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A PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL
RECORD
OF
DELAWARE COUNTY,
IIStDI^^ISt^V,
CONTAINING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF
Prominent and Representative Citizens
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHIES AND PORTRAITS OF ALL THE
PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES,
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Boyd, C
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Bradbury, B. P
Braddock, M. C
Brady, A. W. . .
Brady, T. J. . . .
Braninier, D. E
Brainmer, H. . .
Brandon. W. R.
Brandt, D
Branson, H. . . .
Bright, J. D., ..
Brindel, G
Brock. J
Brooks, G. W...
Brotherton, W.
Brotherton, W.
Brown, A
Brown, C
Brown. Mrs. H.
Brown, J. S
Broyles, Mrs. H.
Broyles, T.
Bryan, Brothers
Bryan, R. J..
Bryan, W. R.
Buchanan, J,
Buckles, A...
Buckles, J. S.
Budd, C. A...
Budd, S. O...
Bullock, J. C.
Bunch, R. A.
Burk, J
Burson, J. W
Calaway, W...
Cammack, D. . .
Campbell, A. .
Campbell, A. . .
Campbell, D .
Campbell, R, P
Carmichael, J. .
Carmichael. O.
Cassell, J
Casterline, J. P.
Cathcart. C. W.
Cecil, Z. W....
Chapman, A. W
Chase, I. J
Cheeseman, Mrs,
Chilcote. F. L
Church, C. H
Clark, A. S..
76
211
212
213
213
690
214
643
219
Clark, W. T 608
Claypool, M. S 235
Clemens, W. A 791
Cleveland. S. G.... 117
Cleveng-er, J 717
Cline, T 717
Coffin, W. H 582
Colby, H 691
Colfax, S 164
Collett, J 161
Cooley, W. S 609
Cooper, W. H..M... 236
Cottrell, D. W.... 236
Cowing-, G 237
Crabbs, O. W 240
Cranor, O.N 240
Cromer, G. W 241
Cox. W 766
Crawford, J. W 645
Crooks, C 692
Cropper, I. N 241
Crozier, G 243
Cunning-ham, A. B. 718
Cunningham, M. A. 719
Curtis, Mrs. R. C. . . 646
Daniels, F 740
Darter, H. H 647
Davidson, J 720
Davis, E. E 531
Davis, J. W 171
Davis, L. W 693
DeHaven, A. T 532
Depoy, M. E 533
Devoe, A 533
Devoe, O. H 695
Dick, P. B 253
Dill, N. C 534
Downing, J. R 648
Dragoo, B. S 649
Dragoo, J. W 245
Drake, J. W 246
Driscoll, W. E 246
Drumm, E 583
Drumm, J 584
Duckwall, J. F 249
Dudelston, C 694
Duke, G. W 767
Dung-an, J. W 251
Dunn, J 791
Dunn, J. C 792
Dunn, R 252
Dunning, P. C 133
Dyer, S 516
147
Eber, J. E..
608
Eiler, J. C...
530
Elliott, G. L
233
Ellis, F
531
Ellis, S. M..
Ellison, G
Elrod, F. A,...
Emerson, C. . . .
Emerson, W. C.
Evers, J. N....
Fay, G. W
Fenwick, C...
Ferguson, J., .
Fillmore, M... .
Fitch, G. N...
Flannery, J . . .
Flemings, A.J.
Fleming, C. A.
Fleming, N. J..
Fletcher, D...
Flinn,J
Flowers, D. W.
Fortuer, W. H.
Franklin, L. A.
Franklin, P. W
Fudge, C. B....
Fudge, J. S
Galliher, C. W.
Galliher, M....
Galliher, M. J..
Galliher, Mrs. :
Garfield, J. A..
Garrard, J
Gates, H. N....
Gibson, W
Gilbert, Miss J.
Gilbert, T. H..
Gilmore, W. P.
Goddard, J. A..
Good, A. H
Goodrick, I. G..
Grant, U. S
Gray, I. P. .
Gray, J. M.
Gray, J. T.
Gray, W....
Green, G. R.
Greene, G. W.
Gregory, R. S
Gribben,B. F.
Griesheimer, J,
Griffith, R. C.
Groover, S
Guthrie, T. S.,
Gwinn, A ....
Haimbaugh, F. D
Haines, C
Haines, D. T. .
Hamilton, A..
Hamilton, M. .
Hamilton, S. .
Hammond, A. A
INDEX.
Hancock, G
.. 299
Jones, G. W
539
McDonald, J. E
... 158
Neely, C. F. W. .
.. 393
Hancock, Mrs. ^
.. 656
Jones, H. A
799
McHardie, E. L
... 543
Neely, T. S
.. 394
McKiUip, T....
McKimmey, J. ]
Neff, W. H
Newman. S.J...
.. 625
.. 589
Hannan.E. P...
.. 537
Jones,!,. J
322
?... 360
Hanneg-an, E. A.
.. 153
Jonsonbough, G ..
569
McKimmey, J. W.. 623
Nichols, G
.. 627
Harman, J
.. 655
Jordan D
161
McKinley, J. W
McKinleV, R...
800
Nickey, F. B....
Nickey, J. F....
.. 396
.. .395
Harman, J. W..
.. 653
Jordan, W. A
724
... 663
Harring-ton, T. E
.. 300
McLain.D. A..
... 365
Nicodemus, C...
.. 627
Harrison, B
.. 121
Kabrich, G. W. . . .
619
McLaughlin, G.
N. 365
Noble, J
.. 149
Harrison, W. H.
.. 53
Keesling. G. W. . .
725
McNairv, S....
... 746
Noble, N
.. 130
Harrison, W. H.
.; 127
Keesling, S. C. ..
323
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Nutting, Mrs. S.
Z. 272
Madill, A
Madison, J
.. 544
... 33
Hartle, S. J
.. 768
Kemper, G. W. H.
324
Oerther, J. J
.. 666
Hartley, J. J. . . .
.. 301
Kern. J. E
620
Mahoney, Mrs.
L.. 664
Ofterdinger, A..
.. 728
Hartley, J. M...
.. 585
Kerwood, A. L. . . .
326
Manor. J. S . . .
... 699
Orr, D. P
.. 771
Hartley, Mrs. H.
E. 586
Kessler, J. P
519
March, W
. . . 366
Orr, J
. . . 602
Hasting-s, S. G..
.. 302
Kidnocker. M. 0..
328
Marks, E
. . . .")45
Overniire, H....
.. 667
Hathaysraj', S
.. 303
Kilgore, C.W
330
Marquell, H. M
. . . 544
Overmire, L. D.
.. 668
Mar.sh, J
Marsh, J. R...
Owen. R. D
Hays, J. C
.. 614
Kiinbrough, C. M.
331
... 371
Marsh, \V. E. H
Marsh, W. M. . .
... 371
... 370
Parker. A. B. ..
Parkison. G. W.
.. 548
.. 669
Heath, J. W.,...
.. 304
I'^irby, J. M
333
538
Kirby T
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Marshall. M. . .
Marshall. R... .
707
Parkison. S
Parks, S
670
Hefel. A. C
. . 655
Kirby, T. P
334
. . . 624
Heifner, D
. . 567
Kirby, W. W
^^S
664
Patterson, A. F.
Patterson, P. W,
519
Heiiisohn, J. A.
. . 305
Kirkman, J
587
Martin, J. S...
.. 372
... 513
Helm. P. A
. . 721
. . 140
Kitts, C. A
Klein, H. C
335
336
Patterson, R. I. .
Paxton, C. M, .
. . . 396
Hendricks, T. A.
Matthews, C. . .
... 148
.. 549
Hendricks. W...
.. 129
Koons. G. H
338
May. J
... 747
Peacock, W. H..
. . . 628
Hensley, J. W...
.. 6.S7
Koons, Mrs. J.V. H
343
Mavnard, W...
... 800
Pence, A. M....
.. 749
.. 658
Koon.s, W. P
344
Meeks, J. A ...
... 379
Pence, A. W
.. 803
Koontz. Mrs. M. . .
Krohn, J. S
661
541
Meeks. J. W...
Meeks, M. L...
... 377
... 378
Perduie, A
Perkins, J. W...
. 400
.. 397
Highlands. H. H
.. 305
Higman^G.N..
.. 306
Krohn, W. F
540
Meeks, O. L. . . .
. . . 375
Petenson, D. N..
.. 700
Himes. G. W....
.. 615
Meeks, R
. . 376
Peterson, J. F. .
.. 701
. . 722
Lane, H. S
139
Meeks, W. A...
. . . 378
Peterson, W....
.. 702
307
Lenird S
696
Messersmith, H
Michael, D
.... 379
. . . 546
Pettit J
155
Hines, J. R ....
308
Lenger, G. F
345
Petty, J. S
.. 399
Hitchcock. W. R
. . 309
Eeavell, J. M....
,';42
Miller, A
... 665
Phillips, C
.. 629
HoLsing-er. J.,..
.. 616
Ivefavour. J
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Miller, A. H...
Phillips, Mrs. M,
Phillips, N. H...
Phinney. A. J...
V. 549
Holsinger, J. T.
.. 616
Leffler. J. G
Lefter. B. F
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.. 400
Hooke. L. J
Miller, J
... 3.81
.. 404
Honck, J
Houck. .J. W. ..
.. 617
.. 618
Leiion family
.597
Miller. R. N....
Mitchell. D. C.
Mitchell, H . . .
... 666
Pierce, F
. . 72
Lenox, I
621
... 382
Pierce, J. S
.. 550
Hou-senian. E. F
Lo^yellen. J. O....
,346
Mock, A. R....
387
Pittser, W
.. 671
Hovey, A. P....
.. 146
Lewis family
596
Mock, J. D
... 384
Pixlev, W. N...
.. 405
Howard, I
.. 796
.. 659
598
90
Mock, J. F
Mock, M. G . . . .
... ,383
Polk, J. K
Port, T
Ho^yell, D. P. . . .
Lincoln. A
.. 405
Hummel, J. R...
.. 310
:: 743
Lindsev, J
726
Moffett L
747
Porter, A. G....
144
Hupp, J. G
Hurley, J. J... .
Lo-sh, J
622
Moomaw. C. F.
... 802
Powell, J
Hyer, H
Losh. J
Lotz.O. J
662
349
Moore, A
Moore, C. W. ..
... 570
. . 466
Powers, B. P
Powers, M
.. 406
. . 411
Jackson, A
4:;
697
350
744
Moore. D. B....
Moore. L
. ... 699
... 571
Pratt D. D
Puckett, E. J. . .
Quick, J. A
Jackson. F. G. . .
.. 310
.. 724
.. 723
Ludlow, J. B
McAllister. A. J..
.. 412
Jackson, J. -B. ..
Jackson. J. H...
Moore, W. J...
... .599
.. 589
James, M
.. 312
McClung. J. H....
353
Moore, W. M...
. . . . 748
Janney, A. F
.. 798
McConnell, A
622
Moore, W. R...
... .388
Racer, D. C
.. 703
Jefferson, T
29
McConnell, E
745
Moreland. J
... 749
Ralston, B.F....
.. 629
Jennings, J
.. 128
.. 94
Morrow, W. E..
Morton, O. P. ..
. . . 546
... 136
Ratcliff, A. H ..
Ray, J. B
Johnson, A
McCormick, M....
570
.. 130
Johnson, A. L. .
.. 315
McCormick.Mi,ssM
Motsenbocker, J
M. 769
Rea,Mrs. I
.. 271
Johnson, J. C...
.. 316
H
726
Munn, G. W...
... 392
Reasoner, O. I. .
McCreery, T
McCulloch J
587
355
Munsev. D. O..
Murray, A. L. .
Murray, A. P. .
Murray, W. H.
. . 803
... 770
... 547
... 600
Reece.J. N
Rees, J
Rees, J. H
Rees, L
.. 730
731
Johnson, R. A. .
.. 568
661
Jones, A
McCulloch, G. F..
McDaniel, J. E....
l^S
.. 730
.. 413
Jones, G. R
.. 321
Reticli. D. S 772
Keplofrle, J 630
Reynolds, B l>31
Reynolds, J. H 632
Kibble, C 414
Ribble, W 415
Rice. J. H 671
Richardson, J. W.. 590
Ricliev, W. S 416
Ried,"S. M.... 419
Rigdon, J 804
Riiey, J. W 162
Rinker, A 751
Rinker, D 752
Rinker, J. L 632
Roads, H 420
Robinson, G. W.... 421
Roller,. J 633
Rose, T. F 422
Ross, J. C 422
Rowlett, D. E 805
St. Clair, A..... 127
Sample, C. P 426
Sample, K. G 428
Sanders, J, F 428
Schlegel, E. S 754
Schleg-el, H. C 753
Schlegel, J. C 754
Schleg-el, Miss M. F. 754
Schlegel, W. H 753
Schmidt, W, G 429
Scott, D 591
Shafer, G 430
Shafer, J. \V 431
Sharp, O. M 775
Sharp, T 806
Sharp, W 755
Shaw, L 482
Shepp, J 755
Shepp, G. W 433
Sherry, W. P 433
Shewmaker,D.H.H, 435
Shick, C. A 438
Shick, L 436
Shideler, A, L 438
Shideler, W. S 776
Shields, E. A 439
Shipley, C. E 440
Shirey, L. E 775
Shirk, A 704
Shirk, H 705
Shirk, W 706
Shivelv, D, M 672
Shockley, V 633
Shoemaker, J 756
Shroyer, S.J 551
Shuttleworth, H. . . 732
Silverburg, A. C. .. 443
Simonton, D 572
Simpson, J 592
Singleton, J, A 443
Skiff, C 604
Slinger, A. J 444
Slinger, T.J 446
Slouiker, D. W. ... 552
Smell, E 446
Smith, J. H 448
Smith, L. S 449
Smith, M. C
447
Turner. R
638
Smith. M.R
706
Turner, W. D
486
Smith. O. H
151
Turpie. I)
157
Smith, S. 13
553
Tuthill,T
{i3!)
Smith, W. R
450
Tuttle. A
635
Snider \
Tuttle, Mrs. E
Tuttle, .J. S
fw6
637
Snider, W
(>34
Snodgrass, R. M. .
(,73
Tuttle, M. L
6,!6
Snyder, A
777
Tyler, J
57
Snyder, E.G. A...
7.57
Snyder. W. H
454 1
Undervyood, J
593 1
Snyder. W. R
453 '
1
Sprankle, R
455
Van Buren, M
49
Springer, C. W, . . .
634
Vigo, F
1(1
Spurgeon, W. A...
456
Voorhees, D. W .
1(,0
Staft'ord, G. A
,^56
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Stafford. J. E
554 '
Wachtell, C. S. . . .
487 !
Stafford. J. H
554
Walker, J
677 '
Stafford. J. R
=55
Walker, M
678 1
Staft'ord. J. Kilcv,
Wallace, D
131 1
Stafford. T
574
Wallace, L
163 !
Stafford. \V. H . . .
Walling, Q
487
Stewart, E. R
75^
Walling. W
488
Stewart, P. V... .
759
Warfel, J
678
Stewart, T. C
b74
Warner, R
489
Stiffler.J
453
Washington, G....
21
Stouder, A, C
459 !
639
Stradling, E. H...
778 1
Watson, J
679
Stradling, J
460
Watson, W. F
4S9 1
Stradling, R, W, . .
575
Weayer, N. G
710 1
Stradling. W
461
Wellington. J. R..
r,sO 1
Streeter, J. L
462
Wliitcnnib.J
132 I
Strong, A. B
558
White. A. S
152 j
Strong, H
White, J. D
Strong, N. B
559
Whitely. W. N
514 I
Stucky, C
. 463
Whiteman; G. W..
562 ;
Summers, H. C...
. 760
Whitney. E
734
Summers, W
. 761
Wiggerlv. J
I'.SO !
Sunderland, S. K.
. 7bl
Wilcox. nl. J.IC, ..
4'il
Sunderland, W...
762
Wilcnx. n. ly
4'il
Swain. J
. 463
Wilclerniuth. f. F.
4^12
Swain, O. H
. 365
Wildman.J. F
495
Swift, J
. 675
Will, H
735 j
Syphers, G, W. . . .
. 560
WiUard, A. P
134
Williams, J. D
143
Taylor, E
. 779
Williams, J. S
496 1
Taylor, W
. 149
Williams. W, H...
604
Taylor, Z
. 63
Williamson, A
577 1
Templar, C. B
. 473
Wilson, G. V
711 1
Tempter, J. N
. 469
Wilson, J. W
503
. 708
Wilson, S. H
711 1
Thomas, J. M
. 474
Wilson, V
497
Thotnas, S.K
. 576
Winans, H. C
504
Thompson, M
. 162
Wingate, J.N
561
Thompson, R. W..
. 170
Wingate, J, W....
712
Thompson, W
. 732
Winton, R
. 505
Thompson, W. A..
. 474
Witt. E
. 506
Thoruburg, E
. 733
Wolf. A
. 209
Thornbnrg, J....
. 709
Wood. J
. 578
Thornburg, J. H..
. 734
Wood, J. C
. 512
Tindall, O. H....
. 560
Wood, W. H. H...
511
Tipton, J
. 150
Woolverton.Mrs. R
. 564
Tom, J. H
. 475
Worley, I
. .565
Trent, I, N
. 476
Wright, I
. 681
Trowbridge, D. L
. 592
Wright, J. A
. 134
Truitt. Mrs. A. A
. 482
Wysor. J. H
517
Truitt, J ■
, 481
Tuhey. E
. 484
Yingling, Mrs. R.
. 682
Turner, M
. 485
Yockey, A
. 736
Young, W.H. F.... 518
Younts, G. W 713
Younts, W. H 780
Governors and Rep, Meu.
liakor. C l.ii.
Higger. S 132
Boon, R 129
Bright, .1. D 154
Cathcart, C. W 156
Chase, I. J 147
Colfax, S 164
CoUett, J 161
Davis. J. W 171
Dunning, P. C 133
Fitch, G. N 1.S6
Gray, LP 144
Hammond, A. A... 135
Hanna, R 151
Haniiegan, E. A. . . 153
Harrison, W. H 127
Hendricks, T. A... 140
Hendricks, W 129
Hovey, A. P 146
Jennings, J 128
Jordan, D 161
Lane, H. S 139
McDonald, J. E... 158
Matthews, C 148
Morton, O. P 136
Noble, J 149
Noble. N 130
Owen. R. D 169
Pettit, J 155
Porter. A. (i 144
Po.sey, T 127
Pratt. D. V 157
Ray, J. B 130
]{iley, J. W 162
St. Clair, A 127
Smith, O. H 151
Taylor, W 149
Thompson, M 162
Thompson, R. W. . . 170
Tipton, J 1.50
Turpie, D 157
Vigo, F 171
Voorhees, D. W.... 160
Wallace, D 131
Wallace, L 163
Whitcomb,J 132
White. A. S 1.52
Willard, A. P 1.^4
Williams, J. D 143
Wright, J. A 134
Presidents.
Adams, J , 25
Adams, J. y 41
Arthur, C. A.-. 113
Buchanan, J. .. ^. . . 76
Cleveland, S. G.... 117
Fillmore, M 68
Garfield. J. A 109
Grant. U. S 93
Harrison. B....' 121
Harrison, W. H... 53
INDEX
Hayes, R. B 102
Gibson, Mrs. C, be-
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PRESIDENTS
TLINITED STT^^TES
G. WASHINGTON.
PRESIDENTS OE THE UNITED STATES.
^^^EORGE WASHINGTON was born
■ ^\ in Westmorland county, Va. , Febru-
\^^ ary 22, 1732. His parents were
Augustine and Mary (Ball) Washing-
ton. His great-grandfather, John Washing-
ton, came from England to Virginia about
1657, and became a prosperous planter. He
had two sons, Lawrence and John. The former
married Mildred Warner and had three children,
John, Augustine and Mildred. Augustine, the
father of George, first married Jane Butler,
who bore him four children, two of whom,
Lawrence and Angustine, reached maturity.
Of six children by his second marriage, George
was the eldest, the others being Betty, Sam-
uel, John Augustine, Charles and Mildred.
Augustine Washington, the father of George,
died in 1743, leaving a large landed property.
