he had
been elected in the preceding November, as
candidate on the Republican ticket. In his
regime on the bench he has amply justified the
wisdom of those through whose suffrages the
preferment came to him, and he has showTi dis-
tinctive facility and high judicial acumen in
the administration of the affairs of his impor-
tant tribunal. He has ever been a stalwart
advocate of the principles and policies for which
the Republican party stands sponsor and has
rendered efficient service in the cause, but he
has never appeared as a candidate for public
office save in the instance of his present incum-
bency.
Judge Pritchard is recognized as a loyal and
broad-minded citizen and is fully appreciative
of the advantages and manifold attractions of
his home city, where he is held in unqualified
popular esteem. He and his wife hold member-
ship in the Christian Church, and he is affiliat-
ed with Oriental Lodge No. 319, Free & Ac-
cepted Masons, and Centennial Lodge No. 520,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which
latter order he is also identified with the En-
campment of the Patriarchs Militant. He
holds membership in the Marion Club, one of
the representative social organizations of the
capital city.
On the 20th of May, 1885, was solemnized
the marriage of Judge Pritchard to Miss Lilly
H. O'Hair, who was born in Laurel, Franklin
County, Indiana, a daughter of the late James
and Mary O'Hair, and the three children of
this union are Walter, Marie and Irene.
John E. Hollett. Among the attorneys of
the younger generation who are upholding the
prestige of the bar of the capital city of In-
diana is Jolm E. Hollett, who for about twenty,
years and until January, 1910, was a member
of the well known and representative law firm
of Ayres. Jones and Hollett. He is also dis-
tinctively tlie arcliitect of his own advancement
and creditable work, an example of the boys
wlio have educated themselves and secured their
own start in life. He was only a lad of four-
teen when he began plaving in the theaters to
secure the money for his schooling, and tlius
he continued until liis scholastic training was
completed.
^[r. Hollett was born in the village of Ar-
cadia, Hamilton County, Indiana, on the 19th
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
of April, 1874, and is a son of Byron P. and
Elizabeth A. (DeVaney) Hollett. The father
was bom in Hendricks County, this state, and
is a son of John M. Hollett^ who was a native
of Kentucky, a scion of an old and honored
family, and who came with his parents to In-
diana in the early pioneer days, being reared
to manhood in Wayne County. He passed the
residue of his life in Indiana,^ where he fol-
lowed the vocation of farming, ' becoming one
of the prosperous agriculturists and influential
citizens of Hendricks County. Byron P. Hol-
lett was reared and educated in the old Hoosier
state, and here he has ever continued to main-
tain his home. He has been successful as a
business man, and was for a number of years
prominently identified with manufacturing en-
terprises, besides building up a successful busi-
ness as a general merchant and buyer and ship-
per of grain. He and his wife still reside in
the village of Arcadia. He is a Democrat in
his political views. Mrs. Hollett was bom in
Hamilton County, Indiana, and is a daughter
of John H. DeVaney, who came to this state
from North Carolina. Of the children of By-
ron P. and Elizabeth A. Hollett the subject of
this review is the only one now living.
In the public schools of his native village
John E._Hollett secured his early educational
disciplii.", and after completing the curriculum
of the same he entered the Shortridge high
school in Indianapolis and graduated. There-
after he completed a two years' coiirse in But-
ler College in that citv. Prior to completing
his college course he had entered the law office
of the firm of Ayres and Jones, and under the
able preceptorship of its principals he took up
the study of law, and with this firm he was
connected as student and member for more
than twenty years, and the association was
marked by the most pleasing relations and by
definite accomplishment in a professional way.
In 1897 Mr. Hollett graduated in the Indiana
Law School in Indianapolis, and in the same
year he was admitted to the bar of his native
state. He forthwith became associated in prac-
tice with his former preceptors as a member of
the firm, and this professional alliance was con-
tinued under the title of Ayres, Jones and Hol-
lett until January 1, 1910, when Mr. Hollett
formed a partnership with Merle N. A. Walker,
a former judge of the Probate Court of Marion
County, and with whom he is now engaged in
the practice of law.
In politics Mr. Hollett is aligned as a stal-
wart supporter of the cause of the Democratic
party, and he was formerly president of the
Indiana Democratic Club, one of the leading
social-political organizations of Indianapolis.
He is a member of the Commercial Club, of
which he was president in 1908-1909 and a
director for several years. Both he and his wife
are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal
Church and are members of the parish of St.
Paul's Church.
On the 26th of June, 1900, Mr. Hollett mar-
ried Miss Katherine Moore Sullivan, a daugh-
ter of the Hon. Thomas L. Sullivan, former
mayor of the City of Indianapolis and a promi-
nent and influential citizen. She is a great-
granddaughter of Senator Oliver H. Smith and
also of .Judge Sullivan of the Supreme Court
of Indiana. The children of Mr. and Mrs.
Hollett are: Thomas Sullivan Hollett and
John Everett Hollett, Jr.
Frederick H. Chetne. This vital, pro-
gressive age is one that demands of men a dis-
tinctive initiative power if they are to attain
to success worthy the name, and in addition
to this power is required self-reliance, determi-
nation and consecutive application in the pur-
suit of a definite purpose. All these attributes
have been exemplified in the career of Freder-
ick H. Cheyne, who has gained success and
prestige in the business world and who is dis-
tinctively the architect of his own fortunes.
He is now president of the F. H. Cheyne Elec-
tric Company, one of the leading concerns of its
kind in Indiana, and he has been a resident of
the capital city since 1892. Appreciative of the
attractions and commercial advantages of In-
dianapolis, he has here found it possible to gain
a position as one of its representative business
men of the younger generation, and he enjoys
unmistakable personal popular esteem in the
city which he has thus elected to make his home
and the scene of his well directed endeavors.
Mr. Cheyne was bom in the City of Toronto,
Canada, on the 20th of June, 1865, and is a
son of Luther and Mary (Switzer) Cheyne,
both of whom were likewise bom and reared in
the Dominion of Canada, whither the paternal
ancestors, of Scotch-Irish lineage, came from
County Tyrone, Ireland. The mother's an-
cestors came from Holland to Ireland, and
family tradition is to the effect that the line is
traced back to French-Huguenot origin and that
representatives of the name sought hospice and
refuge in Ireland to escape the persecutions in-
cidental to the revocation of the Edict of
Nantes. During the youth of the subject of
this review his father was engaged in farming,
and both of his parents continued to reside in
the Province of Ontario, Canada, until their
death.
Frederick H. Che}Tie passed his boyhood and
youth on the home farm, about twenty miles
west of Toronto, and in the public schools of
the locality he secured his early educational dis-
cipline, in the meanwhile contributing his
HISTOKY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
quota to the work aud management of the
farm. At the age of sixteen years he entered
upon an apprenticeship at the trade of mill-
wright, which he followed for some time, after
which he had charge of the operation of a mill
which his father had purchased, at Brampton,
Ontario, where he remained about two 3-ears.
In 1888, Mr. Cheyne went to Cincinnati, Ohio,
where he assumed a position in the establish-
ment of an experimental manufacturing con-
cern, with which he remained about two years,
at the expiration of which he entered the em-
ploy of a company engaged in the manufactur-
ing of electrical machinery and appliances, in
the same city. In this connection he put forth
ever)- effort to master the details and multi-
farious scientific and practical principles of
applied electricit}-, and by his close attention to
business and his receptive mind he gained a
thorough and comprehensive knowledge and be-
came an expert mechanician and theorist in this
important field, or, as it may well be termed,
profes.-^ion. In 1892 [Mr. Chej-ne came to In-
dianapolis for the purpose of installing the
electrical plant in the large building now known
as the Imperial Hotel, and this commission led
to his making permanent location in this city.
In view of the success which he has here at-
tained it can well be imderstood that he has had
no reason to regret the choice which he made
at the time, and, further than this, it may also
be said that the capital city has no more loyal
and appreciative admirer than he, while he has
implicit faith in the still further industrial
and civic progress of "Greater Indianapolis."
In 1894, Mr. Cheyne entered into partnership
with C. W. Meikel and engaged in the elec-
trical supply and contracting business, with
headquarters at Xew York and Delaware
streets, and later at 124 Xorth Pennsylvania
street, where was built up a very successful
enterprise. The partnership alliance continued
until October, 1903, when Mr. Chej-ne pur-
chased his partners interest and, securing the
co-operation of others, he effected the organi-
zation and incorporation of the F. H. Cheyne
Electric Company, of which he has since been
the executive head. The well equipped estab-
lishment of the company is located at 115-17
East Ohio street, and a large and representative
business is controlled — one that is constantly
increasing in scope and importance, owing to
the effective service given and the able and pro-
gressive administration on the part of the
founder of the enterprise. The company does
a general electrical engineering business and
has handled many large contracts, and in con-
nection with the contracting feature of the en-
terprise electrical supplies and appliances are
handled at both wholesale and retail. Mr.
Cheyne is identified with three of the repre-
sentative civic organizations of Indianapolis —
the Commercial, the Marion aud the Columbia
Clubs, Mannerchor Hall Society, aud is a mem-
ber of the Knights of Pythias. In politics he
supports the principles of the Republican party,
having become a naturalized citizen about 1894.
He and his wife are members of the Meridian
Street Methodist Episcopal Church.
On the 30th of April, 1895, Mr. Cheyne was
united in marriage to Miss Emma Alberta
Scott, daughter of Henry Scott, a representa-
tive citizen of Browustown, Indiana, and they
ha\e one son, Thomas L. The beautiful fam-
ily home, erected by Mr. Cheyne, is located at
52 C Woodruil place. West Drive, and is a cen-
ter of generous hospitality, under the gracious
supervision of Mrs. Cheyne.
C'ASsiis C. Shiklev. One of the distinctive
functions of this historical compilation is to
give consideration to the bench and bar of the
Indiana capital, aud marked for proper recog-
nition on the roster of the representative attor-
neys and couuselors at law in Indianapolis is
Cassius C. Shirley.
Mr. Shirley finds due satisfaction in revert-
ing to the fine old Hoosier commonwealth as
the place of. his nativity. He was born at Rus-
siaville, Howard County, Indiana, on the 28th
of ^^ovember, 1859, and is a son of Dr. D. J.
and Waitsel (Seward) Shirley, the former of
whom was born in Scott County, Kentucky, and
the latter was a native of Ohio. Dr. Shirley
was one of the pioneer physicians and surgeons
of Howard County, where he was long engaged
in the practice of his profession and where he
ever maintained a secure hold upon popular
confidence and esteem. Both he and his wife
continued to reside in Howard County, where
his death occurred in 1891, his wife still surviv-
ing him and making her home in Howard
County.
When Cassius C. Shirley was a child of four
years, his parents removed from Russiaville to
Xew London, Howard County, aud in the lat-
ter place he was reared to maturity. After
completing the curriculum of the public schools,
he took a short course in Asbury Universit\,
now DePauw Universitj', at Greencastle, In-
diana, and in 1879 he was matriculated in the
law department of the celebrated L'niversity
of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, in which institu-
tion he was graduated in the spring of 1881,
with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Imme-
diately after his graduation, Mr. Shirley located
in the city of Kokomo, Indiana, where he was
duly admitted to the bar of his native state
and where he engaged in the practice of his
chosen profession under most favorable condi-'
tions, as he formed a partnership with Judge
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
697
James O'Brien, with whom he continued to be
associated in the work of his profession, under
the firm name of O'Brien & Shirley, for a
period of ten j-ears. Upon the dissolution of
this alliance 'Sir. Shirley formed a professional
partnership with J. C. Blacklidge, under the
title of Blacklidge & Shirley, and he continued
in the successful practice of his profession
until 1906. He had gained a position of prior-
ity as one of the leading members of the l)ar
of Howard County and his reputation as a
trial lawyer had far transcended local limita-
tions, as he has appeared in connection with
many important litigations in both the State
and Federal Courts.
Distinctly eligible for a broader held of (.'U-
deavor and realizing opportunities afforded for
successful professional work in the capital city
of the state, Mr. Shirley removed to Indianap-
olis in !May of 1906. Here he forthwith be-
came a member of the law firm of ;\Iillcr,
Shirley & ^Filler. The senior member of the
firm is Hon. William H. H. :Millcr, who was
attorney-general of the United States under
the administration of President Harrison, and
the third member of the firm is ^Ir. Miller's
son, one of the able younger members of the
bar of the state.
In 1S82, Mr. Shirley was elected prosecuting
attorney of the judicial circuit composed of
Howard and Tipton counties, and he remained
incumbent of this office for two years, within
which he made an admirable record in the han-
dling of many important cases brought for-
ward in the name of the people of his circuit.
In the autumn of 1884, he was chosen city at-
torney of Kokomo, and he continued in tenure
of this position for several years — which fact
offers effective voucher of public appreciation
of his services. As a dialectician and trial law-
yer, Mr. Shirley has gained a foremost posi-
tion and his success has been the direct result
of the application of his natural and technical
powers to the work of his exacting profession.
While recognized a's a stalwart in the camp
of the Republican party and as an effective
worker in behalf of its cause, "Mr. Shirley has
never sought or held public office except in the
direct line of his profession. For a number of
years he was a valued member of the Repub-
lican state central committee, and in 1900 he
was a delegate to the national convention of the
party, in Chicago. He served as a member of
the Indiana commission of the Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition, in St. Ijouis, and did much
to promote the favorable representation of his
native state in that notable exposition. In a
fraternal way he is identified with Kokomo
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and also
the Chapter of the Royal Arch Masons, both
of whicliare Kokomo bodies of the' time-hon-
•rcd fraternify.
On the 14th of January, 188-5, Mr. Shirley
was united in marriage to Miss Blanche Ivlum,
a daughter of Hiram and Mary Klum, of
Kokomo, this state, and the only child of this
union is Mary, who remains at the parental
!iome.
Frank M.\us Fauvre. A representative
business man and highly esteemed citizen of
tntlianapolis, which has been his home from
his boyhood days to the present time, is Frank
M. Fauvre, who has contributed materially to
the industrial and commercial advancement of
tbc cajjital city, as did also his honored father,
and whose capitalistic interests are varied and
important. He is a scion of stanch French stock
and both his paternal and maternal lines trace
back to influential families of what is now the
German province of Alsace-Lorraine, wrested
from France in the Franco-Prussian war.
The family name in the agnatic line is Maus,
but in 1900, in accordance with an order issued
by the Circuit Court of Marion County, the
subject of this review added to the same the
name of his paternal grandmother, so that his
legal name is now Fauvre.
Frank M. Fauvre was born in the town of
New Alsace, Dearborn County, Indiana, on the
24th of January, 18-51, and is a son of Casper
and Magdalena (Dietrich) Maus. Casper
Maus was born in Eberbach, near the city of
iletz, in Lorraine, France, and his wife was
born near the city of Kohlmer, in the adjoin-
ing province of Alsace. He came to America
in 183-5, and his wife came with her ]iareuts
about two years later, their marriage having
been solemnized in the city of Cincinnati.
Casper Maus was a miller by trade, and the
family name has been identified with this im-
portant line of industry for many centuries.
.Authentic data determine that an ancestor in
the direct line erected a mill at Eberbach,
Lorraine France, in the year 1550, and the
property remained in possession of the family
until its representatives left their native land
to come to America. .Jacob Maus, father of
Casper, was a gallant soldier under the great
Napoleon and was wounded in the battle of
Eckmuhl, from the effects of which injury he
died, in the early '20s. His wife later joined
her son Casper in America and she passed the
closing years of her life in Indiana.
Casper jlaus merits' recognition as having
been one of the sterling pioneers of Dearborn
Countv, Indiana, and he had the distinction
of there erecting, in 1842, the first steam grist-
mill in the eastern part of the state. He was
a man of inflexible integrity and honor in all
the relations of life and ever evinced the utmost
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HISTORY OF GKEATER INDIANAPOLIS.
loyalty to the land of his adoption. In 1863
he rendered effectiTe service as enrolling officer
for the drafting of soldiers for service in the
Union armies, and in the same year his mill
was destroyed by fire. It is practically an his-
torical certainty that the property was burned
by the organization which was known as the
Knights of the Golden Circle and which was
in sympathy with the Confederate cause, or,
at least, radically opposed to drafting men for
the Union service. In 186-i Casper Mans re-
moved with his family to Indianapolis, where
he continued to reside until his death, in 1876,
at the age of sixty years. His wife survived
liim by many years and was eighty-two yeai-s
of age at thetiine of her death, which occurred
in 1900. Casper Maus erected in Indianapolis
the Maus brewery, and the same was operated
by him until his death, after which the business
was continued by members of the family until
1889, when the property and business were sold.
Since that time the family name has not been
identified with that line of industry. Casper
Maus was a man of much business acumen and
of indefatigable energy, and he attained to a
large measure of success through his own well
directed efforts after coming as a stranger to
a strange land. He was generous and hos-
pitable, tolerant and kindly in his relations
with his fellow men, and he left the heritage
of a good name. His wife came with her
father, Jacob Deitrich, to America about the
vear 1837 and the family established their
home in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she continued
to reside until her marriage. Of the six sons
and three daughters, only the one son, Frank
M., of this review, and two of the daughters
are now living. Two of the sons, Albert and
Joseph, rendered valiant service in defense of
the Union in the Civil War, having been num-
bered among the early volunteers from Indiana.
Frank Maus Fauvre was thirteen years of
age at the time of the family removal from
Dearborn County to Indianapolis, and in this
citv he was reared to maturity and here has
constantly maintained his home during the
intervening years. He duly availed himself
of the advantages of the public schools of the
day, and in 1867 he was graduated in a local
commercial college. He was thereafter asso-
ciated with his fatlier in the brewer}- business
until the death of the latter, after which he
had the general management of the business
until the same was sold, in 1889, as has already
been stated in this context. Since that time
Mr. Fauvre has been prominently identified
with the manufacturing of artificial ice, in
Indianapolis and other cities, and to his enter-
prise is due the founding of a number of large
and modem ice-manufacturing plants which
give to the public tlie most effective service
and insure in the same the utmost purity of
product. He is aUo prominently concerned
with coal-mining operations in various parts
of Indiana and has accomplished much in
connection with the promotion of public util-
ities of important order.
In 1902 Mr. Fauvre was associated with
others in the purchase of the electric inter-
urban line extending between Indianapolis and
Greenfield, and the lines were thereafter ex-
tended to New Castle and Dublin, this state.
ifr.. Fauvre was a stockholder and executive
officer of the company at the time these note-
worthy improvements were made. He sold his
interest in 1905, prior to which time he had
ablv administered the affairs of the corporation,
in the office of president. He is at the present
time president of the Vigo Electric Company,
of Terre Haute, Indiana, and a director of the
People's Light & Heat Company, of Indian-
apolis. In 1881, in connection with the busi-
ness of the ^laus brewery, he built and placed
in operation the first artificial-ice plant in
the city of Indianapolis.
^Ir. Fauvre is essentially a progressive and
far-sighted business man, and his loyalty to his
home city has been manifested n»t only in the
ca]ntalistic and executive support he has given
to enterprises that have conserved industrial
and commercial advancement, but also in his
ready co-operation in the promotion of measc
ures and public enterprises projected for the
general welfare of the community. He is a
valued member of the Indianapolis Board of
Trade and also of the Commercial and Uni-
versity Clubs. He is affiliated with Veritas
Lodge, No. 602, Free & Accepted Masons, and
he and his wife are members of the Christian
Science Church, to which they transferred their
membership from the Plymouth Congregational
Church of Indianapolis.
In the year 1880, was solemnized the mar-
riage of Mr. Fauvre, at that time !Mr. Maus,
to iliss Lilian Scholl, of Indianapolis, and
they have three sons and three daughters,
namely: Lilian M., Madeleine M., Francis
M.. Julian M., Irving M., and Elizabeth M.,
all of whom remain at the parental home ex-
cept Lilian IM., who is now the wife of Mr.
Arthur Vonnegut, of Indianapolis.
John Sanders Duncan is a member of the
oldest law firm of Indianapolis, and through his
father represents the oldest and best traditions
of the law and official affairs in Indianapolis
and the County of Marion.
His father was the late Robert B. Duncan,
for several years a prominent official of Marion
Count^^ He was born in Ontario Countv,
New York, June 1.5. 1810. In his fourteenth
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
699
year the family moved to Pike Township in
Marion County, Indiana. About the same time
Indianapolis was selected for the permanent
capital of the state, and in 1827, having spent
three years in clearing and developing his
father's farm, Robert Boyles Duncan identified
himself with the new town. Before his death,
in ."March, 1897, he had witnessed the rise and
development of one of America's great cities
froni the capital town where he had begun his
career seventy years before. For a number of
years prior to his death he enjoyed the distinc-
tion of being the oldest continuous resident of
Indianapolis.
On coming to Indianapolis, he bound him-
self under a contract to Mr. James M. Ray,
M'ho became county clerk of Marion County,
witii Duncan as his deputy. In March, 1834,
he was promoted by election from deputy to
county clerk, and continued to hold that office
.-ixteen consecutive years. Through practically
ihe first quarter century of Marion County's
existence he administered the ofiBce of county
clerk.
AVhen he retired from the office of county
clerk, he became a member of the bar, and for
many years thereafter engaged in practice as
a probate lawyer. Early in life he was a Whig
in politics, but became a Republican on the
orpinization of that party. He was a plain,
nn]irptentiou5 man, firm of conviction and di-
rect in statement, and honored everywhere for
liis strict probity and just dealing. He was
competent as a public official, business man
and lawyer, and public-spirited as a citizen.
He was reared a Scotch Presbyterian, but his
wife, who bnre the maiden name of Mary E.
Sanders (a daughter of Dr. John H. Sanders,
"f Indianapolis), was a member of the Chris-
tian Church, which he attended with her. He
-crved as a trustee of the Northwestern Chris-
tian Universitv, now Butler College. He mar-
ried :Miss Sanders in 1843. Their children
were: John Sanders, Robert P.. Anna B. (de-
ceased), and Nellie G.
The Duncan family, originally Scotch, has
resided in America over a hundred and fifty
years, since Robert Duncan emigrated in 1754.
He was born in Scotland in 1726 and married
Agnes Singleton, also of Scotch parentage.
Their first home was in Pennsylvania, where
thnir son Robert Avas born, September 28. 1772,
their other children being James and John and
three daughters. Some years later the family
home wa« moved to western New York, and in
1S17 Robert Duncan, the second, settled near
"Sandusky. Ohio. Robert (the second) had mar-
ried Anna Boyle=. and their son Rnljert Boyles
wa- ;<?ven rears old when taken to Ohio, and at
the age of ten. in the spring of l.'«2n. the familv
located at Connertown, Hamilton County (then
a part of Marion County).
John Sanders Duncan, son of the late Rob-
ert B. Duncan, was born at Indianapolis, Jan-
itary 11, 1846, and his happy boyhood and suc-
cessful manhood have both been passed in this
city. From the public schools he entered the
Northwestern Christian University (now Butler
College), and was graduated in 1865 with tlie
degree of B. S. In 1867, he was graduated
in the Howard Law School with the degree of
LL. B. The day following his twenty-first
birthday he was admitted to the bar, and in
Noveinber, 1867, he was appointed prosecutor
of the Criminal Court of Marion Count)-, and
a year later was elected to that office. Since
serving out the terms of one year by appoint-
ment and two years by election, Mr. Duncan
has neither sought nor accepted political office,
but has made the practice of the law the absorb-
ing activity of his life. However, he has al-
ways been a stanch Republican.
On June 15, 1877, he and Charles W. Smith
formed a legal partnership. The firm has con-
tinued unbroken for thirty-three years, and be-
sides being the oldest law firm in the city, it is
a matter of additional interest that its offices
have always remained the same, at 128 East
Washington street.
In 1864, when eigliteen years old, he enlisted
as a private in the One Hundred and Thirty-
second Indiana Infantry, in the-h.undred days'
service, and received an honorable discharge at
its close. He is a member of George H.
Thomas Post No. 17, G. A. R., and of the Cen-
tral Christian Church of Indianapolis.
In 1867, Mr. Duncan married Miss Esther
Wallace, a daugliter of William Wallace. She
died in 1892. Mr. Duncan married, in 1897,
Mrs. Perlie Haines, of Richmond, Indiana.
JoHX J. Cooi'ER. The life record of the late
John J. Cooper, of Indianapolis, constitutes the
most worthy and significant monument to his
memory. For many years he wielded large
and beneficent infiuence in public affairs in the
state; he was concerned with important busi-
ness and industrial enterprises which conserved
the progress and material prosperity of the com-
munity : he -erved with distinction as treas-
urer of the State of Indiana: and in all the
relations of life he exemplified the highest
principles of honor and integrity, thereby gain-
ing and retaining the inviolable confidence and
esteem of his fellow men. He was largely
self-educated and was a man of broad mental
ken and distinct individuality — one well
equipped for leadersliip in thought and action.
His character and his accomplishments were
such tliat his name merits a place on the roll
of the distinguished native sons of tlic Honsier
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
L-onmiouwualtli, wlicre he held prestige as :i
t^eion of an honored pioneer family. He was
long one of the prominent and influential citi-
zens of the capital city, where he continued to
reside until his death, which occurred on the
ISth of January, 1906.
John J. Cooper was born on a fanu in Ripley
County, Indiana, on the 20th of January, 1830,
and was a son of James and Virginia Cooper,
the former of whom was a native of Virginia
and of English lineage, and the latter of whom
was born in Ohio, a member of one of the
sterling pioneer families of the Buckeye com-
monwealth, and one HthdsG' agnatic ' ancestral
line is tr/iced'tack to French origin. James
C'ooper was married in Ohio, whence he immi-
grated to Indiana in the second decade of the
nineteenth century, becoming one of the early
settlers of Ripley County, where he became the
owner of a large tract of land, a considerable
]iortion of which he reclaimed from the virgin
foicst, liesides which he built and operated a
saw mill and a grist mill. He was one of the
influential pioneers of that county and there
lioth he and his wife continued to reside ixntil
their death.
Owing to the conditions and exigencies of
time and place the subject of this memoir re-
ceived in his youth only such advantages as
were afl'orded in the pioneer schools of Riplcv
County, but to such valiant souls advancement
is certain, no matter what the handicap. Under
the direction of that wisest of all head-masters,
experience, he gained a broad and exact fund
of knowledge, and his alert mentality and es-
sential appreciation led him to read and study
along effective lines, so that his intellectual
powers were of high order, as was his judgment
made mature and his poise secure through his
long and active association with men and af-
fairs.
WTien twenty-one years of age Mr. Cooper
established a general store at Zenas, Jennings
County, Indiana, where he remained until 1858,
when he removed to Kokomo, this state, where
he engaged in the livery business and also built
up a most successful enterprise as a dealer Iti
horses and mules. During the Civil War he
purchased and sold to the goTcmment thou-
sands of horses and mules, and through his op-
erations in this period he realized substantial
financial returns. In 1864, Mr. Cooper re-
moved from Kokomo to Indianapolis, where
he continued to deal in stock upon a large
scale, in connection with fanning. Ho became
the owner of a farm of 750 acres a few miles
northwest of the citv, and developed the same
into one of the most valuable properties of the
kind in the state. To the supervision of this
farm he continued to give his personal atten-
tion until his death, and the property is still
owned by his family, except 250 acre-, which
now forms a part of l>eautiful Riverside Park.
In the domain of practical politics ^Ir.
Cooper wieltied a large influence for many
years, and as a contemporary of Hendricks,
Vorhees, McDonald, Gray and other leaders of
the Democratic party in Indiana, he was prom-
inent and influential in the party councils and
assisted ably in the effective manoeuvering of
]iolitical forces in his native state. In 1882, he
was elected to the ofl^cc of state treasurer, as
the regular candidate on the Democratic ticket,
and in 1884, a mark of popular appreciation
and confidence was further given, in his being
cliosen as his own successor. A thorough busi-
ness man and one of much executive ability,
he administered the fiscal affairs of the state
with consummate wisdom and discretion, and
his record in this responsible office has passed
into historv as one of the best in the annals
of the state. As a leader in legitimate political
contests he had few superiors in Indiana and
he ever brought his splendid powers to bear in
forwarding the interests of the people and the
development and upbuilding of his home citv,
in whose welfare his loval interest never flagged.
In his later years Mr. Cooper became promi-
nently identified with the promotion and de-
velopment of electric interurban raihvays, and
in this important field of enterprise he was one
of the pioneers in Indiana, which state now
holds in this line practical precedence of all
others in the Union. He was a member of
the directorate of the Indianapolis, Greenfield
& Eastern Electric Railway Company and also
of the Indianapolis, Shelb^•A'ille & Southeastern
Traction Company, besides which he was a
stockholder in various other companies of like
order. In 1SS6 he was one of the organizers and
incorporators of the United States Encaustic
Tile Works, of Indianapolis, representing one
of the most e:^ensive industries of its kind in
the Union, and he served as president of this
corporation from the time of its inception until
Ills death.
As a citizen Mr. Cooper was essentiallv pro
gressive. loyal and public-spirited, and all legit-
imate measures and. enterprises tending to con-
serve the welfare and advancement of the cap-
ital citv were certain to receive the benefit of
his infliience and tangible co-operation. Sin-
cerity and probity dwelt with him as constant
guests, and upon his entire career there rests
no shadow of wrong or injustice. He was en-
tirely free from ostentation, was a keen judge
of men and, understandinsr the well-springs of
human thought and motive, he was tolerant
in bis judgment. Thus placing true values
upon men and affairs, his helpfulness was man-
HISTORY OF GKEATER IXDIAXAPOLIS.
701
ifesteil in wise ami legitimate ways, and hu
uiaile his forceful and noble pei>i)iiaiity count
for good in all the relations of life. He was
a blaster ;\[a,son, and held membership in the
Indianapolis Board of Trade and the Commer-
cial Club. He passed to his reward, secure in
tlie esteem of all who had appreciation of his
true worth of character and of his large and
generous accomplishment as one of the world's
noble army of workers.
On June 24, 1852, was solemnized the mar-
riage of Mr. Cooper to Miss Sarah F. flyers,
who was born in Dearborn and reared in Ripley
County, Indiana, where her father, James fly-
ers, was an early settler. Mrs. Cooper sur-
vives her honored husband and still resides in
the beautiful old liomestead in Indianapolis.
Slie is a member of the Tabernacle Presby-
terian Church, as is also the family. Of their
eight children only three are now living —
Charles M., of whom individual mention ia
made on other pages of this publication; Yir-
ginia E., who is the wife of Hon. John M.
Wiley, of BufEalo, Xew York, and ex-member
of Congress from that state; and Caroline C,
who is the wife of Earl M. Ogle, of Indianap-
olis.
Charles il. Cooper. An able member of
the bar of the state, Charles M. Cooper gave
Ills attention to the work of his profession in
the City of Indianapolis for a long term of
years, but his various industrial and capitalistic
interests now place such exigent demands upon
his time and attention that he has to a large
degree withdra\\Ti from active practice at tlie
bar. He is native of Indiana and a representa-
tive of one o'i its sterling pioneer families,
being a son of the late John J. Cooper, a dis-
tinguished citizen to whom is dedicated a special
memoir on other pages of this work, so that
m the present connection further review of
the family history is not essential.
Charles M. Cooper was born in the village of
Zenas, Ripley County, Indiana, on the 17th of
January, 1855, and three years later his par-
ents, removed to Kokomo ; after six years' resi-
dence there, they moved to Indianapolis, where
ne was reared to manhood and where he has
maintained his home during the intervening
years. He completed the curriculum of the
jniblic schools of the capital city, including a
eourse in the high school, and in 1877 he was
graduated in Cornell University at Ithaca,
Xew York, with the degree of Bachelor of
Arts. Somewhat later he began reading law
under the able preceptorship of the late and
honored Judge Samuel H. Buskirk, former
judge of the Supreme Court of Indianapolis,
niv} in 1879 was admitted to the bar of his
.lativ'^ state, amply fortified in a preliminary
\\a\- for the •vurk ef the exacting vocation in
whicli he was destined to attain to marked
success and prestige. He forthwith engaged
in the practice of his profession in Indiana]!-
olis and for more than twenty years he was
numbered among the active and representative
practitioners in tlie citw where he held \ra\v-
dence botli as an able and discriminating trial
lawyer and as a well fortified and conservative
counselor. He became associated witli liis
father in various business enterprises and also
extended his operations individually in tlie in-
dustrial field, and with the expanding of these
various interests in scope and importance lie
found it expedient to give to the same his per-
sonal supervision, with the result that he in
large measure relinquished the work of his
profession. He succeeded his father in the
presidency of the Ignited States Encaustic Tile
Comjiany. one of the large industrial concerns
of Indianapolis and one of the most important
of its kind in the T'liited States, and of this
position he is now incumbent. Much of his
time is deniiinded in connection with the ad-
ministration of the affairs of this corporation,
and lie also has other large and im]iortant capi-
talistic interests in the city and state. In the
liromotion of business enterprises of magnitude
lie has contributed his quota to the upbuilding
of the Greater Indianapolis, and no citizen has
shown a more loyal and vital interest in all that
tends to further its progress and material and
civic prosperity. He is the only surviving win
of his parents and is well upholding the pres-
tige of the honored name which Iv^ liears.
As a stanch advocate of the ])rinciples and
]iolicies for which the Democratic jiarty generic-
ally stands sponsor, 'Mr. Coo]ier has been an
active worker in its ranks, though he has m-ver
had aught of ambition for the honors or emolu-
ments of ]iublic office. He is a member of the
Indiana Democratic Club, and is also identified
with the Indianapolis Board of Trade and the
Commercial Club. In the Masonic fratcrnitv
he has completed the circle of both the York
and Scottish Rite bodies, in which latter he is
identified with the Consistory, of the Valley of
Indianapolis, in which ho has attained to the
thirbi--second degree, besides which he has
crossed the sands of the desert and been en-
rolled as a member of Murat Temple of the An-
cient Arabic Order of the Xobles of the Mystic
Shrine. He is also affiliated with the local
lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks. He is a member of the St. Paul's
Episcopal Church of Indianapolis.
On the 10th of August, 1899, Mr. Cooper
was united in marriage to Miss Nellie J. John-
son, daughter of the late Dr. Thornton .\.
Johnson, of Indianapolis, and their attractive
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HISTORY OF GllEATEU IXDIA.XAPOLIS.
hoiiie. at K.'JO Xortli ^Meridian street, is one in
which is (lis))enserl a gracious hospitality,
touching the bijst social life of the capital
city. They have two children, Sarah Frances,
boi-n September 5, 1900, and John J., born
JiUy 11, 190G.
Jruu? A. Lii-MCKE. The German-American
element has long been one of the strongest
forces in the bone and sinew of the Repub-
lican pnrty in tJie middle west, and the late
Capt. Julius A. Lemcke was long a popular
and stalwart leader of the Indiana contingent.
Twenty-seven years of his earlier life was spent
in Evansville' as merchant, banker, Fremont
compaigncr and pioneer Republican, and
finallv as one of the most active men con-
nected with the promotion of the boat interests
of the Ohio River. In the latter capacity he
not only acquired a considerable fortune and
a high "standing as a business man, but ren-
dered his country splendid service in the early
part of the Civil War by patrolling the lower
Ohio and cutting oflE Confederate supplies, as
well as by the transportation of men and muni-
tions of war for the Union armies. He was
an efRcicnt official both of Evansville and Van-
derburg Countv before he was called to In-
dianapolis to become treasurer of Indiana and
until his death, twenty-two years thereafter
was a prominent and honored citizen of the
capital. Captain Lemcke was a man who drew
people to him because they admired him for
what he had really accomplished and because
of the attractive power which always abides
with those who themselves have an honest af-
fection for their fellows. Such lovable char-
acters avoid much of the wear and tear of life
which fall npon those who plow through the
world by sheer .strength and uncompromising
force.
Captain Lemcke's enviable record commences
with his birth in Hamburg, Germany, on the
] 1th of September, 1832 ; is extended into his
early boyhood by the death of his father and
into the" period of his youth by his emigra-
tion to the United States in the spring of
184(5. An ocean voyage of three months on a
sailing vessel brought the youth of fourteen to
Xew Orleans, and a trip of several days, up the
^lississippi and Ohio Rivers, brought him to
to the farm of his matenial uncle, William L.
Deubler, ten miles from Evansville on the New
Harmony road. Tliere was no child in the
household and the f(nir vears which the hardv
German boy spent on this homestead were
busy ones indeed, valuable to him chiefly as
a season of ffood discipline: his wages were
nothing the first three years and four dollars
nionthiv. the last year. So he decided to trv
a drygoods store in Evansville. In his quaint
book of "Reminiscences"', published not long
before his deatli, the captain gives a graphic
sketch of the duties which had fallen to him.
"It was not unnatural," he says, "that the
childless couple I left behind should be loth to
part with a handy boy, who, never idle, began
at daybreak with milking the cows; before
breakfast had fed the stock and chopped an
armful of wood ; and who, during the day,
when not at work in the field or the clearing,
kept up repairs on the barn and farming im-
plements of the place, patched the harness of
the horses, half-soled the shoes of the family,
did the hog killing at Christmas, pickled the
hams and smoked them, made the sausage and
souse, watched the ash hopper and boiled the
soap, and, who, on Saturday nights, helped
Aunt Hannah darn the stockings of the fam-
ily." Not to mention assisting the old uncle in
his prosperous country store, both in selling
his goods and hauling country produce to
Evansville for shipment to New Orleans.
After working in the drygoods store, study-
ing bookkeeping at night and clerking in a
grain and grocery store for about a year, young
Lemcke went to New Orleans as receiving clerk
on a passenger steamer. On his return he was
sent np Green River, Kentucky, to take charge
of a country store, and in the winter of 1852
he took charge of the railroad station of Kings
Station, then the northern terminus of the
Evansville and Terre Haute line. The station
was in the forest and the agent, who was soon
dispensed with, returned to Evansville and
commenced to make cigars. Soon afterward he
was back on the river as a steamboat clerk,
and then for some time operated a country
store, auctioneered and did various other
things, a dozen miles from Mount Vernon,
Posey Countv, Indiana. Another return to
Evansville followed, with some experience in
connection with the "wildcat" bank of the
place, and in the autumn of 1856 the young
German- American appeared as a vigorous cam-
paigner for Fremont and the Republican
party. He was elected city clerk of Evansville
in 1858: next became a member of the whole-
sole grocerv firm of Sorenson, Lemcke and
Company, from which he emerged financially
broken but in fair spirits: built a first-class
hotel, of which the city was much in need, and
before the outbreak of the war had become
largely interested in several well equipped
steamboats, having, bv general consent, fairly
earned the title of Captain. In 1861 the
I'nited States Government detailed him to
lintrol the lower Ohio River, and before regular
posts were established in the valley, he did
good service in preventing the transportation
of supplies across the lines to the Confederacy.
HISTOKY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
703
He also served with one of His boats under
Generals Grant and Sheridan at Cairo and Pa-
ducah, and carried away the first load of
wounded Union soldiers from Fort Donelson.
Still later he was in the militarj- service on
the Ohio, Tennessee and Cumberland rivers,
and in 1862, with Captain. Dexter, he organ-
ized the first Evansville and Cairo line. In
times of peace he served for ten years as a
member of the Ohio River Commission, and, in
all respects, during his day no man was more
closely identified with the boat interests of the
Ohio valley. In 187fi he was elected city treas-
urer of Evansville; in 1880 became sherifE of
the county for two terms and was a member
of the city police board. He was cashier of
the Merchants' National Bank of Evansville
and became interested in a woolen factory,
also in Evansville.
In 1887, when Captain Lemcke commenced
his first term as state treasurer, he moved to
Indianapolis, which ever after was his home.
He was re-elected in 1888 and continued in
office until 1891. President Harrison after-
ward offered him the United States treasurer-
ship, which he declined, and not long there-
after visited Europe for the second time (first
trip in 1866). While in Germany he formed
a warm attachment to the poet Bodenstedt,
who died during his stay in the fatherland,
and he was honored by appointment as one
of his famous friend's pallbearers. During the
later years of his life. Captain Lemcke devoted
much time in writing an account of his Euro-
pean travels and his "Reminiscences of an
Indianian", developing a remarkable gift for,
humorous and graphic narrative. Although
the deceased belonged to no secret societies, he
was an old member of the Columbia Club,
ilaennerchor, German House, Indianapolis Lit-
erary Club and the Indianapolis Art Associa-
tion, and no one was ever more welcome to
any circle which he chose to enter than Cap-
tain Lemcke. His death occurred at his home
on North Pennsylvania street, the direct cause
of his demise being pneumonia. He was buried
in Evansville beside his eldest son, George,
who had died ten vears before. The surviving
members of his family are his widow, to whom
he was married January 1, 1874; two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Harn- Sloan Hicks, of New York
City, and Eleanor, now tlie wife of Russell
Fortune, of Indianapolis: and Ralph A.
Lemcke, who was associated with his father
in the management of his property. Captain
Lemcke built the present handsome office build-
ing, now knoT^m as the Lemcke Building,
which was commenced in the spring of 18f).i.
Charles E. Coffix. In the enlisting of
men of enterprise, ability and integrity in the
furtherance of lier financial, commercial and
industrial activities, is mainly due the prece-
dence and prosperity of Indiana's capital city,
and as representative of the progressive spirit
which has brought about the upbuilding of
"Greater Indianapolis" it is consonant that in
this publication special recognition be accorded
to Charles E. Coffin, president of The Central
Trust Company, which has been jjrominent in
its sphere of operations in our favored com-
monwealth.
Mr. Coffin finds a due measure of satisfac-
tion in reverting to the fine old Hoosier state
as the place of his nativity. He was born at
Salem, Washington County, Indiana, on the
13th of July, 1849, and is a son of Zachariah
T. and Caroline (Armfield) Coffin, who re-
moved from Salem to Bloomington, this state,
in 1862. There they passed the residue of their
lives, honored by all who knew them. The
father was a tanner and justice of the peace.
Charles E. Coffin secured his rudimentary
education in the schools of his native village
and thereafter continued his studies in the pub-
lic schools of Bloomington. where he was reared
to maturity. In 1869, when twenty years of
age, Mr. Coffin came to Indianapolis, where he
assumed a position in the employ of Wylie &
Martin, leading real estate dealers. He re-
mained with this firm for a period of six years,
at the expiration of which he established him-
self independently in the same line of business,
in which his operations eventually attained
large proportions. He built up a most success-
ful enterprise and incidentallv did much to
further the material upbuilding of Indianapolis
through the handling of both business and resi-
dence properties and the opening of suburban
subdivisions. He continued to be actively en-
gaged in the real estate business until 1899,
when he effected the organization of The Cen-
tral Trust Company, of which he has since
been president and which, under his able ad-
ministration as chief executive, has become one
of the strongest financial and fiduciarv institu-
tions of its kind in the state. Mr. Coffin was
also one of the organizers of the Indianapolis &
Eastern Railroad Company, in which he wa,s
one of the original stockholders and of which
he served as vice-president for a number of
years. He is a valued member of the Indian-
apolis Board of Trade, of whose board of gov-
ernors he was a member for one term. He was
one of the organizers and incorporators of the
Commercial Club and was its president in
1900. He was one of the incorporators of the
County Club and a member of its directorate,
and is a director of the Art Association of
Indianapolis, which controls the Heron .\rt In-
stitute. For the past eleven years he has been
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HISTORY OF GKEATEK INDIANAPOLIS.
a member of the city board of park commis-
sioners, and at the present time is "tlie senior
member in service in this important municipal
body.
From the foregoing statements, brief as they
arc, it will be seen that Mr. Coffin is animated
by broad public spirit and civic loyalty and
thiit he has touched the various activities which
juake for advancement and prosperity and con-
serve consecutive progress in the beautiful
capital city of Indiana. He was one of the
charter members of the Columbia Club and
is a member of the Marion Club, both repre-
sentative social organizations of Indianapolis,
nnd he takes deep interest in the affairs of the
Indiana Historical Society, of which he is
treasurer. In politics, though never animated
by aught of ambition for official preferment,
y\r. Coffin gives a stanch allegiance to the Re-
]jublican party, and his religious faith is thai
of the ]\rethod!fL Episcopal Church. In the
Afasonic fraternity he has attained to the thirty-
second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish
Rite and is also identified with its adjunct or-
ganization, the Ancient Aralnc Order of the
Xobles of the ^[ystic Shrine, in which he has
affiliation in Murat Temple.
Albeut J. Beveridgk. Through his own
powers and labors has Hon. Albert J. Beveridge
lifted himself to the plane of high achievement
and distinguished r-erviee. and thongh it is im-
]iossible in a publiratimi of this order to enter
into details concerning liis career in its cntiretv,
yet consistency demands that in a work touch-
ing the liistorv of "Greater Indianapolis", the
citv of his honu', a tribute be paid to this dis-
tinguished Indiana representative in the I'nited
States senate. In the very prime of strong and
vigorous manhood, none can denv that he has
made a lasting impress upon the history of
liis time, and that still more brilliant accom-
plishment shall be his is but a logical sequence.
A fignre of prominence in national affairs, a
lawyer of marked abilitv, a man of fine in-
tellectual, oratorical and literarv powers, h^^
has made his influence fell in divers directions
•md has empbaticallv honored the state that has
Jio'iored him in conferrins upon him the dig-
nified office of which be is now incnmbent.
M the time of his diction to the T'nited
States senate, in ISflf). Albert J. Beveridge was
one of the youngest men ever called to tint
.ri'oot del'bnrntive bodv of o'lr national len^is-
latnre. Here he has not failed to sunnort his
initial brilliancy with a record of nraet'cal and
cfFortive statesmanship. One especially familia'-
with the career of Senator B°verid<re has nffpred
the follnwinsr pertinent and apnr'^ciative esti-
mnto: "Retninine t^e resnect and admiration
of his confrere? at the bar and of those promi-
nent in public life, he is by them recognized
as an eloquent orator and at the same time he
has evinced — in the halls of the United States
senate and through the newspaper press, peri-
odical literature and individual authorship — a
solidity of mental equipment that has given
his reputation the quality of endurance as well
as that of elasticity. This stability of power,
with consequent and normal expansion thereof,
was denied him by the dictums of opposing
political prophets, in the earlier period of his
public career. To those familiar with the cir-
cumstances that compassed him during his
youth and early manhood there must come a
feeling of respect and admiration, for he has
unmistakably risen on the ladder of /his own
building and merits that proudest of American
titles, 'self-made man'."
Senator Beveridge was born on a farm on
the borders of Adams and Highland Counties,
Ohio, on the Gth of October; 18(52, the old
homestead residence having been located in
Highland County.. His father had entered the
Union service at the inception of the Civil
War, and upon his return to his neglected farm,
soon after the birth of Albert J., the veteran
soldier found himself facing serious financial
prol)lems, and soon after the close of the war
he removed to Sullivan, Moultrie Countv, Illi-
nois. In the rai^id fluctuation of values in the
early post-bellum period he was unable to pro-
tect his interests and suffered the loss of bis
entire property. It was at this time that the
family home was established in Illinois, where
the father resumed agricultural operations un-
der unfavorable circumstances.
That the future United States senator was
denied proper educational advantages in his
boyhood days was the direct result of the de-
pressing conditions that compassed the family
fortunes. He attended the district schools of
Moultrie County, Illinois, in a desultory wav,
and at the ase of twelve years the boy was to
be found following the plow. There was in
his makeup, however, naught of apathy or stolid
patience, and his alert mentality and definite
ambition soon manifested themselves in de-
termined effort for advancement through in-
dividual endeavor. At the age of fourteen
years he was employed as a laborer on a rail-
road, and even then was he devising and for-
mulating plans for the securing of an educa-
tion far beyond the imperfect and irregular
training thus far accorded him. In later davs
than those of the youth of the mart>Ted and
noble president, ,\braham Lincoln, have there
been those who have wrought out their own
salvation throush equally strenuous toil and
endeavor, and there can be naught of incon-
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lifteeu years of age Senator Beveridge was pro-
viding for his Own maintenance tlirough his
labors as a logger and teamster, and his leisure
Iiours, oft times lent with grudging favor of
the god of sleep, were given to study. Con-
cerning his early struggles the following words
have been written: "The deadlock in his hard
aifairs was temporarily broken when he became
a high-school student, but then, and for a
number of years afterward, whatever he
achieved mentally was a double triumph, for
he was not only compelled to master the task
in hand but also, by sheer force of will, to
raise himself above all physical considerations
most natural to the young man who is also
valiantly struggling to provide himself with
the absolute necessities of life." What of am-
bition and determination belonged to the young
student and worker 'need not be asked. He
grappled with circumstance and bent it to his
will. Under such conditions as have been desig-
nated in foregoing sentences he also entered
Asbury University, now DePauw University,
at Greencastle, Indiana, in which institution
he was graduated as a member of the class of
ISS.J, with higli honors. He received his de-
gree of Bachelor of Arts, but the baccalaureate
lienors rented upon one who was virtually penni-
less. After winning such intermediate vic-
tories it was not to be expected that the young
collegiate would flinch in tlie face of the fu-
ture — a "foenuin worthy of his steel". There
must have been to him at this point in his
career much of that "stern joy that warriors
feel"", and supine inactivity or rebellious protest
found no hospice at his houseless door.
After leaving the university Mr. Beveridge
passed one year in the west, where he followed
the untvammeled life of a cowboy, and he then
returned to Indiana and took up his residence
in Indianapolis, in the winter of ISSG. Here
he began the study of law in the office of Sena-
tor ^foDonald. But a vouiig man fresh frnm
the westevn prairies can not well devote him-
solf to such technical training without pro-
viding for the assuagement of a vigorous and
insistent pliysical a])iU't'te. Under these coii-
ditioD" Si'uator Beveridge consulted ways and
nionns for ])roviding for his support. While
in colk'i.'e he had given evidence of the fine ora-
torical lowers that have since gained to him
wide repute and had given effective service as
a cainiiaign speaker for the Kepublican party.
His efforts in this direction may have Jiad in-
fluence in gaining to him at this period of in-
sistencv the position of reading clerk in the
lower house of the Indiana legislature. Through
his services in this caiiacity he earned enough
to tide him over one year of his law studies.
Uii-i"- tl^i- period he' continued his technical
reading in the law oifice of McDonald & Butler,
and appreciation of his ability and earnestness
was tnen given by the firm, for which he be-
came managing clerk, at a fair salary. He
remained thus, associated with this firm until
1889, when he was admitted to the bar, to
which he came specially well fortified in exact
and comprehensive knowledge of the science
of jurisprudence.
Immediately after his admission to the In-
diana bar Senator Beveridge established him-
self in the independent practice of his profes-
sion in the capital city of the state, where he
has- since maintained his home. From the
initiation of his work in Indianapolis he gained
strong supporters both in his. profession and in
the ranks of the political party to which he
gave his allegiance. Incidentally it should be
noted that he early manifested a remarkable
insight regarding constitutional questions. De-
mands for his services as a campaign orator
were insatiable. In the national campaign of
189(5 he leaped into national fame by reason
of his great speech, in Chicago, in answer to
that of the late Governor Aitgeld, of Illinois,
who spoke in JN'ew York City. Senator Bever-
idge"s speech was one of the most powerful
ever delivered by an American statesman as a
masterly arraigJimeut of the socialistic ten-
ilencies of the Democratic party and in the
uttering of impressive warnings against the
dangers of license and anarch}'. There can be
no measure of doubt that this address, born of
conviction and earnestness and graced by the
most superb diction and oratory, had potent
mtluenee m bringing its author forward as a
candidate for the Lnited States senate and
insuring his election, in 1899. His opponents
in the nominating convention were four in
number and were conceded to be among the
ablest men in the state, but Senator Beveiidge.
the youngest of the aspirants for the senatorial
toga, gamed supporters who rallied valiantly
to his standard, carrying the convention witii
a dash and spirit almost unprecedented in the
liistory of Kepublican politics in Indiana. Of
his services in the federal senate it is not neces-
tary to speak in this article, for they are known
to all students of national affairs and ate a
matter of record as well as of distinctive honor
to the man. The senator was chosen as his
own successor in the election of 1905, and his
second term will expire in 1911. His course,
marked by due independence and yet bv the
strongest loyalty, has begotten a popular con-
fidence that implies an impregnable hold upon
public esteem and party fealty, and further
honors shall not be' denied the gifted young
stat.'snian who has won much and won it
worthily. Energetic, sincere, studious, diiJlo-
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HISTOKY OF GKEATER INDIANAPOLIS.
matie, eloquent, strongly fortified in knowledge
of constitutions questions and matters of
national import, and thoroughly familiar with
the demands, necessities and best interests of
the people he represents — Albert J. Beveridge
is to-day one of the progressive, loyal and able
public officials _of our nation and is at the very
zenith of his strong and \vorthy manhood. The
country expects much of him, and it is his to
give much.
As a writer has Senator Beveridge also
shown distinctive versatility and resourceful-
ness, bringing to bear a tine literary apprecia-
tion and great purity and amplitude of diction,
and in addition to his many contributions to
the newspaper press and to standard periodical
literature he is the author also of the follow-
ing named works: "The Russian Advance"
(1903), "The Young Man and the World"
(1905), "The Bible as Good Reading" (1908),
"Meaning of the Times" (1908), "Work and
Habits" (1908), "Americans of To-day and
To-morrow" (1909). On the 24th of No-
vember, 1887, Senator Beveridge was united in
marriage to Miss Katherine Langsdale, of
Greencastle, Indiana, and she was summoned
to the life eternal on the 18th of June, 1900,
leaving no children. In the City of Berlin,
Germany, on the 7th of August, 1907, was
solemnized the marriage of Senator Beveridge
to Miss Catherine Spencer Eddy, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Augustus N. Eddy, of Chicago.
Dr. Charles S. Goae. There is no man in
the City of Indianapolis more widely known
than Dr. Charles S. Goar, a physician and
political worker of distinction. He traces his
ancestry back on his paternal side through
many generations to St. Goar, who was born
near the River Rhine, Germany, and on his
mother's side he is of English descent. He was
born on his father's farm in Cicero Township,
Tipton County, Indiana, August 17, 1865, a son
of Henry and Martha E. (Smith) Goar, the
former born in Monroe County, Virginia, No-
vember 16, 1821, and died December 14, 1905,
and the latter, born in Kentucky June 21,
1828, died March 12, 1906. They were mar-
ried in Henry County, Indiana, May 27, 1844,
and thirteen children blessed their marriage
union, but only six are now living, Charles S.
being the eleventh born. The parents spent
their days on the old homestead in Cicero
Township, Tipton County, Indiana, he having
pre-empted that land from the government dur-
ing the presidency of James K. Polk, who
signed the papers. In politics he was an in-
dependent voter, lielieving firmly in the saying
of Washington— "Don't forget your country
for your politics."
After a training in the district schools
Charles S. Goar pursued a special scientific
and teacher's course in the Central Normal
College at Danville, Indiana, and graduated
with the class of 1884. He then began the
study of medicine under the instructions of
Drs. Newcomer and Dickey of Danville, In-
diana, and in the fall of 1885 matriculated in
the College of Physicians and Surgeons of In-
dianapolis, where he graduated with the class
of 1888. Locating then at Kennedy, Minne-
sota, he was in practice there until November
of 1890, when he returned to Tipton, Indiana,
and settled at Goldsmith. He was successful in
his practice there and established a splendid
reputation for professional skill, but leaving
that city he came to Indianapolis in 1899. His
fine ability as a medical practitioner is recog-
nized by the profession, and he is often called
into consultation both near and far. He is a
member' of the County Medical Society, and of
the State and American Medical Associations.
Dr. Goar since his graduation from the Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons has pursued
post graduate courses in the clinics of New
York City and in the Post Graduate School of
Chicago. He is one of the lecturers in the In-
diana School of Medicine, and during the past
six years has been physician for the state
school for the deaf. He is past noble grand
of Goldsmith Lodge No. 324, I. 0. 0. F., and
is a Thirty-second degree Mason.
Dr. Goar has long been very popular in the
ranks of the Republican party in central In-
diana. In 1896 he was nominated and elected
to the senate of Indiana, representing Tipton
nnd Hamilton Counties, and during the session
of 1897 he performed effective work in behalf
of the people of his district, serving on a num-
ber of important committees and was chairman
of the committee on public health and vital
statistics. His term continued during the ses-
sion of 1899. He is a man of marked ability
and worth, and gives his hearty co-operation
and influence to all public measures having
for their object the welfare of the community
in which he lives and of the country at large.
He married on March 8, 1891. Miss Jennie
Hinkle. a daughter of L. D. and Mary Hinkle.
of Goldsmith, Indiana, and a son, Churchill
Goar, has been born to them.
Joseph E. ^McDonald. A lawyer of exalted
ability, a statesman of the highest type, and a
man of sublimated integrity and honor, Hon.
Joseph E. McDonald left a deep impress upon
the history of Indiana and also upon that
of the nation. Both were dignified bv his noble
life and splendid achievements, and he stood as
an honored member of a striking group of men
whose influence in the social and economic life
of the nation was of most beneficent order.
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
He served as a member of both branches of
the United States Congress and was accorded
other evidences of popular confidence and re-
gard, the while he ever ordered his course
according to the highest principles and ideals,
so that he was found true to himself and to
all men. Such was his proiiiinence in public
affairs and in professional life in Indiana and
its capital city that it is but a matter of jus-
tice to here enter a brief tribute to his memory
and perpetuate at least a brief record concern-
ing his career.
Joseph Ewing McDonald was bom in Butler
County, Ohio, on the 30th of August, 1819,
and was a son of John and Eleanor (Piatt)
McDonald. The father traced his lineage to
stanch Scottish origin and the family was
founded in America in the colonial days. John
McDonald was a pioneer of the old Buckeye
state and was known as a man of strong men-
tality, impregnable integrity, and generous and
kindly nature. He was industrious and dili-
gent in connection with the practical affairs
of life and manifested the business ability so
characteristic of the sturdy race from which
he was sprung. He died when the subject of
thi^ ^memoir was an infant, and his widow sub-
sequently became the wife of John Kerr, of
Fairfiekl Township, Butler County, Ohio. She
was of French-Huguenot ancestry and was a
member of a family that was first founded in
New Jersey, from which state representatives
later made permanent settlement in Pennsyl-
vania. From the latter commonwealth came
the founders of the family in Ohio. Mrs.
Eleanor (Piatt) McDonald Kerr was a woman
of much talent and gracious personality, and
her distinguished son ever gave credit to her
for the beneficent influence she exerted in the
formative period of his character. In the
autumn of 1826, John Kerr removed with his
family to Montgomery County, Indiana, where
he secured a tract of government land and
initiated the herculean task of reclaiming a
farm from the forest wilds. He passed the
closing years of his life in the home of his
step-son, the subject of this memoir, in Craw-
fordsville, Indiana, where he died in 1856. He
and his wife were both devout members of the
Presbyterian Church, as was also John McDon-
ald, father of him whose name introduces this
review.
Joseph E. ilcDonald was significantly the
artificer of his own fortunes, and he literally
built the ladder upon which he rose to a place
of distinction and great influence. He was
seven years of age at the time of the family
removal to Indiana, and he remained on the
home farm until he had attained to the age
of twelve years. He early began to contribute
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to the work of the pioneer farm and availed
himself of the meager advantages att'ordod in
the i^rimitive schools of the locality and period.
For two years within this period he was en-
abled to attend school at Crawfordsville, which
was then a mere village. He was naturally re-
ceptive and studious, and when not employed
at work on the farm he passed the greater por-
tion of his time in reading and study, the
while he began to formulate his boyish dreams
into actuating motives. He often stated in
later years that when but ten years of age
lie decided to prepare himself for the legal pro-
fession, and this ambition must have been
prompted more from his reading than from
personal acquaintanceship with members of the
profession.
When twelve years of age Mr. McDonald
entered upon an apprenticeship to the saddler's
trade, at Lafayette, Indiana, and he continued
to be identified with this line of work for six
consecutive years, save for a period of three
months spent in attending school. He had
already become proficient in the common Eng-
lish branches, and his fund of knowledge had
been appreciably expanded through special ad-
vantages afforded him during his term of ap-
prenticeship. He was 'afforded access to the
extensive and well selected library of Dr.
Israel T. Ganby, of Crawfordsville, and he
made the most of the opportunities thus j)re-
sented. In 1838 Mr. McDonald was matricu-
lated in Wabash College, at Crawfordsville,
where he continued his higher academic studies
until 1840, except for a short interval, in 1839,
when he was employed with the state engineer-
ing corps that was surveying the bed for the
Wabash & Erie canal. In the meanwhile he
had maintained himself in college largely by
working at his trade during vacations and at
such other times as opportunity was offered.
In 1840 he entered Asbury (now DePauw)
University, at Greencastle, where he continued
his studies for six ninths, at the expiration of
which he returned to Crawfordsville, where he
was engaged in teaching school for one term.
In the spring of 18 il Mr. McDonald went
to Williamsport, this state, where he passed
one year as clerk in the store of his elder
brother. He had not in the meanwhile aban-
doned his determination to enter the legal pro-
fession and had waited only until such time as
circumstances would justify his beginning the
work of preparation therefor. In the spring
of 1843 he began the study of law under the
preceptorship of Zebulon Beard, of Crawfords-
ville, who was then one of the leading nu'ni-
liers of the bar of the state. Under such favor-
able direction the young man made rapid prog-
ress in his accumulation and assimilation of
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HISTOEY OF GKEATER IxNDIAXAPOLlS.
the science of jurisprudence, and in the spring
of 1843 he was admitted to practice, after ex-
amination before the Superior Court, consist-
ing of Judges Blackford, Dewey and Sullivan.
Prior to receiving his license to practice he was
nominated on the Democratic ticket for the
office of prosecuting attorney of Montgomery
County, of which Crawfordsville is the judicial
center, and in the election in August, 1843, he
was successful at the polls, where he received
a gratifying majority over his Whig opponent,
Robert Jones, a prominent member of the bar
of that county. Prior to this time the prose-
cuting attorneys for the various counties had
been selected by the legislature, and thus Mr.
McDonald had the distinction of being the first
prosecutor chosen by popular vote in Montgom-
ery County. He made an excellent record as a
public prosecutor and in August, 1845, he was
chosen as his own successor, defeating Robert
Evans, the Whig candidate. He thus continued
incumbent of the office for four consecutive
years. In the autumn of 1847, Mr. McDonald
established himself in the private practice of
his profession in Crawfordsville, where he thus
contimTed until 1859.
In the meantime Mr. McDonald had had
shown his eligibility and power for leadership
in political affairs and had become one of the
vigorous and prominent exponents ^of the prin-
cinles of the Democratic party in his section of
the state. In 1849 he was elected to represent
the Eighth district in Congress, and he served
one term as a member of the lower house of
the federal legislature. In 1856 there came
further recognition of his professional talent
and political popularity, in that he was elected
attorney general of Indiana, an office in which
he was the first to l)e chosen by popular vote.
His record gained to him wider reputation and
public endorsement, as was shown conclusively
in his re-election two years later. In 1859 he
established his home in Indianapolis, where
ho entered into partnership with Judge Addi-
son L. Roache, who had served on the bench
of the Supreme Court of the state, and the
firm of Roache & -McDonald forthwith assumed
a place of distinctive ])riority at the bar of
Indiana. It secured a large and representative
clientage and appeared in connection with much
important litigatio'n in the state and federal
courts in Indianapolis.
In 1864 Mr. McDonald received the nom-
ination of his party for governor of tlie state,
and he made a vigorous and effective campaign
against no less distinguished and popular an
antagonist than Hon. Oliver P. Morton, the
war governor, with whom he made a joint can-
vass of the stnto. Though he mot with defeat
at the polls he received six thousand more
votes than were polled for the Democratic stalt
ticket at the preceding election. On the 5th
of March, 1875, he took his seat in the United
States senate, in which he was elected to suc-
ceed Hon. Daniel D. Pratt. He assumed a
position of prominence in the senate, by rea-
son of his recognized ability and his recognized
loyalty to his important constituency. He was
made chairman of the committee on public
laws and the second member of the important
judiciary committee. He was known as one of
the best informed and most versatile lawyers
in the senate and his influence permeated in
many directions. He was a member of the
senate committee that visited the city of New
Orleans to investigate the counting of the Lou-
isiana vote in the election of 1876, and also
of the Teller-Wallace committee that investi-
gated election frauds in Massachusetts and
Rhode Island. Mr. McDonald was chairman
of the Democratic state convention of In-
diana in 1868 and was a member of the state
central committee of his party from 1868 to
1874. He served one term in the United
States senate and then opened a law office m
the city of Washington, D. C. thereafter he
divided his time between the national capital
and Indianapolis, in which latter city he also
continued to maintain an office until his death.
In Washington he was engaged in connection
with many important cases presented before the
Supreme Court, and among the most notable
of these were those in connection with the tele-
phone patents and the Mormon affairs. During
every state and national campaign for many
years his services were in almost constant requi-
sition in making speeches in support of the
principles and policies of the party of which
he was a recognized leader, and at the Demo-
cratic national convention of 1880 he narrowly
escaped being made the standard-bearer of the
party on the presidential ticket. At one stage
of the proceedings of the convention one of
its sagacious delegates made the statement that
the choice would either be the old ticket or
Senator McDonald would be made the candi-
date for the presidency. For reasons not nec-
essary to mention, political exigencies and ex-
pediency finally led to the nomination of Gen-
eral Hancock.
Mr. McDonald's health was excellent
throughout his life until December, 1890, when
th(> disorder that finally hrought about his
death appeared in the form of a mild attack
of indigestion. In April, 1891. he came from
Washington to Indianapolis, whore he was des-
tined to pass the residue of his long and use-
ful life among the friends who had proved
their loyalty and of whom he was deeply ap-
preciative. For several weeks after his arrivnl
HISTORY OF GKEATER INDIANAPOLIS.
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he wa:^ able to ride to his office and there spend
a few hours each day, but the visits gradually
ij;Laine irregular and finally ceased altogether.
Thereafter he remained at his home, an uncom-
plaining sufferer, until the final summons came,
on the 21st of June, 1891.
ThroiTghout his long and earnest career Sen-
ator' ^IcDonald was unswerving in his alle-
giance to the exacting profession in which it was
his to attain to so much of success and distinc-
tion. His association with important cases in
Indiana history was of the closest and his skill
and learning in his profession made him one
of the really great lawyers of the country.
Various causes which he represented in Indiana
attracted xmusual attention, and prominent
among these was that of the State of Indiana
versus Sidney Owens, charged with murder by
poison. The prosecution was conducted by
Judge Gregory, of Lafayette, and General Lew
Wallace, of Crawfordsville, and there was a
strong public prejudice against the defendant,
whose interests were most ably represented by
-Mr. JIcDonald, who secured a verdict of ac-
quittal, to the surprise of the entire bar of
the state. Mr. McDonald was also counsel for
Bowles, Milligan and Harvey, who were tried
for conspiracy and treason by a military com-
mission and sentenced to be hanged. The case
was taken to the Supreme Court of the United
States and the defendants were released on
constitutional grounds. Mr. McDonald also
appeared as counsel for the defense in the
noted Beebe case, in which the Federal Supreme
Court decided that the Maine liquor law was
unconstitutional. He was also one of the at-
torneys for those who brought into the Su-
preme Court the issue of the constitutionality
of the Baxter liquor 'law. He presented the
leading argument in many important .railroad
cases tried in the federal courts and made the
principal argument for the objectors in the
count of the electoral vote of Louisiana before
the electoral commission appointed to deter-
mine the result of the presidential election of
1876. He maintained that the creation of this
commission was the exercise of a doubtful
power, even in case of apparent necessity.
In politics Mr. McDonald ever held closely
to the basic principles of the Democratic party
as exemplified by Jefferson and Jackson, and
few had more power and versatility as cam-
paign orators. As a speaker he was cool, log-
ical and resourceful. He believed in the in-
trinsic virtue of the people and in their ability
and purpose to maintain our national institu-
tions inviolate against the as.saults of design-
ing politicians. Regarded by all parties as a
statesman of great ability, broad and liljeral
views, well fortified convictions and absolute
personal integrity of purpose, long before the
national convention of 1884 there was a gen-
eral demand among the Democrats of Indiana
for the nomination of Senator lilcDonald for
the party candidate for the presidency. In
presenting his name to the convention Hon.
Thomas A. Hendricks referred to him as the
peer of the best lawyers of the west, and con-
tinued with the following words: "Faithfully,
diligently and ably, for six years, he repre-
sented Indiana in the senate, welcomed by the
ablest of the senators as their peer. Mr.
McDonald has been a student of the learning
that has made the Democracy of the L'nited
States what it is today. He is familiar with
the writings of his fathers and his opinions are
based upon the sentiments that came to him
through their pages. He is of clear perception,
strong judgment, fair and jiist."
At the time of the death of Senator McDon-
ald the Indianapolis Sentinel gave the follow-
ing appreciative estimate in its editorial col-
umns : "Kind of heart, colossal of mind, noble
of purpose, strong of conviction and fearless of
action, he put an indelible stamp upon the
history of his time. In the laws of his state
and of the nation he has left many enduring
monuments to his worth. In the hearts of all
who knew him he has left a lasting memory
of his affection. In every sense he was one
of nature's noblemen, and a nation will unite
with that bereft family in mourning an end
which, though coming when full of years and
honors and ripe experience, our human iinder-
standing can regard as but most untimely."
Senator ]\rcDonald was devoted to his home
and family and to those admitted to the more
intimate circle of his acquaintanceship will
remain the deepest appreciation of the intrinsic
nobility of the man. He was scholarly in his
tastes and inclinations and read widely and
with deep appreciation the best in literature.
On Christmas day of the year 1844 was sol-
emnized the marriage of Senator McDonald
to Miss Nancy Ruth Buell, a daughter of Dr.
Buell, a leading physician of Williamsport, In-
diana. The ■ children of this union were :
Ezekiel M., Malcolm A., Frank B. and Annie.
The daughter became the wife of a Mr. Cald-
well and her death occurred on the 2d of June,
1877; Ezekiel M. died June 1. 1873, after hav-
ing been associated with his father in the prac-
tice of law for five years ; Frank B. died in
Washington, D. C, on the 7th of January,
1887. Mrs. McDonald was summoned to the
life eternal, and on the 3d of September. 1872.
Senator McDonald married ]\[iss Araminta W.
Vance, of Crawfordsville, this state, who died '
•February 2. 1875, leaving no children.
While a member of the United States sen-
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HISTOKY OF GEEATER INDIANAPOLIS.
ate, Senator McDonald was united in marriage
to Mrs. Josephine F. (Farnsworth) Barnaso
of Indianapolis, who survives him and retains
her residence in Indianapolis, where, now ven-
erable in years, she is held in affectionate re-
gard by all who have come within the circle
of her gentle and gracious influence. She was
born at Westfield, New York, and is a daugh-
ter of the late Joseph Farnsworth, who was
long numbered among the representative citi-
zens of Madison, Indiana, he having been a
native of the state of New York and having
been a scion of a family, of English extrac-
tion, that was founded in America in the
colonial epoch.
Antoine Wiegand. None has a more se-
cure place in the confidence and esteem of the
people of Indianapolis than has Antoine Wie-
gand, an honored pioneer business man, who
has here conducted operations as a florist for
over half a century. He was the first to prop-
erly and successfully exploit this attractive line
of enterprise in the capital city, and his sales^
rooms and consen'atories are now of the finest
modern type. He caters to a large and thor-
oughly representative patronage and his name
is familiar to all who have been residents of
the city for an appreciable period. His love for
the gracious floral products of nature is of the
most insistent type, and thus his devotion to
his business has had both a sentimental and
practical valuation, for his constant interest
has promoted that close attention which pro-
motes the best results in a practical way, the
while he has so ordered his aourse, which has
been marked by never-failing aourtesy, that he
has the affectionate regard of th« patrons whom
he has long supplied with the finest of floricul-
tural products. He has won success through
his own efforts, having come from a far country
to America when a young man and having re-
lied solely upon his own ambitien, self-re-
liance and sturdy integrity of purpose in mak-
ing his way in the world. The business which he
founded so many years ago is now conducted
under the firm name of Wiegand & Sons, and
he has as his associates in the same his two
sons, who are numbered among the popular and
representative younger business men of the
capital city.
Antoine Wiegand, better known by the Eng-
lish form of his Christian name, Anthony, was
born in the kingdom of Saxony, Germany, on
the 25th of April, 1832, and iii. the fatherland
he was reared and educated. There also he
gained his initial training in the line of enter-
prise to which he has devoted his attention with
.so much of success throughout practically his
entire business career, and in 18.')5. when
twenty-two years of age, he severed the ties
that bound him .to home and native land and
set forth to seek his fortunes in America — a
land to whose development and progress his
countrymen have contributed in generous meas-
ure. Soon after his arrival in the United
States Mr. Wiegand came to Indianapolis,
where, in 1859, he engaged in his present line
of business, by establishing a modest green-
house near the old district school building on
Kentucky avenue. There he continued opera-
tious, with ever increasing success, until 1879,
when he removed to his present attractive and
eligible location on Illinois street. His tVnely
equipped hot-houses now cover an area of torty
thousand square feet and are the largest and
best in the entire state. His glass-covered con-
servatories are most attractive and in the dis-
playing of their beautiful products to his many
patrons and the general public he finds a source
of unqualified pleasure and satisfaction. In
1908 he erected his fine display and sales room,
one hundred by twenty-six feet in dimensions,
glass covered and Avith cement floor, and here
the beautiful and varied products of his con-
servatories are presented in most attractive
array. Mr. Wiegand conducted the business in-
dividually until about 1900, when his two sons,
George B. and Homer L., were admitted to
partnership, under the firm name already noted.
In the Wiegand establishment are to be
found plants in greater variety and profusion
than in any other one conservatory in the state,
and through close study and careful attention
Mr. Wiegand has been peculiarly successful in
the propagation of rare species and special and
original types, in which connection it may be
noted that he has in stock certain single plants
that are worth one hundred and fifty dollars
each. A specialty is made of cut flowers and
the concern also gives distinctive attention to
the preparing and effective placing of interior
floral decorations, so that recourse is had to
the same on all important social occasions. The
trade of the firm extends throughout the cities
and towns in the vicinity of Indianapolis and
is constantly expanding in scope and impor-
tance. Mr. Wiegand was the pioneer in this
line of business in the capital city. When he
began operations here, fifty years ago, there
was little demand for flowers aside from those
grown in a private way, but through the dis-
playing of his fine products he made them their
own best advertisers, with the result that popu-
lar appreciation and support were not denied.
Thoroughly loyal to the institutions and
ideals of his adopted country, Mr. Wiegand has
shown an intelligent and constant interest in
both national and local governmental affairs,
and he is known as a liberal and public-spirited
citizen. In national affairs, where definite
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711
issues are involved, he gives his support to the
Republican party, but in local matters he does
not adhere to close partisan lines, giving, rather,
his support to men and measures meeting the
approval of his judgment. He is a member of
the Columbia Club, and is affiliated with the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the
Royal Arcanum. He holds membership in the
Tabernacle Chiirch.
In 1865 Mr. Wiegand was united in mar-
riage to Miss Katherine Kreiss, who was born
in Germany, whence she came with her parents
to America when a girl. Mr. and Mrs. Wie-
gand have two sons and two daughters, namely:
George B., Homer L., Annie and Bene.
David M. Eluott. Nearly thirty years of
consecutive identification with the postofBce
service in Indianapolis represents- the ex-
ceptional record of David M. Elliott, and it
is doubtful if there is another man in the
service as thoroughly familiar with the same
as he is or possessed of more intimate knowl-
edge of the city in the matter of postal rami-
fication's. He has won advancement through
able and faithful service and is now incum-
bent of the dual office of finance clerk and
second assistant postmaster. It is needless
to say that he is an official of the most ster-
ling characteristics and that he is held in
high regard by all who know him, being one
of the well Imown and popular executives
identified with the local postal service.
David McClure Elliott is a scion of one
of the old and honored families of Indiana,
of which state he is a native son. He was
born on a farm in Monroe Township, JefPer-
son County, this state, on the 2d of October,
1849. and is a son of Anthony and Elizabeth
(Craig") Elliott, both of whom were born in
Ohio, where the respective families were
founded in the pioneer days. Robert Elliott,
the paternal grandfather of the subject of
this review, was born in Rockbridge County,
Virginia, on the 15th of September, 1784,
and died in Jeflferson County, Indiana, June
26, 1872. He came to Indiana soon after the
close of the war of 1812, prior to the admis-
sion of the state to the Union, having served
as a valiant and loyal soldier in the second
conflict with England. He became one of the
early settlers of JetTerson County, where he
established one of the first tanneries in the
state, having been a tanner by trade. His
mother's maiden name was Jennie McClure'
and that of his wife Mary Logan, and their
relatives have made the names McClure and
Logan nrominent in the early history of Jef-
ferson County and the City of Madison. An-
thony Logan Elliott, the father of the subject
of this sketch, was the eldest of a familv of
six children, who all settled on farms in Jef-
xcrson County, but he died in his prime,
leaving a widow and seven children, of whom
David, seven years old, was the youngest^ and
so broken in health that his early death
seemed certain. He is now, however, the only
survivor, but has had to use crutches since
childhood. The last of those six robust
brothers and sisters passed away in 1903, the
lives of the brothers no doubt being greatly
shortened by soldiers' hardships during four
years of the Civil War. David's poor health
as a boy prevented any steady attendance at
school but at the age of 20 he was teaching.
His mother died before he reached his ma-
jority. During the last few years of her
life Mr. Elliott had a step-father, Rev. Wm.
Wallace, of whom he speaks in the highest
terms. Mr. Elliott spent a year or two of
the early seventies in the south, teaching
and doing bookkeeping in Alabama and
speaks with some pride of the fact' that al-
though but twenty-three years old he was
inspector of his precinct in that state at
Grant's second election in 1872. Returning
later to Indiana, he served two terms as
trustee of his native township, and in 1880
was nominated for county recorder, but a de-
cision of the supreme court having incident-
ally deferred recorders' election for two
years, Mr. Elliott came to Indianapolis in
May, 1881, and took service under Postmaster
Wildman (a relative), and has served contin-
uously under nine postmasters, working his
way up from the lower grades and reaching
his present important position many years
ago.