To his eldest son, Lawrence, he bequeathed
an estate on the Potomac, afterward known
as Mount Vernon, and to George he left the
parental residence. George received only
such education as the neighborhood schools
afforded, save for a short time after he left
school, when he received private instructions
in mathematics.
He was an acknowledged leader among his
companions, and was early noted for that
nobleness of character, fairness and veracity
which characterized his whole life.
When George was fourteen years old he had
a desire to go to sea, and a midshipman's warrant
was secured for him, but through the opposi-
tion of his mother the idea was abandoned.
Two years later he was appointed surveyor to
the estate of Lord Fairfax. In this business
he spent three years. In 1751, though only
nineteen years of age, he was appointed ad-
jutant with the rank of major in the Virginia
militia, then being trained for active service
against the French and Indians. Soon after
this he sailed to the West Indies with his
brother Lawrence, who went there to restore
his health. They soon returned, and in the
summer of 1752 Lawrence died, leaving a
large fortune to an infant daughter, who did
not long survive him. On her demise the estate
of Mount Vernon was given to George.
Upon the arrival of Robert Dinwiddie, as
lieutenant-governor of Virginia, in 1752, the
militia was reorganized, and the province
divided into four military districts, of which
the northern was assigned to Washington as
adjutant-general. Shortly after this a very
perilous mission was assigned him. This was
to proceed to the French post near Lake Erie
in north-western Pennsylvania. The distance
to be traversed was between 500 and 600 miles.
Winter was at hand, and the journey was to
be made without military escort, through a
territory occupied by Indians. The trip was a
perilous one, and several times he came near
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losing his life, yet he returned in safety and
furnished a full and useful report of his expe-
dition. A regiment of 300 men was raised in
Virginia and put in command of Col. Joshua
Fry, and Major Washington was commissioned
lieutenant-colonel. Active war was then begun
against the French and Indians, in which
Washington took a most important part. In
the memorable event of July 9, 1755, known
as Braddock's defeat, Washington was almost
the only officer of distinction who escaped
from the calamities of the day with life and
honor. The other aids of Braddock were dis-
abled early in the action, and Washington
alone was left in that capacity on the field In
a letter to his brother he says: "I had four
bullets through my coat, and two horses shot
under me, yet I escaped unhurt, though death
was leveling my companions on every side. "
An Indian sharpshooter said he was not born
to be killed by a bullet, for he had taken direct
aim at him seventeen times, and failed to hit
him. After having been five years in the
military service, he took advantage of the fall
of Fort Duquesne and the expulsion of the
French from the valley of the Ohio, to resign
his commission. Soon after he entered the
legislature, where, although not a leader, he
took an active and important part. January
•7. 1759. he married Mrs. Martha (Dandridge)
Custis, the wealthy widow of John Parke
Custis.
When the British parliament had closed
the port of Boston, the cry went up through-
out the provinces that "The cause of Boston
is the cause of us all." It was then, at the
suggestion of Virginia, that a congress of all
the colonies was called to meet at Philadel-
phia, September 5, 1774, to secure their com-
mon liberties, peaceably if possible. To this
congress Col. Washington was sent as a dele-
gate. On May 10, 1775, the congress re-
assembled, when the hostile intentions of Eng-
land were plainly apparent. The battles of
Concord and Lexington had been fought.
Among ths first acts of this congress was the
election of a commander-in-chief of the colo-
nial forces. This high and responsible office
was conferred upon Washington, who was still
a member of the congress. He accepted it on
June 19, but upon the express condition that
he receive no salary. He would keep at exact
account of expenses and expect congress to
pay them and nothing more. The war was
conducted by him under every possible disad-
vantage, and while his forces often met with
reverses, yet he overcame every obstacle, and
after seven years of heroic devotion and match-
less skfll he gained liberty for the greatest
nation of earth. On December 23, 1783,
Washington resigned his commission as com-
mander-in-chief of the army to the continental
congress sitting at Annapolis, and retired im-
mediately to Mount Vernon.
In February, 1789, Washington was unan-
imously elected president. In his presidential
career he was subject to the peculiar trials in-
cidental to a new government; trials from lack
of confidence on the part of other govern-
ments; trials for the want of harmony between
the different sections of our own country; trials
from the impoverished condition of the coun-
try, owing to the war and want of credit;
trials from the beginnings of party strife
At the expiration of his first term he was
unanimously re-elected. At the end of this
term many were anxious that he be re-elected,
but he absolutely refused a third nomination.
On the 4th of March, 1797, he returned to
his home, hoping to pass there his few remain-
ing years free from the annoyance of public
life Later in the year, however, his repose
seemed likely to be interrupted by war with
France. At the prospect of such a war he was
again urged to take command of the armies.
He chose his subordinate officers and left to
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them the charge of matters in the field, which
he superintended from his home. In accepting
the command he made the reservation that he
was not to be in the field until it was neces-
sary. In the midst of these preparations his
life was suddenly cut off. December 12, he
took a severe cold from a ride in the rain,
\\ hich, settling in his throat, produced inflam-
mation, and terminated fatally on the night
of the 14th. On the iSth his body was borne
with military honors to its final resting place,
and interred in the family vault at Mount
\'ernon.
The person of Washington was unusually
tall, erect and well proprotioned. His features
were of a beautiful symmetry. He commanded
respect without any appearance of haughtiness,
and was ever serious without being dull.
Vj*OHN ADAMS, the second president
M and the first vice-president of the
m 1 United States, was born in Braintree,
, now Quincy, Mass. , and about ten
miles from Boston, October 19, 1735. His
great-grandfather, Henry Adams, emigrated
from England about 1640, with a family of
eight sons, and settled at Braintree. The
parents of John were John and Susannah
(Boylston) Adams. His father was a farmer
of limited means, to which he added the busi-
ness of shoemaking. He gave his eldest son,
John, a classical education at Harvard college.
John graduated in 1755, and at once took
charge of the school in Worcester, Mass. This
he found but a "school of affliction," from
I which he endeavored to gain relief by devot-
! ing himself, in addition, to the study of law.
! For this purpose he placed himself under the
tuition of the only lawyer in the town. He
i was well fitted for the legal profession, pos-
sessing a clear, sonorous voice, being ready and
fluent of speech, and having quick perceptive
powers. In 1764 he married Abigail Smith, a
daughter of a minister, and a lady of superior in-
telligence. Shortly after his marriage (1765)
the attempt of parliamentary taxation turned
him from law to politics. He took initial steps
toward holding a town meeting, and the resolu-
tions he offered on the subject became very
popular throughout the province, and were
adopted word for word by over forty different
towns. He moved to Boston in 1768, and
became one of the most courageous and prom-
inent advocates of the popular cause, and was
chosen a member of the general court (the
legislature) in 1770.
Mr. Adams was chosen one of the first dele-
gates from Massachusetts to the first conti-
nental congress, which met in 1774. Here he
distinguished himself by his capacity for busi-
ness and for debate, and advocated the move-
ment for iddependence against the majority of
the members. In May, 1776, he moved and
carried a resolution in congress that the colo-
nies should assume the duties of self-govern-
ment. He was a prominent member of the
committee of five appointed June 11, to pre-
pare a declaration of independence. This
article was drawn by Jefferson, but on Adams
devolved the task of battling it through con-
gress in a three days' debate.
On the day after the Declaration of Inde-
pendence was passed, he wrote a letter to his
wife which, as we read it now, seems to have
been dictated by the spirit of prophecy.
"Yesterday," he says, "the greatest question
was decided that ever was debated in America;
and greater, perhaps, never was or will be
decided among men. A resolution was passed
without one dissenting colony, 'that these
United States are, and of right ought to be,
free and independent states.' The 4th of
July, 1776, will be a memorable epoch in the
history of America. I am apt to believe it
will be celebrated by succeeding generations,
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as the great anniversary festival. It ought to
be commemorated as the day of dehverance
by solemn acts of devotion to Almighty God.
It ought to be solemnized with pomp, shows,
games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illu-
minations from one end of the continent to the
other, from this time forward for ever. You
will think me transported with enthusiasm, but
I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and
blood and treasure, that it will cost to main-
tain this declaration, and support and defend
these states; yet, through all the gloom, I can
see the rays of light and glory. I can see
that the end is worth more than all the means;
and that posterity will triumph, although you
and I may rue, which I hope we shall not."
In November, 1777, Mr. Adams was ap-
pointed a delegate to France to co-operate
with Benjamin Franklin and Arthur Lee, who
were then in Paris, in the endeavor to obtain
assistance in arms and money from the French
government. He left France June 17, 1779.
In September of the same year he was again
chosen to go to Paris, and there hold himself
in readiness to negotiate a treaty of peace and
of commerce with Great Britain, as soon as
the British cabinet might be found willing to
listen to such proposals. He sailed for France
in November, from there he went to Holland,
where he negotiated important loans and
formed important commercial treaties.
Finally a treaty of peace with England
was signed January 21, 1783. The re-action
from the excitement, toil and anxiety through
which Mr. Adams had passed threw him into
a fever. After suffering from a continued
fever and becoming feeble and emaciated he
was advised to go to England to drink the
waters of Bath. While in England, still
drooping and desponding, he received dis-
patches from his own government urging the
necessity of his going to Amsterdam to nego-
tiate another loan. It was winter, his health
was delicate, yet he immediately set out, and
through. storm, on sea, on horseback and foot,
he made the trip.
February 24, 1785, congress appointed
Mr. Adams envoy to the court of St. James.
Here he met face to face the king of England,
who had so long regarded him as a traitor,
As England did not condescend to appoint
minister to the United States, and as Mr.
Adams felt that he was accomplishing but lit-
tle, he sought permission to return to his own
country, where he arrived in June, 1788.
When Washington was first chosen presi-
dent, John Adams, rendered illustrious by his
signal services at home and abroad, was
chosen vice president. Again at the second
election of Washington as president, Adams
was chosen vice president. In 1796, Wash-
ington retired from public life, and Mr. Adams
was elected president, though not without
much opposition. Serving in this office four
years, he was succeeded by Mr. Jefferson, his
opponent in politics.
While Mr. Adams was vice president the
great French revolution shook the continent
of Europe, and it was upon this point which
he was at issue with the majority of his
countrymen led by Mr. JefTerson. Mr. Adams
felt no sympathy with the French people in
their struggle, for he had no confidence in
their power of self-government, and he utterly
abhorred the class of atheist philosophers who
he claimed caused it. On the other hand
Jefferson's sympathies were strongly enlisted
in behalf of the French people. Hence origi-
nated the alienation between these distin-
guished men, and two powerful parties were
thus soon organized, Adams at the head of
the one whose sympathies were with England,
and Jefferson led the other in sympathy with
France. In 1824, his cup of happiness was
filled to the brim, by seeing his son elevated
to the highest station m the gift of the people.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON.
PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES.
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The 4th of July, 1826, which completed
the half century since the signing of the Dec-
laration of Independence, arrived, and there
were but three of the signers of that immortal
instrument left upon the earth to hail its
morning light. And, as it is well known, on
that day two of these finished their earthly
pilgrimage, a coincidence so remarkable as to
seem miraculous. For a few days before Mr.
Adams had been rapidly failing, and on the
4th, he found himself too weak to rise from his
feed. On being requested to name a toast for
the customary celebration of the day, he ex-
claimed "Independence FOREVER." When
the day was ushered in, by the ringing of bells
and the firing of cannons, he was asked by
one of his attendants if he knew what day i-t
was.' He replied, "Oh yes; it is the glorious
fourth of July — God bless it — God bless you
all." In the course of the day he said, "It is
a great and glorious day." The last words he
uttered were, "Jefferson survives." But he
had, at one o'clock, resigned his spirit into the
hands of his God. The personal appearance
and manners of Mr. Adams were not particu-
larly prepossessing. His face, as his portrait
manifests, was intellectual and expressive, but
his figure was low and ungraceful, and his
manners were frequently abrupt and uncourte-
ous.
'HOMAS JEFFERSON, third presi-
dent of the United States, was born
April 2,1743, at Shadwell, Albermarle
county, Va. His parents were Peter
and Jane (Randolph) Jefferson, the former a
native of Wales, and the latter born in Lon-
don. To them were born six daughters and
two sons, of whom Thomas was the eldest.
When fourteen years of age his father died.
He received a most liberal education, having
been kept diligently at school from the time
he was five years of age. In 1760 he entered
William and Mary college. Williamsburg
was then the seat of the colonial court, and it
was the abode of fashion and splendor. Young
Jefferson, who was then seventeen years old,
lived somewhat expensively, keeping fine
horses, and was much caressed by gay society,
yet he was earnestly devoted to his studies,
and irreproachable in his morals. In the
second year of his college course, moved by
some unexplained inward impulse, he discarded
his horses, society, and even his favorite violin,
to which he had previously given much time.
He often devoted fifteen hours a day to hard
study, allowing himself for exercise only a run
in the evening twilight of a mile out of the city
and back again. He thus attained very high
intellectual culture, and excellence in philoso-
phy and the languages. The most difficult
Latin and Greek authors he read with facility.
Immediately upon leaving college he began
the study of law. For the short time he con-
tinued in the practice of his profession he rose
rapidly and distinguished himself by his energy
and acuteness as a lawyer. But the times
called for greater action. The policy of
England had awakened the spirit of resistance
of the American colonies, and the enlarged
views which Jefferson had ever entertained
soon led him into active political life. In 1769
he was chosen a member of the Virginia house
of burgesses. In 1772 he married Mrs.
Martha Skelton, a very beautiful, wealthy and
highly accomplished young widow.
Upon Mr. Jefferson's large estate at Shad-
well, there was a majestic swell of land, called
Monticello, which commanded a prospect of
wonderful extent and beauty. This spot Mr.
Jefferson selected for his new home; and here
he reared a mansion of modest yet elegant
architecture, which, next to Mount Vernon,
became the most distinguished resort in our
land.
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In 1775 he was sent to the colonial con-
gress, where, though a silent member, his
abilities as a writer and a. reasoner soon be-
came known, and he was placed upon a num-
ber of important committees, and was chairman
of the one appointed for the drawing up of a
declaration of independence. This committee
consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams,
Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Rob-
ert R. Livingston. Jefferson, as chairman,
was appointed to draw up the paper. Frank-
lin and Adams suggested a few verbal changes
before it was submitted to congress. On June
28, a few slight changes were made in it by
congress, and it was passed and signed July 4,
1776. What must have been the feelings of
that man — what the emotions that swelled his
breast — who was charged with the preparation
of that declaration, which, while it made
known the wrongs of America, was also to
publish her to the world, free, sovereign and
independent !
In 1779 Mr. Jefforson was elected successor
to Patrick Henry, as governor of Virginia. At
one time the British officer, Tarleton, sent a
secret expedition to Monticello, to capture the
governor. Scarcely five minutes elapsed after
the hurried escape of Mr. Jefferson and his
family, ere his mansion was in possession of
the British troops. His wife's health, never
very good, was much injured by this excite-
ment and in the summer of 17S2 she died.
Mr. Jefferson was elected to congress in
1783. Two years later he was appointed
minister plenipotentiary to France. Return-
ing to the United States in September, 1789,
he became secretary of state in Washington's
caijinet. This position he resigned January i,
1794. In 1797, he was chosen vice president
and four years later was elected president over
Mr. Adams, with Aaron Burr as vice president.
In 1804 he was re-elected with wonderful
unanimity, and George Clinton, vice president.
The early part of Mr. Jefferson's second
I administration was disturbed by an event
; which threatened the tranquility and peace of
the Union; this was the conspiracy of Aaron
Burr. Defeated in the latfe election to the
vice presidency, and led on by an unprincipled
: ambition, this extraordinary man formed the
! plan of a military expedition into the Spanish
territories on our southwestern frontier, for the
purpose of forming there a new republic.
In 1809, at the expiration of the second
term for which Mr. Jefferson had been elected,
he determined to retire from political life.
For a period of nearly forty" years, he had
been continually beTore the public, and all
that time had been employed in offices of the
greatest trust and responsibility. Having thus
devoted the best part of his life to the serv-
ice of his country, he now felt desirous of
that rest which his declining years required,
and upon the organization of the new adminis-
tration, in March, 1809, he bade farewell for-
ever to public life, and retired to Monticello.
The 4th of July, 1826, being the fiftieth
anniversary of the Declaration of Independence,
great preparations were made in every part of
the Union for its celebration, as the nation's
jubilee, and the citizens of Washington, to
add to the solemnity of the occasion invited
Mr. Jefferson, as the framer, and one of the
few surviving signers of the Declaration, to
participate in their festivities. But an illness,
which had been of several weeks' duration, and
had been continually increasing, compelled
him to decline the invitation.
On the 2d of July, the disease under
which he was laboring left him, but in such a
reduced state that his medical attendants en-
tertained no hope of his recovery. From this
time he was perfectly sensible that his last
hour was at hand. On the next day, which
was Monday, he asked, of those around him,
the day of the month, and on being told that
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it was the 3d of July, he expressed the earnest
wish that he might be permitted to breathe
the air of the fiftieth anniversary. His prayer
was heard — that day, whose dawn was hailed
with such rapture through our land, burst
upon his eyes, and then they were closed for-
ever. And what a noble consummation of a
noble life! To die on that day, — the birth of
a nation— the day which his own name and
own act had rendered glorious; to die amidst
the rejoicings and festivities of a whole nation,
who looked up to him, as the author, under
God, of their greatest blessings, was all that
was wanting to fill up the record of his life.
Almost at he same hour of his death, the kindred
spirit of the venerable Adams, as if to bear him
company, left the scene of his earthly honors.
In person Mr. Jefferson was tall and thin,
rather above si.x feet in height, but well formed;
his eyes were light, his hair, originally red, in
after life became white and silvery; his com-
plexion was fair, his forehead broad, and his
whole countenance intelligent and thoughtful.
He possessed great fortitude of mind as well
as personal courage; and his command of tem-
per was such that his oldest and most intimate
friends never recollected to have seen him in a
passion. His manners, though dignified, were
simple and unaffected, and his hospitality was
so unbounded that all found at his house a
ready welcome. In conversation he was fluent,
eloquent and entusiastic; and his language was
remarkably pure and correct. He was a
finished classical scholar, and in his writings
is discernable the care with which he formed
his style upon the best models of antiquity.
'^T^AMES MADISON, fourth president of
J the United States, was born March 16,
/» 1 1 75 I , and died at his home in Virginia,
June 28, 1836. He was the last of the
founders of the Constitution of the United
States to be called to his eternal reward.
The Madison family were among the early
emigrants to the New W'orki. landing upon the
shores of the Chesapeake but fifteen years
after the settlement of Jamestown. The father
of James Madison was an opulent planter, re-
siding upon a very fine estate called " Mont-
pclier, " Orange county, Va. The mansion
was situated in the midst of .scenery highly
picturesque and romantic, on the west side of
Southwest Mountain, at the foot of Blue
Ridge. It was but tv\enty-five miles from the
home of Jefferson at Monticello. The closest
personal and political attachment existed be-
tween these illustrious men from their c;:iiy
youth until death.
The early education of Mr. Madison was
conducted mostly at home under a private
tutor. At the age of eighteen he was sent
to Princeton college, in New Jersey. Here he
applied himself to study with the most im-
prudent zeal; allowing himself for months, but
three hours' sleep out of the twenty-four. His
health thus became so seriously impaired that
he never recovered any vigor of constitution.
He graduated in 1871, when a feeble boy, but
with a character of utmost purity, and with a
mind highly disciplined and richly stored with
learning.
Returning to Virginia, he commenced the
study of law and a course of extensive and
systematic reading. This educational course,
the spirit of the times in which he lived, all
combined to inspire him with a strong love of
hberty, and to train him for his life-work of a
statesman.
In the spring of 1776, when twenty-five
years of age, he was elected a member of the
Virginia convention, to frame the constitutipn
of the state. The next year (1777) he was a
candidate for the general assembly. He re-
fused to treat the whisky-loving voters, and con-
sequently lost his election; but those who had
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witnessed the talent, energ;y and public spirit
of the modest young man, enlisted themselves
in his behalf, and he was appointed to the
executive council.
Both Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson
were governors of Virginia while Mr. Madison
remained member of the council; and their
appreciation of his intellectual, social and
moral worth, contributed not a little to his
subsequent eminence. In the year 1 780, he
was elected a member of the continental con-
gress. Here he met the most illustrious men
in our land, and he was immediately assigned
to one of the most conspicuous positions
among them. For three years Mr. Madison
continued in congress, one of its most active
and influential members. In the year 1784,
his term having expired, he was elected a
member of the Virginia legislature.
No man felt more deeply than Mr. Madison
the utter inefficiency of the old confederacy,
with no national government, with no power
to form treaties which would be binding, or to
enforce law. There was not any state more
prominent than Virginia in the declaration,
that an efficient national government must be
formed. In January, 1786, Mr. Madison car-
ried a resolution through the general assembly
of Virginia, inviting the other states to appoint
commissioners to meet in convention at Ann-
apolis to discuss the subject. Five states only
were represented. The convention, however,
issued another call, drawn up by Mr. Madison,
urging all the states to send their delegates to
Philadelphia, in May, 1787, to draft a consti-
tution for the United States, to take the place
of that confederate league. The delegates met
at the time appointed. Every state but Rhode
Island was represented. George Washington
was chosen president of the convention; and
the present constitution of the United States
was then and there formed. There was, per-
haps, no mind and no pen more active in
framing this immortal document than the mind
and pen of James Madison.
The constitution, adopted by a vote of 81
to 79, was to be presented to the several states
for acceptance. But grave solicitude was felt.
Should it be rejected we should be left but a
conglomeration of independent states, with
but little power at home and little respect
abroad. Mr. Madison was selected by the
convention to draw up an address to the peo-
ple of the United States, expounding the prin-
ciples of the constitution, and urging its adop-
tion. There was great opposition to it at first,
but it at length triumphed over all, and went
into effect in 1789.
Mr. Madison was elected to the house of
representatives in the first congress, and soon
became the avowed leader of the republican
party. While in New York attending con-
gress, he met Mrs. Todd, a young widow of
remarkable power of fascination, whom he
married. She was in person and character
queenly, and probably no lady has thus far
occupied so prominent a position in the very
peculiar society which has "constituted our re-
publican court, as Mrs. Madison.
Mr. Madison served as secretary of state
under Jefferson, and at the close of
his administration was chosen president.
At this time the encroachments of Eng-
land had brought us to the verge of war.
British orders in council destroyed our com-
merce, and our flag was exposed to constant
insult. Mr. Madison was a man of peace.
Scholarly in his taste, retiring in his disposi-
tion, war had no charms for him. But the
meekest spirit can be roused. It makes one's
blood boil, even now, to think of an American
ship brought to upon the ocean by the guns of
an English cruiser. A young lieutenant steps
on board and orders the crew to be paraded
before him. With great nonchalance he selects
any number whom he may please to designate
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as British subjects; orders them down the
ship's side into his boat; and places them on
the gun-deck of his man-of-war to fight, by
compulsion, the battles of England. This
right of search and impressment, no efforts of
our government could induce the British cabi-
net to relinquish.
On the 1 8th of June, 1812, President Madi-
son gave his approval to an act of congress de-
claring war against Great Britain. Notwith-
standing -the bitter hostility of the federal
party to the war, the country in general ap-
proved; and Mr. Madison, on the 4th of March,
181 3, was re-elected by a large majority, and
entered upon his second term of office. The
contest commenced in earnest by the appear-
ance of a British fleet early in February, 18 13,
in Chesapeake bay, declaring nearly the whole
coast of the United States under blockade.
The emmperor of Russia offered his services
as mediator. America accepted; England re-
fused. A British force of five thousand men
landed on the banks of the Patuxet river, near
its entrance into Chesapeake bay, and marched
rapidly, by way of Bladensburg, upon Wash-
ington.
The straggling little city of Washington
was thrown into consternation. The cannon
of the brief conflict at Bladensburg echoed \
through the streets of the metropolis. The 1
whole population fled from the city. The
president, leaving Mrs. Madison in the White ;
House, with her carriage drawn up at the door
to await his speedy return, hurried to meet 1
the officers in a council of war. He met our
troops utterly routed, and he could not go '
back without danger of being captured. But
few hours elapsed ere the presidential mansion,
the capitol, and all the public buildings in
Washington were in flames.
The war closed after two years of fighting,
and on February 13, 181 5, the treaty of peace
was signed at Ghent.
On the 4th of March, 1817, his second
term of office expired, and he resigned the
presidential chair to his friend, James Monroe.
He retired to his beautiful home at Montpelier
and there passed the remainder of his days.
On June 28, 1836, then at the age of eighty-
five years, he fell asleep in death. Mrs. Madi-
son died July 12, 1849.
>^AMES MONROE, the fifth president of
M the United States, was born in West-
/» 1 moreland county, Va. , April 28, 1758.
He joined the colonial army when every-
thing looked hopeless and gloomy. The num-
ber of deserters increased from day to day.
The invading armies came pouring in; and the
tories not only favored the cause of the mother
country, but disheartened the new recruits,
who were sufficiently terrified at the prospect
of contending with an enemy whom they had
been taught to deem invincible. To such brave
spirits as James Monroe, who went right on-
ward undismayed through difficulty and danger,
the United States owe their political eman-
cipation. The young cadet joined the ranks
and espoused the cause of his injured country,
with a firm determination to live or die with
her strife for liberty. Firmly, yet sadly, he
shared in the melancholy retreat from Harlaem
Heights and White Plains, and accompanied
the dispirited army as it fled before its foes
through New Jersey. In four months after
the Declaration of Independence, the patriots
had been beaten in .seven battles. At the bat-
tle of Trenton he led the vanguard, and, in the
act of charging upon the enemy he received a
wound in the left shoulder. As a reward for
his bravery, Mr. Monroe was promoted a cap-
tain of infantry; and, having recovered from
his wound, he rejoined the army. He, how-
ever, receded from the line of promotion by
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becoming an officer on the staff of Lord Ster-
ling. During the campaigns of 1777 and 1778,
in the actions of Brandywine, Germantown
and Monmouth, he continued aid-de-camp;
but becoming desirous to regain his position in
the army, he exerted himself to collect a regi-
ment for the Virginia line. This scheme failed
owing to the exhausted condition of the state.
Upon this failure he entered the office of Mr.
Jefferson, at that period governor, and pursued
with considerable ardor the study of common
law. He did not, however, entirely lay aside
the knapsack for the green bag; but on the in-
vasions of the enemy, served as a volunteer
during the two years of his legal pursuits.
In 1782, he was elected from King George
county a member of the legislature of Virginia,
and by that body he was elevated to a seat in
the executive council. He was thus honored
with the confidence of his fellow citizens at
twenty-three years of age; and at this early
period displayed some of that ability and apti-
tude for legislation, which were afterward
employed with unremitting energy for the pub-
lic good, he was in the succeeding year chosen
a member of the congress of the United States. -
Deeply as Mr. Monroe felt the imperfec-
tions of the old confederacy, he was opposed
to the new constitution, thinking, with many
others of the republican party, that it gave too
much power to the central government, and
not enough to the individual states. In 1789,
he became a member of the United States sen-
ate, which office he held for four years. Every
month the line of distinction between the two
great parties which divided the nation, the
federal and the republican, was growing more
distinct. The two prominent ideas which now
separated them were, that the republican party
was in sympathy with France, and also in
favor of such a strict construction of the con-
stitution as to give the central government as
little power, and the state governments as
much power, as the constitution would war-
rant. The federalists sympathized with Eng- ^
land, and were in favor of a liberal construc-
tion of the constitution, \\hich would give as
much power to the central government as that
document could possibly authorize.
Washington was then president. England
had ■ espoused the cause of the Bourbons
against the principles of the French revolu- ,
tion. All Europe was drawn into the conflict. 1
We were feeble and far away. Washington ;
issued a proclamation of neutrality between
these contending powers. France had helped
us in the struggle for our liberties. All the
despotisms of Europe were combined, to pre-
vent the French from escaping from a tyranny
a thousand-fold worse than that which we had
endured. Col. Monroe, more magnanimous
than prudent, was anxious that, at whatever
hazard, we should help our old allies in their
extremity. It was the impulse of a generous
and noble nature. He violently opposed the
president's proclamation as ungrateful and
wanting in magnanimity.
Washington, who could appreciate such a
character, developed his calm, serene, almost
divine greatness, by appointing that very
James Monroe, who was denouncing the policy
of the government, as the minister of that
government to the republic of France. Mr.
Monroe was welcomed by the national conven-
tion in France with the most enthusiastic
demonstrations.
Shortly after his return to this country, Mr.
Monroe was elected governor of Virginia, and
held the office for three years. He was again
sent to France to co-operate with Chancellor
Livingston in obtaining the vast territory
then known as the province of Louisiana,
which France had but shortly before obtained
from Spain. Their united efforts were suc-
cessful. For the comparatively small sum of
fifteen millions of dollars, the entire territory
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of Orleans and district of Louisiana were
added to the United States. This was prob-
ably the largest transfer of real estate which
was ever made in all the history of the world.
From France Mr. Monroe went to England
to obtain from thac country some recognition
of our rights as neutrals, and to remonstrate
against those odious impressments of our sea-
men. But England was unrelenting. He
again returned to England on the same mis-
sion, but could receive no redress. He re-
turned to his home and was again chosen gov-
ernor of Virginia. This he soon resigned to
accept the position of secretary of state under
Madison. While in this office war with Eng-
land was declared, the secretary of war re-
signed, and during those trying times the du-
ties of the war department were also put upon
him. He was truly the armor-bearer of Presi-
dent Madison, and the most efficient business
man in his cabinet. Upon the return of peace
he resigned the department of war, but con-
tinued in the office of secretary of state until
the expiration of Mr. Madison's administra-
tion. At the election held the previous au-
tumn Mr. Monroe had been chosen president
with but little opposition, and upon March 4,
I 8 17, was inaugurated. Four years later he
was elected for a secs>nd term.
Among the important measures of his presi-
dency were the cession of Florida to the United
States; the Missouri compromise, and the
"Monroe doctrine.". This famous "Monroe
doctrine," was enunciated by him in 1823. At
that time the United States had recognized
the independence of the South American
states, and did not wish to have European
powers longer attempt to subdue portions of
the American continent. The doctrine is as
follows: "That we should consider any at-
tempt on the part of European powers to ex-
tend their system to any portion of this hemi-
sphere as dangerous to our peace and safety,"
and "that we could not view any interposi-
tion for the purpose of oppressing or controll-
ing American governments or provinces in any
other light than as a manifestation by Euro-
pean powers of an unfriendly disposition to-
ward the United State. ' This doctrine imme-
diately affected the course of foreign govern-
ments, and has become the approved senti-
ment of the United States.
At the end of his second term Mr. Monroe
retired to his home in Virginia, where he lived
until 1830, when he went to New York to live
with his son-in-law. In that city he died on
the 4th of July, 1831.
>^OHN OUINCY ADAMS, the sixth
M president of the United States, was
« 1 born in Ounicy, Mass., on the iith of
July, 1767. His mother, a woman of
exalted worth, watched over his childhood
during the almost constant absence of his
father.
When but eleven years old he took a tear-
ful adieu of his mother, to sail with his father
for Europe, through a fleet of hostile British
cruisers. The bright, animated boy spent a
year and a half in Paris, where his father was
associated with Franklin and Lee as minister
plenipotentiary. His intelligence attracted the
notice of these distinguished men, and he re-
ceived from them flattering matks of attention.
Mr. John Adams had scarcely returned to
•this country, in 1779, ere he was again sent
abroad. Again John Quincy accompanied his
father. At Paris he applied himself with great
diligence, for six months, to study; then accom-
panied his father to Holland, where he entered
first a school in Amsterdam, then the univer-
sity at Leyden. About a year from this time,
in 1781, when the manly boy was but fourteen
years of age, he was selected by Mr. Dana,
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our minister to the Russian court, as his pri-
vate secretary.
In this school of incessant labor and of
ennobling culture he spent fourteen months, and
then returned to Holland through Sweden,
Denmark, Hamburg and Bremen. This long
journey he took alone, in the winter, when in
his sixteenth year. Again he resumed his
studies, under a private tutor, at Hague.
Thence, in the spring of 1782, he accompanied
his father to Paris, traveling leisurely, and
examining architectural remains, galleries of
paintings and all renowned works of art. At
Paris he again became associated with the
most illustrious men of all lands in the con-
templations of the loftiest temporal themes
which can engross the human mind. After a
short visit to England he returned to Paris,
and consecrated all his energies to study until
May, 1785, when he returned to America.
After leaving Harvard college at the age
of twenty, he studied law for three years. In
June, 1794, being then but twenty-seven years
of age, he was appointed, by Washington, res-
ident minister at the Netherlands. Sailing
from Boston in July, he reached London in
October, where he was immediately admitted
to the deliberations of Messrs. Jay and Pinck-
ney, assisting them in negotiating a commer-
cial treaty with Great Britain. After thus
spending a fortnight in London, he proceeded
to the Hague.
In July, 1797, he left the Hague to go to
Portugal as minister plenipotentiary. On his
way to Portugal, upon arriving in London, he
met with despatches directing him to the court
of Berlin, but requesting him to remain in
London until he should receive his instruc-
tions. While waiting he was married to an
American lady to whom he had been previ-
ously engaged — Miss Louisa Cathe.ine John-
son, daughter of Mr. Joshua Johnson, Ameri-
can consul in London.
He reached Berlin with his wife in Novem-
ber, 1797; where he remained until July,
1799, when having fulfilled all the purposes of
his mission, he solicited his recall. Soon after
his return, in I802, he was chosen to the sen-
ate of Massachusetts from Boston, and then
was elected senator of the United States for
six years, from the 4th of March, 1 804. His
reputation, his ability and his experience,
placed him immediately among the most prom-
inent and influential members of that body.
Especially did he sustain the government in its
measures of resistance to the encroachments
of England, destroying our commerce and in-
sulting our flag.
In 1809, Madison succeeded Jefferson in
the presidential chair, and he immediately
nominated John Quincy Adams minister to St.
Petersburg. Resigning his professorship in
Harvard college, he embarked at Boston, in
August, 1809. While in Russia, Mr. Adams
was an intense student. He devoted his at-
tention to the language and history of Russia;
to the Chinese trade; to the European system
of weights, measures, and coins; to the
climate and astronomical observations; while
he kept up a familiar acquaintance with the
Greek and Latin classics. All through life the
Bible constituted an important part of his
studies. It was his rule to read five chapters
every day.
On the 4th of March, 181 7, Mr. Monroe
took the presidential chair, and immediately
appointed Mr. Adams secretary of state.
Taking leave of his friends in public and pri-
vate life in Europe, he sailed in June, 1819,
for the United States. On the 1 8th of August,
he again crossed the threshold of his home in
Quincy. During the eight years of Mr. Mon-
roe's administration, Mr. Adams continued
secretary of state.
Some time before the close of Mr. Mon-
roe's second term of office, new candidates
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began to be presented for the presidency.
The friends of Mr. Adams brought forward
his name. It was an exciting campaign.
Party spirit was never more bitter. Two
hundred and sixty electoral votes were cast.
Andrew Jackson received ninety-nine; John
Quincy Adams, eighty-four; William H. Craw-
ford, forty-one; Henry Clay, thirty-seven.
As there was no choice by the people, the
question went to the house of representatives.
Mr. Clay gave the vote of Kentucky to Mj.
Adams, and he was elected.
Mr. Adams was, to a very remarkable de-
gree, abstemious and temperate in his habits;
always rising early, and taking much exercise.
When at his home in Quincy, he has been
known to walk, before breakfast, seven miles
to Boston. In Washington, it was said that
he was the first man up in the city, lighting
his own fire and applying himself to work in
his library often long before dawn.
On the 4th of March, 1829, Mr. Adams
retired from the presidency, and was succeeded
by Andrew Jackson. John C. Calhoun was
elected vice president. The slavery question
now began to assume protentous magnitude.
Mr. Adams returned to Quincy and to his
studies, which he pursued with unabated zeal.
But he was not long permitted 10 remain in
retirement. In November, 1830, he was
elected representative to congress. For sev-
enteen years, until his death, he occupied the
post as representative, ever ready to do brave
battle for freedom, and winning the title of
"the old man eloquent." Upon taking his
seat in the house, he announced that he should
hold himself bound to no party. He was
usually the first in his place in the morning,
and the last to leave his seat in the evening.
Not a measure could be brought forward and
escape his scrutiny. The battle which Mr.
Adams fought, almost singly, against the
proslavery party in the government, was sub-
lime in its moral daring and heroism. For
persisting in presenting petitions for the aboli-
tion of slavery, he was threatened with indict-
ment by the grand jury, with expulsion from
the house, and also with assassination, but
no threats could intimidate him, and his final
triumph was complete.
On the 2 1 St of February, 1848, he rose on
the floor of congress, with a paper in his hand,
to address the speaker. Suddenly he fell,
again stricken by paralysis, and was caught in
the arms of those around him. For a time
he was senseless, as he was conveyed to the
sofa in the rotunda. With reviving conscious-
ness, he opened his eyes, looked calmly around
and said, "This is the end of earth;" then
after a moment's pause he added, "I am con-
tent." These were the last words of the sixth
president.
HNDREW JACKSON, the seventh
president of the United States, was
born in Waxhaw settlement, N. C,
March 15, 1767, a few days after his
father's death. His parents were from Ireland,
and took up their abode in Waxhaw settle-
ment, where they lived in deepest poverty.
Andrew, or Andy, as he was universally
called, grew up a very rough, rude, turbulent
boy. His features were coarse, his form un-
gainly; and there was but very little in his
character, made visible, which was attractive.
When only thirteen years old he joined the
volunteers of Carolina against the British in-
vasion. In 1 78 1, he and his brother Robert
were captured and imprisoned for a time at
Camden. A British officer ordered him to
brush his mud-spattered boots. "I am a
prisoner of war, not your servant," was the
reply of the dauntless boy. The brute drew
his sword, and aimed a desperate blow at the
head of the helpless young prisoner. Andrew
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raised his hand, and thus received two fearful j
gashes — one on the hand and the other npon I
the head. The officer then turned to his [
brother Robert with the same demand He
also refused, and received a blow from the
keen-edged saber, which quite disabled him,
and which probably soon after caused his
death. They suffered much other ill-treat-
ment, and were finally stricken with the small-
pox. Their mother was successful in obtain-
ing their e.xchange, and took her sick boys
home. After a long illness Andrew recovered,
and the death of his mother soon left him en-
tirely friendless.
Andrew supported himself in various ways,
such as working at the saddler's trade, teaching
school and clerking in a general store, until
17S4, when he entered a law office at Salis-
bury, N. C. In 1788, he was appointed solicit-
or for the western district of North Carolina,
of which Tennessee was then a part. This in-
volved many long and tedious journeys amid
dangers of every kind, but Andrew Jackson
never knew fear.
In I 79 1, Jackson was married to a woman
who supposed herself divorced from her former
husband. Great was the surprise of both
parties, two years later, to find that the con-
ditions of the divorce had just been definitely
settled by the first husband. The marriage
ceremony was performed a second time, but
the occurrence was often used by his enemies
to bring Mr. Jackson into disfavor. During
these years he worked hard at his profession,
and frequently had one or more duels on hand,
one of which, when he killed Dickinson, was
especially disgraceful.
In January, I 796, the territory of Tennes-
see then containing nearly 80,000 inhabitants,
the people met in convention at Kno.wille to
frame a constitution. Five were sent from each
of the eleven counties. Andrew Jackson was
one of the delegates. The new state was en-
titled to but one member in the national house
of representatives. Andrew Jackson was chosen
that member. Mounting his horse he rode to
Philadelphia, where congress then held its
sessions — a distance of about 800 miles.
Jackson was an earnest advocate of the
democratic party. Jefferson was his idol. He
admired Bonaparte, loved France and hated
England. As Jackson took his seat, Gen.
Washington, whose second term of office was
then e.xpiring, delivered his last speech to
congress. A committee drew up a compli-
mentary address in reply. Andrew Jackson
did not approve of the address, and was one
of the twelve who voted against it. He was
not willing to -say that Gen. Washington's
administration had been "wise, firm and
patriotic."
Jackson was elected to the United States
senate in 1797, but soon resigned. Soon after
he was chosen judge of the supreme court of
his state, which position he held for six years.
When the war of 18 12 with Great Britain
commenced, Madison occupied the presidential
chair. Aaron Burr sent word to the president
that there was an unknown man in the west,
Andrew Jackson, who would do credit to a
commission if one were conferred upon him.