Mr. Elliott is a stanch Republican and a
member of the Marion Club, but has a host
of friends in all parties.
David McClure Elliott and Miss Martha
Pressly were married in May, 1891, she being
a native of Kosciusko County, Indiana, and
the youngest daughter of Dr. Samuel Pressly,
who was in his day a prominent physician of
northern Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Elliott have
no children of their own, but their home is
kept lively by numerous nieces and nephews,
as Mr. Elliott has been guardian for several
families of orphans. Their home is at 2241
Talbott avenue, and both are active members
of the First United Presbyterian Church.
WiLLi.\M B. BuRFORD. Among the strong
and. honored figures in the business circles of
the beautiful capital city of Indiana is
William B. Burford, who has here been
closely identified with business and civic in-
terests for more than forty years, so that he
may well be designated at the present time as
one of the pioneer business men of "Greater
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Indianapolis", to whose industrial and com-
mercial advancement he has contributed his
quota. He is a manufacturer of blank books,
and his large and finely equipped establish-
ment also has the best of modern facilities for
lithographic work, general printing, copper-
plate engraving, etc., besides which he han-
dles all kinds of stationery and general office
supplies. Through wise administrative pol-
icy, close application, marked discrimination
and impregnable integrity of purpose he has
not only built up a large and important busi-
ness enterprise, of metropolitan proportions,
but has also maintained a most secure hold
upon popular confidence and esteem in the
city which has so long represented his home.
Mr. Burford was born in the village of In-
dependence, Jackson County, Missouri, on the
18th of November, 1846, and is a son of Miles
W. and N. J. (Burford) Burford, both of
whom were born at Harrodsburg, Kentucky,
representatives of old and honored families
of that commonwealth and themselves dis-
tantly related. They were reared and edu-
cated in their native state and there their
marriage was solemnized. In 1839 they re-
moved to Independence, Missouri, and there
the father of William B. became a prominent
and influential citizen and leading business
man. He was one of the early bankers of
Independence and gained high reputation and
distinctive success as a financier. He was
identified with banking interests also in Kan-
sas City, St. Louis and other Missouri cities
and he accumulated a substantial fortune
through his own ability and eflPorts. He and
his wife continued to maintain their home
in Independence. Missouri, until 1870, when
thej' came to Indianapolis, where they passed
the remainder of their lives in the home of
their son William B., to whom this sketch
is dedicated, and who accorded to them in
their declining days the utmost filial solici-
tude. Both were zealous members of the
Methodist Church. They became the parents
of four sons and two daughters, of whom
three sons and one daughter are now living,
all having been reared to maturity in the
old home town of Independence, Missouri.
To the schools of his native place, William
B. Burford 's indebted for his early edu-
cational training, and later it was to be his
privilege to receive that training which has
been consistently said to be the equivalent of
a liberal education— the discipline of a print-
ing ofice. When fifteen years of age he came
to Indianapolis, where he gained his first
practical knowledge of the "art preservative
of all arts". He here found employment in
the job-printing establishment conducted by
his brother-in-law, the late William Braden,
and he made rapid progress in his accumu-
lation of technical knowledge and business
methods. In the latter part of the year 1863,
Mr. Burford returned to his home in Mis-
souri, where he .joined the provisional militia
of the state, in connection with which he
took an active part in the border warfare
against the Confederate guerrillas. In 1864
he became corporal in a company of ^lissoiii-i
troops which, though not paid for theii' serv-
ice by the national government but by the
State of Missouri, did much effective service
in restraining hostile demonstrations on the
part of the guerrillas of southern sympathies,
as well as in preventing Confederate raids
and depredations.
After the close of the Civil War Mr. Bur-
ford entered college at Independence. Mis-
souri, where he continued his studies for a
period of two years and amply fortified him-
self for entrance upon a business career des-
tined to be one of marked activity and suc-
cess. In 1867 he returned to Indianapolis,
which city has ever since represented his
home, as has it also been the scene of his
earnest and fruitfiil efforts as a business
man. Here he again entered the employ of
his brother-in-law, Mr. Braden, by whom he
was admitted to partnership in the business
in 1870, whereupon the firm name of Braden
& Burford was adopted. In 1875 Mr. Braden,
after having met with financial reverses in
other business enterprises with which he had
been identified, .sold his interest in the print-
ing, engraving and stationery business to ^Ir.
Burford. who has since continued the enter-
prise without interruption and who has built
the same up to the best metropolitan standard
in its line. At numbers 38 and 40 South
Meridian street are located his offices and
salesrooms, and on Pearl street. Numbers 17
to 23, inclusive, in rear of salesrooms, he
has his finely equipped factory. His estab-
lishment is locally as well known, practically,
as that of the city itself, and the enterprise
is one which stands to the credit of the greater
city.
Mr. Burford has never been active in par-
tisan politics, but this by no means implies
that he has in any sense been neglectful of
his civic duties. He is well fortified in his
opinions as to matters of public polity and as
a citizen none is more loyal and public-
spirited. He is a member of the Indianapolis
Board of Trade and the Commercial Club,
and is also a member of the German House,
a representative social organization of the cap-
ital city. In the time-honored IMasonic fra-
ternity he has attained to the thirty-second
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degrci in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite
and is also enrolled as a member of Murat
Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles
of the Mystic Shrine, besides being identified
with the Knights of Pythias. Both he and
his wife are members of the Meridian Street
Methodist Episcopal Church and give a lib-
eral co-operation and support in the various
departments of its work.
In 1871, Mr. Burford was united in mar-
riage to Miss Ella Hobbs, who was born and
reared in Independence, Missouri, and who
is a daughter of the late Dr. Samuel and
J. R. Hobbs, of Independence. In conclu-
sion of this sketch is entered brief record
concerning the four children of Mr. and Mrs.
Burford. Miles AY., who for several years
was associated actively with his father's busi-
ness, much to the gratification and satisfac-
tion of the latter, was finally compelled to
sever this pleasing relationship on account of
impaired health, and he now resides at Silver
City, New Mexico, where he has valuable
ranching interests. The second son, Ernest
H., who was his father's valued assistant in
the management of the business enterprise to
which reference has been made, died in Au-
gust,^ 1909. The youngest son, William Bur-
ford' Jr., is now associated with his father in
the business. Caroline is the wife of H. R.
Banner, of New York City. Mr. Danner has
associated himself with Mr. Burford in the
business and will make his home in Indian-
Jefferson H. Clatpool. It has been writ-
ten that "few sons attain the praise of their
great sires", but application of this statement
cannot justly be made in the case of Jefferson
H. Claypool, a sterling citizen of Indianapolis,
of whose bar he is an able and honored mem-
ber, for by his services he has lent dignity to
the profession in which his father attained to
distinction, and in connection with public af-
fairs has he also well upheld the prestige of
the name which he bears. He is essentially one
of the representative members of the bar of his
native state and has long been a power in the
councils of the Republican party in this com-
monwealth. Like his honored father, he has
a character based on intrinsic integrity of pur-
pose, and this has been shown with all of 'sig-
nificance in both his professional life and in
his loyal services as a citizen. He is a scion
of one of the best known pioneer families of
the Hoosier state, with whose annals the name
has been prominently identified for nearly a
century and in which he is a representative
of the third generation, being the only survivor
of the four children of Benjamin F. and Alice
(Helm) Claypool.
Hon. Benjamin Franklin Claypool was born
at ConnersvilJe, J'ayette County, Indiana, on
the 12th of December, 1825, and that now at-
tractive little city continued to be his home
until he was summoned to the life eternal, on
the 11th of December, 1888, one day before the
sixty-third anniversary of his birth. He held
rank for many years as one of the ablest law-
yers engaged in practice at the Indiana bar,
was prominently identified with the organiza-
tion of the Republican party, was a member of
the senate of his native state during the cli-
macteric period of the Civil War, was promi-
nently identified with the early banking inter-
ests of his state, being one of the directors of
the Bank of the State of Indiana, and later
president of the First National Bank of Con-
nersville, of which he was one of the organ-
izers in" 1865 ; and during the later years of his
career he found both solace and profit in agri-
culture, having identified himself with that
basic industry and the raising of fine cattle.
He was a citizen of exalted character and one
whose personality gained to him the implicit
confidence and high regard of all with whoa
he came in contact.
Hon. Newton Claypool, father of Hon. Ben-
jamin F. Claypool, was a native of the historic
Old Dominion state, the family being of stanch
English extraction and having been founded in
Virginia in the colonial epoch. He was a man
of liberal education, according to the standard
of his day, and this strong intellectual power
was coupled with mature judgment, so th^t he
naturally became a leader in thought and action
after establishing his home in Indiana, prior
to its admission to the Union. As a youth he
left his native state and made his way to Ross
County, Ohio, where ho remained until 1815,
when he came to Indiana" and established his
home in Fayette County, where he became one
of the early settlers of the little hamlet of
Connersville, now one of the flourishing cities
of the state. He served several terms in the
state legislature, as a member of both the
house and senate, and he wielded much influ-
ence in public affairs during the formative
period of the history of this favored common-
wealth.' He became the owner of large tracts
of land in Fayette and other counties and con-
tributed materially to both the civic and in-
dustrial development of the state.
Hon. Benjamin F. Claypool gained his earJv
education in the common schools of Conners-
ville and supplemented this bv private instruc-
tion under the tutorship of Professor Nutting,
a prominent educator of the earlv days in In-
diana. In the autumn of 1843 Mr. Claypool
was matriculated in Asbury University, now
De Piiuw University, at Greenca.*tle, Indiana.
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
where he continued his studies until the spring
of 184-3, when he withdrew from the institu-
tion, sliortly before the graduation of the class
of which he was a member. He forthwith
began the study of law in the office and imder
the preceptorship of Hon. Oliver H. Smith,
who was then the recognized leader of the In-
dianapolis bar, and under such favorable aus-
pices he thoroughly fortified himself in the
science of jurisprudence. He was admitted
to the bar in 1847, and soon afterward he
began the active practice of his profession in
his native town of ConnersYille. He soon rose
to prominence in his profession, and until the
day of his death he held precedence as one
of the ablest lawyers of Indiana. Court rec-
ords bear adequate evidence of his many foren-
sic victories, and indicate his appearance in
connection with much important litigation in
the state and federal courts in Indiana.
Early in life Benjamin F. Claypool began
to manifest a lively interest in political affairs,
and he was originallv aligned as a supporter
of the cause of t!ie Whig party. He was prom-
inently concerned in effecting the national
organization of the Republican party, and in
ISofi was a delegate to the first national con-
vention of the party, in Philadelphia, where
that body nominated General John C. Fre-
mont for the presidency. In 1864 he served
as presidential elector from the Fifth con-
gressional district of Indiana, and in 1868
he was one of the electors at large, canvassing
the entire state of Indiana in the interests of
the Republican party. In 1860 he was elected
to represent, in the state senate, the district
composed of the counties of Fayette and Union,
and as a member of the upper house of the
legislature he was one of the leaders of that
body and one of the most loyal and vigorous
supporters of the Union. He was an able
advocate at the bar, of strong dialectic powers,
an eloquent speaker, and a man of great ver-
satility of genius. He was ever well fortified
in his convictions and absolute sincerity and
honor characterized him in all the relations
of a life of signal integrity and usefulness.
Intrinsic nobility indicated the man as he was,
and his name shall have an enduring place
in the ciyic history of his native state and
especially in connection with the annals of its
bar, whose standard has ever been high.
In 1874 Benjamin F. Claypool was made the
candidate of his party for representative of the
Fifth district of Indiana in Congress, and
though he made a brilliant campaign in an
effort to overcome the Democratic tidal wave
that swept over Indiana in that year, causing
defeat in most of the Republican Congressional
districts, he met with defeat which he had
fully anticipated. While he never thereafter
appeared as a candidate for public office, he
never wavered in his allegiance to the "grand
old party", of whose principles and policies
he continued an ardent and effective exponent
until the close of his life. In the year 1853
was solemnized his marriage to Miss Alice
Helm, who was likewise born and reared in
Indiana and who was a daughter of Dr. Jeffer-
son Helm, of Rushville, Indiana, one of the
representative physicians and financiers of that
part of the state. She was a woman of culti-
vation and most gracious presence, and her
counsel and sympathy contributed much to the
success of her husband, as their married life
was ideal in all its relations. Mrs. Claypool
was summoi^d to eternal rest in 1882, and, as
already stated, their only sun'iving child is
Jefferson H.
Jefferson Helm Claypool was born at Con-
nersville, Fayette County, Indiana, on the loth
of August, 1856, and there he was reared to
years of maturity, in the meanwhile duly avail-
ing himself of the advantages of the public
and private schools and having also the gracious
influences of a home of distinctive culture and
refinement. In 1870 he was matriculated in
iliami University, at O.xford, Ohio, in which
institution he continued his academic studies
for four years. Thereafter he attended the his-
toric old University of Virginia, at Charlottes-
ville, for one year, after which he returned to
his native city and began reading law under
the able preceptorship of his honored father.
He gave two years to careful study and then,
in 1877, was "admitted to the bar." He forth-
with became associated with his father in prac-
tice, and this mutually gratifying alliance con-
tinued until the close "of the fathers life. The
son did not remain in the shadow of his fath-
er's professional greatness but soon proved his
mettle as one thoroughly well equipped for
successful effort at the bar. As an advocate
he has well upheld the honors of the familv
name, and few members of the bar of the state
are more admirably fortified as counselors, as
he has ever been a close student and has a
broad and exact knowledge of the law and of
precedent. While he was associated with his
father the firm of B. F. Claypool & Son re-
taiiffed an extensive and lucrative practice, and
he was thus afforded a wide range of profes-
sional experience and an opportunity to form
an extensive acquaintanceship with leading men
in his profession and in public life.
From his youth to the present time Mr.
Clavpool has been unfaltering in his allegiance
to the Republican party, and he early became
an act've and zealous worker in b'ehalf of its
cause. In 1888, in the month prior to the
HISTOKY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
(Ic^ath of his father, he was elected joint repre-
sentative of his native county in the state
legislature, and in 1890 he was again chosen
joint representative of Fayette and Henry
counties. During both sessions he was a val-
ued working member, both on the iioor of the
house and in the committee room, having been
a' prominent member of important committee
on ways and means. He continued in the
active and successful practice of his profession
at Connorsville until 1893, when he removed to
Indianapolis, where he has since maintained his
home. The exactions of his extensive cap-
italistic and real estate interests have rendered
it expedient for him to withdraw largely from
the practice of his profession in later years,
and he now devotes his attention almost ex-
clusively to the management of his farming
and financial affairs. He is vice-president of
the First National Bank of Connersville, is
a stockholder in a number of important busi-
ness corporations in that city, is the owner of
a landed estate comprising fully 800 acres
in Delaware County. Indiana, and also has
much valuable realty' in the capital city. As
a citizen he is essentially loyal and progressive
and the "Greater Indianapolis" finds in him
one o'f its most public-spirited residents.
Mr. Claypool has by no means abated his
active interest in the promotion of the cause
of the Republican party, in which he has been
a leader in his state for a long term of years.
He has rendered material assistance in the
preparation of several of the state platforms
of his party in Indiana and has otherwise been
a potent factor in its councils. In 1896 he was
chairman of the advisory committee of the
Republican state central committee, and since
1898 he has served consecutively as one of the
board of state election commissioners. In the
past fifteen years he has made many valuable
contributions to the public press, his articles
being principally on political and economic
questions. Of him the following statement has
been made: "He believes in clean politics,
civil service and single gold standard, and with
courage and force gives expression to his views.
He hates the demagogue above all others, and is
honored for his sincerity and straightforward-
ness."
'y\T. Claypool is identified with various clubs,
and in 1905 he was president of the Indiana
association of the Delta Kappa Epsilon col-
lesrc fraternity; in 1909 he was president of
Miami T'niversitv Association of Indiana.
In October, 1893, Mr. Clavnool was united
in niarr'age to ^liss Marv Buckner Ross, the
onlv child of Major John W. Ross, an honored
and influential citizen of Connersville. The
nnlv child of this union is Benjamin F., who
was born in December, 189-1. Mr. and Mrs.
Claypool maintain their home at No. 1303
North Meridian street, Indianapolis.
James E. McCullotigh. A representative
member of the bar of Indiana, Mr. I\IcCul-
lough has been engaged in the practice of his
profession in Indianapolis for more than
twenty j^ears. Throuah his labors he has hon-
ored the profession of which he is a member
and his precedence in the same is the direct
result of his profound knowledge of the
minutiae of the science of jurisprudence, his
ability in making practical application of the
same, and his sterling character as a man
among men. He has been prominent in pub-
lic affairs and is recognized as one of the
leaders in the ranks of the Democratic party
in Indiana.
James E. ]McCullough,was born in Hamil-
ton County, Ohio, on the 1st of April. 1847,
and is a son of Jacob and Lucinda (Noble)
McCullough. Jacob McCullough was likewise
a native of Ohio and was a scion of one of
the old and honored pioneer families of the
Buckeye commonwealth. His wife was born
in South Carolina, whence her parents re-
moved to Ohio in the early pioneer epoch.
In 1857, when the subject of this review was
a lad of ten years, his {Barents removed from
Ohio to Spencer County, Indiana, where his
father purchased land and developed a valu-
able farm. He was a man of strong individ-
uality and impregnable integrity of character,
and he wielded no little influence in public
affairs of a local order. Both he and his
wife continued to maintain their home in
Spencer County until their death.
Mr. McCullough gained his rudimentary ed-
ucation in the common schools of Hamilton
County, Ohio, and Spencer County, Indiana,
and in 1868 he was matriculated in the lit-
erary department of the University of In-
diana, at Bloomington in which he completed
the prescribed course and was graduated as
a member of the cla.ss of 1871, with the de-
gree of Bachelor of Arts. He had simul-
taneously pursued the studies of the law de-
partment of the university, and his capacity
for accumulation and assimilation of knowl-
edge is indicated in the fact that he was
graduated in the law school in the same year
that marked his graduation in the literary
department. He thus received at the same
time his degree of Bachelor of Laws. For
a short time after his graduation Mr. McCul-
lough was in the law office of Hon. Samuel
H. Buskii'k. of Bloomington, Indiana, who
later became an associate justice of the Su-
preme Court of Indiana.
Mr. McCulloueh was admitted to the bar
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of liidiiiiia in iJSTl. shortly after his uradiui-
tion ill the law department of the state uni-
versity, and he then opened an office in
I'etersbii !•<,', I'ikc County, where he f'jriiied
a law f)artnership with Hon. John H. ililler,
with whom he was there associated in the
jiractiee of his profession until 1875, when
he removed to Princeton, the county seat of
(jibson County, whither ]Mr. Miller soon after-
ward followed him, whereupon the former
]>artnersliip was resumed in the new location.
The firm soon jraiiied hi^di prestige in its new
field and Mr. ^leCullouuh secured recognition
as one of the leading members of his pro-
fession in southern Indiana. He has strong
dialectic powers, a keen perception of the
salient points in every cause presented and
a thorough knowledge of law and precedent,
so that he has marked facility as a trial law-
yer and strength and authority as a counselor.
He has admirably developed his oratorical
l)owers, and thus gains added strength in
I)resentinu: his cases before court or jury, be-
sides which his services have been much in
demand as a campaign speaker, in which field
of service he has done niost eft'ective work.
He has been identified with iiiiich important
litigation in both the State and Federa!
Courts, his clientage has been of representa-
tivi' character, and his record in his profession
has been marked by distinctive success, in wit-
ness of which no further voucher is demanded
than that offered in his high standing at the
bar of the state.
In politics ^Fr. ^IcCnllougli is aligned a.?
an unconipromising advocate of the princi-
ples and policies for which the Democratic
party stands sponsor, and in its cause he has
rendered yeoman service. In 1882, he was
elected to represent a senatorial district in
the state Senate, said district comprising Gib-
son and Posey counties. He proved a valu-
able working member of the upper house
of the state legislature, in w-hich he served
with distinction during the sessions of the
general assembly in 1883 and 1885, being
chairman of the judiciary committee during
the latter session. The prestige gained by
:\Ir. :McCulloiigb while in the Senate undoubt-
edly marked him further as a most eligible
candidate for nomination, in 1886, as stan-
dard bearer of his party for the office of
rei)resentative in Congress from the first con-
gressional district, and while he made a cam-
paign he met defeat with the remainder of
the |)nrty ticket in the election of that year.
In 18*88, :\[r. :\rrCullough removed' to In-
dianapolis and formed a ])arfnership with
Hie late fiivingston Howland. with whom he
was associated in the practice of his profes-
sion until his partner was elected to the bench
of the Circuit Court of Marion County, in
1889. In 1800 Mr. :McCullough was again
called to public office, having been elected to
represent Marion County in the lower house
of the state legislature. He was assigned to
various iniportant committees, including the
committee on the capital city of the state, of
which same he w'as chairman. As such he
did most effective work in securing to Indiaii-
apolis its present admirable city charter and
he also championed various other measures
which have conserved the best interests of the
city. Since his retirement from the legis-
lature he has given his attention to his large
and important professional business, wli(j-,e
exactions leave to him but few hours of
leisure. The only fraternity he is affiliated
with is the college fraternity Sigma Chi.
In 1872, Mr. McCullough was united iu
marriage to Miss Emma Turner, who died in
1877, leaving one child, Walter McCullough.
In 1881, was solemnized l\Ir. McCullough 's
marriage to Miss Ella Welborn, of Gibson
County, Indiana, a daughter of the late Sam-
uel Welborn. Mr. and Mrs. McCullough have
been members of the Presbyterian Church for
a year, Mrs. ilcCullough having perviously
been a member of the Primitive Baptist
Church.
Wii.Li.\M T. S. DoDus. M. D. One of the
able and popular representatives of the med-
ical profession in the City of Indianapolis is
Dr. William T. S. Dodds, who is here en-
gaged in general practice as a physician and
surgeon and who is giving special attention
to his work as director of the tuberculosis
movement in the capital city, under the direc-
tion of the local board of health.
Dr. Dodds was born in Bellefontaine, Logan
County, Ohio, on the 30th of December. 1873.
and is a son of Rilus S. and ]\Iartha (Kaylor)
Dodds. His father, who was a successful con-
tractor at Bellefontaine, died in that place
in 1884, as the result of an accident, and was
but thirty-three years of age at the time of
his demise. His wife now maintaLns her
home in the City of Springfield, Ohio, and
he is also survived by two sons and two
daughters, namely : Dr. William T. S.,
Harry, !\Tyrtle and ^laud. He was a Repub-
lican in his proclivities and was a consistent
member of the ]\Iethodist Episcopal Church,
with which his wife also has long been iden-
tified as a zealous member. He was of stanch
Scottish ancestry and was himself a native of
Cincinnati, having been a son of Rilus Dodds,
who immigrated with his family to America
in 1852, locating in the City of Cincinnati,
Ohio, in which state his wife passed the resi-
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
due of her life. He died en route while
making an overland trip to California in the
early days. The mother of Dr. Dodds is a
representative of one of the old and patrician
families of the State of Virginia.
Dr. William T. S. Dodds is indebted to the
public schools of the old Buckeye state for
his earty educational discipline, which in-
cluded a course in the high schools at Zanes-
tield, in which he was graduated as a mem-
ber of the class of 1889. After leaving school
he was variously engaged until August, 1895,
when he removed from Bellefontaine, Ohio,
his native city, to Indianapolis, where he
was matriculated in the Indiana Medical Col-
lege, in which he completed the prescribed
technical course and was graduated as a mem-
ber of the class of 1898, with the degree of
Doctor of Medicine. After his graduation he
engaged in practice in the capital city, where
he has been most faithful and successful in
his chosen vocation and where he now con-
trols a large and representative professional
business, based alike upon his skill and his
personal popularity in the community. Soon
after his graduation Dr. Dodds was appointed
deputy coroner under Dr. A. W. Brayton,
who' was then serving his first term as coroner
of Marion County, and he held this position
of deputy during a period of one year. Dr.
Dodds received from Governor Mount the ap-
pointment of physician to Camp Mount Hos-
pital, maintained in Indianapolis for the care
of the ill and wounded Indiana soldiers upon
their return from the Spani.sh-American War,
in the autumn of 1898. On the 13th of
October, 1908, Dr. Dodds was one of the
organizers of the Indianapolis Tuberculosis
Clinic, and in May of the following year he
organized and established the Indianapolis
tuberculosis colony, on the grounds of the
City Hospital. He has made a most careful
study of the "white plague", and is most
earnest and enthusiastic in the work of bring-
ing about proper preventive and palliative
agencies for its subjection. He is the repre-
sentative of the Indianapolis board of health
as director of the tuberculosis movement in
this city. The local tuberculosis colony, in
which excellent provisions are made for the
care of the afflicted, opened with eleven pa-
tients, in the incipient sta»es of the dread
malady, and the facilities of the camp will
be much improved w-ithin the coming year.
Dr. Dodds is a stanch adherent of the Repub-
lican party and has taken an active interest
in the promotion of its cause. He is identi-
fied with the American ^ledical Association,
the Indiana State Medical Society, and the
]\Iarion County Medical Society. He and his
wife are connnunicants of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, in which they are members
of St. Paul's parish. In the JMasonic fra-
ternity the doctor is affiliated with Ancient
Landmarks Lodge, No. 319, Free & Accepted
Masons; Keystone Chajiter, No. 6, Royal Aich
^Masons; Raper Commandery, No. 1, Knights
Templars; Indiana Consistory, Ancient Ac-
cepted Scottish Rite; and Murat Temple, An-
cient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the JMys-
tic Shrine.
On the 15th of April, 1897, was solemnized
the marriage of Dr. Dodds to ]Miss Mai'garet
M. Johnson, who was born at Bellefontaine,
Ohio, on the 11th of AuLnist, 1874, and who
is a daughter of George Jl. and Kate (Hayes)
Johnson, both of whom were born and reared
in Ohio, where the former died in 1902, at
the age of fifty-nine yeai's. He was one of
the honored and prominent citizens of Belle-
fontaine, where he was engaged in the jewelry
business for many years. He served during
four years of the Civil War, and was cap-
tured by the enemy, who held him as a pris-
oner of war on Belle Isle, Virginia, for a
period of four weeks. His widow now resides
in Indianapolis. Dr. and Jlrs. Dodds have
two daughters— Margaret and Jean.
William A. Bristol. Prominent among
the business men of Indianapolis is numbered
AVilliam A. Bristor, who was born in this
city September 4, 1843, a son of Samuel M.
and Estra A. (Kellum) Bri.stor, the father
being born in AVashington County, Pennsyl-
vania, in 1811, and the mother on the present
site of the City of Indianapolis. They were
married in this city, and two children were
born to them, William A. and Elizabeth M.,
the daughter being the wife of John M. Ham-
let. Samuel j\I. Bristor spent his boyhood
days in Washington, Pennsylvania, where he
learned and followed the carriage-maker's
trade. Coming to Indianapolis in 1840, he
obtained employment with Howard Foltz, and
later was engaged in the manufacture of
wagons and carriages for himself until his
retirement at the age of fifty-seven years. He
was a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church (Roberts Park Church), and was one
of its trustees for a number of years. At
the time of the Civil War he left the ranks
of the Democratic party and transferred his
allegiance to the Republicans.
William A. Bristor attended public school
and the Northwestern Christian University,
now known as Butler College, and from 1866
until 1902 he was prominently identified with
the business life of IndiaTiapolis as a shoe
merchant. In 1902 he leti red from the shoe
trade. In 1906, he or^canized the Arizona
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HISTOKY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
Climax Mining Company of Arizona, and has
since served as its president.
On the 16th of P'ebniary, 1871, Mr. Bristor
was married to Emma Burton, also born in
Indianapolis, a daughter of ^[artin and Sarah
(Nichols) Burton. The father, bom in New
Hampshire, came to Clinton County, Indiana,
in 1822, and became an Indian trader and he
also laid out a part of Russiaville. Coming to
Indianapolis in 1826 he engaged in the mill-
ing business, later in the shoe business and
still later became a manufacturer of trunks.
Selling his interest in the latter business, he
became a real estate dealer and an extensive
'and holder. He was a member of the Uni-
versalist Church and of the "Whig and later
of the Republican parties. He died in the
year of 1908, when ninety years of age, and
his widow still survives him and has reached
her eighty-sixth year. She was born in Clin-
ton County, Indiana. Their three children
are : Addie, the widow of John D. Campbell ;
Emma, who became the wife of Mr. Bristor-,
and Ora. wife of H. H. Condit. Two children
have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Bristor,
Birdie and Albert ^I. Bristor. The daughter
is the wife of Charles E. Field, general claim
agent for the IMonon Railroad Company, and
the son is a prominent attorney in Indianap-
olis. Mr. Bristor, Sr., gives his political sup-
port to the Republican party.
Dr. FLAVirs J. Van Vouhis, of Indianapo-
lis, who, both by education and practice, is
a thorough physician and lawyer, is a leader in
the public affairs of the state. From the fact
that he drafted the bill which resulted in the
establishment of the first State Board of Health
of Indiana and that he was prominent in or-
ganizing it in detail, he is called the "father
of Indiana health legislation" ; has also played
a large part in solving the intricate problem
connected with the 5v«tematic, legal and just
appraisal of railroad property and, in other
ways, been identified with important reforms
of vital concern to the citv and state. Mr.
Van Yorhis is a native of Pike Townshin, Ma-
rion County, born on the 31st of December,
1840, and is a son of Isaac N. and Sarah i
(Cotton) Yan Yorhis. His father was born
in Ohio of Dutch ancestrv and bis mother in
A'irginia of English lineage, so that his stock
is of the most persistent, sturdy and practical
type of abilitv. The Yan Yorhis family early
settled in Now Jersey, migrating thence to
Ohio and Indiana and in 1813 becoming a
fixture in Wavne Countv, of the latter state.
Isaac W. Yan Yorhis, the future father, was
then a child and spent most of the years of his
maturity a= a farmer and meclianic of Clarion
County.
Flavius J. was reared in the family home-
stead in Eagle Township, Boone County, at-
tending select school at Zionville, Indiana, and
the Northwestern Christian University (now
Butler College), and later teaching school —
all in preparation for a professional life. The
first inclination of his ambitions in that field
was toward medicine and his first systematic
studies were conducted under Dr. H. T. Cot-
ton, of Clinton County, Indiana. In 1865 Dr.
Yan Yorhis graduated from Rush Medical Col-
lege, Chicago, and began the practice of med-
icine in Tippecanoe County, Indiana. His
desire to adopt that profession was doubtless
strengthened, if not formed, bv his experience
in the Civil War. In 1862 he had entered
the Union army as a private ; was assigned to
hospital duty; became assistant surgeon in
the Eighty-sixth Indiana Regiment and later,
for eighteen months, had surgical charge of the
command, being discharged in 1865 at tlie
termination of the war. In 1871-2 Dr. Yan
Yorhis took a post-graduate course in Bellevue
Hospital Medical College, New York, and after-
ward became a permanent resident of Indian-
apolis. He was superintendent of the Indian-
apolis Hospital in 1876-7, and about this time
began the study of law, graduating from the
Central Law School and being admitted to the
bar in 1880. The same year he w^s elected
state senator, and has since been prominent
as a public man and an attorney, although he is
still known as Dr. Yan Yorhis.
In 1888-91 Dr. Yan Yorhis was engaged by
the commissioners of ^Marion County to assist
in securing a proper appraisement of rail-
road property, and this service resulted in the
increase, in 1891, of the assessment of rail-
road property in Indiana of about $100,000,000,
and led to his connection with subsequent valu-
able legislation in the same line. As stated,
the State Board of Health owes its existence
to him, and, although he has been independent
in politics, he has acquired a wide and strong
influence among all parties and classes. Until
1896 he was a Republican, but in that year
he supported William J. Bryan on the financial
question and served as chairman of the Indiana
State Silver Republican party. He continued
his support of Mr. Bryan in 1900, campaigned
for Thomas Watson in 1904, and has always
had the courage to abandon any political or-
ganization when its platform was not in ac-
cord with his private views. In his special rela-
tions to Indianapolis, he has been classed as
among its stanch and enterprising citizens, and
has been in many ways a contributor to the
upbuilding of the city. His legal practice has
greatly contributed both to the increase of his
reputation and his financial strength, and he is
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HISTOEY OF GEEATER INDIANAPOLIt
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the .buildiT ami proprietor of the Van Vorliir:
office block, as well as the owner of other valu-
able property. In 1SG4 Dr. Van Vorhis mar-
ried Miss Emma Burton, daughter of John ('.
and Nancy (Wall) Burton, and their daughter.
Carrie, is now the wife of Herman F. Spran-
del, of Indianapolis.
Jacob C. Sipe. A representative busi-
ness man and sterling citizen of "Greater
Indianapolis" is Jacob Corpenny Sipe, whole-
sale and retail and manufacturing- jeweler
and diamond importer, with headquarters at
181/2 North ileridian street. He has built up
a large and substantial enterprise and the
same is based on fair and honorable dealings
as well as his personal popularity as a citizen.
Mr. Sipe is a native of the old Keystone
state of the Union, having been born in Con-
nellsville, Pennsylvania, on the 27th of Oc-
tober, 1863, and being a son of Aaron and
Rosa A. (Corpenny) Sipe. The father was
a native of Pennsylvania, in which state the
family was early founded, and was a repre-
sentative of stanch German lineage. The
father was born in 1826 and died in Kokomo,
Indiana, in 1872, at the age of forty-six years.
His wife was born in 1829, in Virginia, and
was a resident of Kokomo at the time of her
death, which occurred in 1903. when she was
seventy-six years of age. Of the nine chil-
dren of this union seven are living, and the
subject of this review was the sixth in order
of birth. Aaron Sipe was a cabinetmaker by
trade, and for a number of years he was en-
gaged in contracting and building in the City
of Pittsburg. Pennsylvania, whence he even-
tually removed to Kankakee County, Illinois,
where he purchased a farm and where he
continued to devote his attention to agricul-
tural pursuits until his death.
Jacob C. Sipe was about one and one-half
years of age at the time of the family re-
moval from Pennsylvania to Illinois, and his
educational advantages were those afforded in
the public schools of that state and the In-
diana State Normal School at Terre Haute,
in which institution he was a student for two
years. When fifteen years of age Mr. Sipe
entered upon a practical apprenticeship to
learn the jeweler's trade and business, and
his advantages for eflfective training in this
line were of the best order, as he began his
work in the establishment of John "W. John-
son, of New York City. He became a skilled
workman and when nineteen years of age
he became a traveling: salesman for the jew-
elry house of Sipe & Sigler, of Cleveland,
Ohio, with which concern he was thus identi-
fied for eighteen months. In ^March. 1884,
ilr. Sipe took up his residence in Indianap-
olis, where he engageil in business on his
own responsibility, and here he has gained
precedence as the leading diamond importer
and dealer of the .state, while he also eon-
ducts a large and prosperous enterprise as a
manufacturing jeweler and a wholesale and
i-etail dealer in jewelry. Since the year 1890
he has personally visited at intervals the lead-
ing diamond markets of Europe, and has
there selected stock to meet the demands of
his large and discriminating trade, the while
he has kept in close touch with all the mod-
ern ideas in the cutting of precious stones
and the manufacturing of the most artistic
and original jewelry. Three of his brothers
are engaged in the same line of business-
one in Buffalo, New York; one in Cleveland,
Ohio; and the third in Pittsburg, Pennsyl-
vania. Mr. Sipe buys precious stones in the
rough and the cutting and manufacturing of
the same is done in his own finely equipped
establishment and under his personal super-
vision, so that he has unexcelled facilities for
catering to his large and appreciative patron-
age, which is of essentially representative or-
der. In 1902 he and his wife made an ex-
tended trip through Great Britain and the
European continent, visiting all the principal
cities and points of historic interest.
Mr. Sipe finds his chief diversion in sports
afield and afloat, and has gained no little re-
pute as a "mighty hunter", like Nimrod of
old. He has been a successful hunter of large
game and has a number of splendid trophies
of the hunt, in the way of mounted heads of
deer, bears and other large game. He has
made extensive hunting trips in the west and
in Mexico, having given himself such interest-
ing and wholesome relation since 1882 and
spending from one to three months each year
in this fine sport.
Mr. Sipe is a careful, conservative and
reliable business man and one of progressive
ideas, as is evidenced in the distinctive suc-
cess he has gained since establishing his resi-
dence and business headquarters in the In-
diana capital, and while he is essentially
loyal and public-spirited as a citizen and is
a stanch supporter of the cause of the Re-
publican part}^ he has never shown any pre-
dilection or desire for political office of any
description. He is well known and held in
high popular esteem in his home city, where
he is a member of the Columbia Club and is
prominently identified with the Masonic fra-
ternity, in which he has attained to the thirty-
second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scot-
tish Rite, beiny: affiliated with Indiana Sov-
ereign Consistory, and also holding member-
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HISTORY OF GREATER IXDIAXAl'OLIS.
ship in :Murat Temple, Ancient Arabic Order
of the Nobles of tlie ;\Iystie Shrine.
On the 15th of June, 1898, Mr. Sipe was
united in marriage to IMiss Mabel Chamber-
lin Brown, who was born and reared in Elk-
hart, Indiana, being the second in order of
birth of the five children of t)r. Adrian and
Helena (Chaniberlin) Brown, the former of
whom is deceased and the latter of whom now
resides in Indianapolis. Dr. Brown was a
physician by profession and he also conducted
a drug store in Elkhart for many years, being
identified with this line of enterprise at the
time of his death. Mr. and Mrs. Sipe have
three children— Helena R.. Charles B. and
Carroll E.
Oliver W. Pierce. It can scarcely be de-
nied that this is an essentially commercial
age, but it is also gratifying to note that in
almost every populous community may be
found those elements -which represent the
higher ideals of life and illume the more
sordid and utilitarian phases. There is a dis-
tinct correlation in all art expression and to
the one who becomes appreciative each form
of such expression must bear its measure of
uplift and subjective pleasure. This is es-
pecially true of music, which in its manifold
forms and ramifications can touch all sorts
and conditions of men, and in the beautiful
capital city of Indiana there is found a tnl-
ented and popular exemplar of this "divine
art" in the person of Oliver Willard Pierce,
an accomplished pianist, theorist and student
in the domain of musical expression. As an
interpretive artist he has special precedence,
and as a teacher his success has been on a
parity with his fine talents. He has proved
a valuable acquisition to the generic art and
social life of Indianapolis and, standing rep-
resentative in his profession, he is eminently
entitled to consideration in this publication.
He has fostered and broadened distinctive
natural talent through well directed study
under the ablest musical instructors in Amer-
ica and on the European continent, notably
the world-renowned master, IMoszkowski, who
was his teacher in Berlin. Germany, and who
showed special marks of favor and prefer-
ence.
Mr. Pierce is a native of the City of Hills-
dale, Michigan, where he was born on the
19th of February, 1869, and he is a son of
Hiram and IMarie (Cooper) Pierce, both of
whom were representatives of stanch old New
England stock in Massachusetts and Vermont.
In that cradle of so nnich of our national
history the lineage in the maternal line is
traced back through the Puritan ancestry to
the time of the Pil<rrim fathers. Hiram
Pierce was a man whose vocation, that of
a commercial traveler, enabled him to afford
his children good educational advantages, and
the latter further had special privileges in
the appreciative care and guidance of a
mother of distinctive culture and refinement.
Mrs. Marie (Cooper) Pierce was a woman of
high scholastic attainments and Avas for nearly
twenty years preceptress and professor of
history and belles lettres in Hillsdale College,
Michigan. Thus the subject of this review
received his earlier educational discipline al-
most entirely under the tutorship of his
mother, by whom he was prepared to enter
college. He was matriculated in the classical
or academic department of Hillsdale College,
in which he was graduated as a member of
the class of 1891 and from which he received
the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He had simul-
taneously prosecuted his technical studies
in the mu-sical conservatory of this well or-
dered institution of learning. In 1894, he re-
ceived from his alma mater the degree of
Master of Arts, rfe was president of his class
in his junior year in college and won the ora-
torical prize of the Amphictyon literary so-
ciety in that year. At his graduation he also
secured both the Crandell literary prize and
the Martin mathematical prize, the first time
in the history of the college that both of these
coveted honors had been won by the same
student. After leaving Hillsdale College Mr.
Pierce pursued his musical studies in the Bos-
ton Conservatory of Music and in Europe,
and after his return to the United States he
held for two years the position of principal
of the piano department of the musical con-
servatory of the Ohio Wesleyan University, at
Delaware.
In September, 1894, Mr. Pierce came to
Indianapolis and identified himself with the
school of music that was then conducted on
Monument place, and in January of the fol-
lowing year he was one of the founders of
the Metropolitan School of ^Music, o1 which
institution he was a director. In 1907, he
founded the College of Musical Art, of which
he is now president.
Mr. Pierce, with the advantages of fine
classical education, foreign travel and study,
and distinctive talent as a pianist, has made
a specialty of lecture recitals, through which
he has been able to give classical embellish-
ment to the literary and interpretive side of
the musical art, thus promoting deeper ob-
jective appreciation and bringing about more
adequate conception of the nuisical form and
expression. In this particular field his serv-
ices have been much in requisition by musical
and literarv clubs and other organizations.
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HISTORY OF GREATER IXDIANAPOLIS.
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He has appeared before various state musical
associations, and has twice served as chair-
man of the program committee of the Indiana
JIusic Teachers' Association. He has had the
distinction of being soloist with orchestral ac-
companiment at two May musical festivals in
Indianapolis, and in the same way he has
played on various other occasions of equal
importance and interest. In December, 1898,
he was piano sotoist with Van der Stuken's
orchestra at the time of its appearance before
the Ohio State Music Teachers' Association.
In politics l\Ir. Pierce is found arrayed as
a stanch supporter of the principles and pol-
icies for which the Republican party stands
sponsor in a generic wa}% but in local affairs,
where no issues are involved, he is indepen-
dent of strict partisan lines. He is identified
with the Columbia Club of Indianapolis, and
in the Masonic fraternity he has attained to
the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Ac-
cepted Scottish Rite, is past commander of
Raper Ccrmmandery. No. 1, Knights Templar,
besides being identified with the Ancient
Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine, in which he holds membership in
Murat, Temple, of Indianapolis.
Albert E. JIetzger. Among the sterling
citizens and aggressive business men who stand
exponent of that loyalty and progressive spirit
that have conserved the development of the
larger and greater Indianapolis, Albert E.
Metzger occupies a place of no insignificant
prestige, and he has been identified with vari-
ous and very important enterprises that have
had marked influence in furthering the indus-
trial and commercial advancement of the cap-
ital city. He represents a distinctive power in
local financial circles and is at this time
president of the German American Trust Com-
pany, which exercises beneficent functions and
is fortified by all that is reliable in executive
control and capitalistic reinforcement, being es-
sentia41y one of the leading and strongest insti-
tutions of its kind in the state of Indiana.
Albert E. ^letzger is a native of Indian-
apolis and this citv has renresented his home
from the time of his nativity to the present —
an interval marked by large and worthy ac-
complishment on his part. Mr. Metzger was
bom on the 20th of March, ISfiS, and is a son
of Alexander and Wilhelmina (Elbracht)
Metzger, both of whom were born and reared
in Germany, whence thev imrtiigrated by sail-
boat to America in 1847, landing in the city
of New Orleans and thence proceeding by boat
up the Mississippi and Ohio irivers to Cin-
cinnati, where they maintained their home for
three years, at the cxniration of which tliev
removed to Indianapolis, which was then a
small and inconspicuous city, though one whose
future possibilities appealed to :Mr. Metzger,
who remained one of its loyal and honored citi-
zens until his death, whichi occurred on the 4th
day of August, 1890. He identified himself
thoroughly with the business and civic activ-
ities of the Hoosier capital and to him belongs
the distinction of having here established the
first steam hahery in the state of Indiana. He
had learned the baker's trade in his father-
land and having worked under Peter F.
Bryce at that time in Cincinnati was well for-
tified for the handling of the enterprise which
he thus established in Indianapolis, then a
small village. He was endowed with marked
pragmatic ability, indefatigable energy and
sterling integrity of purpose, so that he soon
gained precedence as one of the successful and
substantial business men of, the city. The bak-
ery, which he founded, was located on the site
of the present Aetna building, on North Penn-
sylvania street, and he conducted a large and
prosperous business for a long term of years,
eventually disposing of the plant and business
to Parrott, Nickum & Company, who continued
the business for many years, until it was ab-
sorbed by the National Biscuit Company. Upon
retiring from this line of enterprise in 1863
Alexander Metzger laid the foundation of a
general financial agency which, after forty-five
years of effective service, was finally reorgan-
ized as the German American Trust Company,
of which his son, Albert E., has been president
from the time of incorporation in 1906. In
1865 Alexander Metzger associated himself
with August and Henry Schnull, Volney T.
Malott, David Macy, and Ferdinand Beck
as directors in the organization of the
Merchants' National Bank, which has
since become one of the strongest finan-
cial institutions of our state. He built up
a large and important business in the local
financial field, and ever commanded the unquali-
fied confidence and esteem of the community,
as his business affairs were ordered and directed
according to the strictest principles of integrity
and fairness and his personal characteristics
were those indicative of sterling manhood. He
did much to further the best interests and the
material and civic advancement of the capital
city and was one of its well known and in-
fluential citizens up to the time of his demise.
The widow of Alexander Metzger is still living,
having celebrated her 80th birthday August 3,
1909.
Albert E. Metzger, whose name introduces
this review, was afforded the advantages of the
excellent public schools of Indianapolis, and
iifter his graduation in the hisrh school ho was
matriculated in Cornell Universitv, at Ithaca.
HISTORY OF GREATEK INDIANAPOLIS.
New York, in whitli he completed the pre-
scribed course in science and letters and was
graduated as a member of the class of 1888.
While a student in the high school and in the
university, Mr. Metzger manifested much inter-
est in athletics and military affairs, and though
only two years of military training were com-
pulsory at Cornell University, his interest in
this department was such that he enjoyed the
full four years of military work, in connection
with which he became* major of the university
battalion. It should be noted that Mr. Metz-
ger's kindly interest and fond solicitation for
his alma mater has never waned since his gra'd-
uation. Lately he was elected a member of
the Cornell Council, the governing body of
the alumni, and since its organization has been
president of the Indiana Cornell Alumni As-
sociation.
After leaving the university Mr. Metzger re-
turned to Indianapolis, with whose business
and civic activities he has since been concerned
in a most definite and influential way, espe-
cially in connection with the promotion and
conducting of financial institutions of the high-
est grade. He became associated with his
father in business and soon developed marked
acumen and versatility as a financier and ex-
ecutive. The business established by his father
was conducted under the title of A. Metzger
Agency for many years, and this enterprise was
the virtual nucleus around which has been
built up the stanch and extensive business of
the German American Trust Company.
In ] 896 Albert E. Jletzger became associated
with Herman Lieber, Charles N. Thompson,
Allan Fletcher, Frank M. Fauvre and others in
the organization and incorporation of the Ma-
rion Trust Company, and for several years
thereafter he was a valued member of its
directorate and also its executive committee.
In 1900 Mr. Metzger became associated with
John Perrin, Herman Lieber and others in
the organization of the American National
Bank of Indianapolis, of which he was one of
the organizers and incorporators and of which
he was a director during the first five years
of the existence of the institution. He re-
tired from this directorate in 1906, at which
time he effected the organization of the German
American Trust Company, of which he has
been president from the time of incorporation
and to whose interests he has since given the
major portion of his time and attention.
Mr. Sfetzger resigned his position as a mem-
ber of the directorate of the American Na-
tional Bank in order to devote his undivided
time and attention to the affairs of the German
American Trust Company. Upon his retire-
"lent from his active administrative associa-
tion with the affairs of the American National
Bank the following resolution presented by the
president was adopted by its board of directors,
under date of July 14, "1906:
"Resolved, That, in accepting the resigna-
tion from this board which Albert E. Metzger
has offered in anticipation of serving as the
president of another financial institution, we
set forth in our minutes an .expression of our
personal regret at the discontinuance of this
association with him and of gratitude on be-
half of the bank for the zealous and efficient
service which he has freely rendered from the
day of its organization to the present"'
His able and discriminating administrative
policy has been potent in making the German
American Trust Company one of the great
financial and fiduciary concerns of the middle
west, and he has gained priority as one of the
able and influential financiers of his native city
and state, where he has ever maintained an in-
violable hold upon popular confidence and es-
teem.
As a citizen Mr. Jletzger has stood exponent
of the utmost loyalty and public spirit, and it
has been to him a matter of pleasure and un-
qualified satisfaction to lend his aid and influ-
ence in the promotion of all legitimate meas-
ures and enterprises tending to conserve the
best interests of his home city and state. He
was prominently identified with promotion and
financing of the corporation through which nat-
ural gas service was secured to Indianapolis,
and later, after the failure of the natural gas
resources, he was one of the most attractive
workers for the securing to the people of thf
capital city proper artificial gas service at rea-
sonable rates. He thus became treasurer of
the Gas Consumers' League, which was subse-
quently reorganized as the Citizens' Gas Com-
pany, of which latter he was one of the organ^r
izcrs and a member of the first board of di-
rectors, ifr. Metzger was also a director of
the German Manual Training School, which
was finally absorbed by the present Manual
Training High School maintained by the city,
imder the direct administration of the Board
of Education. It is interesting to record that
the German Manual Training School men-
tioned was that from which the present city
school of like character has been developed —
a valuable acquisition to the public educational
system of the city. The original training
school was conducted for twelve years at the
old German-English school building on Mary-
land street, just east of Delaware street.
In the field of practical philanthropy the
aid and influence of Mr. Jletzger have been
potent in an earnest and unassuming way, and
among the more noteworthy causes in which he
HISTOKY OF GKEATER INDIANAPOLIS.
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has thus been enlisted is that of the Indianapo-
lis Boys' Club Association, which was estab-
lished for , boys of limited opportunities and
which now has a well equipped club house at
the corner of South Meridian street and Mad-
ison avenue. The work of the noble institution
was initiated in 1892, and he was one of the
organizers. The generous support accorded by
its promoters and other representative citizens
of Indianapolis have made it a wonderful power
for good in providing opportunities for news-
boys and other boys who would otherwise be
denied such advantages. Mr. Metzger has been
an active and enthusiastic supporter of and
worker in this association, of whose finance
committee he is chairman, and of which Hon.
Thomas E. JMarshall, governor of the state, is
president.
Mr. Metzger was one of the charter mem-
bers of the Commercial Club, which has stood
representative of high civic ideals and done
much to further the industrial and commer-
cial upbuilding of Indianapolis, and he was
a member of the directorate of this organiza-
tion during the first eight years of its exist-
ence, afterwards becoming vice-president. He
is now chairman of its Committee on Educa-
tion, as well as a member of the Committee
for Civic Improvement and the Committee on
Charity Organizations, and is a valued mem-
ber also of the Board of Trade, of whose board
of governors he was a valued member for some
time. He is a member of the Columbia Club
and the German House, of whose Building
and Savings institution he has been president
for fifteen (15) years.
On the 6th day of February,- 1892, Mr. Metz-
ger was married to Miss Frances Mueller, of
New Ulm, Minnesota, who was the first
supervisor of physical training in the public
schools of Indianapolis, an office which she
conducted with eminent success a number
of years. She was born in Minnesota
and is a daughter of Jacob Mueller
and Frances (Schuetze) Mueller, the lat-
ter of whom is still living. The four children
of this union are: Margaret, Alexander, Nor-
man and Louise. Mr. and Mrs. Metzger are
distinctively prominent and popular in con-
nection with the best social activities of the
capital city, and their attractive home is
known for its gracious hospitality. Mrs. Metz-
ger has been prominently and earnestly iden-
tified with the principal charitable enterprises
of Indianapolis, and for many years she" was
incumbent of the olHce of president of the
German Ladies' Aid Society, whose work has
been of the most beneficent and kindly order.
Vol. II— C
George Wolf. This well known and dis-
linctivelj' popular citizen has maintained his
home in Indianapolis for more than thirty-
five years, having come here when a youth
and having, through his own efforts, gained
prestige as one of the substantial business
men of the capital city. He has served in
offices of public trust, has ever been loyal
to the interests of his home city, and has
reason to be proud of the .success he has
achieved in the land to which he came from
his German fatherland w^hen eighteen years
of age. He is now engaged in the real estate,
loan and insurance business, having his office
headquarters at 221 and 222 Lenieke build-
ing.
George Wolf was born in Dietkirchen, Prov-
ince of Hessen-Nassau, Germany, on the 8th
of July, 1855, and is a son of John and Mary
(Roos) Wolf, of whose thirteen children he
was the fourth in order of birth; of the
number, eight are now living, four being resi-
dents of the United States. The father was a
well-to-do farmer and worthy citizen and
passed his entire life in Germany, where his
venerable widow still maintains her home.
The subject of this sketch" was afforded the
advantages of the excellent schools of his na-
tive province and was graduated in the gym-
nasium, corresponding to the American high
school, at the age of eighteen years. He soon
afterward, in 1873. set forth to win for him-
self a position of independence in America,
which has gained much from the element
contributed to its social fabric by the great
empire of Germany. He first located in the
City of Philadelphia, where he remained near-
ly two years, within which he secured a good
command of the English language, and he
then, in 1875, came to Indianapolis, which
city has represented his home during prac-
tically the entire intervening period, marked
by steady and substantial progress on his
part. Upon his arrival in the Indiana capital
Mr. "VVolf secured employment as clerk in a
e:rocery store, and after a period of about
five years he engaged in the grocery business
on his own responsibility, his store having
been located at No. 225 South Illinois street.
He continued to be identified with this line
of enterprise until 1887, when he sold his
business and assumed a clerical position in
the office of the county auditor. He was
thus engaged until 1890, when recognition of
his ability and effective service was accorded
by his election to the office of city and town-
ship assessor. He gave him.self faithfully,
conscientiously and with marked discrimina-
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
tion to the work of this position and con-
tinued incumbent of the ofRce for a period of
live years, within which he gained an intimate
and exact knowled<re of real estate values, es-
pecially in the immediate field of his jurisdic-
tion.
After retiring from the office of assessor, in
1895, Mr. Wolf turned his attention to the
real estate, loan and insurance business, and
he has built up a substantial business in
those lines. His knowledge of values has
brought his services into requisition in con-
nection with the appraising of real estate and
other advisorj' interests, and he is well and
favorably known in local business circles, as
well as those of social order, the while it may
be said that his coterie of friends is equal in
number to that of his acquaintances.
'J'aking a loj'al interest in all that concerns
his home city, Jlr. Wolf keeps in touch with
public affairs, and his political allegiance is
given to the Democratic party. He is a mem-
ber of the Commercial Club, with which he
has been identified for nearly two score of
years, and is also a valued member of the
Indianapolis Board of Trade and the Indiana
Democratic Club. He and his wife are com-
municants of the Catholic Church, being mem-
bers of St. Mary's parish, and he also holds
membership in St. Joseph's Aid Society and
is actively affiliated with the Knights of Co-
lumbus.
In St. Mary's Church, this city, on the 7th
of January, 1880, was solemnized the mar-
riage of Mr. Wolf to Miss Josephine Itten-
bach, a daughter of the late Gerhard Itten-
bach, who was a prominent business man of
Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Wolf became the
parents of twelve children, of whom nine are
living.
James M. Hume. In a review of the ca-
reers of the* pioneer business men of Indian-
apolis, it is proper that recognition be given
James Jladison Hume, who was a conspicu-
ous figure in the early business history of the
city. He was a representative figure in busi-
ness life for many years and gained success
through his own well directed efforts. Pro-
gressive and loyal in both private and public
affairs, he proved a valuable citizen, and he
so directed his course as to retain at all times
the confidence and esteem of his fellow men,
while through his influence and his business
operations he contributed materially to the
progress and prestige of the city which was
so long his home and the center of his in-
terests.
James Madison Hume, a descendant of one
of the pioneer families nf Indiana, was born
on a farm in Dearborn County, in this state,
on the 1st of October, 1830, and was a son
of Rev. Madison and Eliza (Bowers) Hume,
both of whom were Kentuckians. The geneal-
ogy is traced back to Scottish origin, and the
family was one of distinction and prominence,
belonging to the historic Scottish house of
Wedderburn. One of his descendants, a Cove-
nanter, came to America in the colonial days
and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsyl-
vania. So intense,' although bigoted, was his
religious zeal that he changed his name to
Hiunes, to avoid the possibility of being asso-
ciated by people in any way with Hume, the
English historian, who was an infidel.
Rev. Madison Hume came to Indiana in
the early pioneer days and was one of those
who settled in what was then the wilds of
Dearborn County, where he entered land and
began its reclamation. He was a prominent
and honored citizen of that section of the
state, where he not only tilled the soil but
also labored with all of zeal and consecration
as a clergyman of the Baptist Church. There
were but few churches in that region at the
time he was thus laboring, and in pursuit of
his godly calling he traveled on horseback
from village to village and to remote settle-
ments, holding services in school houses or
such other buildings as were available for the
purpose. In this manner he covered a wide
area, and he was long one of the prominent
and revered ministers of the gospel in central
Indiana. In 1833 he sold his property in
Dearborn County and removed to Marion
County, purchasing a small farm near the
village of Augusta, seven miles north of In-
dianapolis. There he continued to live until
I860, when he sold the farm and removed
to Indianapolis. Here he died in 1864, at his
residence on Capitol avenue, near Thirteenth
street. His widow later sold this property
to the school board and the site is now occu-
pied by a large brick school house. His
widow purchased a new home, on North Illi-
nois street near Sixteenth street and she died
there on the 25th of August, 1899, at the
venerable age of ninety years, having survived
her honored husband by nearly two score
years.
James M. Hume, the subject of this memoir,
was about three years of age when his family
removed from Dearborn County to the new
home in Marion County. Here he grew to
maturity under the sturdy discipline of the
farm, in the meanwhile attending to winter
terms of school in the primitive log school
house in the vicinitj'. This meager prelim-
inary training proved ample foundation upon
which to rear the substantial superstructure
of definite knowledge and commanding busi-
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
ness ability which later marked the man.
His intellectual powers were broadened and
matured by active association with men and
affairs as well as by well ordered reading of
good books and periodicals of the day. Am-
bitious and self-reliant, l\Ir. Hume early de-
termined to seek a broader field of endeavor
than that offered by the farm. In 1849 he
came to Indianapolis, where he was destined
to attain a eommandiny place as a merchant
of progressive ideas and great executive abil-
ity and as a citizen ever worthy of unquali-
fied confidence and esteem. From a previ-
ously published review of his business career
are taken, with but slight change, the follow-
ing statements:
"That he did not mistake his abilities or
predilections was proved by the result of his
venture in the world of trade. He first en-
tered the merchant-tailoring establishment of
James Hall, in the capacity of clerk, and six
months later, so completely had Mr. Hume
won his employer's Confidence that he was
sent by Mr. Hall to Pendleton, in this state,
to take charge of a shoe store there, a speedy
recognition of worth and integrity as well as
a bestowal of responsibility not usually con-
ferred on one of his age at the time. He
remained in Pendleton for a few months,
until the store was closed out. Having ac-
quired a taste for the drygoods business, Mr.
Hume, in 1852, made arrangements to enter
the employ of Horace A. Fletcher, who was
then conducting an extensive business as
dealer in dry goods, carpets and wall paper.
The first year he received only twenty-five
dollars in money for his services, but in 1856,
with what he had saved, he was able to pur-
chase an interest in the business and assumed
charge of the establishment, doing the prin-
cipal part of the buying. The business was
now conducted under the firm name of H. A.
Fletcher & Company. In 1858 Edgar N.
Lord, of Roxbury, Massachusetts, purchased
an interest in the concern, which was then
removed to No. 10 East Wa.shington street,
where for a time it was located in a build-
ing adjoining the one now occupied by the
Indianapolis News. In 1859, James M. Ray
began the erection on this ground for the
Trade Palace, which was completed in the
following year, and H. A. Fletcher & Com-
pany had the foresight to lease the first floor
of the building, thus obtaining a store room
thirty-five feet wide by on^ hundred feet in
depth ; the three upper floors of the building
were sixty feet deep. It wa.s thought by
many that the growth of their trade would
not justify the firm's occupancy of what was
then considered extensive quarters, but the
partners were willing to take the risk, and
time proved that their judgment was not at
fault. In 1863, Mr. Fletcher, wishing to re-
tire, sold his interest in the business to his
partners, who, in the fall of that year, admit-
ted LaFayette Adams into the concern, whose
title thereupon became Hume, Lord & Com-
pany. In 1864, because of the failing health,
Mr. Lord sold his interest to his partners, and
retired from the firm, and for another year
the business was continued under the title of
Hume & Adams. In 1865 they disposed of
their drygoods stock to engage in a carpet,
wall-paper and window-shade business upon
an extensive scale, both wholesale and retail,
and about the same time Edgar J. Foster en-
tered the firm, which then assumed the name
of Hume, Adams & Company. In 1867, so
steadily had their business increased that they
were able to purchase the Trade Palace, which
under their enterprising management was
speedily enlarged to four times its original
capacity. The first floor was rented to N. R.
Smith & Co., drygoods merchants, and the
second floor reseiwed for their own use. By
1870 the further extension of the business re-
quired the admission of an office partner, and
Arthur L. Wright, former county treasurer,
became a member of the firm, whose title was
later changed to Adams, IMansur & Company.
Mr. Hume had accumulated a competency
through his honorable and enterprising opera-
tions in the local business field, and he con-
tinued to be actively identified with the busi-
ness mentioned until 1877; at this time the
firm met financial reverses, after which Mr.
Hume lived virtually retired until his death.
In 1889 he and his wife removed to Cali-
fornia, where they resided until 1893, when
they returned to Indianapolis, and lived at
3213 North Illinois, where Mr. Hume passed
the remainder of his life. He died on the
fifth of l\larch, 1899, secure in the unqualified
esteem of all who knew him.
The career of James iM. Hume is typical
of the best there is in American life, and
his reputation and' unsullied character proved
valuable in connection with business affairs
in the capital city. He carried into business
life the deportment and courtesy of the old
school gentleman, which is now rapidly be-
coming a tradition. He was one of the world's
army of workers and no man had a greater
respect for the dignity and value of honest
toil. His helpfulness was exerted in a quiet
and unassuming way and through diverse
channels. He was full of frenerous impulses
and as a citizen he was loyal, liberal and
public-spirited. IMnch intellectual and moral
force was his. TTo used it for the benefit of
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
his fellow-iin'ii. lie was essentially a busi-
ness man and had no ambition for the prefer-
ments of politics, though he was a stalwart
supporter of the principles and policies of the
Kepublieau party. He was a consistent mem-
ber of the Baptist Church, in whose faith he
was reared, and he was liberal in the support
of all church work in the community.
In December, 1867, James M. Hume mar-
ried Jlary Elizabeth Culley, who is the daugh-
ter of tiie late David V. Culley, who was
long a prominent and influential citizen of
Indianapolis. The only child of this union
is George E. Hume, of whom mention is made
in following paragraphs. Mrs. Hume still
maintains her home in Indianapolis, is a mem-
ber of the Second Presbyterian Church and
has long held an unassailable position in the
.social life of the city in which her life has
been passed.
George E. Hume is well upholding, both
as a citizen and as a business man, the pres-
tige of the name which he bears. He was
born on the 19th of March, 1869, in Indianap-
olis, and here he secured his education in the
public schools. In 1885, he entered the Bos-
ton Latin School, from which he graduated
in 1889. He entered Harvard University,
and graduated as a member of the class of
1893, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
He then returned to his home and entered the
Indianapolis Law School, from which he duly
received his degree of Bachelor of Laws in
1895, in which year he was admitted to the
bar. After graduation, he continued his law
studies for a year in the offices of Butler,
Snow & Butler, and Holtzman & Leathers, in
Indianapolis. He then entered into partner-
ship with Edward E. Gates, under the firm
name of Gates & Hume, and they continued
to be thus associated in the practice of law
until 1899. In the last year mentioned he
practically retired from the practice of the
■aw to assume the office of secretarj' and
treasurer of the Indiana Title Guaranty &
Loan Company, to which position he was
elected at the time of the organization and in-
corporation of this institution. Since 1904,
he has also served as treasurer of the Amer-
ican Central Life Insurance Company, of In-
dianapolis, representing another of the ably
managed and financially solid institutions that
are contributing so materially to the prece-
dence of the fair capital city of the Hoosier
state.
Like his honored father. Mr. Hume is lib-
eral and progressive in his attitude as a citi-
zen and he takes a deej) interest in all that
touches the advancement and prosperity of
his native city, where lie is identified with
many representative civic and social organi-
zations. He is a stalwart supporter of the
principles and policies of the Republican
party. Genial and companionable, his circle
of friends is circumscribed only by that of
his acquaintances and he is one of the popu-
lar young business men of Indianapolis, be-
sides remaining a member of its bar.
On the 16th day of November. 1898, :\Ir.
Hume married Lucy Fitzhugh Holliday, who
was born and reared in Indianapolis and who
is the daughter of William Jacquelin Hi'lli-
day and Lucy (Redd) Holliday, the former
a cousin of Governor Holliday of Virginia,
and the latter a lineal descendant of the
great patriot, Patrick Henry. ^\v. and Mrs.
Hume have two sons— AVilliam ilansur and
Jacquelin Holliday.
Alkxaxdkr M. Stewart. A representative
business man and most popular citizen of the
fair capital citv of Indiana is Alexander il.
Stewart, who is a native son of this common-
wealth, where his entire life has been passed,
and who has been engaged in the music trade
for nearly thirty years, representing the major
))ortion of his active career. He has been a
resident of Indianapolis since 1869 and his
popularity is based upon his generous attri-
butes of character and his signal rectitude and
fairness as a business man.
Mr. Stewart was born in the city of Terre
Haute, Indiana, on the -Ith of JIarch, ISOT.
and is a scion of one of the old and distin-
guished families of the state, with whose an-
nals the name has been identified since the
early pioneer epoch in the history of this com-
monwealth. He is the onlv child of Colonel
Robert R. and Plora (Sullivan) Stewart. His
father was born and reared in Indiana, and
he represented this state with distinction as
a soldier in the Mexican War, in whicii he
held the rank of lieutenant, and when the
dark cloud of Civil War cast its grewsonie
pall over the national horizon this sterling
patriot was among the first to tender his serv-
ices in defense of the Tnion. He was matle
colonel of the Eleventh Indiana Cavalry, with
which he participated in numerous cngai;e-
ments prior to the time when he met the dire
fortunes of war, in being captured by the
Mvemy, by whom be was incarcerated in loath-
some old Libby prison, in Richmond, A'irginia.
where he was held for a period of seven months.
His health became seriouslv impaired throuuh
the ])rivations and other hardships whicli he
endured in this historic pri,«on, and he died
a few vears after the close of the great conflict
through which the integrity of the nation was
perpetuated. His widow subsequently beenine
the wife nf Kmil Wulschnor. of Indianniiolis.
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
727
who died April 9, lOOO. She was prominent
in religious and charitable work and in the
.<inial activities of the community. She was
chairman of the board of trustees of the In-
diana Orphans' Home Association. She was
born and reared in the capital city, where her
father, Esquire William Sullivan, was a prom-
inent and influential citizen. She died in
Rome, Italy, April 14, 1909.
Alexander M. Stewart was about three j-ears
of age at the time of his father's death, and
soon thereafter his luother came to Indian-
apolis, in which city he was reared to man-
hood and to whose public schools he is in-
debted for his early educational discipline.
His stepfather was here engaged in the music
business for many years, and with this line
of enterprise Mr. Stewart has been identified
from his youth to the present time. His finely
equipped establishment is considered the lead-
ing music house of the state and is eligibly
located on Pennsylvania street, in the main
building, especially built for this firm. Here
is retained a large and representative patron-
age and the establishment is a favored head-
quarters for the leading musicians of the city,
as w^ll as for other patrons of all classes.
In connection with his music business Mr.
Stewart has for a number of years had large
real estate interests in Indianapolis, and in
this line he has made many important trans-
actions and through the same advanced the
development of the city. He is essentially
and emphatically progressive and public
spirited as a citizen and none has shown more
satisfaction in witaessing and aiding in the
development of the "Greater Indianapolis."
In politics he maintains an independent atti-
tude, and he is identified with the Columbia
Club, the German House and the Indianapolis
IMaennerchor, and the Loyal Ijegion. In the
Masonic fraternity he has completed the circle
of the Scottish Rite body, in which latter he
has attained the Ihirtv-second degree, besides
which he is affiliated with the allied organiza-
tion, the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles
of the Mvstic Shrine.
On the 16th of November, 1893, -Mr. Stew-
art was united in marriage to Miss Georgia
Toms, of St. Louis, Missouri, and she was sum-
moned to the life eternal on the 9th of August,
]00(i, being survived by two sons. — George Ed-
moud and James T.
Julius C. "Walk, one of the veteran busi-
ness men and highly honored citizens of In-
dianapolis, figures as the siibject of this brief
sketch, and in addition to his prestige in the
field of business in which he has so long en-
caged his energies, further interest attaches
to his career from the fact that he is a native
son of the Indiana capital, which has repre-
sented his home from the time of his birth.
He is known as a leal and loyal citizen and
as one who has witnessed and contributed to
the upbuilding of the great industrial and
commercial city that may well be designated
"Greater Indianapolis"'. He has gained suc-
cess along normal and legitimate lines of
business and is now the head of one of the
oldest and largest retail jewelry concerns in
the city and one that has ever secured a pat-
ronage of essentially representative order, its
fine trade being based upon fair and honor-
able dealings and careful attention to the
demands of the appreciative patronage. The
enterprise is now conducted under the firm
name of Julius C. Walk & Son, and the finely
appointed and equipped establishment is lo-
cated at No. 10 East Washington street.
The house in which Mr. Walk was born
was located on the corner of ^Meridian and
Washington streets, Indianapolis, which was
then a small city, and the date of his nativity
was January 4, 1840. He is a son of Louis
and Emma (lohn') Walk, the former of whom
was born in AVurtemburg, Germany, in the
year 1806, and the latter of whom was born
in Nord Hansen, Prussia, on the 18th of Feb-
ruary. 1809. The pardnts were reared and
educated in their fatherland and came alone
to America when j-oung. Their acquaint-
anceship was formed in the United States
and on the 16th of April, 1838, their mar-
riage -was solemnized, in New York City. The
father became a naturalized citizen of the
land of his adoption on the 28th of July, 1842,
in Indianapolis, and his certificate of citizen-
ship, now in the posses.sion of the subject of
this sketch, was signed by Robert B. Duncan,
who was at that time clerk of Marion County.
Louis Walk came with his young wife to
Indianapolis in 1839. making: the trip from
Philadelphia to Cincinnati and thence on to
the little capital city of the Hoosier state.
They passed the residxie of their long and
useful lives in Indianapolis, where they were
recognized as folk of sterling worth of char-
acter and where thej^ were held in unqualified
confidence and respect by all who knew them.
They were devout members of the Lutheran
and Catholic Churches and their lives, hon-
est and unpretentious, were marked by kindly
deeds and generous interest in the welfare of
those about them. The honored father was
summoned to his reward on the 9th of May,
1875, and his cherished and devoted wife en-
tered into eternal rest on the 27th of August,
1889. They became the parents of three chil-
dren, namely: Louise, who is the widow of
Julius ifannfeld and still maintains her home
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
in Indianapolis; Julius C, who is the imme-
diate subject of this sketch; and Carl, who
died in 1903, leaving a widow, two sons and
one daughter; he was a representative busi-
ness man and honored citizen of Indianapolis,
where his family still reside. Louis Walk
was a shoemaker by trade and his entire ac-
tive career was one of active identification
with the same. For many years he conducted
a custom boot and shoe shop in Indianapolis,
and his distinctive skill and genial personality
gained to him a large patronage from the
best class of citizens.
Julius C. Walk was reared to maturity in
the Indiana capital and here he received a
good common-school education. In 1855 he
entered upon an apprenticeship to the trade
of silversmith and goldsmith and watchmaker,
completing a service of four years and be-
coming a skilled artisan. He was employed at
his trade in local establishments until 1877,
when he initiated his independent career in
the jewelry business. He formed a partner-
ship with James N. Mayhew and Wheeloek P.
Bingham, under the firm name of Bingham,
Walk & Mayhew, and they opened their mod-
est establishment at No. 12 East Washington
street. This partnership alliance remained
unchanged for a period of five years, at the
expiration of which Mr. ^layhew retired, and
thereafter the firm of Bingham & Walk contin-
ued the business until the death of Mr. Bing-
ham, in 1889. In 1892 Mr. Walk purchased
of Mrs. Bingham the interest of his former
partner and valued friend, and he then ad-
mitted to partnership his only son, Carl F.
Walk, since which time the business has been
continued under the title of Julius C. Walk
& Son. Thus for more than thirty .vears has
the honored subject of this sketch been iden-
tified in an independent way with the one
line of enterprise in the City of Indianapolis,
and his course has been marked by that im-
pregnable integrity of purpose, that careful
consideration of the requirements of his
patrons, and that generous and kindly atti-
tude that have gained to him a secure place
as one of the representative business men of
the capital city and as erne of its popular and
valued citizens.
In polities Mi-. AValk, though never an
aspirant for office, has ever shown a loyal in-
terest in all that has tended to enhance the
civic and material prosperity and progress of
his native city. His wife holds membership in
the Plymouth Church, and he is identified
with variou.s social and fraternal organiza-
tions, including the ^lasonic fraternity, with
which he has be(Mi affiliated since 1865. He
has membership in Ancient Landmarks Lodge
Xo. 319, Free & Accepted ^Masons; Keystone
Chapter No. 6, Royal Arch Masons; and
Raper Commandery No. 1, Knights Temp-
lars, with which fine ehivalric body he has
been identified since 1872. He has also at-
tained to the thirty-second degree in the An-
cient Accepted Scottish Rite Masonry, and
since 1884 has been a member of Mural
Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles
(if the ]\Iystie Shrine.
On the 30th of April, 18G8, was solemnized
the marriage of Mr. Walk to Miss Eleanora
T. E. Werbe, who was born and reared in
Indianapolis and who is a daughter of the
late Ferdinand L. Werbe, who was for many
years engaged in the merchandise business in
this city. Mr. and Mrs. Walk have three
children, namely, Julia, Carl and Freda.
Freda is the wife of Dr. Reginald Garstrong;
Carl married Matilda Brink, daughter of
Christian Brink, one time recorder of [Marion
County.
Daniel Yandes. A publication of this na-
ture exercises its most important function
when it takes cognizance, through proper me-
morial tribute, of the life and labors of so
distinguished a citizen as was Daniel Yandes.
who was a pioneer of pioneers in the Indiana
capital, where he took up his abode in 1821
and where he continued to reside until his
death, in the fullness of years and well earned
honors, on the 10th of June, 1878, at which
time he was eighty-five years and five months
of age. He ever stood exponent of the most
leal and loyal citizenship and was a gracious,
noble personality whose memory will be long
cherished and venerated in the city to whose
civic and material progress he contributed in
most generous measure. A man of great
business capacity and of the highest prin-
ciples of integrity and honor, he made his in-
fiuence felt along divei-s lines and he was long
a leader in the promotion of legitimate in-
diistrial and semi-public enterprises which
conserved the general welfare of the city and
state of his adoption.
Daniel Yandes was born in Fayette Coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, in Janua^^^ 1793, and was
a son of Simon and Anna Catherine (Rider)
Yandes, both of whom were natives of Ger-
many. The father owned and operated a
farm near the Monongahela River, west of
Fniontown, and there the two sons, Daniel
and Simon, Jr., were reared to maturity, re-
ceiving such advantages as were afforded in
the common schools of the locality and period.
Both of the son.s early began to assist in the
work of the home farm, aiding in its reclama-
tion from the forest wilds. Both manifested
their lovallv when the War. of 1812 was iu
HISTOEY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
T'39
progress, and both served under Uen. William
Henry Harrison in this second struggle with
England, having been on duty with the troops
in northern Ohio, but never having been
called into active eontlict during their six
months' term of service. In 1814, when the
national capital was made the point of attack
on the part of the British the two youthful
patriots again enlisted, and when but twenty-
one years of age Daniel Yandes was elected
major of his regiment, but his connuand was
not called into action. In the following year
was solemnized his marriage to ;\Iiss Anna
AVilson, eldest daughter of James and Mary
(Rabb) Wilson. Her father was a represen-
tative farmer and influential citizen of Fay-
ette county, where he served for a number of
years as a magistrate. The Wilson family
was of Scotch-Irish and the Rabb family of
Scotch-English lineage, and both held to the
faith of the Presbyterian Church, of which
Mrs. Yandes was a devoted member during
her entire life. She was a woman of gentle
and gracious character and proved a veritable
helpmeet to her husband. Her paternal
grandfather, Alexander Wilson, was born in
1727 and finally removed from Lancaster
Couhty, Pennsylvania, to Fayette County,
that state, where his death occurred in the
year 1815.
After his marriage Daniel Yandes engaged
in coal mining and also the operating of a
flour mill. In 1817 occurred the death of his
honored father, who was eighty-four yeai"S of
age at the time, and in the following year
he set forth for Indiana, in company with his
widowed mother, his wife and their two chil-
dren, making the trip down the Ohio River
to Cincinnati and proceeding thence to Fay-
ette County, Indiana, where he secured a tract
of heavily timbered land, near the present
thriving town of Connersville. He became
one of the pioneer farmers of that section
of the state, where he continued to reside un-
til 1821, when he removed to the little town
of Indianapolis, which had but recently been
designated as the capital of the state. He
thereafter maintained his home in Indian-
apolis and here centered his interests until
his death, which occurred in June, 1878, as
already noted in this context. His first place
of abode in the capital city was a log cabin
which he erected near the southwest corner
of Washington and Alabama streets, opposite
the court-house square. In 1823 he built a
frame house of three rooms, in the same lo-
cality, and this continued to be the family
domicile until 1831, when he erected a two-
story brick residence west of and contiguous
to the present building of the State Life In-
siu'anee Company. In 1837 he was the owner
of an acre of ground now occupied by the
fine government building, and thereon he
built a large but not ornate brick house of
two stories, which was the family home there-
after until 1863, when the property was sold
to the First Presbyterian Church, whose edi-
fice occupied the site until the .same was sold
to the government, nearly half a century
later. In this home his cherished and devoted
wife died in 1851, and he ever remained true
to her memory, showing- no desire to contract
a second marriage.