Just at that time Gen. Jackson offered his
services and those of 2, 500 volunteers. His
offer was accepted, and the troops were assem-
bled at Nashville. As the British were hourly
expected to make an attack upon New Orlean.=,
where Gen. Wilkinson was in command, he
was ordered to descend the river with 1,500
troops to aid Wilkinson. The expedition
reached Natchez; and after a delay of several
weeks there, the men were ordered back to
their homes. But the energy Gen. Jackson
had displayed, and his entire devotion to the
comfort of his soldiers, won him golden
opinions; and he became the most popular man
in the state. It was in this expedition that his
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toughness gave him the nickname of "Old
Hickory."
Soon after this, while attempting to horse-
whip Col. Thomas H. Benton, for a remark
that gentleman made about his taking a part
as second in a duel, in which a younger brother
of Benton's was engaged, he received two
severe pistol wounds. While he was lingering
upon a bed of suffering news came that the
Indians, who had combined under Tecumseh
from Florida to the lakes, to exterminate the
white settlers, were committing the most
awful ravages. Decisive action became neces-
sary. Gen. Jackson, with his fractured bone
just beginning to heal, his arm in a sling, and
unable to mount his horse without assistance,
gave his amazing energies to the raising of an
army to rendezvous at Fayettesville, Ala.
The Creek Indians had established a strong
fort on one of the bends of the Tallapoosa
river, near the center of Alabama, about fifty
miles below Fort Strother. With an army of
2,000 men. Gen. Jackson traversed the path-
less wilderness in a march of eleven days. He
reached their fort, called Tohopeka or Horse-
shoe, on the 27th of March, 18 14. The bend
of the river enclosed 100 acres of tangled
forest and wild ravine. Across the narrow
neck the Indians had constructed a formidable
breastwork of logs and brush. Here 900 war-
riors, with an ample supply of arms were as-
sembled. The fort was stormed. The fight
was utterly desperate. Not an Indian woald
accept of quarter. When bleeding and djing,
they would fight those who endeavored to spare
their lives. From ten in the morning until
dark, the battle raged. The carnage was awful
and revolting. Some threw themselves into
the river; but the unerring bullet struck their
heads as they swam. Nearly every one of the
900 warriors was killed. This closing of the
Creek war enabled us to concentrate all our
militia upon the British, who \\ere the allies of
the Indians. No man of less resolute will than
Gen. Jackson could have conducted this Indian
campaign to so successful an issue. Immedi-
ately he was appointed major-general.
Late in August, with an army of 2.000
men, on a rushing march. Gen. Jackson went
to Mobile. A B.itish fleet came from Pensa-
cola, landed a force upon the beach, anchored
near the little fort, and from both ship and
shore commenced a furious assault. The battle
was long and doubtful. At length one of the
ships was blown up and the rest retired.
Garrisomng Mobile, Jackson moved his
troops to New Orleans, and the battle of New
Orleans, which soon ensued, was in reality a
very arduous campaign. Here his troop-^.
which numbered about 4.000 men, won a
signal victory over the British army of about
9,000. His loss was but thirteen, while the loss
of the British was 2,600.
The name of Gen. Jackson soon began to
be mentioned in connection with the jircsi-
dency. but, in 1824, he was defeated by Mr.
Adams. He was, however, succefsful in the
election of 1828, and was re-elected for a
second term in 1832. In 1829, he met with
the most terrible affliction of his life in the
death of his wife. At the expiration of his two
terms of office he r.-tired to the Hcrmitngo,
where he died June 8, 1S45. The last years
of Jackson's life were that of a devoted chris-
tian man.
QARTIN \"AN BIRKN. the eighth
president of the I'jiited .States, was
born at Kinderhook. N. Y., Decem-
' ber 5, 1782. He died at the same
place, July 24, 1862, and his body rests in the
cemetery at Kinderhook. Above it is a plain
granite shaft fifteen feet high, bearing a sim-
ple inscription about half way up on the face.
The lot is unfenced, unbordcred or unbounded
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by shrub or flower. His ancestors, as his
name indicates, were of Dutch origin, and
were among the earliest emigrants from Hol-
land to the banks of the Hudson. His father
was a farmer, residing in the old town of
Kinderhook. His mother, also of Dutch
lineage, was a woman of superior intelligence
and exemplary piety. At the age of fourteen,
he had finished his academic studies in his na-
tive village, and commenced the study of law.
As he had not a collegiate education, seven
years of study in a law office were required of
him before he could be admitted to the bar.
Inspired with a lofty ambition, and conscious
of his powers, he pursued his studies with in-
defatigable industry. After spending six years
in an office in his native village, he went to
the city of New York, and prosecuted his
studies for the seventh year.
In 1803, Van Buren, then twenty-one
years of age, commenced the practice of law
in his native village. The great conflict be-
tween the federal and repnblican parties was
then at its height. Van Buren was in cordial
sympathy with Jefferson, and earnestly and
eloquently espoused the cause of state rights;
though at that time the federal party held the
supremacy both in his town and state. His
success and increasing reputation led him, after
six years of practice, to remove to Hudson,
the county seat of his county. Here he spent
seven years, constantly gaining strength by
contending in the courts with some of the
ablest men who have adorned the bar of his
state.
Just before leaving Kinderhook for Hudson,
Mr. Van Buren married a lady alike distinguished
for beauty and accomplishments. After
twelve short years she sank into the grave,
the victim of consumption, leaving her hus-
band and four sons to weep over her loss. In
18 1 2, when thirty years of age, he was chosen
to the state senate, and gave his strenuous
support to Mr. Madison's administration. In
181 5, he was appointed attorney-general, and
the next year moved to Albany, the capital of
the state.
While he was acknowledged as one of the
most prominent leaders of the democratic
party, he had the moral courage to avow that
true democracy did not require that "univer-
sal suffrage" which admits the vile, the de-
graded, the ignorant, to the right of governing
the state. In true consistency with his demo-
cratic principles, he contended that, while
the path leading to the privilege of voting
should be open to every man without distinc-
tion, no one should be invested with that
sacred prerogative, unless he were in some
degree qualified for it by intelligence, virtue
and some property interests in the welfare of
the state.
In 1 82 1 he was elected a member of the
United States senate, and in the same year he
took a seat in the convention to revise the
constitution of his native state. His course in
this convention secured the approval of men
of all parties. In the senate of the United
States, he rose at once to a conspicuous posi-
tion as an active and useful legislator. In
1827, John Quincy Adams being then in the
presidential chair, Mr. Van Buren was re-
elected to the senate. He had been, from the
beginning, a determined opposer to the ad-
ministration, adopting the state rights view in
opposition to what was deemed the federal
proclivities of Mr. Adams,
Soon after this, in 1828, he was chosen
governor of the state of New York, and ac-
cordingly resigned his seat in the senate.
Probably no one in the United States con-
tributed so much towards ejecting John Q.
Adams from the presidential chair, and placing
in it Andrew Jackson, as did Martin Van
Buren. Whether entitled to the reputation
or not, he certainly was regarded throughout
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the United States as one of the most skillful
sagacious and cunning politicians. It was sup-
posed that no one knew so well as he how to
touch the secret springs of action; how to pull
all the wires to put his machinery in motion;
and how to organize a political army which
would, secretly and stealthily, accomplish the
most gigantic results. By these powers it is
said that he outwitted Mr. Adams, Mr. Clay,
Mr. Webster, and secured results which few
thought then could be accomplished.
When Andrew Jackson was elected presi-
dent he appointed Mr. Van Buren secretary
of state. This position he resigned in 1831,
and was immediately appointed minister to
England, where he went the same autumn.
The senate, however, when it met, refused to
ratify the nomination, and he returned home,
apparently untroubled; was nominated vice
president in the place of Calhoun, at the re-
election of Pres. Jackson; and with smiles
for all and frowns for none, he took his place
at the head of that senate which had refused
to confirm his nomination as ambassador.
His rejection by the senate aroused all the
zeal of Pres. Jackson in behalf of his repudi-
ated favorite; and this, probably more than
any other cause, secured his elevation to the
chair of the chief executive. On the 20th of
May, 1836, Van Buren received the demo-
cratic nomination to succeed Gen. Jackson as
president of the United States. He was
elected by a handsome majority, to the delight
of the retiring president.
His administration was filled with exciting
events. The insurrection in Canada, which
threatened to involve this country in war with
England, the agitation of the slavery question,
and finally the great commercial panic which
spread over the country, all were trials to his
wisdom. The financial distress was attributed
to the management of the democratich party,
and brought the president into such disfavor
that he failed of re-election. With the ex-
ception of being nominated for the presidency
by the free soil democrats, in 1848, Mr. Van
Buren lived quietly upon his estate until his
death.
He had ever been a prudent man, of frugal
habits, and, living within his income, had now
fortunately a competency for his declining
years. It was on the 4th of March, 1841,
that Mr. Van Buren retired from the presidency.
From his fine estate at Lindenwald, he still
exerted a powerful influence upon the politics
of the country. From this time until his death,
on the 24th of July, 1862, at the age of eighty
years, he resided at Lindenwald, a gentleman
of leisure, of culture and of wealth; enjoying
in a healthy old age, probably far more happi-
ness than he had before experienced amid the
stormy scenes of his active life.
Wi
ILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, the
ninth president of the United
States, was born at Berkeley, Va. ,
Feb. 9, 1773- His father, Benja-
min Harrison, was in comparatively opulent
circumstances, and was one of the most dis-
tinguished men of his day. He was an inti-
mate friend of George Washington, was early
elected a member of the continental congress,
and was conspicuous among the patriots of
Virginia in resisting the encroachments of the
British crown. In the celebrated congress of
1775, Benjamin Harrison and John Hancock
were both candidates for the office of speaker.
Mr. Harrison was subsetjuently chosen
governor of Virginia, and was twice re-elected.
Having received a thorough common-
school education, William Henry Harrison
entered Hampden Sidney college, where he
graduated with honor soon after the death of
his father. He then repaired to Philadelphia
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to study medicine under the instructions of
Dr. Rush and the guardianship of Robert
Morris, both of whom were, with his father,
signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Upon the outbreak of the Indian troubles,
and notwithstanding the remonstrances of his
friends, he abandoned his medical studies and
entered the army, having obtained a commis-
sion of ensign from President Washington. He
was then but nineteen years old. From that
time he passed gradually upward in rank until
he became aid to Gen. Wayne, after whose
death he resigned his commission. He was
then appointed secretary or the Northwestern
territory. This territory was then entitled to
but one member in congress, and Capt. Harri-
son wa,s chosen to fill that position.
In the spring of 1800 the Northwestern
territory was divided by congress into two
portions. The eastern portion, comprising
the region now embraced in the state ot Ohio,
was called "The Territory northwest of the
Ohio." The western portion, which included
what is now called Indiana, Illinois and Wis-
consin, was called the "Indiana territory."
William Henry Harrison, then twenty-seven
years of age, was appointed by John Adams,
governor of the Indiana territory, and imme-
diately after, also governor of upper Louisi-
ana. He was thus ruler over almost as
extensive a realm as any sovereign upon the
globe. He was superintendent of Indian af-
fairs, and was invested with powers nearly
dictatorial over the now rapidly increasing
white population. The ability and fidelity
with which he discharged these responsible
duties may be inferred from the fact that he
was four times appointed to this office — first
by John Adpms, twice by Thomas Jefferson
and afterward by President Madison.
When he began his administration there
were but three white settlements in that al-
most boundless region, now crowded with
cities and resounding with all the tumult of
wealth and traffic. One of these settlements
was on the Ohio, nearly opposite Louisville;
one at Vincennes, on the Wabash, and the
third a French settlement.
The vast wilderness over which Gov.
Harrison reigned was filled with many tribes
of Indians. About the year 1806, two extra-
ordinary men, twin brothers, of the Shawnese
tribe, rose among them. One of these was
called Tecumseh, or "The Crouching Pan-
ther;" the other, Olliwacheca, or "The
Prophet." Tecumseh was not only an Indian
warrior, but a man of great sagacity, far-
reaching foresight and indomitable persever-
ance in any enterprise in which he might
engage. He was inspired with the highest
enthusiasm, and had long regarded with dread
and with hatred the encroachment of the
whites upon the hunting grounds of his fath-
ers. His brother, the Prophet, was an orator,
who could sway the feelings of the untutored
Indian as the gale tossed the tree-tops be-
neath which they dwelt.
Gov. Harrison made many attempts to
conciliate the Indians, but at last the war
came, and at Tippecanoe the Indians were
routed with great slaughter. October 28,
1 8 12, his army began its march. When near
the Prophet's town three Indians of rank made
their appearance and inquired why Gov. Har-
rison was approaching them in so hostile an
attitude. After a short conference, arrange-
ments were made for a meeting the next day,
to agree upon terms of peace. But Gov. Har-
rison was too well acquainted with the Indian
character to be deceived by such protestations.
Selecting a favorable spot for his night's en-
campment, he took every precaution against
surprise. His troops were posted in a hollow
square. End slept upon their arms. The
troops threw themselves upon the ground for
rest; but every man had his accourtrements
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on, his loaded musket by his side, and his
bayonet fixed. The wakeful governor, be-
tween three and four o'clock in the morning,
had risen, and was sitting in conversation with
his aids by the embers of a waning fire. It
was a chill, cloudy morning with a drizzling
rain. In the darkness, the Indians had crept
as near as possible, and just then, with a sav-
age yell, rushed, with all the desperation
which superstition and passion most highly
inflamed could give, upon the left flank of the
little army. The savages had been amply
provided with guns and ammunition by the
English. Their war-whoop was accompanied
by a shower of bullets. The camp-fires were
instantly extinguished, as the light aided the
Indians in their aim. With hideous yells, the
Indian bands rushed on, not doubting a speedy
and entire victory. But Gen. Harrison's
troops stood as immovable as the rocks around
them until day dawned; they then made a
simultaneous charge with the bayonet, and
swept everything before them, and completely
routed the foe. Gov. Harrison now had all
his energies tasked to the utmost. The Brit-
ish, descending from the Canadas, were of
themselves a very formidable force; but with
their savage allies, rushing like wolves from
the forest, searching out every remote farm
house, burning, plundering, scalping, torturing,
the wide frontier was plunged into a state of
consternation which even the most vivid imagi-
nation can but faintly conceive. Gen Hull
had made the ignominious surrender of his
forces at Detroit. Under these despairing
circumstances, Gov. Harrison was appointed
by President Madison commander-in-chief of
the Northwestern army, with orders to retake
Detroit, and to protect the frontiers.
Harrison won the love of his soldiers by
always sharing with them their fatigue. His
whole baggage, while pursuing the foe up the
Thames, was carried in a valise; and his bed-
ding consisted of a single blanket lashed over
his saedle. Thirty-tive British officers, his
prisoners of war, supped with him after the bat-
tle. The only fare he could give them was beef
roasted before the fire, without bread or salt.
In 1816, Gen. Harrison was chosen a
member of the national house of representa-
tives, to represent the district of Ohio. In
congress he proved an active member; and
whenever he spoke, it was with force of reason
and power of eloquence, which arrested the
attention of all the members.
In 18 19, Harrison was elected to the sen-
ate of Ohio; and in 1S24, as one of the presi-
dential electors of that state, he gave his vote
for Henry Clay. The same year he was
chosen to the United States senate.
In 1836, the friends of Gen. Harrison
brought him forward as a candidate for the
presidency against Van Buren, but he was de-
feated. At the close of Mr. Van Buren's
term, he was re-nominated by his party, and
Harrison was unanimously nominated by the
whigs, with John Tyler for the vice presidency.
The contest was very animated. Gen. Jackson
gave all his influence to prevent Harrison's
election; but his triumph was signal.
The cabinet which he formed, with Daniel
Webster at its head as secretary of state, was
one of the most brilliant with which any presi-
dent had ever been surrounded. In the midst
of these bright and joyous prospects, Gen.
Harrison was seized by a pleurisy-fever, and
after a few days of violent sickness, died on
the 4th of April; just one month after his in-
auguration as president of the United States.
>T^OHN TYLER, the tenth president of
m the United States, was born in Charles
A 1 City county, Va. , March 29, 1790.
At the early age of twelve, John entered
William and Mary college and graduated with
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much honor when but seventeen years old.
He devoted himself with great assiduity to the
study of law, partly with his father and partly
with Edmund Randolph, one of the most dis-
tiguished lawyers of Virginia.
At nineteen years of age, he commenced
the practice of law. His success was rapid
and astonishing. It is said that three months
had not elapsed ere there was scarcely a case
on the docket of the court in which he was not
retained. When but twenty-one years of age,
he was almost unanimously elected to a seat in
the state legislature. He connected himself
with the democratic party, and warmly ad-
vocated the measures of Jefferson and Madison.
For five successive years he was elected to the
legislature, receiving nearly the unanimous
vote of his county.
When but twenty-six years of age, he was
elected a member of congress. Here he acted
earnestly and ably with the democratic party,
opposing a national bank, internal improve-
ments by the general government, a protective
tariff, and advocating a strict construction of
the constitution, and the most careful vigilance
over state rights. His labors in congress were
so arduous that before the close of his second
term he found it necessary to resign and retire
to his estate in Charles City county, to recruit
his health. He, however, soon after consented
to take his seat in the state legislature, where
his influence was powerful in promoting public
works of great utility. He was then chosen,
by a very large majority of votes, governor of
his native state. His administration was sig-
nally a successful one, and his popularity
secured his re-election.
John Randolph, a brilliant, erratic, half-
crazed man, then represented Virginia in the
senate of the United States. A portion of the
democratic party was displeased with Mr.
Randolph's wayward course, and brought
forward John Tyler as his opponent, and
Tyler was the victor. In accordance with his
professions, upon taking his seat in the sen-
ate, he joined the ranks of the opposition. He
opposed the tariff; he spoke against and voted
against the bank as unconstitutional; he stren-
uously opposed all restrictions upon slavery, re-
resisting all projects of internal improvements
by the general government, and avowed his
sympathy with Mr. Calhoun's view of nullifica-
tion; he declared that Gen. Jackson, by his op-
position to the nullifiers, had abandoned the
principles of the democratic party. Such was
Mr. Tyler's record in congress — a record in
perfect accordance with the principles which
he had always avowed.
Returning to Virginia, he resumed the
practice of his profession. There was a split
in the democratic party. His friends still re-
garded him as a true Jeffersonian, gave him a
dinner, and showered compliments upon him.
He had now attained the age of forty-six.
Soon after this he removed to Williamsburg,
for the better education of his children; and
he again took his seat in the legislature of Vir-
ginia.
By the southern whigs, he was sent to the
national convention at Harrisburg to nominate
a president in 1839. The majority of votes
were given to Gen. Harrison, a genuine whig,
much to the disappointment of the south, who
wished for Henry Clay. To conciliate the
southern whigs and to secure their vote, the
convention then nominated John Tyler for
vice president. Thus it happened that a whig
president, and, in reality, a democratic vice
president were chosen.
In 1 84 1, Mr. Tyler was inaugurated vice
president of the United States. In one short
month from that time Pres. Harrison, died and
Mr. Tyler thus found himself, to his own sur-
prise and that of the whole nation, an occu-
pant of the presidential chair. This was a new
test of the stability of our institutions, as it
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was the first time in the history of our country
that such an event had occurred Mr. Tyler
was at home in WilHamsburg when he received
the unexpected tidings of the death of Pres.
Harrison. He hastened to Washington, and
on the 6th of April was inaugurated to the high
and responsible office. Gen. Harrison had
selected a whig cabinet Should he retain
them, and thus surround himself with counsel-
ors whose views were antagonistic to his own .'
or, on the other hand, should he turn against
the party which had elected him and select a
cabinet in harmony with himself, and which
would oppose all those views which the whigs
deemed essential to the public welfare.' This
was his fearful dilemma, and so he invited the
cabinet which Pres. Harrison had selected to
retain their seats.
The whigs carried through congress a bill
for the incorporation of a fiscal bank of the
United States. The president, after ten day's
delay, returned it with his veto. He suggested,
however, that he would approve of a bill
drawn up upon such a plan as he proposed.
Such a bill was accordingly prepared, and
privately submitted to him He gave it his
approval. It was passed without alteration,
and he sent it back with his veto. Here com-
menced the open rupture. It is said that Mr.