When Mr. Yandes arrived in Indianapolis
he had a capital of four thousand dollars, and
the financial standards of the time may be
realized when it is stated that this amount
was sufficient to constitute the largest cap-
italist of the embryonic city during the en-
suing decade. Concerning him the following
pertinent statements have been written: "He
was, in common witli pioneers generally, a
man of rugged health, and was hopeful, con-
fiding and enterprising. He was fond of
building mills and manufactories and of in-
troducing other improvements. On his ar-
rival in Indianapolis he was associated with
his brother-in-law in the" erection of a saw
and grist mill on the ba.vou southwest of the
city where the McCarty land now is, the dam
being built across White River at the head of
the island, which was opposite the old ceme-
tery. This is said to have been the first mill
erected on the land purchased by the state
for the new capital. About 1823 "the firm of
Yandes & Wilkins established the first tan-
nery in the county, and they continued to
be associated in that line of business for
about thirty years. 'I'hc active partner was
John Wilkins, a man well known for his un-
common merits. Afterward Daniel Yandes
continued the same business M'ith his nephew,
Lafayette Yandes. After the death of the
latter he formed another partnership, with
his nephew, Daniel Yandes, Jr., and James
C. Parmalee, and this firm conducted an ex-
tensive tannery in Brown County and a leath-
er store in Indianapolis. Ah(mt the year 1825
he became a partner of Franklin Merrill,
brother of Samuel Merrill, in a store, which,
like others of the pioneer days in Indianap-
olis, contained a miscellaneous assortment of
goods, more or less extensive, including dry-
<roods, groceries, queensware, hardware, hats,
boots and shoes, etc. About 1831 he became
the partner of Edward T. Porter, and the
store of the firm of Yandes & Porter was in
a brick building on the site of the present
State Life Insurance Compan.v. At nearly
the same time ^fi-. Yandes started Joseph
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
Sloan in business as a merchant at Coving-
ton, Indiana, and he continued for several
years a member of the firm thus formed. In
1833 he and Samuel Merrill, treasurer of the
state, dug a race along Fall Creek and built
a grist-mill, a saw-mill and the first cotton-
spinning factory in that region. A few years
afterward he and William Sheets, who had
shortly before been secretary of state, built
on the canal west of the state-house grounds
the first paper-mill in the county. About the
same time he became the partner of Thomas
M. Smith in a general store, and about 1838
he was the partner of John F. Hill in an-
other store, both of which were on the north
side of Washington street, a little west of
Pennsylvania street. In 1839, under great
difficulties, he alone built at Lafayette, In-
diana, a grist-mill, saw-mill and paper-mill,
and opened with his son James a large store.
While engaged in this enterprise the financial
panic was precipitated upon the country and
Mr. Yandes found himself involved heavily
in debt, both as principal and indorser, at
Indianapolis and Lafayette. While he en-
joyed the good will of his creditors he did
not command their entire confidence as to his
solvency, and during the years 1839 to 1844
judgments in Marion county accumulated
against him to the amount of over twenty-
two thousand dollars, under which conditions
he sacrificed some of his most valuable prop-
erty at much less than cost. At the same
.time he was under protest at the bank in
Lafayette. In due time, however, he paid the
full amount of his debts, and it is a matter
of legitimate pride that he and his children
have always paid in full individual and all
other indebtedness. About the year 1847 he
and Thomas H. Sharpe built the College Hall,
a brick building, which preceded the Fletcher
bank and store building at the corner of
Washington and Pennsylvania streets, and a
few years later he erected another brick build-
ing on Washington street, west of Pennsyl-
vania street. In 1847 he built ten miles of
the Madison railroad, which was completed
about September of that year and which was
the first railroad to enter Indianapolis. In
the same year he was as.sociated in the build-
ing of a grist mill at Franklin, this state.
In 1852 he and Alfred Flarrison built thirty
miles of the eastern end in Indiana of the
Bellefontaine railroad. Previously to this
time he had twice ventured successfully in
sending large carsjoes of provisions by flat-
boats from Indiana to New Orleans. About
the year 18.^4, during the Kansas excitement,
his desire for the freedom of that state im-
pelled him to aid some young men to settle
there, and he accompanied them to the west.
About 1860 he joined Edward T. Sinker as
partner in the Western Machine Works, of
Indianapolis, with which industrial concern
he continued to be identified for a number of
years.
"One of Mr. Yandes' most curious traits
was the manifestation of unusual energy and
labor for a series of years, until an enter-
prise could be placed upon a solid basis, after
which he evinced unusual indolence and in-
attention to details for several years, until
he became again enlisted in a new enterprise.
As a consequence, after new enterprises were
fairly started and tested he lost interest in
them, and in a few years would usually sell
his interest. He was senior partner and in
most eases the capitalist in connection with
the various business enterprises with which
he thus concerned himself. Although he ma-
tured his "plans carefully and patiently, he
was nevertheless too fond of hazard."
From the foregoing statements it will be
seen that Mr. Yandes was a man of magnifi-
cent initiative power and constructive ability,
so that he was well fitted to become one of
the founders and upbuilders of a city and
state. He gave generously of his superb pow-
ers in furthering the indu.strial and civic de-
velopment of Indiana, and his name is one
that merits a conspicuous place on the roll of
those who have worthily conserved such
progress. His integrity was of the most in-
sistent and unswerving type and no shadow
rests upon any portion of his career as an
active business man and sterling citizen. He
had his limitations, as do all, but he gave of
the best of his great talents to the world
and to aiding his fellow men. His wonder-
ful vitality and personal enthxisiasm, together
with too great confidence in the integrity and
ability of others, caused him to be placed in
his advanced age in a far less secure finan-
cial status than was his just due. In this
connection the following words have been
written by one appreciative of his great worth
and familiar with his career: "If his busi-
ness career had terminated when he was
seventy-five years of age he would have been
a successful business man, but an undue fond-
ness for enterprise and a hopeful enthusiasm,
together with the fascination of the far west,
an over-confidence in others, and the de-
terioration incident to old age, with his un-
willingness to be advised, resulted in disaster.
He lost a considerable amount in mines in
the west and a larsre sum in the Brazil fur-
nace, at Bra.zil, Indiana, stripping him in ef-
fect of his property when he was past the
age of eighty years."
HISTOKY or GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
]Mr. Yandes was a mau of impressive per-
sonality, was broad of mental ken and had
the characteristics which ever beget objective
esteem, confidence and friendship. Viewing
his life in its perspective none can fail to
have appreciation of his great accomplish-
ment at a time when such powers as his were
at a premium, and he shonld ever be remem-
bered as one of the noble, kindly and gen-
erous pioneers of Indiana.
In politics Mr. Yandes was originally an
old-line Whig, but he gave his support to the
Republican party from the time of its incep-
tion until his death, and at the climacteric
period leading up to the Civil War he was
uncompromising in his advocacy of the aboli-
tion of human slavery. He was essentially
without ambition for public office, though he
had the distinction of serving as the first
treasurer of Marion County, and in 1838 re-
ceived from Governor Noble the unsolicited ap-
pointment as a member of the State Board of
Internal Improvements, to which was assigned
the control of the varied and extensive system
of internal improvements provided for by
legislative action in 18.36. His religious faith
was primarily that represented by the Luth-
eran Churph, but as Indianapolis had no or-
ganization of this denomination in the early
days, he identified himself with the Presby-
terian Church. For a number of years he
served as one of the first elders and trustees
of the Second Presbyterian Church, to whoso
upbuilding and support he contributed in
generous measure. From 1823 onward for a
period of more than twenty years his home
was the leading hospice of the Presbyterian
clergy, several of the most prominent of whom
in the pioneer days of the state were enter-
tained at his home for long periods. He was
liberal in his contributions to normal chari-
ties, as well as to the various departments of
church work, and prior to 1865 his donations
along these lines had reached a total of about
sixty thousand dollars,— an amount whose ef-
ficiency and value at that time would not be
equalled by twice the sum today.
Of the eleven children of the honored sub-
.iect of this brief memoir five died young.
His daughter Mary Y., who became the wife
of Rev.' John T." Wheeler, died in 1852.
James W., a successful business man of In-
dianapolis, died in 1885. Simon, who was a
representative citizen of Indianapolis, died
on the 5th of October, 1903. Elizabeth, who
became the wife of Joseph R. Robinson, died
in IMay, 1904. The two surviving children
are Catherine C, wife of Eliiah T. Fletcher,
of Indianapolis, and Georse B., who likewise
i-esides in the Indiana capital, which has rep-
resented his home from the tinie of his birth.
To the son Simon, a distinguished lawyer and
honored citizen of Indianapolis, a special me-
morial tribute is accorded on othei- pages of
this work.
Simon Yandes gave the best of an esseu-
tiall.y strong, noble and loyal nature to the
service of his fellow men; his life course
was guided and governed by the highest prin-
ciples of integrity and honor; he was hu-
manity's friend and labored with all of zeal
and devotion for the uplifting and aiding of
his kindj he attained to marked distinction
as a member of the bar of Indiana ; he cov-
eted success but scorned to attain it except
through industry and honest means; he ac-
quired wealth without fraud or deceit, and,
with a high sense of his stewardship, he dis-
pensed it with well ordered generosity and
benevolence. The results of hjs life are full
of incentive and inspiration, and thus every
publication touching upon the lives and deeds
of those who have honored the City of In-
dianapolis and the State of Indiana through
their services should imperatively give con-
sideration to this distinguished citizen, who
passed practically his entire life in the cap-
ital city, where he died on the 5th of Octo-
ber, 1903, at the venerable age of eighty-
seven years. In this brief * tribute to this
man of great ability and exalted character
recourse will be had to a previously pub-
lished sketch of his career, as the same was
written by one who knew him well and whose
words are thus worthy of perpetuation. In
said connection such paraphrase as seems ex-
pedient will be used. Mr. Yandes was a son
of Daniel Yandes, and as a memoir of the
latter appears on other pages of this work
it is not demanded that in the sketch at hand
be entered further review of the family his-
tory.
Simon Yandes, one of the world's practical
philanthropists, was born in Fayette County,
Pennsylvania, on the 5th of Januaiy, 1816,—
the year which marked the admission of In-
diana to the Union. In 1818, when he was
but two years of age, his parents removed
from his native county to Fayette Count.v,
Indiana, where they continued to reside un-
til 1821, in Jlarch of which year they took
up their abode in Indianapolis, which was
laid out as a village in that year, after hav-
ing been selected as the perpetual center of
the state government. Thus from the age
of five years until he was summoned to his
reward, at a patriarchal as-e. he continued
a resident of Indiana's capital, where he made
his life count for good in all its relations
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HISTOKY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
and where his memory is revered by all who
knew him.
In the little pioneer village from which has
grown the City of Indianapolis, Simon Yandes
was reared to maturity, and though the edu-
cational advantages in the locality and period
were somewhat meager, the boy and youth
made the best possible use of such as were
afforded, and in due time there matured one
of the finest of intellectualities. His prelim-
inary discipline was secured in a private
school conducted by Ebenezer Sharpe, and
eventually he was enabled to attend the Uni-
versity of Indiana for one year. In 1838 he
was matriculated in the law school of Har-
vard College, in which he was graduated in
the following year and from which he duly
received his degree of Bachelor of Laws.
There was a notable list of young men who
were his fellow students in the law school,
and among the number ma3' be mentioned
William M. Evarts, E. Rock wood Hoar,
Charles Devens, William W. Story, Charles
T. Russell, Nathaniel Holmes, James Russell
Lowell, Richard Henry Dana, Marcus Mor-
ton, Rufus King and George V. Lothrop.
Upon no less an authority than that of James
Russell Lowell rests the early impression that
Mr. Yandes was one of the best men in his
class, and Judge Story, who was then one
of the members of the faculty of the law
school, predicted for him a successful future
in his profession, besides which he mani-
fested a deep personal interest in the young
student, with whom he corresponded for .«
eral years after the latter had left the law
school.
After his graduation Mr. Yandes returned
to Indianapolis, where, in the same year, 1839,
he became associated in practice with Fletcher
& Butler, the leading law firm of the state
at that time. With this firm he continued
his alliance for a period of four years, at the
expiration of which ^Ir. Fletcher retired
therefrom. Later he conducted an individual
practice for four years, and he then formed
a partnership with Oliver H. Smith. The
firm of Yandes & Smith thereafter held lead-
ership at the bar of the state for four years,
when Mr. Smith retired and Mr. Yandes as-
sociated himself with Cyrus C. Hines, who
later was long associated in practice with
Gen. Benjamin Harrison. In 1858 Mr. Yan-
des was a candidate for the office of asso-
ciate .iustice of the supreme court of the
state, but he met with defeat with the re-
mainder of the party ticket. Just prior to
the war of the rebellion he retired from the
active practice of his profession, as he had
Rcpumiilated what was then considered a for-
tune, and thereafter he gave his attention
principally to the management and super-
vision of his business affairs. He gained
prestige as one of the most able, versatile
and distinguished members of the bar of In-
diana and was identified with much important
litigation in both the state and federal courts.
Concerning his equipment for his profession
one of his confreres has made the following
pertinent and appreciative statements: "He
was precise, but not technical ; logical but not
coldly analytical; well read in the law, but
not embarrassed by precedents. His moral
integrity was a granite rock and his intel-
lectual poise was akin to it. He did not
have that large imaginative power that is
needed for the making of an orator, but his
full information, happy humor and power of
accurate statement made him a strong speak-
er. As a counselor he was at his best. His
fair-mindedness, his wide foresight and his
strong mental gi-asp qualified him to see all
sides of the question, and to advise a course
which always proved to be the right one. In-
tellectuality was the dominant characteristic
of his mind. His moral fiber was without a
flaw or twist. His mold was the mold of
Abraham Lincoln. Under an exterior of re-
serve he kept an equable and generous na-
ture and courageous spirit."
As a business man Mr. Yandes showed
great perspicacity and ability, and after his
retirement from the active work of his pro-
fession he made such investments and so hus-
banded his resources as to accumulate money
very rapidly. Concerning this phase of his
career the following statements are worthy
of reproduction: "In this he had a definite
purpose to accomplish : this was to accumu-
late a sufficient sum with which to accom-
plish effective work in educational and re-
ligious matters. He avoided, therefore, the
frittering away of his accumulations in little
matters. Some years ago he was asked by an
acquaintance for a contribution of a small
sum to a cause that one would have thought
appealed to him. This he refused, saying
that the man who was diffuse could not con-
centrate; if he chose to aid by bits ever^'thing
that appealed to him, he never could reach
the position where he could do a thing gjcat-
ly, and one or the other of these all men
should do. In other words, there could be
no diffusion and identification in small de-
grees with eveiything, and concentration for
the purpose of larger effort. He chose the
latter as his course."
Mr. Yandes held to the opinion that the
averase man reached the ultimate of his pow-
ers of accomplishment by the time he had
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attained to the psalmist "s span of thi-ee score
years and ten, and he ordered his own course
in harmony with this conviction. Thus, when
he reached the age of seventy years he be-
gan to administer his large estate, "with
great care, caution and critical examination".
He considered himself in the light of a stew-
ard and realized to the full the responsibili-
ties which success and financial prosperity
impose. Thus he matured his plans with all
of care, that his benefactions might be cumu-
lative in their results and that their influ-
ence might continue in an ever widening
angle of beneficence. "Modestly, quietly and
even seeretlj', he began to make his gifts,"
says the writer from whose memoir previous
quotations have been made, "and for fifteen
years only those closest to him had any knowl-
edge of his large benefactions. In the latter
part of the spring of 1902 some of the facts
concerning his gifts began to leak out. Curi-
ously inaccurate and even untruthful state-
ments were published in the newspapers,—
caricatures of the man and of his doings.
One of the results was that hundreds of beg-
ging letters came to him from persons of
whom he had never heard, and for objects of
which he knew nothing. It vexed him much,
and he was advised to put an end to this by
a published statement of his donations, and
thus let the people know that he had prac-
tically given away his fortune. He ob.jected,
on the ground that these were private and
confidential matters. The pressure, however,
became too great, and he dictated a short
statement concerning his benefactions. This
statement was as here noted: 'When I got
to be seventy years old I thought I ought to
be settling up my estate, and in the course
of a few years thereafter I gave to Wabash
College one hundred and fifty thousand dol-
lars. Later I gave a small sum to another
college; and I have given away, from time
to time, about four hundred thousand dollars
to church and charities. During the period
from 1886, when I was seventy years old, Jo
the present time I have given to relatives at
least four hundred thousand dollars. Dur-
ing this time I was accumulating what I
could, and reducing my funds by gifts. And
while I gave away eight hundred thousand
dollars, or thereabouts, I have not had eight
hundred thousand dollars at any one time.
Among these donations I have given sixty
thoiisand dollars to the Indiana Missionai^'
Society; I have given at least one hundred
thousand dollars to the foreign missionary
societies, — Presbyterian, Methodist and Bap-
tist. I have given forty or fifty thousand
dollars to home missionary societies,— Pres-
byterian, :\[ethodist and Baptist.' "
A matter of gratifying comparison at this
time was that made in the Boston Glube.
which olfered the following comment: "An-
drew Carnegie has given millions of dollars
to found free public libraries, but he con-
tinues to receive sufficient dividends from
steel stock to pay for a first-class passage to
his castle in Scotland. He has millions left
in his possession. John D. Rockefeller \v,\<
contributed magnificently to educational and
religious institutions, yet never has he re-
duced his principal or his income to a point
where he would lose his power and prestige
in the financial world. The Indianapolis law-
yer, however, has, to all intents and purposes,
stripped himself of an entire fortune, which
he might today have counted in seven figures,
and is content to live among his books, in a
city block, on plain food, and clothed in rai-
ment .just fine enough to be respectable. The
Hoosier philanthropist practiced economy, as
well as law, maintained his integrity, and has
thereby been enabled to help the poor, edu-
cate aspiring boys and girls of parents who
are strangers to him, spreading the gospel at
home and abroad, and, without forgetting his
own worthy relatives, making the world bet-
ter and brighter."
Pure, constant and noble was the spiritual
rtame that burned in and illumined the mor-
tal tenement of Simon Yandes, and to the
superficial observer can come but small ap-
preciation of his intrinsic spirituality and
profoundly religious nature. His faith was
fortified by the deepest and most critical
study, and the Christian verities were to him
the matters of deepest concern among all thi;
changes and chances of this mortal life. Here
are the sentiments that have been expressed
concerning this feature of his character:
"No man with his intellectual vigor and the
love of truth which marked him, could live
long without inevitably being brought to inves-
tigate the great moral laws governing life, and
few men studied more critically and carefully
than did he these matters. Few theologians
had his learning on theology. Not many of
the professors teaching the science of econom-
ics has his attainments on the latter subject.
Simon Yandes was a strong man,— a strong
man intellectually, a strong man morally.
Successful in all he undertook, at the bar he
rose rapidly to the first place; in business in
an inland town he accumulated a large for-
tune; and as a philanthropist he acted so
wisely and judiciously as to merit the ap-
proval of all interested in the welfare of hu-
manitv. "
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Though so significantly gifted in an intel-
lectual way, Mv. Yandes had naught of in-
teflectual bigotry or. intolerance. His very
heart was attuned to sympathy, and to those
who were granted appreciation of the man as
he was must ever remain a feeling of rev-
erence and admiration. His love for his
mother continued one of the most ideal type
throiighout the course of his long and use-
ful life, and a more tender filial solicitude
could not have been accorded while she was
living, nor a. more loyal sentiment of affec-
lion and veneration after she was summoned
to the life eternal. It could not be wished to
lift the veil that guarded the inmost sanctu-
ary of the heart of the man, the good, the
noble man, but reference to this dominating
love of his gracious mother can not prove
malapropos.
Even this brief sketch, it is hoped, may
serve to leave upon the mind of the reader
some definite impress as to a worthy life and
one that has its full measure of inspiration.
The life itself signified more than mere words
can express, and only may we say that favored
weie those whose privilege it was to know
and appreciate the great, true soul of
Simon Yandes. ilr. Yandes never married,
and his affections went forth in all of char-
acteristic sympathy and loyalty to those of
his own family, for whom he made every pos-
sible provision and for whom his solicitude
remained constant until the end of his life.
Plixy W. BARTiroLOJtEW. Among those
who have lent dignity and honor to the bench
and bar of the State of Indiana a place of
distinction must be accorded to Judge Bar-
tholomew, who is now presiding on the bench
of the superior court of Marion County and
«ho has been a member of the bar of the cap-
ital city of this commonwealth for more than
forty years, — a period marked by large and
distinguished accomplishment in his exacting
profession and as a member of the judiciary.
Ho is a scion of one of the old and honored
families of our great American republic and
by his life and services has well upheld the
prestige of the name which he bears. As one
of the representative legists and jurists of
the state and as one of the leading members
of his profession in the city of Indianapolis,
Judge Bartholomew is most eon.?istently ac-
corded recognition in this historical compila-
tion.
Pliny Webster Bartholomew was born at
Cabotville. Hampden County, ^Iassaehu.=etts,
on the 4th of August. 1840, and is a son of
Harris and Betsey (^loore) Bartholomew, of
whom more specific mention will be made in
following paragraphs^ in which the genealog-
ical line is traced.
William Bartholomew, son of William and
Friswede Bartholomew, of Burford, Englajid,
figures as the original American progenitor
of the family of which Judge Bartholomew is
a member. This worthy ancestor was born in
Burford, England, in 1602, and the date of
his arrival in America was September 18, 1634.
He forthwith took up his abode in. Boston,
Massachusetts, and soon afterward was made
a freeman of the colony. After a short in-
terval he removed from Boston to Ipswich,
having previously been granted the privilege
of trading with visiting vessels. In 1635 he
was granted several tracts of land near Ips-
wich, Massachusetts, and he became one of the
influential citizens of the Massachusetts col-
ony. By popular election he retained for many
years membership in the general court at Bos-
ton, in which office he was prominently con-
cerned in the historic trial of Mrs. Anna
Hutchinson, who was banished on account of
her offensive religious views. On the 11th of
January, 1650, he and one other citizen re-
ceived, under appointment, power and commis-
sion to establish a public school in Ipswich,
and he continued a member of this committee
until his removal from the town. He and his
brother Henry gave fifty shillings to estab-
lish and pay the commissioners for the col-
onies, and in 1606 he was elected trustee of
■the county, besides which he held other offices
of public trust. He finally returned to Bos-
ton, but upon leaving Ipswich he donated to
the town all the land that had previously been
granted to him at that place, with the pro-
vision or suggestion that the same was to be
used by the people for a "pasture'". This land
has been set aside in conformity with his gift
and is now known as Bartholomew Hill. He
died at Charlestown, Massachusetts, now a
part of the city of Boston, on the 18th of Jan-
uary, 1680, at the age of seventy-eight years.
His active career was devoted to various kinds
of mercantile enterprise, and the records still
extant indicate that he was successful in busi-
ness. He was a man of excellent mental equip-
ment, having been graduated in a grammar
school in his native town and having broad-
ened his mental ken through the experiences
and association of his long and useful life.
In religion he was a "dissenter", and it is
probable that at the time of his immigration
to America he was a member of the Presby-
terian church. In London, England, was
solemnized his marriage to Anna Lord, sister
of Robert Lord, who was one of the early set-
tlers of Ipswich, 'Massachusetts.
William Bartholomew (II). son of William
HISTOEY OF GREATEK INDIANAPOLIS.
aud Anna (Lord) Bartholomew, was born at
Ipswich, JCassachiisetts, in 1640, and on the
ITth of December, 16G3, he was united in
marriage, at Roxburv, Massachusetts to Mar)',
daughter of Captain Isaac and Elizabeth Jolin-
son and gran ddaugl iter of John Jonson, who
held the title of "sur\eyor of all ye king's
armies in America". Both her grandfather
and her father representetl Koxbiiry for hm
years in the general court and they held higli
social rank. Capt. Isaac -Johnson was killed
on the 19th of December, 1075, in the famous
Narragansett Fort battle witli the Indians, and
he met his death while leading; his men over
the bridge — a fallen tree — into the Indian
stronghold. Mary (Johnson) Bartholomew
was born April 24, 1G42, but the date of her
death can not be found in existing records.
As a young man William Bartholomew (II)
learned the trade of carpenter, and in lt!(i2
he gained his initial experience in connection
with the grist-milling business, with which
line of enterprise he was afterward identified
on an extensive scale. He assisted his father
'.n the operation of the mill owned by William
Brown in Boston, and later aided his uncle,
Henry Bartholomew, in the building of the
old South mills in Salem, Massachusetts. Rec-
ords show that in tlie latter part of June, 1663,
he was staying about ten miles from Medfield,
and it is conjectured that at the time he was
a millwright at Robert Hensdale's mill. In
that locality he participated in a wolf hunt and
the company of which he was a member on
this expedition had trouble with a party of
Indians, who demanded and were refused
liquor. His testimony, given on the 5th of
April, 1664, was as here noted: "John Levin,
aged twenty-four years or thereabout, & Will-
iam Bartholomew, aged twenty-three, both
sworne testiffie & sa^'e that beinge at a ffarm
at Mr. Richard Parkers, about tenn niyles
from .Medfield about the latter end of June
last, did see a company of Indians come to
ye fParm afforsaid and did request to have
Liquors ifor saving of some wolves, but Na-
thaniell Mntt wd not give ym any, but ten-
dered ym a pecke of Come apeece to every
ym ffor their paines in deliveringe the wolves,
but they refused & were so earnest fEor Liquors
that one of the deponets ws fforced to thrust
them out of doores & told ym yt they would
not be orderly he would lave handes ym." At
the time of the noted raid of the Indians on
Hatfield, on the 19th of September, 1677,
William Bartholomew was present. His
daughter Abigail, aged four years, was taken,
with twelve others, and carried through the
forests and across the lakes into Canada, where
she was kept eight months, being finally ran-
j-onied, with others, on the 23d of May, 1678,
Ijy the payment of two hundred pouncls. In
this connection is made the following extract
from a letter written by Samuel Partridge to
the general court: "Att Eleven of the Clock
in ye day time the enemy came upon Hatfield
(When ye greatest part of tiie men belonging
to the Towne were dispersed into ye nicaddws)
and Shott down 3 men within ye Touih' for-
tification, killed and took women and ciiiidrcii
& burnt houses & Barnes ^e number of which
are as followeth, — Killed' (male) 12; taken
13, including A child of Win. Bartholomew;
wounded 4."
On the atli of May, 1679, the town voted
to William Bartholomew twenty acres of land
on condition that he build a mill and settle
in the town. On the 7th of February, 1681,
he was given permission to set up a saw mill.
.\ugust 11, 1683, he was appointed to go to
.Massachusetts Bay to do his utmost endeavor
to procure a minister for the town. On jS'o-
vember 1st of the same year he was appointed
to keep ordinary in Branford. In 1684, in
consideration of his endeavors for the procure-
ment of a minister, he was granted twenty
more acres of land, and in the following year
he was associated with" John Frisbie in laying
out and staking the highway to Guilford. On
March 28, 1686 or 1687, he entered into an-
other mill agi-eement, and on January 2d of
the latter year the town objected to his dam
and wanted him to build a bridge. Ten nun-e
acres were laid out for liiin. A]n-il 27, 1687,
the town of Woodstock was anxious to obtain
his services and passed the following resolu-
tion: "The committee in the town's behalf
give and grant to William Bartholomew above
said, on condition of his building a corn mill
on the Falls below ^Muddy I'.rook ponds and
finding the town with grinding good meal
clear of gritt, as other towns have generally
found these following ))arti<-ulars, — 1. 'i'he
place at the aforesaid falls to sett a mill wth
the benefit of the streams. 2. .V fifteen acres
home lot with 15 acres rigid of upland and a
thirty acre right of meadow. 3. One hun-
dred acres of upland.-"' The Woodstock people
were also anxious to have the company of his
good wife, Mary, and the following evidences
wore given: "September 29th. It was granted
at a full meeting of the projirietors, that Will-
iam Bartholomew should have twenty acres of
land * * * provided he bring his wife and
settle upon it bv next June following."
On the 13th of July, 1689, William Bar-
tholomew was commissioned, by the governor
of the colonies of Massachusetts, ensign of the
New Roxbury Company. In October, 1690,
he M-as made chairman of the committee as-
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HISTOKY OF GJIEATER INDIANAPOLIS.
.signed to the providing for the building of a
liouse for the minister. In November of the
same year he became one of the selectmen of
tlie town. -May 21, 1691, he was made lieu-
tenant in the militia company mentioned, and
June 8, 1692, he was chosen repr-csentative at
I lie general court or assembly at Boston. This
was a very important session and he consti-
tuted a committee on the distribution of pub-
lic lands to the inhabitants. His popularity
in Woodstock was even greater than it had
been in Branford. The people of the town
conferred upon him nearly every honor at their
disposal, including those already noted. Thus
he was the first representative of the to^\Ti to
the general court and as lieutenant he com-
manded all subject to military service in the
town. He died at the age of fifty-seven years.
The next in the line of direct descent to
Judge Bartholomew, of Indianapolis, was An-
drew Bartholomew, son of William (II) and
Mary Bartholomew, just mentioned. He was
born at Roxbury, December 11, 1670. About
1698 he married Hannah, daughter of Samuel
Frisbie, of Branford. He died between 1752 and
17-55 and she died February 2, 1741. He
managed his fathers mills in Branford and
Woodstock, and after the death of his father
was associated with his brother Benjamin in
the operation of the mills. January 11, 1711,
the brothers divided their properties and An-
drew turned his attention principally to agri-
cultural pursuits, purchasing large tracts of
land in Branford, Wallingford and adjoining
towns. He removed to Wallingford prior to
1729 and there passed the residue of his life.
He was a prominent and influential citizen of
Branford and held various offices of public
trust. Both he and his wife joined the church
in that town, in the opening years of the
eighteenth century.
Andrew Bartholomew (II), son of Andrew
and Hannah (^Fris^bie) Bartholomew, was born
in Branford on the 7th of November, 1714.
In Harwinton, ^fassachusetts, on the 29th of
October, 1740. he married Sarah Catlin. of
that place, and he died March 6, 1776. His
wife was bom June 16, 1719, and died De-
cember 1, 1789. He was a clergyman and a
man of fine intellectual attainments, having
been graduated in Yale College as. a meml>er
i>f the class of 17.31. He was called as min-
ister of the church at Harwinton October 21,
17.38, and for settling there he was given one
Inindrcd acres of land and one Imndred pounds
in labor, the latter annuallv. He accepted', and
was ordained October 4, 1738, continuing his
pastorate at Harwinton about thirty-five rears.
In 1773 or 1774 he- released the inhabitants
from paying his salary and they in turn re-
leased him and his wife from the payment of
taxes. He there remained, a loved and honored
pastor, until his death.
Andrew Bartholomew (III), son of Rev. An-
drew and Sarah (Catlin) Bartholomew, was
born in Harwinton on the 8th of August, 1745.
December 27, 1769, he married Sarah Wiard,
of Farmington. She was born November 25,
1745, and died September 5, 1813. As his
second wife he married Eunice Clapp, and his
death occurred July 9, 1821. He held the of-
fice of key-keeper, sealer of measures, land ap-
praiser, etc., for many years. He took the
oath of fidelity April 13, 1778, and he served
as captain of the militia. In 1796 he pur-
chased one hundred acres of land in Mont-
gomery, Massachusetts, whither he removed,
and he later purchased other land, besides be-
coming the owner of grist, saw, shingle and
cloverseed mills.
Harris Bartholomew, son of Andrew and
Sarah ^ Wiard) Bartholomew, was born in
Montgomery, Massachusetts, on the 28th of
]\lay, 1785.' On the 26th of January, 1809,
he married Irene Parks, who was born March
14, 1789, and who died in Montgonier\' Octo-
ber 25, 1853. He was one of the representa-
tive farmers of Montgomery during his entire
active career and held the inviolable esteem
of the community, in which he was called upon
to serve in various offices of public trust, in-
cluding those of selectman and school com-
missioner. He died in Montgomery on the
28th of March 1860.
Harris Bartholomew. Jr., son of Harris and
Irene (Parks) Bartholomew, was born in
Montgomery, Massachusetts, on the 11th of
September,'l813. On the 16th of April, 1834,
was solemnized his marriage to Miss Betsey
Moore, daughter of Pliny Moore, of Mont-
gomery. She was born May 22, 1808, and died
September 3, 1846. On the 14th of Decem-
ber, 1847, at Easthampton, Massachusetts, he
wedded Miss Deborah Spaulding Coleman.
She was born at Shelbume, Massachusetts, on
the 11th of August, 1827. Mr. Bartholomew
was for many years an influential citizen and
lending merchant of Northampton, Ma.ssachu-
setts. and he served as a member of the state
legislature in 1850-51. From that place he
removed to Watertown, New York, where be
was engaged in the shoe business for some time
and whence he finally removed to Canton, that
state, where he engaged in the drv-goods busi-
ness. Later he conducted a general store at
Hermon, New York, and while a resident of
that place he served as village trustee and
school commissioner, besides holding other po-
sitions of trust. In 1869 he disposed of his
business in Hermon and removed to Indian-
HISTOKY OF GREATER mDIANAPOLlS.
737
apoli;?, Indiana, where for some time he was
associated with his sou Harris 'SI. in the whole-
sale tea and tobacco business, under the firm
name of Bartholomew & Son. At the time of
his retirement from this line of enterprise the
firm's place of business was at 23 East Mar\'-
land street. Having thus severed his connec-
tion with business affairs in the capital city,
he removed to Cambridge City, this state,
where he was engaged in the shoe business
for some time and where he served as elder
in the Presbyterian church. A few years prior
to his death he returned to Indianapolis, where
he became proprietor of a shoe store at the
old No. 465 South ileridian street, where he
eontintied in business until his demise, which
occurred on the 27th of March, 1887. His
second wife passed away on the 25th day of
JSTovember, 1905, at Westfield, and was buried
at Crown Hill, Indianapolis. Of the four
children of the first marriage one is living,
and of the children of the second union two
are living, ilr. Bartholomew was a man of
upright character, sturdy integrity of purpose
and gracious personality, and to him was ever
accorded the fullest measure of popular con-
fidence and esteem. His political allegiance
was given to the Democratic party and he was
a lifelong member of the Presbyterian church,
in whose work he took an active part.
Pliny Webster Bartholomew, the immediate
subject of this review, was the third in order
of birth of the children of Harris and Betsey
(^loore) Bartholomew, and when he was about
nine months old his parents removed from his
native town of Cabotville, Massachusetts, to
Easthampton, that state, where they main-
tained their home for several years, after which
they located in Xorthampton, Massachusetts,
where they resided until Pliny \V. was about
fifteen years old, so that it was in that place
that he received his rudimentary education.
At the age noted, owing to the business re-
verses of his father, who then removed from
Northampton, Judge Bartholomew was thrown
largely upon his own resources, under which
conditions he bravely faced the responsibilities
devolving upon him. and he initiated his in-
dependent career by securing employment as
clerk in a grocery and meat market in Xorth-
amjiton. where he was thus engaged about two
vcnrs. In the meanwhile his father had taken
up his residence and engaged in business at
Cnnton. New York, and the subject of this
review was there employed in his father's store
about one year, at the expiration of which the
family removed to Hermon, that state.
Endowed with an alert and recentive mind.
.Tudsre Bartholomew was early animated with
nniliifi'iii to secure a college education, of whose
advantages he was fully appreciative. With
this end in view he passed the required exam-
ination which made him eligible for pedagogic
honors, and by his labors as a teacher in the
eoimtry schools he earned the money which
enabled him to initiate his college work. In
1S61 he was matriculated in Union College, at
Schenectady, New York, in which he was
graduated in 1861, with the honors of his
class. He received at this time the degree of
Bachelor of Arts and three years later his
alma mater conferred upon him the degree of
Master of Arts. Throughout his collegiate
course he defrayed his own expenses by teach-
ing school at intervals and by working at
various occupations during his vacations.
After leaving college Judge Bartholomew
located in the village of Ballston Spa, New
York, where he devoted somewhat more than
two years to reading law under effective pre-
ceptorship. He passed the required examina-
tion for admission to the bar, at Schenectady,
New York, on the 3d of May, 1865, and forth-
with he entered into a professional partner-
ship with his honored preceptor, Judge Jesse
L'amoreaux, of Ballston Spa, an alliance which
obtained until the latter part of November,
1866, when he came to Indianapolis, Indiana,
which city has since represented his home and
the field of his abla and successful endeavors
in his profession. Here he has been continu-
ously engaged in practice during the long in-
tervening period, save for such time as he has
served on the bench of the superior court, and
his professional business has been large and
varied and of important order. As counsel he
has been identified espeeiallv with many eele-
lirated cases presented in the courts of the
state, as well as in the federal courts, and
he is known for his profound and exact knowl-
edge of the law and precedents. He has
labored with all of ardor and fidelity in his
chosen profession, ever showing a deep appre-
ciation of its dignity and responsibility and
ever observing its ethical tenets in the minutest
details. The chief elements of character con-
tributing to his success at the bar and upon
the bench are . his sound common sense, his
knowledge of human nature and clear intui-
tion of the credibility and force of evidence,
his intellectual integrity and rectitude, his
force of will and steady, untiring perseverance,
and the conscientious thoroughness of his in-
vestigation. Upon the bench his .statement of
facts is condensed and lucid; his reasoning
upon the questions of law or fact is terse,
logical and forcible — expressed in language of
simplicity and directness and entirely free
from ambiguity. With an essentially judicial
mind, his record on the bench has i>een most
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
admiriiblo. Jn 181(0 he was elected judge of
tlie superior court of Marion County, and his
term expired on the 26th of October, ISOO.
On the 3d of November, 1908, he was again
called to the bench of the superior court, upon
which he is now presiding, and his term will
exj)ire on the 12th of November, 1912.
In politics Judge Bartholomew is a stalwart
advocate of the principles of the Democratic
party, in whose cause he has given most ef-
fective service, and he is now a member of
the Indiana Democrat'c Club. ' He and his
wife are zealous members of the Memorial
Presbyterian Church, in which he has been
an elder for a number of years past. He is
also a member of the National Presbyterian
Brotherhood. He is identified with American
Bar Association and the Indiana State Bar As-
sociation, which latter he has represented as a
delegate to the conventions' of the former, in
which he was at one time vice-president for
Indiana. He is affiliated with the Knights of
Pythias, of which he is past grand represen-
tative in the grand lodge of the state, ajjd
he is also a past grand dictator and supreni'^
representative of the Knights of Honor, of
whose grand lodge in Indiana he is now treas-
iirer. As a citizen he is essentially nn
sive and public-spirited, and he has shown a
lively interest in all that has tended to con-
serve the civic and material advancement of
the fair capital city in which he has so long
maintained his home and in which he is hon-
ored as an able lawyer and Jurist and as a
man leal and loyal in all the relations of life.
At Crawfordsville, Indiana, on the 30th of
January, 1873, Judge Bartholomew was united
in marriage to Miss Sarah Belle Smith, a
daughter of George W. and Mary (Cromwell '>
Smith, the latter of whom was a daughter of
Colonel Joshua Cromwell, of Lexington, Ken-
tucky. In conclusion is entered a brief record
concerning the children of Judge and Mrs.
Bartholomew.
Belle Isadora was born in Indianapolis.
April 2. 1876, and in this city, on the 27th
of October, 1897, she was united in marriage
to Allin Wright Hewitt. They now reside in
Hackensack, New Jersey, and have four chil-
dren, namelv: Arthnr Cromwell, bom at East
St. Louis, Illinois. August 17, 1898; Helen
TiOuise, bom in- Indianapolis, Indiana, June
8, 1900: Sarah Lucile, born at Bogota, New
Jersey, February 10, 1905; and Dorothy Belle,
born at Hackensack, New Jersey, August 13,
1907. Pliny Webster Bartholomew, Jr., was
born October 4, 1880, and died October 13.
1884. Harris Sherley Bartholomew was bom
April 2.'). 188."), is now employed in the audit-
ing department of the Bruswick-Balke-Collcn-
der Company, of New York Cit^-, and resides
in Hackensack, New Jersey.
Louis G. Deschi.er. Among those who
have rendered a due quota of aid in the up-
building of the "Greater Indianapolis" Louis
G. Deschler occupies a position of no minor
importance, since he is identified, in a cap-
italistic and executive way, with a number
of important industrial and commercial en-
terprises and is known as one of the alert,
progressive and public-spirited citizens of
the fair capital city. His precedence as one
of the representative business men of Indian-
apolis is the more gratifying to contemplate
not only by reason of the fact that he is a
native son of this city, but especially also ou
the score that he has attained to success and
influence through his own well directed ef-
forts, having initiated his association with
practical business affairs when a mere boy.
Louis G. Deschler was born in Indianapolis
on January 24, 1865, and is a son of Fred-
erick Joseph and Louise (Lease) Deschler,
both of whom were bom in Germany. The
former passed the closing years of his life in
Indianapolis, where he died October 6, 1897,
and here the mother still maintains her
home. The father took up his residence in
Indianapolis in 1853 and he was long one
of the prominent German business men of
this city, where he was held in high esteem
and where he was an active member of many
of the leading German societies. He was a
member of the Democratic party till Bryan
was first nominated for president, at w-hich
time Mr. Deschler joined the Republican
ranks, not being a believer in free silver.
Both he and his wife were communicants of
the Catholic Church.
Their son was reared to manhood in In-
dianapolis, which has ever represented his
home and which has witnessed his rise from
obscurity to a position as one of the substan-
tial capitalists and successful business men of
the state. As a child he attended a private
German school and for a time was a student
in a Catholic parochial school, but his edu-
cation has largely been gained through self-
discipline and under the direction of that
wisest of all head-masters, experience. When
but thirteen years of age Mr. Deschler left
school and initiated his independent career
by becoming salesman in a cigar stand. He
soon gained a discriminating knowledge of
the business and finally assumed charge of
the cigar stand in the old Bates House, w-hich
occupied a portion of the site of the present
metropolitan Cla>T>ool Hotel. In June. 1883,
when eighteen years of age, Mr. Deschler pur-
chased the cigar stand in the Bates House,
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOTJS.
r39
borrowing the money with which to effect
this transaction, and he devoted liimself as-
siduously to the work of promoting the busi-
ness by every legitimate means. His genial
personality and careful and courteous service
gained to him still stronger hold upon the
esteem of the traveling public as well as that
of the local trade, and he made his business
very successful, as is evident when we revert
to the fact that in the ownership of the cigar
stand mentioned is to be ascribed the nucleus
of the ample fortune which Mr. Deschler has
since gained through his energy, aggressive
business policy and sterling integrity of pur-
pose. He is now one of the leading whole-
sale and retail tobacco dealers in Indiana, and
from his wholesale establishment is main-
tained a corps of six traveling salesmen. In
1907 he erected his present fine building,
known as the Deschler building, at 135 South
Illinois street, at a cost of sixtj' thousand
dollars, and this is the headquarters of his
wholesale business. The building is con-
structed of brick and stone, is thoroughly
modern in architectural design and equip-
ment and is one of the handsome business
blocks of the city, being three stories in
height, ilr. Deschler maintains six retail
cigar stores in Indianapolis, and among the
number is the one in the Cla}T)ool Hotel, the
lineal successor of the business he there main-
tained when he began his independent busi-
ness career. He also has a well equipped re-
tail store in the City of Lafayette, Indiana.
Mr. Deschler is one of the stockholders of
the Indiana Hotel Company and is also one
of the seven members of the directorate of
this corporation, which erected and which
also owns and manages the magnificent Clay-
pool Hotel, the finest in the State of Indiana
and one of the best in the middle west. Mr.
Deschler has other capitalistic and business
interests in his native city, is essentially pro-
gressive and enterprising, and as a citizen has
the highest civic ideals and loyalty. His po-
litical support is given to the Republican
party, though he has never cared to enter the
arena of practical politics, and he is a com-
municant of the Catholic Church, in whose
faith he was reared. He is a member of the
l^Iarion, Columbia, Commercial and Country
Clubs, all representative organizations of the
capital city, and of the Board of Trade, and
also holds membership in the German House,
the Indianapolis Maennerchor, the Deutscher
Klub und Musikverein. and other leading
German societies. He is well known in the
city and state, and his circle of friends is
limited only by that of his acquaintances.
Dr. John B. Long. Indianapolis is the
Vol. 11—7
home of many prominent members of the
medical profession, and numbered among this
coterie is Dr. John B. Long, a successful prac-
titioner here for many years. He was born
in Marion County, Indiana, near the city of
Clermont, but received his early educational
training in the public schools of Marion
County, this state, and in Butler College.
His medical studies were pursued first under
the instructions of Dr. Joseph Eastman in
Indianapolis, and following his graduation
in medicine in 1882 he began the practice
of his chosen profession in Indianapolis, where
he has won a reputation as a skilled physi-
cian. His offices are at 760 W. New York
street. Dr. Long served as professor and
demonstrator of anatomy for fifteen years
in the Central College of Physicians and Sur-
geons, and as professor of obstetrics in the
same institution for three years. He is a
post graduate of the New York Medical Col-
lege, served one year as a member of the
Indianapolis Board of Health during the ad-
ministration of Mayor Denny, and is a mem-
ber of the Marion County Medical Society,
the State Medical Society, the American Med-
ical Association, Axicient Landmarks Lodge
No. 319, F. & A. M.; Indiana Consistory,
S. P. R. S. ; Murat Temple, A. A. 0. N. M. S.,
and since 1882 has been a member of the
Central Christian Church. His politics are
Republican.
Dr. Long is a son of William P. Long, who
was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, Decem-
ber 10, 1825. He came to Rush County, In-
diana, with his parents, Daniel and Rachel
(Sparks) Long, in 1832, where they located
on a farm. On the 13th of March, 1848,
William P. Long came to Pike Township,
Marion County, where he lived in a little
log cabin until 1854, in that year building
and moving into the home in which his son
John was born on the following 20th of Au-
gust. He continued to farm his land there
until 1907, when he retired from active pur-
suits, and although he yet claims his residence
at this old homestead the greater part of his
time is spent with his son in Indianapolis.
He has held many of the township offices, and
he has been a Republican since the organiza-
tion of that partJ^ During fifty years or
more he has been a member of the Christian
Church at Clermont, one of its elders and
devoted workers. In Rush County, Indiana,
February 24, 1848. William P. Long was
married to Sarah Reeve, born in Fleming
County, Kentucky. October 22, 1827, and she
is now deceased. This union was blessed by
the birth of seven children, b^t three of the
number died young, and the four now living
740
HISTOKY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
are: Elizabeth, the wife of Dr. H. F. Har-
naday ; -John B. ; Benjamin F., who is mar-
ried and living in Indianapolis, and Mary, the
wife of Franklin Johnson.
Dr. John B. Long on the 20th of August,
1878, was married' to Margaret L. Hunt, born
in Rush County, Indiana, May 14, 1854, a
daughter of Abijah W. and Margaret (Ste-
phen) Hunt, the father dying in 1892, when
eighty-three years of age, and the mother in
1873. They reared a large family of children,
the daughter Margaret having been the thir-
teenth born. Mr. Hunt was a farmer in Rush
County. The four children which have been
born to Dr. and Mrs. Long are : Lulu E., the
wife of Frederick J. Niedhamer, living in In-
dianapolis: William Hunt, a graduate of But-
ler College and the Indiana Medical College
with the class of 1908, and nt)w practicing in
this city; Frank E., a graduate of the Phila-
delphia Dental College with the class of 1907
and now in practice in this city, and married
to Eda Steeg; and Mabel C, a graduate of
Butler College. Dr. Long has given to his
children splendid educational advantages, and
he may well be proud of the high station
which they now occupy in life.
Francis Patrick Bailey. Indianapolis has
bt'cn the home of Francis Patrick Bailey since
he was fourteen years of age. so that the com-
munity has had a fair opportunity of estimat-
ing his strength and uprightness of character;
with the result that nothing but good has ever
been said regarding him. His ability as a busi-
ness man has been especially prominent in the
field as a furniture manufacturer, and for
more than thirty years he has been one of the
leading forces in the development of the L. W.
Ott Manufacturing Company, of which he is
now the vice-president. Mr. Bailey is a native
of Cincinnati. Ohio, where he was bom March
11, 1857. to Michael and Marcella (Dailey)
Bailey. His parents were both natives of Ire-
land, and the father was born at No. 2 Duke
street, Dublin, which is one of the picturesque,
interesting and historical spots of that city.
The old Bailey house located there is one of
the most famous hostelries of that city and is
still maintained in first class style. Mr.
Bailey's parents were married in this section
of Dublin, and came to tlio United States soon
afterwards. They first located in Boston,
where they remained about three vears, whence
they removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, which, as
stated, was the birthplace of Francis Patrick.
In 1871 the parents located in Indianapolis,
where they passed the remainder of their days
at 20'3fi Capitol avenue, north.
Frnncis Patrick Bailey was in his fourteenth
year when his parents came t« Indianapolis,
and that city has since been his home. At
the time of their arrival business men were
agitated by a great real estate boom, and young
liailey became a part of it by entering the em-
ploy of a leading house engaged in that line.
He remained with this concern for a number
of years, and then engaged in the furniture
business, his identification with which has con-
tinued until the present time. At the outset
of his career he accepted a minor position with
the L. W. Ott ilanufacturing Company, a
house which had been established by John Ott
in 1850 who was one of the pioneers in the
manufacture of furniture in Indianapolis. The
founder was succeeded by his son Lewis W. Ott,
who in turn died in 1885. At this time the
business was incorporated under the firm style
of The L. W. Ott Manufacturing Company, of
which W. F. Kuhn became president and is
still the incumbent of that office. Of late
years the company has been giving especial at-
tention to the manufacture of leather and up-
holstered goods, and has earned such a high
reputation in this line that its output is now
shipped to all parts of the world. At various
world's fairs and other minor exhibits the L.
W. Ott Manufacturing Company has been
awarded first class medals both for the sub-
stantial make of its furniture and for its ar-
tistic qualities. It is therefore a high honor
to be connected with an institution of this
kind.
Speaking more personally it may be stated
that Mr. Bailey's religious faith is that of Bo-
man Catholicism. For more than twenty-five
years he has also been found among the stanch
supporters of total abstinence. He is a man
of rugged constitution and fine physique,
weighing about two hundred pounds, and is
a striking illustration in defense of temper-
ance, which he has so long advocated.
In 1883 Mr. Bailey married Miss Emma
Ott, daughter of John and Julia (Reproth)
Ott, both of whom were natives of Bavaria,
Germany. John Ott, the founder of the busi-
ness of which Mr. Bailey is now the vice-presi-
dent, as has been stated, fixed his early resi-
dence at what is now West Washington, be-
tween Senate and Capitol avenues, and this lo-
cation was the birthplace of his daughter, who
is now Mrs. Francis P. Bailev. Mr. and Mrs.
Bailey have become the parents of Francis P..
Jr.. John J., August L., Julia M. and Emma.
The sons are all engaged in the manufacture
of metal and furniture polish, and are pros-
pering as members of the Crown !Manufactur-
ing Company.
Charles N. "Wn.UAJis. Commanding a
post of importance in connection with finan-
cial aflFairs in the capital city of his nativ.>
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
"41
state, Charles N. "Williams, who is president
of the Farmers Tnist Company, of Indian-
apolis, is one of the representative business
men and liberal and loyal citizens of the
city, where he stands exemplar of that' pro-
gressive spirit which is making for the fur-
ther advancement of the "Greater Indian-
apolis".
Charles N. Williams M'as born on a farm
near Dayton, Tippecanoe County, Indiana,
on the 10th of April, 1856, and is a son of
Henry and Martha (Barnum) Williams, both
of whom were born in the State of Connecti-
cut, being representatives of old and honored
families of New England, the cradle of much
of our national history. For a number of
years Henry Williams was engaged in the
wholesale dry-goods business in the City of
Lafayette, Indiana, when he finally removed
to Crawfordsville, where he continued in the
same line of enterprise and where he long
held prestige as one of the honored and in-
fluential citizens and able business men of that
section of the state. Both he and his wife
continued to reside in CrawfordsviUe until
their death. Of their two children the sub-
.ject of this review is the younger, and Laura
is the wife of Benjamin F. Crabbs of Craw-
fordsville. Mrs. Martha (Barnum) Williams
was first married to John L. Covin, who was
a native of Baltimore, Maryland, and who
was for a numbei* of years engaged in the
retail drj^-goods business in Quincy, Illinois,
where his death occurred. Of the five chil-
dren of this union one is living.
Charles N. Williams was afforded the ad-
rantages of the excellent public schools of
Crawfordsville, after which he was for three
years a student in Wabash College. After
leaving college he was employed for three
years in the postoffice at Crawfordsville, and
thereafter he was there engaged in the real
estate and loan business until 1886, when
he became state representative for Indiana
of the Provident Life & Trust Company, of
Philadelphia, having charge of the investing
of their capital in approved farm and city
loans in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. In 1881
he was one of the organizers of the Citizens
National Bank of Crawfordsville, and he con-
tinued a member of its directorate until June,
1896, when he removed to Indianapolis and
established the private banking house of C.
N. Williams & Company. He built up a
prosperous business and the same was con-
tinued under the title noted until 1905, when
he organized the Farmers Trust Company,
which absorbed the banking business and
which is incorporated with a capital stock of
$100,000. This is one of the ably managed
and eminently solid financial institutions of
the state and Mr. Williams has been presi-
dent of the same from the time of its in-
corporation. Since 190.3 he has also been In-
diana state representative of the celebrated
Prudential Life Insurance Company, of New-
ark, New Jersey, and has direct control of
the company investments in Indiana.
In polities Mr. AVilliams is found arrayed
as a .stalwart in the camp of the Republican
party, and he has given effective service in
the promotion of its cause. For eight years
he was chairman of the Republican county
committee of Montgomery county, and he
marshaled his forces with marked ability in
the various local and state campaigns dur-
ing this period. He is affiliated with Mont-
gomery Lodge No. 50, Free & Accepted Ma-
sons; Crawfordsville Chapter No. 40, Royal
Arch Masons; Montgomery Council No. 34,
Royal & Select Masters, and Athens Chap-
ter No. 27, Order of the Eastern Star; Craw-
fordsville Commandery No. 25, Knights
Templars, all of which organizations are lo-
cated in Crawfordsville; and in Indianapolis
he is identified with ilurat Temple, Ancient
Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine.
On the 6th of April, 1897, Mr. WiUiams.
was united in marriage to Miss Margaret
Doll, who was born and reared in Lafayette,
Indiana, a daughter of the late James Doll,
a representative citizen of that place.
John N. Hurtt, M. D. A distinguished
member of the medical profession in the cap-
ital city is Dr. John N. Hurty, for the last
fifteen years state health commissioner and a
member of the faculty of his alma mater,
the Department of Medicine of the Indiana
University. Dr. Hurty is a native of
Lebanon, Ohio, where he was born on the
21st of February, 1852, and he was the fourth
in order of birth of the three sons and two
daughters of Professor Josiah and Anne I.
(Walker) Hurty, both of whom were bom
in the State of New York, the former of Ger-
man and the latter of English lineage. They
were reared and educated in the old Empire
state and in the City of Rochester their mar-
riage was solemnized. The father was a
scholar and man of fine intellectual attain-
ments and was for many years prominent in
the field of popular education. He removed
from New York to Ohio, where he foUoweil
the pedagogic profession until 1855, when he
came to Indiana and located in Richmond,
which was then a fair sized town, and he
there became the first superintendent of the
public schools of the town. Later he was
similarly and most successfully engaged at
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
Liberty, North Madison, Rising Sim and Law-
renceburg, and he was one of the well known
and highly honored pioneer teachers of the
state. He" passed the latter days of his long
and useful life in the State of Mississippi,
whither he had gone in the hope of recuperat-
ing his health, and there he died at the age
of seventy-five years. His devoted wife was
summoned to the life eternal in 1881, at the
age of seventy-nine years, and of their chil-
dren four are now living. Professor Hurty
was affiliated with the time-honored Masonic
fraternity and gave his support to the cause
of the Republican party from the time of
its organization until his death. Both he and
his wife were zealous members of the Pres-
byterian Church.
Dr. John N. Hurty gained his early edu-
cational discipline in the public schools of
the several towns in which his father was en-
gaged as superintendent of the same, and in
1872 he completed one year of the prescribed
technical course in the Philadelphia College
of Pliarmacy & Chemistry, in the City of
Philadelphia. In 1881 he received from Pur-
due University, at Lafayette, Indiana, the de-
gree of Doctor of Pharmacy. He had the
distinction of being the founder of the school
of pharmacy of this university, and he was
its head for a period of two years, within
which he brought the department up to a
high standard of efficiency.
The doctor's thorough training in the close-
ly allied profession of pharmacy had well
fortified him for further study in preparing
himself definitely for the medical profession,
and after taking a course of lectures in Jef-
ferson Medical College, in the City of Phila-
delphia, he entered the Medical College of
Indiana, in Indianapolis, where he completed
the prescribed course and was graduated as
a member of the class of 1891, duly receiv-
ing his well earned degree of Doctor of Medi-
cine and coming forth specially well equipped
for the exacting work of his chosen vocation.
As a physician he has since been engaged in
the active practice of preventive medicine.
Since 1897 he has held the chair of hygiene
and sanitary science in the Medical College
of Indiana, now the inedical department of
Indiana University, and he is one of the
members of the faculty of this weU ordered
institution. In 1894, without solicitation or
suggestion on his part. Dr. Hurty was ap-
pointed secretary of the Indiana State Board
of Health, which position he still holds. He
is thoroughly en rapport with his profession
and continues a elcse student of the science
of hygiene. He is a member of the American
Medical Association, the American Public
Health Association, the American Associati.on
for the Advancement of Science, the Amer-
ican Pharmaceutical Association, the Indiana
State Medical Society and the Indianapolis
]Medical Society. He is the author of a school
text book on hygienic subjects, the same being
entitled "Life with Health". He has also
contributed to the leadmg periodical publi-
cations of his profession and has been called
upon to prepare and read many papers be-
fore the various" professional associations with
which he is identified. He was superintend-
ent of the hygienic exhibit at the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition, held in the City of St.
Louis, and had much to do with bringing the
same into favorable attention on the part of
both the profession and the laity. In poli-
tics he is a supporter of the principles and
policies for which the Republican party
stands sponsor, but he has never manifested
aught of ambition for the honors or emolu-
ments of political office.
On the 25th of October, 1877, Dr. Hurty
was united in marriage to Miss Ethel John-
stone, who was born and reared in Indian-
apolis, being a daughter of Dr. John F. John-
stone. The two children of this union are
Gilbert J. and Anne M. Hurty.
J. Richard Francis. A representative busi-
ness man of the city of Indianapolis, where
he ifs president of the Francis Pharmacy Com-
pany and chemist for the Cleveland, Cincin-
nati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company,
J. Richard Francis has attained distinction
and wide reputation in the line of his profes-
sion and his fine retail establishment in the
capital city is one of the best equipped and
most ably managed drug stores in the middle
west, having facilities of the highest grade and
affording a service that has called forth the
most unequivocal commendation on the part
of the medical fraternity. Mr. Francis is an
authority in the domain of pharmaceutical-
chemistry, in which his researches and original
investigations have been wide and varied, and
in the practical field he has produced results
that have contributed to the wellbeing of hu-
maiiity in no insignificant sense. Of the es-
tablishment of the Francis Pharmacy Company
the following pertinent statements have been
made: "The prescription department ranks
among the very best in the middle west, the
laboratory has no superior in the city or in
the state. The work done in both is alwavs
performed with the utmost regard for the
public good as well as in affording punctilious
servite to patrons". Mr. Francis has concen-
trated distinctive technical and business en-
ergies and through this medium gained con-
crete results of worth and magnitude.
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
743
■\Ve of this restless,, vigorous twentieth cen-
turv can 2iot afford to hold in light esteem the
lives and services of those who have wronght
uobly in the past, from which has come the
beneficent heritage of the present. j\Ir. Fran-
cis may revert with satisfaction to his genealogy
in both the agnatic and maternal lines, and
the name which he bears has been identified
with the annals of American history from the
colonial epoch to the present time. Strong
men and true; gentle and gracious women,
have represented the name as one generation
has followed another on to the stage of life's
activities, and loyalty and patriotism have been
in distinctive evidence, while the family
escutcheon has ever been a symbol of integrity,
honor and usefulness.
The original progenitors of the Francis fam-
ily in America were three brothers of the name
wlio came to the new world from their native
AVales, one settling in the State of New York,
one in New Jersev and the third in Virginia.
From the New Jersey representative the sub-
ject of this review traces his line of direct
descent. His great-grandfather was a valiant
soldier in the Continental line in the War of
the Revolu'ion. His grandfather Richard
Francis became seized of a large landed es-
tate in New Jersey and was a citizen of prom-
inence and influence in his community, having
served in various offices of public trust and
having been known as a most devout Christian
and thorough Bible student. His wife, whose
maiden name was Anna Carr, was a member
of an old and honored family of New Jersey
and one distantly related to the Bonaparte
family of which the great Napoleon was a
member. Richard and Anna (Carr) Francis
had a large family of children, and of these
Dr. Joseph Francis was the father of him
whose name initiates this review.
Dr. Joseph Francis, long numbered among
the able physicians and surgeons of the State
of Indiana, was born in Monmouth County,
New Jersey, where he was reared to maturity
and where he secured his early educational
discipline. Concerning his early career the
following somewhat intimate record is well
worthy of perpetuation in this article: "His
father was a very strict disciplinarian, and
because of a thrashing administered to him
by his father, Joseph, who had no small meas-
ure of the paternal spirit, left home at the
age of eighteen years, coming west to Indiana
in company with his brother, Dr. Edward T.
Francis. The boys had grit and ability, and
they determined to make their way to success
in spite of the adverse circumstances then pre-
vailing in their new surroundings. They set-
tled in Shelby Countv, Indiana, where they
found employment in cutting cordwood for a
prominent farmer of the locality. Being
totally unaccustomed to such work, they found
it particularly severe, but they kept at it so
bravely that they won the good will and es-
teem of their employer, 5lr. Banker, who
joined with his wife in inviting the young
men to make their home with him. The of-
fer was accepted, and the Francis brothers
took up the study of medicine with Mr. Bank-
ers sons, Wilson and Adoniram,- — all four
young men becoming physicians. They all at-
tended the Hartsville Classical School, an In-
diana institution of learning famous in that
day."
Joseph Pl-ancis was graduated in the Ohio
^ledical College, at Cincinnati, from which in-
stitution he received his degree of Doctor of
!^fedicine, and his alma mater offered him the
chair of chemistry after his graduation, but
he refused the flattering overture to establish
himself in the private practice of his profes-
sion. He located at Fountaintown, Shelby
County, Indiana, and there he maintained his
home during the residue of his long and sig-
nally useful life, laboring with all of zeal of
devotion in the service of suffering humanity
and gaining the veneration and love of the
community in which he thus proved himself
one of the world's noble army of workers. He
was often urged to seek a wider field of labor,
this course being advised by fellow practition-
ers who recognized his great technical skill
and abilitv, but he preferred to remain in his
chosen field, where for thirty years he rode
and wrote, doing much to aid and encourage
his fellow men and to bring them up to a
higher plane of living, as his influence was as
potent in a moral way as in the line of his
profession. Concerning him the following ap-
preciative statements have been written: "He
was a high type of the devoted family physi-
cian, possessing a most comprehensive knowl-
edge of general materia medica and thera-
peutics and in this respect being far ahead
of his average professional contemporary. He
was regarded with special confidence as a re-
liable obstetrician. At one time he did not
remove his clothing for sixteen days. He was
attending thirty-two cases of typhoid-pneu-
monia, and lost but one,— a wonderful record
indeed. Dr. Elder, for manv years secretary
of the Indiana Medical College, practiced in
the same neighborhood with Dr. Francis and
they became warm friends. When Dr. Elder
located in Indianapolis he tried to induce Dr.
Francis to accompany him hither, as his part-
ner, as he, in common with other" friends and
admirers of Dr. Francis, believed that the lat-
ter could win a high place in the profession
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
iiiiilci' luoro favcjrabl'j circumstances. But lie
jirefeneil the Jocatiou of his first choice and
continued liiere ujitil his death, which oc-
curred on tlie 14th of March, 1893." None
could ask to liavc acconiphshed a noble.'- life
work than did this unassuming, kindly and
xmseifish physician, and the results of his serv-
ices abide in the tender reverence accorded
])is memory in the community in which he so
long lived and labored to goodly ends. Dr.
Francis married Miss Catherine Mutz, daugh-
ter of Hon. .Jacob and Anna Maria (Snepii
]\rutz, and their only child was J. Richard
Francis, the immediate subject of this sketch.
Dr. Francis was a Republican in his political
adhcrency and he was zealous in the work of
the Methodist Church. Mrs. Francis is living
ni'ar Shelbyville, Indiana, and is an active
member of the English Lutheran Church.
Data relative to the genealogy of Mr. Fran-
ces in the maternal line are properly given
])lace at this juncture. Hon. Jacob Mutz, his
maternal grandfather, was born in Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania, being a son of
and Mary (Frybarger) Mutz, the former of
whom was born m Germany and the latter
in Switzerland. When he was about four
years of age his parents removed from the
old Keystone state to Ohio, taking up their
residence in Miami County, that state, near
the close of the second decade of the nine-
teenth century, and there passing the remain-
der of their lives. In that county Jacob Mutz
was reared to manliood on the pioneer farm,
and as a young man he came to Indiana and
took up his residence in Shelby County, where
1)0 married Anna Maria Snepp, who likewise
was a native of Lancaster County, Pennsyl-
vania, being a representative of one of the
old and honored families of that section of
the Keystone commonwealth. Jacob Mutz and
his wife continued in loving companionship
down the pathway of life for half a century
and she died in October, 1898, shortly after
they had celebrated their golden wedding.
When venerable in years Mr. Mutz contracted
a second marriage. Of the ten children of
the first marriage si.\ are now living.
Hon. Jacob 'Mutz was one of the prominent
and influential citizens of his section of the
state and was a leader in the ranks of the
]')('inocratic i)arty in Shelby County. He was
tlnee times elected to represent his county in
the state legislature and was well known in
other pnlilic capacities, having served for four-
teen venrs as a member of the Indiana Stat(>
Board of .Agriculture and having also been a
nu>mber of the board of trusti-es of Purdue
I'niversity. He was a prominent member of
the Masonic fraternilv. and was one of the
pillars of the St. George Lutheran Church,
near Edinburg, Shelby County, in which he
was a zealous and devoted worker and in which
lie was the organizer of the Sunday school,
which remains an honor to his memory. He
was a man of broad and charitable views,
kindly and tolerant in his attitude, and gener-
ous in his benevolences and general helpful-
ness. His >leath occurred on the 6th of Sep-
tember, 190t, when he was nearly eighty-three
years of age, and he is remembered with ven-
eration as a man of -sterling character and as
a worthy pioneer of the Hoosier common-
wealth.
J. Jiichard Francis, whose name initiates this
article, was l>orn at Fountaintown , Slieiby
County, Indiana, on the 31st of December,
1870, and his early educational discipline was
secured in the public schools of his native vil-
lage. In 1887 he was matriculated in tlie jire-
paratory department of Purdue University, at
Lafayette, Indiana, in which he completed the
prescribed course and was graduated in 1893,
on the day which was saddened to him by
the death of his venerated father. He re-
ceived the degree of Graduate of Pharmacy.
It was the wish of his father that he should
enter the medical profession, but upon his
graduation the dean of his alma mater recom-
m.ended him to Dr. John N. Hurty, of Indian-
apolis, for the position of assistant in the lat-
ter's analytical laboratory. Mr. Francis came
to Indianapolis and became the valued assist-
ant of Dr. Hurty, with whom he continued
in this capacity until the doctor was elected
to the otfice of secretary of the state board of
health, in 189.5, when Mr. Francis was ad-
mitted to partnership in the business and as-
sumed the management of the drug store,
which was then conducted under the title of
the J. N. Hurty Pharmacv Company. Tlie
following pertinent statements in this connec-
tion are entitled to perpetuation in this article:
"The business of this concern has always been
conducted on a most honorable basis, and its
name, either under the original or the pres-
ent regime, has never been used in connection
with the popularization or advertisement of
patent medicines or in connection with ques-
tionable undertakings of any kind. In con-
nection with his pharmacy Dr. Hurty opened
an analytical laboratory, and this has been
continued successfully ever since. There all
(he drugs received into the pharmacy undergo
careful preliminary inspection, and consider-
able work from outside sources is also done
there, — such as the analysis of water, the chem-
ical work for the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chi-
cago & St. Louis Railroad Company, etc., for
which the laboratory is particularly well
HISTOEY OF GKEATER INDIA^TAPOLIS.
eriuippi'd. All this is carried on under the
personal direction of Mr. Francis, who has at-
tained a reputation for abilitj' and trustworthi-
ness not surpassed by any member of the pro-
fession in this state. Mr. Francis has put his
vioorous mentality to many severe tests in the
past iew years' which have been devoted to
work taxing to the utmost his physical as well
as his intellectual strength. Fortunately he is
endowed with a strong constitution and has
had excellent health, which has made possible
his continued exertions from the time he en-
tered upon his present line."
In 1901 the title was changed to the Hurty-
Franeis Pharmacy Company, and this was re-
tained until 1904, when Mr. Francis secured
the interest of Dr. Hurty in the enterprise,
which he has since successfully conducted un-
der the title of the Francis Pharmacy Com-
pany, being president of the company. Both
by reason of his insistent personal preference
and in continuance of the origiual policy on
which the business was founded, Mr. Francis
has not permitted commercialism to enter into
the enterprise to the extent of commending or
"pushing" proprietary remedies and the mani-
fold lines of patent medicines, and it is grati-
fying to the medical profession and to the
general public that so admirable an establish-
ment is maintained in Indianapolis as that of
the Francis Pharmacy Company, — an estab-
lishment in which the best technical service is
assured and in which every effort is made to
liroperly cater to the demands of a large and
appreciative patronage. Mr. Francis holds
high prestige as a reliable and progressive
business man, as an able scientist in his chosen
field and as a citizen of utmost loyalty and
public spirit. He has won success through
worthy means, and that his professional course
ha? not lacked the highest of endorsement on
the part of the medical fraternity will be ade-
quately shown in the several personal esti-
mates with which this sketch shall be closed.
In politics Mr. Francis gives a stanch al-
legiance to the cause of the Republican forces,
but the turmoil and strife of the political
arena has had no allurement for him. He re-
tains membership in the St. George Lutheran
rhuvch, in Shelby Countv. of which mention
has Ijeen made in a preceding paragraph, and
in the time-honored Masonic fraternitv he lia-;
completed the degrees of the Ancient Accepted
Scottish Rite, in which he has attained the
thirtv-second degree, besides being a pnnula'-
member of Murat Temple, .\ncient Arabic Or-
der of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He
holds membership in the University Club, the
Columbia Club and the German House; is
affiliated 'with the Kappa Sigma college fra-
ternity and i.< an honorary member of the XI
Psi Phi fraternitv.
On the 28th of August, 1899, was solemn-
izt'd the marriage of Mr. Francis to Helen
Dalrymple. who was born and reared at Mor-
ristown, Indiana, and who is the only child
of John M. and Mary Ellen (Hargrove) DmI-
i-.vmple, who now maintain their home in In-
dianapolis, where Mr. Dalrymple is president
of the Indianapolis Saddlery Company. He is
of Scotch lineage and a scion of one of the
old and patrician families of Virginia, with
whose historv the name became identified in
the earlv colonial epoch. .Mr. Dalrvmple i.- a
zealous supporter of the work of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in general and in a more
concrete sense of the Central Avenue iMeth-
odist Church of Indianapolis, in which both
he and his wife are zealous members, as is also
their only daughter, -Mrs. Francis. Mr. Dal-
rymple has served as a member of the Indiana
State Board of Charities and his personal
benevolences and charities have been unosten-
tatious and well ordered. He donated and en-
dowed the John M. Dalrymple room in the
Indiana Methodist Hospital, at Indianapolis.
He is an honored and influential citizen and
business man of the capital citv and is promi-
nently identified wit];! the Masonic fraternity
as well as with various civic organizations of
representative order. Mrs. Dalrymple is
descended in the paternal line from an old and
prominent family of the State of Maryland,
whence the original representatives came from
Scotland. Her maternal ancestors, named
Smith, early settled in Virginia. Mrs. Francis
is prominent in connection with the best social
activities of her home citj', where she enjoys
distinctive popularity. She is an accomplished
musician and is identified with musical affairs
of the best order in Indianapolis, where she is
also identified with the Federation of Women's
Clubs, in which she has held various offices.
She completed her educational work in DePauw
ITniversity and is a member of the Alpha Chi
Omega sorority.
In conclusion of this article are entered state-
ments, with proper credit to the respective
source?, concerning the professional and busi-
ness standing of Mr. Francis, and the estimates,
emanating from distinguished authorities, bear
their own significance.
Dr. William N. Wishard, one of the leading
physicians and surgeons of Indianapolis, has
written as follows: "J. R. Francis is a thor-
oughly scientific pharmacist who makes a con-
scientious effort toward the hialicst ideals of sci-
entific dispensing. He is thoroughly trained,
has an enthusiastic devotion to his work and a
keen M)ip'reciatinn of the prcsent-dav pliarma-
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
ceutical requircracjits ; he justly deserves the
high reputation lie bears."
The tribute of Dr. Charles E. Ferguson is
as follows: "J. R. J"'rancis is one of the few
ethical druggists in the state. Graduated in
pharmacy and in chemistry in Purdue Univer-
sity, son of a distinguished physician, he came
to "Indianapolis as chemist for J. N. Hurty.
lie became Dr. Hurty 's partner, under the
*h-m name of the Hurty-Francis Pharmacy
Company, and later succeeded Dr. Hurty. He
has a most coinplete laboratory, is chemist for
the Big Four Railway Company. He is a suc-
cess because the doctors know they can trust
him. He has trained pharmacists who put n\<
his prescriptions. The store has always had a
high reputation for honostv and purity in com-
l)Ounding prescriptions. Mr. Francis has sus-
tained the high reputation established by J. N.
Hurty. He is by nature and by training
adapted to his profession — this is the secret
of his success."
From Dr. Samuel E. Earp, a well known in-
structor in medical colleges and a writer of
marked prominence in the domain of his pro-
fession, comes tlie following emphatic endorse-
ment: "J. I{. l-'raiicis is a competent, repu-
table and I'tliiciil plmrniacist, but this is not
all: tlie lai'.L'c retail drug establishment of
wliich he is ibi' proprietor has in connection
witli it a well e(|\ii|ii>i'<l laboratory for the pur-
pose of staiiilai-di/.iiii; liis stock, and this he
gives liis ]iersi)iinl sii|i,.rvision. His cautious
and painstal<ing nietliods are characteristic of
but few men in artive luisiness life. His thor-
ongbiiess ill dc-tails witli a view of reaching
perrectioii is tbe secret of his success."
|j()T!is A. Grkinkr. D. V. S.. is a distin-
uiiished i-ejircsentative of a worthy profes-
sion with which five generations of his fam-
ily liave been prominently identified, and
he is reeo!;nized as one of the leading ex-
ponents of veterinary science in the state, be-
ing the senior member of the firm of L. A.
Ci-einer & Son, proprietors of the finely
equipped Indianapolis Veterinary Infirmary,
located at 14-16 South Alabama street, and
also having been founder of the Indiana
Veterinary College, which he conducted suc-
cessfully f(^r a period of nine years. He has
long controlled a large and lucrative profes-
sional business in Indianapolis, and is a citi-
zen in every way worthy of the unqualified
esteem in which he is held in the community.
Dr. Louis Adolph Greiner is a native of
that fair German province of Alsace-Lorraine,
which was wrested from France at the time
of tlie Franco-Prussian AVar and which was
still a French province at the time of his
birth, which there ocenned on the 7th of De-
cember, 1854. He is a son of Dr. L. A.
Greiner, who was likewise born in Alsace-
Lorraine, of stanch German lineage. In 186b
Dr. L. A. Greiner immigrated with his fam-
ily to the United States, establishing his home
in the City of Buffalo, New York, where
he was engaged in business as a veterinary
surgeon until 1879, when he removed to In-
dianapolis, where he has since maintained
his home and whei-e he has been prominent
and successful in the work of his profession.
He died in the y'ear 1889 and his wife died
in 1907. The father was graduated in the
Alford Veterinary College, in the City of
Paris, and for many years was assistant to
his brother, Dr. William Greiner, who was
official veterinary surgeon for the Strassburg
district of Alsace-Lorraine. Dr. Henry Her-
man Greiner, paternal grandfather of him
whose name initiates this review, served as
veterinarian in. the army of the great Napo-
leon, following that commander in his various
campaigns and having been with him at Mos-
cow and Waterloo.
Dr. Louis A. Greiner secured his rudi-
mentary education in his native land and was
a lad of twelve years at the time of the fam-
ily immiarration to America. He was reared
to maturity in the City of Bufi'alo, where he
duly availed himself of the advantages of the
public schools and also attended the German
Lutheran Seminary, his parents being devout
members of the German Lutheran Church.
He began the study of veterinary science un-
der the able preceptorship of his honored
father and had gained thorough and practical
instruction in the same and engaged in prac-
tice prior to attaining the age of twenty years.
He then entered the Philadelphia Veterinary
College, in which he completed the prescribed
course and amply fortified himself for the
work of his profession, to which he has de-
voted his attention without interruption since
he was nineteen y^ears of age and in which
he has added materially to the professional
prestige of the name which he bears. After
leaving college, in 1876, he continued in the
work of his chosen vocation in the City of
Buffalo until 18S1, when he came to Indian-
apolis and joined his father, who had here
taken up his abode two years previously.
In 1883 Dr. Louis A. Greiner opened the
Indianapolis Veterinary Infirmary, which he
has since conducted with unqualified success
and which has held at all times a large and
representative patronasre, based on effective
service and correct business methods. Dr.
Greiner is the acknovvledired leader in his
profession in this city, and his technical skill
is of the highest order. In 1892 he estab-
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
lished the Indiana Veterinary College, which
he conducted for nine years and which he
brought to a high state of efficiency, having
graduated in the institution seventy students,
all of whom have been successful in their
profession. Impaired health and the exact-
ing demands of his own professional work
finally compelled Dr. Greiner to retire from
the educational establishment which he had
thus founded. Concerning the doctor and his
work the following pertinent statements are
worthy of reproduction in this publication:
"Associated with Dr. Greiner in his exten-
sive business are his son, Dr. Joseph M.
Greiner, tv/o assistants and several laborers.
Facilities for their work are complete and
of the best modern type. The latest devices
and methods are utilized and no expense is
spared in rendering the appointments of the
infirmary first-class in every respect. Dr.
Greiner has been the city veterinarian of
Indianapolis for a number of years and is
now incumbent of that position. He does all
the veterinary work for the Consumers' Ice
Companj', Sterling R. Holt Ice & Cold Stor-
age Company, the Sterling R. Holt stock
farm at Maywood, the Indianapolis Street
Railway Company, the Standard Oil Com-
pany and other large and important con-
cerns. His private pra£tice is very large and
lucrative. During the proper season he has
in operation the Indiana School for Farriers,
designed to teach, in the most practical man-
ner, scientific shoeing for horses,— particu-
larly driving and racing animals". Dr.
Greiner is associated with the Terre Haute
Veterinary College of which he is vice-presi-
dent and professor of cattle pathology and
lamenes.s and shoeing.
Dr. Greiner takes a loyal interest in all
that touches the welfare of his home city and
is essentially public-spirited in his attitude.
He is a member of the German Orphans'
Home Society, is a stalwart supporter of the
cause of the Democratic party, in which con-
nection he is identified with Marion County
Democratic Club and the German American
Democratic Club of this city. He and his
wife hold membership in the First Lutheran
Church, and, in addition to various social
organizations, he is identified with the Scot-
tish Rite and Shrine of the Masonic frater-
nity, the Benevolent & Protective Order of
Elks, the Knights of Pythias, and the I. 0.
H. F., and is a Tuember of the State Veteri-
nary Association.
In the City of Bufl:alo, New York, in 1874,
Dr. Greiner wa.s united in marriage to Miss
Magdalena Pollock, who was there born,
reared and educated, and of the six children
of this union four are now living,— Georgina
is now the wife of John J. Ray, a represen-
tative contractor and builder of Indianapolis;
Adolph died in infancy; Dr. Joseph Milton
is associated with his father' in business, as
already noted; Leonora is the wife of Fred-
erick H. Nuerge, a successful contractor and
builder of this city; Magdalena died in in-
fancy; and Louis Adolph, Jr., is also con-
nected with his father.
Charles 0. Harris, a popular citizen and
native son of Indianapolis, is the present able
incumbent of the office of chief deputy coun-
ty treasurer of Marion County, and he is
well entitled to the recognition accorded him
in this sketch. Charles Orville Harris was
born in Indianapolis, on the 11th of August,
1865, and is a son of Charles E. and Hannah
W. (Yockum) Harris, both of whom are na-
tives of Ohio, whence they removed to In-
dianapolis, where they have maintained their
home for fully half a century. Charles E.
Harris is a scion of stanch Holland Dutch
ancestry, and family tradition, well authenti-
cated, records that four brothers of the name
immigrated from Holland to America at a
very early date, two of the number settling
in Pennsylvania and the other two locating
in the south. From one of the two who set-
tled in Pennsylvania the subject of this re-
view traces his lineage in direct line of
descent. Representatives of the name left the
old Keystone state and became pioneers of
Ohio, and there Charles E. Harris, father of
the subject of this review, was born and
reared. There also was solemnized his mar-
riage to Miss Hannah W. Yockum, and about
1861 thej' took up their residence in Indian-
apolis, where they have since maintained
their home, being numbered among the ven-
erable and highly esteemed citizens of the
fair capital city, which they have seen grow
from a village to its present magnificent
status. On the 25th of December, 1908, they
celebrated their golden wedding anniversary,
and the occasion was made a memorable one
by the gathering of a large assembly of their
friends and by messages and other tokens
of the high regard in which they are held in
the city which has so long been their home.
Mr. Harris is now living retired, after having
for many years been engaged in business as
a contractor and builder.
Charles 0. Harris was reared to maturity
in Indianapolis and here he completed the
curriculum of the public schools, including a
course in the high school. Soon after leaving
school he became a traveling salesman for the
Brooks Oil Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, and
later he became traveling representative for
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HISTOBY OF GKEATER INDIANAPOLIS.
the W. B. Barry Saw Company, of Indian-
apolis. In 1890 he assumed a similar posi-
tion with E. C. Atkins & Company, the ex-
tensive and well known saw manufacturers
of Indianapolis, and after leaving the em-
ploy of this concern he was for eight years
incumbent of the position of inspector of
rates, weights and commodities for the rail-
road joint bureau covering these matters in
Indianapolis. On the 1st of January, 1900,
Mr. Harris accepted a position in the office
of the treasurer of Marion County, and he
has since been closely identified with its work,
having retained his connection under the
various regimes and having in this the best
and all-sufficient voucher for his ability and
for the inviolable confidence reposed in him.
Since 1903 he has served as chief deputy
treasurer, and he acts as general cashier for
the office. He is one of the vf^lued officials
of the county and his courtesy and careful
discharge of the responsible duties of his
present office have gained to him unqualified
commendation.
Mr. Harris has ever been a stalwart sup-
porter of the cause of the Republican party
and has been an active worker in its ranks.
He is a member of the Marion and Commer-
cial Clubs and is affiliated with the Knights
of Pythias.
In 1885 Mr. Harris was united in marriage
to Miss Edith Heitkam, of Indianapolis, and
they have two children,— Fern and Albert.
The pleasant family home, at 2427 Central
avenue, is one notable for its gracious hos-
pitality, and is a favored rendezvous for a
wide circle of friends, both young and old.
Mrdford B. Wilson. Among the monetarv
institutions which emphasize and exert marked
influence in conserving the financial stability
and commercial prestige of the capital city of
Indiana, a position of prominence and rela-
tive priority is held by the Columbia National
Bank, of which Mr. Wilson is president. He
is known as one of the able and discriminating
financiers of Indiana, where he has been actively
identified with banking interests for virtually
two score of years.
Mr. Wilson was born in the village of Pales-
tine, Crawford County, Illinois, on the 8th of
December, 1845, and is a son of Isaac N. and
Hannah Harness (Decker) Wilson, honored
pioneers of that section of Illinois, where they
continued to reside until their death. The
father became one of the prominent and influ-
ential business men of Crawford County and
was a citizen to whom was ever accorded the
fullest measure of popular confidence and es-
teem, lie was a native of Morefield, West
Virginia, and his wife was bom at Romnev.
that state, about fifteen miles distant from his
birthplace. The lineage of the Wilson family
is of stanch Scotch-Irish derivation and the
original progenitor in America was a clergy-
man of the Presbyterian Church, who came
from Belfast to the new world in the colonial
epoch of our national history. In the ma-
ternal line the genealogy of Medford B. Wilson
is traced back to sferling Holland Dutch stock,
and the Decker family was likewise founded
in America in an- early day. An uncle of Mrs.
Isaac Wilson was on the first grand jury ever
held in the territory . of Indiana. His name
was Decker. The two priests who founded the
Catholic University in Washington were also
uncles of Mrs. Wilson. Isaac N. Wilson was
reared in his native state and was a young man
at the time of his parents' removal to Illinois,
in 1816. To the same state his wife came with
lier parents in the following year, and their
marriage was solemnized in that state. Isaac
N. and Hannah H. Wilson became the parents
of nine sons and one, daughter, of whom the
subject of this sketch was the seventh in order
of birth, and of the number three are now
living.
Medford B. Wilson was reared to maturity
in his native town, where he gained his early
educational discipline, which included a course
in a local academy. His father's financial
status was such that the children were accorded
excellent' educational advantages, and after
leaving the academy Medford B. was matricu-
lated in Vincennes University, at Vincennes.
Indiana, where he was a student for two years.
He then went abroad and entered the univer-
sity at Marburg, Hesse Cassel, Germany, where
lie completed a four years' course in commer-
cial law and was duly graduated. In the mean-
while he had thoroughly familiarized himself
with the German language, which he speaks
with utmost fluency.
Mr. Wilson returned to the United States in
1870 and located in Sullivan, Indiana, in which
village, the judicial center of the county of
the same name, he established the first bank,
which was at first known as the Sullivan
County Bank and which was incorporated un-
der the state banking laws. Eventually the
institution was reorganized as the First Na-
tional Rank, and IMr. Wilson continued presi-
dent of the latter until his removal to Indian-
apolis, having been thus concerned with bank-
ing business in Sullivan County for more than
twenty years, within which he established a
high reputation for initiative and executive
abilitv and sterling integrity- of character.
In December, 1889. Jfr. Wilson took up his
residence in Indianapolis. ^^J^ere he forthwith
effected the organization of the Capital Na-
^H.^
J^fiLOii^Ti^
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
749
tional Bank, which was incorporated in Decem-
ber, 1889, with a capital stock of $300,000.
He was the president of this institution from
the time of its inception until January, 1904,
when he disposed of his stock and resigned
his official position, to accept the presidency
of the Columbia National Bank, of which he
has since been the able and popular e.xecutive
head. He is one of tlie well known bankers
of the state and his name stands exponent of
tine technical knowledge, correct methods and
wise conservatism in the handling and man-
agement of financial affairs. As a citizen he
is essentially loyal and public-spirited and while
he has never had aught of ambition for polit-
ical office he gi^jes a stalwart support to the
cause of the Democratic party. He and his
wife are members of the First Presbyterian
Church of Indianapolis. In the Masonic fra-
ternity Mr. Wilson has attained to the thirty-
second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish
Rite, in which connection he is identified with
the consistory of the A'alley of Indianapolis,
where his York Rite affiliations also are main-
tained and where he is also identified with
Murat Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a valued
mem-ber of the Indianapolis Board of Trade
and holds membership in the Commercial, ITni-
versity and Country Clubs, representative or-
ganizations of the capital city, where he is
held An high esteem in both business and social
circles.
In 1872 was solemnized the marriage of Mr.
Wilson to Miss Nettie A. Ames, who was born
at Geneva, Ohio, and reared in Detroit, Michi-
gan, and Cleveland, Ohio, of wliich latter city
she was a resident at the time of her marriage.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have five daughters.
Daisey married Frank F. Churchman, of ■ In-
dianapolis; Sarah is the wife of James L.
Floyd, of Indianapolis; Ruth married George
M. "B. Hawlev, of Geneva, New York ; Edith
is the wife of William H. Stafford, of In-
dianapolis ; and Clare lives at home.
James M. BERRTHn.i,, a leading attorney
of Indianapolis, and an active member of the
firm of Remy & Berryhill, is a native of the
Hoosier state, born in Lebanon, Boone Coub-
ty, August 31, 1869. He is a son of William
0. and Mary A. I'Riley) Berryhill, both na-
tives of Indiana. The father was a drug-
gist and ambitions, for he had prepared him-
self to enter the practice of medicine just be-
fore his death, when James M. was seven
years of age. He left a widow and five chil-
dren. The mother continued to reside in
Lebanon, where she faithfully applied herself
to the rearing and education of her children,
biit she did not herself live long enough to
fully realize the good fruit of her labors, as
her death occurred when James M. was fif-
teen years of age.
Mr. Berryhill was educated in the public
and high schools of Lebanoii, and was grad-
uated from the latter in May, 1887. He then
taught in the country schools of the neigh-
borhood for a year and in the fall of 1888
entered Franklin (Indiana) College, from
which he was graduated in June, 1892, with
the degree of B. S. For the succeeding four
years he served as the deputy clerk of the
Boone County circuit courts, giving all his
spare moments to the study of law. In Oc-
tober, 1896, he became a student in the In-
diana Law School, Indianapolis, from which
he was graduated in May, 1897, having been
admitted to the bar at Lebanon during the
previous year. On graduating from the In-
diana Law School he was admitted to prac-
tice before the state Supreme and Federal
courts, as well as before all the courts of
Marion County. His actual practice in In-
dianapolis dates from October, 1896, the year
previous to his graduation from the Indiana
Law School.
In his important and growing practice Mr.
Berryhill was first associated with the Hol-
stein, Barrett and Hubbard law firm of which
he later became a member. Mr. Barrett re-
tiring, the style of the firm become Holstein,
Hubbard and Berryhill. "Mr. Hubbard sub-
sequently withdrew, and the firm remained
Holstein and Berryhill nmtil January, 1901,
when it was dissolved by the death of Major
Holstein. Mr. Berryhill continued in prac-
tice alone until January, 1905, when he
formed a partnership with his present asso-
ciate, Charles F. Remy. Alone and in as-
sociation with his partner, Mr. Berryhill has
been connected in large important litigations.
Among the late honors conferred upon him
was his appointment in June^ 1907, as per-
manent guardian of the celebrated George
Rodius estate. It came to him quite un-
solicited and in making the appointment
Judge Samuel R. Artman of the Boone Cir-
cuit Court made the following declaration:
"The man whom I shall appoint is one whose
character no person can question. He is hon-
est; I know he is. When I name him, I am
sure all parties concerned will be satisfied.
I shall appoint James M. Berryhill of Indian-
apolis, who had the srood sense to be born in
Boone County". In making the appointment
Judge Artman fixed the bond of the guardian
at $150,000, which is an evidence of the finan-
oial responsibility of the profession. Mr.
Berryhill is an active and leading member
of the Indiana State and Indianapolis Bar
rrjo
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
Associations and takes just pride in enrollinir
himself as a member of the Sons of Veterans.
One of the brave acts of his talented father
was his enlistment as a Union soldier in the
Tenth Indiana Regiment, his service of one
year and four months being terminated only
by his physical disability to endure army
hardships. But later, however, he re-enlisted
in the Eleventh Cavalry of the One Hundreil
and Twenty-sixth Infantry Regiment, and
served one year and a half or to. the close of
the war. This patriotic service it will be re-
membered was rendered several years before
the birth of James M. Mr. Berryhill is an
active member of many organizatiofis outside
those which are connected with his profes-
sion, being identified with the Century Lit-
erary Club and other associations of a re-
rined nature. In 1895 he was married to
Miss Edith Craft, of Franklin, Indiana, and
their two children are Esther and Edwin.
Howard Kimball has been a resident of
Indianapolis and identified with its business
interests for nearh' forty j-ears, and for more
than two decades he has held his present re-
sponsible executive office as secretary of the
Aetna Savings & Loan Association, one of the
important concerns of its kind in the middle
states of the Union. He is a scion of one
of the old and honored families of New Eng-
land, where the original American progenitor
took up his abode in the early part of the
seventeenth centurj". The name has been
identified in a prominent way with the vari-
ous wars in which the nation has been in-
volved, and it has ever stood for the highest
type of citizenship, as one generation ha.s fol-
lowed another on to the stage of life. Th\is
the subject of this review has an ancestral
heritage of which he may well be proud, for
none can atford to hold in light esteem those
who have wrousrht nobly in the past, leaving
records of worthy lives and worthy deeds.
Howard Kimball has the distinction of
being a native son of the City of Boston, IMas-
sachusetts, where he was born on the 23rd of
June, 1845, and is a son of Warren and Ann
(Baker) Kimball, both natives of Ipswich.
Massachusetts, where the former was born on
the 22nd of IVTarch, 1812. and the latter on the
3rd of July, 1814. The father was a resident
of Indian Territory at the time of his death,
and the mother died on the 14th of June,
1895, at Indianapolis. Of their eight chil-
dren Howard was the fourth in order of birth,
and is the second in age of the three now
snrvivinsr. His sister, Annie, is the wife of
Captain "William TI. AVhite, of Junction City,
Kansas, and his brother. Harry S., is a resi-
dent of the City of Chicago.
Warren Kimball received such advantages
as were afforded in the common schools of
the locality in which he was i-eared, and his
initial business experience was gained in the
general country store of Daniel Coggswell,
of Ipswich, Massachusetts, with whom he re-
mained as a trusted employe until he had at-
tained to his legal majority. He then went
to the City of Boston, where he engaged in
the grocery and provision business on his own
account, building up a thriving enterprise
and having derived specially large returns
from his transactions in shipping of produce
and supplies from Boston to San Francisco
in the early days of the gold excitement in
California, in the '50s. He continued to be
identified with mercantile interests in Boston
for a number of years and later held an ex-
ecutive position in that city in the employ
of the Vermont Central Railroad. In politics
he was originally an old-line Whig, but he
identified himself with the Republican party
at the time of its organization and ever after-
ward continued a strong advocate of its prin-
ciples and policies. He was a leader in its
local ranks in the early days and assisted in
the organization of the first "Wide Awake
Club" in Boston, an organization formed for
the purpose of promoting the interests of
the party in the historic campaign which re
suited in the election of Abraham Lincoln to
the presidency. During the first term of
President Lincoln, Mr. Kimball held the ap-
pointment of weigher and ganger in the
TTnited States custom house in Boston. He
was a member of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows and was a pewholder and sup-
porter of the old Park Street Church in the
City of Boston, of which his wife was a de-
voted member.
Warren Kimball was a son of Benjamin
and Huldah (Wade) Kimball. His father
was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, on the
3rd of November, 1786, and his death occurred
on the 29th of October. 1867. Benjamin Kim-
ball and Huldah Wade were united in mar-
riage on the 16th of April, 1807, and she died
on the 3rd of December, 1813. On the 29th
of November, 1815, he married Miss Priscilla
Kimball, who was born Augiist 8, 1784, and
who died December 18, 1872. She was a
daughter of Jeremiah Kimball, of Ipswich.
Benjamin Kimball was for many years en-
gaged in the lumber business on the Ipswich
River, where he operated a saw-mill, and he
was one of the prominent and influential men
of his community. He reared a large family
of children, and his descendants are now to
be found in the most diverse sections of the
I'nion. His father. Benjamin Kimball, Sr.,
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
751
who was a sergeant and aide-de-camp in the
Massachusetts militia and who was a valiant
soldier in the War of the Revolution, in
which at least thirteen members of this an-
cient family were enrolled as patriot de-
fenders of the cause of independence, fight-
ing bravely to hurl oppression back and keep
the boon of liberty. The original progenitor
of the Kimball family in America was Rich-
ard Kimball, who, with his family, embarked
at Ipswich, Suffolk Countv, England, on the
10th of April, 1634, on the ship "Elizabeth",
William Anderson, master, and set sail for
the far distant land of promise. The ves-
sel landed in the harbor of Boston, and from
that point Richard Kimball proceeded with
his family to "VVatertown. Massachusetts,
whence he later removed to Ipswich, where
he engaged in the work of his trade, that
of carriage and wagon-making. The first
stone bridge built in the United States was
erected in Ipswich, Massachusetts, by a mem-
ber of the Choate family, of which the mother
of the subject of this review was a collateral
representative. Itfembers of the Kimball fam-
ily were also represented in the early colonial
wars, not less than eight bearing this name
or that of Kemble, the spelling retained by
certain branches, having participated in King
Philip 's War and in other conflicts marking
the early history of our nation. The services
of some of these are mentioned in the re-
cently published history of the Kimball fam-
ily. Caleb, Henry and Richard Kimball are
shown to have been in the historic ambuscade
at Bloody Brook, and Thomas KimbaU was
massacred at his home in Bradford, Massa-
chusetts.
Howard Kimball was reared to maturity
in the classic old city of his birth and in the
schools of "the Hub" he received excellent
educational advantages in his boyhood and
early youth. As a lad he secured employ-
ment in the office of a file factory in Boston,
and for his services during the first year he
received the dignified stipend of fifty dollars,
which amount was doubled the second year.
He was engaged with this concern about four
years. He held a clerical oosition with this
firm until he had reached the age of eighteen
years, when his ambition and venturesome
spirit led him to start for the west. He made
his way to Leavenworth, Kansas, which was
then an important frontier town and govern-
ment post, on the route followed by many of
those making their way across the plains to
Colorado, Montana and other sections of the
erreat west. In Leavenworth he became book-
teener in the book and stationery establish-
ment of Drake Brothers, in whose employ he
continued for three years, at the expiration
of which he engaged independently in the
book and stationery business in Leavenworth.
After passing ten years in Kansas he dis-
posed of his interests there and came to In-
dianapolis, where he took up his residence in
the year 1875 and where he has maintained
his home during the long intervening years,
marked by earnest application and worthy
accomplishment on his part. Here he entered
the service of the Franklin Life Insurance
Company, later was identified with the Ma-
sonic Mutual Life Insurance Company, of
Indianapolis, and in 1888 he became secretary
of the Aetna Savings & Loan Association, of
which ofSce he has since remained in tenure,
having administered the affairs of the asso-
ciation with marked ability and discrimina-
tion and having gained an impregnable place
in the confidence and -regard of the commu-
nity which has so long represented his home
and been the center of his interests.
Though never manifesting aught of ambi-
tion for political office, Mr. Kimball has ever
given an unswerving allegiance to the cause
of the Republican party. In 1910 he was ap-
pointed to the office of city controller, which
office he is now filling. In the time-honored
Masonic fraternity IV^r. Kimball has main-
tained a deep and appreciative interest from
the time of affiliating himself therewith. He
IS a member of Oriental Lodge, No. 500, Free
and Accepted Masons, of which he served as
secretary for ten years: Keystone Chapter,
No. 6, Royal Arch Masons, of which he is
secretary; Raper Commandery, No. 1,
Knights Templars, of which he is the present
recorder; and Murat Temple, Ancient Arabic
Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
Mr. Kimball was married to Sallie M. Hurt,
a daughter of John and Mary Hurt of Ken-
tucky. Mrs. Kimball died. The child of this
union, Arthur W., is now living in Columbus,
Ohio.
On the 4th of September, 1895, Mr. Kim-
ball was united in marriage to Miss Emma J.
Anthony, who was born at Troy, Ohio, on the
7th of September; 1861, a daughter of Daniel
and Rachel (Wadsworth) Anthony. The
father was born in the State of Maryland and
sacrificed his life while serving as a soldier in
the Civil War. His widow is still living and
now resides in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kim-
ball, who accord to her the deepest affection
and solicitude. Mr. and Mrs. Kimball have
one child, Alice.
CH.A.RLES C. Perry. For nearly a quarter
of a century, Charles C. Perry, of Indianap-
olis, has been connected with some form of
electrical industries, and at the present time
IIISTOEY OP GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
liolds the placf oi' president of the Indian-
apolis Light and Heat Company. A native of
liichmond, \A'ayne County, Indiana, he was
born December 15, 1857. His father was Dr.
Joseph James Perry, long ranlced among the
notable physicians of Indiana. The faraily
was long established in Somersetshire, England,
where the doctor received his medical educa-
tion. Coming to America in IS-tO, he first
located at Detroit, Michigan, and for ten years
conducted a growing practice in* that city. In
1850 he moved to Richmond, Indiana, where
he remained until his death in 1872. During
this period he served in the Civil War, being
appointed as surgeon in 1864 in the Forty-
second United States Infantry. He continued
with that command until his regiment was
mustered out, afterwards he returned to Rich-
mond and resumed the work of his profession.
In his capacity as a religious member of the
community, he was a founder of the Grace
Methodist Episcopal Church at Richmond, and
during the entire period of his residence in
that city was an officer of the organization.
The deceased was twice married, secondly to
Miss Ruth Moffitt, born at Richmond in 1821.
Charles C, the only child of the second
marriage, was educated in the Richmond pub-
lic schools and at the Earlham College of that
place. At an early period in his boyhood he
developed strong business talents, which first
were demonstrated by his success as a vender
of city newspapers. His next venture was as
a messenger boy for the Pittsburg, Cincinnati,
Chicago & St. Louis Railway, and was soon dili-
gently applying himself to the mastery of tel-
egraphy. With this latter aeeomplishment he
rose from one position to the other, until he
reached the managership of the Western Union
Telegraph Company at Richmond, retaining
that position between the years 1880 to 1884.
In 1886, Mr. Perry came to Indianapolis as
representative of the Jenny Electric Company ;
in 1888, he became one of the financiers of the
Marmon-Perry Light Company, and was also
one of the organizers of the Indianapolis Light
and Power Company, in 1892, which is now
known as the Indianapolis Light and Heat
Company, since 1904. Of the latter he is
now president and treasiirer and perhaps the
most active promoter. In politics he is a Re-
publican and is an active member of the In-
dianapolis Board of Trade and the Commercial
and Coluipbia Club?. He is also a trustee of
the Y. W. C. A. ^fr. Perrv was married to
Miss Capitola Adams, a daughter of T. J,
Adams, of Indianapolis.
John J. Kyle, M. D. ,A specialist in the
treatment; of the diseases of the eye, ear, nose
and throat, Dr. John J. Kyle is one of the
representative physicians and surgeons of th^;
capital eitj', where he has been engaged in
the practice of his profession since 1899. Dr.
Kyle was born in the City of Aurora, Dear-
born County, Indiana, and is a son of Dr.
Thomas M. and Anna (Johnson) Kyle, both
likewise natives of Dearborn County and rep-
resentatives of honored pioneer families of
the state. The lineage of the Kyle family is
traced back to Scotch-Irish derivation and
that of the Johnson family to stanch Scotch
stock. Dr. Thomas M. Kyle became one of
the successful physicians and surgeons of his
native county and was engaged in the prac-
tice of his profession at Aurora for a quarter
of a century. He was a graduate of the
Miami Medical College, of Cincinnati, and
was a man of marked ability in his profes-
sion.
After completing the curriculum of the
public schools of his native town Dr. John J.
Kyle was a student in Moore's Hill College,
in Dearborn County, Indiana, for three years,
and he then entered his father's alma mater,
Miami Medical CoUege, in which he was grad-
uated as a member of the class of 1890, and
from which he duly received his degree of
Doctor of Medicine. He passed the following
year in effective post-graduate study jn the
medical department of the University of Ber-
lin, Germany, and upon his return to Indiana
he located at Marion, where he was engaged
in the active work of his profession for about
six years. At the outbreak of the Spanish-
American War Dr. Kyle received a commis-
sion as major surgeon of the One Hundred
and Sixtieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry,
which was made up of the Fourth Regiment
of the Indiana National Guard, in which lat-
ter he has served as lieutenant in the line,
later as captain, and finally as assistant sur-
geon, from which office he was promoted to
that of major surgeon at the time when the
regiment was mustered into the service of the
United States. Dr. Kyle continued in active
service with his regiment for one year, from
April 24, 1898, to May 1, 1899, and five
months of this period were passed at Matan-
zas, Cuba. While with his command in the
reserve camp at Columbus, Georgia, Dr. Kyle
built and equipped the brigade hospital of
the First Brigade, Second Division, First
Army Corps, and so effectively did he accom-
plish this work that he was specially compli-
rtiented by the division commander. General
Joseph R. Sanger. On the 1st of May, 1899,
Dr. Kyle was mustered out with his regi-
ment, and he received his honorable discharge
with the rank of major.
In October, 1899, Dr.' Kyle opened an office
HISTOKY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
753
m Indianapolis, and here he has since devoted
his attention specially to the treatment of the
.diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, in
ivhich he is an authority. In the line of this
special branch of professional work he also
holds the professorship of such diseases in
the Indiana University Medical College. He
IS also a member of the medical staff of the
Indianapolis City Hospital, St. Vincent's Hos-
pital and the Bobbs Free Dispensary. He is
the author of two valuable works on the dis-
eases of the ear, nose and throat, and these
books have met with most favorable reception
on the part of the medical fraternity. In
April, 1909, President Taft conferred upon
Dr. Kyle appointment as First Lieutenant in
the Medical Reserve Corps of the United
States Army. He is a member of the Indian-
apolis Medical Society, the Indiana State
Medical Society, the American Medical As-
sociation, the American Academy of Ophthal-
mology and Otolaryngology, fellow of the
American Larj'ngologieal, Rhinological and
Otological Society. He is also a member of
the American Geographical Society, the As-
sociation of Officers of Foreign "Wars, and the
Veterans of the Spanish-American War. In
the IMasonic fraternity Dr. Kyle has attained
to the Thirty-second degree of the Ancient
Accepted Scottish Rite, and is also affiliated
with Murat Temple, Ancient Arabic Order
of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. In hi^
home city he holds membership in the Colum-
bia. Country and University Clubs, and his
political allegiance is given to the Republican
party.
Daniel W.\it Ho"we. The bench and bar
of Indiana have been honored and dignified
through the life and services of Judge Howe,
who is now engaged in the successful practice
of his profession in Indianapolis, where he
formerly served with distinction on the bench
of the Superior Court. He is a veteran of
the Ci^al War, is a member of one of the old
and honored families of Indiana, of which
he is a native son, and furthermore is a scion
of a family that was founded in America
about the middle of the seventeenth century.
The name has been prominently identified
with the annals of American history during
the long intervening years, and representa-
tives of the family have been found enrolled
as patriot soldiers in the various wars in
which the nation has been involved.
Daniel Wait Howe was born in the village
of Patriot, Switzerland County, Indiana, on
the 24th of October, 1839. and is the only
child of Daniel Haven Howe and Lucy
I'Hicks) Howe. His father was a native of
the State of New York, where he was reared
and educated, and from Salamanca, that
state, he came to Indiana about the year 1835,
settling at Patriot, where he engaged in the
lumber business, with which he continued to
be identified until his death, which occurred
in 1842. He was a son of Nathan Howe, who
was captain in a New York regiment in the
War of 1812 and who continued to reside in
the old Empire state until his death. Two
members of the family in direct line of de-
scent to the subject of this review were val-
iant soldiers in the Continental line during
the War of the Revolution, Captain Eliakim
Howe and his son Otis having served in the
New Hampshire militia. Colonel Thomas
Howe, another ancestor, was an active par-
ticipant in King Philip's Indian War. The
original American progenitor was John Howe,
who came from England to the colony of
Massachusetts and who was a resident of
Sudbury about IG.'VT.
After the death of her first husband the
mother of Judge Howe became the wife of
Colonel Samuel P. Oyler, and in 1850 they
took up their residence in Franklin, Johnson
County, Indiana, where Colonel Oyler en-
gaged in the practice of law, having been one
of the able and honoj-ed members of the bar
of the state for many years. In the Civil
War he served as major of the Seventh In-
diana Volunteer l^ifantry, and feter he be-
came lieutenant colonel of the Seventy-ninth
Indiana Volunteer Infantry. After the ter-
mination of his service, he resumed the prac-
tice of his profession at Franklin and he
served for several years as judge of the Cir-
cuit Court, in ' addition to which he repre-
sented his district for four years in the state
Senate. He was prominent in both the
Knights of Pythias, in which he was honored
with the office of grand chancellor, and in the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which
he served as grand master of the Grand Lodge
of Indiana. He died in 1898, and his widow
thereafter maintained her home with her son,
Judge Howe, in Indianapolis, where she died
in 1904, a woman of gracious personality and
one who was revered by all who came within
the circle of her gentle influence. She was a
native of the State of New York, whence her
parents. Solomon and Lucy (Butts) Hicks,
removed to Indiana in 1826. Her father was
a member of a New York regiment in the
War of 1812.
Judge Daniel W. Howe gained his prelim-
inary education in the common schools of his
native state, after which he entered Franklin
College, at Franklin, this state, in which in-
stitution he was graduated as a member of
the class of 1857 and from which he received
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
the degree of Bachelor of Arts. During the
winters of 1858 and 1859 he devoted his at-
tention to teaching in the public schools,
and in the following winter he attended a
course of lectures in a law school in Indian-
apolis. The call to higher duty came to him
soon afterward, when the integrity of the na-
tion was thrown into jeopardy by armed re-
bellion, and, subordinating all personal inter-
ests, he was among the loyal sons of Indiana
who responded to President Lincoln's first
call for volunteers. In April, 1861, he en-
listed as a private in the Seventh Indiana
Volunteer Infantry, of which his honored
stepfather became major, and he was in active
service for three months, in West Virginia,
where he participated in the battle of Car-
rick's Ford. After the expiration of his first
term of enlistment he became a member of
the Seventy-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infan-
try, entering the same as first lieutenant of
Company I. of which he was later promoted
captain. With this gallant command he
made a record of most faithful and gallant
service as a loyal soldier of the republic, hav-
ing taken part in the battles of Stone's River,
Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, and also
in the East Tennessee campaign and the ever
memorable Atlanta campaign. He was made
the subject of special compliment in the offi-
cial reports for meritorious service in the bat-
tle of Missionary Ridge. He was severely
wounded in an engagement at Kenesaw Moun-
tain, Georgia, on the 23rd of June, 1864, and
being thus incapacitated for further active
service in the field, he received his honorable
discharge on the 10th of the following No-
vember. His continued interest in his old
comrades in arms is signified bj^ his member-
ship in the Grand Army of the Republic, in
which patriotic order he is affiliated with
George H, Thomas Post, No. 17, of Indian-
apolis.
After the close of the war Judge Howe re-
sumed his study of the law, in connection
with which work of preparation he was finally
matriculated in Albany Law School, in the
capital city of New York, in which institu-
tion he was graduated in 1867, with the de-
gree of Bachelor of Laws. He was forthwith
admitted to the bar of his native state and
he initiated his professional career by enter-
ing into partnership with his stepfather. Col-
onel Oyer, with whom ho was associated in
practice at Franldin, Indiana, for several
years, within which he amply justified his
choice of vocation. He was called upon tn
serve as city attorney of Franklin and also
mndo nn excellent record as prosecuting at-
torney of Johnson County, of which position
he was incumbent for two years.
In 1873, desiring a wider field of action iu
his profession. Judge Howe removed to In-
dianapolis, of whose bar he has since con-
tinued a representative member. In 1876 he
was elected a judge of the Superior Court,
and he continued to preside on the bench un-
til 1890, since which time he has given his
attention to the general practice of his pro-
fession, in connection with which his clientage
is of distinctively representative order. On
the bench he evinced the highest judicial
acumen and his decisions were marked by
broad and comprehensive knowledge of the
law and full appreciation of the equity in-
volved in the varied causes presented for his
adjudication. In neither his professional
career or private life has there been aught of
obliquity or indirection, and none holds a
more secure place in the confidence and es-
teem of the bar and the general public. Judge
Howe has much felicity in diction, both as a
speaker and writer, commanding a clear and
forceful English of classical purity. He has
been president of the Indiana Historical So-
ciety since 1901 and his interest in its affairs
is of the most insistent and helpful order.
He is also a member of the New England
Historic-Genealogical Society, and has served
as president of the Indianapolis Bar Associa-
tion. His literary productions have included
various books and pamphlets, and among
these it may be noted that he is author of the
"Puritan Republic", published in 1899, and
of "Civil War Times", a most valuable and
interesting historical volume, published in
1902. For some time past he has been giving
attention to the compilation of the genealogi-
cal history of the Howe family in connection
with which his researches have been wide
and intimate. In politics he is a Republican.
In his religious faith he inclines to that of
the Congregational Church, the church of his
ancestors, and in the time-honored Masonic
fraternity he has attained the Knight Tem-
plar degree in the York-Rite and Thirty-sec-
ond degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish
Rite.
In 1871, while a resident of Franklin, In-
diana, Judge Howe was lanited in marriage
to Miss Inez Hamilton, daughter of Robert
A. and Susan ( Saunders ~i Hamilton, who
came from Kentucky to Indiana, in which
latter state Mrs. Howe was born. The Ham-
ilton genealogy is traced back to stanch
Scotch-Irish origin and the original repre-
sentative in America settled in Pennsylvania.
•Judge and Mrs. Howe became the parents of
three children ; Ruth died at the age of eight-
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
een .years; Lucy, who is a graduate of Ab-
bott Academy, at Andover, ]\Iassaeliusetts,
and also of the Indiana State University and
Cornell University, at Ithaca, New York, is
now the wife of Archibald ]\r. Hall, of Frank-
lin, Indiana ; and Miss Susan remains with
her parents at the attractive family residence.
No. 1007 North New Jersey street.
Alexaxder C. Ayres. To have been for
nearly two score of years a representative mem-
ber of the bar of Indiana and the City of In-
dianapolis, in itself bears evidence of marked
ability and power of leadership. This is true
of Alexander C. Ayres, who as a legist and jur-
ist has dignified his profession by his charac-
ter and services and who is now one of the
recognized leaders of the bar of the capital
city, where he is senior member of the law
firm of Ayres, Jones & Hollett. He has used
his intellect to the best purpose, has directed
his energies along legitimate channels, and his
career has been based upon the wise assumption
that nothing save industry, perseverance and
fidelity to duty will lead to success in an ex-
acting profession which offers no opportunities
save to valiant souls; to such its attractions
are unrivaled and its rewards unstinted.
Mr. Ayres finds much of satisfaction in re-
verting to Indiana as the place of his nativity
and he is a scion of one of the honored pioneer
families of this commonwealth. He was born
at Mount Carmel, Franklin County, on the
9th of November, 1846, and is a son of Levi
and Jane C. (Cregmile) Ayres, whose marriage
was solemnized in Franklin County, this state,
in 1840. Levi Ayre^ was born in Cumberland
County, New Jersev, on the 3d of September,
1808, and his death occurred in Marion
County, Indiana, in 1888. He was a son of
John and Margaret (Powner) Ayres, the for-
mer of whom was bom in Cumberland County,
New Jersey, in 1777, a son of John and Sus-
anna (.Jarman) Ayres. John Avres, Sr., was
likewise born in New Jersey, of Welsh lineage,
and in that historic old commonwealth the
family was founded in the early colonial enoch
nf our national history. He entered the Con-
tinental service in the War of the Revolution,
and was captured bv the enemy, after which he
was retained as a prisoner of war, in New
York harbor, until the close of the great strug-
gle for independence. The British refused to
permit his exchanse bv reason of the fact that
he was a skilled blacksmith and as such was of
special value in their service. Levi Avres was
reared and educated in New Jersev. whence he
came to Indiana in the vear 1832. He located
in Franklin County, and that be was a man of
no inconsiderable scholarship, according to the
standards of the period, is evident when we re-
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vert to the fact that soon after his arrival in
Franklin County he secured an engagement to
teach school. In 1833 he removed to Ticks-
burg, Mississippi, where he followed the trade
of painter until 1836, when he returned to
Franklin County, Indiana, where he secured a
tract of land and turned his attention to agri-
cultural pursuits, having reclaimed much of his
land from the virgin forest. He remained on
this homestead until 1858, when he came to
Marion County and purchased a fann in Cen-
ter township, where he passed the residue of his
life. He was one of the honored and influential
citizens of his township, was a stanch advocate
of the principles and policies of the Democratic
party and was called upon to serve in various
public offices, including County Commissioner
and that of representative of Franklin County
in the state legislature, in 1857. He was a man
of strong individuality and broad mental ken,
and his life was guided and governed by the
highest principles of integrity and honor. Sin-
cerity, tolerance and kindliness marked his in-
tercourse with his fellow men, and such was
the man and such his works that his name
merits an enduring place on the roster of the
sterling pioneers of the Hoosier state. Both
he and his wife were members of the Presby-
terian Church. ^Irs. Ayres, at the time of her
marriage was a resident of Franklin County,
Indiana, where her parents, Alexander and
Rachel Cregmile, were early settlers. The Creg-
mile family, whose cognomen was originally
spelled Craigmile, is of Scotch-Irish origin and
was founded in America prior to the Revolu-
tion. Levi and Jane C. (Cregmile) Ayres be-
came the parents of seven children, of whom
two died in infancy; John T. and R. Jennie
are now deceased; Alexander C. is the imme-
diate subject of this review; Franklin is de-
ceased and Levi P. maintains his home in
Indianapolis.
Alexander C. Ayres passed the first twelve
vears of his life in Franklin County and in
1858, as already noted, his parents removed
to i\Iarion County, where he has nu^intained
his home during' the long intervening years
and where he has won a generous measure of
distinction and success. After duly availing
himself of the advantages of the common
schools he entered the Northwestern Christian
University, now known as Butler College, and
located in Irvington, a suburb of Indianapolis,
in which institution he completed tlie pre-
scribed curriculum and was graduated as a
member of the class of 1868, with the de-
gree of Bachelor of Arts. He then taught
school for one year, at Greenwood, Johnson
Countv. after which he came to Indianapolis
and entered the offices of the firm of Hendricks,
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HISTORY OF GKEATER INDIANAPOLIS.
Hord & Hendricks, under whose preceptorship
he read law for the ensuing three years, with-
in which period he also completed the regular
course in the law department of his alma ma-
ter, the Northwestern Christian Univeraity, in
which he was graduated in 1873, with the de-
gree of Bachelor of Laws. He was forthwith
admitted to the bar of his native state, and
shortly afterward he formed a professional
partnership with Hon. Byron K. Elliott, with
whom he continued to be associated in practice
until 18.76, when Mr. Elliott was elected to
the bench of the superior court of Marion
County. Judge Ayres then formed a partner-
ship alliance with Hon. Edgar A. Brown, who
later became judge of the circuit court of
Marion County. The firm of Ayr6s & Brown
continued in practice until 1882, when Judge
Ayres was elected to the bench of the nine-
teenth judicial cireui't, composed of Marion
and Hendricks Counties. After serving ir
this position for a little more than three years
Judge Ayres resigned and resumed the active
work of his profession, . in connection with
which he became associated with his former
partner, Judge Brown, and Lawson M. Har-
vey, under the title of Ayres, Brown & Har-
vey. In 1890 Mr. Brown became judge of the
Marion circuit court and the firm was then
dissolved. In January, 1892, Judge Ayres
and Aquilla 0' Jones entered into a profes-
sional partnership, under the title of Ayres &
Jones, and upon the admission of John E.
Hollett to the firm, in 1897, the present firm
designation of Ayres, Jones & Hollett was
adopted. The firm now ranks among the
strongest in the state and controls a large and
lucrative business.
Judge Ayres has gained distinctive recogni-
tion and high reputation by reason of his
broad and exact knowledge of the science of
jurisprudence and his ability in applying this
information effectively both as a trial lawyer
and as a counselor, as well as on the bench,
in connection with whose work his rulings were
signally effective and equitable, meeting with
but very few reversals by the higher tribunals.
His firm has had to do with large interests
and with important litigations in the state
and federal courts and he personally has long
held prestige as one of the admirably equipped
members of his profession in his native state.
In politics he has ever been arrayed as a sup-
porter, of the cause of the Democratic party,
of whose principles he is an able exponent,
and he has been a leader in the councils of his
party in Indiana and was a delegate to the
convention which nominated Cleveland for
president. Judsre Avres is a member of the
Phi Delta Tbeta.
In the year 1881 was solemnized the mar-
riage of Judge Ayres to Miss Anna Fay,
daughter of Amos F. Fay, who was at that time
a resident of Indianapolis, whence he later re-
moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he still
resides. To Judge and Mrs. Ayres have been
bom five ' children, whose names, in order of
birth, are as here noted: Elliott, Mabel,
Franklin, Henry L. and Alexander C, Jr.
All are living except the last named, who died
in infancy.
Theodoke Stein. The conditions under
which industrial and commercial enterprises
of magnitude are prosecuted in this new cen-
tury of electrical advancement in all lines of
human activity, demand men who are force-
ful and of strong potentiality, courage and
judgment. Numbered among such repre-
sentatives in the personnel of the successful
business men identified with the material and
civic progress of "Greater Indianapolis" is
Theodore Stein, who is president of the Ger-
man Fire Insurance Company of Indiana,
and a director of the Indiana Title Guaranty
and Loan Company, two of the substantial
and important institutions in the capital city.
Theodore Stein was born in Indianapolis
on November 7, 1858, as the oldest- of five
sons of Ernest Christian Frederick Stein and
Catherine Elizabeth Stein, the one a poor,
but worthy scion of the highest German no-
bility, the other the daughter of a well-to-do
German Gutsbesitzer.
Mr. Stein's father, Frederick Stein for
short, immediately after settling in this city,
took an active interest in the organization of
the Republican party, and became that
party's first elected candidate for city clerk
in 1856.
It is said of him as a matter of distinction,
that when later he became a justice of the
peace, he invariably tried to arrange the dif-
ferences of the people brought before his
court on an amicable basis, and thereby avoid-
ed imposing heavy money penalties and inci-
dentally curtailing his own income, so dif-
ferent from his contemporaries and later
"Squires".
Theodore Stein acquired the rudiments of
his schooling in the old "German English
Independent School ' ' of this city, a school
attended by many of the most prominent of
our present day men of affairs. While Mr.
Stein's years at school were limited, he was
a student, and never idle, and by self-applica-
tion acquired much knowledge which his
more fortunate contemporaries obtained in
school and college.
That 'Mr. Stein is a man to do things is
illustrated bv the fact that while he was fol-
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757
lowing his daily vocation of bookkeeper and
manager of a large lumbering institution, he
was secretary of four savings and loan asso-
ciations and treasurer of another.
He has created an abstract of title busi-
ness second to none anywhere, and which
finally became the nucleus for the establish-
ment of the Indiana Title Guaranty and Loan
Company, with which Mr. Stein's name will
be indelibly connected, and an institution
which merits the confidence of all good peo-
ple.
In 1896 he was a most influential factor
in saving from destruction at the hands of
ruthless schemers, the old German Mutual
Insurance Company, brought into a flourish-
ing state by his friends, Adolph Seidenstieker
and Lorenz Schmidt, and on its reorganiza-
tion in the same year into a stock company
under the name of the "German Fire Insur-
ance Company of Indiana" he became its
president, and to his indefatigable labors the
great success of the company is largely due.
Mr. Stein, in common with many latter
day Americans, is much interested in ances-
tral story, but unlike most of his country-
men, he can trace back his line of descent a
thousand years or more, all because of the
historical prominence of the family, whose
possessions, constituting one of the petty
principalities of the German Empire, became
mediatized in 1806, along with those of other
princely houses. The ruins of the Stein an-
cestral castle called "Burg Stein" erected in
1050 A. D. may still be seen along with those
of Nassau, the ancestral home of the present
Queen of Holland,- on a mountain near the
River Lahn not far from the City of Cob-
lentz on the Rhine.
Theodore Stein is one of that class of busi-
ness men who lend a helping hand in all mat-
ters pertaining to the advancement of the
glory of his home city. Recognizing the need
of a modern club in the city, he became one
of the charter members of the Columbia Club.
As a good Republican he helped in the early
eflForts of the Marion Club. As a believer in
Christian teachings he has aided church en-
terprises. As a lover of music and all else
that tends toward better family social life
he became a member of the German House.
As a patriot whose ancestors participated,.in
the American Revolution, he became one of
the charter members of the Indiana State So-
ciety Sons of the American Revolution, and
ultimately its president. He is also a Scot-
tish Rite Mason and a Noble of the Mystic
Shrine.
Mr. Stein married an Indianapolis girl.
Miss Bertha Kuhn, on March 15, 1882, and to
them were born a daughter, Pauline, and a
son, Theodore Stein, Jr.
Hilton U. Brown. Indiana's capital city
has reason for satisfaction in the presenta-
tion of her claims for metropolitan facilities
and due relative precedence in the matter of
the newspaper press, as well as in the per-
sonnel of its representatives. Among tliese is
Hilton U. Brown, general manager of the In-
dianapolis News, the leading evening daily of
the Hoosier state and one that can well bear
comparison with the great dailies of the en-
tire Union.
Mr. Brown finds no small measure of pleas-
ure in reverting to Indianapolis as the place
of his nativity. He was born in this city on
the 20th of February, 1859, and is a son of
Philip and Julia A. (Troster) Brown, the
former of whom was born in Butler County,
Ohio, and the latter in Germany, whence she
came with her pafents to America when a
child. Philip Brown was reared and educated
in the old Buckeye state and was a scion of
one of its honored pioneer families. His mar-
riage was solemnized at Hamilton, that state,
and in 1855 he came with his wife to Indian-
apolis, which was then scarcelj' more than a
thrifty village, but claiming priority by rea-
son of being the capital of the state. He was
one of the pione^ lumbermen of the city,
having established a lumber yard on grounds
not now remote from the center of the busi-
ness district, at the comer of Massachusetts
and Bellefontaine avenues and in juxtaposi-
tion with the tracks of the old "Peru" (I. P.
& C, now Lake Erie) Railroad, from which
a private switch was extended into his yards
and became known as Brown's switch. It is
of historic interest that this switch led to the
establishment of the railroad station on Mas-
sachusetts avenue. Mr. Brown was one of
the influential business men and honored citi-
zens of the Indiana capital until his death,
in 1864, at the age of sixty-four years. He
was a man of scholarly instincts and attain-
ments and a friend of the educatiftnal move-
ments of his time. His name merits an en-
during place on the roll of the pioneers who
laid the foundations upon which has been
reared an industrial and commercial city, a
city that "vaunteth not itself", but one
whose prestige has now 'reached remote re-
gions by reason of the products sent forth
from its manufactories and commercial
houses. Philip Brown was enrolling clerk of
the Home Guards during the time of the Civil
War, having been beyond the age limit for
active service as a soldier. He died about one
year before the close of the great conflict.
In politics he was originally a supporter of
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HISTOEY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
the cause of the Democratic party. Later he
became a Whiij, but upon the organizatic^n ot
the Republican party, the avowed champion
of abolition of slavery, he transferred his
allegiance to that party, remaining an advo-
cate of its principles until the close of his
life. His wife, who survived him until 1874.
was forty-four years of age at the time of her
death. Of their children only two attained
to years of maturity— Demarchus C, who is
now State Librarian of Indiana at Indian-
apolis, and Hilton U., who is the immediate
subject of this review.
To the public schools of Indianapolis Hil-
ton U. Brown is indebted for his early edu-
cational discipline. After completing the
grammar grades he was matriculated in But-
ler College, located at Irvington, now o6e of
the attractive suburban districts of this city,
in which institution he was graduated as a
member of the class of 1880, with the degree
of Bachelor of Arts. He then for a year was
a school teacher and was nominal head of
what was known as "Oaktown Academy", a
public school at Oaktown, Knox County, this
state. He had in the meantime made appli-
cation to John H. Holliday for a reporter's
place on the Netvs. The assassination of Gar-
field caused a demand for extra men on the
paper and this gave the applicant a chance.
His newspaper career has been marked by
consecutive advancement and success. Thils,
in 1881, he became a member of the staff as
market reporter of the Indianapolis News,
with whose affairs he has been identified dur-
ing the intervening period of nearly thirty
years and of which he is now general man--
ager. In 1890 he became city editor of the
News, retaining its incumbency until 1898,
when he was appointed receiver of the same
during litigation growing out of a dissolution
of the company's partnership. As such he
sold the paper for the litigants for nearly a
million dollars— a great price for those days.
Following the receivership he was made gen-
eral manager, of which position he has con-
tinued incumbent. In the meantime the
paper has reached metropolitan standards,
both as a news vehicle and as an exponent of
local interests. Representing the owners he
has been intrusted with many important com-
missions all of which he executed with dis-
cretion and success. Among them was the
purchase for the owners of the News of the
Indianapolis Press and the Indianapolis Sen-
tuicl. . He has served in almost every capacity
on a newspaper and his intimate knowledge
of all departments of newspaper work has
eriven him standing as one of the representa-
tive niombers of the jwuriialistic fraternitv in
Indiana, and has led to his repeated election
as director of the American Newspaper Pub-
lishers' Association. Progressive and public-
fpirited as a citizen, he has championed all
legitimate causes and enterprises which have
tended to conserve the general welfare of the
community and make for the upbuilding of
"Greater Indianapolis".
In polities Mr. Brown is a Republican with
somewhat insurgent leanings. He is a Mas-
ter Mason and is affiliated with Irvington
Lodge, No. 666, Free and Accepted ^Masons.
He and his wife hold membership in the
Christian Church. He has been a valued
member of the board of trustees of his alma
mater, Butler College, for a period of nearly
twenty years, and has been president of its
board of ti-ustees since 1903. He takes a
deep interest in the affairs of this excellent
institution with which he and his people have
been identified almost from its beginning.
In 1883 he was married to Miss Jennie
Hannah, daughter of Captain Archibald A.
Hannah, who was a representative citizen of
Paris, Illinois, and the names of the ten chil-
dren of this union are here entered, in order
of birth: Mark H., Philip (deceased), Louise
(now Mrs. John W. Atherton), Marj% Hilton,
Jr., Jean, Archibald, Paul, Jessie and Julia.
Leonard M. Quill. The efficient and popu-
lar county clerk of Marion County has l>ecn
a resident of Indianapolis since his boyhood
days and here he has risen to his present re-
sponsible position through the well directed
efforts and personal integrity which gave him
so strong a hold iipon popular confidence and
esteem as to bring about his election to the
office of which he is incumbent.
Mr. Quill Avas bom in West Manchester.
Preble County, Ohio, on the 15th of December,
1808, and is a son of Thomas F. and .\daline
(Banta) Quill, whose marriage was solemnized
in Preble County. Thomas F. Quill is a native
of County Kerry, Ireland, where he was born
in the year 184fi, and in IS.'ifi, when he was
a lad of ten years, his parents. Thoma.s and
Fllen (Laughlin) Quill, immigrated to
America, making the State of Ohio their des-
tination and establishing their home in Preble
County, where they passed the remainder of
their lives. Thomas F. Quill was reared to
maturity in that county, where he received a
common-school education and where he fol-
lowed the vocation of traveling salesman after
his marriage to Miss Adaline Banta, who was
l)orn in that county in 1848. Thcv are now
residents of Indianapolis, where they have
maintained their home since 1877. Upon com-
ing to this city Thomas F. Quill engaged in
the nurserv business and he is still activelv
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
rod
identified with business affairs. He has been
a zealous worker in the cause of the Republican
party and served one term as assessor of Cen-
ter Township, ■\Iarion County, the township
in which the City of ' Indianapolis is located.
He has ever commanded unqualified esteem
in the community which has represented his
home for more than thirty years and is a man
whose career has been marked by iiiflexible in-
tegrity of purpose. Both he and his wife are
communicants of the Catholic Church. Of
their children two are living and the subject
of this review is the elder; John J. holds a
clerical position in the offices of the national
Inter-state Commerce Commission, in \Yash-
ington, D. C.
In the capital city of Indiana Leonard M.
Quill was reared to maturity, and his early
educational discipline was secured in the
parochial and public schools. After complet-
ing the curriculum of the latter he took an
effective course in the Indianapolis Business
College, and after leaving this institution he
was employed for tA?o .years in the Buffalo shoe
store, then a well known retail establishment
of. Indianapolis. During the four years' re-
gime of his father in the office of township as-
sesspr of Center Township, Mr. Quill was em-
'ployed in the assessor's office, and after leav-
ing the same he assumed a clerical position in
the offices of the Indianapolis Gas Company,
with whose interests he was identified for a
period of twelve years, within which he was
promoted to a position of responsibility as an
executive. He resigned his position with the
gas company to assume that of chief deputy
in the office of the county clerk, William E.
Davis, and he served in this capacity until his
election to the office of county clerk, as can-
didate on the Republican ticket, in November,
1906. He assumed the duties of the office on
the 1st of January, 1907, and his term will
expire Januan' 1, 1911. He has given a most
capable and satisfactory administration and
has handled the multitudinous details of the
important office with marked discrimination,
having in many ways improved the system and
facilitated the work of the office. He has
bec-n a zealoiis worker in the ranks of the Re-
publican party, to which his allegiance is of
the most unqualified order. He and his wife
are communicants of the Catholic Church and
he is identified with the Young Men's Insti-
tute, the Knights of Columbus and the Benev-
olent and Protective Order of Elks.
On the 20th of July, 1892, Mr. Quill was
united in marriage to Miss Nora C. Golden,
who was born and reared in Indianapolis and
who is a daughter of Dennis and Anna Golden,
of this city. The chiMren of this union are
Thomas E., William P. and Anna Patricia.
Jackson Landers. A man of sterling
character and one who left a definite impress
upon the civic and business annals of his na-
tive state was the late Jackson Landers, who
died in the City of Chicago, on the 17th of
February, 1908, after a career of signal in-
tegrity and usefulness. His was a strong and
noble individuality, marlced by sincerity and
by an intrinsic honesty that manifested itself
in his every thought, word and deed. His
name and personality are held in grateful
memory by all \vho knew him and had appre-
ciation of his worthy life and generous at-
tributes of character.
At Landersdale, Morgan County, Indiana,
a place named in honor of the sterling pioneer
family of which he was a representative,
Jackson Landers w;as born on the 14th of
August, 1843, and, as already noted, his death
occurred in the City of Chicago, whither he
had gone for medical treatment. He was a
son of William and Delila (Stone) Landers,
both of w^hom continued their residence in
Morgan County until their death. William
Landers was born in the State of Virginia,
in 1788, and was a son of Jonathan Landers,
who was a native of England and of Scotch-
Irish lineage. Jonathan Landers figures as
the founder of the familv in America, whither
he came when twenty-one years of age. He
settled in the Old Dominion and was one of
the valiant patriots sent forth by Virginia to
battle for the caiise of independence in the
War of the Revolution. His marriage was
solemnized in Virginia, where he continued to
reside until 1798, when he removed with his
family to Kentucky, from w'hich state he came
to Indiana, becoming one of the pioneer set-
tlers of Morgan County, where he and his
wife passed the residue of their lives. At the
time of the laying out of Indianapolis, the
commissioners stopped at the home of William
Landers. He was a man of wealth and in-
fluence in the county, where he became the
owner of a large amount of land and re-
claimed a productive farm. This farm of
one thousand acres is still owned by members
of his family. He was active in public af-
fairs of a local order, was a man of superior
intellectual force and ever held a secure place
in the esteem of the community to whose de-
velopment he contributed in liberal and gen-
erous measure. His children were William,
James, John and Lucy. William Landers was
ten years of age at the time of the family
removal from the Old Dominion state to
Kentucky, where he was reared to maturity
and where he received such educational ad-
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vantages as were afforded in tht common
schools of the period. . In 1820 he came to In-
diana, in company with his father and other
members of the family, and he was thirty-
two years of age at the time. He became one
of the prominent agriculturists of Morgan
County, served in various local oflSces of pub-
lic trust and well upheld the honors and pres-
tige of the name which he bore. His life was
guided and governed by the highest princi-
ples and his influence was potent in connec-
tion with the civic and material progress of
the county of which he was a pioneer. He
was twice married, having first wed Miss Eva
Stone, a daughter of Nimrod Stone, who was
a native of Virginia and a loyal soldier in the
Continental line in the War of the Revolu-
tion. After the death of his fijst wife he was
united in marriage to her sister Delila, who
survived him by a number of years.
Jackson Landers, the immediate subject of
this memoir, was reared to manhood on the
homestead farm of his father, in Morgan
County, and there he learned the lessons of
thrift and industry which served him well in
the later years of his prolific and successful
life. He was fully appreciative of such edu-
cational advantages as were accorded him in
the common schools of his native county and
the discipline thus received was rounded out
and made sjTnmetrical by self -application and
by the active and varied experiences of a
most successful career as one of the world's
noble army of workers. As a young man he
removed from Morgan County to Marion
County, in which the capital city is located,
and he became the owner of a large and val-
uable farm in Centre Township— a property
upon which he made the best of improve-
ments and in possession of which -he contin-
ued for many years. He continued to be
actively interested in the great basic industry
of agriculture throughout his entire career,
and at the time of his death was the owner
of a large and finely improved farm in Mor-
gan County, a part of the same being the
place upon which his father located upon
coming to Indiana in the early pioneer epoch.
As a stanch and well fortified advocate of
the principles and policies of the Democratic
party, Mr. Landers early assumed measur-
able leadership in the councils of his party in
Marion County, and such was the character
of the man and such his partisan loyalty that
he became marked as a. most eligible candi-
date for official preferment. In 1876 he was
elected to the responsible office of treasurer
of Marion County, in which position he
served two years, refusing to become a can-
didate for re-election' at the expiration of his
original term. The respect and esteem in
which he was held in the county was signifi-
cantly shown in his election to the office of
county treasurer, for he overcame a large and
normal Republican majority. His adminis-
tration of the fiscal affairs of the county am-
ply justified the popular trust reposed in him
and so definitely indicated by the suffrages of
the voters of the county. At the time of his
election he removed from his farm to the City
of Indianapolis, wiiere he ever afterward
maintained his home and where his popular-
ity was of the most unequivocal order. Upon
his retireinent from office Mr. Landers became
manager of the Landers pork-packing plant
and business, of which he had been one of the
founders, and he retained this incumbency
for several years. In 1886 he became one of
the interested principals in the organization
of the United States Encaustic Tile Works,
of which corporation he was elected treasurer.
He gave much of his time to the promotion
of the interests of this concern, now one of
the most extensive and important of its kind
in the Union, and he retained the executive
office mentioned until 1906, when, upon the
death of John J, Cooper, he succeeded to ^the
presidency of the company, a position of
which he continued in tenure until the time
of his death.
As a business man Mr. Landers was far-
sighted, enterprising and progressive, and his
administrative ability was of a higli order.
He had naught of ostentation and gave to
every man a fair and just estimate, having no
respect for the mere fictitious phases of pomp
and power. Plain, direct and forceful in his
conversatioxj, he was sometimes considered
brusque or abrupt, but there was naught of
austerity in his nature and his heart was es-
sentially attuned to sympathy, tolerance and
generous impulses. As may well be under-
stood, he was a man of positive character, and
there was nothing vacillating in his attitude
in either the business or social relations of
life. In all relations he did right as it was
given him to see the right, and he was ever
ready to extend co-operation in the promotion
of measures for the general welfare of the
community and to lend aid to those afflicted
or distressed "in mind, body or estate". He
was a consistent member of the Third Chris-
tian Church of Indianapolis and exemplified
his faith in his daily life. In the Masoijic
fraternity he was raised to the sublime de-
gree of Master Mason, and until his death he
maintained active affiliation with Lodge No.
319, Free and Accepted Masons, of Indian-
apolis. In his death Indianapolis lost one of
its most honored citizens, and his life itself
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761
constitutes the best monument to his mem-
ory.
As a young man Mr. Landers was united in
marriage to Miss Georgiana Knox, who like-
wise was born in Morgan County, Indiana,
where her parents were pioneer settlers, and
she was summoned to the life eternal in 1876,
having been a devout member of the Chris-
tian Church. Of the children of this mar-
riage the following brief record is made :
John B., who became a successful stock raiser
in Kansas, is now deceased ; Lillie is the wife
of Winfield Miller, connected with Connecti-
cut Mutual Insurance Company; William F.,
who is treasurer of the United States En-
caustic Tile Works, of Indianapolis, is indi-
vidually mentioned on other pages of this
work; and Arthur died at the age of twenty-
two years. In 1878 Mr. Landers was united
in marriage to Mrs. Laura (Hayes) Laycock,
who survives him. Their daughter, Eudora,
now deceased, was the wife of William Har-
bison, of Indianapolis
William F. La.ntders. Numbered among
the essentially representative business men of
the younger generation in the capital city,
William F. Landers is the only living son of
the late Jackson and Georgiana (Knox) Lan-
ders, and as on other pages of this work is
entered a memorial tribute to his honored
father it is not requisite that further review
of the family history be incorporated in the
present article. Suffice it to say that he is,
in both the ^ agnatic and maternal lines, a
scion of honored pioneer stock in Indiana.
William F. Landers was bom in the village
of Landersdale, Morgan County, Indiana, on
the 25th of January, 1868, and the place of
his nativity was named in honor of the fam-
ily of which he is a representative. He was
reared principally in the City of Indianapolis
and was afforded the advantages of the ex-
cellent public schools of the capital city, in-
eluding the high school. At the age of
twenty-one years Mr. Landers assumed a po-
sition as salesman in the dry goods establish-
ment of Murphy. Hibben & Company, of In-
dianapolis, but he held this position only a
short interval, as in 1889 he became superin-
tendent of the United States Encaustic Tile
AVorks, one of the extensive and important
industrial concerns of Indianapolis and one
in which his father was a heavy stockholder,
having been president of the corporation at
the time of his death. The subject of this
review gave most efficient service in the execu-
tive office of superintendent and upon the
death of his father, in 1908, he became treas-
urer of the company, of which position he
continued incumbent and in which he is giv-
ing an able administration as one of the prin-
cipal executive officers of the company. He
is one of the progressive and loyal business
men of the city and has shown a lively inter-
est in all that has tended to conserve the de-
velopment of "Greater Indianapolis". Like
his father, he is a stanch supporter of the
cause of the Democratic party, but he has
never had any ambition for the honors or
emoluments of public office. He is identified
with various social and civic organizations of
representative character and enjoj's marked
personal popularity in the city which has
been his home from his childhood days.
On the 3rd of August, 1898, Mr. Landers
was united in marriage to Miss Camilla Fisk,
of Toledo, Ohio, and they have one child,
William Fisk Landers.
CiiAKLES E. Dark. In the various rela-
tions of life the late Charles E. Dark, of In-
dianapolis, gave to, the world the best of an
essentially strong, noble and loyal nature;
his life was guided and governed by the high-
est principles of integrity and honor; he was
humanity's friend and his nature was attun-
ed to tolerance and sympathy. In connection
with the practical affairs of life he accom-
plished much and he left a record of value
as one of the world's workers. He was long
and prominently identified with various lines
of the insurance business, in connection with
which he gained a wide reputation, and
though he encountered reverses, through no
negligence or fault of his own, his name ever
stood synonymous of absolute probity and
honesty.
Charles E. Dark was born in the city of
Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 10th of April, 1849,
and at Battle Creek, Mich., where the last
six weeks of his life were spent, on the 13th
of August, 1908, he died. He was a son of
John and Nancy Ann (Brooks) Dark, the
former of whom was born in Wiltshire, Eng-
land, and the latter in Ohio, of Irish and
English lineage; she is still living, main-
taining her home in Indianapolis and being
eighty-three years of age at the time of this
writing. John Dark was reared and edu-
cated in Cincinnati and became one of the
leading contractors and builders of the city,
where he constructed many of the oM build-
ings that are still standing along the river
front. In 1856 he went to Louisiana to su-
perintend the construction of a building for
which he had contract, and he was there as-
sassinated for expressing too freely his views
in regard to slavery, of whose abolishment he
was an ardent and uncompromising advocate.
He had previously been warned that such
would be his fate if he again visited the com-
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
iminity, and his action in going to the south
again showed that he not- only had great
physical courage, but also that of his convic-
tions.
When Charles E. Dark was eight years of
age he came with his widowed mother to In-
dianapolis, where he attended the common
schools until he assumed, at an immature age,
the practical responsibilities of life. When
eleven years of age he initiated his business
career by obtaining, with the exception of one
other boy, the exclusive right to sell news-
papers to the soldiers and prisoners in his-
toric Camp Morton, which was here main-
tained during the progress of the Civil War.
He persistently pursued this line of work
about one year, at the expiration of which
he was given a position in the accojunting de-
partment of the Indianapolis Journal. Soon,
however, he was tendered a clerkship in the
banking house of Fletcher & Sharpe, and af-
ter a few years' experience as a bookkeeper
for this institution he was given, at the age
of sixteen years, the position of teller. From!
this time until 1883, he was employed by vari-
ous banking houses in the capital city and
after the failure of the Indiana Banking
Company, of which he was assistant cashier,
he engaged in the fire-insurance business. For
a number of years prior to the financial crisis
of 1893 he had conducted the largest fire-
insurance agency in the state.
While thus engaged in the insurance busi-
ness, Mr. Dark promoted the organization of
the Indiana League of Fire Underwriters, of
which he was the first president. This asso-
ciation has done more to harmonize fire-in-
surance interests in the state than has been
accomplished through all other steps ever
taken in the interests of that line of business,
because it has brought together into one as-
sociation what were non-union or non-board
companies, thus, almost immediately, putting
an end to unscrupulous competition, which
was forcing premium rates to an inadequate
figure.
In 1895 Mr. Dark found the small fortune
which he h.td succeeded in accumulating had
been entirely swept away, through exigencies
over which he had no control, and in addi-
tion to this he was left with a heavy indebt-
edness, .iwclced from a legitimately compara-
tive standpoint. Instead of availing himself
of bankruptcy, Mr. Dark showed his intrinsic
integrity and honor by signifying his un-
alterable determination to pay one hundred
cents on every dollar of his indebtedness,
and through his earnest efforts he practically
accomplishwl this laudable result when an
untimelv death terminat<:>d his labors. From
1895 until 1899 he was engaged in the mort-
gage-loan business, in the meanwhile devot-
iug considerable attention to life insuranci
and making a careful and discriminatinii
study of actuarial science, in which he had
become much interested several years previ-
ously.
In 1898, realizing the fact that there was
not in existence in the state of Indiana a
regular legal-reserve life-insurance company,
he took up the work of procuring the passage
by the state legislature of a life-insurance
law which would conserve the interests of
stockholders and policyholders in any com-
pany which might be incorporated under its
provisions. Associated with him in this work
was Wilbur S. AVj'nn, founder and now vice-
president and secretary of the State Life In-
surance Company, of Indianapolis. After a
very hard and bitter contest, engendered by
the antagonism of a lobby representing in-
terests of eastern companies, the desired law
was passed, and it is known as the compul-
sory legal-re-serve deposit law. This law was
a district innovation, in that it was the first
enacted by any state of the Union with the
requirement of a deposit of securities cov-
ering liabilities to policyholders, prescribing
a definite basis of valuation, and also a defin-
ite standard of investment for the funds of
life-insurance companies. This law has been
repeatedly adopted, in part, by other states
of the Union. In April, 1899, immediately
after the passage of the above mentioned law,
Mr. Dark eifeeted the organization of the
American Central Life Insurance Company,
of Indianapolis, of which he was vice-presi-
dent and general manager from its inception
until the time of his death.
In 1906, recognizing the lack of harmony
among the younger life-insurance companies
of the United States, and keenly realizing the
necessity for their coinbining for the protec-
tion of their o'wn legitimate interests. Mr.
Dark promoted the organization of the Amer-
ican Ijife Convention, an organization com-
po.sed of about fifty of the leading western
and southern life-insurance companies. He
was the first president of this association,
which has accomplished more than any other
agency to bring about harmony and uniform-
ity of legislation in connection with the life-
insurance business.
At the time of his death Mr. Dark was rec-
ognized as the foremost life-insurance under-
writer in the state of Indiana. Throughout
his mature life he crave an unqualified alle-
giance to the Republican party and, although
entirely without political aspirations, he was
known ns a hard worker in the rank-s of his
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party whenever he was called upon for
service in its behalf. He was a consistent
and appreciative member of the time-honored
IMasonic fraternity, in which he was affiliated
with Mystic Tie Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons. As a very small boy, of his own voli-
tion, he associated himself with the Presby-
terian Church, and thereafter he took an un-
usually active part in the various depart-
ments of church work, in connection with
which he was prominently concerned in the
erection of the edifices of three of the lead-
ing Presbyterian churches of Indianapolis—
the Second, the Memorial and the Tabernacle
Presbyterian churches, of which last men-
tioned he was a member at the time when he
was summoned to the life eternal. Among
his friends and business associates he was
known as a fervent and consistent Christian—
one who applied the teachings of the faith
to his business and social life. He was known
for his gracious and genial personality, his
lively human sympathy, his untiring energy,
and, considering his resources, his extreme
generosity in connection with churches and
charitable organizations. He kept the needle
of life true to the pole-star of hope and guid-
ed his course with a full sense of his respon-
sibilities and with the strength of conscious
rectitude. His name merits a place on the
roll of the worthy and representative citizens
of the beautiful city in which practically his
entire life was passed and to which his loy-
alty was ever inviolable.
On the 27th of February, 1872, was sol-
emnized the marriage of Mr. Dark, at Can-
ton, Ohio, to Miss Margaret Rebecca Hur-
ford, who was born and reared in the old
Buckeye state and who is a daughter of
Alexander and Hannah (Humbert) Hurford.
She survives her honored husband, as do also
their two sons— Wilbur W., who was born
March 14, 1873, and Edward H., who was
born on the 9th of Augiist. 1875.
Wilbur W. Dark gained his early educa-
tional discipline in the public schools of his
native city, and was graduated in the Short-
ridge high school, then known as Indianap-
olis high school, in February, 1891, after
which he was for two years, 1892-3, a student
in Cornell University, at Ithaca, New York.
From 1893 until 1897 he was engaged as
special agent and adjuster for fire-insurance
companies, and from the latter year until
1904, he gave his attention to the mortgage-
loan, real-estate, and life and fire insurance
bu.siness. In 1904 he became assistant sec-
retary of the Amei'ican Central Life Insur-
ance Company, of which he was elected sec-
retary in 1905, retaining this office until 1908,
when, after the death of his honored father,
he succeeded the latter as vice-president of
the company, of which position he is now in-
cumbent. His brother, Edward H. Dark, is
assistant seci'etary of the same company, and
both are numbered among the representative
business men of the younger generation in
their native city.
Frederick Faiinley. In Indiana's capital
city it is a well recognized fact that the busi-
ness career of Frederick Fahnley, president
of. the Fahnley & McCrea Millinery Com-
pany, has been characterized by courage, con-
fidence, progressiveness and impregnable in-
tegrity of purpose. He has been identified
with the wholesale millinery trade in Indian-
apolis for nearly half a century, and none
has a more secure status as a representative
business man and citizen of the city to whose
prestige as a commercial center he has con-
tributed in no small measure. He has ever
shown implicit confidence in the development
of the larger and greater Indianapolis, and
this confidence has been that of action and
definite accomplishment. To offer in a work
of the province prescribed for the one at hand
an adequate resume of the career of Mr.
Fahnley would be impossible, but, with others
who have aided in conserving the civic and
industrial progress of the capital city, he may
well find considei'ation in the noting here of
the more salient points which have marked
his life and labors
Frederick Fahnley is a native of the king-
dom of Wurtemburg, Germany, where he was
born on the 1st of November, 1839, and his
early educational discipline was secured in
the schools of his native town. The intrinsic
independence and ambition of the man were
in evidence while he was still a boy, and he
early became dependent upon his own re-
sources. In 1854, when fifteen years of age,
he made his advent in America, and his first
permanent abiding place in the new world
was at Medway, a little village in Clark
County, Ohio. There he found employment
in a general merchandise store, in which he
remained engaged for two years, at the ex-
piration of which he removed to the City of
Dayton, in the adjoining County of Montgom-
ery, where he passed the three ensuing j'ears
as an attache of a wholesale millinery and
dry goods house and where he gained his ini-
tial experience in connection with the line of
enterprise in which he was destined ultimately
to gain so distinctive individual success and
precedence. In 1860 he returned to the vil-
lage of Medway, where he initiated his inde-
pendent business career by opening a general
country store, the diversity of whose required
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
stock can be appreciated only by such as have
been patrons of "emporiums" of that type.
The enterprise proved successful, but Mr.
Pahnley had not only the ambition but the
capacity for att'airs of greater scope and im-
portance, and he soon formulated definite
plans for entering a wider field of endeavor.
Thus, in 1865, he disposed of his business in
Medway and came to Indianapolis, where,
within the same year, he effected the organiza-
tion of the wholesale millinery firm of Stiles,
Fahnley & McCrea, in which his colleagnes
were Daniel Stiles and Rollin McCrea. At
that period Indianapolis was most inconspicu-
ous as a distributing center, and it has been
the privilege of Mr. Fahnley to witness and
aid in the development of the wholesale inter-
ests of the capital city until it is now recog-
nized as one of the most important commer-
cial centers in the middle west. The first
store of the new firm of Stiles, Fahnley &
McCrea was located on South Jleridian streel.
directly opposite from the present fine busi-
ness headquarters of the present company.
After a period of four years, marked by con-
servative and substantial progress, Mr. Stiles
retired from the firm and his interest was
acquired by his two associates, who continued
the enterprise under the title of Fahnley &
McCrea.
Early in the year 1875, to meet the de-
mands of a constantly expanding business,
the firm purchased the ground on which they
proceeded to erect what was at that time
recognized as the finest building in the whole-
sale district. This building occupied the site
of the present headquarters, 240-242 South
Meridian street, and 8 to 14, inclusive, on
Louisiana street. In 1898 Messrs. Fahnley
and McCrea reorganized their business, by
the incorporation of a stock company, to
which were admitted several of their old and
valued employes, and the title of the concern
was then changed to its present form— the
Fahnley & McCrea Millinery Company. In
February, 1905, the company suffered the loss
of its building; and immense stocks in the
mo.st disastrous fire that ever visited the
wholesale district— a fire which completely
wiped out also the large buildings of the Kie-
fer Drug Company and the Griffith Brothers,
as well as the Sherman House and several
smaller buildings. Within the same year the
Fahnley & McCrea Millinery Company erect-
ed its present substantial and thoroughly
modern building, which is a five-story brick
structure and which affords an aggregate
floor space of fully 63,000 square feet. The
business has continued to grow steadily since
the formation of the stock company and it
has long represented one of the most im-
portant enterprises of its kind in Indianap-
olis. Its trade extends throughout the ever-
widening territory made tributary lo this
city, and the reputation of the company, as
of the firm of which it is the lineal successor,
has ever been of the highest. From a re-
cently published sketch appearing in the In-
dianapolis Trade Journal are taken the fol-
lowing appreciative statements concerning
Mr. Fahnley:
"Frederick Fahnley has been a strong fac-
tor in the upbuilding of the jobbing district
of this city, a prominent figure for more than
forty years in financial and commercial cir-
cles of Indianapolis, which has well been
designated as 'no mean city'. Though he has
attained to the psalmist's span of three score
years and ten, his mental and physical vigor
is that of a man twenty years younger. Be-
sides giving daily attention to the executive
duties of his position as president of the mil-
linery company, Mr. Fahnley is an active
member of the directorate of the Merchants'
National Bank and that of the Indiana Trust
Company, in both of which leading financial
concerns he holds the office of vice-president.