Tyler was provoked to this measure by a pub-
lished letter from the Hon. John M. Botts, a
distinguished \'irginia whig, who severely
touched the pride of the president.
The opposition now exultingly received the
president into their arms. The party which
elected him denounced him bitterly. All the
members of his cabinet, excepting Mr. Web-
ster, resigned. The whigs of congress, both the
senate and the house, held a meeting and issued
an address to the people of the United States,
proclaiming that all political alliances between
the whigs and Pres. Tyler were at an end.
Still the president attempted to conciliate.
He appointed a new cabinet of distinguished
whigs and conservatives, carefully leaving out
all strong party men. Mr. Webster soon
found it necessary to resign, forced out by the
pressure of his whig friends. Thus the four
years of Mr. Tyler's unfortunate administra-
tion passed sadly away. More and more,
however, he brought himself into sympathy
with his old friends, the democrats, until at
the close of his term, he gave his whole influ-
ence to the support of Mr. Polk, the demo-
cratic candidate for his successor.
On the 4th of March, 1845, he retired from
office, to the regret of neither party, and
probably to his own unspeakable relief. His
first wife. Miss Letitia Christian, died in
Washington, in 1842; and in June, 1844,
Pres. Tyler was again married, at New York, to
Miss Julia Gardiner, a young lady of many
personal and intellectual accomjilishments.
The remainder of his days Mr. Tyler passed
mainly in retirement at his beautiful home —
Sherwood Forest, Charles City county, Va.
A polished gentleman in his manners, richly
furnished with information from books and
experience in the world, and possessing bril-
liant powers of conversation, his family circle
was the scene of unusual attractions. With
sufficient means for the exercise of a generous
hospitality, he might have enjoyed a serene
old age with the few friends who gathered
around him, were it not for the storms of civil
war which his own principles and policy had
helped to introduce.
When the great rebellion rose, which the
state rights and nullifying doctrines of John C.
Calhoun had inaugurated, Pres. Tyler re-
nounced his allegiance to the United States,
and joined the confederates. He was chosen
a member of their congress; and while engaged
in active measures to destrr)y, by force of arms,
the government over which he had once pre-
sided, he was taken sick and soon died.
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>Y'AMES KNOX POLK, the eleventh
M president of the United States, was
A J born in Mecklenburg county, N. C,
November 2, 1795. His parents were
Samuel and Jane (Knox) Polk, the former a
son of Col. Thomas Polk, who located at the
above place, as one of the first pioneers, in
1735-
In the year 1806, with his wife and chil-
dren, and soon after followed by most of the
members of the Polk family, Samuel Polk emi-
grated some two or three hundred miles farther
west, to the rich valley of the Duck river, Tenn.
Here, in the midst of the wilderness, in a
region which was subsequently called Maury
county, they reared their log huts, and estab-
lished their homes. In the hard toil of a new
farm in the wilderness, James K. Polk spent
the early years of his childhood and youth.
His father, adding the pursuit of a surveyor to
that of a farmer, gradually increased in wealth
until he became one of the leading men of the
region.
Very early in life, James developed a taste
for reading and expressed the strongest desire
to obtain a liberal education. His mother's
traininghad made him methodical in his habits,
had taught him punctaality and industry, and
had inspired him with lofty principles of
morality. His health was frail; and his father,
fearing that he might not be able to endure a
sedentary life, got a situation for hirn behind
the counter, hoping to fit him for commercial
pursuits. He remained in this uncongenial
occupation but a few weeks, when at his
earnest solicitation his father removed him,
and made arrangements for him to prosecute
his studies. Soon after he sent him to Mur-
freesboro academy. In the autumn of 18 15 he
entered the sophomore class in the university
of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill. He grad-
uated in 1S18, with the highest honors, being
deemed the best scholar of his class, both
in mathematics and classics. He was then
twenty-three years of age. Mr. Polk's health
was at this time much impaired by the assi-
duity with which he had prosecuted his studies.
After a short season of relaxation he went to
Nashville, Tenn., and entered the office of
Felix Grundy, to study law. Here Mr. Polk
renewed his acquaintance with Andrew Jack-
son, who resided on his plantation, the Her-
mitage, bnt a few miles from Nashville.
James K. Polk was a popular public speaker,
and was constantly called upon to address the
meetings of his party friends. His skill as a
speaker was such that he was popularly called
the Napoleon of the stump. He was a man
of unblemished morals, genial and courteous
in his bearing, and with that sympathetic na-
ture in the joys and griefs of others which ever
gave him troops of friends. In 1823, Mr.
Polk was elected to the legislature of Tennes-
see. Here he gave his strong influence towards
the election of his friend, Mr. Jackson, to the
presidency of the United States.
In January, 1824, Mr. Polk married Miss
Sarah Childress, of Rutherford county, Tenn.
His bride was altogether worthy of him — a
lady of beauty and culture. In the fall of 1825,
Mr. Polk was chosen a member of congress.
The satisfaction which he gave to his constit-
uents may be inferred from the fact, that for
fourteen successive years, until 1839, he was
continued in that office. He then volunta'"ily
withdrew, only that he might accept the
gubernatorial chair of Tennessee. In congress
he was a laborious member, a frequent and
popular speaker. He was always in his seat,
always courteous; and whenever he spoke it
was always to the point, and without any am-
bitious rethorical display.
During five sessions of congress, Mr. Polk
was speaker of the house. Strong passions
were roused, and stormy scenes were witness-
ed; but Mr. Polk performed his arduous duties
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to a very general satisfaction, and a unani-
mous vote of thanks to him was passed by the
house as he withdrew on the 4th of March,
1839-
On the 14th of October, 1839, took the
oath of office as governor of Tennessee at
Nashville. In 1841, his term of office ex-
pired, and he was again the candidate of the
democratic party, but was defeated. On the
4th of March, 1845, Mr. Polk was inaugurated
president of the United States. The verdict
of the country in favor of the annexation of
Texas exerted its influence upon congress; and
the last act of the administration of President
Tyler was to affix his signature to a joint res-
olution of congress, passed on the 3d of March,
approving of the annexation of Texas to the
American Union. As Mexico still claimed
Texas as one of her provinces, the Mexican
minister, Almonte, immediately demanded his
passports and left the country, declaring the
act of the annexation to be an act hostile to
Mexico.
In his message. President Polk urged that
Texas should immediately, by act of congress,
be received into the Union on the same foot-
ing with the other states. In the meantime,
Gen. Taylor was sent with an army into Texas
to hold the country. He was sent first to
Nueces, which the Mexicans said was the
western boundary of Texas. Then he was
sent nearly two hundred miles further west, to
the Rio G. ande, where he erected batteries
which commanded the Mexican city of Matamo-
ras, which was situated on the western banks.
The anticipated collision soon took place, and
war was declared against Mexico by President
Polk. The war was pushed forward by Mr.
Polk's administration with great vigor. Gen.
Taylor, whose army was first called one of
"observation," then of " occupation," then of
" invasion," was sent sent forward to Monte-
rey. The feeble Mexicans, in every encounter.
were hopelessly and awfully slaughtered. It
was by the ingenuity of Mr. Polk's administra-
tion that the war was brought on.
" To the victors belong the spoils." Mex-
ico was prostrate before us. Her capital was
in our hands. We now consented to peace
upon the condition that Mexico should sur-
render to us, in addition to Texas, all of New
Mexico, and all of Upper and Lower Califor-
nia. This new demand embraced, exclusive
of Texas, 800.000 square miles. This was an
extent of territory e(]ual to nine states of the
size of New York. Thus slavery was securing
eighteen majestic states to be added to the
Union. In the prosecution of this war, we
expended 20,000 lives and more tluin $100,-
000,000. Of this more than .$1 5,000,000 were
paid to Mexico.
On the 3d of March, 1849, Mr. Polk re-
I tired from office, having served one term.
The next day was Sunday. On the 5th, Gen.
Taylor was inaugurated as his successor. Mr.
Polk rode to the capitol in the same carriage
with Gen. Taylor; and the same evening, with
Mrs. Polk, he commenced his return to Ten-
nessee. He was then but fifty-four years of
age. He had ever been strictly temperate in
all his habits, and his health was good. With
an ample fortune, a choice library, a cultivated
mind, and domestic ties of the dearest na-
ture, it seemed as though long years of tran-
quility and happiness were before him. But
the cholera — the fearful scourge — was then
sweeping up the valley of the Mississippi.
This he contracted, and died on the i 5th of
June, 1849, in the fifty-fourth year of his age.
H
ACH,\RY TAYLOR, twelfth presi-
dent of the United States, was born
on the 24th of November, 1784, in
Orange county, Va. His father,
1 Colonel Taylor, was a Virginian of note, and
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a distinguished patriot and soldier of the Revo-
lution. When Zachary was an infant, his
father, with his wife and two children, emi-
grated to Kentucky, where he settled, a few
miles from Louisville. In this frontier home,
young Zacnary could enjoy but few social and
educational advantages. When six years of
age he attended a common school, and was
then regarded as a bright, active boy, rather
remarkable for bluntness and decision of char-
acter. He was strong, fearless and self-reli-
ant, and manifested a strong desire to enter
the army to tight the Indians who were rav-
aging the frontiers.
In 1808, his father succeeded in obtaining
for him the commissiou of lieutenant in the
United States army; and he joined the troops
which were stationed at New Orleans under
Gen. Wilkinson. Soon after this he married
Miss Margaret Smith, a young lady from one
of the first families of Maryland.
Immediately after the declaration of war
with England, in 18 12, Capt. Taylor (for he
had then been promoted to that rank) was put
in command of Fort Harrison, on the Wa-
bash, about fifty miles above Vincennes.
This fort had been built in the wilderness by
Gen. Harrison, on his march to Tippecanoe.
It was one of the first points of attack by the
Indians, led by Tecumseh. Its garrison con-
sisted of a broken company of infantry num-
bering fifty men, many of whom were sick.
Early in the autumn of 18 12, the Indians,
stealthily, and in large numbers, moved upon
the fort. Their approach was first indicated
by the murder of two soldiers just outside of
the stockade. Capt. Taylor made every possi-
ble preparation to meet the anticipated as-
sault. On the 4th of September, a band of
forty painted and plumed savages came to the
fort, waving a white flag, and informed Capt.
Taylor that in the morning their chief would
come to have a talk with him. It was evident
that their object was merely to ascertain the
state of things at the fort, and Capt. Taylor,
well versed in the wiles of the savages, kept
them at a distance. The sun went down; the
savages disappeared, the garrison slept upon
their arms. One hour before midnight the
war-whoop burst from a thousand lips in the
forest around, followed by the discharge of
musketry, and the rush of the foe. Every
man, sick and well, sprang to his post. Every
man knew that defeat was not merely death,
but in the case of capture, death by the most
agonizing and prolonged torture. The savages
succeeded in setting fire to one of the block-
houses. Until six o'clock in the morning, this
awful conflict continued. The savages then,
baffled at every point, and gnashing their teeth
with rage, retired. Capt. Taylor, for this gal-
lant defense, was promoted to the rank of
major by brevet.
Until the close of the war. Major Taylor
was placed in such situations that he saw but
little more of active service. He was sent far
away into the depths of the wilderness, to
Fort Crawford, on Fox river, which empties
into Green bay. Gradually he rose to the
rank of colonel. In the Black-Hawk war,
which resulted in the capture of that renowned
chieftain, Col. Taylor took a subordinate but
a brave and efficient part. For twenty-four
years Col. Taylor was engaged in the defense
of the frontiers, in scenes so remote, and in
employments so obscure, that his name was
unknown beyond the limits of his own imme-
diate acquaintance. In the year 1836, he was
sent to Florida to compel the Seminole Indians
to vacate that region and retire beyond the
Mississippi, as their chiefs, by treaty, had
promised they should do. The services ren-
dered here secured Col. Taylor the high ap-
preciation of the government; and as a reward,
he was elevated to the rank of brigadier-gen-
eral by brevet; and soon after, in May, 1838,
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was appointed to the cliief command of the
United States troops in h'lorida. After two
years of such wearisome employment, Gen.
Ta}lor obtained, at his own request, a change
of command, and was stationed over the de-
partment of the southwest. This field em-
braced Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and
^.eorgia. FZstablishing his headquarters at
Fort Jesup, in Louisiana, he removed his
family to a plantation which he purchased
near Baton Rouge. Here he remained for
five years, buried, as it were, from the world,
but faithfully discharging every duty imposed
upon him.
In 1846, Gen. Taylor was sent to guard
the land between the Nueces and Rio Grande,
the latter river being the boundary of Te.xas,
which was then claimed by the United States.
Soon the war with Me.xico was brought on,
and at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma,
Gen. Taylor won brilliant victories over the
Mexicans. The rank of major-general by
brevet was then conferred upon Gen. Taylor,
and his name was received with enthusiasm
almost everywhere in the nation, Then came
the battles of Monterey and Buena Vista, in
which he won signal victories over forces much
larger than he commanded. His careless
habits of dress and his unaffected simplicity,
secured for Gen. Taylor among his troops, the
sobriquet of "Old Rough and Ready."
The tidings of the brilliant victory of
Buena Vista spread the wildest enthusiasm
over the country. The whig party decided to
take advantage of this wonderful popularity
in bringing forward the unpolished, uncul-
tered, honest soldier as their candidate for the
presidency. Gen. Taylor was ::stonished at
the announcement, and for a time would not
listen to it; declaring that he was not at all
qualified for such an office. So little interest
had he taken in politics that, for forty years,
he had not cast a vote.
Gen. Taylor was not an eloquent speaker
nor a fine writer. His friends took possession
of him, and prepared such few communica-
tions as it was needful should be presented to
the public. The popularity of the successful
warrior swept the land. He was triumph-
antly elected over two opposing candidates —
Gen. Cass and I£x-Pres. Martin \'an Buren.
Though he selected an excellent cabinet, the
good old man found himself in a very uncon-
genial position, and was, at times, sorely per-
plexed and harassed. His mental sufferings
were very severe, and probably tended to has-
ten his death. The pro-slavery party was
pushing its claims with tireless energy, expLcli-
tions were fitting out to capture Cuba; Cali-
fornia was pleading for admission to the
Union, while slavery stood at the door to bar
her out. Gen. Taylor found the political con-
flicts m Washington to be far more trying to
the nerves than battles with Mexicans or
Indians.
In the midst of all these troubles. Gen.
Taylor, after he had occupied the presidential
chair but little over a year, took cold, and
after a brief sickness, of but little over five
days, died on the 9th of July, 1850. His last
words were: " I am not afraid to die. I am
ready. I have endeavored to do my duty."
He died universally respectsd and beloved.
Gen, Scott, who was thoroughly acquainted
with Gen, Taylor, gave the following graphic
and truthful description of his character:
"With a good store of common sense. Gen.
Taylor's mind had not been enlarged and re-
freshed by reading, or much converse with the
world. Rigidity of ideas was the consequence.
The frontiers and small military posts had
been his home. Hence he was quite ignorant
for his rank, and quite bigoted in his igno-
rance. His simplicity was child-like, and
with innumerable prejudices, amusing and in-
corrigible, well suited to the tender age.
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Thus, if a man, however respectable, chanced
to wear a coat of an unusual color, or his hat
a little on one side of his head; or an officer
to leave a corner of his handkerchief dangling
from an outside pocket — in any such case, this
critic held the offender to be a coxcomb (per-
haps something worse), whom he would not,
to use his oft repeated phrase, 'touch with a
pair of tongs.' "
(D
ILLARD FILLMORE, thirteenth
president of the United States, was
born at Summer Hill, Cayuga
county, N. Y. , on the 7th of Janu-
ary, 1800. His father was a farmer, and,
owing to misfortune, in humble circumstances.
Of his mother, the daughter of Dr. Abiathar
Millard, of Pittsfield, Mass., it has been said
that she possessed an intellect of very high
order, united with much personal loveliness,
sweetness of disposition, graceful manners and
exquisite sensibilities. She died in 1831;
having lived to see her son a young man of
distinguished promise, though she was not per-
mitted to witness the high dignity which he
finally attained.
In consequence of the secluded home and
limited means of his father, Millard enjoyed
but slender advantages for education in his
early years. The sacred influences of home
had taught him to revere the Bible, and had
laid the foundations of an upright character.
When fourteen years of age his father sent
him some hundred miles from home, to the
then wilds of Livingston county, to learn the
trade of a clothier. Near the mill there was
a small village, where some enterprising man
had commenced the collection of a village
library. This proved an inestimable blessing
to young Fillmore. His evenings were spent
in reading. Soon every leisure moment was
occupied with books. His thirst for knowledge
became insatiate, and the selections which he
made were continually more < levating and
instructive. He read history, biography,
oratory, and thus gradually there was en-
kindled in his heart a desire to be something
more than a mere worker with his hands; and
he was becoming, .almost unknown to himself,
a well informed, educated man.
The young clothier had now attained the
age of nineteen years, and was of fine per-
sonal appearance and of gentlemanly demeanor.
It so happened that there was a gentleman in
the neighborhood of ample pecuniary means
and of benevolence — Judge Walter Wood —
who was struck with the prepossessing appear-
ance of young Fillmore. He made his
acquaintance, and was so much impressed
with his ability and attainments that he ad-
vised him to abandon his trade and devote
himself to the study of law. The young man
replied, that he had no means of his own, no
friends to help him, and that his previous edu-
cation had been very imperfect. But Judge
Wood had so much confidence in him that he
kindly offered to take him into his own office,
and to loan him such money as he needed.
Most gratefully the generous offer was ac-
cepted.
In 1823, when twenty-three years-of age,
he was admitted to the court of common pleas-
He then want to the villa:^e of Aurora, and
commenced the practice of law. In this
secluded, peaceful region, his practice of
course was limited, and there was no oppor-
tunity for a sudden rise in fortune or in fame.
Here, in the year 1826, he married a lady of
great moral worth, and one capable of adorn-
ing any station she might be called to fill —
Miss Abigail Powers.
His elevation of character, his untiring in-
dustry, his legal acquirements, and his skill as
an advocate, gradually attracted attention;
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and he was invited to enter into partnership
under highly advantageous circumstances,
with an elder member of the bar in Buffalo.
Just before removing to Buffalo, in 1829, he
took his seat in the house of assembly, of the
state of New York, as a representative from
Erie county. Though he had never taken a
very active part in politics, his vote and his
sympathies were with the whig party. The
state was tiien democratic, and he found him-
self in a helpless minority in the legislature,
still the testimony comes from all parties, that
his courtesy, ability and integrity, won, to a
very unusual degree, the respect of his asso-
ciates.
In the autumn of 1832, he was elected to
a seat in the United States congress He en-
tered that troubled arena in some of the most
tumultuous hours of our national history. The
great conflict respecting the national bank
and the removal of the deposits was then
raging.
His term of two years closed, and he re-
turned to his profession, which he pursued
witii increasing reputation and success. After
a lapse of two years he again became a candi-
date for congress; was re-elected, and took his
seat in 1837. His past experience as a repre-
sentative gave him strength and confidence.
The first term of service in congress to any
man can be but little more than an introduction.
He was now prepared for active duty. F"ill-
more was now a man of wide repute, and his
popularity filled the state, and in the year
1847 he was elected comptroller of the state.
Fillmore had attained the age of forty-
seven years. His labors at the bar, in the
legislature, in congress and as comptroller,
had given him very considerable fame. The
whigs were casting about to find suitable can-
didates for president and vice-president at the
apdroaching election. Far away, on the
waters of the Rio Grande, there was a rough
old soldier, who had fought successful battles
with the Mexicans, which had caused his
name to be proclaimed in trumpet-tones all
over the land. But it was necessary to asso-
ciate with him, on the same ticket, some man
of reputation as a statesman. Under the in-
fluence of these considerations, the names of
Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore became
the rallying cry of the whigs, as their candi-
dates for president and vice-president. The
whig ticket was signall\- triumphant. On the
4th of March, 1849, Gen. Taylor was inaugu-
rated president, and Millard Fillmore vice-
president, of the United States.
On the 9th of July, 1850, Pres. Taylor,
but one year and four months after his inaugu-
ration, was suddenly taken sick and died. By
the constitution, vice-Pres. Fillmore thus be-
came president. He appointed a very able
cabinet, of which the illustrious Daniel Web-
ster was secretary of state.