He is a member of the Board of Trade and
the Commercial Club, and was one of the or-
ganizers of the Columbia Club, of which he
is a valued and appreciative member. He is
also an active member of the German House
and of the Indianapolis Maennerchor So-
ciety. He has always refused to accept politi-
cal office of anj' kind, though as a Republican
he was often tendered a nomination when
such nomination meant election. He con-
fesses, however, to having held one political
office— that of postmaster of Medway, Ohio,
under President Lincoln, but as this was
when he was a 'boy' 22 years of age, he says,
'that doesn't count'.
' ' Frederick Fahnley is counted by his busi-
ness associates and personal friends as a man
of sterling integrity and upright business
and social life. He is a man of notably un-
assuming manners, but cordial, courteous and
companionable to a marked degree".
]\Ir. Fahnley married Miss Lena Soehner,
a native of Baden, Germany. She came to
America with her parents when seven years
old and they lived in Dayton, Ohio, where
Mrs. Fahnley was reared and educated. She
died October 7, 1899, aged fifty-eight years,
survived by two daughters. Bertha, who mar-
ried Gavin Payne of Indianapolis, and Ada,
the wife of William J. Shafer, also of In-
dianapolis. Mrs. Fahnley was a woman who
was greatly revered and was an active worlc
er in many charitable organizations.
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HISTOKY OF GKEATER INDIANAPOLIS.
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H. Ai.DEN Adams, M. D. For more than a
decade Dr. H. Alden Adams has been en-
gaged in the general practice of his profes-
sion in Indianapolis, and he is known as one
of the able physicians and surgeons of the
capital city and as one whose devotion to his
exacting and humane vocation is of the most
insistent order. He enjoys marked personal
and professional esteem and is entitled to con-
sideration in this publication as one of thi*
representative medical practitioners of
"Greater Indianapolis".
Dr. Adams was born in the City of LaSalle,
Illinois, on the 15th of December, 1870, and
Is a son of Kneeland T. and Elizabeth
(Brown) Adams, the former of whom was
born at Peru, Ohio, and the latter in Zanes-
ville, that state. The father of the doctor
was a son of Alden Adams, who was a mem-
ber of one of the pioneer families of Ohio
and who later became one of the early set-
tlers of Wisconsin, where he conducted an
old-time tavern or hotel and where he also
operated a stage line for a number of years.
He passed the closing years of his life at
Warsaw, Illinois. Mrs. Elizabeth (Brown)
Adams, who died April 17, 1909, was a
daughter of Dr. James fc. Brown, who was
born in Vermont and who settled in LaSalle,
Illinois, in 1851. He became one of the lead-
ing physicians of that section of Illinois,
where he was engaged in the active practice
of his profession for many years, and he died
in 1883, at a venerable age. Kneeland T.
Adams was engaged in the banking and the
dry goods business in LaSalle, Illinois, where
he also became a manufacturer of glass. He
disposed of his interests in that place in 1872,
when the subject of this review was two years
of age, and removed with his family to In-
dianapolis, where he engaged in the dry goods
business, as a member of the firm of Adams
& Hatch. Later he was in the commission
trade and at the time of his death, in 1885,
he was here engaged in the retail grocery
business. He was a man of sterling integrity
and much intellectual resource, and he ever
commanded the high regard of those with
whom he came in contact in the various rela-
tions of life. He was a Republican in poli-
i.ics and was a consistent member of the Pres-
byterian Church, of which his widow was
also a member. Of their four children three
are living.
Dr. Adams was reared to maturity in In-
dianapolis, where he completed the curricu-
lum of the public schools, including the high
school. He thereafter assisted in the grocery
store of his father until the death of the lat-
ter, when the stock and business were sold.
Thereafter the doctor served an apprentice-
ship at the trade of "machinist, to which he
gave his attention for a period of about three
years. He then completed a three years'
course in the department of mechanical engi-
neering in Purdue l^niversity, at LaFayette,
Indiana, leaving this institution in 1892, in
which year he was graduated. In 1892 hi^
was matriculated in the Chicago Homoeo-
pathic Medical College, in which he completed
the prescribed technical and clinical course
and in which he was graduated as a member
of the class of 1895, with the degree of Doc-
tor of Medicine. He forthwith initiated the
work of his profession in Indianapolis, where
be has proved an able and successful exemplar
of the beneficent Homoeopathic system of
medicine, besides being a thoroughly skilled
surgeon. In 1896 Dr. Adams completed y
post-graduate course in the New York Ophr
thalmie and Auric Institute, and since that
time he has been a specialist in the treatment
of the diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat,
realizing that much is to- be gained by con-
centration in professional work and by di-
recting attention to specific lines of practice.
He is a valued member of the Indiana In-
stitute of Homoeopathy and the American In-
stitute of Homceop&thy and he continues to
be a close student of the best standard and
periodical literature of his profession, par-
ticularly that touching the special field of
practice to which he gives the greater meas-
ure of his time and attention. In politics the
doctor is aligned as a stanch supporter of the
cause for which the Republican party stands
sponsor, and both he and his wife hold mem-
bership in the First Presbyterian Church of
Indianapolis.
On the 17th of April, 1901, Dr. Adams was
united in marriage to Miss Margaret DeMotte,
of Franklin, Indiana.
Jamks L. Thompson, M. D., has made his
high professional reputation by thirty-eight
years of special practice in the city of Indian-
apolis, preceded by about three years spent in
the surgical service of the government dur-
ing the Civil War and nine years in private
practice at various points in Indiana. With
the exception of his service in the army he is
virtually a physician and surgeon whose
standing has been attained within the bor-
ders of this state. A native of London, Eng-
land, born October 5, 1832, he is a son of
John and Ann (Rossiter) Thompson.
The doctor was reared in his native city,
where he attended various private schools,
and when eighteen years of age, in 1850, emi-
grated to the United States. The first two
years of his residence in this country were
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HISTORY OF GKEATER INDIANAPOLIS.
spent in "taking his bearings", and in 1852
lie directed his course to the state of Indiana,
which has since been his home. He com-
menced the study of medicine while a resi-
dent of Rush County and in 1860 gradu-
ated from the Rush Medical College of Chi-
cago, being engaged in practice at ^Moscow at
the outbreak of the Civil War. In Jlay, 1863,
he was in the service of the Union army as
acting assistant surgeon, U. S. A., stationed
at Memphis, Tennessee, in the Adams U. S.
Hospital, in the summer and later was at
Fort Pickering. He passed the examination
for a surgeon's certificate and was appointed
to that position, being assigned to the Fouth
United States Heavy Artillery of colored
troops. He was subsequently promoted to tlie
medical directorship of the western district
of Kentucky, with headquarters at Paducah,
resigning that position in 1865 because of
physical disability.
After his professional military service. Dr.
Thompson resumed private practice in Rush
County and at Harrison, Ohio, but soon went
to Cincinnati, where he took a special course
in diseases of the eye and ear under Dr. Will-
iams and served for a time as his assistant.
In 1871 he located in Indianapolis, the first
thirty years of his career being devoted to
the medical and surgical treatment of eye and
ear affections, and the last eight years to
those of the eye alone. In these specialties
he has always been an acknowledged leader.
From 1874 he was professor in the Medical
College of Indiana, until 1889 occupying the
chair of diseases of the eye and ear. Dr.
Thompson is an active member of the Mar-
ion County and Indiana State Medical so-
cieties and the American ]\Iedical Association
and is a member of the Indianapolis Literary
Club, with which he has long been identified.
He is also a member of the Indiana Com-
mandery of the Loyal Legion of the United
States. Dr. Thompson went to INIilan, Italy,
with the International Congress in 1880 as a
member and also was a member of Interna-
tional Ophthalmic Congress at Edinburg,
Scotland, in 1894. In 1861 Dr. Thompson
married Miss Martha J. Tevis, who died in
1898, leaving a son and a daughter: Daniel
A., M. D., who died in 1904, being his fa-
ther's associate and a physician of great
promise; and Emma Louis, who married Dr.
J. H. Oliver, of Indianapolis.
LiNNAES C. Boyd. A native son of the
fine old Hoosier state who has here attained
to pronounced success and prestige as a busi-
ness man of distinctive initiative and execu-
tive talent, is Linnaes C. Boyd, president of
the Indianapolis Water Company, whose ef-
fective service represents one of the more im-
portant of the fine public utilities of the capi-
tal city. ^Ir. Boyd is one of those alert and
progressive spirits whose infiuence finds mani-
fold ramifications, and it has been through his
own energy and efforts that he has achieved
distinctive success in connection with the
practical affairs of life, while he has so or-
dered his course as to merit and receive the
unequivocal confidence and regard of his fel-
low men.
Mr. Boyd was born near the village of Mid-
dleborough, Wayne County, Indiana, on the
18th of January, 1864, and in both the pater-
nal and maternal lines he is a scion of old
and honored families of that county, known
as the headquarters for the settlement of the
sterling representatives of the Society of
Friends in the early days of the history of
the state. The first addition to the original
plat of the City of Richmond, the judicial
center and metropolis of the county, was laid
out by Mr. Boyd's maternal great-grand-
father, Jeremiah Cox, who was one of the
honored and influential pioneers of the county
and a devout member of the religious
organization commonly designated as Quak-
ers but properly known as the Society of
Friends. In his home was held the first
church meeting of the Friends in Indiana.
He came to this state from North Carolina at
an early date in the history of the former
commonwealth, and was prominent among the
worthy Friends who brought Wayne County
forward to a position much in advance of
other sections of the pioneer commonwealth
in points of educational advantages and civic
progress.
Mr. Boyd is in the fourth generation of
direct descent from Jonathan Boj'd, who was
born and reared in Scotland and who figures
as the founder of the family in America.
This sturdy, virile and honest ancestor settled
in North Carolina and from that state his son
Adam, grandfather of the subject of this
sketch, came to Indiana and numbered him-
self among the pioneers of Wayne County,
where he had the distinction of l^eing the first
person to be elected justice of the peace. He
was a man of prominence and infiuence in
the community and the major portion of his
active career was one of close identification
with agricultural pursuits. He also was a
member of the Society of Friends.
John C. Boyd, father of the president of
the Indianapolis Water Company, was born
and reared in AVayne County, Indiana, and
there became a prominent and successful
farmer and business man and an influential
and honored citizen. He married ^liss Celia
HISTOEY OF GREATEE INDIANAPOLIS.
767
C. Cox, daughter of Robert Cox, who was a
son of the previously mentioned pioneer, Jere-
miah Cox. John C. and Celia C. (Cox) Boyd
became the parents of four children, of whom
Linnaes C. of this review is the eldest. Tlvi
parents are now both deceased and both were
birthright members of the Society of Friends.
The mother died in 1899 and was interred at
Earlham Cemetery, Richmond, and the father
died in 1902, and is also interred in Earlham
Cemetery.
Linnaes C. Boyd secured his early educa-
tional discipline in the public schools of his
native village, and thereafter he continued
his studies for two years in Earlham College,
in the City of Richmond. That he made good
use of his scholastic advantages is evident
when recognition is taken of the fact that
when but sixteen years of age he secured a
teacher's license in his home county, where
he turned his attention to the pedagogic pro-
fession, as. a teacher in the village schools of
his home town of Millersborough. He was
engaged in teaching for four years, within
which period he also was a student for two
terms in the Indiana State Normal School at
Terre Haute, which institution he entered
when seventeen years of age. Mr. Boyd early
formulated plans for his future career and
after having decided to prepare himself for
the legal profession he began reading law
during his leisure hours during the last two
years of his work as a teacher. He continued
his technical study under the preceptorship
of the law firm of Stafford & Boyd, of Nobles-
ville, this state, where he was admitted to the
bar in the year 1885. He there became a
member of the firm under whose direction he
had prosecuted his studies, and he soon
proved his mettle as a forceful, versatile and
successful trial lawyer and well fortified coun-
selor. After leaving the law firm he
went with the Pennsylvania Railroad Com-
pany, where he was tendered the position of
claim adjuster. This office he filled with
marked ability and discrimination, safeguard-
ing the interests of the company in many
eases that came before its legal department
for adjustment, and he retained the office for
a period of years, resigning the same in
1892. During his incumbency of this posi-
tion his work took him throughout the ter-
ritory traversed by the lines of the great
Pennsylvania system west of the City of
Pittsburg, and in the meanwhile his busine.ss
acumen and judgment led him to make in-
vestments in connection with oil and natural
gas operations at varioiis points in the region
thus covered by him. In fact, from the time
he entered the service of the legal department
of the Pennsylvania -Company, Mr. Boyd has
been identified, in one capacity or another,
with common-carrier and public-service cor-
porations. He became president of the Manu-
facturers' Natural Gas Company of Indian-
apolis, to which city he removed with his
family from Richmond in 1905, and in 1904
he was elected a member of the directorate
of the Indianapolis Water Company, of which
he became vice-president in the following
year, and of which he has been president
since May 1, 1909. Mr. Boyd has shown dis-
tinctive initiative and constructive ability as
a business man, and he now gives the major
portion of his time and attention to his cap-
italistic and executive afl'airs, though it is
conceded by all who know him that his equip-
ment for gaining still greater distinction in
his profession was of the best. He has never
sought or desired the honors or emoluments
of political office, though he is a stanch sup-
porter of the cause of the Republican party.
He has risen to a high position as a financier
and business man and his large and important
capitalistic interests represent the concrete
i-esults of his own mature judgment, acumen
and well directed endeavors along normal and
legitimate lines of enterprise. Mr. Boyd is
held in high esteem in the business circles of
the capital city and is identified with such
representative civic organizations as the Mar-
ion, Columbia, University and Commercial
Clubs and the German House.
On the 19th of June, 1890, was solemnized
the marriage of Mr. Boyd to Miss Mary
Thomas Spencer, who was born in Cincin-
nati and reared in Wayne County, In-
diana, being the daughter of William F.
Spencer, a prominent manufacturer and in-
fluential citizen of Richmond, that county.
Mr. and Mrs. Boyd have three children-
Helen, William Spencer and Philip Linnaes.
Augustus Lynch Mason. To have been
for nearly thirty years a representative mem-
ber of the bar of Indianapolis, in itself bears
evidence of unmistakable ability and power
of leadership. This is true of Augustus
Lynch Mason, who has dignified his profes-
sion by his character and services and who
is now one of the leading corporation lawyers
of the State of Indiana. Of fine intelketual
and professional attainments, he has used his
powers to the best purpose, has directed his
energies along legitimate channels, and his
career has been based upon the assumption
that nothing save industry, perseverance, in-
tegrity and fidelity to duty will lead to suc-
cess, which, indeed, is the prerogative of only
valiant souls. The profession of law offers
no inducements or opportunities except to
IIISTOKV OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
such determined spirits. It is an arduous,
exacting, discouraging vocation to one who
is unwilling to subordinate other interests
to its demands, but to the true and earnest
devotee it offers a sphere of action whose at-
tractions are unrivaled and whose rewards
are unstinted. The name of Mr. Mason, is
familiar in connection with the general prac-
tice of his profession and especially in the
department of commercial and corporation
Jaw, and as a citizen he typified the utmost
loyalty and public spixit.
Augustus Lynch Mason is a native of In-
diana and a scion of one of its honored pio-
neer families. He was born at Bloomington,
"Monroe County, this state, on the 10th of
February, 1859, and is a son of Rev. William
F. and Amanda (Lynch') Mason, the former
of whom was born in Indiana and the latter
in Ohio. The father was afforded excellent
educational advantages in his youth and pre-
pared himself for the ministry of the Meth-
odist Episcopal Church, in which he was
duly ordained when a young man. For a.
number of years he was engaged in the work
of the ministry, in Ohio and Indiana, and
his entire life has been marked by conse-
crated effort in the aiding and uplifting of
his fellow men, though he has for many years
been retired from the active work of the min-
istry and has attained to marked success in
connection with practical business activities.
He finally became one of the interested prin-
cipals in an extensive building and loan asso-
ciation in the City of Denver, Colorado, to
which city he removed from Indianapolis in
1883. There both he and his wife still main-
tain their home. Of Rev. William F. Mason
the following words have been written, in
connection with a statement regarding the
early training of the son. Augustus L., sub-
ject of this review: "Augustus L. Mason not
only ranks high in his chosen profession but
also among his social companions and in the
literary circles of the capital city, where his
classical learning and attainments have won
treneral recognition. His father is a gentle-
man of the old school, universally loved and
respected and an excellent scholar, and thus
during his youth ^Mr. ^lason had the advan-
tage of judicious advice and coaching in ad-
dition to superior educational opportunities
outside of his home. His naturall.v broad and
optimistic disposition has been developed
along the most intelligent lines and he is uni-
formly regarded as a high-minded gentleman
and an altruist in the best sense of the word".
Anthony ^Mason. father of Rev. William F.
INIa.son, was a native of Kentucky and of
stanch English lineage, the famil.v having
been founded in America in the colonial
epoch of our national history. He came to
Indiana in an early day and became one of
the honored pioneers and influential citizens
of Sullivan County, where he reclaimed a
farm from the wilderness and where he con-
tinued to be identified with the great basic
industry of agriculture until his death, which
occurred about the year 1890, at which time
he was eighty-four years of age. His wife
also lived to a venerable age and their names
have a secure place on the roll of the honored
pioneers of the county mentioned. Thomas
H. Lynch, the maternal grandfather of him
whose name initiates this article, was born ill
Ohio, where his parents settled in the early
pioneer days and where he was reared and
educated. He was of English and French
descent. He continued to reside in Ohio un-
til 1850, when he removed with him family to
Kentucky and then came to Indiana, taking
up his abode in Indianapolis, where for a
number of years he was president of the In-
diana Female College, having been a man. of
marked ability and wide erudition. He was
finally ordained a clergyman of the ]\Iethodist
Episcopal Church, to whose service he devot-
ed many years of his signally noble and use-
ful life. He was summoned to eternal rest
in 1892, at the venerable age of eighty-five
years, and of his three children one is living.
Augustus L. ilason was a child at the time
of his parents' removal from Indiana to the
City of Cincinnati, Ohio, where his father
had engaged in business. In the Queen City
he was reared to maturity and to its public
schools he is indebted for his early scholastic
discipline, which was continued in Northwest-
ern University, now Butler College, Indian-
apolis, where his parents took up their resi-
dence in 1872, when he was seventeen years
of age. Mr. jMason was matriculated in De-
Pauw University, at Greencastle, Indiana, in
which institution he was graduated as a mem-
ber of the class of 1879 and from which he
received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He
then returned to Indianapolis, where he be-
gan reading law under effective preceptor-
ship, and here he was admitted to the bar of
his native state in 1880, since which time he
has been engaged in the active practice of his
profession in the capital city. For a number
of years his practice was of a general order
and he soon proved his mettle as an able and
versatile trial lawyer and as a counselor well
fortified in the minutiae of the science of
jurisprudence, but for a long period he has
confined his eft'orts more speciall.y to the do-
main of corporation law. in which he holds
an authoritative position and in connection
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
with which he has gained marked success and
high prestige. For some time he was asso-
ciated in practice with Joseph E. McDonald
and John M. Butler, under the title of Mc-
Donald, Butler & IMason. This alliance con-
tinued for a period of eight years, and since
that time Mr. Mason has conducted an indi-
vidual professional business, having finely
equipped offices at the present time in the
American Central Life Insurance building.
It may be stated that his former partners
were men of distinction at the bar and that
Mr. McDonald was United States Senator
from Indiana and Mr. Butler was long dis-
tinguished as one of the prominent railroad
lawyers of the state and nation. Mr. Mason's
professional business is of large and repre-
sentative order, involving his retention as
counsel for extensive corporate interests, and
the incidental work engrosses the major por-
tion of his time and attention, though he has
large capitalistic interests and served from
1893 to 1898 as president of the Indianapolis
Street Railway Company.
As a citizen Mr. jiason has even shown a
broad-minded and progressive attitude, and
his interest in his home city and state has not
been one of mere sentimental order but one
of definite fealty and action. Thus it may
be noted that he was the author of the reform
charter of Indianapolis in 1891, the same
having been adopted by the legislature of
that year and having been the direct result
of a civic movement instituted by the Board
of Trade and the Commercial Club for the
reorganization of the municipal government
of the capital city and the incidental correct-
ing of many abuses that had crept into the
municipal service, both through negligence
and malfeasance. IMr. Mason was also the
originator of the plan of the county and
township reform laws adopted by the state
legislature in the session of 1899, and this
system also has inured greatly to the benefit
of the people and the insurance of effective
governmental policy in connection with such
organic divisions of the state. He rendered
able assistance in the formulating and prep-
aration of the new laws, in connection with
which he co-operated with the members of
the assigned committee from the Indiana
State Board of Commerce.
In politics Mr. Mason gives an unequivocal
allegiance to the Republican party, and while
he has rendered effective service in the pro-
motion of its cause he has manifested no de-
sire for the honors or emoluments of public
office, preferring to give his undivided atten-
tion to the profession for which he has so
ably fitted himself and in which he has risen
to a position of prominence. He is a member
of the Methodist Episcopal Church and he is
identified with various fraternal and civic
organizations of representative character in
his home city, where he is held in high esteem
in his profession and as a generous and pub-
lic-spirited citizen.
On the 2.5th of January, 1893, was solemn-
ized the marriage of Mr. Mason to Miss
Annie Porter, of Indianapolis, the only
daughter of Hon. Albert G. and Minerva
(Brown) Porter. Her father has held various
offices of high puljlic trust in Indiana, in-
cluding that of governor, and has left a defi-
nite and beneficent impress upon the history
of this cominonwealth. Mr. and Mrs. Mason
have no children. They are prominent and
enjoy unqualified popularity in the leading
social circles of the capital city, taking much
interest in the amenities and interests which
i-epresent the higher ideals of life, and their
pleasant home is a recognized center of re-
fined and gracious liospitality.
Wilbur S. Wynn. One of the most benefi-
cent forces that has entered into and per-
meated modern civilization is that of life in-
surance. Its primary functions are in the
protection of those-who are nearest and dear-
est to the individual, and thus they touch
the home— that (jon.servator of all that is best
and most enduring in the scheme of human
existence. Among the concerns offering in-
demnity along these lines and maintaining a
high sense of stewardship is the State Life
Insurance Company, of Indianapolis, of
which Mr. Wynn was not only one of the
founders but the original promoter and of
which he is now vice-president, secretary and
actuary. It has been his privilege to accom-
plish a notable work in his field of endeavor
and especially in the matter of securing prop-
er legislation for the control of life insurance
business in Indiana. The operations of the
company of which he has been secretary and
actuary from the time of its initiation are
regulated ujx)n a broad, safe and humani-
tarian basis, enlisting in the management the
highest personal integrity and executive abil-
ity, while the financial affairs of the com-
pany are manipulated for the distinct bene-
fit of those who seek security through its
interposition. The magnificent growth of the
business of this corporation has been the
diametrical result of effective service, honor-
able methods and popular appreciation. To
]Mr. Wynn's efforts have been due in large
measure the development and upbuilding of
the important enterprise, and it may be said
without fear of legitimate contradiction that
he is recognized as one of the representative
770
HISTOBY OF GEEATER INDIANAPOLIS.
life insurance men of the I'liion, even as he
is one of the honored aiul intiuential business
men of Indiana's capital city.
Wilbur Sylvester AYynn was born on a
farm in ]\Ionroe County, Xew York, on the
25th of January, 1850, and is a son of Joseph
and Emeline (Harmon) Wynn, both of whom
were likewise natives of ]\Ionroe County,
where they passed their entire lives and
where the father followed the vocation of
farming until the time of his death. The
Wynn and Harmon families, of English line-
age, were both founded- in Xew England in
the early colonial era of our national his-
tory, and a great grandfather of the subject
of this review in each the paternal and ma-
ternal line was found enrolled as a valiant
patriot soldier in the Continental line during
the war of the Revolution.
When Mr. Wynn was but five years of age
both of his parents died, and he was then
taken into the home of his maternal grand-
father, Sylvester Harmon, of Monroe County,
New York, with whom he remained until he
had attained to the age of fourteen years.
In the meanwhile he had been duly afforded
the advant:iges of the public schools, and at
the age noted he came to Indianapolis to live
with his uncle, Wesley J. Wynn, who was at
that time general agent in Indiana for the
New York Life Insurance Company. In In-
dianapolis young Wynn continued to attend
school until he had completetl the curriculum
of the high, school. At the age of seventeen
years he secured employment in the book-
publishing house of Bowen, Stewart & Com-
pany, of Indianapolis, with which concern he
was identified for a period of eight years,
during a portion of which interval he was a
traveling salesman for the house. He then
began reading law under effective preceptor-
ship, in Indianapolis, and when twenty-seven
years of age he went to Hamburg, Iowa,
■where he was admitted to the bar of the
Hawkeye state and where he engaged in the
successful practice of his profession. While
a resident of Hamburg he served one term as
city attorney, an office to which he was chosen
by popular vote. His health finally became
somewhat seriously impaired, and in 1882 he
took up his abode in Sioux Falls, South Da-
kota, which state was then still a part of
the undivided territory of Dakota. There ho
engaged in the newspaper business, by estab-
lishing the Daily At-gvs. of which he became
editor and publisher. This is now the lead-
ing daily paper of the state of South Dakota.
In 1886 Mr. Wynn disposed of his interests
in the newspaper business and became a rep-
resentative of the Michigan INFntual Life In-
surance Company, of Detroit, for which he
was an agent in Illinois and Iowa. Later he
represented the Northwestern Life Insurance
Company-, of Milwaukee, in the territory of
Dakota, and the Mutual Benefit in Nebraska.
During this time he made a close and pro-
found study of the scientific basis and ge-
neric methods and principles of the life in-
surance business, in connection with which
he is now a recognized authority.
After having made a splendid record as an
underwriter, Mr. Wynn returned to Indian-
apolis in the year 1892. and here he became
associated with others in the organization of
a stock company which was duly incorporated
under the title of the Atlas Life Insurance
Company and of which he became actuary
and manager. The precipitation of the panic
of 1893 made inexpedient the attempt to
build up at that time a new company of this
kind, and the Atlas Company reinsured its
business and retired from* the field. Mr.
Wynn then assumed the ofBce of Indiana
state manager for the Fidelity Mutual Life
Insurance Company, of Philadelphia.
In 1894 jNIr. Wynn associated himself with
Andrew M. Sweeney and Samuel Quinn and
effected the organization of the State Life
Insurance Company, of which be was the
original promoter. As Indiana had at that
time no legal reserve law covering the life
insurance business, the company was organ-
ized under the assessment law, and was in-
corporated in September, 1894. Mr. Wynn,
as the original actuary and secretary of the
company, placed its business on an old-line
basis from the initiation of operations, and
at no time did the company issue any policy
that failed to require the payment in advance
of the full and regidar old-line standard par-
ticipating rate. From the beginning the com-
pany regularly valued its policies and main-
tained full old-line reserves. For this reason,
while still operating under the assessment law
in Indiana, it was admitted to do business in
Ohio as a regiilar legal-reserve company. ^Ir.
Wynn has been secretary and actuary from
the beginning of operations and has served as
vice-president of the company since March,
1907.
Aside from all personal considerations Mr.
WjTin has done a work which entitles him
to lasting commendation and esteem in In-
diana—a work which brought about the cor-
rection of many abuses of the life insurance
business in the state and that gives adequate
protection to those who seek indemnity
throiigh this source. He was the author of
Ihe famous legal-reserve deposit law of In-
diana, which requires all companies ineor-
HISTOEY OF GEEATER INDIANAPOLIS.
ni
porated thereunder to maintain with the
state a deposit of the full net cash value of
all outstanding policies, and he was also
largely instrumental in securing the enact-
ment of this bill by the legislature. The State
Life Insurance Company itself was the first
to be incorporated under the provisions ot
the new law. It may be said that this law
has been of incalculable value in inspiring
public confidence in Indiana companies and
in making the capital city an insurance cen-
ter. The State Life Insurance Company now
controls a very large and substantial busi-
ness, and the same shows a constantly cumu-
lative tendency, thus offering assurance of
popular appreciation of its solidity and of the
advantages offered by it in its assigned field
of indemnity.
Mr. Wynn exemplified all the elements of
loyal and public-spirited citizenship and is a
firm believer in the trreat future of the capi-
tal city, whose remarkable industrial and
civic progress within later years he has noted
with all of satisfaction. In politics he is
aligned as a stanch advocate of the principles
and policies of the Democratic party.
He is identified with the Commercial, the
Century, the I^niversity, and the Country
Clubs, of Indianapolis.
In the year 1879, was solemnized the mar-
riage of Mr. Wynn to Miss Kate Slack, who
was born at Mount Savage, Maryland, and
who is a daughter of the late Cornelius Slack,
who was long a prominent official of the Bal-
timore & Ohio Railroad, maintaining his res-
idence in Cumberland, Maryland, and who
was a representative of old and honored fam-
ilies of Maryland and Virginia. Mr. and
Mrs. Wynn have two children — Gladys, who
is the wife of C. Edgar Elliott, of Indianap-
olis, and Iris, who is the wife of J. G. Van
Winkle, now of Chicago.
Hon. Lewis C. Walker. Among the old-
est and most honored members of the Indian-
apolis bar, Hon. Lewis C. Walker has been
both an active and successful practitioner and
took a verj' prominent part in the reorganiza-
tion of the courts of the state. He was a
member of the general assembly of Indiana,
and his high record in connection with the
judiciary of the state was further increased
by his twelve years' able service as .iudge of
the Superior Court. Mr. Walker is a native
of Ohio, born on a farm near Wilmington,
December 4, 1837, of substantial English
lineage. His American ancestors first settled
in the rich valley of the Shenandoah, Vir-
ginia, whence his grandparents moved to
Ohio. The judge's boyhood in Ohio was one
of industry and hard work, developing strong
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trivts of self-reliance. He had obtained a
fair English education by attending the win-
ter terms of the colmtry schools and his men-
tal training was continued in the Wilming-
ton, Ohio, Academy and the Southwestern
Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio. He grad-
uated from the latter with high honors, and
entered the office of Judge A. W. Dnan ot
Wilmington, and began the study of law.
Upon his admission to the bar he associated
himself with his preceptor and soon rose to
local prominence, both in his profession and
in Republican politics.
It was rather against his personal wishes
that he was elected mayor of Wilmington,
but having assumed the office it was charac-
teristic of him that he performed his duties
with entire faithfulness and efficiency. Tlfe
result was that his popularity increased and
he was twice elected to the office of prosecut-
ing attorney of the county. He also served
as chairman of, the Republican County Com-
mittee. In 1869 Mr. Walker located at Rich-
mond, Indiana, there engaged in partnership
in the practice of law with his brother, Hon.
Calvin B. Walker, later appointed United
States Deputy Commissioner of Pensions.
Mr. Walker became a representative of the
general assembly of Indiana in 1872, from
Wayne County, and during the two terms of
his service in that capacity was chairman of
the judiciary committee at both sessions. He
largely contributed to the abolishment of the
Common Pleas Court, and he also aided in
the reorganization of the state into new cir-
cuits, and in a thorough revision of the di-
vorce laws of Indiana.
Judge Walker came to Indianapolis in
1873, and has since been a continuous resi-
dent, a progressive citizen and prominent
practitioner at the bar. He was a member of
the well-known law firm of Ritter, Walker
& Ritter from 1873 to 1880 when he was elect-
ed judge of the Superior Court. He served
in that position with honor and distinction for
twelve years, always with impartiality and
dignity as a judge ; his decisions being so
based upon sound principles that few of them
were ever reversed by the higher courts.
Since leaving the bench, he has had an ex-
tended and high-class practice, and his great
undisturbed geniality contributed to his
standing. For many years he has been an
elder of the Second Presbyterian Church,
and is a Mason of the Knight Templar de-
gree. In 1870 Judge Walker married Miss
Camilla Farquhar, daughter of Dr. Allen
Farquhar, formerly of Portsmouth, Ohio, and
their only child, Camilla, became the wife of
Howard A. Bill, of Richmond, Indiana.
HISTORY OF GKEATER INDIANAPOLIS.
Edward Daniels is the junior member of
the well-known law firm of Baker and Dain-
iels, who have established a large general
practice in the local state courts. He is a na-
tive of Greene County, Ohio, born November
11, 1854, and is a son of Joseph J. and Clar-
issa J. (Blessing) Daniels. His father was
a well-known general contractor and most of
the childhood of Edward was spent at Rock-
ville, Indiana, where he received a common
school education, and afterward became a
student at the Wabash College, from which
he graduated in 1875, commencing his pro-
fessional studies at Columbia University law
school in 1876. In the fall of the year 1877
Mr. Daniels located in Indianapolis. and en-
tered the law office of Baker, Hord & Hen-
dricks as a student, being admitted to prac-
tice in 1879.
In 1880 Mr. Datiiels became associated with
Albert Baker in the practice of law and since
that time they have been identified in a grow-
ing and select practice. Aside from his high
standing as a lawyer, he has become quite
widely known in literary circles, having for
the past twenty-five years been a member of
the Indianapolis Literary Club. He also
served as the first president of the Columbia
Club. He is both a popular and highly re-
spected citizen. His wife, to whom he was
married in 1887, was known in her maiden
days as Virginia Johnston.
John E. Scott. A prominent and able
member of the Indiana bar is John Eugene
Scott, who has here been engaged in the gen-
eral practice of his profession since 1874,
and who has attained to success and. prestige
through his close application, marked re-
sourcefulness and broad and exact technical
information. He is an effective advocate be-
fore court or jury, a conservative and well
fortified counselor, and he has long retained
a clientage of essentially representative char-
acter.
John Eugene Scott was born on a farm in
St. Clair County, Illinois, on the 20th of
January, 1851, and is a son of John and
Susan A. (Hart) Scott, both of whom were
likewise natives of Illinois, where the respec-
tive families were founded in the pioneer
epoch in the history of that commonwealth.
The father of John Scott was a native of
Virginia and was of stanch Scotch-Irish line-
age. John Scott was reared and educated in
Illinois and there he continued to be actively
engaged in agricultural pursuits until his
death, which occurred when the subject of
this review was six months of age. His wife
survived him nearly fifty-eight years and died
May 28, 1909, at the age of eighty-five years
and five months. She passed the closing days
of her life in Indianapolis and Chicago.' Oi
the four children two' are now living.
He whose name initiates this article passed
his childhood and early youth on the farm
and his preliminary education was secured
in the public schools of his native state, after
which he attended McKendree College, at
Lebanon, Illinois, for a time, after which he
was matriculated in the Illinois Wesleyan
University, at Bloomington, Illinois, in which
well ordered institution he was graduated as
a member of the class of 1873, duly receiving
his well earned degree of Bachelor of Arts.
He thereafter studied law under the able
preceptorship of the firm of McNulta, Aldrich
and Kerrick, of Bloomington, Illinois, and
was admitted to the bar in 1874, since which
year he has given his attention to the work
of his profession, which he has honored by his
loyalty and able services. In 1874 Mr. Scott
took up his residence in Indianapolis, and
here he soon won for himself a secure place
as an able and worthy member of his chosen
profession, besides which he has ever com-
manded unqualified confidence and esteem in
the community which has represented his
home for a quarter of a century.
In polities Mr. Scott has ever given an un-
swerving allegiance to the Republican party,
and he has been an effective exponent of its
principles and policies. In 1900 he was the
candidate of his party for the office of judge
of the Superior Court, but the decisive Demo-
cratic victory of that year brought defeat to
the entire Republican ticket.- In 1893 Mr.
Scott was appointed city attorney, of which
office he continued incumbent for two years,
making an admirable record in handling the
municipal interests demanding his attention.
Upon taking up his residence in Indianap-
olis, Mr. Scott entered into a law partnership
with Ambrose P. Stanton, and the firm of
Stanton & Scott continued in successful busi-
ness about fourteen years, after which Mr.
Scott became associated in practice with Al-
bert Rabb under the firm name of Scott &
Rabb. This professional alliance obtained un-
til 1904, when a dissolution took place, and
since that time Mr. Scott has had as his pro-
fessional coadjutor his son Elmer E., under
the title of Scott & Scott. The son was for a
time a student in the law department of the
University of California and later continued
his professional studies in the Indiana Law
School, in Indianapolis, in which latter in-
stitution he was graduated as a member of
the class of 1903, with the degree of Bach
elor of Laws. The father was for a numbei
of years a member of the faculty of Indinna
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773
Law Sehool and proved an effective and pop-
ular instructor. Both Mr. Scott and his son
hold membership in the Indianapolis Bar As-
sociation. The subject of this sketch was the
president of the Indianapolis Bar Association
for the year 190B. He is a member of the
Commercial and Columbia Clubs, and a char-
ter member of the Marion Club. He is affil-
iated with the Phi Gamma Delta college fra-
ternity and he and his wife hold member-
ship in the Meridian Street Methodist Epis-
copal Church.
On the 24th of December, 1874, Mr. Scott
was united in marriage to Miss Mary A. Crist,
who was born in Ohio, a daughter of the late
Dr. Daniel 0. Crist, who removed to Illinois
when she was a child. She was reared and
educated in the latter state and her marriage
to Mr. Scott was solemnized in the city of
Bloomington, Illinois. They have one son, re-
ferred to above.
Robert G. McClure, who is the able sec-
retary of the Indianapolis Commercial Club
and controls large industrial interests of that
city, as well as several mining enterprises in
the southwest, is a citizen of great practical
abilities and one of the foremost representa-
tives of Greater Indianapolis. His broad and
pronounced business successes were achieved
in Tennessee and Missouri, prior to his com-
ing to Indianapolis as secretary and treasurer
of the National Refining Company's Indiana
field. Mr. McClure has also attained wide
prominence in Sunday school and fraternal
work; so that altogether his career and his
life have been well balanced and rounded and
have evinced a manly zeal in the promotion
of both the practical and the higher forces
of American progress.
Of stanch Scotch-Irish stock, Robert Green
McClure is of a family which was founded
in the south in the colonial period of the
country. He himself is a native of Lewis-
burs, Marsihall County, Tennessee, born on
the~29th of May, 1862, and is a son of Dr.
Robert G. and Mary Elizabeth (Ewing) Mc-
Clure. His father was born at Greenville,
that state, and divided the labors of his life
between bis medical practice and hig agricul-
tural pursuits. He served his country as an
officer in the Mexican War. While of south-
ern birth and ancestry, he was earnestly op-
posed to disunion and used every eifort to
influence his community against secession.
But when hostilities were actually commenced
he was precipitated into the conflict and
served with distinction as lieutenant colonel
of the Forty-first Tennessee Regiment. In
1881 he died at Lewisburg, being fifty-seven
vears of age, and a recognized public charac-
ter of pronounced ability and unquestioned
integrity. Colonel McClure was one of the
promoters and first president of the Duck
River Valley Railroad, now a branch of the
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, running
from Columbia to Decherd, Tennessee, and
was prominent in all the public, professional
and religious affairs of his community. Both
he and his wife were zealous members of the
Presbyterian Church, in which he was an
elder for a quarter of a century. His mother,
Mrs. Robert G. McClure, was born in Mar-
shall County, Tennessee, October 2, 1828, and
died at Anniston, Alabama, November 20,
1906, while on a visit to her daughter, Mrs.
John B. Knox. She was a daughter of Lyle
A. Ewing, an extensive and influential land
owner of Marshall County, who had migrated
from Virginia, the ancestral state. A woman
of culture and gracious manners, active in
social, intellectual and religious affairs, she
invariably left' the impress of gentle and no-
ble womanhood. One of her brothers and
one of her sons are clergymen of the Presby-
terian Church, with which the family has
been identified for generations.
Robert G. McClure, of this biography, re-
ceived a public-school and a high-school edu-
cation in his native town and in 1879 was a
student in the University of Mississippi. The
following two^ years he attended the South-
western Presbyterian University at Clarks-
ville, Tennessee, but was then obliged to
withdraw because of a nervous collapse from
which he did not recuperate for some time.
Mr. McClure had already demonstrated his
business inclinations and talents in various
boyish and youthful enterprises, having had
a taste of printing and the life of a railroad
newsboy (on pas.senger trains between St.
Louis and Indianapolis) ; but his first seri-
ous business employment was in 1882-4, when
he was bookkeeper for the Jesse French Mu-
sic Company, of Nashville, Tennessee. For
the ensuing two years he was a piano sales-
man, traveling out of the same city for R.
Dorman and Company, and in 1886 went to
Kansas City, Missouri, where six months aft-
er his arrival, he became bookkeeper for the
Bank of Commerce, retaining the position for
two years.
In the summer of 1889 Mr. McClure ac-
cepted a position with the Standard Oil Com-
pany as its salesman for northern Missouri,
with headquarters in Kansas City. While
"holding down" this position with hLs usual
energj' and business finesse, he secured three
sueee.ssive prizes offered by the company for
the best percentage of increased sales, being
in the running with twelve competitors. In
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
18fll the Standard appointed him special
salesman for the territory compriidng Mis-
souri and Kansas, and in 1893 he became aud-
itor for the same territory. In 189-4 he was
transferred to New Orleans as assistant man-
ager of the company at that point, but after
a year resigned that position and left the
employ of the great corporation with the
hearty appreciation and the best wishes of its
entire management. In the meantime Mr.
McClure had read law at various intervals,
and in 1895 received a certificate of admis-
sion to the bar from the supreme court of
Tennessee, after which he engaged in prac-
tice at his native town until the summer of
1897. At that time he again identified him-
self with the oil business by becoming a
stockholder in the National Refining. Com-
pany, of Cleveland, Ohio, being elected sec-
retary and treasurer of its Indiana branch—
the Indiana oil-tank line, with headquarters
in Indianapolis. Under his administration of
these vital executive offices the business of
the company increased seventy per cent from
1897 to 1904, and in the summer of the lat-
ter year he sold his interests in the Indiana
oil-tank line, with a view of organizing an
oil, paint and supply business on a larger
scale. It should be added that from 1902 to
1904 he was also president and about one-
fourth owner of the American Oil and Re-
fining Company, producers of oil, coal and
gas in Kentucky fields. In 1896-7 he was
owner and publisher of a newspaper in Nash-
ville, Tennessee, and at the same time was
senior partner of the firm of McClure and
Ferguson, insurance and loan agents of that
city, .^t the present time, besides being ac-
tively engaged in the work of the secretary-
ship of the Indianapolis Commercial Club,
he is the owner of interests in copper and
lead mines in Arizona, is a stockholder in
various Indianapolis industrial corporations,
has considerable real estate investments in the
city, and has a beautiful residence at No.
1820 North Delaware street. He has been
a member of the Commercial Club since
1902; served as a director and chairman of
the House committee in 1904 and was elected
secretary in the same year. He represented
the club at the banquet of the Greater Des
Moines (Iowa) committee in November, 1906,
and at this gathering, which was attended
by officers of the Commercial clubs of Minne-
apolis and Denver, he delivered an effective
addres.s in which he apparently demonstrated
to the citizens of the Iowa city that it was
to their vital interests, if they wished to be
in the van of municipal prqeress, to secure a
new city charter based .largely on that of In-
dianapolis; for it is certain that Des iloines
subsequently adopted a new system of city
government patterned after the strong points
of the Indianapolis and Galv^ton charters.
Since he has been secretary of this great civic
power, its membership has increased from 840
to 1,800. In politics Mr. McClure has sup-
ported the principles of the Republican party
from the time he was able to vote, and even
before, and since residing in Indianapolis
has served for many years on the city com-
mittee of his party, and has otherwise been
of stanch service to the cause.
On January 2, 1884, Mr. McClure was mar-
ried at the Madison Presbyterian Church,
near Nashville, to Miss Locke J. Bradford,
daughter of George and Narcissa (Brown)
Bradford, of that city. Mr. Bradford was
of the well-known Massachusetts family and
a representative member .of the bar, while his
wife was a daughter of the late Colonel Lu-
cien Brown, who served with great credit in
the war with Mexico and in the Confederacy
and was of old southern ancestry. Mr. and
Mrs. McClure became the parents of two chil-
dren, as follows : One who died in infancy,
and Robert L., who was born April 10, 1894,
and is a student at the Shortridge high school,
Indianapolis. Mr. McClure 's connection with
religious and fraternal affairs has already
l)een noted and in further explanation of
these phases of his career the facts which
follow are adduced. When sixteen years of
age he became a raember of the Good Tem-
plars and in 1887,' when twenty-five, united
with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
In 1903 he became affiliated with the Masonic
fraternity, in which he has completed the cir-
cle of both the York and Scottish rites; in
the latter he has attained to the thirty-second
degree; is a Mystic Shriner and (1909) Wor-
shipful Master of Ancient Landmarks Lodge
No. 319, A. F. and A. M. At Indianapolis,
he has also been identified with the Marion
Club since 1897, the German House since
1908, and the Board of Trade, and a member
of the Knights of P.^'thias, Indianapolis
Lodge No. 56, for many years. His greatest
activity in church and Sunday school work
was during the twenty years prior to be-
coming a resident of Indianapolis. In 1896
he was vice president of the Termessee State
Sunday School Association (interdenomina-
tional) and at different times he has lectured
and conducted other public work in this di-
rection.
Eli F. Ritter. A representative member
of the bar of his native state and one who
went forth to honor this commonwealth
through his able services as a valiant soldier
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
775
of tlie Union, Colonel Eli F. Ritter has long
controlled a large practice in the capital city
of Indiana, where he has ever commanded un-
equivocal confidence and esteem as a man of
sterlinCT attributes of character and as a citi-
zent of insistent loyalty and public spirit.
Eli F. Ritter was born on the parental
homestead farm in Gilford Township, Hen-
dricks County, Indiana, on the 18th of June,
1838. and is a scion of one of the honored
pioneer families of the state. His ancestors
were members of the Society of Friends and
from Xorth Carolina came the original repre-
sentatives in Indiana, where settlement was
made by then). He is a son of James and
Rachel (Jessup) Ritter, both of whom were
born in North Carolina, where they passed
their early lives and where the father fol-
lowed the vocation of farming, coming to
Hendricks County, Indiana, about 1822. Both
were residents of Hendricks County at the
time of their death, and to them was accorded
the high regard of all who knew them. They
held membership, by birthright, in the So-
ciety of Friends, and in politics the father
was originally a Whig and later a Republi-
can. He died in 1859, and his wife was sum-
moned to the life eternal in 1874. They be-
came the parents of four sons and three
daughters and of the number one son and one
of the daughters are now living, the subject
of this sketch being the youngest son.
To the common schools of his native coun-
ty Colonel Ritter is indebted for his early ed-
ucational discipline, which was supplemented
by a course in DePauw University, then
known as Asbury University, in which insti-
tution he was graduated with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts as a member of the class of
1866, but was dated back to class of 1863. as
he was in the army. He then took up the
study of law, to which he devoted his atten-
tion until he felt the call of higher duty,
when the integrity of the nation was thrown
into jeopardy through armed rebellion. On
the 14th of April, 1861, he enlisted as a pri-
vate in Company K, Sixteenth Indiana Vol-
unteer Infantry, and he continued in active
service until the close of the war, having re-
ceived his honorable discharge on the 6th of
June, 1865. From his original command he
was transferred to Seventy-ninth Indiana
Volunteer Infantry, which was a part of the
Army of the Cumberland, and with this reg-
iment the major part of his service was given.
He was made adjutant in this regiment and
with it participated in many of the import-
ant battles marking the progress of the great
internecine conflict. Among these may be
mentioned Stone's River, Chickamauga, Mis-
sionary Ridge, Rocky Face Ridge,
New Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, the
siege and battle of Atlanta. Lovejoy Station,
and Franklin and Nashville, Tennessee. Be-
fore the expii'ation of the war he was ad-
vanced to the office of major of his regiment,
and in the same his record was one of signal
gallantry and able discipline. In 1883, upon
the organization of the Indiana National
Guard, Governor Porter appointed him col-
onel of the First Regiment, and he retained
this incumbency for a period of three years,
at the expiration of which he retired from ac-
tive work in the organization.
After the close of the war Colonel Ritter
resumed the study of law, and' in the spring
of 1866 he was duly admitted to the bar of
his native state, whereupon he engaged in the
general practice of his profession in Indian-
apolis, of whose bar he has been an honored
member for more than forty years— years
marked by large and definite accomplishment
in the work of his chosen vocation. He has
retained a large and representative clientage
and has been identified with much important
litigation in both State and Federal courts.
He is a strong trial lawyer, making a close
study of every eau^e presented and marshal-
ing his evidence with great skill and versa-
tility of expedient. His thorough and broad
knowledge of the science of jurisprudence
ha.s also made him a specially effective factor
as a counselor. It should be noted in this
connection that Colonel Ritter has, almost
from the initiation of his professional career,
taken a strong stand in bringing about the
proper regulation of the liquor traffic, of
which he is an implacable adversary. He has
secured many important court decisions in
both the lower and higher courts as touching
this important matter, and his zeal and en-
thusiasm have been of the most insistent type.
Colonel Ritter is the author of a book that
has attracted wide and favorable attention.
It has to do with a consideration of the cor-
relation of the moral and civil law, and in
a masterly way carried forward the argument
that social morality is the fundamental prin-
ciple of the common law and all statute law,
anrl that no law can be sustained that lacks
this foundation. The title of this admirable
work is Moral Laic and Civil Law. Parts of
the Same Thing.
In politics, while never a seeker for the
honors or emoluments of public office. Col-
onel Ritter has ever been arrayed as a stal-
wart in the camp of the Republican party,
though independent, and he has rendered ef-
fective service in behalf of its. cause. He and
his wife hold membership in the Methodist
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HISTOKY OF GKEATEK IjNDIANAPOLIS.
Episcopal Church, and he is a member of
George H. Thomas Post, Grand Aniiy of the
Kepublic. His vital interest in his old com-
rades in arms is further shown in the able
service he has accorded as a member of the
board of trustees of the Indiana Soldiers'
Home, with which he was identified in this
capacity since 1903. his second term havint;
expired February, 1909.
On the 13th of July, 1863, was solemnizeil
the marriage of Colonel Ritter to Miss Narcie
Lockwood, who was born in Paris, Kentucky,
and who is a daughter of Benjamin and
Jlebecea (Smith)- Lockwood, who passed the
closing years of their lives at Indianapolis
with Mrs. Ritter. Colonel and Mrs. Ritter
have three sons and two daughters* living, one
son being deceased. They are as follows:
Halsted L., a Denver, Colorado, attorney;
Herman B., who died at the age of twenty-
one; Roscoe H., a physician in Indianapolis;
Mary B., married Chas. A. Beard, of New
York City; Dwight S., a manufacturer in
Columbus, Ohio; and Ruth, wife of Edgar
V. McDaniel, of Parma, Missouri.
Joseph Kjnne Sharpe, Jr., represents one
of the earliest as well as one of the most prom-
inent families to be identified with the his-
tory of Indianapolis— his birthplace, on the
21st of September, 1853. He is a son of the
late Joseph Kinne Sharpe and Mary Ellen
Graydon Sharpe and a grandson on the ma-
ternal side of Alexander Graydon, who came
to Indianapolis in 1839 from Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania, where he had been engaged in
business. Mr. Graydon was born in 1775;
was a soldier in the War of 1812, and died
in the early seventies. His wife was Jane
McKinney. and both families are prominent
in the history of Pennsylvania. Mr. and
Mrs. Graydon were leading citizens in Har-
rLsburg, Pennsylvania. They were first
among the abolitionists and their ancestors
were noted in the War for Independence.
Joseph Kinnie Sharpe, Sr., was born in Pom-
fre^, Connecticut, in 1819. He was the son of
Abishai Sharpe and Hannah Trowbridge
Sharpe. His family connection embraces
many of the leading families of New Eng-
land, the Trowbridge. Grosvenor, Farrington,
Goodalls and others— all prominent in their
professions and business. Mr. Sharpe 's an-
cestors were all patriots in the Revolutionary
War. ■ He was the youngest of seven brothers,
and came west in his very early manhood.
He taught schocjl in Ohio for several years
and then came' to Indianapolis in 1845, where
he embarked in business— the wholesale leath-
er—and was owner of several tanneries. He
'ater becanip greatly interested in real estate
and owned much valuable propertj- in the
residence and business parts of Indianapolis,
as well as large farms throughout the state
and adjacent to the capital city. Some of the
fine additions to the city are a result of his
judgment and foresight. He was a man of
fine personal appearance and of magnetic
manners and was known for his many benevo-
lences. He belonged to the fraternal order
of Odd Fellows, and was a member of the
Second Presbyterian Church, over which
Henry Ward Beecher then presided. In fact,
Mr. Sharpe was married to Marj- Ellen
Graydon in 1849 by that able divine, who ac-
companied the young couple on their wed-
ding journey to New England. Both Mr.
and Mrs. Sharpe were members of the choir
in the Second Presbyterian Church and were
noted for their beautiful voices. Mrs. Sharpe,
who is still living, was, during her earlier
life, a leading musician of Indianapolis, hav-
ing had fine training in her school in Phila-
delphia. She was not only a high class mu-
sician both of the piano and as a singer, but
was a writer of ability. While yet a girl she
was an assistant editor of the Locomotive, a
prominent periodical during the early history
of Indianapolis, and for many years was a
constant contributor to our leading maga-
zines. She is specially known for her religious
poems, and for her stories and verses for
children that have appeared in the St. Nich-
olas magazine and othei-s. In 1909, Mrs.
Sharpe, then past her four-score years, wrote
and had published A Family Retrospect, a
history of her family from their settlement in
Philadelphia in 1708 to the present time. As
her ancestors are closely identified with the
history of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, it
is a book that has much historical as well as
literary value. Mrs. Sharpe is still living in
Indianapolis ; her hu.sband died in 1900. Nine
children were born of this union, but only
the following four are now living: Mary
Ella, wife of Robert P. Duncan ; Joseph
Kinne, Julia Graydon and Anna Trowbridge.
One of the interesting incidents in the ear-
lier life of Mr. and Mrs. Sharpe was their
overland trip to Madison, Indiana, to hear the
famous Jenny Lind sing. This was during
the renowned singer's first visit to America
and she sang in a barn in that city.
Joseph Kinne Sharpe. Jr., received his edu-
cation in the schools and old Academy in In-
dianapolis and at Wabash College, and fol-
lowing his college days he engaged in busi-
ness with his father, later succeeding him in
the wholesale leather trade. In 1891 he went
out of it to become the secretary and treasurer
of the Indianapolis Manufacturiiig Company
HISTORY OF GEEATER INDIANAPOLIS.
and in 1908 was made the president of this
association. Mr. Sharpe has been most suc-
cessful in business, as he is enterprising, de-
voted and broad-minded. His benevolences
are many, and his generosity is proverbial.
He is an ideal friend and one who is never
appealed to in vain. He is one of the promi-
nent men in business and social circles of the
city; a member of the Commercial Club, the
University, Columbia and Country Clubs, the
Phi Delta Theta fraternity, the Art Associa-
tion and other associations of civic and per-
sonal interest. He is also a thirty-second de-
gree Mason, belonging to Oriental Lodge, No.
fiOO, F. & A. M.: Keystone Chapter, No. 6,
R. A. M. ; Raper Commandery, No. 1, K. T. ;
Indianapolis Council, No. 2, R. and S. M. ;
Indiana Consistory, S. P. R. S., and Murat
Temple, A. A. 0. N. M. S. His politics are
Republican.
Mr. Sharpe married Alberta S. Johnson in
1891. She was born in Athens, Ohio, a
daughter of Dr. AVilliam P. and Julia
^Blackstone) Johnson, both of whom were na-
tives of Ohio. Dr. Johnson was a surgeon in
the Civil "War and was later associated with
Dr. Allen's Surgical Institute in Indianap-
olis, yirs. Sharpe is now the surviving mem-
ber of their family of .seven children. A
daughter, Josephine P., has been born to ]\Ir.
and Mrs. Sharpe.
Bern.\rd J. T. Jeup. As a civil engineer
Bernard J. T. Jeup has attained to high pro-
fessional success and prestige, having been
identified with much important work in the
line of the vocation for M'hich he ha.s so admir-
ably equipped himself, and his services in
connection with umnieipal improvements in
Indianapolis have been of great value. He
was formerly inciuiibent of the office of city
engineer, and in this position he made a rec-
ord unexcelled by that of any other incum-
bent of the same. He is essentially one of
the loyal, progressive and public-spirited citi-
zens of the Indiana capital and is known as
.me of its reliable and representative business
men. In the work of his profession he is as-
sociated with A. H. ^loore, under the firm
name of Jeup & ^Moore, with offices in the
Indiana Trust Building.
'Mr. Jeup is a native of the city of Cincin-
nati, Ohio, where he was born on the 17th of
August, 1864, and he is a son of John B. and
Anna G. (Wirtz) Jeup, both of whom were
born and reared in Germany, being repre-
sentatives of old and hom-red families of the
great empire. John B. Jeup was a man of
distinguished ability and high intellectuality,
and for many years he was prominently
identified with newspaper work, in connection
with which he held various editorial posi-
tions of importance. He removed from Cin-
cinnati to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1871, and
there he continued his residence for a period
of seven years, at the expiration of which he
returned to Cincinnati, where he contin-
ued to maintain his home for about seven
years. He then removed to Brooklyn,
New York, where -he continued to reside
until 1893, when he came to Indianapolis,
where both he and his devoted wife
passed the residue of their lives. He was at
one time editor and publisher of the Cin-
cinnati Volksfreund, and while a resident of
Brooklyn he was political editor of the New
York Staatszeituiig, a Democratic daily. On
coming to Indianapolis he became editor and
part owner of the Telegraph, a German
weekly paper, and while residing in Nash-
ville, Tennessee, he was likewise engaged in
editorial work. He was also elected a mem*
her of the lower house of the Tennessee leg-
islature, in which he served one term. He
maintained his home in Indianapolis about
fifteen years and here his death occurred in
1907, at which time he was seventy-nine years
of age. He was a prolific and versatile
writer, and in his editorial work he gained
much distinction, especially in his considera-
tion of matters of public and general politi-
cal import. His wife preceded him to
eternal rest by several years, her death oc-
curring in 1900. He was a stanch Democrat
in his political affiliation and both he and his
wife were zealous members of the Catholic
Church. Of their .seven children, three are
now living.
Bernard J. T. Jeup was seven years of
age at the time of the family removal from
Cincinnati to Nashville, where he continued
to attend the public schools until the family
returned to Cincinnati, about seven years
iater. In the latter city he completed the cur-
i-icnhun of the Woodward high school, in
which he was graduated as a member of the
class of 1883. For a year thereafter he con-
tinued his studies in the Ihiiversity of Cin-
cinnati, and he was then matriculated in Co-
lumbia Fniversity, New York City, in which
historic old institution he completed the pre-
scribed course in civil engineering and was
graduated in 1887. with the degree of civil
engineer. He has since given his attention
to the work of his profession and has achieved
in the same unqualified success and marked
precedence. For several years after leaving
the university he was eniployiMl in connection
mth the work of the board of health of New
York Citv. in which connection he was iden-
tified with the cnnsti-uction of sewerace lines.
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
He came to Indianapolis in 1892 and here es-
tablished himself in the work of his profes-
sion, and in 1893 he was appointed assistant
city engineer, under the administration of
Mayor Thomas L. Sullivan. He retained this
position also during the mayoralty of Caleb
S. Denny, and thereafter served for six years
as city engineer under the administration of
Mayor Thomas Taggart and two years during
the regime of John W. Holtzman as chief
executive of the municipal government. Dur-
ing his long period of service in connection
with the office of city engineer Mr. Jeup car-
ried out most effectively the improving of the
sewerage system of Indianapolis, under the
plans outlined by Rudolph Hering, the able
consulting engineer appointed by Mayor Sul-
livan. Mr. Jeup was a member of the com-
mission appointed to appraise the value of the
tangible property of the Indianapolis Water
Company and made recommendation that the
city purchase the property. Had this advice
of the commission been followed the city
would undoubtedly be the owner of its own
water sj'stem to-day and in control of a
service that would prove a source of profit to
the city and at the same time best conserve
the demands of the general consumer. Later
Mr. Jeup was associated with George W.
Fuller and Dr. C. E. Ferguson as a member
of the commission appointed bj^ the city to
investigate both the quantity and quality of
the physical property of the Indianapolis
Water Company, with a view to effecting im-
provements in the distributing service and
the quality of the water supplied. The rec-
ommendations of this commission are now be-
ing followed by the water company in the
expanding and improving of its system ac-
cording to the demands placed upon it. These
brief statements indicate that Mr. Jeup has
been a valuable agent in connection with the
directing and regulating of the engineering
department of the municipal government of
the capital city, and it is largely due to his
zealous and able efforts that the water sup-
ply of the city is maintained at its present
high standard. He caused a fire station to be
established to show the water pressure. He
has also done much to make possible the se-
curing to the city the elevation of railroad
tracks at street crossings witliin the munici-
pal limits, and he has also given most zealous
aid in providing the city with effective gas
service at reasonable terms. His efforts in
this connection are a matter of record and
have been duly ap]>reciated and commended
by the leading business men and general pub-
lic in Indianapolis. In the private work of his
orofession he has been equally successful and
has carried through many important engineer-
ing projects and enterprises. His firm has a
large and representative clientage and holds
distinctive precedence among similar concerns
in the state. ]Mr. Jeup is a valued member
of the Indiana Civil Engineering Society, a
member of the Indianapolis Board of Trade
and the Commercial Club, and at all times he
manifests a lively interest in all that tends to
advance the material and civic welfare of his
home city and state.
In politics Mr. Jeup Ls aligned as a stanch
advocate of the cause of the Democratic
party, he is affiliated with the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks and holds member-
ship in various civic and social organizations,
including the Indiana Democratic Club.
In the year 1895 was solemnized the mar-
riage of Mr. Jeup to JMiss Enuna Dithmer,
daughter of Henry L. and Agnes (Seiden-
sticker) Dithmer, the father being a success-
ful business man of Indianapolis. Mr. and
Mrs. Jeup have two children— Florence Gei'-
tnide, and Bernard Henry.
WiLLi.\M C. Smock. A scion of one of the
honored pioneer families of Marion County,
which has represented his home from the time
of his nativity. William C. Smock is one of
the well known and highly esteemed citizens
of Indianapolis, where he has resided for
many years and where he has held various
offices of distinctive public trust. His career
has designated in a positive way the strength
of a strong and loyal nature, and to him has
ever been accorded unqualified confidence and
regard, indicating the popular appreciation of
his worthy life and worthy deeds. He is
now engaged in the practice of law in In-
dianapolis arid is one of the venerable repre-
sentatives of his profession in the capital city
of his native state.
Mr. Smock has reason to find pride in re-
verting to his genealogical history, for he is
a member of a family founded in America
about the middle of the seventeenth century
and one that is of the stanch Holland Dutch
extraction.
In the quaint old city of Utrecht, Holland,
was solemnized the marriage of Hendrick
Matthysen Smock and Geerje Hermann, and
in the year 1654 this worthy couple came to
America and become the founders of the fam-
ily of which the sub,iect of this sketch is a
worthy scion. They settled on Long Island,
New York, where Mr. Smoek acquired a
tract of land, and to the little settlement
that gradually formed about his .home he ap-
plied, with affectionate remembrance of his
fatherland, the name of New Utrecht. The
names of his children were as follows: Ma-
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
thias, John, Elizabeth, Leondert (Leonard),
Sarah, Martynje, and Rebecca.
Mathias Smock was married, in New York,
on the 13th of September, 1701, to Elizabeth
Stevens, a widow, and about 1718 they re-
moved to Piscataway, New Jersey. Their
children were: Hendrick, Jan (John), Eliz-
abeth, Lncas, Mathias, Gastie, and Mary. Jan
(John) Smock and his wife Lena had chil-
dren whose names and respective dates of
baptism are here noted: John, April 10,
17.35: Jacob, May 20, 1744; Gertie (Ger-
trude), October 26, 1751; Catrina, April 29,
1753: Abraham, Februarv- 11, 1755; Jan-
nette (Joan), December 11, 1757; and Bar-
ney, the date of whose baptism is not given.
From the lonsr intervals between the bap-
tisms of the first and second and the second
and tliird of these children it is probable that
there were others, whose names were omitted
in the foregoing list, the data for which were
obtained from the ancient records of the
Dutch Church at Raritan, New Jersey.
John Smock, of this family, married Sarah
Fontaine, and they figure as the great-grand-
parents of William C. Smock in the paternal
line. Jacob Smock, brother of the last men-
tioned John, married Catharine Demarest,
daughter of Samuel Demarest, or Demaree,
and they were the s;reat-grandparents of the
subject of this review in the maternal line.
John Smock, son of John and Sarah (Fon-
taine) Smock, married Ann Van Arsdallen,
daughter of ^Ma.ior Simon Van Arsdallen, and
their youngest son. Isaac (youngest son in a
family of twelve children), was the father of
him whose name initiates this article. John
Smock, son of Jacob and Catharine (Dem-
arest, or Demaree) Smock, married Catharine
Carnine, daughter of Peter Carnine, and
their daughter, Ann Terhune Smock, who was
one of twelve children, was the mother of
William C. Smock. Three of the latter's
great-grandfathers. Jacob Smock, Major Si-
mon Van Arsdallen. and Peter Carnine, were
valiant and patriotic soldiers in the Conti-
nental line in the War of the Revolution.
John and Peter Smock, sons of Jacob and
Catharine f Demarest 1 Smock, were captured
by the Indians in Shelby County, Kentucky,
in 1793. when they were fourteen and twelve
years of age, respectively. Th'ey were with
Winemac, a powerful Pottawatomie chief,
and. through the agency of a French Indian
trader, were surrendered to their father, at
Greenville, Ohio, in 3795. The price of ran-
som was a keg of rum.
John Smock, son of John and Sarah ( Fon-
taine'i Smock, married Ann Van Arsdallen,
as ali^ady noted, and they became the parents
of twelw children. He died, near Harrods
burg, Mercer County, Kentucky, on the 5th
of August, 1824, and his children began to
immigrate to Indiana in an early day and
soon after his demise. In 1829 his widow and
her youngest son, Isaac, came to Indiana, and
she purchased a large tract of land fronting
on the Madison road, five miles south of In-
dianapolis. To this propertj' she took title
in the names of her twelve children. A large
part of this land is now (1909) owned by
E]li Heiny.
John Smock, son of Jacob and Catharine
(Demarest) Smock, entered land just south
of Indianapolis in the year 1821, and the
same is now known as the Hoefgen farm. In
1822 he and his family took up their abode
on this homestead, and at this time his
daughter Ann Terhune, mother of the subject
of this review, was not quite two years of
age. On the farm mentioned the death of
John Smock occurred on the 10th of Jan-
uary, 1829, and his wife, Catharine (Car-
nine) Smock, died on the 11th of September,
]835.
Isaac Smock was bom in Mercer County,
Kentucky, on the 22nd of April, 1817, and
on the 18th of January, 1838, he was united
in marriage to Ann Terhune Smock, who was
born in Kentucky on the 1st of December,
1820. His death occurred at Southport, Mar-
ion County, Indiana, on the 4th of February,
1895, and his cherished and devoted wife was
summoned to the life eternal on the 8th of
September, 1906.
William C. Smock, eldest son of Isaac and
Ann Terhune (Smock) Smock wa.s born on
the homestead farm, four miles south of In-
dianapolis, Indiana, on the 3rd of December,
1838. At the age of three years he received,
while at play, an insignificant injury, and this
afterward resulted in anchylosis of the right
knee joint, rendering him a permanent crip-
ple. Mr. Smock received his early educa-
tional discipline in the common schools in the
vicinity of his home, and through wide and
well-directed reading and through the experi-
ences and association of mature life, he has
become a man of broad and exact knowledge
and of marked intellectuality. At the age of
seventeen years he assumed a clerical position
in the office of the county recorder of Mar-
ion County, and when nineteen years of age
he was matriculated in Franklin College, at
Franklin, Indiana, where he was a student
for nearly two years, thus effectively supple-
menting his earlier educational training. Aft-
er leaving this institution he devoted his at-
tention to teaching a country school for two
terms, and in April, 1860, he secured a posi-
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
tion iu the ofBee of the county clerk, under
the late Hon. John C. New. In 1862 Mr.
Smock secured the nomination for the office
of county recorder of Marion County, but his
party, wishing to unite all elements in sup-
port of the prosecution of the war, desired
to nominate a war Democrat for that office,
under which conditions Mr. Smock withdrew
his candidacy and General William J. Elliott,
a Douglas Democrat, was nominated in his
stead. Mr. Smock continued his sei-vice in
the offices of the county clerk, and in Novem-
ber, 1865, he was himself elected clerk of the
county, in which position he served five years
and in which he gave an administration that
has passed on to record as one commendable
and able in every respect. One year was
added to his regular term by* reason of the
passage of the biennial election law.
Upon retiring from the office of county
clerk, Mr. Smock became associated with John
B. Cleaveland, Ebenezer Smith and Daniel M.
Ransdell in the real estate business. In No-
vember, 1878, Mr. Ransdell was elected
county clerk and Mr. Smock responded to
the request of his former partner by again
entering service as a deputy in the office of
the county clerk, where he continued as an
able and popular incumbent during the en-
suing eight years, at the expiration of which
he resumed his operations in the real estate
business. In November, 1898, he was electeil
a justice of the peace for Center Township
and continued in tenure of this office for eight
years. As tending to show the popular esti-
mate placed upon his services in this office it^
may he noted that during his incumbency
of the same he filed more than eleven thou-
sand seven hundred cases and performed more
than thirteen hundred marriage ceremonies.
Since retiring from the office of justice of the
peace Mr. Smock has been engaged in the
practice of law, having been admitted to the
bar of his native state in 1884, and being well
versed in the minutiae of the science of juris-
prudence.
In politics Mr. Smock is well fortified in his
opinions as to matters of public policy, and
is arrayed as a stanch supporter of the prin-
ciples and policies for which the Republican
party stands sponsor. In February, 1854,
when seventeen years of age, Mr. Smock be-
came a member of the Baptist Church, and he
has long been a zealous and active worker
in the same. He served for ten years as
church .clerk, was for many years a member
of the board of trustees of his church, and for
seventeen years he presided as superintendent
of the Sunday school. _ He has been a deacon
of the church for the past thirty years, and
he was chorister for thirty-five years and four
months, having a well trained bass voice and
taking marked interest in musical affairs. He
and his wife are now devoted and valued
members of the First Baptist Church of In-
dianapolis, and in the capital city their cir-
cle of friends is limited only by that of their
acquaintance.
On the 6th of December, 1860, was solemn-
ized the marriage of Mr. Smock to ]\Iiss ]Me-
lissa A. Smock, his- second cousin. She was
born and reared in Marion County, Indiana,
and is a daughter of the late Captain Jacob
Smock. Mr. and Mrs. Smock became the
parents of six children, of whom only two are
living— Eva L., who is the wife of Henry
Schurmann, of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and
Harry, who is a successful veterinary surgeon,
engaged in the practice of his profession at
Franklin, Indiana.
Charles E. Avekill, a substantial and
honored member of the Indianapolis bar, is
a native of Lovell, Oxford County, Maine,
born April 12, 1853. In 1863 his parents
moved to Portland, that state, which remained
the family home for years. The son was first
educated in the city schools and then entered
Bowdoin College, from which he graduated
in 1873. His law studies were self-imposed
and self-conducted, but to such purpose that
when he went to Colorado in 1879 he was ad-
mitted to the bar of that state and located
at Durango for practice.
Mr. Averill remained at that city until
1885, but conditions were then in the forma-
tive period in the Centennial state and he
decided that his prospects would be improved
by locating in some settled, yet progressive
community of the east. Fixing then upon In-
dianapolis, he has had no cause to regret his
choice by any professional or personal events
which have transpired within the past quar-
ter of a century. In 1884, the year before
Mr. Averill became a resident of Indianap-
olis, he Avas married in Colorado to IMiss Jes-
sie M. Stubbs, daughter of Hon. George M.
Stubbs, of that city, and that fact had a
strong bearing upon his coming to the In-
diana capital.
WooDBURN M.vssoN in his youth early be-
came dependent upon his own resources. He
had ambition,' courage and persistence, and
worked his own way in one of the most ex-
acting of professions, defraying the expenses
of his technical education and ever placing
a true value upon men and affairs. It is thus
pleasing to note that today he is numbered
among the representative members of the In-
dianapolis bar and is one of the highly es-
teemed citizens of his native citv.
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HISTOEY OP GEEATEE INDIANAPOLIS.
781
Woodburn Masson was born in Indianap-
olis, on the 9th of July, 1869, and is a son of
James P. and Eliza T. (Eoss) Mas.son, the
former of whom was born in Pennsylvania
and the latter in Indiana.' The father, who
was a commercial traveler by vocation, died
when his son, of this review, was an infant,
and the widowed mother continued her resi-
.dence in Indianapolis, where she reared her
three sons and one dausrhter with all of self-
abnegation and zealous devotion. She was
summoned to the life eternal on the 15th
of March, 1908, and her memory is revered
by all who came within the sphere of her
gentle and gracious influence.
He whose name initiates this article contin-
ued his studies in the public schools of In-
dianapolis until he was fifteen years of age,
when he found it incumbent upon him to as-
sume practical responsibilities, as his mother
had met with the loss of her savings and the
returns from insurance policies held by her
deceased husband, owing to the failure of the
bank in which she deposited her funds. Under
these conditions young Woodburn Masson de-
voted himself assiduously to learning stenog-
raphy and typewriting, and to this line of
work he devoted his attention nearly three
years after becoming proficient in the same.
He then began the study of law, in the office
of the general attorney of the Lake Erie &
Western Eailroad. in Indianapolis, and later
he completed a course in the Cincinnati Law
School in the class of 1895. In 1891 he was
admitted to the bar of his native city and
state, where he has since continued in the
active work of his chosen profession and
where he has so utilized his fine natural and
technical powers as to gain a position of
prominence and a worthy reputation in his
chosen vocation, to which his devotion and
loyalty have been of the most insistent order.
Prom 1891 until 1894 he was assistant to the
general attorney of the Lake Erie & Western
Railroad, and since the expiration of that
period he has devoted his attention to gen-
eral practice in the State and Pederal courts,
in which he has won many decisive victories
as a trial lawyer, while as a counselor he is
known to be fortified with a broad and exact
knowledge of the law and to have marked
facility in the application of such informa-
tion-.
The political views of Mr. Masson are indi-
cated by the zealous service which he has ren-
dered to the cause of the Democratic party,
and as a citizen none could be more publicr
spirited or more zealous in the promotion of
good government and needed reforms. In all
measures and enterprises tending to make for
good citizenship and civic and material prog-
ress, he lends a ready co-operation, and his
interest in his native city is deep and abid-
ing. He and his wife hold membership in
the Meridian Street Methodist Episcopal
Church.
In the year 1904, was solemnized the mar-
riage of Mr. Masson to ]\Iiss Nellie G. Wells,
daughter of Dr. Merritt Wells, the oldest
resident dentist of Indianapolis, and Mrs.
Masson is popular in connection with the best
social activities of her home city.
Leonard Woollen was born near Elli-
cott's Mills in Maryland in the month of
June, 1774. Richard Woollen, his father,
a descendant of John Woollen, who emi-
grated from England to North Carolina,
early in the seventeenth century, was a Revo-
lutionary soldier. He died when Leonard,
the subject of this sketch, was eight years old.
The boy, after the death of his father, was
apprenticed to- a Hickory Quaker who lived-
in Maryland, and who treated him so cruelly
as to cause him to run away. After his
escape, he first got employment on a farm
for two or three years. He was next em-
ployed * at Nashville, Tennessee, in Iron
Works that then were in operation in that
city. He worked there for six years, and
then emigrated to Bowman's Station, near
to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. There he
became acquainted with Sarah Henry, to
whom he was married June 19, 1802. By
this union twelve children were born. They
moved from Kentucky to Indianapolis, In-
diana, in 1835. Upon his arrival in this city,
he purchased the lot at the corner of Capitol
avenue and Ohio street, where now is located
the Imperial Hotel. Upon this he built his
residence in which he lived until his death,
which occurred Pebruary 21, 1858, his wife
having died November 3, 1856. His occupa-
tion was that of a farmer, and as such he
purchased a farm which is now a part of the
Riverside Park. Politically, he was a Demo-
crat. Both he and his wife were members of
the Christian Church, and as such assisted
in organizing the First Christian Church of
this city, the church building of which was
located on Kentucky avenue.
The brothers, William Watson Woollen,
Greenly V. Woollen and ^Milton A. Woollen,
each of whom has taken an active part in the
civic affairs of Indianapolis, are grandsons
.of Leonard Woollen.
Joshua Black, of Dutch descent, was born
October 3, 1788, near Ellicott's Mills, in
]Marj'land, and died December 4, 1879. in In-
dianapolis. His father, Christopher Black,
was a Revolutionary soldier. His loyalty to
HISTOKY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
his countrj' was such that he enlisted in the
War of 1812 and became a lieutenant by pro-
motion from the ranks. He enlisted as a
llome-fruard in the Civil War and would
have enlisted as a soldier but for his ad-
vanced af;e. He married Elizabeth Buro:ess
February 21, 1811, and by this union four
children were born. He moved from ]\Iary-
land by way of the old National road to In-
dianapolis in 1826, and located at the south-
Avest corner of Illinois and Ohio streets. He
was a fine carpenter and cabinet maker, and
as such worked on many of the best public
bnildin{:s in this city, ineludinjr the first State
Capitol built in it, Asbury Chapel, now
^Feridian Street Church, Roberts Chapel,
now Roberts Park Church, and Ames
Chapel, long since abandoned *and torn down.
In 1841, 1842 and 1843 he was councilman
from the First ward in this city. Originally
he was a Whig: but he became a Republican
when that party was orsranized. He was a
]\[ethodist and prominent in the early his-
tory of that church in this city.
^lii.TON Asbury Wooi.t.en. The career of
^Filtori Asbury AVoollen, president of the
American Central Life Insurance Company,
of Indianapolis, has been marked by consecu-
tive endeavor and definite results. He is one
of the es.sential]y representative men of the
Indiana capital and is one who has been loyal
to all of the interests of the city. So it is but
consistent that he be here accorded recogni-
tion among other of the leading citizens of
"CJreater Indianapolis".
^Ir. Woollen is a native of Indiana, hav-
ing been born on a fai'iii in Lawrence Town-
ship. Marion County. January 18, 1850. He
is a son of ]\rilton and Sarah Black Wool-
len, the fonner of whom was born in Ken-
tucky and the latter in Maryland. ;Milton
AYoollen came to Indianapolis in the pioneer
period of its history and for a number of
years was engaged at his trade, that of black-
smith, and having received a serious injury
while thus engaged, he quit that occupation
atul removed to a farm in Lawrence Town-
ship, about eight miles northeast of the cen-
ter of the City of Indianapolis. He never
fully recovered from the injury thus re-
ceived. In 18fil he resumed his residence in
the capital city and continued to reside there
until his death, which occurred in 1868. He
was a man of sterling integrity and strong
mentality and as such maintained a secure
place in connection with the practical busi-
ness activities and civic affaii-s of Indianap-
olis and was one of. its honored citizens. His
wife .survived him by a nnmbei- of vears and
of their ten children, three sons and three
daughters are now living.
^filton Asbury Woollen was reared to ma-
turity in Indianapolis and was educated in
its public schools. He began his business ca-
reer at the age of fourteen years, when he
was accorded the trusted place of special
luessenger of the Western LTnion Telegraph
Company, in whose service he continued about
two years. He then completed a special com-
mercial course in a: local business college and
this training secured him employment as
bookkeeper in the local offices of the Singer
Sewing JMachine Company, which position he
retained for two years. In 1868 he com-
menced busines.s as a feed and grain mer-
chant. The beginning of his operations was
on a modest scale but by giving his personal
attention to the administration of his affairs,
he .soon succeeded in building up a prosper-
ous trade and one that eventually attained
large proportions. He continued in this busi-
ness until 1893, when he became one of the
interested principals in an extensive whole-
sale produce commission concern, with which
he continued to be actively identified as vice-
president until March of 1902. He then dis-
posed of his interest in the business and pur-
chased a large amount of the stock of the
American Central Life Insurance Company
of Indianapolis, of which he became secre-
tarj'. Pie retained this position until Janu-
ary 4, 1905, when he was elected president of
the company. In this chief administrative
office he has since continued and to his able
and con.servative executive policy and his
careful supervision of the manifold details of
the great enterprise has been in a large meas-
ure achieved the splendid progress and dis-
tinctive success of this company. It now con-
trols a business of large scope and import-
ance and is kno^ATi as one of the well ordered
life insurance institutions of the country.
In politics Mr. Woollen, though never am-
bitious for public office of any kind, is a
stanch supporter of the principles and poli-
cies of the Republican party. He has been
and is identified with various civic organiza-
tions of a representative character, includ-
ing the Board of Trade, of which he was
president in 1908. the Commercial Club, Co-
lumbia Club, IMarion Club, and several char-
itable organizations. In the time-honoreil
Ma.sonic fraternity he has attained to the
thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accept-
ed Scottish Rite. Both he and his wife are
active meinl>ers of the First Baptist Church
of Indianapolis.
January 7. 1878. INTr. Woollen was married
1o ]\Iiss Ida Baird. who was born in Cincin-
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
nati, Ohio, and reared in Indianapolis, anfl
who was the daughter of the late William
Baird. Mr. and Mrs. Woollen became the
parents of one son, Herbert Milton Woollen,
and two daughters, Ehna Woollen Dark, now
deceased, and Orin Woollen Smith. The son
is now secretary of the American Central
Life Insurance Company.
Hon. John Worth Kern, whose name has
been well known throughout the United States
since the presidential election of 1908, when
he was the Democratic nominee for the office
of vice-president, is well known in the vicin-
ity of Indianapolis, having distinguished him-
self in the profession of law. He was bora
December 20, 1849, in Howard County, In-
diana, son of Jacob H. Kern. His grandfa-
ther, Jacob Kern, was born July 4, 1777, and
was a native of Kernstown, Frederick Coun-
ty, Virginia, and was of German extraction.
The great-grandfather was Adam Kern, who
emigrated to America from Germany, in 1750,
in company with his two brothers. The
brothers settled in Pennsylvania, but Adam
Kern, the founder of Kernstown, Virginia,
settled in that place. Jacob Kern, his son,
settled in Shelby County, Indiana, in 1836,
and there followed his trade of blacksmith;
he had several children, among whom was
Jacob H.
Jacob H. Kern was born in Virginia, in
1813, and became a physician ; he came to
Shelbj' County, Indiana, at the same time as
his father, but nine years later removed to
Howard County, a former Indian Reserva-
tion, which was opened up to settlement by
whites about that time. Dr. Kern returned to
his native state in 1871, and until the time
of his death, in April, 1900, lived near Dale-
ville, Botetourt County.
In political views he was a Democrat. In
his habits he was an example of temperance,
sincerity and probity. Dr. Kern was married
first to Nancy Liggett, who was born in Ohio,
a daughter of George Liggett, of Indiana, but
formerly of Ohio and a native of Virginia.
Mr. Liggett, who was the father of twelve
children, was a miller by occupation, and died
in Shelby County, Indiana, when about sev-
enty-five years old. Dr. Kern's children were
Sarah E. (Mrs. Isaac Engel, of Daleville,
Virginia) and John Worth. Mrs. Kern died
in 1859, and in 1860 Dr. Kern married as his
second wife Sarah Engel, who died soon after
his decease.
John W. Kem attended the public school
at Alto in his native county, later attended
the State Normal School at Kokomo, and was
araduated from the law department of the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, in
1869. He began the practice of his profession
in Kokomo, and in January, 1885, took the
office of reporter for the Supreme Court. At
this time he moved to Indianapolis, which
has since been his place of residence. In 1892
he was elected to the state Senate, of which
body he was a member four years. He has
held several other public offices; he was for
two terms city attorney of Indianapolis, seven
years city attorney of Kokomo, in 1893 was
appointed by Attorney-General Olney to serve
as special United States attorney for the pros-
ecution of the wreckers of Indianapolis banks,
and in 1900 and in 1904 was the Democratic
candidate for governor of Indiana. Mr. Kern
is one of the foremost Democrats of his native
state, and a leader in all the party's move-
ments, and, as before mentioned, gained the
attention of the entire nation in 1908, in con-
nection with his candidacy for vice-president.
He has the confidence and respect of all with
whom he comes 'in contact, and has a host of
friends.
Fraternally Mr. Kern is a member of Mys-
tic Tie Lodge No. 398, Ancient Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, of Indianapolis, Indianapolis
Consistory, Scotti.sh Rite Masons, Star Lodge
No. 7, Knights of Pythias, and to Indianap-
olis Lodge No. 13; Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks. He belongs to the Commercial
Club of Indianapolis, of which he served as
president in 1904, and also belongs to the
University, Country and Century Clubs, and
the Indiana Democratic Club, having been the
first president of the last-named organiza-
tion.
Mr. Kern married November 10, 1870, Julia
Anna, daughter of David Hazzard. She died
September 1, 1884, 'at the age of thirty-four
years, leaving two children, Fred Richmond
and Julia Anna. The son died February 26,
1901, at Washington, District of. Columbia,
having served with distinction in the service
of his country in the Spanish- American War ;
he was the only private volunteer from In-
diana to take part in the battle of Santiago.
He belonged to the First District of Columbia
Volunteers. The daughter was graduated
from Mrs. Sewall's Girls' Classical School, at
Indianapolis in the class of 1901. Mr. Kern
married again December 23, 1885, his second
wife being Araminta A., daughter of Dr.
William and Eliza (Newcomb) Cooper, of Ko-
komo. Mr. and Mrs. Kern have become par-
ents of two sons, John W., Jr., and William
Cooper, and the family home is at 1836 North
Pennsylvania street.
WiLMER Christian, M. D. It has been
given Dr. Christian to attain to marked suc-
cess and prestige as one of the representative
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physicians and siirjieons of his native city,
and he is now enuasred in the active practice
of his profession in Indianapolis, where his
popularity is of the most nneqnivocal type.
Dr. Christian was born in Indianapolis, on
the 24th of February, 1871, and is a son of
AViliner F. and JIargaret J. (Moore) Chris-
tian, the former of whom was born at Snow
Hill, Maryland, and the latter in JIarion
(Uiunty, Indiana. The father was reared and
educated in his native state and has been for
many years a successful contractor and build-
er in Indianapolis, where he still maintains
hi.s home. He is a son of Job Christian,
who came from England to America and first
.settled in New Jersey, whence he subsequent-
ly removed to Maryland, where he passed
the residue of his life, having* been a tailor
by trade and vocation. ;Mrs. ^Margaret J.
(Moore) Christian, who died in Indianapolis,
on the 25th of January, 1904, was a daugh-
ter of Thomas IMoore, who was one of the
sterling pioneers of Marion County, Indiana,
and who was a son of Thomas Moore, who
innnigrated to the United States from County
Donegal, Ireland, settling in Pennsylvania,
where Thomas, Jr.. was born. The father and
sons all assisted in the construction of the
old National Road, and, following the prog-
ress of this once important highway, they
came west to Indiana, wliere the grandfather
of the doctor secured a tract of land lying
between Indianapolis and its attractive sub-
urb of Irvington. l\Iuch of this land, which
is now very valuable, is yet in the possession
of the family. Wilmer F. and ^Margaret J.
(]\Ioore) Christian became the parents of six
children, of whom the eldest is Thomas J.,
who is a resident of Indianapolis, where ho
is engaged in the lumber business; Wilmer,
subject of this review, was the next in order
of birth; Harry E. died on the 1st of April,
1909; Frank L." died May 1, 1907: Grace, who
remains at the paternal home, was graduated
in Smith College, as a member of the class of
1908; and Clara died on the 4th of January,
1880.
Dr. Christian gained his preliminary edu-
cation in public school No. 1, Indianapolis,
and later continued his studies in the classical
school for boys and the Shortridge high
school, in which latter he was graduated as a
member of the class of 1888. He then entered
Wabash College, at Crawfordsville, Indiana,
in which he was graduated as a member of
the class of 1892 and from which he received
the degree of Bachelor of Science. In 1898
he received from his alma mater the degree
nf Master of Science, and in 190.5. that of
blaster of Arts. After the completion of his
more purely academic studies. Dr. Christian
turned his attention to those of a technical
nature, being matriculated in Medical Col-
lege of Indiana, in Indianapolis, where he
completed the prescribed course and was
graduated in 1896, with the degree of Doctor
of Medicine. He has since done effective
post-graduate work and keeps fully in touch
with the advances made in both departments
of his exacting profession. In 1896 he was
house physician of. the Indianapolis City
Hospital, and he was police surgeon of the
city from 1897 until 1901. He is now a mem-
ber of the board of trustees of the Indiana
Village for Epileptics, having been appointed
to this position by Governor Marshall, in
March, 1909. He is identified with the Amer-
ican Medical Association and the Indiana
State Medical Society. On January 15, 1910,
Dr. Christian became vice-president and med-
ical director of the Anchor Life Insurance
Company of Indianapolis. In politics he is
arrayed as a stanch supporter of the cause of
the Democratic party, and he and his wife are
ilevoted and zealous members of the First
Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis, in
which he has been a deacon since he was six-
teen years of age.
From 1886 to 1894 Dr. Christian was a
member of the Indianapolis Light Artillery,
and from the latter year until 1898 he served
as adjutant in Second Regiment, Indiana Na-
tional Guard. In the time-honored Masonic
fraternity his affiliations are with Pentalpha
Lodge No. 564, Free and Accepted Masons,
Keystone Chapter No. 6, Royal Arch Masons,
of which he was high priest in 1903-4; Raper
Commandery No. 1, Knights Templar; and
Indiana Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scot-
tish Rite. He is also identified with Indian-
apolis Lodge No. 56, Knights of Pythias, of
which he is past chancellor commander, and
he holds membership in the Board of Trade,
the Indianapolis Art Association, the Con-
temporary Club and the University Club. He
has been a member of the board of trustees
of his alma mater. Wabash College, since
1905, and since 1900 has been national treas-
urer of the college fraternity of Phi Gamma
Delta.
On the 29th of April, 1897. was solemnized
the marriage of Dr. Christian to Miss Edna
McGilliard, who was born and reared in In-
dianapolis, being a daughter of Martin V.
and Elizabeth (Lloyd) McGilliard, who still
reside in this city, where her father is en-
gaged in the insurance business.
Osc.\R Hadi.kv. In the enlisting of men of
notable enterprise, ability and integrity in
the furtherance of its industrial, commercial
d^^^ /J^,
HISTORY OF GKEATER INDMNAPOLIS.
785
and civic affairs is mainly due the. precedence
and great material prosperity of the fine old
Hoosier commonwealth, and in this connec-
tion it is pleasing to note the large propor-
tion of native sons of the state who are here
prominent and influential in business, pro-
fessional and public life, upholding the high
prestige of names long identified with the
history of the state and wielding much in-
fluence in their respective fields of endeavor.
Oscar Hadley, the present eflicient and hon-
ored state treasurer of Indiana, has passed
his entire life thus far within the confines of
the state and is a scion of one of its well
known and sterling pioneer families. He has
from his youth been closely identified with
the great basic industries of agriculture and
stock-growing, in connection with which he
has attained to marked success, and the
esteem and confidence in which he is held
needs no further voucher than the fact that
he is incumbent, for a second term, of one
of the most important offices in the gift of
the people of his native state.
Mr. Hadley was born on a farm in Guil-
ford Township, near the thriving little city
of Plainfield, Hendricks County, Indiana, on
the 3rd of May, 1858, and in order of nativ-
ity is the fifteenth of the sixteen children
born to Elias and Lucinda (Carter) Hadley,
the former of whom was born in North .Caro-
lina and the latter in Butler County, Ohio.
Elias Hadley was a boy at the time when his
father, Jeremiah Hadleyy removed with his
family from North Carolina to Butler
County, Ohio, where he was reared to ma-
turity and received the limited educational
advantages offered, by the primitive schools
of the pioneer days. Prior to the attaining
of his legal majority Elias Hadley came to
Indiana and selected a favorable location in
Hendricks County, after which he returned
to Ohio and was united in marriage to Miss
Lucinda Carter, who was then in her seven-
teenth year. Immediately after their mar-
riage the young couple came to Hendricks
County, Indiana, and set up their Lares and
Penates in a pioneer log house erected on the
land, in Guilford Towaiship, which he had
secured from the government and which rep-
resented at the time a veritable forest wilder-
ness. His father also removed to the same
locality at the same time and both secured
tracts of government land, on a portion of
which the town of Plainfield is now located.
The young man and the old grappled vigor-
ously with the giants of the forest and in
due time reclaimed their farms to cultiva-
tion. Jeremiah Hadley and his worthy wife
passed the residue of their lives in Hendricks
County, and on their old homestead Elias and
Lucinda (Carter) Ha.dley continued to reside
until they, too, were summoned to the life
eternal, honored pioneers of the county in
which they took up their abode about the
year 1822. Elias Hadley was seventy-five
years of age at the time of his demise, and
his cherished and devoted wife passed away
at the venerable age of eighty-four years, a
true mother in Israel, whose children may
well "rise up and call her blessed", and
whose memory they hold in lasting reverence.
Both she and her husband were zealous mem-
bers of the Christian church and in politics
he was originally a Whig, and later a Re-
publican, having united with the "grand old
party" at the time of its organization. Of
the sixteen children nine are now living.
The Hadley family has been one of the best
Imown and most highly honored in Hendricks
County for many years, and its members have
contributed in liberal measure to the civic
and industrial development of that favored
•section of the state. Twelve of the sixteen
children in the Hadley family lived to ma-
turity and all were members of the same
church. All had married and on Christmas,
1883, the entire family sat at dinner to-
gether in the home of their parents.
Oscar Hadley was reared to maturity on
the old homestead farm which was the place
of his nativity, and he received his due quota
of the generous benefices that ever come to
those who are thus given the privilege of
closely touching gracious nature "in her visi-
ble forms", the while he waxed strong in
mind and body under the discipline involved,
learning the lessons of industry, self-reliance
and sturdy integrity that have proved so
potent in the guiding and guarding of his
career as a man among men, and have gained
to him unequivocal confidence acd esteem.
After completing the curriculum of the pub-
lic schools Mr. Hadley continued his studies
for one year in Butler College, at Irvington,
a suburb of Indianapolis, and his entire busi-
ness career, from his youth to the present
time, has been one of intimate and successful
identification with general farming and stock-
growing, in which latter department of in-
dustry he has gained a specially wide repu-
tation as a successful breeder of high-grade
cattle. For many years he has been num-
bered among the representative farmers and
stock-raisers of his native county, where he
owns a fine landed estate of 250 acres,
equipped with the best of improvements in
all lines, and he now holds prestige as one
of the leading exponents of agriculture and
stock enterprises in the entire state. For
HISTORY OP GBEATEB INDIANAPOLIS.
several years past he has been a valued mem-
ber of the Indiana state board of agriculture,
of which he served as president in 1909,
giving to the work of the organization the
benefits of his wide and practical experience
and fine administrative ability. In 1902 Mr.
Hadley became one of the organizers and in-
corporators of the Polled Durham Breeders'
Association of the United. States, which is
now the largest and most substantial organi-
zation of its kind in the world, and of which
he was elected president in 1908, and is still
in office. In this connection it is needless
to say that he has made a specialty of the
breeding of the Polled Durham cattle, and
on his farm are to be found the finest of
specimens of this breed of the highest stand-
ard. He is a member of both tlie State and
National Shorthorn Breeders' Association.
A man of original thought and strong in-
tellectual equipment, Mr. Hadley has natur-
ally taken a loyal interest in public affairs
in his native state and done all in his power
to conserve its progress and prosperity. A
stalwart in the camp of the Republican party
from the time of attaining to his legal ma-
jority, he has rendered most efficient service
in the promotion of its cause and has been a
prominent factor in connection with the
party work in Indiana. His eligibility for
positions of public trust was early recognized
in his home community, where, it may be
said, he sets at naught all incidental applica-
tion of the scriptural adage that "a prophet
is not without honor save in his own coun-
try". At the age of twenty-one years he be-
came a member of the precinct committee of
his party in his home precinct, and he was
chairman of the precinct committee for a
continuous period of fifteen years. The first
elective office to which he was called was that
of trustee of his native township, of which
position he continued incumbent for five and
•one-half years, at the close of which, in 1900,
he was nominated and elected treasurer of
Hendricks County. Local political precedent
prescribes that in that county the county
treasurer shall not become a candidate for a
second term, and thus Mr. Hadley served
only the one term, within which he /showed
marked ability in handling the fiscal affairs
of the county, as has he later in the adminis-
tration of those of the entire state.
In 1906 Mr. Hadley 's name was placed be-
fore his party in connection with candidacy
for the office of state treasurer, and after a
spirited preliminary campaign he was duly
nominated for this office in the Republican
state convention of that year. In November
of the same year he rolled up a gratifying
majority at the polls, and on the 10th of
February, 1907, he assumed the practical
charge of the duties of the office. Within
his term of two years he amply justified the
wisdom of the people's choice, bringing to
bear marked capacity for handling the de-
tails of the work and doing much to improve
the system of handling the fiscal affairs of
the state. Popular appreciation of his fidel-
ity, pbility and sterling integrity of purpose
was indicated both in- his nomination as his
own successor by his party in the state con-
vention of 1908, and also by the unequivocal
support accorded him in the ensuing election,
through which he was returned to office for a
second term of two years, which will expire
on the 10th of February, 1911. His record
as state treasurer has been signally clean,
straightforward and successful, redounding
alike to his credit and to the conservation of.
the best interests of the commonwealth. His
administration will go on record as one of
the best the office has ever had.
Mr. Hadley is an appreciative member of
the Masonic fraternity, in which he has taken
the capitular degrees, being affiliated with
Plainfield Lodge No. 653, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, in Plainfield, and with Dan-
ville Chapter No. 46, Royal Arch Masons, of
Danville, Indiana. He also holds member-
ship . in the Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows and the Knights of Pythias. In 1879
Mr. Hadley was united in marriage with
Miss Emma Talbott and three children were
born of this union.
Gavin L. Payne. Exercising important
functions and to be noted as one of the rep-
resentative finaincial concerns in the Indiana
capital, the firm of Gavm L. Payne & Com-
pany controls a large and substantial business
in the handling of high-grajie securities and
in conducting an investment-banking enter-
prise. The business is held to normal and
conservative lines and its absolute reliability
has gained to the firm distinctive prestige in
financial circles. As the executive head of
this well known concern and as one of the
loyal and progressive citizens of "Greater In-
dianapolis," Mr. Payne is well entitled to
representation in this publication.
Gavin Lodge Pa^Tie has lived in Indianap-
olis virtually all of his life, having been an
infant at the time of his parents' removal to
the capital city from Jefferson County, which
has contributed a Harge and valued quota to
the citizenship of Indianapolis. He is a son
of John Godman Payne, now deceased, and
Mary (Byfield) Payne. Gavin L. Payne was
born at Wirt, Jefferson County, Indiana, on
the 3rd of September, 1869, and his early
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
787
educational discipline was received in the
public schools of Indianapolis. He was af-
forded the advantages of the old high school,
now supplemented by a large and modern
building, at the corner of Pennsylvania and
Michigan streets. Much of Mr. Payne's life
has been passed in a newspaper atmosphere
and as a youngster he made his way through
high school by carrying newspaper routes
early in the morning and late in the evening.
Later he began contributing to the local
weekly papers, and before he had attained the
age of twenty years he Avas a full-fledged re-
porter on the Indianapolis Sentinel. In 1890
came the wanderlust period in his career and,
tempted by the lure of high salaries then be-
ing paid to newspaper men in the south, he
went to Memphis, Tennessee, where he became
attached to the new Memphis Commercial, on
which he served during some stormy years in
the local history of that city. He rose from
the position of police reporter to that of man-
aging editor, which latter incumbency he as-
sumed at the age of twenty -three years. Dur-
ing much of the time passed in Memphis, Mr.
Pajme was the roommate and chum of James
Keeley, who is now managing editor of the
Chicago Tribune and to whom a recent east-
ern magazine referred as the world's greatest
news editor. "I think I was menaced by the
southern hookworm about the time I met
Keeley," said Mr. Payne recently, "but the
newspaper pace set by that human dynamo,
Keeley, quickly electrocuted anything of that
kind in my system. I was never able to
catch up with him, biit the advantage of his
strenuous companionship meant much to me."
Mr. Payne was closely associated in those days
with the late Senator Edward Carmack, a
brilliant editor whose tragic death, in Nash-
ville is a matter of recent occurrence. A va-
ried and interesting experience in his profes-
sion at this time, including a season as a
correspondent in the mountains of eastern
Tennessee during the coal miners' war, which
required the entire state militia and sheriffs'
posses to quell. He also made a trip up the
Mississippi River on the "Concord," the first
modern fighting .ship to pass up the river as
far as Memphis. When the New Orleans
New Delta was established by the good people
of the Crescent City to stamp out the famous
lottery that had so long been an institution of
that state, Mr. Payne was invited to join its
editorial staff and he was assigned a part
in that notable and successful campaign which
was conducted by the redoubtable and fear-
less Colonel John Parker. The Mafia troubles
also came on at this time and in connection
therewith, Mr. Payne did most effective
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reportorial work. When his loyal and valued
friend, James Keeley, became managing edi-
tor of the Louisville •Commercial he tendered
the position of city editor to Mr. Payne, and
the two were again roommates until Mr.
Keeley went to the Chicago Tribune.
In May, 1893, Mr. Payne was tendered the
position of assistant city editor of the Indian-
apolis Journal, and very shortly after his
acceptance he was advanced to office of city
editor, of which position he continued in ten-
ure until 1899— probably the longest service
at this particular post ever recorded in the
history of that well beloved old paper. He ac-
companied Ex-President Harrison around the
state in 1894 and reported that statesman's
famous utterances. During the Spanish-
American War he was duly accredited as a
correspondent by the war department and
served the Indianapolis Journal at Chieka-
mauga and Tampa, where he "covered" the
Indiana regiments. When the Indianapolis
Press was establfshed Mr. Payne became city
editor of that publication, with which he re-
mained until its demise. While on this paper
he served as correspondent at Frankfort, Ken-
tucky, in the troublesome days following Goe-
bel's death, and incidentally he obtained the
first interview with Governor Taylor, who
was then entrenched in the state capitol.
Upon the death of the Indianapolis Press.
Mr. Payne waa elected secretary of the Se-
curity 'Trust Company, which was then being
organized, and was rapidly advanced until
he became president of the institution, in
which office he succeeded the late Americus
C. Daily. In the winter of 1906, his health
having become impaired, Mr. Payne sold his
interest in the trust company, resigned the
presidency of the same and went to the
Island of Jamaica for a month's stay, and he
was ill in bed in Kingston when the great
earthquake of January 13, 1907, destroyed
that city, but he fortunately escaped injury.
On the day when the panic of 1907 had its
initiation Mr. Payne, who had in the mean-
while fully recuperated his physical energies^
established the investment concern that now
bears his name. For years he has made, a
study of investment-securities, and thus he i.s
admirably fortified for the administration of
the affairs of the firm of which he is thus the
executive principal.
Mr. Payne has held but one public office,
having represented the Third ward of Indian-
apolis in the city council for one term. He
has also given effective service as a member
of the citizens' advisory committee of the
Indianapolis public library, and at one time
he held the presidency of the Indianapolis
HISTORY OF GREATEB INDIANAPOLIS.
Press Club. He was vice-president of the In-
diana May Music Festival Association at the
time when that organization was at its zenith.
Fond of water sports, he, with others, organ-
ized the old Indianapolis Aquatic Club, of
which he was the first president. In his
younger days he contributed prose and verse
to many of the magazines and other publica-
tions.
In politics Mr. Payne gives his allegiance
to the Republican party, and in the Masonic
fraternity he is affiliated with the various
bodies of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite,
the while his ancient-craft inembership is in
the Mystic Tie Lodge No. 398, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons. He is identified with the Co-
lumbia Club, the ]\Iarion Club, the German
House, the Indianapolis Maennerchor, and
the Indianapolis Stock P^xchange.
In 1904 Mr. Payne was united in mar-
riage to Miss Bertha C. Fahnley, daughter of
Frederick Fahnley, a representative business
man of Indian;i polls, and the two childi'en of
this union ai'e Frederick and Ada.
Mr. Payne claiins to be a pure-bred Hoosier,
as his grandpai'ents on both sides were num-
bered among the vry early settlers of this
state. His maternal grandfather, Horatio
Byfield, was landed at Madison, Indiana, by
a flatboat before Indiana was a state and
north of that now thriving city he literally
hewed out a farm in the midst of the forest
wilds. His remains wnre laid to rest in the
little cemetery on his nkl homestead farm. In
1818 Horatio Byfield constructed a wooden
plow for road-making, and this plow, which
hung in the Indiana State Museum for many
years, was proclaimed the first plow ever
built for that purpose in Indiana. In the
days prior to the Civil War Mr. Payne's pa-
ternal grandfather. P'lihu Payne, was a man-
ufacturer of fanning mills upon a somewhat
extensive scale, at ^fadison. this state.. The
Payne family had its first representatives
from Baltiinore. ^Maryland, where it was
founded in the colonial days. On the ma-
ternal side the lineage is traced back to stanch
Scotch and Irish stock. When but fourteen
years of age John (1. Payne, father of the
subject of this review, tendered his services
in defense of the Union, by enlisting in the
Thirteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and
later he became a member of a Kentucky reg-
iment. He saw his full quota of arduous serv-
ice and was with Sherman on the ever memor-
able march from Atlanta to the sea.
GuSTAVUR B. J.\CK?ON, M. D., is one of the
younger generation of physicians and sur-
geons engaged in practice in the capital city
of Indiana, where he stands as one of the rep-
resentative members of his profession and
where he has control of a large and import-
ant practice, implying not only marked pro-
fessional ability but also distinctive personal
popularity.
Dr. Gustavus Brown Jaclcson was born in
Owensboro, Daviess County, on the 15th of
October, 1877, and is a scion of old and hon-
ored families of our American republic, where
they were founded prior to the w-ar of the
Revolution. Through his paternal grand-
mother he is descended in direct line from
Samuel Hawes, who was one of the committee
of safety in Caroline County, Virginia, in the
Revolutionary period and who held the ex-
ecutive office of clerk of this committee,
(^ne of his sons was a patriot soldier in the
Continental line and served with distinction
as colonel of his regiment. (American Ar-
chives, page 103: Peter Force's Archives,
page 974.) On the maternal side the doctor
is a direct descendant of Hon. Robert Ridge-
Iv, of ^Maryland, whose will was attested in
1680; of Hon. John Dorsey, 1714; and of
]\raior General John Hammond, who died in
1713. (See "Griffith Genealogy," published
by M. K. Boyle & Son, in 1892.)
Dr. Jackson is a son of Christopher D.
Jackson, Jr,, and Anna (Crow) Jackson, both
natives of Kentuck-y. His father was a suc-
cessful farmer and influential citizen of
Daviess County, Kentucky, and was a Demo-
crat in politics, and both he and his wife held
membership in the Baptist Church. Dr.
eJackson gained his preliminary education in
the common schools of his native state, after
which he continued his studies in the literary
department of the historic old University of
Virginia, at Charlottesville. For one year
thereafter, from 1898 to 1899. he was a stu-
dent in the medical department of the Uni-
versity of Cincinnati, after which he was
matriculated in Rush IMedical College, repre-
senting the medical department of the Univer-
sit.v of Chicago, in which he was a student for
three years and in which he was graduated in
June, 1902. with the well earned degree of
Doctor of Medicine. After his graduation he
became house surgeon of Michael Reese hospi-
tal, one of the leading institutions of the kind
in Chicago, and he held this position until
1904. in the meanwhile gaining most valuable
clinical experience. In 1904-5 he further for-
tified himself for the work of his exacting
profession b.v taking effective post-graduate
studies in the medical department of Berlin
University and other leading medical institu-
tions in Germany. Upon his return to the
Ignited States he took up his residence in In-
dianapolis, where gratifying siiceess and pres-
HISTORY OF GREATKR INDIANAPOLIS.
t\ge have been his in the active work of his
chosen profession.
In politics Dr. Jackson gives his allegiance
to the Democratic party, and he and his wife
hold membership in the First Presbyterian
Church of Indianapolis. He is affiliated with
Oriental Lodge No. 500, Free and Accepted
I\Iasons, with the Nu Sigma Nu medical col-
lege fraternity, and is identified with the In-
diana chapter of the Sons of the American
Revolution. On the .30th of November, 1905,
was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Jackson
to iliss Lena Bentley, of Sj^racuse, New York,
in which city she was born and reared, being
a daughter of F. F. and Jeanette Bentley.
Her father is deputy sheriff of his county and
he still maintains the family home in Syra-
cuse. Dr. and Mrs. Jackson have two chil-
dren, Jeanette Alice, who was born on the
8th of April, 1007, and Mildred Glover, born
November 28, 1909. They enjoy marked
popularity in the social life of the capital
city and their home is a center of gracious
but unpretentious hospitality.
Judge Robert W. McBride, who is engaged
in the active practice of his profession in
Indianapolis, is recognized as one of the rep-
resentative legists and jurists of the state,
and his achievement affords the best voucher
for his ability and his devotion to the work
of his .chosen field of endeavor. He served
for six yeai-s on the bench of the thirty-fifth
judicial circuit of the state and for somewhat
more than two years was a justice of the
supreme court of Indiana. He is now en-
gaged in practice alone, and his associate and
individual clientage is of large and impor-
tant order. He is also counsel for the loan
department of the State Life Insurance Com-
pany, of Indianapolis, in which city he has
maintained his residence since 1893.
Judge McBride claims the fine old Buckeye
commonwealth as the place of his nativity,
having been born in Richland County, Ohio,
on the 25th of January, 1842, and being a
son of Augustus and Martha A. (Barnes)
McBride, the former of whom was bom in
Washington County. Pennsylvania, and the
latter in Richland County, Ohio, in which
latter state their marriage was solemnized.
The paternal grandfather of Judge McBride
was born in Scotland and was a scion of
stanch old stock in the land of hills and
heather. The family was founded in America
shortly after the close of the War of the
Revolution, and the original settlement was
made in Washington County, Pennsylvania.
Augustus McBride was an infant at the time
of his parents' removal from the old Ke.y-
stone state to Ohio, where he was reared to
maturity and where he* received such educa-
tional advantaged as were afforded in the
somewhat primitive schools of the pioneer
epoch. He learned the trade of carpenter,
to which he devoted his attention until the
inception of the war with Mexico, when he
tendered his services to his country, enlisting
in an Ohio volunteer command and proceed-
ing with Hie same to the scene of hostilities.
While thus in service as a soldier he died,
in the City of Mexico, in February, 1848,
when only twenty-nine years of age. He was
a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
as was also his wife, who survived him by
many years. They became the parents of
three sons and one daughter, and of the
three now living Judge McBride is the eldest ;
I\Iary J. is the widow of Robert S. McFar-
land and resides at Lawrence, Kansas; and
James N. is and has been for many years a
justice of the, peace at Waterloo, Indiana.
Mrs. McBride eventually contracted a second
marriage, by which she became the wife of
James Sirpless. She died on her homestead
farm, five miles distant from the city of
Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio, in 1896,
and the place of her death being but a half
mile distant from that of her birth. She
was seventy-two years of age at the time of
her demise and was one of the revered pio-
neer women of Richland County. She sur-"
vived her second husband also, and of their
four children three are living, namely : Albert
B., who resides at Lawrence, Kansas; Will-
iam A., who is a representative farmer near
Shiloh, Richland County, Ohio; and Nellie,
who is the widow of John W. Beeler and a
resident of Lawrence, Kansas. Mrs. Martha
A. ("Barnes") McBride Sirpless was a daugh-
ter of Wesley and Mary (Smith) Barnes, the
former of whom was born in Virginia, in
1794, of stanch English lineage. Mr. Barnes
was one of the sterling pioneers of Richland
County, Ohio, where he took up his residence
in 1816 and where he reclaimed a farm from
the wilderness. He there continued to main-
tain his home for many years, but finally re-
moved to Iowa, settling near Kirksville, where
he died in 1862, at the age of sixty-eight
years, having been likewise one of the pio-
neers of that state. His remains rest in the
cemetery at Kirksville. as do also those of
his cherished and devoted wife, whose father
was a patriot soldier in the W^ar of the Revo-
lution.
Judge Robert W. McBride was but six
years of age at the time of his father's death
and he continued to reside in his native
count.v until he had attained the age of thir-
teen years, when he accompanied an uncle
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HISTOEY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
on his removal to the State of Iowa, where he
was reared to manhood, in Mahaska County,
where he availed himself of the advantages
of the common schools and laid the founda-
tion for the broad and liberal education
which he has since secured through self-disci-
pline, careful study and reading and active
association with men and affairs. For three
years he was a successful and popular teacher
in the di.strict schools of Mahaska County,
Iowa, and then, at the age of twenty years, he
returned to Ohio, where he forthwith ten-
dered his services in defense of the Union,
whose integrity was then in jeopardy through
the rebellion of the south. He enlisted in the
Seventh Ohio Independent Squadron of
Cavalry, in November, 1863, and he eventu-
ally became a non-connnissioned officer in this
command, which eventually became the body-
guard of President Lincoln, serving as the
mounted escort of the martyr president until
his a.ssassination. Judge McBride received
liis honorable discharge in September, 1865,
and his continued interest in his old com-
rades in arms is significantly shown by his
membership in George H. Thomas Post No.
17, Grand Army of the Republic, in Indian-
apolis. He is a past post commander.
After the war Judge McBride resumed the
work of the pedagogic profession, teaching
in the public schools of Ohio and Indiana
and also prosecuting the study of law under
effective preceptorship. In April, 1867, ho
was admitted to the bar, at Auburn, DeKalb
County, Indiana, where he initiated the
active practice of his profession, in which he
became associated with Judge James I. Best,
under the firm name of Best & McBride. It
may be noted that Judge Best is now one of
the leading members of the bar of Minne-
apolis, Minnesota, and that he was a member
of the supreme court commission of Indiana
during the entire period of its existence. The
partnership alliance of the two young and
ambitious attorneys continued for one year,
after which Judge IMcBride conducted an in-
dividual professional business for som* time.
He finally entered into partnership with Jo-
seph L. Morlan, and this association con-
tinued until the death of the latter, in 1879.
Thereafter Judge ^IcBride again conducted
an individual practice until 1882, when he
was elected to the bench of the thirty-fifth
judicial circuit, comprising the counties of
DeKalb, Noble and Steuben. He presided
over this tribunal with distinctive ability and
gained the unqualified approval of the bar
of his district, as well as that of the general
public. He brouglit to bear exact and com-
prchcnsivi' knowledire of the iiiinutia^ of the
science of jurisprudence, showed his familiar-
ity with precedents, and through his wise
decisions signally conserved ju.stice and
equity. He has a distinctively judicial cast
of mind, is not to be diverted from the main
points at issue and thus his rulings on the
bench, marked by fairness and impartiality,
seldom met with reversal by the higher courts
He continued on the circuit bench for a
period of six years, and in 1890 he removed
from Waterloo to Elkhart. In December of
the same ye.ar he was appointed an associate
judge of the supreme court of the state, to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge
Joseph S. Mitchell. He made an admirable
record of service on the supreme bench, from
which he retired in January, 1893, at the
expiration of the term for which he had been
appointed. He then resumed the practice of
his profession, and in April of the same year
he formed a partnership with Caleb S.
Denny, with whom he continued to be a.s.so-
eiated in practice in Indianapolis until the
1st of February, 1904. In the meanwhile
William M. Aydelotte was admitted to the
firm in 1900, and after his withdrawal ilr.
Denny's son, George L., was admitted to
partnership, under the firm name of ^Ic-
Bride, Denny & Denny, which continued until
February, 1904, since which time Judge ilc-
Bride has been alone and has been counsel
for the loan department of the State Life In-
surance Company. Judge McBride is known
as a resourceful and versatile trial lawyer and
as a counselor his ability has drawn to him
a very large and important clientage, so that
he has gained no little precedence as a cor-
poration lawyer. He has served as counsel
of the loan department of the State Life In-
surance Company since 1904 and this position
demands no small part of his time and atten-
tion.
In politics Judge IMcBride accords an un-
wavering allegiance to the cause of the Re-
publican party, and both he and his wife are
zealous members of the Central Avenue Meth-
odist Episcopal Church. In the ^lasonic
fraternity the affiliations of Judge McBride
are here briefly noted: Pentalpha Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons; Keystone Chap-
ter, Royal Arch Masons; Raper Command-
ery. Knights Templar; Consistory of the
Valley of Indianapolis, Ancient Accepted
Scottish Rite, in which- he has attained to
the thirty-second degree ; and Murat Temple.
Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the
]\rystic Shrine. He is past eminent com-
mander of Apollo Commandery No. 19.
Knights Templar, of Kendallville, Indiana.
He is identified with Indianapolis Lodge No
IIISTOllY OF GREATER INlDTANAPOLIS.
791
■465, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at
Indianapolis, and has represented the same
as a member of the grand lodge of the state.
He is also affiliated with Star Lodge No. 7,
Knights of Pythias, of Indianapolis, and has
likewise been a member of the Indiana grand
lodge of this popular fraternal order. He is
a member of Columbia, Univereity, ]\Iarion
County and Century clubs. Judge McBride
was a member of the Indiana National Guard
from 1879 to 1893, having been made captain
of his company at the time of its organiza-
tion and the same having finally become
Company A of the Third Regiment. He was
the first to hold the rank of lieutenant colonel
of this regiment and was afterward its
colonel, an office which he resigned in Janu-
ary, 1891, after his elevation to the bench of
the supreme court.
On the 27th of September, 1868, was sol-
emnized the marriage of Judge McBride to
Miss Ida S. Chamberlain, who was born and
reared in Indiana and who is a daughter of
Dr. James N. and Catherine (Brink) Cham-
berlain, who passed the closing years of their
lives in DeKalb County, this state. Dr.
Chamberlain was a graduate of the Western
Reserve College of Physicians and Surgeons,
in the city of Cleveland, Ohio, and became
one of the inost distingruished representatives
of his profession in the State of Indiana. In
conclusion is entered brief record concerning
the four children of Judge and Mrs. McBride.
Daisy I. became the wife of Frederick C.
Starr, and the two children of this union are
Kathryn M. and Robert McBride Starr. She
is now the wife of Kent A. Cooper, of In-
dianapolis, by whom she has a daug:hter,
Jane. Charles H. McBride, who is employed
in Springfield. Illinois, married Miss Minnie
Cohu, who died a few months later. Herbert
W. McBride, who now resides at the parental
liome and is employed by the Du Pont Pow-
der Co., was identified with mining enter-
prises in British Columbia for a period of
about two years. Martha Catherine is the
wife of James P. Hester, of Indianapolis,
and they have two children, George McBride
and James Perry, Jr.
James M.\rtindai,e McIntosh is widely
known in Indianapolis and throughout the
State of Indiana as a successful laAvyer, bank-
er and an influential representative of the Re-
publican party. He was born at Connersville,
Indiana, November 14. 1858, and is. a son of
the eminent James C. Mcintosh, an attorney
whose fame spread throughout southeastern
Indiana, a man of the highest standing in the
councils of the Methodist Church and a trus-
tee of Asburv Universitv (now DePauw). He
was twice a delegate to the general conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
At Asbury University James M. Mcintosh
received his education, and he began life as
a clerk in the Citizens' Bank at Connersville.
In 1882 he entered upon the practice of the
law in that city, and was very successful in
his chosen work there for ten years or until
he was chosen the cashier of the First Na-
tional Bank of Connersville in 1892, resuming
again the practice of the law in 1895. Dur-
ing his residence in Connersville he was also
a stockholder in various manufacturing con-
cerns. Mr. Mcintosh early in life began to
take an active interest in the success of the
Republican party, and served as chairman of
the Fayette County Central Committee for
twelve or thirteen years, while in 1886 he
was elected the mayor of the City of Con-
nersville, and at the close of that term in
1890 was made clerk of the Fayette Circuit
Court. Following his termination in that
office in 1894 he was elected in the same year
joint representative in the legislature, where
he made a splendid record, and during his
one term in that body made himself one of
the most influential young Republicans of In-
diana. He was an efficient member of the
ways and means committee that placed the
finances of the state upon a sound business
basis and reduced the commonwealth's expen-
ditures to less than its income. To Mr. Mc-
intosh also beloVigs the honor of pushing
through the legislature the bill placing the
educational institutions of Indiana upon an
independent basis and providing for them an
ample income without the necessity of lobby-
ing in every legislature. In 1899 he was ap-
pointed national bank examiner for Indiana
and later was assigned work as special exam-
iner for the department of justice. He re-
signed this position in 1907 to accept the
presidency of the Union National Bank which
position he is now filling. He has won many
friends in his professional and public life,
and is a member of the jMasonie fraternity,
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
Knights of Pythias and the Delta Kappa
Epsilon, and of various clubs in the city.
He married Miss Anna L. Pepper at Con-
nersville in 1890, and they have four children,
Mary E., Jessie C, Dorothy J. and James P.
Theodore C. Steele. There is a distinc-
tive correlation in all fonns of art expres-
sion, including painting, sculpture, music and
poesy, and each claims its own devotees and
appreciative as well as creative talent. The
"Greater Indianapolis" has no reason to
deny claim to precedence as' an art center,
for painting, music and literature here re-
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
ceive clue recognition, anil among the- siiccess-
ful and able representatives of the first ele-
ment in this list is found Theodore C. Steele,
whose talent as a landscape and portrait
artist rests secure in the many evidences given
thereof in the products of his brush. In his
chosen field he well merits consideration as
one of the leading artists of the country and
as one who has thus conferred a meed of
honor upon his native state.
Theodore C. Steele was born in Owen
County, Indiana, on the 11th of September,
1847, and is a son of Samuel H. and Harriet
X. (Evans) Steele, both of whom were like-
wise born and reared in Indiana, where the
respective families were founded in the early
pioneer epoch. The paternal grandfather,
James Steele, was of Scotch-Irish lineage and
was a native of Kentucky, whei»e he devoted
his attention to the great basic industry of
agriculture until his removal to Indiana,
where he became a pioneer, even as had his
father in Kentucky, whither the latter re-
moved from Virginia, with whose annals the
name became identified in the early colonial
era of our national history. James Steele
married Anna Johnson, and they became the
parents of eleven children. Samuel H. Steele
was born in Owen Count.y. Indiana, where he
was reared to manhood and received such ad-
vantages as were afforded in the pioneer
schools. There he followed the trade of
saddler for a number of years and later he
engaged in the general merchandise business.
In 1852 he removed to Montgomery County
and established a general store at Waveland,
where he died in 1862, at the age of thirty-
seven years. He was a member of the Meth-
odist Episcopal Church and his wife held
membership in the Presbyterian Church. She
long survived him, passing the closing years
of her life in the City of Portland, Oregon,
where she died in 1908, at the venerable age
of eighty-seven years. Of the five children
Theodore C. was the first born ; Charles A. is
a resident of "Wichita, Kansas; William J.
resides in Jefferson, Oregon : Samuel N. main-
tains his home at Portland, Oregon ; and Alice
II. resides in Nevada.
Jesse Evans, father of Mrs. Harriet N.
(Evans) Steele, came to Indiana from Ten-
nessee and was one of the first settlers of
Owen County, this state. He w^as a soldier
in the Blaekhawk Indian War and was a
citizen of sterling worth of character, having
no little influence in public affairs in the
pioneer community, where he reared his
family of seven children. The Evans family
is of Welsh origin and was early founded in
North Carolina.
A lecent article relative to the career of
the well known Indianapolis artist contained
the following pertinent statements, and the
same are worthy of reproduction: "In trac-
ing the life history of .Mr. Steele we find no
indication of the source of the arti.stic t-alents
which have made his name known all through
his native .state. Good, worthy farming peo-
ple, his ancestors possessed the courage and
enterprise of pioneers, living useful, exem-
plary lives and dying respected by all who
knew them, but not showing that unmistak-
able talent that differentiates the art lover
from the simple tiller of the soil." It may-
well be said that artists, like poets, are born,
not made. Mr. Steele was reared in the vil-
lage of Waveland, ^Montgomery Count3%
where his educational advantages were those
afforded in the village school. His talent
was inborn and found due expression when
he was but a child, his success in painting
portraits without instructions having been re-
garded as one of the wonders of his little
home town. He pursued his art study and
work with unremitting love and zeal and in
later years was able to secure the advantage
of foreign studies, having passed the interval
between 1880 and 1885 under the instruction
of the best mastei-s of the Royal Academy in
the City of Munich. Since his return to his
native land his interests have centered in In-
dianapolis, where he has been unflagging in
his efforts to foster the cause of art and to
build up an art institute creditable to the
city and state, especially in the exploitation
of the work of Indiana artists. For a number
of 3'ears after his return from abroad ^Mr.
Steele devoted much of his time to teaching
art in Indianapolis, but for the past several
years he has noly found it expedient to carry,
forward this work, as he has been able to
accomplish more in other directions. He is a
member of the board of directors of the In-
dianapolis Art Association, whose principal
and definite object is to secure the founding
of a great and representative art institution
of permanent order in the fair capital city of
the state. He has an individual place in the
art history of his native state and, indeed,
of his native country, though, with character-
istic modesty, he would personally lay claim
to no such pretension. He is a valued and
appreciative member of the Society of West-
ern Artists, of which he was president from
1898 until 1900 and in whose affairs he main-
tains a most insistent interest. Mr. Steele's
city studio is located in the Security Trust
building and in picturesque Brown County,
Indiana, he now has a most attractive summer
home and well equipped studio. In the
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
idyllic, pastoral scenery of that section of the
state, whose hills and valleys have as yet
been traversed by no i-ailroad and whose
people are, in a sense, sequestered in an
idyllic way from the "madding crowd's
ignoble strife", he finds ample lure for his
brush, having produced some of his choicest
canvases from the restful scenes there de-
picted. No one with less artistic apprecia-
tion could thus transform the practical and
prosaic into such charming conceptions as
are his paintings of Brown County scenery.
He now devotes the greater portion of the
summer season to landscape work in south-
ern Indiana, whose attractions never fail in
appeal to his artistic sensibilities. Of his
technique and definite skill as an artist it is
not necessary to speak in this article, for his
work and his reputation sufficiently denote
his powers.
Mr. Steele has painted five portraits of the
late Gen. Benjamin Harrison, former presi-
dent of the United States and distinguished
and honored citizen of Indianapolis, which he
himself described as "no mean city". One
of these portraits of General Harrison was
painted prior to his death and two of the
number were painted for John Wanamaker,
of Philadelphia, a great friend and admirer
of General Harrison. Mr. Wanamaker pre-
sented one of his two portraits to the Union
League Club of Philadelphia and the other
he has in his own home. Mr. Steele has ex-
ecuted a portrait of Hon. Charles W. Fair-
banks, former vice-president of the United
States, for the Columbia Club of Indianapo-
lis, and the University Club claims one of the
portraits of General Harrison. He also
painted a portrait of Senator Albert J. Bev-
eridge for the Columbia Club of Indianapolis.
Among his other noteworthy portraits may be
mentioned those of several of the former
presidents and of other members of the
faculty of the University of Indiana, and
those of five former governors of Indiana,
which are in the state library. Governors
Porter, Gray, Hovey, Chase and Matthews
have thus been subjects of Mr. Steele's faith-
ful and versatile brush, and his li.st of por-
traits also includes those of many other dis-
tinguished men of the state and nation.
Mr. Steele served as a member of the jury
that selected the work of American artists for
exhibition at the Paris Exposition in 1900,
said jury having made its selections in New
York City. In 1902 he served on the jury
to which was assigned the selection of paint-
ings and other art works for the Carnegie In-
stitute, in the City of Pittsburg, and he was
a member of the jury of award in the art
aepartnient at the Louisiana Purchase Expo-
sition, in St. Louis, in 19U3. lie has found
pleasure in securing a collection of the works
of other artists, both in Europe and America.
In politics Mr. Steele is an independent
Republican and while he has never entei'cd
the arena of practical politics nor public life
he takes a deep interest in all that concerns
the welfare of his home city, state and coun-
try, and is essentially a loyal and progressive
citizen. He is identified with various civic
organizations of local order.
On the 14th of February, 1869, Mr. Steele
was united in marriage to Jliss Mary Eliza-
beth Lakin, daughter of Simmons and ^lary
(Matson) Lakin, of Rushville, this state. Of
the five children of this union one died in
infancy and another, Charles, died in early
childhood. Rembrandt T. is a designer by
profession and resides in Indianapolis; he
married Miss Helen JIcKay and they have
one son, Horace McKay Steele; Margaret
married G. A. Neubacher, of Indianapolis,
and has two children, Lewis and Robert, and
Shirley L., who resides in Indianapolis, mar-
ried Miss Myra Daggett, who has borne him
one daughter, Margaret. Mrs. Steele, the de-
voted wife and mother, was sununoned to the
life eternal in 1900, having been a devoted
member of Plymotith Congregational Church.
On the 9th of August, 1908, Mr. Steele was
united in marriage to Miss Selma Neubacher,
who was born and reared in Indianapolis and
who is a daughter of Lewis Neubacher.
E. Oscar Lindenmuth, M. D. Dr. Linden-
muth stands as one of the representative
physicians and surgeons of the capital city,
where he has been engaged in the practici!
of his profes.sion since 1906 and where he is
professor of dermatology, electro-therapeu-
tics and X-ray in the Indiana University
►School of Medicine. In the special field
designated in the lines covered by his pro-
fessorship in the medical stihool he is a recog-
nized authority and he is a valued and popu-
lar member of the faculty of this admirable
institution.
Dr. E. Oscar Lindenitiuth is of stanch Ger-
man lineage and is a native of the old Key-
stone state of the Union, having been born
at Ringtown, Schuylkill County, Pennsyl-
vania, on the 17th of March, 1872, and being
a son of William D. and Hannah (Frye) Lin-
denmuth, who now reside in Ringtown, Penn-
sylvania, where the father is living virtually
retired, after having devoted the major part
of his active career to agricultural pursuits.
Dr. Lindenmuth gained his early education
in the public schools of his native town and
in 1890 he entered Bloomsburg Literary In-
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
stituti' and State Xoniial School, at iBlooms-
hurtr, Pennsylvania, in which institution he
was frraduated as a member of the class of
1892. In the same year he was matriculated
in Pott.s College, at Williamsport, Pennsyl-
vania, in which he was graduated in the fol-
lowing year, after which he devoted one year
to the study of law. From Potts Collesie he
received the degree of ]\I. E. After leaving
collejre he was engaged in teaching in the
public schools for six terms, after which he
devoted five yeare to mercantile business,
within which period he also prosecuted a care-
ful study of medicine, under effective pre-
coptoi-ship. In 1902 he entered the I\Iedico-
Chirurgieal College at Philadelphia, Penn-
sylvania, in which institution he completed
the prescribed course and was graduated in
1906, with the degree of Doctor ^f Medicine.
While attending the medical college he uti-
lized his summers and other vacation periods
in taking special courses in X-ray and elec-
tro-therapeutics, diseases of the eye, and
physical and clinical diagnosis. In 1906 he
completed a special course m dermatology in
the medical department of the Univei-sity of
Pennsylvania. In 1905-C, while attending
medical college, the doctor served as assistant
radiographer to the Medico-Chirurgical Hos-
pital in Philadelphia, and in 1905 he wa.s
also radiographer to the Howard Hospital, of
the same city.
In August, 1906, Dr. Lindenmuth estab-
lished his residence in Indianapolis and
opened an office at 320 North Meridian
street, where he has since maintained his pro-
fessional headquartei-s. He has built up a
substantial and representative practice, and
the same has ample basis on his unquestioned
ability in both the theoretical and practical
phases of his profession. Soon after locating
in Indianapolis Dr. Lindenmuth was made
incumbent of the chair of dermatology, elec-
tro-therapeutics and X-ray in the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, which was then in
affiliation with the University of Indiana, at
Bloomington. In 1908 the school became the
organic and definite medical department of
the state university, under the present title
of the Indiana University School of Medicine,
and upon this readjustment of management.
Dr. Lindenmuth was elected to the chair of
which hi' had previously been incumbent and
in which he had siven most effective service.
On the 1st of Jainiary. 1908, he was elected
superintendent of the well ecjuippod hospital
maintained in connection with the medical
school, and to the duties of this important
position he now gives much of his time and
attention, proving an able administrative offi-
cer as well as being thoroughly well fortihetl
in a professional way. The doctor is a mem-
ber of the American ^ledical Association, the
American Roentgen Ray Society, the Indiana
State .Medical Society, and the Indianapolis
^Medical Society. In polities he gives his
allegiance to the Republican party and also
holds membership in the Clarion Club. Dr.
Lindenmuth is one of those able physicians
and surgeons who are well upholding the
high prestige of the profession in the capital
city of Indiana and he is thus specially en-
titled to recognition in this publication.
Emsley W. Johnson. A representative of
old and honored pioneer families of the State
of Indiana and, in the maternal line, of one
whose name has been identified with the an-
nals of ]Marion County from a very early
period in its history, Emsley W. Johnson is
a native of this county and here he has gained
no little precedence as one of the able and
successful younger members of its bar, being
engaged in the practice of his profession in
the capital city, as senior member of the firm
of Johnson & Mohring.
Emsley Wright Johnson, named in honor
of his maternal grandfather, a distinguished
figure in the history of Marion County, was
born in the village of Old Augusta, Marion
County. Indiana, on the 8th of May, 1878,
and is a son of Joseph ]\I. and ^lary
(AVright) Johnson, both natives of Marion
County, where the former was born on the 1st
of April, 1843, and the lattei' on the 23rd of
November, 1848. Joseph M. Johnson is a son
of William K. Johnson, who was of stanch
English lineage and a member of a family
that was foTinded in Virginia in the colonial
era of our national history. From the Old
Dominion state representatives of the familj-
removed to Ohio, where Joseph ^I. was born
and reared, and from Butler County, that
state, he came to Indiana in 1825, becoming
one of the early settlers of ]\Iariou County,
where he reclaimed and developed a farm and
became one of the influential citizens of his
section. He remained on his old homestead
until near his death, and in succeeding gen-
erations the prestige of the name has been
ably upheld in this county. Joseph M. John-
son is now numbered among the representa-
tive farmers and honored citizens of Wash-
ington Township, this county, within whose
borders his entire life has been passed. He
is a man of strong individuality and sterling
integrity and has ever maintained a secure
hold upon popular confidence and esteem in
the community where he has lived and la-
bored to troodly ends. Tie served foui- years
in the T'nion cause of the Civil War ns ;i
HISTOEY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
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member of Company F, Fifth Indiaua Cav-
alry, and was taken prisoner at ^lacon,
Georgia, being confined in Andersouville
Prison for nine months. He is a Republican
in politics. Of his three children Emsley "\V.,
of this review, is the second child; the eldest,
Cora, is unmarried and lives with her parents,
and Dr. AVilliam F., the youngest, is a suc-
cessful physician and surgeon engaged in the
practice of his profession in Indianapolis.
Emsley "Wright, the maternal grandfather
of him whose name initiates this article, was
born in AA'ayue County, Indiana, in 1820,
and was but six weeks old at the time his
parents I'emoved thence to ^Marion County.
He was a son of Joel Wright and the latter
was a son of Philbert Wright, a native of
Scotland. Joel Wright was a cousin of Gover-
nor Joseph A. Wright. Emsley Wright mar-
ried Lucy Strong, a descendant of Ira Strong,
who came from Holland to America and set-
tled in the present County of Addison. Ver-
mont, later moving to Indiana. Joel Wright,
father of Emsley Wright, was numbered
among the first settlers of Marion County, In-
diana, where he took up his abode at a time
when this section was practicallj' an unbroken
fore.st, and near what is now known as Merid-
ian Heights. He secured a tract of govern-
ment land and reclaimed a good farm before
his death. The majority of his descendants
have been identified with the great basic in-
dustry of agriculture, and his son Emsley was
no exception to the rule. Emsley Wright not
only became a successful farmer and business
man, but was also one of the early and spe-
cially able lawyers of Marion County. He
continued to reside on his farm in Washing-
ton Township but his professional services
were in requisition in all parts of the county,
and he was identified with many important
litigations in the eai'ly days, besides being a
valued counsellor of broad and exact knowl-
edge of the law. He died at an advanced age,
and of his children two are now living.
Emsley W. Johnson passed his boyhood
days on the old homestead farm and early
began to a.ssist in its work. After complet-
ing the limited curriculum of the district
school in the home district he continued his
studies in the New Augusta high school, in
which he was graduated as a member of the
class of 1893. ' In 1896 he was matriculated
in Butler College, located in Irvington, a
suburb of Indianapolis, and in this institution
he was graduated in 1900, with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts. For effective work in But-
ler College while a student there he received
a scholarship in the ITniversity of Chicago,
in which celebrated institution he was gradu-
ated in 1901, with the supplemental degree
of Bachelor of Philosophy. After leaving
this university he was nuitriculated in the
Indiana Law School, in Indianapolis, in
which he was graduated a.s a member of the
class of 1903, and from which he received the
degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was ad-
mitted to the bar of his native state and
county in the month of his graduation and
during the initial year of his practical work
in his profession he was with the well known
law firm of Elliott, Elliott & Littleton, of
Indianapolis, of which firm Judge B.yron K.
Elliott was the head. In September, 190-t,
]Mr. Johnson entered into partnership with
Orval E. ilejiring, a graduate of the Indiana
Law School, and they have since been able
and valued, coadjutors in the practice of
their profession, in which their success has
been of unequivocal order and in which their
business is constantly increasing in scope and
importance. The firm title of Johnson &
Mehring has been maintained, from the time
the alliance was formed.
In politics Mr. Johnson is well fortified in
his opinions and he is aligned as a stanch
advocate of the principles and policies for
which the Republican party stands sponsor.
He is affiliated with Broad Ripple Lodge No.
643. Free and Accepted Masons, and Indian-
apolis Chapter No. 2, Royal Arch Masons,
besides which he is identified with the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows and the Im-
proved Order of Red Men, in which last he
is past sachem. He also holds membership in
the Marion Club and the Commercial Club,
two of the representative civic organizations
of the capital city.
On the 8th of August, 1906, Mr. Johnson
was united in marriage to Miss Katherine
Griffin, who was born and reared in Green-
field, Indiana, a daughter of Dr. L. B. Griffin,
a representative citizen of that place.
August B. ]\Ieyer. One of the designated
functions of this publication touching the his-
tory of "Greater Indianapolis" is to accord
recognition to those who stand representative
in their various fields of business activity, and
from this consistent viewpoint there is pro-
prietj' in noting the salient points in the
career of August B. Meyer, who is president
of the corporation of A. B. Meyer & Com-
pany, dealers in coal and builders' supplies
and known as one of the successful and in-
fluential business men of his native city,
where he is held in unqualified popular con-
fidence and esteem.
August B. Meyer was born in Indianapolis,
on the 24th of December, 1853, and is a son of
George F. and Catherine (Aug) Meyer, both
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
of whom were boru iu Germany. Their mar-
riage was solemnized in Cincinnati, Ohio,
from which city they removed to Indianapolis
in 1850. In Cincinnati George F. Meyer had
learned the cigarmaker's trade and business,
and upon coming to Indianapolis he here
established the first specific cigar and tobacco
store in the city. He continued to be actively
identified with this line of business until his
death, which occurred in 1872, at which time
he was only forty-three years of age. He be-
came a citizen of prominence and influence in
business and civic life and the high regard in
which he was held in the community is shown
in the fact that he served two terms as treas-
urer of Marion County, giving a most able
and satisfactory administration. He was a
worthy representative of the class of sterling
German citizens who have contributed ma-
terially to the industrial, commercial and
civic upbuilding of Indiana's fair capital city.
He was prominently identified with the Ma-
sonic fraternity and also the Knights of
Pythias, having been one of the first Scottish
Rite Masons in the city. He was a man of
the highest integrity in all the relations of
life and well merited the high regard in which
he was held. His wife survived him by more
than thirty years, having been summoned to
the life eternal in 1903, at the age of seventy-
three years. They became the parents of
eight children, of whom five are living, all
being residents of Indianapolis, namely:
Charles F., August B., George F., Edward
H., and Adolph J.
August B. Meyer is indebted to the public
schools of Indianapolis for his early educa-
tional training, and he also attended school
for a time in Cincinnati. As a youth he
found employment in his father's store, with
whose conducting he was identified until it
was closed, shortly after the death of his
honored father. He then became associated
with his brother in the operation of a cigar
and tobacco store in the building now utilized
by the concern of which he is president, the
same being located on 17 and 19 North Penn-
sylvania street. In 1877 Mr. Meyer initiated
his identification with his present line of en-
terprise, by purchasing a small coal yard and
beginning operations on a limited capftal and
essentially small scale. At the initiation of
his efforts he made his deliveries with but one
horse and a coal cart. Energy, perseverance
and good management brought results, and
the eventual outgrowth of this modest enter-
prise is represented in the large and substan-
tial business conducted by A. B. Meyer &
Company, who now have' the largest coal
vards and control the largest business of the
kind, both wholesale and retail, in the city.
It is needless to say that the highest in-
tegritj' and honor figure as the real basis of
the fine enteriDrise now controlled by the con-
cern whose upbuilding is mainly the result of
the efforts of Mr. Meyer. The present title
has been utilized since 1879, and under the
same there has been a consecutive growth and
expansion during the long period of more
than thirty years. The business is now in-
corporated as a stock concern, Mr. Meyer
having the controlling interest. The handling
of building material has been an adjunct of
the enterprise since 1892, and this depart-
ment is now one of importance, with ample
equipment and facilities.
In 1903 Mr. Meyer became interested in
the mining of coal, being associated in the
organization of the United Fourth Vein Coal
Company, whose mines are located near Lin-
ton, Greene County, Indiana, and whose gen-
eral offices are in Indianapolis. He is still a
stockholder and director of this corporation,
whose property is valuable and productive.
Mr. Meyer is secretary and treasurer of the
A. & C. Stone & Lime Company, with gen-
eral offices in Indianapolis and plants at
Greencastle, Ridgeland and Portland, this
state. In 1886 he was elected president of
the Western Coal Dealers' Association, rep-
resenting a membership in eleven states, and
he was also one of the organizfers of the Michi-
gan & Indiana Retail Coal Association, of
which he is now a director, and also vice-
president. He is also a member of the direc-
torate of the National Builders' Supply Asso-
ciation. He is essentially liberal, loyal and
progressive as a citizen, and this is typified
by his membership in the Indianapolis Board
of Trade, of whose board of governors he was
a member in the '80s. He also holds member-
ship in the Commercial Club, the Marion
Club and the Columbia Club, representative
civic organizations 6f his home city. He is
affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, in
which he has attained the thirty-second de-
gree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite,
and is also identified with Murat Temple, An-
cient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mys-
tic Shrine, as well as with Marion Lodge No.
1, Knights of Pythias.
In 1892 was solemnized the marriage of
Mr. Meyer to Miss Minnie B. linger, of Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania, and she was sum-
moned to the life eternal in March, 1905,
being survived by one child, Sara Catherine.
Dr. John M. Kitchen has for many years
been prominently associated with the medical
profession in Indianapolis. He was born at
Piqua in Miami County, Ohio, July 12, 1826,
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HISTOEY 0¥ GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
797
and resolving early in his life to make tlio
practice of medicine his life's work and after
suitable instructions in the office of a local
practitioner of good standing, he attended
lectures at the Jefferson Medical College of
Philadelphia and at the University Medical
College of New York City, graduating from
the latter institution in ^March of 1846. Dr.
Kitchen entered upon the work at Fori
Wayne, Indiana, but remained there only un-
til 1849, when he started upon the then long
journey to California as second physician on
an emigrant ship. Arriving in that state
after a seven months' voyage around Cape
Horn he began practicing in San Francisco,
and continued there until Alarch of ' 1850,
when he went on foot to the mining regions
near the head waters of the Yuba River and
established a small hospital for the miners
there, performing the manifold duties of
cock, nurse and physician. The experience
that he gained there proved valuable to him
in his after life. He had great difficulty in
procuring medical supplies, and it was fre-
quently necessary for him to rely almost en-
tirely on nature to furnish him his remedies,
and the often unexpected favorable results
which followed were splendid lessons for him
in his later practice.
Choosing Indianapolis for a permanent lo-
cation in 1851, he has for more than forty
years endeavored conscientiously to perform
the duties required of a general practitioner
of medicine and surgery, and has occasion-
ally contributed brief articles for medical
journals. He is a member of the Marion
County Medical Society, of the Indiana
State Medical Society of the American Medic-
al Association, and he has at different times
held public office, including president of the
board of trustees of the city hospital, trustee
of the Indiana Institution for the Deaf and
Dumb, physician to the state institution for
the blind, consulting physician to the city
hospital, consulting physician to the state
institution for the deaf, from 1861 to 1865
surgeon in charge of the United States Gen-
era] Army Hospital at Indianapolis, president
of the Board of United States Examining
Phj'T^icians for Pensions from 1886 to 1893,
and has for many years been medical exam-
iner for many of the leading life insurance
companies of this country. Having acquired
a competency by his professional skill, indus-
try and good business management. Dr.
Kitchen has retired from general practice and
during late years has confined himself to
office and consultation practice, and the en-
joyment of the recreation and repose which
his long and faithfuL de-«otiou to his profes-
sion so justly entitles him.
Dr. Kitchen married in Indianapolis in
1853 JIary F. Bradley, a daughter of John H.
dradley, of this city, and they have one son,
Joiin B., a broker in Chicago.
!^DWARD L. McKee. A member of one of
ihe ftonored pioneer families of Indiana and
one Miose lineage, both direct and collateral,
is ofsdistinguished order, Edward Lodge ^tc-
Kee has well maintained the prestige of the
name which he bears, through his leal and
loyal services as a citizen and as a man of
large and important business activities. He
is one of the representative factors in the
financial and business circles of the capital
city of his native state, where he is president
of the Merchants' Heat & Light Company, an
important public-utility corporation, and
where he is a principal and official in a num-
ber of other corporations of representative
order. Not only has he large capitalistic in-
terests, but he is also a man whose integrity
and resourcefulness have been potent influ-
ences in connection with the upbuilding of
"Greater Indianapolis", where his interests
are centered and where he holds an impreg-
nable position in • popular confidence and
esteem.
Edward Lodgf McKee was born in Madi-
son. Jefferson County, Indiana, on the 13th
of March, 1856. and is a son of Robert S. and
Celine Elizabeth (Lodge) McKee. To sturdy
Scotch-Irish stock is the lineage of the Mc-
Kee family traced, and in the maternal line
the subject of this review is a scion of promi-
nent pioneer families of Kentucky and In-
diana. The McKees were Scotch Covenanters
and were among those of this faith who were
driven from Scotland to the north of Ireland
to escape religious persecution in their native
land. In Ireland the direct line of descent
is traced back to Sir Patrick McKee, who be-
came seized of a fine landed estate of two
thousand acres in the province of Ulster,
where he owned a castle, besides a bawn in
County Down. From this same section of
Ireland have immigrated to America many
families whose names have been prominent in
connection with the annals of our republic —
the Grants, McClellans, Camerons, Stuarts.
Polks, Todds and many others who aided in
laying broad and deep the foundations of our
national prosperity.
James McKee, grandfather of Edward L.,
was born in Ireland on the 23rd of May, 1793.
and there his wife, whose maiden name was
Agnes McMullan, was born on the 14th of
November in the same year. Their marriage
was solemnized on the 6th of December, 1813
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
Mrs. ]\IeKee died in Ireland, October 5, 1837.
and is buried at Slane, and her husband
passed away in Wheeling, West Virginia, in
August, 1863, at the venerable age of seventy
3'ears. The names of their children, with re-
spective dates of birth, are here noted :
James M., November 4, 1817; AVilliam H.,
August 10, ISlfi; Robert S., January 8, 1823;
Eliza Ann, April 29. 1824: Margaret, Sep-
tember 18, 1825 ; and Sophie, August 3, 182S.
William H., the second son, came to America
and settled in Philadelphia, and he became a
successful and influential business man. He
passed the closing years of his life in the
AVest, where he died on the 24th of Novem-
ber, 1867.
Robert S. McKee was born in TuUycavy,
Downpatriek, Coxint.v Down, Ireland, and the
date of his nativity has already been noted.
Concerning his career the following pertinent
data are given in a previously published
sketch, and so appreciative is the estimate
that it is found expedient to make but slight
metaphrase in having recourse to the same.
"His educational advantages, compared
with modern facilities, were meager. But
uncompromising circumstances did not seem
to hamper him. The spirit which dominated
his life was early made manifest. When only
thirteen years of age he pluckily left the land
of his birth to join his brother William, who
had settled in Philadelphia. Crossing the
ocean alone, the boy duly found his brother.
Within a short time after his arrival he ob-
tained employment as clerk for a company en-
gaged in transporting goods over the moun-
tains between Baltimore and Wheeling. In
this connection he gained an experience that
gave him eonfidenoe to start in business for
himself while still a young man. In 1847 he
floated down the Ohio River on a flat boat
and located at ^ladison, Indiana, where, in
partnership with Josiah S. Weyer, he engaged
in the wholesale grocery business, under the
name of Weyer & ^McKee. The business was
.subsequently conducted by R. S. IMcKee &
Company, and the house became well known
all over the country, and before the Civil
War its business attained to such proportions
that its trade amounted to a million dollars
annually. As his capital increased he became
interested in other lines of enterprise, being
prominently associated with the National
Branch Bank at Madison and with the Madi-
son Fire & Marine Insurance Company. In
1865, removing to Louisville, Kentucky, he
there founded the wholesale grocery house
of McKee, Cunningham & Company, which
gained control of a large patronage through-
out the entire south. To meet the demands
placed upon the institution Mr. McKee
erected a large building for its use and ex-
tended its operations in various ways. He
became prominent in ^ other connections in
Louisville, being a member of the first board
of directors of the Citizens' National Bank
and otherwise active in the promotion of
various enterprises that tended to advance
the material and civic prosperity of the citj'.
"In 1872 :Mr. JIcKee removed to Indian-
apolis, where he met with a degree of success
that completely overshadowed his earlier
achievements. Organizing the wholesale boot
and shoe house of ^IcKee & Branham, which
later became incorporated under the name of
the IMcKee Shoe Company, Jlr. McKee was
made the president and continued to serve
as such until his death. It was largely a re-
sult of his intelligent and efi'ective manage-
ment that the concern met with the success
which made it one of the notable commercial
enterprises of the capital city. Under his
guidance the company became foremost
among the leading shoe houses of the country
and held an important relation to the trade
at large.
"Though he started in life with no mate-
rial advantages, ilr. ]\IcKee demonstrated the
fact that ability and strength of will are su-
perior weapons with which to~ fight the battle
of life. His mental faculties were clear, his
mind active and receptive, and his intelli-
gence keen and broad. He became noted for
his intellectual acquirements and remarkable
fund of information. His qualities as ,a
leader were unquestioned, and he became one
of the foremost figures in commercial and
financial circles in Indianapolis, where the
last thirty years of his life were spent. He
was a director of the Indiana National Bank,
was the first secretary of the Belt Railroad &
Stock Yards Company, and during his later
years he owned a large amount of valuable
realty in the city. All his investments were
marked by a judgment and foresight that
testified to his exceptional business acumen.
Of a most positive character, he had a force
of personality that well befitted his Scotch-
Irish blood. He was noted for his integrity
and for the honorable methods that character-
ized all his dealings, and perhaps his most
notable trait was his abhorrence of debt.
Consistent in his adherence to the faith of
his forefathers. ]\Ir. ^IcKee was long recog-
nized as a leader in the First Presbyterian
Church, in which he served many years as an
elder. His death, which occurred at his home
in this city, on the ]Oth of June. 1903, re-
moved from Indianapolis one who had done
much to promote its best interests and to
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
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brinof it to a position among the leading busi-
ness Renters of the United States. His high
civic ideals and public spirit made him ready
to lend his active co-operation to whatever
promised to serve the public interests or
benefit his fellow men in any way. His re-
mains were interred in Crown Hill cemetery,
with simple funeral services, conducted by the
pastor of the First Presbyteri.nn Church, and
his sons acted as pall bearers."
In a thoroughly unostentatious way 'Sir.
McKee gave much to worthy charitable and
benevolent objects and institutions, as well
as to individual persons deserving of his aid
and sympathy. His nature was strong and
true, and. knowing men at their real value,
he had no toleration of deceit or meanness in
any of the relations of life. He did not come
so largely into the attention of the public eyo
as did .many of his contemporaries who ac-
complished less and who did less for the
world, but he felt the responsibilities which
success imposes and ever endeavored to live
up to these responsibilities, in the straight-
forward undemonstrative way characteristic
of the man. His name merits an enduring
place on the roster of the honored and valued
citizens and pioneers of the State of Indiana.
Though manifesting naught of ambition for
political preferment, he was a stanch and in-
telligent advocate of the principles of the Re-
publican party, and ever kept in close touch
with the questions and issues of the hour, the
while never neglecting any civic duty. Mr.
McKee was a man whose spirit was never
soiled by unfaithfulness or unkindness. His
was not a vacillating character and he ever
had the courage of his convictions, but he was
tolerant in his judgment of his fellow men,
devoted to those allied to him by consan-
guinity, and in a most quiet way showed his
charitable spirit in effective lines. A noble
and gracious personality indicated the man,
and his life was one worthy of the honored
name which he bore.
Robert S. McKee was twice married. In
1850 was solemnized his union with Miss
Celine Elizabeth Lodge, who was born in the
State of Indiana, and who died in 1861. In
1866 he married Miss Mary Louise Lodge, a
sister of his first wife, and of his six children
four were born of the first and two of the
second marriage. Concerning them the fol-
lowing brief data are given : William J.,
who served as brigadier general of Indiana
Volunteers in the Spanish-American War, is
a representative citizen of Indianapolis; Ed-
ward L., of this review, was the next in order
of birth : James Robert, who married Miss
Mary S. Harrison, daughter of the late Gen-
I'ral Benjamin Harrison of Indianapolis,
former president of the United States, is
now general manager of the General Electric
Company, of New York City ; Frank Latham
is engaged in business in the national metrop-
olis ; Richard Boone was a successful business
man of Indianapolis and died in 1907; and
Celine Lodge is the wife of Charles W. Mer-
I'ill, one of the interested principals in the
Bobbs-Merrill Company, the well known pub-
lishers of Indianapolis. ^Mrs. IMcKee was
born at Madison and was a daughter of Will-
iam Johnston Lodge and Mary Grant
(Lemon) Lodge. In the agnatic line she was
a descendant of Christopher Clark, and in
the maternal line she was connected with the
Boone, Grant and JMorgan families. From
the sketch to which recourse has previously
been taken, the following genealogical ex-
tracts are made:
"William Johnston Lodge was named for
his mother's family, her maiden name having
been Johnston. She was a direct descendant
of Christopher Clark, who came to this coun-
try in 162.5, receiving a grant of land from
the king. He settled in what is now Hanover
County, Virginia. His daughter, Agnes
Clark, married Lord Robert Johnston, a
younger son of the Earl of Shaftsbury. In
two generations Jhere were only two sons.
They dropped the 't' and were known by the
name of Johnson.
"Captain William Grant, great-great-
grandfather of Edward L. McKee, was born
February 22, 1726, and married Elizabeth
Boone, born February 5, 173.3, daughter of
Squire and Sarah (ilorgan) Boone and a sis-
ter of the historic character, Daniel Boone.