Fillmore had very serious difficulties to
contend with, since the opposition had a ma-
jority in both houses. He did everything in
his power to conciliate the south; but the pro-
slavery party in the south felt the inadequacy
of all measures of transient conciliation. The
population of the free states was so rapidlj- in-
1 creasing over that of the slave states that it
J was inevitable that the power of the govern-
ment should soon pass into the hands of the
free states. The famous compromise meas-
I ures were adopted under Fillmore's adininistra-
j tion, and the Japan expedition was sent out.
On the 4th of March, 1853, Fillmore, having
served one term, retired.
In 1856, Fillmore was nominated for the
presidency by the "know nothing " party, but
was beaten bj- Mr. Buchanan. After that
Fillmore lived in retirement. During J:he ter-
[ rible conflict of civil war, he was mostly silent.
1 It was generally supposed that his sympathies
! were rather with those who were endeavoring
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to overthrow our institutions. He lived to a
ripe old age, and died in Buffalo, N. Y. ,
March 8, 1S74.
BRANKLIN PIERCE, the fourteenth
president of the United States, was born
m Hillsborough, N. H., November 23,
1804. Franklin was a very bright
and handsome boy, generous, warm-hearted
and brave. He won alike the love of old and
young. The boys on the play ground loved
him. His teachers loved him. The neigh-
bors looked upon him with pride and affection.
He was by instinct a gentleman; always speak-
ing kind words, doing kind deeds, with a
peculiar unstudied tact which taught him what
was agreeable. Without developing any pre-
cocity of genius, or any unnatural devotion to
books, he was a good scholar; in body, in
mind, in affections, a finely developed boy.
When sixteen years of age, in the year
1820, he entered Bowdoin college at Bruns-
wick, Maine. He was one of the most popu-
lar young men in the college. The purity of
his moral character, the unvarying courtesy of
his demeanor, his rank as a scholar, and genial
nature, rendered him a universal favorite.
There was something very peculiarly winning
in his address, and it was evidently not in the
slightest degree studied; it was the simple out-
gushing of his own magnanimous and loving
nature.
Upon graduating, in the year 1824, Erank-
lin Pierce commenced the study of law in the
office of Judge Woodbury, one of the most
distinguished lawyers of the state, and a man
of great private worth. The eminent social
qualities of the young lawyer, his father's
prominence as a public man, and the brilliant
political career into which Judge Woodbury
was entering, all tended to entice Mr. Pierce
into the fascinating, yet perilous, path of po-
litical life. With all the ardor of his nature
he espoused the cause of Gen. Jackson for the
presidency. He commenced the practice of
law in Hillsborough, and was soon elected to
represent the town in the state legislature.
Here he served for four years. The last two
years he was chosen speaker of the house by a
very large vote.
In 1833, at the age of twenty-nine, he was
elected a member of congress. Without tak-
ing an active part in debates, he was faithful
and laborious in duty, a d ever rising in the
estimation of those with whom he was associ-
ated. In 1837, being then but thirty-three
years of age, he was elected to the senate of
the United States, taking "his seat just as Mr.
Van Buren commenced his administration.
He was the youngest member in the senate.
In the year 1834 he married Miss Jane Means
Appleton, a lady of rare beauty and accom-
plishments, and one admirably fitted to adorn
every station with which her husband was
honored. Of the three sons who were born to
them, all now sleep with their parents in the
grave.
In the year 183S, Mr. Pierce, with grow-
ing fame and increasing business as a lawyer,
took up his residence in Concord, the capital
of New Hampshire. President Polk, upon his
accession to office, appointed Mr. Pierce at-
torney-general of the United States; but the
offer was declined in consequence of numer-
ous professional engagements at home and the
precarious state of Mrs. Pierce's health. He
also about the same time declined the nomi-
nation for governor by the democratic party.
The war with Me.xico called Mr. Pierce to the
army. Receiving the appointment of briga-
dier-general, he embarked with a portion of
his troops at Newport, R. I., on the 27th of
May, 1847. He took an important part in
this war, proving himself a brave and true
soldier.
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When Gen. Pierce reached his home in
his native state he was received enthusiastic-
ally by the advocates of the Mexican war, and
coldly by its opponents. He resumed the
practice of his profession, very frequently tak-
ing an active part in politiaal questions, giving
his cordial support to the pro-slavery wing of
the democratic party. The compromise meas-
ures met cordially with his approval; and he
strenuously advocated the enforcement of the
infamous fugitive-slave law, which so shocked
the religious sensibilities of the north. He thus
became distinguished as a "northern man with
southern principles." The strong partisans
of slavery in the south consequently regarded
him as a man whom they could safely trust in
office to carry out their plans.
On the I2th of June, 1852, the democratic
convention met in Baltiir,ore to nominate a
candidate for the presidency. For four days
they continued in session, and in thirty-five
ballotings no one had obtained a two-thirds
vote. Not a vote thus far had been thrown
for Gen. Pierce. Then the Virginia delega-
tion brought forward his name. There were
fourteen more ballotings, during which Gen.
Pierce constantly gained strength, until, at the
forty-ninth ballot, he received 282 votes, and
all other candidates eleven. Gen. Winfield
Scott was the whig candidate. Gen. Pierce
was chosen with great unanimity. Only four
states — Vermont, Massachusetts, Kentucky
and Tennessee — cast their electoral votes
against him. Gen. Franklin Pierce was there-
fore inaugurated president of the United States
on the 4th of March, 1853.
His administration proved one of the most
stormy our country had ever experienced. The
controversy between slavery and freedom was
then approaching its culminating point. It
became evident that there was an "irrepress-
ible conflict" between them, and that the
nation could not long exist "half slave and
half free." President Pierce, during the whole
of his administraiion, did everything he could
to conciliate the south; but it was all in vain.
The conflict every year grew more and more
violent, and threats of the dissolution of the
dissolution of the Union were borne to the
north on every southern breeze.
On the 4th of March, \X-^-, President
Pierce retired to his home in Concord. Of
three children, two had died, and his only sur-
viving child had been killed before his eyes by
a railroad accident; and his wife, one of the
most estimable and accomplished of ladies,
was rapidly sinking in consumption. The hour
of dreadful gloom soon came, and he was left
alone in the world without wife or chikl.
Such was the condition of affairs when
Pres Pierce approached the close of his four
years' term of office. The north had become
thoroughl}- alienated from him. The anti-
slavery sentiment, goaded by great outrages,
had been rapidly increasing; all the intellectual
ability and social worth of Pres. Pierce were
forgotten in deep reprehension of his adminis-
trative acts. The slaveholders of the south,
also, unmindful of the fidelity with which he
had advocated those measures of government
which they approved, and perhaps, also, feel-
ing that he had rendered himself so unpopular
as no longer to be able acceptably to serve
them, ungratefully dropped him, and nomi-
nated James Buchanan to succeed him.
When the terrible rebellion broke forth,
which divided our country into two parties,
Mr. Pierce remained steadfast in the principles
which he had always cherished, and gave his
sympathies to that pro-slavery party with
which he had ever been allied. He declined
to do anything, either by voice or pen, to
strengthen the hand of the national govern-
ment. He continued to reside in Concord
until the time of his death, which occurred in
October, 1869. He was one of the most genial
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and social of men, an honored communicant
of the Episcopal church, and one of the kind-
est of neighbors. Generous to a fault, he con-
tributed liberally for the alleviation of suffer-
ing and want, and many of his townspeople
were often gladdened by his material bounty.
>^ AMES BUCHANAN, the fifteenth presi-
m dent of the United States, was born in
^ 1 Franklin county, Pa., on the 23d cf
April, 1791. His father was a native
of the north of Ireland; a poor man, who had
emigrated in 1783, with little property save his
own strong arms. Five years afterward he
married Elizabeth Spear, the daughter of a
respectable farmer, and, with his young bride,
plunged into the wilderness, staked his claim,
reared his log hut, opened a clearing with his
a.x. and settled down to perform his obscure
part in the drama of life. In this secluded
home, where James was born, he remained for
eight years, enjoying but few social or intel-
lectual advantages. When James was eight
years of age his father removed to the village
of Mercersburg, where his son was placed at
school, and commenced a course of study in
English, Latin and Greek. His progress was
rapid, and at the age of fourteen he entered
Dickenson college, at Carlisle. Here he de-
veloped remarkable talent, and took his stand
among the first scholars of the institution. His
application to study was intense, and yet his
native powers enabled him to master the most
abstruse subjects with facility. In the year
1809, he graduated with the highest honors of
his class. He was then eighteen years of age;
tall and graceful, vigorous in health, fond of
athletic sport, an unerring shot, and enlivened
with an exuberant flow of animal spirits. He
immediately commenced the study of law in
the city of Lancaster, and was admitted to the
bar in 18 12, when he was but twenty-one
years of age. Very rapidly he rose in his pro-
fession, and at once took undisputed stand
with the ablest lawyers of the state. When
but twenty-si.x years of age, unaided by coun-
sel, he successfully defended before the state
senate one of the judges of the state, who was
tried upon articles of impeachment. At the
age of thirty it was generally admitted that he
stood at the head of the bar.
In 1820 he reluctantly consented to run as
a candidate for congress. He was elected,
and for ten years he remained a member of
the lower house. During the vacations of
congress, he occasionally tried some important
case. In 1831, he retired altogether from the
toils of his profession, having acquired an
ample fortune.
Gen. Jackson, upon his elevation to the
presidency, appointed Mr. Buchanan minister
to Russia. The duties of his mission he per-
formed with ability, which gave satisfaction to
all parties. Upon his return, in 1833, he was
elected to a seat in the United States senate.
He there met, as his associates, Webster,
Clay, Wright and Calhoun. He advocated
the measures proposed by Pres. Jackson, of
making reprisals against Fcance, to enforce
the payment of our claims against that country;
and defended the course of the president in
his unprecedented and wholesale removal from
office of those who were not supporters of his
administration. Upon this question he was
brought into direct collision with Henry Clay.
He also, with voice and vote, advocated e.x-
punging from the journal of the senate the
vote of censure against Gen. Jackson for re-
moving the deposits. Earnestly he opposed
the abolition of slavery in the District of Co-
lumbia, and urged the prohibition of the circu-
lation of anti-slavery documents by the United
States mails.
Upon Mr. Polk's accession to the presi-
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dency, Mr. Buchanan became secretary of
state, and as such took his share of the re-
sponsibihty in the conduct of the Mexican war.
Mr. Polk assumed that crossing the Nueces
by the American troops into the disputed ter-
ritory was not wrong, but for the Mexicans to
cross the Rio Grande into that territory was a
declaration of war. Mr. Buchanan identified
himself thoroughly with the party devoted to
the perpetuation and extension of slavery, and
brought all the energies of his mind to bear
against the Wilmot Proviso. He gave his ap-
proval of the compromise measures of 1850,
which included the fugitive-slave law. Mr.
Pierce, upon his election to the presidency, hon-
ored Mr. Buchanan with the mission to England.
In the year 1856, a national democratic
convention nominated Mr. Buchanan for the
presidency. The political conflict was one of
the most severe in which our country has ever
engaged. All the friends of slavery were on
one side; all the advocates of its restriction
and final abolition, on the other. Mr. Fre-
mont, the candidate of the enemies of slavery,
received 114 electoral votes. Mr. Buchanan
received 174, and was elected. The popular
vote stood i.,34i,264, for Fremont, 1,838,160
for Buchanan. On March 4, 1S57, Mr. Bu-
chanan was inaugurated. Mr. Buchanan was
far advanced in life. Only four years were
wanting to fill up his three score years and
ten. His own friends, those with whom he
had been allied in political principles and
action for years, were seeking the destruction
of the government, that they might rear upon
the ruins of our free institutions a nation
whose corner stone should be human slavery.
In this emergencj', Mr. Buchanan was hope-
lessly bewildered. He could not, with his
long avowed principles, consistently oppose
the state-rights party in their assumptions.
As president of the United States, bound by
his oath faithfully to administer the laws, he
could not, without perjury of the grossest kind,
unite with those endeavoring to overthrow the
republic. He therefore did nothing. Mr.
Buchanan's sympathy with the pro-slavery
party was such, that he had been willing to
offer them far more than they had ventured to
cla"im. All the south had professed to ask of
the north was non-interference with the sub-
ject of slavery. Mr. Buchanan had been
ready to offer them the active co-operation of
the governn^ent to defend and extend the in-
stitution. As the storm increased in violence,
the slave holders claiming the right to secede,
and Mr. Buchanan avowing that congress had
no power to prevent it, one of the most piti-
able exhibitions of governmental imbecility
was exhibited the world has ever seen. He
declared that congress had no power to enforce
its laws in any state which had withdrawn, or
which was attempting to withdraw from the
Union. This was not the doctrine of Andrew
Jackson, when, with his hand upon his sword
hilt, he exclaimed. "The Union must and shall
be preserved."
South Carolina seceded in December, i860,
nearly three months before the inauguration of
Prcs. Lincoln. Mr. Buchanan looked on in
listless despair. The r,;bel flag was raised in
Charleston; Fort Sumter was besieged; our
forts, navy yards and arsenals were seized;
our depots of military stores were plundered;
and our custom houses and post offices were
appropriated by the rebels. The energy of
the rebels, and the imbecility of our executive,
were alike marvelous. The nation looked on
in agony, waiting for the slow weeks to glide
away and close the administration, so terrible
in its weakness. At length the long looked for
hour of deliverance came, when Abraham
I Lincoln was to receive the scepter.
i The administration of President Buchanan
1 was certainly the most calamitous our country
has experienced. His best friends cannot re-
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call it with pleasure. And still more deplor-
able it is for his fame, that in that dreadful
conflict which rolled its billows of flame and
blood over our whole land, no word came
from his lips to indicate his wish that our
country's banner should triumph over the flag
of the rebellion. He died at his Wheatland
retreat, June i, 1868.
HBRAHAM LINCOLN, the sixteenth
president of the United States, was
born in Hardin county, Ky. , Febru-
ary 12, 1809. About the year 1780,
a man by the name of Abraham Lincoln left
Virginia with his family and moved into the
then wilds of Kentucky. Only two years after
this emigration, still a young man, while work-
ing one day in a field, he was stealthily ap-
proached by an Indian and shot dead. His
widow was left iu extreme poverty with five
little children, three boys and two girls.
Thomas, the youngest of the boys, was four
years of age at his father's death. This
Thomas was the father of Abraham Lincoln,
the president of the United States, whose
name must henceforth forever be enrolled with
the most prominent in the annals of our world.
When twenty-eight years of age Thomas
Lincoln built a log cabin of his own, and mar-
ried Nancy Hanks, the daughter of another
family of poor Kentucky emigrants, who had
also come from Virginia. Their second child
was Abraham Lincoln. The mother of Abra-
ham was a noble woman, gentle, loving, pen-
sive; created to adorn a palace, doomed to
toil and pine, and die in a hovel. "All that I
am, or hope to be," exclaims the grateful son,
"I owe to my angel mother."
When Abraham was eight years of age, his
father sold his cabin and small farm, and
moved to Indiana, where two years later his
mother died. Abraham soon became the
scribe of the uneducated community around
him. He could not have had a better school
than this to teach him to put thoughts into
words. He also became an eager reader. The
books he could obtain were few; but these he
read and re-read until they were almost com-
mitted to memory. As the years rolled on,
the lot of this lowly family was the usual lot
of humanity. There were joys and griefs,
weddings and funerals. Abraham's sister
Sarah, to whom he was tenderly attached, was
married when a child of but fourteen years of
age, and soon died. The family was gradually
scattered. Thomas Lincoln sold out his
squatter's claim in 1830, and emigrated to
Macon count)', 111. Abraham Lincoln was
then twenty-one years of age. With vigorous
hands he aided his father in rearing another
log cabin. Abraham worked diligently at this
until he saw the family comfortably settled,
and their small lot of enclosed prairie planted
with corn, when he announced to his father
his intention to leave home, and to go out into
the world and seek his fortune. Little did he
or his friends imagine how brilliant that
fortune was to be. He saw the value of educa-
tion and was intensely earnest to improve his
mind to the utmost of his power. He saw the
ruin which ardent spirits were causing, and
became strictly temperate; refusing to allow
a drop of intoxicating liquor to pass his lips.
And he had read in God's word, "Thou shalt
not take the name of the Lord thy God in
vain;" and a profane expression he was never
heard to utter. Religion he revered. His
morals were pure, and he was uncontaminated
by a single vice.
Young Abraham worked for a time as a
hired laborer among the farmers. Then he
went to Springfield, where he was employed in
building a large flat-boat. In this he took a
herd of swine, floated them down the Sanga-
mon to the Illinois, and thence by the Missis-
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sippi to New Orleans. In this adventure his
employers were so well pleased, that upon his
return they placed a store and mill under his
care. In 1832, at the outbreak of the Black
Hawk war, he enlisted and was chosen cap-
tain of a company. He returned to Sangamon
county, and although only twenty-three years
of age, was a candidate for the legislature, but
was defeated. He soon afterward received
from Andrew Jackson the appointment of post-
master of New Salem. His only postoffice
was his hat. All the letters he received he
carried there ready to deliver to those he
chanced to meet. He studied surveying and
soon made this his business. In 1834 he
again became a candidate for the legislature,
and was elected. Mr. Stuart, of Springfield,
advised him to study law. He walked from
New Salem to Springfield, borrowed of Mr.
Stuart a load of books, carried them back and
began his legal studies. When the legislature
assemDled he trudged on foot with his pack on
his back 100 miles to Vandalia, then the cap-
ital. In 1 836 he was re-elected to the legislature.
Here it was he first met Stephen A. Douglas.
In 1839 he removed to Springfield and began
the practice of law. His success with the jury
was so great that he was soon engaged in
almost every noted case in the circuit.
In 1S54 the great discussion began between
Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Douglas, on the slavery
question. In the organization of the republi-
can party in Illinois, in 1856, he took an
active part, and at once became one of the
leaders in that party. Mr. Lincoln's speeches
in opposition to Senator Douglas in the con-
test in 1858 for a seat in the senate, form a
most notable part of his history. The issue
was on the slavery question, and he took the
broad ground of the Declaration of Independ-
ence, that all men are created equal. Mr.
Lincoln was defeated in this contest, but won
a far higher prize.
The great republican convention met at
Chicago on the i6th of June, i860. The del-
egates and strangers who crowded the city
amounted to 25,000. An immense building
called "The Wigwam," was reared to accom-
modate the convention. There were eleven
candidates for whom votes were cast. William
H. Seward, a man whose fame as a statesman
had long filled the land, was the most prom-
inent. It was generally supposed he would be
the nominee. Abraham Lincoln, however,
received the nomination on the third ballot.
Little did he then dream of the weary years of
toil and care, and the bloody death, to which
that nomination doomed him; and as little did
he dream that he was to render services to his
country which would fix upon him the eyes of
the whole civilized world, and which would
give him a place in the affections of his coun-
trymen, second only, if second, to that of
Washington.
Election day came and Mr. Lincoln re-
ceived 180 electoral votes out of 203 cast, and
was, therefore, constitutionally elected presi-
dent of the United States. The tirade of
abuse that was poured upon this good and
merciful man, especially by the slaveholders,
was greater than upon any other man ever
elected to this high position. In February,
1 86 1, Mr. Lincoln started for Washington,
stopping in all the large cities on his way,
making speeches. The whole journey was
fraught with much danger. Many of the
southern states had already seceded, and sev-
eral attempts at assassination were afterward
brought to light. A gang in Baltimore had
arranged, upon his arrival, to "get up a row,"
and in the confusion to make sure of his death
with revolvers and hand grenades. A detect-
ive unraveled the plot. A secret and special
train was provided to take him from Harris-
burg, through Baltimore, at an unexpected
hour of the night. The train started at half
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past ten; and to prevent any possible com-
munication on the part of the secessionists
with their confederate gang in Baltimore, as
soon as the train had started the telegraph
wires were cut, Mr. Lincoln reached Wash-
ington in safety and was inaugurated, although
great anxiety was felt by all loyal people.
In the selection of his cabinet Mr. Lincoln
gave to Mr. Seward the department of state,
and to other prominent opponents before the
convention he gave important positions.