Mr. and I\Irs. Grant died June 22, 1804, and
February 2.5, 1814, respectively. Their chil-
dren were as follows : Mary, born September
22, 1752, married Moses Mitchell ; John, born
January 30, 1754, died November 11, 1825,
having been a colonel of militia ; he married
Molly Mosby; Israel, born December 14, 1756,
married Susanna Bryan, and his death oc-
curred in October, 1796 ; Sarah, born January
25, 1759, married John Sanders, and her
death occurred ^March 28, 1814 ; William, born
January 10, 1761, married Sarah Mosby, and
he died February 20, 1814: Samuel, born No-
vember 23, 1762. married Lydia Craig, and
he was killed by Indians, August 13, 1789;
Squire Boone, born September 19, 1764, mar-
ried Susanna Hand, and his death occurred
June 10, 1833; Elizabeth, born August 28,
1766, married John !\Iosby, and died January
18, 1804; Moses, born October 3, 1768, was
killed bv Indians, August 13, .1789; Hannah,
bnrn :\rarch 30, 1771, died March 30, 1777;
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
and Rebecca Boone, born June 4. 1774, mar-
ried John Lemon, and died December 7, 1858.
"The father of this family. Captain Will-
iam Grant, was a man of eood education for
Ihe time in which he flourished, had substan-
tial standinor as an extensive land owner, and
was a stanch patriot during: the Revolution,
being a trusted member of the committee of
safetj' in North Carolina. He also gave
active service in that struggle. Later, in
company with his intrepid brother-in-law,
Daniel Boone, he was among those who de-
fended the frontier, and he was one of the
few who escaped with Boone at the battle of
the Blue Lick in Kentucky, Majors Hugh
McGary and Levi Todd being also among the
survivors of that encounter. 'The Story of
Bryan's Station,' Kentucky', sets forth that
it was founded by those North Carolinians,
William, ^Morgan. Ja7nes and Joseph Bryan,
of whom the first named was the leading
spirit. With them was William Grant, whose
wife, like the wife of William Bryan, was a
sister of Daniel Boone. All the Bryans were
elderly but stalwart woodmen at the time of
their settlement in Kentuekj'. and each was
bles.sed with a large family of children. As
the children were all erown, they felt 'pre-
pared for straggling Indians at least, as with
dogs and flint-lock rifles, pack horses and
cows, they set out from the valley of the Yad-
kin.' At" the battle of the Elkhorn, William
Grant was wounded, and his brother-in-law.
William Bryan, was killed. In the record of
William Grant's family previously given it
will be noted that two of his sons. Samuel
and Moses, were killed by the Indians. They
had come over to Indiana from Kentucky,
with Colonel Johnson, on an expedition to
punish thieving Indians, and with others were
ambushed, a number being killed, among
them one of the Grants. The other brother
went back to look for him. in company with
a relative who volunteered to a.ssi.st him. and
they, too, were slain. Grant Countv, Indiana.
is named in their honor. William Grant liverl
to a good old age. and to the close of his life
was respected as a superior character— a
typical gentleman of the old .school, dignified,
honorable and worthy of the regard in which
he was held. He left p<-opertv. including
slaves, and many of his descendants still re-
side in. Indiana and Kentuckv."
Edward Lodce McKee tn whom this re-
view is dedicated, trained his rudimentary
education in the public schools of his native
town of Madi.son. Indiana, and was nine years
of aee at the time of the family removal to
Louisville, Kentucia-. in ISfi.i In that city
he continued his educational discipline in the
public schools.- and later he returned to Madi-
son, where he attended the high school for a
time. He initiated his business career as a
youth of sixteen years, by securing employ-
ment in a wholesale shoe house in Indianapo-
lis, and with this important line of enter-
prise he has continued to be identified during
the long intervening years, marked by large
and worthy success, gained through his well
directed endeavors. It may truthfully be
said that, beginning as a clerk, he has been
employed in every capacity in connection with
the wholesale .shoe trade except that of travel-
ing salesman, and he has long been a recog-
nized authority in connection with this line of
commercial enterprise. After having gained
thorough experience in the details of the busi-
ness, in 1879, when but twenty-three years of
age, he became associated with his brother
James R. and Aquilla Jones in the founding
of the wholesale shoe house of Jones, McKee
& Company, of Indianapolis. The enterprise
was continiied under this title, and with con-
stantly expanding trade, until 1896, when the
McKee Shoe Company was orsranized and in-
corporated for the continuing of the business
with larger internal and commercial facilities.
Of this company Edward L. McKee has been
vice-president from the beginning, and to his
progressive ideas, energj', application and
marked administrative talent has been in
large measure due the upbuilding of the
splendid institution which contributes in large
degree to the commercial prestige and stabil-
ity of the capital city.
Mr. ilcKee's facility in the handling of af-
fairs of broad scope and importance has
marked him for interposition in other repre-
sentative enterprises in his home city. In
1896 he was elected vice-president of the In-
diana National Bank, an ineumbencj'' which
he retained until 1904. when he resigned the
office, though he still continued a member of
the directorate of this strong and conservative
financial institution. He is also a member of
the board of directors of the Union Trust
Company, vice-president of the extensive re-
tail dry goods house of H. P. Wasson & Com-
pany, and president of the Atlanta Tin Plate
& Sheet Iron Company. He was one of the
organizers and incorporators of the Mer-
chants' Heat & Light Company, of which he
has been president since 1904. and to the de-
veloping of whose fine service he has given
his personal attention.
Aggressive and broad-minded, Mr. McKee
has wielded a potent influence in commercial
and financial atTairs in the Hoosier metrop-
olis, and none is more appreciative of the at-
traction.« and advantages of Indianapolis or
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
801
whose faith in its still further growth and ad-
vancement is of more insistent type. He is
identified with various civic and fraternal or-
ganizations of a representative character, is
a stanch advocate of the principles of the Re-
publican party, though never an aspirant for
public office, and he holds to the religious
faith in which he was reared, being a member
of the First Presbj'terian Church. His wife
holds membership in the ileridian Street
Methodist Episcopal Church.
The following tribute from Volney T. Ma-
lott, one of the most honored and influential
citizens and leading capitalists of Indian-
apolis, is well worthy of perpetuation in this
connection, as he has been associated in an
intimate way both with the late Robert S.
McKee as well as with Edward L. McKee.
"Robert S. McKee was one of our best
citizens, a man of sterling worth, possessed
of the highest honor, a merchant of the old
school, thoroughly and carefully trained, ex-
act with himself and others in all business
transactions. He took a large interest in
civil affairs. He was liberal in his contribu-
tions to his church and various charitable in-
stitutions. As a bank director in Madison,
Indiana, Loui.sville, Kentucky, and Indian-
apolis, covering a period of more than fifty
years, he was always prompt and regular in
attendance and was a valuable member of the
board, his business training and large experi-
ence rendering him conservatively progres.sive
and, together with his closely analytical mind,
making him a valuable counsellor on any
board. His son, Edward L. McKee, president
of the ^lerchants' Light & Heat Company,
was carefully trained by the father and, in-
heriting many of the latter 's qualities, is a
man of quick grasp and fertile resources. He
has a pleasing personality that has won for
him hosts of friends."
Edv.ard L. IMcKee shows in his gracious
personality and his unmistakable popularity
that he is "to the manor born", having been
reared in a thoroughly patrician home and
having touched the best of social life from
his vouth to the present.
On the 21st of February, 1900, Mr. McKee
was united in marriage to Miss Grace Wasson,
daughter of Hiram P. Wasson, one of the
representative business men of Indianapolis
and of whom specific mention is made on
other pages of this volume. Mr. and Mrs.
^IcKee have two children, Edward L., Jr.,
and Hiram AVasson.
Henry C. SciiROF.nER, the present incum-
bent of the responsible office of township
trustee of Center Township, Clarion County,
in which the capital city is located, came to
America from Germany as a youth without
financial resources or influential friends, and
his career since that time has been marked by
earnest application, through which he has
gained a position of independence, the while
he has so ordered his course as to retain at
all times the confidence and regard of his
fellow men. He has maintained his home in
Indianapolis during the major portion of the
time since coming to the United States, and
here has been identified with various business
interests, including long and faithful service
in connection with railroad affairs.
Mr. Schroeder was born in Hanover, Ger-
many, on the 3rd of August, 1862, and is a
son of Kaspejr and Anne (Bruenger) Schroe-
der, both of whom passed their entire lives in
Germany, where the father followed the voca-
tion of farmer. But nine years of age at the
time of his mother's death, Henry C. Schroe-
der thereafter became largely dependent upon
his own resources, though he received the ad-
vantages of the excellent schools of his father-
land, under the compulsory education laws.
After leaving school he served a thorough
apprenticeship at the shoemaker's trade, de-
voting four years to such preliminary disci-
pline, through which he became a skilled
artisan in the line. Thereafter he worked as
a journej'man at his trade in his native land
until he was nineteen years of age, when he
severed the ties which bound him to home and
fatherland and set forth to seek his fortune
in America. He landed in New York with a
cash capital of but one dollar but with the
fortification of courage, ambition and self-
reliance, so that he has not failed in his serv-
ices as one of the world's noble army of
workers. Later Mr. Schroeder took up his
residence in Indianapolis, where he secured
work at his trade, but within a short interval
he began work in a furniture factory. Later
he was employed in the old Eagle machine
works, and upon leaving this position he
initiated his career in connection with rail-
road interests, by securing a position as car
repairer in the shops of the Pittsburg, Cincin-
nati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, from
which position he was advanced to that of
brakeman on the Panhandle Railroad. After
his marriage he was employed as car inspector
of passenger cars at the union station in In-
dianapolis, retaining this incumbency for a
period of ten years, at the expiration of which
he- resigned. While thus employed he was
associated with John Groff in the organiza-
tion of the Order of Railway Car Men.
After his retirement from railroad work
]\Ir. Schroeder engaged in the retail shoe
business, in which he continued about three
fllSTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
years, and after disposing of this business
he was a member of the city police force for
eight j'ears, during the last three of which
he held the office of sergeant. Upon his resig-
nation from the police department he engaged
in the retail coal business, in which he con-
tinued for four and one-half years, disposing
of this business when he was elected trustee
of Center Township, in November, 1908. To
the duties of this office he has since given the
major portion of his time and attention and
ho has proved an efficient public official and
one whose course has been marked by fidelity
and by careful consideration of the best in
terests of the county and its people. In poli-
tics he is a stanch advocate of the cause of
the Democratic party, in whose ranks he has
been an etfective worker. Mr. Schroeder is
affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, in
which he holds membership in Logan Lodge
No. 575, Free and Accepted Masons, and In-
dianapolis Chapter No. 5, Roj'al Arch Masons.
He also holds membership in the Ancient Or-
der of Druids and the Improved Order of
Red Men.
In 18S3 Mr. Schroeder was united in mar-
riage to Miss Mary Tebbe, daughter of Henry
Tebbe, of Indianapolis, and they have two
children, namely: Harry and Myrtle Schroe-
der.
A],BERT E. Sterne, M. D. Occupying a
distinguished position among those who are
ably upholding the high prestige of the medic-
al profession in the State of Indiana and its
capital city. Dr. Sterne is giving special at-
tention to the treatment of mental and nerv-
ous diseases, in which he is a recognized au-
thority and in which his reputation far tran-
scends local limitations. He has been an ex-
tensive and valued contributor to the best
periodicals and standard literature of his
profession, has prosecuted a large amount of
original research and investigation, has ren-
dered effective service as a member of the
faculty of the Indiana University School of
Medicine in Indianapolis, and his success in
active practice has been on a parity with h;s
admirable professional ability. He owns and
conducts the "Norways" Sanatorium, one of
the fine institutions of the capital city, and
the same .is devoted to the treatment of nerv-
ous and mental diseases, both medical and
surgical.
Dr. Albert Eugene Sterne was born in the
city of Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 28th of April,
1866, and is a son of Charles F. and Eugenia
(Fries) Sterne, the former of whom was a
native of Wurtemberg, Oerniany. and the
latter of Furth, Bavaria. His father was a
scion of sterling German ancestry, and Dr.
Sterne's maternal grandfather was a man of
high intellectual attainments, having been a
professor of physiology in German universi-
ties and having also attained the high dis-
tinction of membership in the Legion of
Honor. Both he and his son were knighted
by the King of Spain for certain discoveries
in chemistry. Charles F. Sterne came to In-
diana about the year of 1842, and became one
of the prominent and influential business
men of the Hoosier state. He established his
home in the City of Peru and contributed in
generous measure to its industrial and civic
advancement. He was the founder and
owner of the mills in that city, known as the
Peru Woolen Mills, and was associated with
various other lines of business entei-prise, all
of which proved of benefit to the town. He
there established the gas plant, installing an
excellent system, and his public spirit found
manifestation in many other lines of normal
enterprise. He was at one time an Indian
trader. In his woolen mills there were manu-
factured at one time all the blankets used by
the Pullman Car Company. He also had
capitalistic interests in other parts of the
state and was known as a man of great ad-
ministrative and initiative ability and as a
citizen of the highest character. He passed
the closing years of his life in Peru, Indiana,
where he died in 1880, on the 28th of August,
when fifty-two years of age and when his sou
Albert was a lad of thirteen. His devoted
wife, a woman of most gracious personalitj-,
was sununoned to the life eternal in 1881, six
months after the death of her husband.
Dr. Sterne gained his rudimentary educa-
tion in the public schools of Peru, Cincinnati
and Indianapolis, and at the age of eleven
years he became a .student in Professor Kin-
ney's celebrated Cornell School at Ithaca,
New York, where he remained for one year,
after which he continued his educational
work for four years in Mount Pleasant I\Iili-
tarj' Academy at Sing Sing, New York. lu
the autumn of 1883, at the age of seventeen
years the doctor was matriculated in the
literary department of Harvard University,
in which historic old institution he completed
the classical course and was graduated as a
member of the class of 1887, with the degree
of Bachelor of Arts, cum laude.
In the meanwhile Dr. Sterne had outlined
definite plans for his future career and had
determined to prepare himself for the med-
ical profession. In the prosecution of his
purpose he was afforded the best of advan-
tages. He was graduated in Harvai'd in
June, 1887, and in the following fall he went
to Europe for the purpose of taking up the
HISTOEY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
study of medicine in the fine continental uni-
versities. He remained abroad for a period
of sis years, within which he devoted his at-
tention to the study of medicine in leading
institutions at Strassburw, Heidelbertr, Berlin,
Vienna and Paris, as well as in Dublin, Edin-
bursrh and London. In 1891 he was gradu-
ated from the medical department of the Uni-
versity of Berlin, from which he secured his
dee:ree of Doctor of Medicine, magna cum
laude. While abroad he had the best of clin-
ical experience in hospitals of the highest
reputation, having been an assistant in a
number of such institutions in various cities
—notably the Charity Hospital in Berlin, the
Salpetriere in Paris, the Rotunda in Dublin
and the Queen's Square in London. He had
the distinction of being the promoter and
founder of the Society of American Physi-
cians in the City of Berlin, Germany, an or-
ganization that has continued to be one of
essentially representative order.
Thus admirably fortified for the -work of
his chosen profession. Dr. Sterne returned to
America in 189-3 and soon afterward estab-
lished himself in practice in Indianapolis,
where he has since held distinctive prece-
dence and where his success has been of the
most unequivocal type, ba.sed alilf° upon his
fine professional ability and skill aid his per-
sonal popularity. He save his attention to
the general practice of medicine and surgery
for a number of years, in connection with
effective service in the leading local hospitals,
and in later years he has concentrated his
energies largely in the treatment of nervous
and mental diseases, and brain surgery.
Realizing the demand for a private institu-
tion for the treatment of this serious class
of disorders Dr. St«rne consulted -ways and
means and finally was able to establish his
present fine sanatorium, known as "Nor-
ways". He purchased the old Fletcher
homestead, opposite Woodruff Park, and
after extensive remodeling and the building
of requisite additions this now constitutes
one of the finest private sanatoriums in the
United States. Its equipment is of the high-
est modern standard throughout, its .sanitary
provisions of the most approved order and its
surroundings make it an especially ideal place
for the treatment of nervous and mental dis-
orders, to which specific purpose it is essen-
tially devoted. "Norways" Sanatorium has
gained a wide and noteAvorthy reputation
and its patronage has come from the mo<*t
diverse sections of the TTnion. while in a mere
local sense its superior advantages have
gained for it an essentially representative
support.
Vol. 11—11
Dr. Sterne is an appi'eeiative and valued
member of the Ajneriean ^ledical Association,
the Medico-Legal Society of New York, the
Mississippi Valley ]\ledical Society, the In-
diana State Jledical Society and the Indian-
apolis ^Medical Society, and he is a member
and now the president of the Ohio Valley
Medical Societ.y. His contributions to the
literature of his profession cover a wide realm
and have been largely devoted to the discus-
sion of original propositions and practical in-
formation relating to nervous and mental
diseases, than which the physician finds none
more difficult and perplexing in diagnosis and
treatment. In 1894 Dr. Sterne was appointed
to the chair of nervous and mental diseases
in the Central College of Physicians and Sur-
geons, and he has since continued the incum-
bent of this important professorship, in which
his services have been of the most admirable
and effective order, in the Indiana University
School of iFedieine. He is consulting neurolo-
gist to the City Hospital and Dispensary, now
a part of the Indiana University Medical
School, to the Deaconess Hospital, the Flower
Mission and other local institutions, and not-
withstanding the ex'actions of his private pro-
fessional affairs he gives loyal and faithful at-
tention to the duties of each of these posi-
tions. He was formerly an a.ssociate editor
of the Journal of Nervo^is and Mental Dis-
eases, published in New York City, and has
also withdrawn from the editorship of the
Medical Monitor. Governor Durbin appoint-
ed Dr. Sterne Assistant Surgeon General of
Indiana, with rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
Liberal and progressive as a citizen. Dr.
Sterne manifests a deep interest in all that
tends to material and civic welfare of his
home city, and here his friends are of a rep-
resentative character— in professional, busi-
ness and social circles. Though he has had
no desire to enter the arena of practical poli-
tics he gives an unqualified allegiance to the
Republican party and lends his aid and in-
fluence unreservedly in the promotion of its
cause. He is identified with the Columbia,
Commercial, University and Harvard Clubs
apd the German House. He is a man of
abiding human sympathy and tolerance, and
in his profession he has made this sympathy
more than mere sentiment — for it has repre-
sented an actuating motive for helpfulness.
He is well known in his home city and state,
and holds a commanding position in his pro-
fession.
On the 4th of March, 1905, was solemnized
the marriage of Dr. Sterne and Laura Mercy
Laughlin, a daughter of James A. and ^lary
(Carey) Laughlin, of Walnut Hills, Cincin-
804
HISTOEY OF GREATER IXDIAXAPOLIS.
nati. Oliio. She was called from this life on
the 25th of May, 1909, and is interred at
Crown Hill. Her death was lamentable and
her many friends still mourn her loss. Mrs.
Sterne was an accomplished musician and a
most beautiful woman, and was but thirty-
five years of age at the time of her death.
Ai.Mus G. Rt^ddell. Among the represen-
tative business men of the younger generation
ir his native city is numbered Mr. Ruddell,
who is president of the Central Rubber &
Supply Company, one of the successful in-
dustrial concerns of the capital city.
;\rr. Ruddell is not only a native son of
Indiana, but is also a scion of one of its
honored pioneer families. He was born in
Indianapolis on the 29th of July, 1873, and
is a son of James H. and Mary Hannah (Vin-
ton) Ruddell. James Henry Ruddell was
born at Allisonville, IMarion County, this
state, and was a son of Dr. Ambrose G. Rud-
dell, who was a native of Kentucky and who
became one of the prominent pioneer physi-
cians of Indiana, where he continued in the
practice of his profession until his death.
James H. Ruddell was reared and educated
in Indiana and attained no little distinction
as a member of its bar, having been engaged
in the successful practice of law in Indianapo-
lis at the time of his death, which occurred
when he was forty-four years of age, in 1884.
He served as a member of the lower house of
the Indiana legislature in 1869 and proved
an able conservator of the public interests as
well as of the cause of the Republican party,
in whose councils he wielded no little influ-
ence in his native state. He is survived by
two sons, of whom Almus G. is the elder:
Frank S., the younger son, is a salesman by
vocation and is now a resident of Indian-
apolis, having been graduated in Leland Stan-
ford University, in California, as a member
of the class of 1897. Soon after the death
of her husband IMrs. Ruddell removed with
her sons to California, where she maintained
her home for a number of years. She is now
the wife of Hon. Ambrose P. Stanton, of
Indianapolis, of whom specific mention is
made on other pages of this publication.
Almus G. Ruddell received his early educa-
tional training in the public schools of In-
dianapolis and was fourteen years of ae-e at
the time of his mother's removal to Califor-
nia, where in due course of time he was matri-
culated in Leland Stanford I^niversity. in
which famous institution he wa« graduated
as a member of the class of 189.'> and from
which he received the degree of Bacheloi- of
Arts. Two years later his brother was gradu-
ated in the same universitv. as alreadv noted.
Soon after his graduation Mr. Ruddell re-
turned to Indianapolis, in June, 1895, and for
the ensuing two years he held a position in
the wholesale drug establishment of Ward
Brothers. In 1899 he became associated with
the Central Rubber & Supply Company, in
which he is the principal stockholder and of
which he has been president since that year.
This concern conducts a wholesale business
in the handling of r\ibber goods and mill sup-
plies, and represents one of the substantial
biLsiness enterprises of "Greater Indianap-
olis". Mr. Ruddell is essentially alert and
progressive as a business man and takes a
loyal interest in all that tends to further the
ijidustrial and civic progress of his native
city, where he is well known and enjoys un-
equivocal popularity. He is a member of the
Commercial Club, is affiliated with Mystic
Tie Lodge No. 398, Free and Accepted Ma-
sons, and in politics he gives his allegiance
to the Republican party.
He was married, April 12, 1899, to Clemen-
tine Tucker, of Newark, New Jersey, and has
two sons. James Henry Ruddell, bom April
19, 1903, and Warren Tucker Ruddell, born
February 9, 1910.
Edwin B. Ptjgh. Natural predilection,
through preparation and zealous devotion
have eiven Mr. Push distinctive prestige as
one of the able members of the bar of In-
diana and in its capital city he controls a
large and representative practice. He served
for two years as prosecuting attorney of Clar-
ion County and in this office he made a most
admirable record, materially enhancing his
professional reputation.
Edwin Barton Pugh was born in the City
of Cincinnati. Ohio, on the 21st of March.
1867, and he finds no small measure of satis-
faction in reverting to the old Buckeye state
as the place of his nativity, though essentially
loyal to and appreciative of Indiana, in which
commonwealth he has lived since his child-
hood days. He is the third in order of birth
of the seven children born to James B. and
Celia M. (Lenien') Push, who still maintain
their home in Indianapolis, secure in the es-
teem of all who laiow them. Both were born
and reared in Ohio and are membei-s of hon-
ored pioneer families of that state. James
B. Pugh, -who was lone eneaged as traveling
salesman for wholesale hardware houses, and
who is now livinc virtually retired, removed
to Indianapolis when the subject of this
sketch was about five years of ace and hn<:
since retained his residence in this citv. He
is .T Republican in politics and he and his wife
bold membership in the ^Nferidian Street
^b'thodist Episcopal Church.
HISTOEY OF GREATER INDIA?fAPOLIS.
Edwin B.. Pugh is indebted to the public
schools of Indianapolis for his early educa-
tional training', which included the currieu-
iuiii of the high schooJ, in which he was grad-
uated as a member of the class of 1887. He
then entered DePauw Universitj', prosecut-
ing his studies in the academic department
and completing the prescribed course in the
law department, in which he was graduated
in ]March, 1890, with first honors of his class
and was accorded his well earned degree of
Bachelor of Laws. He was forth^^^th ad-
mitted to the bar of the state and opened an
office in the Indiana Trust building, in In-
dianapolis, which office he has continued to
occupy during the intervening years, which
have been marked by most successful accom-
plishment in his profession, which he has hon-
ored by his able services and to which his
devotion has been of the most unequivocal
type.
In politics jMr. Pugh gives an unswerving
allegiance to the Republican party, but he
has never held public ofiSee except that in di-
rect line with the work of his profession. In
1898 he was elected prosecuting attorney of
Marion County, and he gave a most alert and
forceful administration in conserving the
ends of justice in bringing malefactors to
their just deserts. He was specially active
in the ferreting out and prosecution of offi-
cials guilty of graft and malfeasance, and
had the distinction of securing the first con-
viction in the history of the county on the
charge of bribery by a public official. Among
others he successfully prosecuted a member
of the city council on the charge of soliciting
a bribe. This official was convicted and
served a term in the penitentiary. Mr. Pugh
has been the architect of his own fortune and
his advancement has been gained by the hon-
est application of his owii energies and pow-
ers, so that he is fully deserving of the proud
American title of self-made man. He is a
liberal and loyal citizen, taking definite in-
terest in all that tends to advance the welfare
of the cit3^ and state, and he is affiliated with
the Masonic fraternity, in which he has
gained the thirty-second degree of the Ancient
Accepted Scottish Rite, besides which he is
identified with the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. He and
his wife hold membership in the Meridian
Street Methodist Episcopal Church.
On the 21st of June, 1899, Mr. Pugh was
united in marriage to Miss Bonnie Beau-
champ, daughter of Judge Robert B. Beau-
champ, of Tipton, Indiana, a student of De-
Pauw University, and the one child of this
union is Caroline.
Cyrus N. Harold, -M. D. As one of the
able and honored representatives of the med-
ical profession in the capital city of his na-
tive state, where he has been engaged in ac-
tive practice for nearly fifteen years and
where he is president of the faculty of his
alma mater, the Physio-Medical -Colfege, Dr.
Harold is well entitled to consideration in
this publication touching Indianapolis and
its people.
Dr. Harold was born in the village of Car-
mel, Hamilton County, Indiana, on the 20fh
of January, 1855, and is a son of Nathan
and Elizabeth B. (Hawkins) Harold, the
former of whom was born in North Carolina,
in 1811, and the latter of whom was a native
of Richmond, Indiana, where she was born
in 1813. Both passed the closing years oE
their lives in Hamilton County, this state,
which long represented their home, and the
father died in 1884 and the mother in 1899.
Of their nine children eight are living, and
of the number the subject of this review is
the youngest. Nathan Harold came with his
parents to Indiana in the pioneer days and
he became one of the successful farmers and
honored citizens of Hamilton County,
whither he removed- from Wayne County. He
improved in the former county, a valuable
farm property gnd on this attractive old
homestead, the scene of their labors for many
years, they passed the gentle evening of their
lives, secure in the unqualified esteem of all
who k-new them. Both were birthright mem-
bers of the Society of Friends, and of this
noble and simple faith they were consistent
exemplars during the course of their entire
lives, marked by earnestness and by devotion
to the good, the true and the beautiful.
In politics the father was originally aligned
as a supporter of the cause of the Whig
party, but upon the organization of the Re-
publican party he transferred his allegiance
to the same and thereafter he continued a
loyal supporter of its cause. He was a stanch
abolitionist in the climacteric period leading
up to and culminating in the War of the Re-
bellion.
Dr. Harold was reared under the sturdy
discipline of the home farm, to whose work
he early began to contribute his quota, and
he duly availed himself of the advantages of
the district schools, after which he continued
his studies in the high school at Carmel, in
which he was graduated when nineteen years
of age. In preparing for the work of his
chosen and exacting profession he was
matriculated in the Physio-^Medical College
of Indiana, at Indianapolis, in which insti
tution he completed the prescribed course and
HISTOKY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
was graduated as a member of the class of
]879, with the well earned degree of Doctor
of Medicine. He served his initiate in the
practical work of his profession by locating
in the village of Eagletown, Hamilton Coun-
ty, this state, Mhere he was engaged in prac-
tice until 1881, when he removed to Rich-
nioud, this state, in which city he continued
in the successful work of his chosen calling
until September, 1895, when he came to In-
dianapolis, where he has since been engaged
in general practice and where he has gained
marked prestige as a physician and surgeon
of distinctive ability and where his clientage
is of representative order, based alike upon
his acknowledged skill and his personal pop-
ularity. For some time after taking up his
residence in the capital city the doctor was
demonstrator of atanomy in the Physio-Med-
ical College, later he became professor of
phvsiologv in the institution, and he now
holds the'chair of diseases of women in ad-
dition to which he IS honored ?v^th the ap
nreciative preferment nnplied in his bein
nJesident of the faculty of this well ordered
? 4 t,,t?,!n He is a prominent and valued
"etler of tS IndLnapolis Physio-Medical
^nn P V the First District Medical Society,
H,T Indiana State Phvsio-Medical Society,
nd tt Sonal Physio'-Medical Society. He
Sas made valuable contributions to the peri-
odical literature of his profession and keeps
n close touch with the aclvances mad^ ^ ^^^^^
denartments of its work. He and his^^ii/ arc
bo h r m-ent in the Society of Fn-ls^;;
which they are birthright members and th<,v
take an active part m the work of the local
(.hurch of this denomination. .
On the Uth of ^Tarch, 1878. was solemnized
the marriaoe of Dr. Harold to Miss Ella
?pJer who was born in Cadiz. Henry Coun-
'rHiSna. a daughter of Ezra and Hanna
R (Palmer) Spencer, the former ot whom
was born in Belmont County, Ohio, and the
anei in North Carolina. Mr. Spencer, who
s now living virtually retired, in the state of
Oklahoma, having attained to the venerab e
acre of fourscore years, was engaged in mei-
cantiie pursuits in Indiana for many years.
Later he was for a number of years a resi-
dent of Sumner County. Kansas, and he
irved t«o terms as treasurer of that county,
whence he eventually removed to Oklahomn^
He is a devout member of the Society of
Friends as was also his wife, who died when
Mrs. Harold, the elder of her two children,
was nine years of age. To Dr. and :^rrs. Har-
old were born two children, the elder of
whom. Charles 0., died in infancy; Lura B.
is now the wife of Cleo L. Hunt, and they
reside in Brownsburg, Indiana.
Charles ^Iayer. This weU known and
honored business man of Indianapolis is a
member of a family whose name has been
long and prominently identified with business
and civic interests in the capital city of In-
diana, and he is now one of the interested
principals in the finn of Charles I\layer &
Company, proprietors of the "Gift Store",
which is one of the leading department stores
of the city, and which controls a large and
substantial trade. The enterprise was
founded in 1840 by the father of him whose
name initiates this sketch, and the same has
been continued without interruption and with
ever increasing success. Charles Maj^er has
personally achieved a position as one of the
representative business men, and leal and
loyal citizens of his native city, where he has
a secure place in the confidence and esteem
of the community. In business he is asso-
ciated with his brother, Ferdinand L., of
whom specific mention is made on other
pages of this work, together with a brief re-
vie^v of the family history and a record con-
cerning the upbuilding of the fine business
enterprise with which the subject of this
article has been identified from his youth to
the present time. In this connection refer-
ence .should be made to the sketch of the
career of the elder brother, Ferdinand L.
Charles ]\Iayer was born in Indianapolis,
on the 6th of June, 1862, and is a son of
Charles and Matilda L. (Lempp) Mayer, of
whom further mention is made in the sketch
to which reference has just been made. Mr.
Mayer secured his early education in In-
dianapolis, under the effective direction of
?»Irs. Gretty Holliday and Mrs. E. J. Price.
Later he attended a school at Prangis,
Switzerland, on the shores of beautiful Lake
Geneva, and after his return to the United
States he continued his studies in Greylock
Institute, at South Williamstown, Massachu-
setts. After leaving school he became iden-
tified with the retail mercantile business
which his father had established many years
previously, and the present firm of Charles
flayer & Company, perpetuating the nam*^
of the honored father, occupies the same site,
on AVashington street, on which the father
began business in 1840. as one of the early
merchants and highly honored citizens of the
capital city, which was then a mere village.
The east sixteen feet of land occupied by the
present fine establishment of the firm was
purchased by Charles Mayer, Sr.. for a con-
sideration of only si.xteen hundred dollars,
and the property, in the very heart of the
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
807
city, is now worth thousands of dollars. After
the death of the father, in 1891, the sons
Ferdinand L. and Charles assumed control
and active management of the business, which
has since been continued by them with ever
increasing success. They have added ma-
terially to the prestige of the name which
they bear and obsei-ve the same integrity and
fairness that have characterized the conduct
of the business from the time of its inception,
nearly seventy years ago. It is needless to
say that the scope of the enterprise has been
changed with the demands of the passing
years and that to-day the establishment of the
company is one of essentially metropolitan
fadlities and appointments. Both of the
brothers were carefully trained in business
and both are notable for broad and practical
views and progressive ideas in connection
with business affairs and also in association
with the responsibilities and demands of citi-
zenship.
Charles Mayer is enterprising and loyal as
a citizen and has ever shown a deep interest
in all that concerns the advancement of his
native city, so that he has not failed to con-
tribute his quota to the development and up-
building of the "Greater Indianapolis", the
beautiful city of culture and refinement, the
alert and vital commercial and industrial
center. In politics he is a stanch advocate of
the cause of the Republican party, but he has
never been ambitious for public oflBce, pre-
ferring to devote his time and attention to
business affairs and to specific efforts alon^
other lines conserving the welfare of his home
city and state. He is a popular figure in the
social life of Indianapolis, where he is ac-
tively identified with representative fraternal
and civic organizations. In the Masonic
fraternity his affiliations are here noted:
Mystic Tie Lodge No. 398, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons; Keystone Chapter No. 6,
Royal Arch Masons ; Raper Commandery No.
1, Knights Templar; Indiana Sovereign Con-
sistory of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite,
in which he has attained the thirty-second
degree; and Murat Temple, Ancient Arabic
Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
Among the other noteworthy organizations
with which Mr. Mayer is identified may be
mentioned the Columbia and Commercial
Clubs, the German House, the Indianapolis
Maennerchor, the Highland Golf Club, the
University Club and the Country Club.
On the 28th of April, 1886, Mr. Mayer was
united in marriage to Miss Josephine Kiefer,
who was bom at Edenbure, Indiana, on the
13th of October. 1863, and who is the eldest
of the three children bom to Augustus and
Martha (Shipp) Kiefer. Her father was
born in Germany, in the year 1828, and in
1838, when but ten years of age, he came
with his parents to America, making the long
and weary voyage on a sailing vessel of the
type common to that period. For some time
the family home was at Miamisburg, Ohio,
and after attaining years of maturity Mr.
Kiefer took up his abode in Edenburg, In-
diana, where he continued to reside until
1863, when he removed to Indianapolis, where
he engaged in the wholesale drug business, un-
der "the firm name of Vinton & Kiefer. He has
continued to be identified with this line of
enterprise during the long intervening years
and is now one of the prominent and influen-
tial business men and most highly honored
citizens of Indianapolis, where he is head of
the wholesale drug house conducted under
title of the A. Kiefer Dmg Company. Indi-
vidual mention is made of Mr. Kiefer on
other pages of this work. Mr. and Mrs.
Mayer have three children, Charles, Jr., Au-
gustus Kiefer, and Edward L.
Fra-vk Erdei,meyer. The great Empire
of Germany has contributed a most valuable
element to the complex social fabric of our
American Republic and from this source we
have had much to gain and nothing to lose.
A distinguished representative of German-
American citizenship in Indianapolis is Col-
onel Frank Erdelmeyer, who has here main-
tained his home for more than half a cen-
tury, who has been prominently identified
with business interests of important order
and to whom it was given to render particu-
larly distinguished services as a soldier of his
adopted country in the War of the Rebellion.
No citizen, maintains or is deserving of a
higher measure of popular confidence and es-
teem and he is still actively identified with
mercantile interests as the owner of one of
the leading retail drug establishments of the
city, the same being located at 915 North
New Jersey Street.
Colonel Erdelmeyer was born at Herrn-
sheim. near the City of Worms, Germany, on
the 2nd of November, 1835, and is a son of
Phillip and Elizabeth (Tag") Erdelmeyer,
both of whom passed their entire lives in
Germany, where the father devoted the ma-
jor portion of his active career to keeping
a hotel. The colonel gained his early educa-
tion in the excellent schools of his father-
land and served a thorough apprenticeship at
the trade of upholsterer. When he had at-
tained to the age of seventeen years his fa-
ther gave him the privilege either of emi-
grating to America or remaining in his na-
tive land where it would be necessary under
HISTOEY OF GKEATEB INDIANAPOLIS.
the governmental laws for him to enter the
German army for a certain period of active
service, at the conclusion of which the au-
thorities would not permit his removal to
America. Under these conditions the ambi-
tious young man determined to seek his for-
tune in the new world and in 1852 he sev-
ered the gracious ties which bound him to
home and fatherland and set forth for Amer-
ica. After his arrival in the port of New
York, he soon found employment at his trade,
to which he continued to devote his attention
in the old Empire state about three years,
at the expiration of which he started for the
West, finally locating in the city of Cincin-
nati, where he remained one year. He came
to Indianapolis in 1858 and this city has rep-
resented his home during the long interven-
ing years. Soon after his arrival in the In-
diana capital he secured employment in the
establishment of John Ott, a well known
furniture manufacturer, by whom he contin-
ued to be employed at his trade until the in-
ception of the Civil War, when he showed his
distinctive loyalty to the cause of the Union
by tendering his services in its defense. He
was at the time a member of the Indianapolis
Turnverein and with many other of these
members he enlisted. April 21, 1861, as a pri-
vate in the Eleventh Indiana Volunteer In-
fantry, of which the late General Lew Wal-
lace became colonel. In this regiment Col-
onel Erdelmeyer was a member of Company
E and upon the formaF organization of the
company he was made a sergeant of the same,
retaining this office until the expiration of
the regiment's three month's term of enlist-
ment, when he received his honorable dis-
charge. He then returned to Indianapolis
and assisted in recruiting a German regiment,
a plan which had been successfully followed
prior to this in the city of Cincinnati. This
organization was made up entirely of Ger-
man citizens of Indianapolis and other towns
of the state and was mustered into United
States service as the Thirty-second Indiana
Volunteer Infantry. Colonel Erdelmeyer was
made captain of Company A and while re-
taining this position he participated with his
regiment in the battle at Rowlett's Station,
near Green River, Kentucky; the memorable
battle of Shiloh; and the siege of Corinth.
On the 20th of October, 1862, Captain Erdel-
meyer was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-
colonel and on the 8th of August of the fol-
lowing year he received full commission as
colonel. He had command of his regiment
from October 1, 1862, until is was mustered
out at the close of its three years' term of en-
li'^tment. He gained high reputation as a
gallant, faithful and able commanding offi-
cer, ever retaining the respect and confidence
of his men and showing generous considera-
tion in providing for their wants. His regi-
ment was prominently concerned in the bat-
tle of Stone's River and Liberty Gap, and
the battle of Chickamauga and Missionary
Ridge. His regiment marched to the relief
of the Union forces at Knoxville, Tennessee,
and afterward joined General Sherman in the
Atlanta campaign, in connection with which
Mr. Erdelmeyer took" part in the battles of
Dalton, Resaca, Dallas, Altoona Hills, New
Hope Church, Marietta and the siege of At-
lanta. In front of Atlanta the Thirty-sec-
ond Infantry under command of Colonel
Erdelmeyer was relieved of duty and was
sent home to be mustered out, as its term of
enlistment had expired on the 24th of Aug-
ust, J864. Its members returned to their
homes and the honored colonel of the regi-
ment received his honorable discliarge under
date of September 7, 1864. The record of its
command was admirable throughout and the
history of the war gives it a place among
the most valiant of the many stanch and
valiant regiments sent out from Indiana. It
was especially well ordered in the matter of
tactical skill and discipline and its colonel
achieved a reputation as one of the able com-
manding officers of the great war through
whose integrity the Union was perpetuated.
He has ever retained an inviolable interest in
his old comrades in arms and signifies the
same by his membership in G. H. Thomas
Post, No. 17, Grand Army of the Republic,
besides which he is a valued member of the
Indiana Commandery of the Military Order
of the Loyal Legion of the United States.
At the close of his long and gallant service
as a soldier of the Republic, Colonel Erdel-
meyer returned to Indianapolis and agaiil
turned himself to the gaining of those vic-
tories which peace ever has in store "no less
renowned than war". Here he engaged in
the drug business as a member of the firm
of A. Metzner & Company, in which he thus
became an interested principal in January,
1865, and in which his coadjutor was Cap-
tain Adolph Metzner. In 1868 Colonel Er-
delmeyer purchased his partner's interest in
the enterprise and thereafter he, conducted
the same in an individual way until 1873,
when he sold the business. For a short pe-
riod thereafter he gave his attention to deal-
ing in real estate and he then resumed his
association with the drug business by opening
a store at 915 North New Jersey street, at
which location he has been continuously en-
gaged in this line of enterprise during the
HISTOKY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
809
lonu' years that have siuce passed. He is
known as one of the reliable and substantial
business men of the capital city and as such
he commands the implicit confidence and es-
teem of all who know him, while to him is
accorded a full measure of respect and ad-
miration by those who are in the least fa-
miliar with his brilliant career as a soldier
and otifieer in the Civil War. He has shown
a lively interest in all that pertains to the
welfare of his home city and has viewed with
much of satisfaction the almost phenomenal
advancement of the city along commercial
and industrial lines.
While ever according a stanch allegiance to
the Republican party, Colonel Erdelmeyer
had not been especially active in the domain
of "practical polities" and the only public
office in which he has served is that of coun-
ty treasurer of Marion County, of which he
was incumbent for one term, having been
elected to this office in 1868. The records of
the county give unmistakable evidence that
his administration of the fiscal affairs of the
county was one of marked discrimination and
eft'ectiveness. The colonel is identified with
the ^Masonic fraternity, in which his affilia-
tion is with Centre Lodge, No. 23, Free and
Accepted Masons, and he is a member of the
German House, and the Indianapolis Turn-
verein.
In October, 1864, was solemnized the mar-
riage of Colonel Erdelmeyer to Miss Cathe-
rine Hofmann, who was born in Germany and
who was a daughter of Henry and Catherine
(Lang) Hofmann. She proved a devoted
companion and helpmate and the home life
was one of idyllic order. The great loss and
bereavement in the life of Colonel Erdelmeyer
was that which came with the death of his
wife, on the 7th of October, 1887. Of this
union were born one son and three daughters :
Prancisca, who is now the wife of Louis F.
Buschmann, a resident of this city; Cathe-
rine, who is the wife of E. H. Meyer, a resi-
dent of this city; Meta, who is the wife of
E. H. Dehm, of this city; and Frank Wil-
liam, who is engaged in the drug business at
1102 North Illinois street.
Sol S. Kiser is a prominent business man
and financier of Indianapolis, who is a mem-
ber of the banking firm of Mj'er and Kiser.
Born at Fort Recovery, Ohio, on the 23rd of
January. 1858, he is a son of Gottlieb and
Fannie (Steinfeld") Kiser, both of whom are
natives of Hesse-Cassel. The father was born
November 26, 1831, and the mother, January
13, 1833, their marriage, at Cincinnati, Ohio,
occurring August 26, 1854. The seven chil-
dren of this union were as follows : Caro-
line; Sol S., of this sketch; Frances, now the
wife of Eli Segar; Simon L., Harter; Rosa,
who married George A. Solomans, and Dr.
Edgar F. Kiser. The parents are both resi-
dents of Indianapolis, in which city Gottlieb
Kiser was long engaged in the grocery busi-
ness, from which he retired in 1905.
Mr. Kiser of this sketch received his edu-
cation in the public schools of Fort Recovery,
leaving Ohio in 1878, just before he had
reached his majority," and locating in Union
City, Indiana, where he engaged in clerical
work for about three years. The year 1881
marked his location at Indianapolis and he
clerked in a clothing store uiitil 1886, when
he established his mercantile business on
West Washington street. In 1894 he entered
the field of real estate and loaning in the
firm of Myer & Kiser, which in April, 1906,
was incorporated as the Myer-Kiser Bank
and of which he is vice-president. His prom-
inent and honorable standing in local busi-
ness circles is fairly indicated by the fact
that for the past nine years he has been a
director in the Indianapolis Commercial Club,
of which he was vice-president for two years.
Jlr. Kiser is among the foremost in the re-
ligious, benevolent and charitable work of his
people. Since 1895 he has been a most ac-
tive member o5 the Jewish order of B'nai
B'rith, having been president of the district
organization in 1897. He is local director
of the Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum ; di-
rector of the National Jewish Hospital for
Consumptives at Denver, Colorado, and chair-
man of the local branch of the removal com-
mittee of New York City.
On June 19, 1889, Mr. Kiser married Miss
Dina Salzenstein. His wife is a native of
Pleasant Plains, Illinois, and a daughter of
Jacob and Hannah (Hexter) Salzenstein,
both of whom were born in Hesse-Cassel, Ger-
many. Mr. and Mrs. Sol S. Kiser are the
parents of Julian J. and Ruth C.
Allen W. Conduitt. A thoroughlj- rep-
resentative business man and sterling citizen
of Indianapolis is Allen W. Conduitt. who is
a native son of the Hoosier state and a seiim
of one of its honored pioneer families. Like
his father before him, he has been promi-
nently identified with business affairs of
broad scope and importance and he has ever
stood exponent of progressive, liberal and
public-spirited citizenship.
Mr. Conduitt was born at Mooresville, Mor-
gan County, Indiana, on the 28th of August,
1849, and is a son of Alexander B. and Me-
lissa R. (^Hardwick) Conduit, both of whom
were born in Kentucky and both of whom
represented old Virginia families of English
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
origin. From Kentucky the Conduitts and
Hardwicks removed to Indiana in the pioneer
epoch of the history of this commonwealth,
with whose annals the names have long been
identified. Alexander B. Conduitt was a boy
at the time of the family removal from Ken-
tucky to Morgan County, Indiana, in whose
pioneer schools he gained excellent training in
the fundamental branches of scholarship. As
a youth he was employed as clerk in the gen-
eral store of Samuel Moore, the founder of
Mooresville, Indiana. Finally he became as-
sociated with his brothers in purchasing . the
store and business of Mr. Moore, and he de-
voted his attention to business with so much
of assiduity that his health became seriously
impaired, under which conditions he disposed
of his mercantile interests, through ^hich he
had gained a very gratifying measure of suc-
cess. He had in the meanwhile become the
owner of farming land in Morgan County,
and for the next several years he gave his
active attention to agricultural pursuits. The
outdoor life enabled him to fully regain his
physical vigor, and he thus felt justified in
again turning his attention to business af-
fairs of a commercial order. Accordingly,
in 1864, he removed with his family to In-
dianapolis, where he identified himself with
the wholesale dry goods business, in which
he became associated with Willis S. Webb,
Captain W. H. Tarkington, and Frank Lan-
ders, under the firm name of Webb, Tarking-
ton & Company. After the withdrawal of
Mr. Webb the title became Landers, Con-
duitt & Company. Still later Mr. Conduitt
withdrew from the business, to which the
present firm of Hibben, Hollweg & Company
is virtually the lineal successor. In 1870
Alexander B. Conduitt engaged in the whole-
sale grocery trade, as a member of the firm
of Conduitt, Daugherty & Company. There
were various changes in the personnel of the
concern and in 1875 the subject of this re-
view became associated with his father in
the business, whereupon the title of Conduitt
& Son was adopted. They conducted a large
and prosperous business until 1893, when
they sold the same, being succeeded by the
firm of SchuuU & Company. For the ensuing
decade Alexander B. Conduitt was retired
from active business, and he died in July,
1903, when nearly eighty-five years of age.
In his earlier years Alexander B. Conduitt
had figured prominently in public affairs in
the state, having been a leader in the coun-
cils of the Democratic party in Indiana. He
was a member of the state constitutional con-
vention of 1852. later served two terms as
rc'i>resentative of Morsran County in the state
legislature, and in 1862 he was the nominee
of his party for jepresentative in Congress
from his district : though he entered the race
in opposition to a heavy Republican majority,
he ran far ahead of is ticket and missed
election by a merely nominal majority. He
was an able business man, a public-spirited
citizen and his life was lived upon the lofti-
est plane of integrity and honor, so that he
ever held as his own the unqualified confi-
dence and respect of his. fellow men. His
cherished and devoted wife preceded him to
the life eternal, her death having occurred in
1898, at which time she was eighty years of
age. Both were affiliated with the Methodist
Church. Of their nine children seven at-
tained to years of maturity, and of the num-
ber two sons and two daughters are now liv-
ing.
Allen W. Conduitt, whose name initiates
this article, secured his preliminary educa-
tional discipline in the common schools of
Morgan County and was sixteen years of age
at the time of the family removal to Indian-
apolis. He thereafter continued his studies
for two years in the old Northwestern Chris-
tian University, now Butler College, at Irv-
ington, this state, and upon leaving this in-
stitution he secured employment in the whole-
sale dry goods establishment in which his fa-
ther was an interested principal. He was
thus engaged for two years, at the expira-
tion of which, in the latter part of the year
1868, he became associated with his brother
Henry in the general merchandise business at
Switz City, Indiana, from which place they
later transferred their headquarters to
Mooresville, their native town. In 1875 Allen
W. disposed of his interest and returned to
Indianapolis, where he became junior member
of the wholesale grocery firm of Conduitt &
Son, with which he thus continued until 1893,
as has been noted in a preceding paragraph.
For a time thereafter Mr. Conduitt gave his
attention to contracting for street-improve-
ment work, and in 1903 he engaged in the
wholesale coal business, with which he has
since been prominently identified, as an in-
terested principal in the Cochrane Coal Com-
pany. He was also one of the organizers and
incorporators of the Conduitt Automobile
Company, engaged in the sale of high grade
automobiles in Indianapolis. He is well
known as an aggressive and substantial busi-
ness man and as a citizen of the utmost pub-
lic spirit, taking a deep concern in all that
n;akes for the civic and material progress
and prosperity of his home city.
In politics Mr. Conduitt has ever accorded
ii stanch allegiance to the Democratic part}'.
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
811
and while he has not been ambitious foi- pub-
lie -office of any order, he had the distinction
of being chosen president of the Indianapolis
board of public works at the time of its
initiation, under the law creating this depart-
ment of the municipal government. He re-
tained the office under the administration of
Mayor Thomas L. Sullivan and had much to
do with shaping and defining the policies un-
der which this department has continued to
afford so effective service. He has long been
affiliated with the time-honored Masonic fra-
ternity, in which he has completed the round
of the York and Scottish Rites, having his
maximum affiliation in the former as a mem-
ber of Raper Commandery No. 1, Knights
Templar, and in the latter having attained to
the thirty-second degree in the Consistory of
the Valley of Indianapolis. He is also iden-
tified with Murat Temple, Ancient Arabic Or-
der of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is
a charter member of the Commercial Club
and is actively identified with its affairs,
having been the first to be elected vice-presi-
dent of this representative organization,
which stands sponsor for the highest civic
ideals. Mr. and Mrs. Conduitt are members
of St. Paul's Episcopal Church.
On the 11th of January, 1870, Mr. Con-
duitt was united in marriage to Miss Eliza-
beth Thornburg, who was born and reared in
Morgan County, this state, and who is a
daughter of the late John H. Thornburg, a
successful farmer and honored citizen of that
section of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Conduitt
have two children— Mabel, who is the wife of
John A. Boyd, and Harold A., who is en-
gaged in the real estate business in Los An-
geles, California.
WiNFiEi.D MiT.LER was bom, in Reading
Pennsylvania, April 23, 1852. He is the son
of John M. Miller and Anna E. (Swartz-
welder) Miller, the former born of English
and Welsh ancestry in Berks County, Penn-
sylvania, and the latter of German and
Scotch parentage in Lancaster County, Penn-
sylvania, both coming from pioneer families
of that state.
Winfield Miller is one of seven children,
and one of the four now living, the others
being: Scott, who is a resident of Livingston
County, Missouri ; Rosa V.. who remains at
the parental home near Braymer, Missouri,
and Anna Evlyn, who is the wife of Eli T.
Messenbaugh, of Braymer, Missouri.
John M. Miller, father of him whose name
initiates this review, was reared to manhood
in Pennsylvania, where he received a com-
mon school education and where he learned in
his youth the trade of carpenter and joiner.
to which he devoted his attention for a num-
ber of years, though after his removal to the
West he became successfully identified with
agricultural pursuits. In 1855 he removed
with his family to Ogle County, Illinois,
where he remained one year, at the expiration
of which he took up his residence in Decorah,
Iowa, which continued to be the abiding place
of the family until April, 1865, when they
removed to Caldwell County, Missouri, mak-
ing the jounney overland with teams. John
M. Miller secured land and developed one of
the valuable farms of that county where he
ha.s long been knoavn as a citizen of promi-
nence and influence and where he has ever
commanded unqualified confidence and
esteem. He has wielded no little influence
in public affairs of a local order, and has
been itJentified with the Republican party
from the time of its organization, having
voted for its first presidential candidate, John
C. Fremont, prior to which tiine he was
aligned as a supporter of the cause of the
wing party. In his early day he affiliated
with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
and has been a mernber of the Methodist
Episcopal Church for sixty-five years. His
cherished and devoted wife departed this life
January 25, 1904.
The subject of this sketch was four years
old when his paVents removed to Decorah,
Iowa. He received his early-education in the
schools of that place, attending school little
after the age of thirteen, at which age he
went with his parents to the State of Mis-
souri, where he entered into the work and
experience of a farmer's son. At the age of
seventeen' he becaine a successful teacher in
the district schools of Caldwell and adjoin-
ing counties, and later, at the age of twenty-
four, became assistant principal in the high
school of Hamilton, Missouri, teaching in
that school for two years, after which he took
up the study of law at Kingston, the county
seat of Caldwell County, Missouri.
In November, 1878, he was elected Clerk
Df the Circuit Court and Ex-Offieio Recorder
of Deeds for the county. At the expiration
of his first term in 1882 he was re-elected,
holding the position for two full terms. In
January, 1884, he was admitted to practice
law in the courts of Missouri. From 1884 to
1886 Mr. Miller was associated with the
financial correspondent, at St. Louis, Missouri,
of The Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance
Company in the farm loan business in the
State of Missouri. In this connection he vis-
ited forty-five counties, making reports of the
soils, values and topography of the several
sections coming under his observation. In
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HISTOEY OF GKEATER INDIANAPOLIS.
Jul}', 1888, at Hamilton, Missouri, he eutered
the employ of The Connecticut Mutual Lif.;
Insurance Company, in whose interests he
traveled throughout Missouri, Illinois, Iowa,
Nebraska, Ohio and Indiana in the capacity
of special agent. In connection with this
work he visited twenty-two counties in north-
western Ohio in 1888, and in June, 1899, per-
manently located in Indianapolis as the
financial correspondent of the company for
Ohio and Indiana, which position he con-
tinued to hold for twenty-one years.
Aside from his extensive travels in a busi-
ness way, Mr. Miller has made numerous
trips of interest and profit while in search
of recreation. He has distinctive versatility
as a descriptive writer and in the Indianapo-
lis Journal of Sunday, October 27, 1901, ap-
peared an article from his pen describing
most efi:eetively a trip through the Rocky
Mountains and the Yellowstone National
Park.
In politics, Mr. Miller has adhered to the
Republican party, in -whose cause he has done
effective service. He served as a member of
the Republican State Central Committee of
Missouri and Secretary of two state conven-
tions of his party in that state.
Mr. Miller is one of the popular business
men of Indianapolis, and this is signified by
his membership in the Columbia Club, the
Century Club and the Commercial Club, of
which last organization he was elected presi-
dent in February, 1910. He is a member of
the Meridian Street Methodist Episcopal
Church. At Kingston, Missouri, he was af-
filiated with Kingston Lodge No. 118, Free
and Accepted Masons, of which he is the
past master, and at Hamilton, Missouri, was
a member of Hamilton Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons, of which he is past high priest.
Mr. Miller has been married twice, first to
Miss Edith Elizabeth Filbey, at Chillicothe,
Missouri, in October, 1880, who died March
14, 1895. He was married to Miss Lillie B.
Landers on February 7, 1900. From the first
marriage two sons were born, Blaine H.
Miller, August 14, 1881, and Winfield C.
Miller, December 7, 1884. Blaine H. Mil}er
was city civil engineer of Indianapolis, In-
diana, for the four years beginning Janiiary
1, 1906.
RoscoE C. Jessup. As senior member of
the firm of Jessup & Antrim, engaged in the
creamery business in Indianapolis, Mr. Jes-
sup is numbered among the aggressive and
enterprising business men and loyal and pub-
lic-spirited citizens of the capital city and he
is a native son of the county in which he now
maintains his home. He was born in Decatur
Township, Marion County, Indiana, on the
12th of April, 1862, and is a son of Jacks(5n
L. and Malinda (Kellum) Jessup, both of
whom are now deceased. The father was
born in North Carolina and was the scion of
sterling Quaker stock, his parents having
been devoted members of the Society of
Friends. When he was three years of age the
family removed to Indiana and his father,
Joseph Jessup, became one of the early set-
tlers of Hendricks County, locating near the
Marion and Morgan County line. There
Jackson L. Jessup was reared to maturity
and his active career was one of close iden-
tification with agricultural pursuits. He was
also a communist of the Society of- Friends,
of which he was a birthright member. His
wife was a native of Hendricks County, this
state. Her father, Jesse Kellum, was a pio-
neer settler, having come hither from North
Carolina, and he likewise was a member of
the Society of Friends. Jackson L. and Ma-
linda (Kellum) Jessup became the parents of
seven children, concerning whom the follow-
ing brief data are incorporated: Amanda,
who became the wife of John Chawner, is
now deceased; Oswald is engaged in the
creamery business in Indianapolis ; Sarah died
in infancy and Orlando also is deceased;
Kellum resides at West Liberty, Illinois ; Ros-
coe C, the immediate subject of this review,
was next in order of birth, and Cora Clifton
is now the wife of John Q. Hitch, of Cham-
paign, Illinois. The father died in 1890 at
the age of seventy-eight years and the mother
was of the same age at the time of her death,
which occurred in 1905.
Roscoe C. Jessup was reared with the
sturdy discipline of the home farm and was
afl'orded the advantages of the public schools
of his native county. He continued to be
associated in the work and management of
the home farm until he was twentj'-five years
of age when he went to the state of Illinois
where he gained his initial experience with
the creamery business. In 1889 Mr. Jessup
came to Indianapolis, where he was employed
in connection with the creamery business of
R. W. Furnas for a period of about eight
years. In 1897 he associated himself with
A. W. Antrim and formed the present part-
nership, under the title of Jessup & Antrim.
The firm purchased a small creamery plant
business and with the passing of years the
enterprise has grown into one of much scope
and importance. In 1904 the firm erected its
present modern and substantial brick build-
ing at 713-15 North Illinois street, Indian-
apolis.
In politics Mr. Jessup gives his allegiance
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
813
to the Republican party and both he and his
wife hold membership in the Society of
Friends.
In 1894 was solemnized the marriage of
Mr. Jessup to Miss Ella Haines and she was
summoned to the life eternal in 1901, being
survived by one child, Dorothy C. lu 1907
Mr. Jessup wedded Mrs. Wilma J. (Wilson)
Spray, no children having been born of this
union.
Horace F. Wood. A native of Indiana's
capital city and numbered among its sub-
stantial and popular business men is Horace
F. Wood, who conducts a finely equipped liv-
ery establishment at 45-7 Monument place.
Particular interest attaches to his connection
with this line of enterprise from the fact that
with the same both his father and grandfa-
ther were identified, and the business has
been consecutively continued through three
generations. Mi-. AVood was born in the old
family homestead at the corner of Massachu-
setts avenue and Pennsylvania street, Indian-
apolis, on the 30th of August, 1857, and is
a son of John M. and Margaret A. (Gres-
ham) Wood. His father was born at Mays-
ville, Kentucky, in 1815, and was reared to
maturity in that state, whence he came with
his parents to Indianapolis in 1832. Here he
attained to prestige as a representative busi-
ness man and loyal, and progressive citizen,
ever commanding a secure place in the con-
iidenee and esteem of the community. He
died in March, 1896. He was the son of John
Wood, who likewise was a native of Kentucky
and a representative of one of the old and
honored families of the Bluegrass state. John
Wood was an extensive dealer in horses at
Maysville, Kentucky, shipping his stock prin-
cipally to southern points and being a pioneer
in this line of enterprise. He was the first
to drive horses from that section to the city
of New Orleans before the day of railroads
or steamboats, and his son. John M., made
fifteen trips on horseback to New Orleans be-
fore he was twelve years of age. After com-
ing to Indianapolis John Wood engaged in
the liverj' business in the same location now
utilized by his grandson, of this sketch, and
he also operated a stage line between this
city and Richmond, Indiana, in the '40s. Be-
fore his death his son, John M., succeeded
him in the livery business and the latter was
in turn succeeded by Horace F. Wood, whose
name initiates this sketch. John Wood died
in this city in the year 1846, at his old home-
stead on the corner of Virginia avenue and
Alabama street, the residence being located
on a large tract of land that is now occupied
by a large number of houses and. business
buildings. John 'SI. Wood was married in
Indianapolis to Miss jMargaret A. Gresham,
vvho was born and reared in Frankfort, Ken-
tucky, and they established their home in a
log cabin located on the site of the present
office of the livery establishment of their son,
Horace F. Their wedded life was of an ideal
order and, continuing for a period of over
half a century, they celebrated their golden
wedding. Both of them passed away in the
year 1896, their home at the time having been
on the site "of the present Young Women's
Christian Association building on North
Pennsj'lvania street. They were popular fig-
ures in connection with the social activities
of the city in the early days and their circle
of friends was coincident with that of their
acquaintances. At their little log homestead
on the present Monument place was enter-
tained one of the early governors of Indiana,
who was there accorded a public reception.
John M. and Margaret A. (Gresham) WoO'l
became the parents of eight children, namely:
Belle, who is now the wife of Thomas G.
Barry, of Indianapolis; Frances, who is the
widow of Lewis Morrison ; Charles H., who
is engaged in the livery business in Indian-
apolis; Horace F., whose name initiates this
sketch: Frank G., who is engaged with the
Atlas Paper Company at Indianapolis; and
Harry, Mary and John, who are deceased.
The father continued to be actively identi-
fied with the livery business until 1880, when
he was succeeded by his son, Horace F., who
has since conducted the enterprise and who
controls a large and representative business.
Horace F. Wood is indebted to the public
schools of Indianapolis for his early educa-
tional discipline, which included a course in
the high school and his entire business career
has been one of active identification with the
livery business. He is one of the loyal, prog-
ressive, public-spirited business men of his
native city, where he enjoys unequivocal con-
fidence and esteem. He is affiliated with the
time-honored Masonic fraternity, in which he
has attained to the thirty-third ultimate de-
gree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite.
His maximum affiliation, the York Rite, is
with Raper Commandery, Knights Templar,
and he also holds membership in Murat Tem-
ple. Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of
the Mystic Shrine, of which he was a director
for a period of fourteen years. He is one of
the prominent and valued members of the Co-
lumbia Club, in which he .served as secretary
for three years, and he is also a member of
the German House, the Country Club and the
Canoe Club. In politics, while never seek-
ing official preferment, he is a stanch sup-
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porter of the principles and policies for which
the Republican party stands sponsor.
On November 7, 1884, was solemnized the
marriage of Mr. Wood to ]\Iiss Rose Gra-
ham, who was born and reared in Indianap-
olis and who is a daughter of Benjamin M.
and Margaret Ann (Beach) Graham. The
one child of this marriage is John G., who
is associated with the Empire Motor Gar Com-
pany.
Samuel E. Rauh. One of the valued and
loyal citizens contributed to the Indiana capi-
tal by the great empire of Germany is Sam-
uel Elias Rauh, who is to-day numbered
among the most prominent and influential
business men of Indianapolis, where his capi-
talistic interests are large and varied and
where he may well find classification among
those valiant "captains of industry" through
whose eiforts has come the magnificent com-.
mercial and civic progress of the city within
the past decade and a half.
Mr. Rauh was born in the kingdom of Ba-
varia, Germany, on the 21st of December,
18.53, and is a son of Elias and Hannah
(Abrahams') Rauh, both likewise natives of
Bavaria, with whose annals the respective
names have been identified for many genera-
tions. In 1866 Elias Rauh immigrated with
his family to America, landing in the port
of New York City and soon afterward mak-
ing his way to Ohio. He established his
home in Dayton, that state, where he engaged
in the fur and hide business, in which he
built np a large and successful enterprise, be-
coming one of the substantial citizens and in-
fluential men of Dayton, where he continued
to reside until his death, at the age of sixty-
nine years. His devoted wife was sixty-five
years of age at the time of her demise, and
both were zealous in the work and support
of the Hebrew church, representing the faith
of their forefathers. Of their ten children
the subject of this sketch was the fourth in
order of birth and of the number eight are
now living. Elias Rauh was a stanch Demo-
crat in his political proclivities and while
signally loyal to all the duties and responsi-
bilities of citizenship he had naught of am-
bition for public office.
Samuel E. Rauh. whose name introduces
this article, secured his rudimentary educa-
tion in the excellent schools of his native land
and was a lad" of thirteen years at the time
of the family immigration to the United
States. He was reared to maturity in Day-
ton, Ohio, where he was afforded the advan-
tages of the public schools and of a well or
dered commercial collese. He early became
associated with the details of his father's
business, in connection with which he re-
ceived a thorough training and well fitted
himself for independent operations as a busi-
ness man of broad capacity and distinctive
initiative power. He continued his residence
in Dayton until 1874, when he removed to
Indianapolis and here engaged in the hide
and pelt business, in which he successfully
continued for nearly twenty years, having re-
tired from this field of enterprise in 1891.
Mr. Rauh's career as one of the able and
honored business men of Indianapolis, has
been one of secure and consecutive progress,
and through his well directed endeavors he
has done not a little to further the industrial
and commercial prestige 6f the city. In 1891
he became president and one of the principal
stockholders of the Moore Packing Company,
one of the leading concerns of its kind in the
state, and he continued its chief executive
officer until 1897, when he was elected presi-
dent of the Belt Railroad & Stockyards Com-
pany and also of the People's Light & Heat
Company, with the administration of the af-
fairs of which great and important corpora-
tions he is still identified in this capacity. He
is also vice-president of the Federal Union
Surety Company, of Indianapolis; is a direc-
tor of the Abattoir Beef & Pork Packing
Company and the E. Rauh Fertilizer Com-
pany; is first vice-president of E. Rauh &
Sons Fertilizing Company; vice-president of
E. Rauh & Sons Company, engaged in the
hide business; a director of the Union Trust
Company; and vice-president of the Egry
Register Company, of Dayton, Ohio. Mr.
Rauh has shown great capacity for the man-
agement of business enterprises of broad
scope and importance, has ordered his course
according to the highest principles of in-
tegrity and honor, and has achieved a success
worthy of the name. He is held in high re-
gard as a citizen and business man and is a
valued member of the Indianapolis Board of
Trade and the Commercial Club. He and his
family hold membership in Delaware street
Temple, the leading Jewish church of the
city. In politics, while never an aspirant for
office, he accords a stanch allegiance to the
Democratic party.
On the 20th of May, 1879, Mr. Rauh was
united in marriage to Miss Emma Sterne,
^ho was born in Peru, Indiana, and who is
a daughter of Charles F. and Eugenia
(Fries) Sterne, and seven of their eight chil-
dren are living, Mrs. Rauh being the eldest.
The father was for many years a prominent
manufacturer of woolens, having been the
owner of the old Peru woolen mills and also
having owned and operated the gas plant in
HISTOllY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
815
that city, where he continued to hold pres-
tige as a representative citizen and business
man' until his death. His wife also is de-
Mr. and Mrs. Rauh have three children,—
Estelle, who is the wife of Samuel D. Wild,
of Cleveland, Ohio; Charles, who is assistant
manager of E. Rauh & Sons Fertilizer Com-
pany; and Hortense, who remains at the
parental home.
Ernest de Wolfe Wales, M. D. One of the
able representatives of the medical profession
in the capital city of Indiana is Dr. Wales,
who is engaged in successful practice as a
specialist in the treatment of the diseases of
the ear, nose and throat, in connection with
which he has attained distinctive prestige,
and who is clinical professor of this class of
diseases in the Indiana University School of
Medicine, one of the noteworthy institutions
of Indianapolis.
Dr. Wales was born in Braintree, Massa-
chusetts, on the 1st of September, 1873, and
is a son of George Oliver Wales and Abigail
Frances Paine (Howard) Wales, the former
of whom is still living, being head of the firm
of George 0. Wales & Company, iron mer-
chants and agents for manufacturers, in the
City of Boston, Massachusetts; the mother
of the doctor died October 6, 1886.
The subject of this sketch is of the tenth
generation in line of direct descent from Na-
thaniel Wales, son of John Wales, of York-
shire, England. This Nathaniel Wales fig-
ures as the founder of the family in America,
having come to the new world on the ship
"James" in 1635 and having settled at Dor-
chester, Massachusetts. He died in Boston,
December 4, 1661. His son Nathaniel, who
died in Boston, on the 10th of May, 1662,
married Isabel Atherton, daughter of Major
Humphrey Atherton. The tiext in direct line
of descent was their son Nathaniel, who was
born about 1649, and who died March 23,
1718, having settled at Braintree, Massachu-
setts, in 1673. By his first wife, Elizabeth,
he had one child, Elizabeth, who was born in
1675 and who became the wife of John Child.
His second wife was Joanna Faxon, who was
born September 20, 1661, and who died May
11, 1704. She was a daughter of Thomas
and Deborah (Th'ayer) Faxon. Nathaniel
and Joanna (Faxon) Wales became the pa-
rents of fourteen children, namely: Joanna,
Sarah, Nathaniel, Joanna (II), Elkanah,
Deborah, Thomas, Mary, Samuel, Thomas
(II), Joseph, John, Rachel, and Atherton.
Of these children the one to whom Dr. Wales
traces his lineage was Captain Elkanah Wales,
who was born on the 1st of December, 1685,
and who died December 12, 1763. On the
17th of May, 1808, he married Elizabeth
Holbrook, who was born September 30, 1684,
and died February 27, 1763 ; she was a daugh-
ter of Samuel and Lydia Holbrook, of V/ey-
mouth. The four children of this union were
Elizabeth, Elkanah, Samuel and Nathaniel.
Captain Nathaniel Wales was born April 11,
1717, and died June 26, 1790. He first mar-
ried Anna Wild, daughter of William and
Ruth .(Hersey) Wild, and they had five chil-
dren— Aseph. Elizabeth, Achsah, Elkanah,
and Anna, On the SOth of May, 1754, Cap-
tain Nathaniel Wales contracted a second
marriage, having then been united to Mrs.
Anne Fitch, widow of Joseph Fitch and
daughter of John and Elizabeth (Penno)
Waldo. She was born July 15, 1719, and
died in February, 1801. By her marriage to
Captain Wales she had three children— Eliz-
abeth, Nath^iel and Benjamin. The second
of these children was the representative of
the sixth generation in line of descent to the
subject of this review.
Major Nathaniel Wales, son of Captain Na-
thaniel and Anne (Waldo) Wales, was born
on the 8th of February, 1757, and died De-
cember 24, 1825. On the 4th of December,
1778, he married Mary Hayden, who was
born February 14, 1757, and died January
27, 1841 ; she was a daughter of Benjamin
and Mary (Wild) Hayden, and she became
the mother of three sons and one daughter,
namely: Nathaniel, Benjamin, Mary, and
John Waldo. Of these, Nathaniel, seventh
sreneration, was born October 7, 1779, and
died October 11, 1851. On the 20th of De-
cember, 1806, he married Sarah Wild, who
was born in 1787, and died December 25,
1871; she was a daughter of Jonathan and
Deborah (Wild) Wild and became the mother
of ten children— Mary Waldo, Sarah Ann,
Jonathan Wild, Harriet Newell, Nathaniel
Waldo, George, Benjamin Carr, William H.,
Ruth, and Thomas.
George" Wales (eighth generation) was born
May 2, 1820, and married Isabella C. Moul-
ton, who was born January 25, 1821, and
who was a daughter of Oliver and Salome
(LaPlaine) Moulton. The LaPlaines were
French Huguenots who fled from France to
escape the religious persecutions incidental to
the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, settling
in England, whence came the founders of the
family in America. Here settlement was
made at Roxbury, Massachusetts, and, later,
members of the family became identified with
the settlement of Hallowell, Maine. George
and Isabella C. (Moulton) Wales, grandpar-
ents of Dr. Wales, became the parents of
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mSTOIlY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
thiec children — George Oliver, father of the
doctor; Joseph Moiilti n ; and Isabella. George
Oliver Wales was born April 1, 1848, and
has long been a representative business man
and honored citizen of Boston. His first mar-
riage, to Abigail Frances Paine Howard, was
solemnized on the 9th of November, 1870,
and "Sirs. Wales was summoned to the life
eternal on the 6th of October, 1886. The sur-
viving children of this union are here men-
tioned in order of birth : George Howard,
Boston, Massachusetts; Ernest de Wolfe j
Mary Helen, married Willis Howard Butler,
minister of Edwards Church, Northampton,
Massachusetts; Louise F. and Nathaniel
Braekett, Boston, Massachusetts. TJie second
marriage of George Oliver AVales was sol-
emnized on the 16th of December, 1896, when
Lucy Gary Morse became his wife. They have
no children.
Dr. Ernest de AVolfe AVales was afforded
the advantages of the public schools of the
city of Boston, where he was graduated in
the high school as a member of the class of
1891. He then entered Harvard University,
in which he was graduated in 1896, with the
degree of Bachelor of Science, and in the
medical department of the same historic in-
stitution he was graduated as a member of
the class of 1899, duly receiving his degree
of Doctor of Medicine. After his graduation
he passed a year in effective post-graduate
work in the University of Berlin, Germany,
returning to the United States in the summer
of 1900 and engaging in the practice of his
profession in the city of Boston. From 1900
to 1901 he was aural house surgeon of the
^Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear In-
firmary, in which institution he was there-
after clinical assistant until 1904. From 1905
to 1906 he was assistant surgeon in the throat
room of Massachusetts General Hospital, and
from 1904 to 1906 he was assistant aural sur-
areon of the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and
Ear Infirmary, serving simultaneously as as-
sistant in otologj' in Harvard ^Medical School.
his alma mater. In the autumn of 1906 Dr.
Wales took up his residence in Indianapolis,
where he has met with unqualified success
and gained marked precedence in the practice
of the important branch of his profession in
which he is specializing. Soon after his ar-
rival in this city he was appointed clinical
professor .of diseases of the ear, nose and
throat in the Indiana University School of
Aledicine, and he has since remained incum-
bent of this position, being a valued member
of the facultj- of the institution and being
recognized as an authority in his special
field and as an able and discriminating edu-
cator. He controls a large and representative
practice and is held in unequivocal esteem by
his professional confreres in the capital city.
Dr. AVales is identified with the Natural
History Society of Harvard University; the
Harvard Religious Union, of which he was
secretary for one year; the Pi Eta fraternity
of the same university; is a life member of
the Harvard Union and also of the Young
Men's Christian Union, of Boston. He was a
member of the Boston L^niversity Club from
1904 until his removal to Indianapolis, and
in a professional way he holds membership
in the Boylston Medical Society (Boston),
the American Medical Association, the Amer-
ican Otological Society, the American LarjTi-
gological, Rhinological and Otological So-
ciety, the American Academy of Ophthal-
mology and Oto-Liryngology, and the In-
dianapolis Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat So-
ciety, besides which he formerly held mem-
bership in the New England Otological and
Laryngological Society, during the time he
was engaged in the practice of his profession
in Boston. He and his wife hold member-
sliip in All Souls Unitarian Church of In-
dianapolis; he is a Democrat in his political
proclivities; he holds membership in the Ger-
man House and the Country Club of Indian-
apolis ; and here is affiliated with Center
Lodge No. 23, Free and Accepted Masons.
In the City of Minneapolis. Minnesota, on
the 21st of June. 1899, Dr. Wales was united
in marriage to Miss Franc Hale, daughter
of George W. Hale and Jeanette (Webster)
Hale, both of whom are deceased, the latter
being a representative of the same family line
as was Daniel Webster. Dr. and Mrs. Wales
have two children— Jeanette, who was born
on the 4th of April. 1902, and Elizabeth, who
was born on the 7th of January, 1904.
Frederick J. M.\ck. Among the progres-
sive business men and highly honored citi-
zens of Indianapolis is numbered the subject
of this review, who is at the present time a
member of the Board of Public AA^orks and
who is head of the well known firm of F. J.
Mack & Company, house painters, interior
decorators, freseoei-s, sign painters, and scenic
artists, with headquarters at 26 Kent.uck>"
avenue. The concern is one of the largest
and most important of its kind in the city
and controls an e.xtensive and substantial
business. Mr. Mack has been a resident of
Indianapolis for nearly two score of yeai-s
and has here won success through his own
energy and ability, the while he has ever
stood exponent of the most loyal and useful
citizenship and has merited the high esteem
in which he is uniformly held.
HISTOEY OF GREATEE INDIANAPOLIS.
817
Frederick John Mack comes of stanch Ger-
man lineage and is himself a native of the
old Buckeye state of the Union, having been
born in the city of Cleveland, Ohio, on the
5th of January, 1854. and being a son of
Frederick J. and Eegina (Baumann) Mack,
the former of whom was born in Wurtem-
berg, Germany, and the latter in the kingdom
of Bavaria. They came to America when
young and passed the closing years of their
lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where the
father had long followed the vocation of mer-
chant. Both were consistent members of the
Lutheran Church and were folk of sterling
attributes of character.
Frederick J. Mack gained his rudimentary
education in the public schools of his native
city, and in 1867, when thirteen years of age,
he became a resident of Allen County, In-
diana, where he continued to attend school as
opportimity afforded and where he found em-
ploj'ment principally in connection with
manufacturing industries as an employe. In
1872, when eighteen years of age, Mr. Mack
came to Indianapolis, where he has ever since
maintained his residence and where he has
gained independence and success as an active
and enterprising business man. Soon after
his arrival in the capital city he entered upon
an apprenticeship at the trade of fresco paint-
ing, in which he finally became an expert
artisan and one of special ability in the de-
vising and carrying out of original and
artistic decorative work. In 1877, when
twenty-three years of age, he initiated busi-
ness for himself, in the line of his trade, and
in this connection he has directed his ener-
gies with so much of discrimination and abil-
ity and has been so honorable and upright in
all his dealings and transactions that he has
built up a business of which no other of its
kind in the city can take precedence. The
enterprise is now conducted under the title
of F. J. Mack & Company, and his associates
in the same are his son Frederick L. and
Clemens W. Beck, who have proved his able
and valued eoad.jutors.