During no other administration have the
duties devolving upon the president been so
manifold, and the responsibilities so great, as
those which fell to the lot of Pres. Lincoln.
Knowing this, and feeling his own weakness
and inability to meet, and in his own strength
to cope with the difficulties, he early learned
to seek Divine wisdom and guidance in deter-
mining his plans, and Divine comfort in all his
trials, both personal and national. Contrary
to his own estimate of himself, Mr. Lincoln
was one of the most courageous of men. He
went directly into the rebel capital just as the
retreating foe was leaving, with no guard but a
few sailors. From the time he had left
Springfield, in 1861, however, plans had been
made for his assassination, and he at last fell
a victim to one of them. April 14, 1865, he,
with Gen. Grant, was urgently invited to
attend Ford's theater. It was announced that
they would be present. Gen. Grant, however,
left the city. Pres. Lincoln, feeling, with his
characteristic kindliness of heart, that it would
be a disappointment if he should fail them,
very reluctantly consented to go. While
listening to the play an actor by the name of
John Wilkes Booth entered the box where the
president and family were seated, and fired a
bullet into his brains. He died the next morn-
ing at seven o'clock, and now, if never before,
the nation was plunged into the deepest mourn-
ing, and truly mourned the "country's loss."
HNDREW JOHNSON, seventeenth
president of the United States, was
born December 29, 1808, in Raleigh,
N. C. When Andrew was five years
of age, his father accidentally lost his life
while heroically endeavoring to save a friend
from drowning. Until ten years of age, An-
drew was a ragged boy about the streets, sup-
ported by the labor of his mother, who ob-
tained her living with her own hands. He
then, having never attended a school one day,
and being unable either to read or write, was
apprenticed to a tailor in his native town. A
gentleman was in the habit of going to the
tailor's shop occasionally and reading to the
boys at work there. He often read from the
speeches of distinguished British statesmen.
Andrew, who was endowed with a mind of
more than ordinary native ability, became
much interested in these speeches; his ambi-
tion was roused, and he was inspired with a
strong desire to learn to read. He according-
ly applied himself to the alphabet, and, with
the assistance of some of his fellow-workmen,
learned his letters. He then called upon the
gentleman to borrow the book of speeches.
The owner, pleased with his zeal, not only
gave him the book, but assisted him in learn-
ing to combine the letters into words. Under
such difficulties he pressed onward laboriously,
spending usually ten or twelve hours at work
in the shop, and then robbing himself of rest
and recreation to devote such time as he could
to reading.
He went to Tennessee in 1826 and located
at Greenville, where he married a young lady
who possessed some education. Under her
instructions he learned to write and cipher.
He became prominent in the village debating
society, and a favorite with the students of
Greenville college. In 1828 he organized a
workingman's party, which elected him alder-
man, and in 1830 elected him mayor, which
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position he held three j-ears. He now began
to take a hvely interest in poHtical affairs,
identifying himself with the working classes to
which he belonged. In 1835 he was elected
a member of the house of representatives of
Tennessee. He was then just twenty-seven
years of age. He became a very active mem-
ber of the legislature, gave his adhesion to the
democratic party, and in 1840 " stumped the
state," advocating Mairtin Van Buren's claims
to the presidency in opposition to those of
Gen. Harrison. In this campaign he ac-
quired much readiness as a speaker, and ex-
tended and increased his reputation.
In 1 84 1 he was elected state senator; in
1S43 he was elected a member of congress,
and by successive elections held that important
post for ten years. In 1853 he was elected
governor of Tennessee, and was re-elected in
1855. In all these responsible positions he
discharged his duties with distinguished ability
and proved himself the friend of the working
classes. In 1857 Mr. Johnson was elected a
United States senator.
Years before, in 1S45, he had warmly ad-
vocated the annexation of Texas, stating,
however, as his reason, that he thought
this annexation would probably prove
"to be the gateway out of which the sable
sons of Africa are to pass from bondage to
freedom, and become merged fn a population
congenial to themselves." In 1850 he also
supported the compromise measures, the two
essential features of which were, that the white
people of the territories should be permitted
to decide for themselves whether they would
enslave the colored people or not, and that
the free states of the north should return to j
the south persons who attempted to escape
from slavery.
Mr. Johnson was never ashamed of his
lowly origin; on the contrar}', he often took
pride in avowing that he owed his distinction
to his own exertions. "Sir," said he oIt the
floor of the senate, "I tio not forget that I
am a mechanic; neither do I forget that Adam
was a tailor and sewed fig leaves, and that our
Saviour was the son of a carpenter."
In the Charleston-Baltimore convention of
i860, he was the choice of the Tennessee
democrats for the presidency. In 1861, when
the purpose of the southern democracy became
apparent, he took a decided stand in favor of
the Union, and held "slavery must be held
subordinate to the Union at whatever cost."
He returned to Tennessee, and repeatedly im-
periled his own life to protect the Unionists of
Tennessee. Tennessee having seceded from
the Union, President Lincoln on March 4,
1862, appointed him military governor of the
state, and he established the most stringent
military rule. His numerous proclamations
attracted wide attention. In 1864 he was
elected vice-president of the United States, and
upon the death of Mr. Lincoln, April 15, 1865,
became president. In a speech two days later
he said: "The American people must be
taught, if they do not already feel, that trea-
son is a crime and must be punished; that the
government will not always bear with its ene-
mies; that it is stroag not only to protect, but
to punish. '■•" "■ The people must under-
stand that it (treason) is the blackest of crimes
and will surely be punished." Yet his whole
administration, the history of which is so well
known, was in utter inconsistency with, and
the most violent opposition to, the principles
laid down in that speech.
In his loose policy of reconstruction and
general amnesty he was opposed by congress;
and he characterized congress as a new rebel-
lion, and lawlessly defied it in everything pos-
sible to the utmost. In the beginning of 1868,
on account of "high crimes and misdemean-
ors," the principal of which was the removal
of Secretary Stanton, in violation of the Ten-
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ure of Office act, articles of impeachment
were preferred against liim, and ttie trial began
March 23.
It was very tedious, continuing for nearly
three months. A test article of the impeach-
ment was at length submitted to the court for
its action. It was certain that as the court
voted upon that article, so would it vote upon
all. Thirty-four voices pronounced the presi-
dent guilty. As a two-thirds vote was neces-
sary to his condemnation, he was pronounced
acquitted, notwithstanding the great majority
against him. The change of one vote from
the not guilty side would have sustained the
impeachment.
The president for the remainder of his
term was but little regarded. He continued,
though impotently, his conflict with congress.
His own party did not think it expedient to
renominate him for the presidency. The bul-
let of the assassin introduced him to the presi-
dent's chair. Notwithstanding this, never
was there presented to a man a better oppor-
tunity to immortalize his name and win the
gratitude of a nation. He failed utterly. He
retired to his home in Greenville, Tenn., tak-
ing no very active part in politics until 1875.
On January 26, after an e.xciting struggle, he
was chosed by the legislature of Tennessee
United States senator in the forty-fourth con-
gress, and took his seat in that body at the
special session convened by President Grant
on the 5th of March. On the 27th of July,
1875, the ex-president made a visit to his
daughter's home, near Carter Station, Tenn.
When he started on his journey he was appar-
ently in his usual vigorous health, but on
reaching the residence of his child the follow-
ing day was stricken with paralysis, rendering
him unconscious. He rallied occasionally, but
finally passed away at 2 a. m., July 31, aged
sixty-seven years. He was buried at Green-
ville, on the 3d of August, 1875.
aLYSSES S. GRANT, the eighteenth
president of the United States, was
born on the 29th of April, 1822, of
christian parents, in a humble home,
at Point Pleasant, on the banks of the Ohio.
Shortly after his father moved to Georgetown,
Brown county, Ohio. In this remote frontier
hamlet, Ulysses received a common school
education. At the age of seventeen, in the
year 1839, he entered the Military academy at
West Point. Here he was regarded as a solid,
sensible young man of fair abilities, and of
sturdy, honest character. He took respect-
able rank as a scholar. In June, 1843, he
graduated, about the middle in his class, and
was sent as lieutenant of infantry to one of
the distant military posts in the Missouri terri-
tory. Two years he passed in these dreary
solitudes, watching the vagabond and exasper-
ating Indians.
The war with Mexico came. Lieut. Grant
was sent with his regiment to Corpus Christi.
His first battle was at Palo Alto. There was
no chance here for the exhibition of either
skill or heroism, nor at Resaca de la Palma,
his second battle. At the battle of Monterey,
his third engagement, it is said that he per-
formed a signal service of daring and skillful
horsemanship. His brigade had exhausted its
ammunition. A messenger must be sent for
more, along a route exposed to the bullets of
the foe. Lieut. Grant, adopting an expedient
learned of the Indians, grasped the mane of
his horse, and hanging upon one side of the
animal, ran the gauntlet in entire safety.
From Monterey he was sent, with the Fourth
infantry, to aid Gen. Scott, at the siege of
Vera Cruz. In preparation for the march to
the city of Mexico, he was appointed quarter-
master of his regiment. At the battle of
Molino del Rey, he was promoted to a first
lieutenancy, and was brevetted captain at
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At the close of the Mexican war, Capt.
Grant returned with his regiment to New
York, and was again sent to one of the mili-
tary posts on the frontier. The discovery of
gold in California causing an immense tide of
emigration to flow to the Pacific shores, Capt.
Grant was sent, with a battalion, to Fort
Dallas, in Oregon, for the protection of the
interests of the immigrants. Life was weari-
some in those wilds. Capt. Grant resigned
his commission and returned to the states;
and having married, entered upon the cultiva-
of a small farm near St. Louis, Mo. He had
but little skill as a farmer. Finding his toil
not remunerative, he turned to mercantile
life, entering into the leather business, with a
younger brother, at Galena, 111. This was in
the year i860. As the tidings of the rebels
firing on Fort Sumter reached the ears of
Capt. Grant in his counting room, he said —
"Uncle Sam has educated me for the army;
though I have served him through one war, I
do not feel that I have yet repaid the debt. I
am still ready to- discharge my obligations. I
shall therefore bcukle on my sword and see
Uncle Sam through this war, too."
He went into the streets, raised a company
of volunteers, and led them, as their captain,
to Springfield, the capital of the state, where
their services were offered to Gov. Yates. The
governor, impressed by the zeal and straight-
forward executive ability of Capt. Grant, gave
him a desk in his office, to assist in the volun-
teer organization that was being formed in the
state in behalf of the government. On the
15th of June, 1 86 1, Capt. Grant received a
commission as colonel of the Twenty-first
regiment of Illinois volunteers. His merits as
a West Point graduate, who had served for
fifteen years in the regular army, were such
that he was soon promoted to the rank of
brigadier general and was placed in command
at Cairo. The rebels raised their flag at Pa-
ducah, near the mouth of the Tennessee river.
Scarcely had its folds appeared ere Gen. Grant
was there. The rebels iled. Their banner
fell, and the stars and stripes were unfurled
in its stead.
At Belmont, a few days later, he sur-
prised and routed the rebels, then at Fort
Henry won another victory. Then came the
brilliant fight at Fort Donelson. The nation
was electrified by the victory, and the brave
leader of the boys in blue was immediately
made a major general, and the military dis-
trict of Tennessee was assigned to him.
Like all great captains, Gen. Grant knew
well how to secure the results of victory. He
immediately pushed on to the enemy's lines.
Then came the terrible battles of Pittsburg
Landing, Corinth, and the siege of Vicksburg,
were Gen. Pemberton made an unconditional
surrender of the city with over 30,000 men
and 172 cannon. The fall of Vicksburg was
by far the most severe blow which the rebels
had thus far encountered, and opened up the
Mississippi from Cairo to the gulf.
Gen. Grant was next ordered to co-operate
with Gen. Banks in a movement upon Texas,
and proceeded to New Orleans, where he was
thrown from his horse and received severe
injuries, from which he was laid up for months.
He then rushed to the aid of Gens. Rosecrans
and Thomas at Chattanooga, and by a won-
derful series of strategic and technical measures
put the Union army in fighting condition.
Then followed the bloody battles of Chatta-
nooga, ^ Lookout Mountain and Missionary
Ridge, in which the rebels were routed with
great loss. This won for him unbounded
praise in the north. On the 4th of February,
1864, congress revived the grade of lieutenant
general, and the rank was conferred on Gen.
Grant. He repaired to Washington to re-
ceive his credentials and enter upon the duties
of his new office.
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Gen. Grant decided as soon as he took
charge of the army to concentrate the widely
dispersed national troops for an attack on
Richmond, the nominal capital of the rebel-
lion, and endeavor there to destroy the rebel
armies which would be promptly assembled
from all quarters for its defense. The whole
continent seemed to tremble under the tramp
of these majestic armies, rushing to the de-
cisive battle field. Steamers were crowded
with troops; railway trains were burdened
with closely packed thousands His plans
were comprehensive and involved a series of
campaigns, which were executed with remark-
able energy and ability, and were consummated
at the surrender of Lee, April 9, 1865.
The war was ended. The Union was
saved. The almost unanimous voice of the
nation declared Gen. Grant to be the most
prominent instrument in its salvation. The
eminent services he had thus rendered the
country brought him conspicuously forward as
the republican candidate for the presidential
chair. At the republican convention held at
Chicago May 21, 1868, he was unanimonsly
nominated for the presidency, and at the
autumn election received a majority of the
popular vote, and 214 out of 294 electoral
votes. The national convention of the repub-
lican party which met at Philadelphia on the
5th June, 1872, placed Gen. Grant in nomi-
nation for a second term by a unanimous vote.
The selection was emphatically indorsed by
the people five months later, 292 electoral
votes being cast for him.
Socn after the close of his second term.
Gen. Grant started upon his famous trip
around the world. He visited almost every
country of the civilized world, and was every
where received with such ovations and demon-
strations of respect and honor, private as well
as public and official, as were never before
bestowed upon any citizen of the United States.
He was the most prominent candidate
before the republican national convention in
1880 for a renomination for president. He
went to New York and embarked in the
brokerage business under the firm name of
Grant & Ward. The latter proved a villain,
wrecked Grant's fortune, and for larceny was
sent to the penitentiary. The general was
attacked with cancer in the throat, but suffered
in his stoic like manner, never complaining.
He was re-instated genera! of the army and
retired by congress. The cancer soon finished
its deadly work, and July 23, 1885, the nation
went in mourning over the death of the illus-
trious general.
kJ^ UTHERFORD B. HAYES, the nine-
1/^ teenth president of the United States,
J|_^P was born in Delaware, Ohio, October
4, 1822, almost three months after
the death of his father, Rutherford Hayes.
His ancestry, on both the paternal and mater-
nal sides, was of the most honorable character.
It can be traced, it is said, as far back as
1280, when Hayes and Rutherford were two
Scottish chieftains, fighting side by side with
Baliol, William Wallace and Robert Bruce.
Both families belonged to the nobility, owned
extensive estates, and had a large following.
Misfortune overtaking the family, George
Hayes left Scotland in 1680, and settled in
Windsor, Conn. His son George was born
in Windsor, and remained there during his
life. Daniel Hayes, son of the latter, married
Sarah Lee, and lived from the time of his
marriage until his death in Simsbury, Conn.
Ezekiel, son of Daniel, was born in 1724, and
was a manufacturer of scythes at Bradford,
Conn. Rutherford Hayes, son of Ezekiel and
grandfather of President Hayes, was born in
New Haven, in August, 1756. He was a
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farmer, blacksmith and tavern-keeper. He
emigrated to Vermont at an unknown date,
settling in Brattleboro, where he established a
hotel. Here his son, Rutherford Hayes the
father of President Hayes, was born. He was
married, in September, 1813, to Sophia Bir-
chard, of Wilmington, Vt., whose ancestors
emigrated thither from Connecticut, they hav-
ing been among the wealthiest and best fami-
lies of Norwich. Her ancestry on the male
side are traced back to 1635, to John Bir-
chard, one of the principal founders of Nor-
wich. Both of her grandfathers were soldiers
in the Revolutionarj' war.
The father of President Hayes was an in-
dustrious, frugal and open-hearted man. He
was of a mechanical turn, and could mend a
plow, knit a stocking, or do almost any-
thing else that he chose to undertake. He
was a member of the church, active in all the
benevolent enterprises of the town, and con-
ducted his business on christian principles.
After the close of the war of 1812, for reasons
inexplicable to his neighbors, he resolved to
emigrate to Ohio.
The journey from Vermont to Ohio in that
day, when there were no canals, steamers, nor
railways, was a very serious affair. A tour of
inspection was first made, occupying four
months. Mr. Hayes determined to move to
Delaware, where the family arrived in 1817.
He died July 22, 1822, a victim of malarial
fever, less than three months before the birth
of the son, of whom we now write. Mrs.
Hayes, in her sore bereavement, found the
support she so much needed in her brother
Sardis, who had been a member of the house-
hold from the day of its departure from \'er-
mont, and in an orphan girl whom she had
adopted some time before as an act of charity.
Mrs. Hayes at this period was very weak,
and the subject of this sketch was so feeble at
birth that he was not expected to li\e beyond
a month or two at most. As the months
went by he grew weaker and weaker, so tiiat
the neighbors were in the habit of inejuiring
from time to time "if Mrs. Hayes' baby died
last night." On one occasion a neighbor, who
was on familiar terms with the family, after
alluding to the boy's big head, and the moth-
er's assiduous care of him, said in a bantering
way, "That's right! Stick to him. You have
got him along so far, and I shouldn't wonder
if he would really come to something yet."
"You need not laugh," said Mrs. Hayes.
"You wait and see. You can't tell but I
shall make him president of the United States
yet." The boy lived, in spite of the universal
predictions of his speedy death; and when, in
1825, his older brother was drowned, he be-
came, if possible, still dearer to his mother.
The boy was seven years old before he
went to school. His education, however, was
not neglected. He probably learned as much
from his mother and sister as he would have
done at school. His sports were almost wholly
within doors, his playmates being his sister
and her associates. His uncle Sardis Birchard
took the deepest interest in his education; and
as the boy's health had improved, and he was
making good progress in his studies, he pro-
posed to send him to college. His preparation
commenced with a tutor at home; but he was
afterwards sent for one year to a professor in
the 'Wesleyan university, in Middletown, Conn.
He entered Kenyon college in 1838, at the
age of sixteen, and was graduated at the head
of his class in 1842.
Immediately after his graduation he began
the study of law in the office of Thomas Spar-
row, Esq., in Columbus. Finding his oppor-
tunities for study in Columbus somewhat
limited, he determined to enter the law school
at Cambridge, Mass., where he remained two
years. In 1845, after graduating at the law
school, he was admitted to the bar at Marietta,
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Ohio, and shortly afterward went into practice
as an attorney-at-Iaw with Ralph P. Buck-
land, of Fremont. Here he remained three
years, acquiring but a limited practice, and
apparently unambitious of distinction in his
profession.
In 1S49 he moved to Cincinnati, where his
ambition found a new stimulus. Two events,
occurring at this period, had a powerful intiu-
ence upon his subsequent life. One of these
was his marriage with Miss Lucy Ware Webb,
daughter of Dr. Jam^s Webb, of Chilicothe;
the other was his introduction to the Cincin-
nati Literary club, a body embracing among
its members such men as Chief Justice Salmon
P. Chase, Gen. John Pope, Go\-. Edward F.
Noyes, and man}' others hardly less distin-
guished in after life. The marriage was a
fortunate one in every respect, as everybody
knows. Not one of all the wives of our presi-
dents was more universally admired, rever-
enced and beloved than was Mrs. Hayes, and
no one did more than she to reflect honor
upon American womanhood. The Literary
club brought Mr. Hayes into constant associa-
tion with young men of high character and
noble aims, and lured him to display the
qualities so long hidden by his bashfulness and
modesty.
In 1856 he was nominated to the office of
judge of the court of common pleas; but he
declined to accept the nomination. Two
years later, the office of city solicitor becoming
vacant, the city council elected him for the
unexpired term.
In I 86 1, when the rebellion broke out, he
was at the ;jenith of his professional life. His
rank at the bar was among the first. But the
news of the attack on Fort Sumter found him
eager to take up arms for the defense of his
country.
His military record was bright and illus-
trious. In October, 1861, he was made
lieutenant-colonel, and in August, 1862, pro-
moted colonel of the Seventy-ninth Ohio regi-
ment, but he refused to leave his old comrades
and go among strangers. Subsequently, how-
ever, he was made colonel of his old regiment.