Mr. Mack has taken a zealous inte/est in
all that has tended to conserve the progress
and material and civic welfare of his home
city; and in the domain of practical politics
he has wielded no little influence. In 1884
he was elected to represent the 24th ward in
the city council, and in - 1886 he was again
elected to this office. In 1890 still more dis-
tinctive evidence of his personal popularity
was given in his election as representative of
Marion County in the legislature, in which
he Avas an active and valued member during
the general assembly of 1891, in which he
made an admirable record in the conservation
of wise legislation. For five years, under the
administration of Mayor Thomas Taggart, he
held the responsible position of member of
the board of safety, representing an impor-
tant department of the municipal govern-
ment. Of this board he was president and as
such he gave most effective and timely serv-
ice in the handling of the affairs of the de-
partment. For one year (1902-1903) Mr.
Mack was a member of the park board. He
has ever given an uncompromising allegiance
to the Democratic party and is well fortified
in his convictions and opinions as to matters
of public policy.
Mr. Mack is identified with a number of
the essentially representative fraternal and
social organizations of the capital city, and
in each his popularity is of the most positive
order. He is affiliated with the Masonic
fraternity, and he is also identified with the
United Ancient Order of Druids, the Knights
of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks. He holds membership in the
Commercial Club, the German Orphan Home
Association, the Indianapolis Maennerehor,
the German House, the Independent Tumver-
ein, the German-American Democratic Club,
and other organizations, and the Southside
Turnverein.
On the 2nd of March, 1876, Mr. Mack was
united in marriage to Miss Josephine Beck,
who was born at Germany, and who is a
daughter of the late Conrad Beck. Mr. and
Mrs. Mack have six children: Frederick L.,
Carrie, Lambert W., "William E., Joseph C.
and Lillian. Three are married and living in
Indianapolis; Joseph C. is in Dallas, Texas,
and William E. and Lillian are living at
home.
Charles A. Korbly. The state of In-
diana has reason to take pride in the per-
sonnel of her corps of representatives in the
federal congress from the early days in the
history of this commonwealth to the present
time, and on the roll of honored names that
indicates the service of distinguished citizens
in this branch of governmental affairs there
is reason in reverting with gratfication to that
of Hon. Charles A. Korbly, of Indianapolis,
who is the present representative of the Sev-
enth district in the lower house of the na-
tional legislature. He is a native son of the
old Hoosier state, is a representative mem-
ber of the bar of Indianapolis, and is a mem-
ber of a family that has been one of promi-
nence and influence in public and civic af-
fairs in Indiana for many years.
Charles A. Korbly was born in Madison.
Jefferson County, Indiana, on the 24th of
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
March, 1871, and is a son of Charles Alex-
ander Korbly and Mary (Bright) Korbly.
His father was born in Kentucky and was a
son of Christian Korbly, who was a native
of Germany and who became a resident of
the city of Louisville, Kentuckj% where he
continued to reside until 1849, when he joined
the throng of argonauts making its way across
the plains to California after the discovery
of gold in that state, where he met his death.
Soon afterward his widow removed to Ripley
County, Indiana, where Charles A. Korbly,
Sr., was reared to maturity. Here he received
some education at home, and for a while
taught school. He finally took up the study
of law, and for thirty years be was success-
fully engaged in the practice of his profes-
sion at Madison, from which place he removed
to Indianapolis in 1895. He gained still
higher prestige in his chosen profession after
becoming a member of the bar of the capital
city, and here he continued to maintain his
home until the time of his death, in 1900, at
the age of tifty-eight years. His wiie sur-
vives him and still resides in this city. She
is a daughter of Michael Bright, who was
a native of the state of New York and who
was a scion of one of the stanch old Revo-
lutionary families of Pennsylvania and who
was an honored pioneer member of the bar
of Indiana. He was engaged in the practice
of his profession at Madison, this state,
whence he finally removed to Indianapolis,
where he continued in the successful practice
of law, becoming one of the leading members
of the bar of this commonwealth and wield-
ing much influence in public affairs.
Hon. Charles A. Korbly has well upheld
the honors of the name that he bears, both as
a member of the legal profession and as a
citizen of prominence and influence in public
life. He was reared to maturity in his na-
tive city of Madison, and there gained his
early educational discipline in the parochial
school of St. Mary's Catholic Church, of
which his parents were devout communicants.
He began the study of law under the able
preceptorship of his honored father prior to
the family removal to Indianapolis, and in the
latter city he was admitted to the bar in the
year 1896. Here his father was a member
of the law firm of Smith & Korbly, and with
this firm the subject of this review continued
to be associated in practice until the death
of his father, in 1900. He and his brother
Bernard continued to be associated with
Alonzo Green Smith in their professional
work, and in 1902 Charles A. severed his con-
nection with the firm and continued an in-
(^ividual practice. Shortly afterward, how-
ever, he returned to Madison, to attend to cer-
tain property interests of the family, and he
remained in that city from 1903 until 1907,
in which latter year he resumed the practice
of his profession in Indianapolis.
In the spring of 1908 Mr. Korbly was made
the nominee on the Democratic ticket for rep-
resentative of the Seventh district in Con-
gress, and in the ensuing November election
he was successful in overcoming a large Re-
publican majority, receiving a gratifying en-
dorsement at the polls. As one of the active
and well fortified younger members of Con-
gress he has made a record creditable alike to
his state and to his fidelity and discrimination
as a legislator. For fully a decade he has
been a zealous and eflt'ective worker in behalf
of the cause of the Democratic party, and he
has served as a member of various party com-
mittees in his home state. He is a versatile
advocate at the bar and an effective public
speaker, and he has been a successful fac-
tor in campaign work in Indiana. He is a
member of the Indiana Bar Association and
is identified with the Indianapolis Board of
Trade and the Commercial Club and the In-
diana State Historical Society. The impor-
tant official position of which he is incumbent
offers emphatic voucher for his personal pop-
ularity.
On 'the 10th of June, 1902, was solemnized
the marriage of Mr. Korbly to Miss Isabel
Palmer, who was born and reared in Indian-
apolis, Indiana, and who is a member of one
of the distinguished pioneer families of this
state. She is a daughter of Edward and
Elizabeth (Stephens') Palmer and is a grand-
daughter of Hon. Nathan B. Palmer, who
was speaker of the Indiana House of Repre-
sentatives in 1832 and who was shortly aft-
erward elected treasurer of the state. The
Palmer family was founded in America in
the colonial epoch of our national history
and representatives of the same were found
enrolled as valiant soldiers of the Continental
line during the War of the Revolution.
"WnxiAM OsENBACH, M. D. A representa-
tive member of the medical profession in In-
diianapolis, where he is specially prominent
in the field of surgery, is Dr. William Osen-
baeh, who has been engaged in practice in the
capital city since the year 1896 and whose
success in his chosen vocation has been of the
most unequivocal type.
Dr. Osenbach is a native of the City of
Lafayette, Indiana, where he was born on
the 29th of June, 1866, and he is a son of
Fletcher and Emma (Gipe) Osenbach. both
of whom were born at Noblesville, this state,
nf German lineage. They were reared and
HISTORY OF GREATER INDlANArOLIS.
810
educated in their native town and there their
marriage was solemnized, soon after which
important event in their lives they removed
to Lafayette, where, they have maintained
their home during the long intervening years.
The father, who was for many years a suc-
cessful and popular traveling salesman, is
now identified with the hardware business
in Lafayette, where he has £ver commanded
unqualified confidence and esteem and where
he is an influential citizen and representative
business man. Of the five children two are
deceased, and of the three surviving the sub-
ject of this sketch is the eldest ; Delia is the
wife of William McCarty and resides in La-
fayette; and Elmer is identified with busi-
ness interests at Lafayette.
Dr. Osenbach was reared to manhood in
his native city, to whose public schools he is
indebted for his earlier educational discipline,
which included a course in the high school.
Having formulated definite plans for his fu-
ture career, in 1892 he was matriculated in
the Central College of Physicians and Sur-
geons, in Indianapolis, in which he completed
the prescribed technical course and was grad-
uated as a member of the class of 1896, with
the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He forth-
Avrth engaged in the active work of his pro-
fession in Indianapolis, where his success has
been of cumulative order and where he has
gained marked precedence in the surgical
branch of his practice, which is essentially of
representative character. He has shown dis-
tinctive devotion to his exacting vocation, in
which his labors have been unremitting and
his study and investigation such as to keep
him in the most perfect touch with the ad-
vances made in both medical and surgical
science. In the years 1903-4-5 he did ef-
fective post-graduate work in the Chicago
Post-Graduate Medical School, and he has
devoted much attention to the line of work
which he has made his specialty, that of sur-
gery. He is consulting surgeon to the Dea-
coness Hospital, of Indianapolis, and is sur-
^eon-in-chief of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton Railroad, besides which he is surgeon
for a large number of the leading manufac-
turing concerns of Indianapolis. He holds
membership in the Indianapolis Medical So-
ciety, the Indiana State Medical Society, and
the American Medical Association. In poli-
tics the doctor gives his allegiance to the Re-
publican party, he is affiliated with Marion
Lodge No. 35, Free and Accepted Masons,
and is identified with Star" Lodge No. 7,
Knights of Pythias, of which he is past chan-
cellor commander. Both he and his wife
hold member.ship in the Central Avenue Meth-
odist Episcopal Church.
In 1888 Dr. Oseribach was united in mar-
riage to Miss Sophronia Rycraft, who was
born and reared in Lafayette, Indiana, and
they have one daughter, Zelda, who is an
accomplished pianist, having taken the artists'
course on the piano at the Indianapolis Con-
servatory of Music, and has shown marked
ability and talent in her chosen calling.
David M. Parry. The glory of our great
American republic is in the perpetuation of
individuality and in the according of the ut-
most scope for individual accomplishment.
Fostered under auspicious surroundings, the
nation has produced men of the finest mental
caliber, of true virile strength and of vigor-
ous purpose. The record of accomplishment
in the individual sense is the record which
the true and loyal American holds in highest
appreciation and honor. Among the prolific
workers in conpection with the productive
activities of life is found David M. Parry,
who may well be designated as one of the val-
iant and resourceful "captains of industry"
who have conserved the progress and up-
building of the "Greater Indianapolis"
where he was president of the Parry Manu-
facturing Company, representing one of the
important industrial concerns of the capital
city, and where he has also been a factor in
the promotion of other noteworthy entei'-
prises. He is no^v president of Parry Auto
Company, is vice-president of the Indianap-
olis Southern Railway Company, and not in
an ephemeral way is his name associated with
the word progress. He has shown marked
initiative ability, has been a power in practi-
cal business and commercial enterprise, and
has given his influence and tangible support
to every worthy movement for civic better-
ment. As one of the essentially representa-
tive business men of Indianapolis he is well
entitled to consideration in this publication.
His career has been characterized by cour-
age, confidence, progressiveness and impreg-
nable integrity of purpose, and he has Avon
success that is worthy of the name.
David M. Parry was born in Allegany
County, Pennsylvania, near the city of Pitts-
burg, on the 26th of ^Nfarch, 1852. and is a
son of Thomas J. and Lydia (Maclean) Par-
ry, both of whom were natives of the city of
Pittsburg and members of honored pioneer
families of the old Keystone state of the
Union. The Parry family .traces its lineage
back to stanch Welsh origin and the subject
of this review is a representative of the third
generation of the family in America. His
paternal grandfather, Henry Parr>% was bom
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
in "Wales, where he was reared and educated
and where he was well trained for the pro-
fession of civil engineering, to which he de-
voted his attention upon coming to America.
He had the distinction of erecting the first
court house west of the Alleghany Mountains
in Pennsylvania. He established his home in
the city of Pittsburg, where he passed the
residue of his life, which was prolonged to an
advanced age. He rendered effective service
in the War of 1812, in which he had super-
vision of the somewhat primitive cannon util-
ized by the American forces in their second
conflict with England. He married a daugh-
ter of General John Cadwallader, and of this
union twelve children were bom.
General John Cadwallader was one of the
distinguished men of his day and generation,
and history bears record of his gallant serv-
ices as a general of the patriot forces in the
war of the Revolution, in which he was a
valued member of the staff of General Wash-
ington. He laid out the historic old Fort
DuQuesne, and he was a most ardent patriot,
having been a stalwart advocate of the cause
of national independence during the cli-
macteric period leading up to the Revolution.
His father. Dr. Thomas Cadwallader, presided
over a famous "tea party", held in a coffee-
house in Philadelphia, prior to the more cele-
brated "Boston tea party". The meeting
thus held in Philadelphia was the first one
to voice protest in such manner against the
unjust taxation imposed by the mother coun-
try. The Cadwallader family is of Welsh
origin and has ever been renowned for the
high intellectuality of its representatives.
Dr. Thomas Cadwallader was a distinguished
physician and pathologist and was an inti-
mate friend and associate of Benjamin
Franklin. He was a man of exceptional schol-
astic and scientific erudition and was the
coadjutor of Dr. Rush and others in the
founding of the University of Penns.ylvania.
Thoma.s Parry, the youngest of the twelve
children of Henry Parry, was reared to man-
hood in Pennsylvania, where he received good
educational advantages, according to tlu'
standard of the period, and he continued his
residence in his native state until 1853, when
he removed to Indiana and settled on a farm
near Laurel, Franklin County, where he was
long and successfully identified with agricul-
tural pursuits and where he ever commanded ,
a secure place in popular confidence and es-
teem, having been a man of strong mentality
and having wielded no little influence in pub-
lic affairs of a local order. He pa.ssed the
last seven years of his life in Indianapolis,
where he died in 1899. at the venerable ape
of seventy-six years. He was a stanch Re-
publican in his political adherency and both
he and his wife were devout members of the
Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Parry was a
daughter of Matthew Maclean, who was born
and reared in Scotland, and who took up his
residence in Pittsburg upon coming to the
United States. He was a man of marked
ability and was an influential factor in pub-
lie affairs in Pennsylvania, where for half a
century he was the owner and editor of the
Pittsburg Gazette and where he died at a
venerable age. He and his wife became the
parents of one son and four daughters. Aft-
er the death of her honored husband Mrs.
Lydia (Maclean) Parry remained in Indian-
apolis, whej^ she passM the closing years of
her signally gentle and gracious life in the
home of her only daughter, but while visiting
her sister in Parnassus, Pennsylvania, died on
the 12th of December, 1903, at about eighty
years of age.
David M. Parry, was about nine months old
at the time of the family removal from Penn-
sylvania to Indiana, and he passed his boy-
hood and youth on the home farm, near
Laurel, Franklin County, in which locality he
duly availed himself of the advantages of
the district school, in the meanwhile con-
tributing his quota to the work of the farm.
At the age of sixteen years, with no particu-
lar blare of trumpets or pomp of circum-
stance, Mr. Parry gave initiation to his husi-
ness career. He left the home farm and be-
took himself to the neighboring village of
Laurel, where he assumed the dignified posi-
tion of clerk in a general store, receiving in
compensation for his serA'ices the princely sti-
pend of ten dollars a month, from which he
paid for his own maintenance. He remained
thus engaged for a period of about eighteen
months and then went to Lawrenceburg,
where for two years he held a clerkship in
a dry-goods store. In 1872 he went to Co-
lumbus City, Iowa, where he passed a few
months as clerk in a store conducted by his
brother Edward, who is .now a resident of
Indianapolis and who is the eldest of the
family of five children ; the subject of this
review was the second in order of birth ; Jen-
nie is the widow of 0. P. Griffith and resides
in Indianapolis; Thomas H. and St. Clair,
are interested principals in the Parry Manu-
facturing Company, and thus all of the chil-
dren now maintain their home in Indianap-
olis. From Iowa, David M. Parry went to
New York City, where he became bookkeeper
for the New York Enamel Paint Company,
retaining this position about one -year, after
which he was there employed as a salesman
HISTOEY OF GEEATEK INDIANAPOLIS.
821
in the wholesale dry-goods house of Ober-
holser & Keefer until 1873, when he returned
to Indiana and located at Connersville, where
he and his brother Edward engaged in the
hardware business; the requisite capital hav-
ing been furnished by their father. A few
years later the honored father met with finan-
cial reverses and David M. Parry sold his
interest in the hardware business and di-
verted the proceeds to meeting his father's
obligations and thus saving to him his home-
stead farm.
Under these conditions David M. Parry as-
sumed a position as traveling salesman for a
wholesale hardware house in Cincinnati, in
whose interests he covered territory in east-
ern Indiana and western Ohio for a period of
about three years, within which time he so
carefully conserved his resources that he was
enabled to purchase a hardware store at
Rushville, Indiana, where he established his
home and continued in business until 1882,
when he disposed of his interests in that
place. He had made preparations to go to
South America early in that year, as a sales-
man of agricultural implements, but the
death of his wife, who was survived by two
little daughters, caused hiiji to abandon this
trip. In his consideration of ways and means
he finally was led to purchase a small car-
riage shop in Rushville, and there he con-
tinued the operation of the business, upon a
modest scale, for a period of two years, at
the expiration of which, in 1886, he removed
to Indianapolis, where he has since main-
tained his home and where he has gained
splendid success and prestige in the indus-
trial field. Concerning the development of
the important manufacturing enterprise of
which he was the head, the following perti-
nent statements have been made: "The im-
mense concern which he built up was begun
in a very modest way. Mr. Parry rented a
part of the old Woodburn Sarven Wheel
Works and began manufacturing vehicles and
farm implements, meeting with success from
the very start. He began operations with
about forty persons represented on his pay
rolls, and the business has increased so phtv
nomenally that this concern now gives em-
ployment to about twenty-four hundred per-
sons. The factory is particularly noted for
the high grade of its light-weight vehicles of
all kinds, and these are marketed all over the
world. For several years Mr. Parry's brother
Thomas H. was bookkeeper for the establish-
ment, in which he had an interest from the
inception of operations, and about 1891 his
brother St. Clair entered the firm. In 1899
the eldest of the brothers, Edward, came into
the business, which is now conducted under
the name of the Parry Manufacturing Com-
pany. The plant is modern in equipment and
facilities, and the large and substantial build-
ings are situated on a sixty-acre tract of
ground west of White River, the offices being
at the factory."
The Parry Manufacturing Company is one
of the substantial and extensive manufactur-
ing concerns that have contributed materially
to the industrial and commercial prestige of
Indianapolis. The Parry Manufacturings
Company and its offices are now located on
Parry avenue, Henry and the Vandalia Rail-
road. From the beginning David M. Parry
exercised the decisive influence in the man-
agement of the business, and that its great
success is largely attributable to his persist-
ent energy, sagacity, integrity and marked
initiative and constructive ability, is free-
ly and uniformly acknowledged by all
who are familiar with the upbuilding of
the magnificent enterprise. In May, 1909,
Mr. Parry resigned the office of president
of the Parry Manufacturing Company,
in which he still holds his interests, and
is now the president of the Parry Auto
Company, which was incorporated July 28,
1909, with a capital stock of one million dol-
lars, Mr. Parry being the organizer of the
Coonpany. The plant is located at Standard
avenue and Division street, where they manu-
,fa«ture the Parry Car. In 1904 Mr. Parry
organized the American Manufacturers' Mu-
tual Fire Insurance Company, with headquar-
ters at Indianapolis, which has grown to be
one of the three largest of its kind in the
country. He was its first president and still
is incumbent of that office. In 1909 he be-
came president of the Automobile Insurance
Company of America, which was organized
by Cincinnati capital, October 21, 1909, be-
ing the date of incorporation. A man of so
broad capacity naturally is led to find vari-
ous avenues for the utilization of his ener-
gies, and this has been true of Mr. Parry,
who has identified himself with various other
enterprises of important order. He is at
the present time vice-president of the In-
dianapolis Southern Railroad and has other
capitalistic interests through which the prog-
ress of the greater commercial city of In-
dianapolis is being aided in no small degree.
He is well known and held in high regard in
local business circles and is one of the en-
thusiastic, loyal and public-spirited citizens
of the fair capital of the Hoosier state. He is
a valued member of the National Association
of Manufacturers of the United States, of
which organization he had the distinction of
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
bfiii;; electeil president in 1902, serving t'oui-
years. He has also served as president of
the Indianapolis Board of Trade and of the
Commercial Club, in the affairs of both of
which important civic organizations he has
shown a lively and helpful interest.
Mr. Parry is distinctly a man of ideas and
ideals, and he has not narrowed his mental
horizon within the bounds of personal ad-
vancement and aggrandizement. He has
made for himself a secure place in the com-
mercial and civic life of Indianapolis, and
his vantage ground is one of the most stable
order, from the fact that he has won right
worthily his success and prestige as an able
business man and sterling citizen. In the
midst of the cares and exactions of business
he has found time to place himself on record
as an active worker in behalf of his home
city and also in the field of practical so-
ciology, to which he has given much thought
and study. The following estimate is well
worthy of reproduction in these pages: "As
a large employer of labor, Mr. Parry has been
deeply interested in the vital issues between
capital and labor that have characterized re-
cent popular movements, and he was the first
man to make a stand against unjust demands
and unlawful methods adopted by some of
the organized-labor bodies, which he consid-
ered a direct violation of American principles.
His high personal character and well known
principles, as well as his labors in behalf of
the improvement of conditions among the
working classes, absolved him from any
charge of undue self-interest in the position
he took and which was for the justness of all
concerned. He is well known in Indianap-
olis as an enthusiastic student of sociology
and its problems, in which connection he is
the author of the valuable book entitled the
'Scarlet Empire'."
In politics, though never a seeker of of-
fice, Mr. Parry accords a stanch allegiance
to the Republican party and is a loyal advo-
cate of its cause. He and his wife hold mem-
bership in the First Baptist Church, of which
he is a trustee, and he has attained to the
thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted
Scottish Rite of ^fasonry. besides being al-
filiated with the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows and the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks.
On the 13th of October, 1875, that re-
nowned clergyman, the late Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher, solemnized the marriage of
Mr. Parry to Miss Cora Harbottle, daugh-
ter of Thomas and Helen (Mcintosh) Har-
bottle, of Brooklyn, Nlnv York. :Mrs. Parry
was u member of Plvmouth Church, in the
City of Brooklyn, over which Mr. Beechei'
piesided for so many years. Mrs. Cora
(Harbottle) Parry was summoned to the life
eternal in July, 1882. at the age of twenty-
four years, and she is survived by two chil-
dren—Helen, who is the wife of Frank X.
Fitzgerald, of Indianapolis, and Cora, who
is the wife of Warren D. Oakes, of this city.
October 3, 1883, is the date of the marriage
of Mr. Parry to ]Miss.Hessie ^laxvvell. daui-di-
ter of John 31. and Isabell (Moffett) ?ilax-
well, who were at that time residents of In-
dianapolis. The names of the seven children
of the second marriage are here noted: Ly-
dia, ;\Iaxwell, Addison, Isabel, Ruth. Jean-
ette, and David. The beautiful family home
is at Golden Hill, one of the most attraetivi'
residence sections of the Indiana capita!.
Theodore E.vds Griffith. "Earn thy re-
ward; the gods give naught to sloth ■". is an
aphorism uttered long ago by the sage philoso-
pher, Epicharmus, and the application of the
precept is as insistent in this twentieth cen-
tury as in the days of the remote past. A
man whose life exemplified appreciation of
the truth of this statement w^as Theodore
Eads Griffith, who was in the most significant
sense the architect of his own fortune and
who left upon the annals of his period the
record of a worthy life and of worthy ac-
complishment. Measured by its beneficence,
its rectitude, its altruism and its material
success, his life counted for much, and in
this history of the city in which he main-
tained his home for thirty years and to whose
industrial and civic progress he contributed
his due quota, it is but consistent that a
tribute to his memory and services be entered.
He was summoned to the life eternal on the
4th of November, 1906. at his home in In-
dianapolis, and in his death the capital city
lost one of its progressive and substantial
business men and one of its most popular and
honored citizens. He was head of the whole-
sale millinery house of Grilfith Brothers at
the time of his death and the same title is
still maintained, his two sons being now the
interested principals in the enterprise which
he founded many years ago.
Theodore Eads Griffith was born in Day-
ton, Ohio, which city was then but a vil-
lage, and the, date of his nativity was Octo-
ber 14, 1845. He was a son of Thomas and
Mar>' Elizabeth (Eads) Griffith, of whose
eleven children he was the first born, and of
the number it may be stated that only two
are now living. Thomas Griffith was a na-
tive of Pennsylvania, as was also his father,
and the lineage of the family is traced back
to stanch Welsh stock. The father of Thomas
HISTOKY OF GKEATEK INDIANAPOLIS.
823
Griffith became one of the pioneers of Ohio,
whither he removed from the old Keystone
state early in the nineteenth century, and,
from exposure while en route to the new-
home, he died soon after his arrival. His
family settled in the village of Dayton, and
there Thomas Griffith eventually became an
honored citizen. There both he and his wife
passed the residue of fheir lives.
Theodore E. Griffith was reared to ma-
turity in Dayton, Ohi6, and that he made good
use of the advantages afforded him in the
common schools of the locality and period
is evident when it is noted that when but
fifteen years of age he became a successful
teacher in the district schools of his native
county. Later he became a salesman in a
book store in Dayton, and when seventeen
years of age he tendered his services in de-
fense of the Union, having enlisted for a term
of one hundred days as a member of a regi-
ment of Ohio volunteer infantry, with which
he served until the close of his term, when
he received his honorable discharge. When
about eighteen years of age Mr. Griffith be-
came salesman for a wholesale millinery con-
cern in Dayton, and he thus initiated his as-
sociation with a line of enterprise in which
he was destined to achieve splendid success in
later years. After being employed as a sales-
man for a short time he became a member of
the firm, and about the year 1867 the control
of this enterprise passed to the firm of Grif-
fith Brothers, which was then organized. The
original principals in this firm were the sub-
ject of this memoir and his brother, George
Franklin, and they gave close attention to
business, availed themselves of progressive
methods and built up a prosperous trade,
based also upon the popular appreeiation of
the integrity and honor of the brothers. In
January, 1873, Theodore E. Griffith became
a .junior partner in the firm of C. H. F.
Ahrens & Company, of New York City, mann-
faeturers of and importers of artificial flow-
ers and feathers, and he then removed to the
national metropolis, in the meanwhile retain-
inff hi.s intei-est in the business in Dayton.
On the 1st of January, 1876, Mr. Griffith
removed from New York to Indianapolis, and
here he continued to maintain his home until
his death, fully thirty years afterward. Here
he organized the firm of Griffith Brothers,
wholesale milliners, and his associates in the
enterprise were his two brothers, George F.
and William H. In 1880 the Dayton busi-
ness was consolidated with that in Indian-
apolis, and at this time George F. Griffith
withdrew from the firm, to which Claude T.
Griffith, elder son of the sub.iect of this mem-
oii-, was admitted as a member in 1885.
William H. Griffith died in 1898, and Carl V.
Griffith, the younger son, then became a mem-
ber of the firm, whose personnel thus consti-
tuted Theodore E. Griffith and his two sons.
Mr. Griffith continued to be actively iden-
tified with the enterprise until his death, and
the large and representative business con-
trolled by the firm today stands in evidence
of his capacity as an executive, his progres-
sive ideas, and the invincible integrity of
purpose upon which alone can public confi-
dence and support be founded.
For many j^ears the headquarters of the
firm of Griffith Brothers was at 232 South
Meridian street, and after the building was
destroyed by fire, on the 19th of February,
1905, the business was removed to the present
eligible and spacious quarters, at Nos. 24 to
32 West Maryland street, where is utilized
a floor space of fully forty-five thousand
square feet. In a figurative sense, Mr. Grif-
fith literally built the ladder upon which he
climbed to a position of independence and
definite success in connection with the practi-
cal affairs of life, and upon no portion of
his career rests the slightest shadow of wrong
or injustice. He was a genuine, high-minded
gentleman, a sagacious and alert business
man, a public-spirited and loyal citizen, and
a generous and noble character. His life
work, in all its relations, adequately indicates
the man, and this offers the best possible mon-
ument to his memory. To those to whom he
gave his close friendship the many lovable
traits of his character were best known, but
his unvarying courtesy won to him the es-
teem of all with whom he came in contact.
With him friend.ship was inviolable, and thus
he did not extend too widely his circle of in-
timates, but those he indeed ' ' grappled to his
soul with hooks of steel". In his home his
interests centered, and his devotion to his
family was of the most idyllic and unselfish
character, so that to its members, while theira
was the greatest of loss and bereavement
when he was summoned to the life eternal,
so also is theirs the greatest measure of con-
solation and reconciliation, in that they had
so closely touched his noble and gracious per-
sonality. He commanded the high regard
of all who knew him, and while never in pub-
lie office or civic prominence, it is certain that
few men so placed were better known to the
people of Indianapolis in general. In politics
Mr. Griffith gave his allegiance to the Re-
publican party and he was ever loyal to all
the duties of citizenship. As a member and
director of the Civic League he took an ac-
tive part in its work, and he always stood
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
ready to lend his aid and inHuence in behalf
of measures and enterprises tending to ad-
vance the general welfare and the progress
of his home city. He was a charter member
of the Commercial Club and also held mem-
bership in the Columbia Club and the Board
of Trade. Though not formally a member of
any religious body, he had a deep reverence
for the spiritual verities and was a regular
attendant of the Second Presb}i;erian Church.
In 1865, at the age of nineteen years, Mr.
Griffith was united in marriage to Miss
Louisa Jane Hoover, who was born near Day-
ton, Ohio. Mr. Griffith is survived by his
wddow and two sons— Claude T. and Carl V.
Claude T. Griffith was born in Dayton,
Ohio, on the 18th of February, 1866, and was
ten years of age at the time of the family
removal to Indianapolis, where he duly
availed himself of the advantages of the pub-
lic schools, after which he entered historic
old PhiUips Exeter Academy, at Exeter, New
Hampshire, as a member of the class of 1884.
In the following year he took a position with
the firm of Griffith Brothers, as already noted,
and he is now the senior member of the firm
and one of the representative business men
of the capital city.
Carl Vernon Griffith was born in Dayton,
Ohio, on the 8th of August, 1869, and -was
reared in Indianapolis, where he completed
the curriculum of the public schools, after
which he was for a short time a student in
the United States Military Academy, at
Poughkeepsie, New York. Since leaving
school he has been identified with the whole-
sale millinery business founded by his father
and he is now a member of the firm of Grif-
fith Brothers. Both of the brothers are ad-
herents of the Republican party and both are
known as reliable and progressive business
men, in which connection they are ably up-
holding the high prestige of the honored name
which they bear.
Henry Russe. The great empire of Ger-
many has contributed a most valuable ele-
ment to the cosmopolitan social fabric of our
American republic, which has had much to
gain and nothing to lose from this source.
Among those of German birth and ancestry
who have attained to success and precedence
in connection with civic and business affairs
in the capital city of Indiana is Henry Russe,
a citizen of sterling character and one to
whom is accorded the highest confidence and
esteem in the community which has so long
represented his home and the field of his
earnest, honest and successful endeavors. He
has served in offices of public trust, has been
a power for good in the field of practical
philanthropy, has been one of the world's
noble army of workers, and has gained suc-
cess and independence through his own well-
directed endeavors, having come to America
as a stranger in a strange land, unfamiliar
with the language of the country and un-
fortified by financial resources. His career
thus illustrates how much may be accom-
plished by one animated .by integrity of pur-
pose, courage, self-reliance and deteriminate
ambition. Every page of his life history is
open and free from blemish, and it is a mat-
ter of satisfaction to the editors and pub-
lishers of this work that they are able to
here enter at least brief record concerning
his life and worthy services. A wealth of
incident and incentive lies in the career of
the immigrant boy who came to America to
work out his own way and who stands today
as one of the best known and most honored
citizens of Indianapolis, though his course
has ever been marked by personal modest and
unostentatious effort to be of aid to his fel-
low men in less fortunate circumstances.
Surely the man and. his work merit considera-
tion.
Henry Russe was born in the little city of
Osnabrueck, kingdom of Hanover, Germany,
on the 17th of April. 1849, and was the fourth
in order of birth of the nine children born to
Herman and Engel (Schuette) Russe, both of
whom passed their entire lives in Germany,
where the father was a farmer and general
merchant and where he served for a number
of years as a minor governmental officer. The
familj^ name has long been identified with
the annals of Hanoverian history, and the
line is one of the sturdiest German type. Of
the children, three are now living, and of
the entire number two besides the subject of
this review became citizens of the United
States.
Henry Russe was reared to manhood in
his native place, and was afforded the advan-
tages of the local schools, gaining a fair edu-
cation in his native language. After leaving
school he assisted his honored father in the
work and management of the latter 's store
until he had attained his legal majority, when,
in 1869, he severed the ties which bound him
to home and fatherland and set forth to seek
his fortunes in America, to whose develop-
ment and progress those of his race have
contributed in most generous measure. He
embarked at Bremen on the steamer "Her-
man", which dropped anchor in the port of
New York in February of the year mentioned.
Mr. Russe did not long tarr\- in the national
metropolis but made his way to Indiana,
where he was employed for a few months as a
HISTOEY OF GREATEK INDIANAPOLIS.
825
laborer on the "Panhandle" Railroad, now a
part of the Pennsylvania Lines. He came to
Indianapolis in 1870, and here he has sinct
maintained his home, the while he has ad-
vanced from a position of obscurity to one
of substantial prestige as a; business man and
representative citizen. The mental and moral
fiber of the young German was well able to
withstand the tension of the intervening years
of earnest toil and endeavor, and the strength
of his character, his persistence, energy and
ability, enabled him to move forward, step by
step, to the goal of his worthy ambitions.
For a time after establishing his home in In-
diana Mr. Russe found it necessary to secure
employment as a farm hand in Richmond,
and later he was employed in a local brick
yard and in a pork-packing establishment,
having a due appreciation of the dignity of
honest toil and turning his hand to such work
as he could secure, with no handicap of false
pride or vanity. His early efforts and the
vicissitudes which he encountered have doubt-
less been the cause of his lively sympathy for
tho.se in misfortune or need, and he has done
much to aid those who have felt the lash of
necessity even as did he in those early days.
Finally IVIr. Russe secured employment as en-
gine wiper in the local yards of the "Panhan-
dle" Railroad, and later he was advanced to
the position of locomotive fireman, in .which
capacity he worked for two years, at the ex-
piration of which he became car inspector for
the same road, a position which he retained
until 1874, when, during a strike of the rail-
road employes, he refused to obey orders and
take out and run an engine, thereby antago-
nizing his fellow workmen, and because of
such action his wages were reduced, under
which conditions he resigned his position with
the "Panhandle" and entered the employ of
the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Loiiis
Railroad Company ("Big Four"), which he
served in the capacity of car inspector for the
ensuing sixteen years, proving a faithful and
valued employe.
In 1889 Mr. Russe resigned his position
with the railroad company and engaged in
the wholesale and retail grain and seed busi-
ness, in which he has since continued and
through which he has gained a large measure
of success, his concern being now the oldest
and one of the most important of the kintl
in the city and its operations being of broad
scope and importance. Within later years he
has not given so close personal supervision
to the business, relegating this work to his
sons, who were trained in the same and who
are now associated with him under partner-
ship relations, being numbered among the
popular and substantial young business men
of the capital city. Mr. Russe was one of the
organizers of the Standard Building & Loan
Association, which was incorporated about
1887 and which was one of the first organiza-
tions of its kind in Indianapolis. He was the
first president of this a.ssociation, and the
same did a beneficent work under his admin-
istration, in assisting those in moderate cir-
cumstances to secure homes of their own.
Appreciative of the advantages aft'ordad
him in the land of his adoption, Mr. Russe
has ever been most loyal to its institutions
and has been a public-spirited and progressive
citizen, not hedging hinuself in with his own
private interests and having been called upon
to serve in public office in his home city. In
June, 1892, he was elected a member of the
Indianapolis board of education, and of this
position he remained incumbent for six years,
giving much time and study to conserving
the best interests of public school work and
rendering service whose value continues
cumulative. He was president of the board
in 1897-8, and retired from office with the
hearty commendation of his associates and the
general public. He is also a member of the
Board of Trade, having joined in 1891. He
was one of the organizers of the German
Protestant Orphans' Home, and has been
officially connected with the same during the
long intervening period of nearly forty years.
He is now a member of the board of trustees
of the institution, as well as its treasurer, and
his constant sympathj^ for the wards of the
home has caused him to exert all his influence
in promoting their welfare. He was also one
of the organizers and charter members of the
Deaconess Protestant Hospital, representing
one of the noble semi-charitable institutions
of Indianapolis, and he has been a member
of its board of directors from the time of its
founding. He was vice-president for some
time and for the past several years has been
business manager of the institution, to which
office he now devotes the major portion of his
time and attention. It is uniformly conceded
that to his able and earnest services the suc-
cess of this altogether worthy institution is
in large measure due, and his interest in the
.same is of the most vital and insistent order.
His private benevolences have been many and
unostentatious, and knowledge of the same
could not have been gained save through the
appreciative words of those who have been
recipients of his largess and kindly consid-
eration. Mr. Russe has gained success but he
has never lost appreciation of the responsi-
bilities that such success entails, and he has
shown a- high sense of his stewardship as a
HISTOEY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
friend of humanity and as one whose heart is
attuned to sympathy and generosity. None
more than he has deeper reverence for the
spiritual verities of the Christian faith, and
for many years he has been a most devout
and zealous member, as well as an official,
of the Evau<relical Zion Church of Indian-
apolis, of which his wife is also a devoted
adherent.
In politics Mr. Russe was aligned as a
stanch advocate of the principles of the
Democratic party until the national campaign
of 1896, when he found his views at variance
with the free-silver propaganda of the plat-
form, and he has since maintained an atti-
tude independent of partisanship, giving his
support to the candidates and policies meet-
ing the approval of his judgment and keep-
ing in close touch with the questions and
issues of the hour. For many years Mr.
Russe was affiliated with the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, in which he has passed
the various official chairs of both the lodge
and encampment. For many years he was
also an active member of the Indianapolis
Independent Turnverein. Concerning Mr.
Russe one who is familiar with his career
has written as follows: "He has been an
active man in business, in public service, and
in charitable and fraternal circles. He came
to America a poor young man, with no capital
other than pluck, industrious habits, honest
energy and determination, a splendid work-
ing capital He worked and worked hard;
he planned, and planned well; he persevered,
and succeeded. He sought to serve those
about him and did faithful service. His de-
votion to principle is inflexible. He is a
strong man and a good citizen."
In the year 1872 was solemnized the mar-
riage of Mr. Russe to Miss Amelia Habeny,
who was bom and reared in Indianapolis, be-
ing a daughter of the late Henry and Chris-
tina (Limberg) Habeny, and who has proved
to him a devoted companion and helpmeet.
They became the parents of six children, of
whom four are living: Harry and Paul are
associated with their father in business, as
already intimated; William is chief engineer
at the Deaconess Hospital; and Julia, who
remains at the parental home. Frederick
died in infancy, and Edward passed away
at the age of twenty-three years, as the result
of illness contracted while serving as a mem-
ber of the Indianapolis fire department.
James E. Lilly. Of primary and most
insistent relevancy to the industrial and gen-
eral commercial historj- of "Greater Indian-
apolis" is the record of the splendid corpor-
ation known as the Eli Lilly Company, of
which the subject of this brief sketch is vice-
president and trea.surer. There can be no
measure of inconsistency in saying that of
all the great concerns that have contributetl
to the commercial advancement and prestige
of the Indiana metropolis, none has been a
factor of more distinct importance than this
company, whose establishment is one of the
best of its kind in the Union, whose business
ramifications have carried the name and fame
of Indianapolis into the most diverse sections
of the civilized world, and whose beneficent
influence, by verj reason of the products
sent forth, has transcendet. the bounds of
mere commercialism and made for the well-
being of humanity. This statement will read-
ily be understood when recognition is had of
the scope of the magnificent enterprise of the
company— manufacturers of pharmaceutical
preparations, new chemicals, digestive fer-
ments, gelatine products, etc., and importers
of crude vegetable drugs, oils, etc., in orig-
inal packages. W^ith the development of this
splendid business enterprise, James E. Lilly
has been closely associated with his brother,
Eli, who was the founder of the same, and
both have long held precedence as representa-
tive citizens of the Indiana capital.
James Edward Lilly was born in the beau-
tiful old city of Lexington, Kentucky, on the
8th of July, 1844, and is a son of Gustavus
and Esther E. (Kirby) Lilly, who removed
from that state to Indiana when he was a lad
of eight years, settling in Greeneastle,
where his father engaged in contracting. The
parents passed the remainder of their lives in
Indiana, where they ever retained the high re-
gard of all who knew them. The son James
E. was afforded the advantages of the com-
mon schools of Greeneastle, and when seven-
teen years of age he signified his youthful
loyalty and patriotism by tendering his serv-
ices in defense of the Union, in response to
President Lincoln's call for volunteers. In
May, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Com-
pany D, Fifty-fifth Indiana Volunteer Infan-
try, with' which he proceeded to the front, and
upon the expiration of his term of three
months, in November, 1862, he re-enlisted, be-
coming a menvber of Company H, Forty-third
Indiana Volunteer Infantry, with which he
served until the close of the war and with
which he took pirt in the various battles and
minor engagements in which the gallant reg-
iment was involved as a part of the Army of
the Trans-Mississippi Department. He re-
ceived his honorable discharge in July, 1865.
as first lieutenant of his company. He signi-
fies his continued interest in his old comrades
in arms by retaining membership in the Mil-
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After the close of the -war Mr. Lilly en-
tered the employ of Cloud, Aiken & Com-
pany, wholesale druggists, of Evansville, In-
diana, with which concern he continued until
1870, when he then engaged in the manu-
facturing of pharmaceutical preparations, in
which line of enterprise he continued until
1876, when he became connected with the
wholesale pharmaceutical house of William R.
Warner & Company, of Philadelphia. In 1878
he came to Indianapolis, where he associated
himself with his brother Eli in the manu-
facturing of pharmaceutical preparations,
and with this concern, under its various
changes of title, he has since been actively
identified in an executive capacity and as an
interested principal. In 1881 he established
the branch house in Kansas City, Missouri,
of which he had the general supervision un-
til 1889, when he returned to Indianapolis,
where he has since given his time and atten-
tion to the administration of the large and
constantly expanding business now conducted
under the title of The Eli Lilly and Company,
of which, as already stated, he is vice-president
and.treasurer. Mr. Lilly is essentially a loyal
and progressive business man and public-
spirited citizen, and he maintains a lively in-
terest in all that tends to conserve the civic
and commercial advancement of his home
city, where his business and social relations
have ever been of the most agreeable order
and where he is held in unequivocal confi-
dence and esteem. In politics he gives his
allegiance to the Republican party, though
never animated by aught of ambition for pub-
lie office of any description.
In 1868 Mr. Lilly was united in marriage
to Miss Matilda M. Dexter, daughter of Cap-
tain Henry T. Dexter, of Evansville, Indiana,
and she died in Kansas City, in 1884, being
survived by one daughter, Mary D., who is
now the wife of A. G. Kyle, of Harrodsburg,
Kentucky. In 1890 was solemnized ,the mar-
riage of Mr. Lilly to Miss Nora Robinson, of
St. Charles, Missouri, who presides with gra-
cious dignity over their beautiful home,
which is a center of social hospitality.
Henry A. Mansfield. If success be predi-
cated from the mark of definite accomplish-
ment in the. utilization of one's individual
powers and ability, then Henry A. Mansfield
has certainly achieved success. In the field
of practical engineering work he gained
marked prestige at an early age, and to-day
he is a representative exponent of this line
of business in the capital city. He held the
office of city engineer of Indianapolis when
but twenty-two years of age, and the results
of his able service in this capacity shall long
be recognized and appreciated.
Mr. Mansfield finds a due measure ot satis-
faction in reverting to the old Buckeye state
as the place of his nativity. He was born in
Ashland, Ohio, on the 16th of November,
1868, and is the tenth in order of birth of the
eleven children born to Martin H. and Anna
(Saiger) Mansfield, both of whom were na-
tives of Pennsylvania. The father was a man
of marked mechanical ability and was the in-
ventor of a number of practical devices, in-
cluding a clover huller, in the manufacture
of which he was engaged in Ashland, Ohio,
for many years prior to his. death, which oc-
curred when Henry A. of this review was
about ten years of age. The mother sur-
vived a number of years and of the children
seven are now living. Henry A. Mansfield
was afforded the advantages of the public
schools of his native town and after the com-
pletion of the curriculum of the high school
he secured employment in the engineering de-
partment of the Pennsylvania Railroad, at
Richmond, Indiana, where he remained one
year, at the expiration of which he was trans-
ferred by the company, in 1886, to Indian-
apolis, where he has since maintained his
home. He continued with the railroad com-
pany until 1890, in November of which year
he was elected city engineer of Indianapolis,
to which responsible office he came admirably
equipped, though, as already stated, he was
but twenty-two years of age at the time, and
he had the distinction of being the youngest
man ever chosen to fill this position in the
Indiana capital. He held the office, and most
capably handled its affairs, for four years,
during the administration of Mayor Thomas
L. Sullivan, and the present effective sewer-
age system of the city was devised and laid
out by him, and approved by Rudolph Her-
ing, consulting engineer, while the general
engineering plans of the city are still those
which were formulated by Mr. Mansfield.
Upon retiring from the office of city engi-
neer Mr. Mansfield engaged in business as" an
engineer and contractor, in construction work
and contracting along general engineering
lines. In this enterprise, in which he has
attained to marked success and being identi-
fied with a large amount of important con-
tract work in Indianapolis and elsewhere, he
is now associated with D. V. Moore, under
the partnership title of the Mansfield Engi-
neering Company. This alliance was formed
and the name adopted in 1899. In 1902 was
effected the organization of the Moore-Mans-
field Construction Company, and of this com-
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
pany, whose operations have been of inipoi--
tant order, Mr. Mansfield is president and
treasurer. He may be consistently designated
one of the aggressive and successful "cap-
tains of industry" who are contributing to
the upbuilding of the larger and greater In-
dianapolis and as a citizen he is essentially
loyal and public-spirited. He has been an
advocate and a hard fighter for the improve-
ment and development of Fall Creek, believ-
ing, boulevards are a necessity in the city.
He is a stanch advocate of the principles of
the Democratic party and is a member of
the Indiana Democratic Club. He is identi-
fied with the Columbia Club, the Commercial
Club and the Indianapolis Bosrd of Trade,
and in the time-honored Masonic fraternity
he has attained the thirty-second degree of
the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, besides
being enrolled as a popular member of Murat
Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles
of the Mystic Shrine.
In 1891 Mr. Mansfield was united in mar-
riage to Miss Ada F. Freeland, of Spencer,
Indiana, and they have one child, Freeland.
Charles M. Cross. Among those success-
fully engaged in the real estate business in
Indianapolis is Charles M. Cross, who has
here followed this important line of enter-
priseVsince 1895 and whose operations have
included the handling and improving of niani^
properties of important order, thus contribut-
ing in a material way to the progress and de-
velopment of "Greater Indianapolis". Mr.
Cross has maintained his home in Indianapo-
lis for more than a quarter of a century and
is here known as a loyal citizen and as a re-
liable and progressive business man who has
achieved success through his own well di-
rected endeavors.
Charles M. Cross reverts to the fine old
Keystone state of the Union as the place of
his nativity, since he was born at Alexandria,
Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, on the
1st of March, 1857. He is one of the five
living children of Benjamin and Mary (Sai-
nor) Cross, both of whom were born and
reared in Pennsylvania, where they passed
their entire lives and where the father was a
carpenter and building contractor by voca-
tion. He was of French and German lineage
and his wife was a representative of one of
the old and honored German families of
Pennsylvania. The parents were folk of ster-
ling character and ever commanded the high
regard of all M-ho knew them. Both con-
tinued to reside in Alexandria until they
were summoned from the scene of life's en-
deavors and both were consistent members
of the German Reformed Church.
Charles M. Cross is indebted to the public
schools of his native village for his early edu-
cational training, and his ambition and ap-
preciation were such that he defrayed the ex-
penses of his higher academic education
largely through his own efforts. He secured
employment as a traveling salesman and
through the alternating of his services in this
way with attendance in college, he was able
to continue his studies for two years in Mer-
cersburg College, at Mercersburg, Pennsyl-
vania, and for an equal period in Heidelberg
College, at Tiffin, Ohio. After leaving college
Mr. Cross continued to be employed as a
traveling commercial salesman for fifteen
years, during a considerable portion of which
time he represented a leading wholesale con-
cern of Indianapolis. He was married in the
year 1883 and forthwith took up his residence
in Indianapolis, where he has maintained his
home during the long intervening years. He
continued "on the road" until 1895, when he
engaged in the real estate business in this
city, initiating operations on a somewhat
modest .scale and gradually expanding the
same until he has now control of a large and
substantial enterprise in this line. His books
show at all times most desirable investijients
and his scrupulous care and honor in all
transactions have given to him a reputation
that constitutes the best possible advertise-
ment of his business. He has bought and sold
realty in various parts of the city, has erected
numerous buildings and placed the improved
properties on the market, and has been con-
cerned in the development of several of the
newer residence sections of the capital city.
;\Ir. Cross has shown marked executive ability
and has handled his independent business
with much of prescience and skill, so that his
operations have yielded to him due returns
and have proved of value to those whom he
has served in his professional capacity as a
general real estate dealer. His success is the
more gratifying to contemplate on the score
that it represents the direct results of his own
labors and ability. He has been dependent
upon his own resources from early youth and
has made his business career worthy in all re-
spects.
In politics Mr. Cross is not a turbulent
partisan, but he gives allegiance to the cause
of the Democratic party. In the time-hon-
ored IMasonic fraternity he has attained the
thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted
Scottish Rite and his .so.iourn across the burn-
ing sands has placed him in good repute as a
member of Murat Temple, Ancient Arabic
Order of the Nobles of the !Mystic Shrine. His
maximum York Rite affiliation is with Raper
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
839
Commandery, No. 1, Knights Templar, and he
is also affiliated with the Knights of Pythias.
In the year 1883 was solemnized the mar-
riage of Mr. Cross to Miss Laura Lott, of
Tiffin, Ohio, a graduate of Heidelberg College,
of that place, and the children of this union
are Harry E., Jessie M., Charles M., Jr.,
Helen Ida, and Donald Frederick.
Hugh Dougherty. That "man lives not
to himself alone" is an assurance that is am-
ply verified in all the affairs of life, but its
pertinence is the more patent in those in-
stances where persons have so employed their
inherent talents, so improved their oppor-
tunities and so marshaled their forces as to
gain prestige which find its angle of influ-
ence ever broadening in practical beneficence
and human helpfulness. He whose productive
activities are directed along legitimate and
normal lines is by very virtue of this fact
exerting a force that conserves human prog-
ress and prosperity, and the man of capacity
for business affairs of broad scope and im-
portance finds himself an involuntary steward
upon whom devolve large responsibilities. To
the extent that he appreciates these duties
and responsibilities and proved faithful in
his stewardship does he also contribute to the
well being of the world in which he moves.
Hugh Dougherty has been essentially a man
who "has done things", and this accomplish-
ment has been altogether worthy in all the
lines along M-hich he has directed his energies.
As a man of ability, sturdy integrity and
usefulness, and as a citizen representative of
the utmost loyalty he merits consideration in
this publication, which touches the "Greater
Indianapolis" and those who have con-
tributed to and sustained the city's civic and
material prosperity and precedence. He is
now president of the Marion Trust Company,
one of the most" important financial and
fiduciary institutions of the state, having held
the position since 1904, in which year he took
up his residence in Indianapolis. Prior to
that time he had been a resident of the thriv-
ing little city of Bluffton, Indiana, for a
period of nearly forty years. He has been
prominently identified with various business
operations of importance for many years, es-
pecially in the promotion of the affairs of
independent telephone companies; he is
known as an able financier and a man of
marked initiative and constructive talent; he
has been influential in political affairs; and
his loyalty as a true son of the republic was
shown in a distinctive way through his serv-
ice as a soldier in the Civil war. Lives of
such activity and usefulness are ever worthy
of .study and bear objective lesson and in-
centive.
Mr. Dougherty was born on a farm in
Neave Township, Darke County, Ohio, and
the date of his nativity was July 28, 1844.
He bears the full patronymic of his honored
grandfather, Hugh Dougherty, who was born
in County Donegal, Ireland, where he was
reared and educated and whence he immi-
grated to America when a young man. This
worthy ancestor first settled in Washington
County, Pennsylvania, in 1818, and he
eventually removed thence and became one
of the pioneer settlers of Darke County,
Ohio, where he secured a tract of wild land
and instituted its reclamation. William
Dougherty, father of the subject of this re-
view, was born in Washington County, Penn-
sylvania, and his active career was princi-
pally one of intimate identification with th'^
great ba.sic industry of agriculture, in connec-
tion with which he so directed his energies as
to gain a due mea.sure of success and pros-
perity. He continued to reside in Darke
County until his death, which occurred when
he was about fifty-nine years of age. His
wife, whose maiden name was Margaret
Studabaker, was , a daughter of Abraham
Studabaker, one of the pioneers and influen-
tial citizens of Drake County, Ohio, and a
distant relative 'of the Indiana family of the
name who have become widely known as man-
ufacturers of carriages and wagons. Mrs.
Dougherty was about thirty-nine years of age
at the time of her demise, and of the seven
children one son and two daughters are now
living. The parents were zealous members
of the Christian Church and were persons of
sterling character and ot more than ordinary
intellectuality.
Hugh Dougherty, whose name initiates this
sketch, was reared to the sturdy and invig-
orating discipline of the home farm and his
early educational advantages were those af-
forded in the common schools of the locality
and period. That he made good use of his
limited scholastic opportunities is evident
when cognizance is taken of the fact that at
the age of- seventeen years he proved himself
eligible for pedagogic honors, having secured
a teacher's license after passing the required
examination. He taught one term in a dis-
trict school of his native county and then,
like many another loyal youth of the north,
he subordinated all other considerations to
respond to the call of higher duty and go
forth in defense of the Union, whose integ-
rity was jeopardized by armed rebellion.
July 26, 1862. he enli.sted as a private in
Company F, Ninety-fourth Ohio Volunteer
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HISTOnV OF OIJEATEH INDIAN'APOLIS.
Jiifimtry, whicli i)nii-i'wled to tlu' front. h;iv-
iiitr been iissi.uiu'il to the Army of tlif Poto-
iiiai-. With his coimiiaiid hv participated in
the battles of Kiehniond, Perryville and
Stone's Kiver, in which last mentioned en-
u'afrenient ho was captured by the enemy, laic
in 18(i2: was paroled at once and sent to
Camp Chase, where he became very ill and
was sent home, and the followintr ilay was
dischartred on account of disability. His con-
tinued interest in his old comrades in arms is
indicated by his membership in the Grand
Army of the Republic.
After the termination of his service as a
loyal soldier of the Union, :\Ir. Don<rherty re-
turned to tlie parental home, taufrht one term
of school, and was deputy county recorder of
Darke County until 1S65, when he went to
Bluffton, Indiana, where he entered the em-
ploy of his maternal uncle, John Studabaker,
(>ne of the honored pioneers and influential
citizens of Wells County, who was en<iaoed in
the grain connnission trade at Bluft'ton and is
still living being ninety-three years of age.
Mr. Studabaker was also owner of the Ex-
change Bank of Bluffton, and ^Mr. Dough-
erty soon assumed a clerical position in this
institutiort, in which he eventually became a
partner of his uncle and of which he con-
tinued an executive officer for many years.
In 1888 he became president of the institu-
tion, and the Studabaker Bank, as it is now
known, has long been one of the solid and
most popular financial institutions of that
section of the state. Jlr. Dougherty contin-
ued to serve as president of the bank for a
period of sixteen years, at the expiration of
which, in 190-4, he resigned the office to enter
a wider field of financial enterprise. In that
>-ear he as: f^ied the presidency of the Mar-
ion Trust C\)mpany, of Indianapolis, and in
this important office he has thoroughly dem-
onstrated his perspicacity, ver.satility and fine
ailministrative ability, through the applica-
tion of which the distinctive success of the en-
terprise has been conserved.
.Mr. Dougherty has shown his versatility
and power of leadership in other spheres of
husinoss enterprise— notably the development
of the telephone industry. When the United
Telephone Company was organized in 1896,
he became its president, and this incumbency
h(> has since retained. This company was one
of the first of the so-called independent com-
]')anies, and was incorporated with a capital
of three hundred thousand dollars. Inci-
dentally ^Ir. Dougherty became one of the
leaders in the national association of inde-
pendent telephone companies, and to his ef-
forts may be attributed much of the success
of this national organization, through whose
influence the various independent companies
ha\'e been able to meet the strenuous compe-
tition brought to bear. Comtemporaneous
v,ith th" organizatit n of the United Tele-
phone Company, there came into existence a
number of similar corporations, not only in
Ohio and Indiana but also in many other and
most diverse sections of the Union. The Bell
Telephone Company maintained that the in-
dependent companies were infringing upon
its patents, and finally it brought suit against
a small company in the city of Boston. Real-
izing that the weaker concern was liable to
<lefeat, on account of the lack of financial
means to fight so formidable a foe, and that
upon the verdict depended their own future,
the independent companies organized to sup-
port the defense of the suit, and the na-
tional association thus formed is still main-
tained. The president. Judge James M.
Thomas, of Chillicothe, Ohio, and Mr. Dough-
erty were placed on the committee in charge
of the suit, which, after five years of most
expensive litigation, was decided in favor of
the independent companies. They were lit-
erally fighting for their lives, and incidental-
ly against the domination of a monopoly
maintained in contrariety to public interests,
and the legal contest was one in which was
enlisted the best talent, w^ith ample capital-
istic reinforcement. Judge Thomas and Mr.
Dougherty devoted themselves to the work
without abatement of enthusiasm or energj^
until victory was assured. When Judge
Thomas died, Mr. Dougherty was chosen to
succeed him as president of the national as-
sociation, an office of which he continued in
tenure until 1904. His effoi-ts have been
productive of much good aside from the im-
munit.v from law suits of the companies orig-
inally interested. Many investors who had
been intimidated by the conditions obtaining
prior to the litigation mentioned, entered the
field as soon as the courts defined the limit of
responsibility, and the patronage of the in-
dependent companies with which he was con-
nected financially was extended through the
provisions of an agreement which Mr.
Dougherty succeeded in effecting with the
Bell Company, by which the lines he repre-
sented could be connected with a number of
large cities in which they were not yet es-
tablished in an independent way. Thus ho
has been instrumental in promoting the ef-
ficiency of a public ntility of the greatest
importance and value, and his efforts in this
direction gained him a wide reputation among
men of affairs throughout tho Union.
In politics l\Tr. Dougherty has long been a
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS.
recognized factor of influence in connection
with the atfairs of the Democratic party in
Indiana, and during his long period of resi-
dence in Wells County he took a pi-omiueut
part in the manceuvering of party forces in
that section of the state. He was a member
of the Democratic state executive committee
from 1890 to 1896, and was a delegate to the
national conventions of his party in 1884,
1892, 1896, and 1900. As an astute man uC
affairs and an able financier he is naturally
found enlisted as a member of the conserva-
tive wing of the Democratic party, of whose
generic principles he has ever been a stal-
wart advocate. He represented his district
in the state senate from 1871 to 1873, but he
has never shown himself ambitious for pub-
lic office.
Mr. Dougherty and his wife are zealous
)uembers of the ]\Iethadist Episcopal Church,
and he has not withheld his hand from lib-
eral support of religious, charitable and be-
nevolent work of a general order, the while
his private benevolences have been extended
with discrimination and invariably without
ostentation. He is a member of the board of
trustees of the Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors'
Orphans' Home, is president of the board of
trustees of DePauvv University, and in In-
dianapolis he is an appreciative and valued
member of the Commercial, Universit.y and
Country Clubs. Concerning the status of
Mr. Dougherty, the president of the Indiana
National Bank, Volney T. ]Malott, himself
one of the leading financiei-s of the country,
has written the following estimate: "Mr.
Hugh Dougherty, a distinguished financier,
president of the jMarion 'J'rust Company,
ranks among the ablest financiers of the .state;
he has had a long and successful career as a
banker, and is a man of the highlit standing
and the strictest integrity."
On the 25th of October, 1877. was solemn-
ized the marriage of IMr. Dougherty to Miss
Emma Gilliland, daughter of Theodore F.
Gilliland, of Indianapolis, and they have one
daughter, Elizabeth, w-ho was graduated in
DePauw University in 1907 and was gradu-
ated in the cla.ss of 1909 in Wellesley College.
The following consistent statement is worthy
of reproduction in this connection: "Mrs.
Dougherty is not only a leader in social cir-
cles, but is also a woman who.se time and
means are devoted quietly but unreservedly
to charitable and philanthropic enterprises,
sharing to the full her husband's sympathy
in such works."
William C. V.\n Arsdel. Both in the an-
cestral history and the personal career of
William C. Van Arsdel is to be found an
abundance of interesting data woi-thy of per-
petuation in a volume of this character. He
is a scion of one of the sturdy Holland Dutch
families whose names early became linked
with the history of New Amsterdam, the
quaint little town which figures in history as
the nucleus of New York City, the metrop-
olis of our great republic. Representatives of
the name have been enrolled as gallant sol-
diers in the various wars in which the nation
has been involved and utmost civic loyalty
and devoted patriotism have characterized the
family as one generation has followed an-
other on to the stage of life's activities. Mr.
Van Arsdel himself has long held prestige as
one of the honored and substantial business
men and public-spirited citizens of the State
of Indiana, which has been his home from the
time of his nativity and he is now engaged in
the real estate business in the City of Indian-
apolis, though he -maintains his residence in
Greencastle, whither he removed in 1905, in
order to afford his children the advantages of
DePauw University. He is well known
throughout the state and his circle of friends
is coincident with that of his acquaintances.
William C. Van Arsdel was born on a farm
in Franklin township, near the village of Dar-
lington, Montgomery County, Indiana, on the
19th of December, 1849, and is a son of Jacob
and Elizabeth (Buck) Van Arsdel. The orig-
inal progenitors of the Van Arsdel line in
America were four brothers of the name who
came from Holland in 1635 and took up their
abode among their countrymen in New Am-
.sterdam, which name was retained until the
English usurped control and gave to the
community the title of New York. - — Van
Arsdel, the paternal great-grandfather of the
subject of this sketch, was a native of New
Jersey and was a valiant soldier in the Con-
tinental line in the War of the Revolution, in
which he sacrificed his life on the altar of
independence, having been killed in the his-
toric battle of Trenton. Jacob Van Arsdel,
father of William C, was born in Westmore-
land County, Pennsylvania, on the 3rd of
January, 1795, and he died at Thorntovvn,
Boone County, Indiana, in 1877. His wife,
who wias a native of the State of Ohio, died
in 1889. Thej' reared a very large family of
children and of the number two .sons and two
daughters are living. Jacob Van Arsdel
early became a devout member of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church and for more than half
a century he was a local preacher in the same,
having been a man of strong individuality
and fine mental powers and having g\iided
and governed his life according to the faith
which he so earnestly and effectively exempli-
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HISTORY OF GREATER lilMANAPOLIS.
tied in seeking to aid and uplift his fellow
men. He was one of the pioneers of Mont-
gomery County, Indiana, where he secured a
tract of wild land and reclaimed a farm, and
he devoted the, major portion of his long and
useful career to agricultural pursuits. He
continued to reside in Montgomery County
until 1856, when he removed to Thorntown,
in order to offer his children needed educa-
tional advantages. In the climacteric period
leading up to the Civil War he was an uncom-
promising Abolitionist, and he did most effec-
tive work in the cause. He was a soldier in
the War of 1812, having been a member of
Captain Zenor's company and having assisted
in guarding blockhouses in southern Indiana
during the campaign of General William
Henry Harrison in this state. He was thus
on duty at the time of the historic battle of
Tippecanoe.
William C. Van Arsdel passed his child-
hood days on the old homestead farm and at
Thorntown, Indiana, where his parents re-
"moved when he was six years old and where
he had the privilege of study in a well or-
dered academy at Thorntown. this state, to
which place his parents removed in 1856, as
has already been noted. In 1870 he entered
Asbury University, now De Pauw University,
at Lafayette, Indiana, where he was a student
for a few months. In the spring of 1871 he
took up his residence in Indianapolis, where
he began reading law in the offices and under
the preeeptorship of the firm of Ritter, Wal-
ker & Ritter, with whom he remained three
years, in the meanwhile being admitted to the
bar of his native state. The dry technicalities
of the law and the inactive life involved did
not greatly apceal to the ambitious and vital
youth, and he soon directed his energies in
other channels. For a period of fourteen
years he did most effective services as travel-
ing salesman for a wholesale clothing house
in the City of Cincinnati, and in this connec-
tion he covered the State of Indiana as well
as other territory. At the expiration of the
period noted Mr. Van Arsdel became a special
agent for the New York Life Insurance Com-
nany, and in 1897 this company promoted
him to the position of director of agencies for
the State of Indiana, with headquarters in
Indianapolis. He was most successful in fur-
therins the interests of the company in hi.s
.iuri.sdiction and he continued in the position
mentioned until 1905. when he resifimed the
same in order to devote his attention to his
rapidly increasing real estate business, which
he had established in '1904 and which he still
continues, having a laree and representative
clientage and conducting important opera-
tions in the handling of both city and farm
property; It. is scarcely necessary to state
that his business career has been marked by
the most scrupulous integrity of purpose and
that the highest ethical ' standard has been
upheld in all the relations thereof. Thus he
has ever retained a secure hold upon the con-
fidence and regard of his fellow men, and his
gracious personality has promoted warm and
inviolable friendships.
PVom the time of attaining to his legal ma-
jority Mr. Van Arsdel has accorded a stanch
allegiance to the Republican party, in whose
cause he has rendered yeoman service and by
which he has been honored with official pre-
ferment of not small distinction. In Indiana
he attended every state convention of his
party for more than a quarter of a centyry,
and in 1894 he was elected to represent
Marion County in the state legislature. He
proved a valuable working member upon the
floor of the house and also in the committee
room, and his record was admirable in every
respect, being marked by conservatism and
mature judgment. As chairman of the fee
and salary committee he gave especially con-
spicuous service, having been the author of
the fee and salary bill, whose cause he ably
championed and through whose provision, as
enacted, thousands of dollars have been saved
to the state .yearly. In 1890 Mr. Van Arsdel,
as a veteran of the commercial fraternity, had
the honor of being chosen president of the
National Commercial Travelers' Republican
Club, and he retained this office several years,
indicating the estimate placed upon him by
the members of the organization. For many
years he has been a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, and he has taken an active
interest in the various departments of its
work.
Mr. Van Arsdel has been twice married.
In 1874 he wedded Miss Francilia E. Hawk,
who was bom and reared in Morrisville, In-
diana, and who was a daughter of the late
Dr. William V. Hawk, a representative citi-
zen of Morgan and Marion Counties for many
years. Mrs. Van Arsdel was summoned to
the eternal life in 1893, leaving no children.
In 1895 was solemnized the marriage of Mr.
Van Arsdel to Miss Emma P. Parr, of Frank-
lin, this state. She was born in Johnson
County, and is a daughter of Rev. Peterson
K. Parr, who was a resident of Johnson
County at the time of his death and who
was a minister by vocation. The children of
the second marriage are : Mary E.. William
C, Jr., and Paul Parr. In 1905 Mr. Van
Arsdel built a fine residence property in the
beautiful little citv of Greencastle, and since
HISTORY OF GREATER INDIAXAPOLIS.
833
that time this attractive homestead has con-
stituted the family domicile. The prime ob-
ject-of the removal from Indianapolis, as al-
leady stated in this context, was that the chil-
dren might avail themselves of the advantages
of the splendid univei"sity which has its seat
in Greencastle. The family home is a center
of gracious hospitality and is a favored ren-
dezvous of a wide circle of friends, young
and old.
John E. Welch was born in the village of
Warsaw, Gallatin Connt.v, Kentucky, on the
23rd of October, 1856 ; he is a son of Thomas
and Anne Welch, both of whom were born
and reared in Ireland, where their marriage
was solemnized, in the City of Dublin, in
May, 1855. In the same year the young
couple set forth for America, severing the
ties that bound them to home and native
land, that they might find better opportuni-
ties in the United States. They settled at
Warsaw, Kentucky, in 1855, and came to In-
dianapolis, Indiana, in 1875. and resided here
until their deaths. Both were devout com-
municants of the Catholic Church and their
children were carefully reared in that faith.
Of their twelve children the subject of this
review was one of twins, the firstborn, and of
the niimber five others are now living.
John R. Welch gained his early education
in a parochial school at Carrollton, Kentucky,
attending the same until he had attained the
age of thirteen years, when, owing to the
seriou.sly impaired health of his father, he
was compelled to go to work, that he might
assist in the support of the family. He con-
tinued to be variously employed in his native
state until 1875, in May of which year he
came to Indianapolis, which city has been his
home during the long intervening years,
marked by earnest toil and endeavor and by
the winninsr of success and prestige of no un-
certain order. He had no friends or ac-
quaintances in the capital city, but he had
been trained in the school of necessity and
had well learned the les.sons of self-reliance
and indomitable courage, so that he was ready
to turn his hand to any honest work that he
might secure. Thus we find the future capi-
talist and man of affairs employed as a com-
mon laborer on the streets of Indianapolis
durinc the summer and autumn of 1875, in
the service of the Indianapolis Water Com-
pany. Later he was for two years in the em-
ploy of Kinrran & Company, pork and beef
packers, and for an equal period. was en-
gaged with the old Woodburn-Sarven wheel
works. In the meanwhile, realizing the need
(if further education, he showed that his am-
bition and anpreciation were those of action.
by entering the night class at one of the lead-
ing coumiercial colleges of Indianapolis,
where he completed an effective course of
practical study. In 1880 and 1881 :Mr. Welch
endured the vicissitudes and trials that fall
to the lot of a book agent, as he was a travel-
ing representative in this line for the National
Publishing Company, of Philadelphia, for
which he worked in the state of Ohio. He
returned to Indianapolis in 1882 and secured
a position as bookkeeper, in which vocation
he continued to be employed until 1888, when
he opened an office on The Circle, now famil-
iarly known as "i\Ionument place", and
established himself in the real estate, loan
and insurance business, with which he has
since been continuously identified and in con-
nection with which he still maintains his of-
fice in Monument place, the unique and dis-
tinctive center of the city. He began opera-
tions on a modest scale, but the same attri-
butes of character that had enabled him to
make the preceding steps toward the goal of
success and independence, proved efficaciou,s
in the new field of endeavor. He brought to
bear marked energy, initiative power and ad-
ministrative abilit.v and soon built up a pros-
perous business, the while he gained popular
confidence and esteem by reason of his in-
tegrity of purpose land his adherence to cor-
rect business principles. His agency, in each
of its departments, is now one of the most
important of its kind in the city and his
transactions reach a large volume each year.
In 1884 Mr. Welch was elected secretarv of
the Celtic Savings & Loan Association, which
was at that time a modest neighborhood or-
ganization, whose members a.ssembled one
evening in each week to make their deposits
and transact other requisite business. Prom
this modest nucleus has been built up one
of the large and substantial institutions of
its kind in the state, and this advancement
has been in no small measure due to the faith-
ful and discriminating administration of Mr.
AVeleh, who has continued secretary of the
association to the present time. An idea of
the growth of. the association's business may
be gained from the statement that its annual
report for the year ending June 30, 1909,
showed its total assets to be $1,182,715.60.
In 1891 Mr. Welch was elected secretary and
treasurer of Holy Cross Cemetery Associa-
tion, and he still retains this incumbency.
Since 1906 he has been president of the In-
diananolis Fire Insurance Association, which
includes in its membership all the local fire
insurance underwriters antl agents of the
city. He was one of the organizers and in-
corporators of the Union National Bank, of
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HISTOEY OF GllEATER INDIANAPOLIS.
which hf is a director at the present time,
and he was also one of the orjranizers of the
Marion Title Guaranty Company, of whose
directorate he is a valued member. He is a
director and member of the executive com-
mittee of the Citizens' Gas Company. ]Mr.
Welch has been a member of the Commercial
Club from the time of its organization, and
this statement also holds true in connection
with his identification with the Indiana
Democratic Club. He is treasurer of Branch
No. 22, Catholic Knights of America, a fra-
ternal insurance order. In the centennial
year, 1876, Jlr. Welch became a m<?mber of
the Ancient Order of Hibernians, with which
he is stil! identified. He is a charter member
of Indianapolis Council No. 437, Knights of
Columbus, and served two years as its grand
knight, or chief executive officer' He was one
of the organizers and is an appreciative mem-
ber of the Indianapolis Canoe Club. Both
he and his wife are communicants of the
Catholic Church, holding membership in the
parish of Saints Peter and Paul.
In St. Bridget's Church, Indianapolis, on
the 23rd of February, 1886, was solemnized
the marriage of ]Mr. Welch to IMiss Alice Cal-
lan, who was born and reared in Indiana and
who is a daughter of Patrick and ]Mary Cal-
lan, both natives of the fair old Emerald Isle.
Concerning the children of Mr. and ]\Irs.
Welch the following brief data are entered :
Thomas, born November 28, 1886, died in in-
fancy; ]\Iary, born September 1, 1888, died
at the age of ten months; Anna was born
June 16, 1890; Leo. F., June 16, 1893; Law-
rence J., February 4. 1895; John A., June 24,
1896 ; and Alice, who was born March 6,
1898, died in infancy.
The foregoing brief outline of the career
of one of the representative business men
and honored citizens of Indianapolis can not
but move to appreciation and admiration,
though its sub.ject is a man essentially sim-
ple and xinostentatious in his tastes and hab-
its. He has been one of the world's faithful
and productive workers, and his success has
been worthily won, so that he well merits the
high esteem in which he is held in the com-
munity that has witnessed his rise from ob-
scurity to a position of independence and in-
fluence.
Vinson Carter. The family of which
Judge Vinson Carter is a worthy scion was
founded in Indiana in the territorial epoch
of this commonwealth, with whose annals the
name has linked for nearly a century. Each
generation has accredited itself well in con-
nection with the practical and social affairs
of life, and there can be no measure of im-
propriety or exaggeration in referring to
Judge Carter as one of the distinguished rep-
resentatives of the name which he bears. He
has long held prestige as one of the able
members of the bar of his native state and
was engaged in the active and successful jirac-
tice of his profession in Indianapolis for near-
ly thirty years prior to his elevation to the
bench of the superior court, in 1896, since
which year he has served with distinction in
this important .judicial office.
Judge Carter was- born at Mooresville,
^lorgan County, Indiana, on the 16th of
July, 1840, and is a son of John D. and Ruth
(Pickett) Carter. His father was born in
North Carolina, on the 1st of March, 1811, and
in 1813, when he was about two j'ears of age,
his parents removed to the wilds of the ter-
litory of Indiana, where he was reared to
manhood and received sueh educational ad-
vantages as were afforded in the common
schools of the pioneer era. The family set-
tled in ]\Iorgan County, where his parents
passed the remainder of their lives and where
his father reclaimed a farm from the forest
wilderness. He himself became one of the
influential citizens of that county, where the
major portion of his active career was de-
voted to fai-ming, and where he continued to
maintain his home until his death, which oc-
curred June 10, 1900. He was a birthright
member of the Society of Friends and
throughout his life clung to the simple and
noble religious faith exemplified by this de-
nomination. In polities he was a supporter
of the cause of the Whig party until the
organization of the Republican party, when
he transferred his allegiance to the lattei',
with which he continued to be allied until
the close of his long and useful life. He was
a man of strong mentality and sterling in-
tegrity and while he ever manifested a loyal
interest in public affairs he was never a seeker
or holder of political office. He was a son of
Nathaniel and Ann (Ramsey) Carter, both
of whom were natives of North Carolina,
where their marriage was solemnized in 1804
and where they continued to reside .until
1811, when they removed to Indiana, as al-
ready noted. Nathaniel Carter was a son of
Nathaniel Carter, who was the founder of
the family in North Carolina, where he made
settlement with others of the Society of
Friends, of which he likewise was a birth-
right member. His father also bore the name
of Nathaniel and was the original progenitor
of the family in America, whither he immi-
grated from Dublin, Ireland, between 1720
and 1730, settling in Pennsylvania, where he
the residue of his life. He had be-
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HISTORY OF GREATER INDIAJfAPGLIS.
come a member of the Society of Friends
prior to coming: to America.
In Morgan County, Indiana, was solemn-
ized the marriage of John D. Carter to Miss
Ruth Pickett, who was born and reared in
that county, where her parents, Benjamin
and Patience (Hadley) Pickett, were pioneer
settlers. Her mother was a granddaughter of
Simon Hadley, founder of the Hadley family
in Pennsylvania, and of this worthy ances-
tor the Hadleys of both Morgan and Hen-
dricks counties, Indiana, are descendants.
Mrs. Ruth (Pickett) Carter was summoned to
the life eternal in 1888, having, like her hus-
band, been a consistent member of the So-
ciety of Friends. Of the ten children, of
whom five are living. Judge Carter, subject
of this review, was the third in order of
birth.
Judge Vinson Carter passed his childhood
and youth on the homestead farm of his fa-
ther, in Brown Township, Morgan County,
this state, and after duly availing himself of
the privileges of the common schools of the
locality and period he entered Earlham Col-
lege, at Richmond, Indiana, where he studied
for two years. In 1865 he was matriculated
in the University of Indiana, at Blooming-
ton, in which he was graduated as a mem-
ber of the class of 1867 and from which he
received the degree of Bachelor of Science.
In the meanw 