At the battle of South Mountain he received a
wound, and while faint and bleeding displayed
courage and fortitude that won admiration
from all.
Col. Hayes was detached from his regiment,
after his recovery, to act as brigadier-general,
and placed in command of the celebrated
Kanawha division, and for gallant and meri-
torious services in the battles of M''inchester,
Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek, he was pro-
moted brigadier-general. He was also brevet-
ted major-general, "for gallant and distin-
guished services during the campaigns of 1864,
in West Virginia." In the course of his
arduous services, four horses were shot from
under him, and he was wounded four times.
In 1864, Gen. Hayes was elected to con-
gress, from the Second Ohio district, which
had long been democratic. He was not pres-
ent during the campaign, and after his elec-
tion was importuned to resign his commission
in the army; but he finally declared, "I shall
never come to Washington until I can come
by the way of Richmond." He was re-elected
in 1866.
In 1867, Gen. Hayes was elected governor
of Ohio, over Hon. Allen G. Thurman. a popu-
lar democrat. In 1869 was re-elected over
George H. Pendleton. He was elected gov-
ernor for the third term in 1875.
In 1876 he was the standard bearer of the
republican party in the presidential contest,
and after a hard, long contest was chosen
president, and was inaugarated Monday, March
5. 1875.
He served one full term of four years, then
retired to his peaceful home, where he expired
January 17, 1893.
J. A. GARFIELD.
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>rr'AMES A. GARFIELD, twentieth pres-
J ident of the United States, was born
/» 1 November 19, 1831, in the woods of
Orange, Cuyahoga county, Ohio. His
parents were Abram and Ehza (Ballou) Gar-
field, both of New England ancestry and from
families well known in the early history of that
section of our country, but had moved to the
Western Reserve, in Ohio, early in its settle-
ment.
The house in which James A. was born
was about 20x30 feet, built of logs, with the
spaces between the logs filled with clay. His
father was a hard working farmer, and he soon
had his fields cleared, an orchard planted, and
a log barn built. The household comprised
the father and mother and their four children —
Mehetabel, Thomas, Mary and James. In
May, 1823, the father, from a cold contracted
in helping to put out a forest fire, died. At
this time James was about eighteen months
old, and Thomas about ten years old. He
now lives in Michigan, and the two sisters live
in Solon, Ohio, near their birthplace.
The early educational advantages young
Garfield enjoyed were very limited, yet he
made the most of them. He labored at farm
work for others, did capenter work, chopped
wood, or did anything that would bring in a
few dollars. Nor was Gen. Garfield ever
ashamed of b'S orign, and he never forgot the
friends of his struggling childhood, youth and
manhood, neither did they ever forget him.
When in the highest seats of honor, the
humblest friend of his boyhood was as kindly
greeted as ever.
The highest ambition of young Garfield
until he was about sixteen years old was to be
a captain of a vessel on Lake Erie. He was
anxious to go aboard a vessel, which his
mother strongly opposed. She finally con-
sented to his going to Cleveland, with the
understanding, however, that he should try to
obtain some other kind of employment. He
walked all the way to Cleveland. After
making many applications for work, and try-
ing to get aboard a lake vessel, and not meet-
ing with success, he engaged as a dri\er for
his cousin, Amos Letcher, on the Ohio & Penn-
sylvania canal. He remained at this work
but a short time when he went home, and
attended the seminary at Chester for about
three years, when he entered Hiram and the
Eclectic institute, teaching a few terms of
school in the meantime, and doing other work.
This school was started by the Disciples of
Christ in 1850, of which church he was then
a member. He became janitor and bell-ringer
in order to help pay his way. He then be-
came both teacher and pupil. In the fall of
1854, he entered Williams college, from which
he graduated in 1856, taking one of the high-
est honors of his class. He afterwards re-
turned to Hiram college as its president. Dr.
Noah Porter, president of Yale college, says of
him in reference to his religion:
' 'President Garfield was more than a man
of strong moral and religious convictions. His
whole history, from boyhood to the last,
shows that duty to man and to God, and de-
votion to Christ and life and faith and spiritual
commission were controlling springs of his
being, and to a more than usual degree."
Mr. Garfield was united in marriage with
Miss Lucretia Rudolph, November 11, 1858,
who proved herself worthy as the wife of one
whom all the world loved and mourned. To
them were born seven children, five of whom
are still living, four boys and one girl.
Mr. Garfield made his first political
speeches in 1856, in Hiram and the neighbor-
ing villages, and three years later he began to
speak at county mass meetings, and became
the favorite speaker wherever he was. Dur-
ing this year he was elected to the Ohio
senate. He also began to study law at Cleve-
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land, and in 1861 was admitted to the bar.
The great rebelHon broke out in the early part
of this year, and Mr. Garfield at once resolved
to fight as he had talked, and enlisted to de-
fend the old flag. He received his commission
as lieutenant-colonel of the Forty-second reg-
iment of Ohio volunteer infantry, August 14,
I861, He was immediately put into active
service, and before he had ever seen a gun
fired in action, was placed in command of four
regiments of infantry and eight companies of
cavalry, charged with the work of driving out
of his native state the officer (Humphrey Mar-
shall) reputed to be the ablest of those, not
educated to war, whom Kentucky had given to
the rebellion. This work was bravely and
speedily accomplished, although against great
odds. President Lincoln, on his success com-
missioned him brigadier-general, January 10,
1862; and as "he had been the youngest man
in the Ohio senate two years before, so now
he was the youngest general in the army."
He was with Gen. Buell's army at Shiloh, in
its operations around Corinth and its march
through Alabama. He was then detailed as a
member of the general court-martial for the
trial of Fitz-John Porter. He was then
ordered to report to Gen. Rosecrans, and was
assigned to the chief of staff. The military
history of Gen. Garfield closed with his brill-
iant services at Chickamauga, where he won
the stars of the major-general.
Without an effort on his part Gen. Gtrfield
was elected to congress in the fall of 1862
from the Nineteenth district of Ohio. This
section of Ohio had been represented in con-
gress for sixty years mainly by two men —
Elisha Whittlesey and Joshua R. Giddings. It
was not without a struggle that he resigned
his place in the army. At the time he entered
congress he was the youngest member in that
body. There he remained by successive re-
elections until he was elected president in 1 8S0.
Of his labors in congress Senator Hoar says:
"Since the year 1864 you cannot think of
a question which has been debated in congress,
or discussed before a tribunal of the American
people, in regard to which you will not find,
if you wish instruction, the argument on one
side stated, in almost every instance, better
than by anybody else, in some speech made in
the house of representatives or on the hustings
by Mr. Garfield."
Upon January 14, 1880, Gen. Garfield was
elected to the United States senate, and on
the 8th of June, of the same year, was nom-
inated as the candidate of his party for presi-
dent at the great Chicago convention. He was
elected in the following November, and on
March 4, 1881, was inaugurated. Probably
no administration ever opened its existence
under brighter auspices than that of President
Garfield, and every day it grew in favor with
the people, and by the first of July he had
completed all the initiatory and preliminary
work of his administration and was preparing
to leave the city to meet his friends at Will-
iams college. While on his way and at the
depot, in company with Secretary Blaine, a
man stepped behind him, drew a revolver, and
fired directly at his back. The president
tottered and fell, and as he did so the assassin
fired a second shot, the bullet cutting the left
coat sleeve of his victim, but inflicting no
further injury. For eighty days, all during
the hot months of July and August, he lingered
and suffered. He, however, remained master
of himself till the last, and by his magnificent
bearing was teaching the country and the
world the noblest of human lessons — how to
live grandly in the very clutch of death. He
passed serenely away September 19, 1883, at
Elberon, N. J., on the seashore, where he had
been taken shortly previous. The murderer
was tried, found guilty and executed, in one
year after he committed the foul deed.
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a"
[ESTER A. ARTHUR, twenty-first
president of the United States, was
born in Franklin county, Vermont,
on the 5th of October, 1830, and is
the oldest of a family of two sons and five
daughters. His father was the Rev. Dr.
William Arthur, a Baptist clergyman, who
emigrated to this country from the county
Antrim, I reland, in his eighteenth year, and
died in 1875, in Newtonville, near Albany, N.
Y. , after a long and successful ministry.
Young Arthur was educated at Union col-
lege, Schenectady, N. Y. , where he excelled
in all his studies. After his graduation, he
taught school in Vermont for two years, and
at the expiration of that time went to New
York, with $500 in his pocket, and entered
the office of ex-Judge E. D. Culver as student.
After being admitted to the bar he formed a
partnership with his intimate friend and room-
mate, Henry D. Gardiner, with the intention
of practicidg in the west, and for three months
they roamed about in the western states in
search of an eligible site, but in the end re-
turned to New York, where they entered upon
a successful career almost from the start.
Gen. Arthur soon afterward married the daugh-
ter of Lieut. Herndon, of the United States
navy, who was lost at sea. Congress voted a
gold medal to his widow in recognition of the
bravery he displayed on that occasion. Mrs.
Arthur died shortly before Mr. Arthur's nomi-
nation to the vice presidency, leaving two
children.
Gen. Arthur obtained considerable legal
celebrity in his first great case, the famous
Lemmon suit, brought to recover possession of
eight slaves who had been declared free by
Judge Paine, of the superior court of New
York city. It was in 1852 that Jonathan
Lemmon, of Virginia, went to New York with
his slaves, intending to ship them to Texas,
when they were discovered and freed. The
judge decided that they could not be held by
the owner under the Fugitive Slave law. A
howl of rage went up from the south, and the
Virginia legislature authorized the attorney
general of that state to assist in an appeal.
William M. Evarts and Chester A. Arthur
were employed to represent the people, and
they won their case, which then went to the
j supreme court of the United States. Charles
O' Conor here espoused the cause of the slave
holders, but he too, was beaten by Messrs.
Evarts and Arthur, and a long step was taken
toward the emancipation of the black race.
Another great service was rendered by
Gen. Arthur in the same cause in 1856. Liz-
zie Jennings, a respectable colored woman,
was put off a Fourth avenue car with violence
after she had paid her fare. Gen. Arthur sued
on her behalf, and secured a verdict of $500
damages. The next day the company issued
an order to admit colored persons to ride on
their cars, and the other car companies quickly
followed their example. Before that the Sixth
avenue company ran a few special cars for col-
ored persons and the other lines refused to let
them ride at all.
Gen. Arthur was a delegate to the conven-
tion at Saratoga that founded the republican
party. Previous to the war he was judge-ad-
vocate of the Second brigade of the state of
New York, and Governor Morgan, of that
state, appointed him engineer-in-chief of his
staff. In 1 86 1, he was made inspector gen-
eral, and soon afterward became quartermas-
ter-general. In each of these offices he ren-
dered great service to the government during
the war. At the end of Gov. Morgan's term
he resumed the practice of the law, forming a
partnership with Mr. Ransom, and then Mr.
Phelps, the district attorney of New York,
was added to the firm. The legal practice of
this well known firm was very large and lucra-
tive; each of the gentlemen composing it was
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an able lawyer, and possessed a splendid local
reputation, if not indeed one of national
extent.
Arthur was appointed collector of the port
of New York by President Grant, November
2 1, 1872, to succeed Thomas Murphy, and
held the office until July 20, 1878, when he
was succeeded by Collector Merritt. Mr.
Arthur was nominated on the presidential
ticket, with Gen. James A. Garfield, at the
famous national republican convention held at
Chicago in June, 1880. This was perhaps the
greatest political convention that ever assem-
bled on the continent. It was composed of
the leading politicians of the republican pai'ty,
all able men, and all stood firm and fought
vigorously and with signal tenacity for their
respective candidates that were before the
convention for the nomination. Finally Gen.
Garfield received the nomination for president
and Gen. Arthur for vice-president. The
campaign which followed was one of the most
animated known in the history of our country.
Gen. Hancock, the standard-bearer of the
democratic party, was a popular man, and his
party made a valiant fight for his election.
Finally the election came and the coun-
try's choice was Garfield and Arthur. They
were inaugurated March 4, 18S1, as president
and vice-pi-esident. A few months only had
passed ere the newly chosen president was the
victim of the assassin's bullet. The remarka-
ble patience that Garfield manifested during
those hours and weeks, and even months, of
the most terrible suffering man has often been
called upon to endure, was seemingly more
than human. It was certainly God-like.
During all this period of deepest an.xiety Mr.
Arthur's every move was watched, and be it
said to his credit, that his every action dis-
played only an earnest desire that the suffer-
ing Garfield might recover, to serve the re-
mainder of the term he had so auspiciously
begun. Not a selfish feeling was manifested
in deed or look of this man, even though the
most honored position in the world was at any
moment likely to fall to him.
At last God in his mercy relieved President
Garfield from further suffering. Then it be-
came the duty of the vice president to assume
the responsibilities of the high office, and he
took the oath in New York, September 20,
1 88 1. The position was an embarrassing one
to him, made doubly so from the facts that all
eyes were on him, anxious to know what he
would do, what policy he would pursue, and
whom he would select as advisers. The duties
of the office had been greatly neglected during
the president's long illness, and many import-
ant measures were to be immediately decided
by him; and still farther to embarrass him he
did not fail to realize under what circumstances
he became president, and knew the feelings of
many on this point. Under these trying cir-
cumstances President Arthur took the reins of
the government in his own hands; and, as em-
barrassing as was the condition of affairs, he
happily surprised the nation, acting so wisely
that but few criticised his administration. He
served until the close of his administration,
March 4, 1885, and was a popular candidate
before his party for a second term. His name
was ably presented before the convention at
Chicago, and was received with great favor,
and doubtless but for the personal popularity
I of one of the opposing candidates, he would
have been selected as .the standard-bearer of
I his party for another campaign. He retired
! to private life carrying with him the best
wishes of the American people, whom he had
served in a manner satisfactory to them and
I with credit to himself. Although not a man
of the transcendent ability possessed by the
lamented Garfield, Mr. Arthur was able for
the emergency he was so unexpectedly called
1 to fill, and was a worthy successor to his chief.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
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^"V'TEPHEN GROVER CLEVELAND, |
•^^^^ the twenty-second and twenty-fourth
\^J president of the United States, was
born in 1837, in the obscure town of
Caldwell, Essex county, N. J., and in a little
two-and-a-half story white house which is still
standing, characteristically to mark the hum-
ble birth-place of one of America's great men
in striking contrast with the old world, where
all men high in office must be high in origin
and born in the cradle of wealth. When three j
years of age, his father, who was a Presbyte-
rian minister with a large family and a small
salary, moved by way ofthe Hudson river and
Erie canal to Fayetteville in search of an in-
creased income and a larger field of work. [
Fayetteville was then the most straggling of '
country villages, about five miles from Pompey s
Hill, where Gov. Seymour was born. At the
last mentioned place young Grover commenced '
going to school in the "good old-fashioned I
way," and presumably distinguished himself
after the manner of all village boys in doing I
the things he ought not to do. Such is the
distinguishing trait of all village geniuses and
independent thinkers. When he arrived at
the age of fourteen years he had outgrown the
capacity of the village school and expressed a
most emphatic desire to be sent to an acad-
emy. To this his father decidedly objected.
Academies in those days cost money; besides,
his father wanted him to become self-support-
ing by the quickest possible means, and this
at that time in Fayetteville seemed to be a '
position in a country store, where his father
with the large family on his hands had consid-
erable influence. Grover was to be paid $50 1
for his services the first year, and if he proved
trustworthy he was to receive $100 the second |
year. Here the lad commenced his career as j
salesman, and in two years he had earned so
good a reputation for trustworthiness that his
employers desired to retain him longer.
But instead of remaining with this firm in
Fayetteville, he went with the family in their
removal to Clinton, where he had an oppor-
tunity of attending a high school. Here he
industriously pursued his studies until the
family removed with him to a point on Black
river known as the Holland Patent, a village
of 500 or 600 people, fifteen miles north of
Utica, N. Y. At this place his father died,
after preaching but three Sundays. This
event broke up the family, and Grover set out
for New York city to accept, at a small salary,
the position of " under-teacher " in an asjlum
for the blind. He taught faithfully for two
years, and although he obtained a good repu-
tation in this capacity, he concluded that
teaching was not his calling for life, and, re-
versing the traditional order, he left the city to
seek his fortune, instead of going to a city.
He first thought of going to Cleveland, Ohio,
as there was some charm in that name for him;
but before proceeding to that place he went to
Buffalo to ask the advice of his uncle, Lewis
F. Allan, a noted stock breeder of that place.
After a long consultation, his uncle offered
him a place temporarily as assistant herdkeeper
at $50 a year, while he could "look around."
One day afterwards he boldly walked into the
office of Rogers, Bowers & Rogers of Buffalo,
and told them what he wanted, A number of
young men were already engaged in the office,
but Grover's persistency won, and he was fin-
ally permitted to come as an office boy and
have the use of the law library for the nomi-
nal sum of $3 or $4 a week. Out of this he
had to pay for his board and washing. The
walk to and from his uncle's was a long and
rugged one; and, although the first winter was
a memorably severe one, yet he was neverthe-
less prompt and regular. On the first day of
his service there, his senior employer threw
dcwn a copy of' Blackstone before him with a
bang that made the dust fiy, saying, "That's
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where they all begin." A titter ran around
the little circle of clerks and students, as they
thought that was enough to scare young Gro-
ver out of his plans; but in due time he mas-
tered that cumbersome volume. Then, as
ever afterward, however, Mr. Cleveland exhib-
ited a talent for executiveness rather than for
chasing principles through all their metaphysi-
cal possibilities. "Let us quit talking and go
and do it," was practically his motto.
The first public office to which Mr. Cleve-
land was elected was that of sheriff of Erie
county, N. Y., in which Buffalo is situated;
and in such capacity it fell to his duty to in-
flict capital punishment upon two criminals.
In 1 88 1 he was elected mayor of the city of
Buffalo on the democratic ticket, with especial
reference to the bringing about certain reforms
in the administration of the municipal affairs
of that city. In this office, as well as that of
sherifT, his performance of duty has generally
been considered fair, with possibly a few ex-
ceptions, which were ferreted out and magni-
fied during the last presidential campaign. As
a specimen of his plain language in a veto
message, we quote from one vetoing an iniqui-
tous street. cleaning contract: "This is a time
for plain speech, and my objection to your
action shall be plainly stated. I regard it as
the culmination of a most bare-faced, impu-
dent and shameless scheme to betray the in-
terests of the people and to worse than squan-
der the people's money." The New York Sun
afterward very highly commended Mr. Cleve-
land's administration as mayor of Buffalo, and
thereupon recommended him for governor of
the Empire state. To the latter office he was
elected in 1882, and his administration of the
affairs of state was generally satisfactory. The
mistakes he made, if any, were made very
public throughout the nation after he was nomi-
nated for president of the United States. For
this high office he was nominated July i i ,
1884, by the national democratic convention
at Chicago, when other competitors were
Thomas F. Bayard, Roswell P. Flower, Thomas
A. Hendricks, Benjamin F. Butler, Allen G.
Thurman, etc. ; and he was elected by the
people by a majority of about a thousand over
the brilliant and long-tried James G. Blaine.
President Cleveland resigned his office as gov-
ernor of New York in January, 1885, in order
to prepare for his duties as the chief executive
of the United States, in which capacity his term
commenced at noon on the 4th of March, 1885.
For his cabinet officers he selected the follow-
ing gentlemen: For secretary of state, Thomas
F. Bayard, of Delaware; secretary of the
treasury, Daniel Manning, of New York; sec-
retary of war, William C. Endicott, of Massa-
chusetts; secretary of the navy, "William C.
Whitney, of New York; secretary of the inte-
rior, L. O. C. Lamar, of Mississippi; post-
master-general, Wm. F. Vilas, of Wisconsin;
attorney-general, A. H. Garland, of Arkansas.
In November, 1892, Mr. Cleveland was re-
elected to the presidency by the democratic
party, the candidate of the republican party
being their ex-chief, Benjamin Harrison, a
sketch of whom follows this. The popular
vote on this occasion stood: Cleveland, 5,556,-
562; Harrison, 5,162,874; the electoral vote
was 277 for Cleveland, and 145 for Harrison.
During the early part of his first administra-
tion, Mr. Cleveland was married to Miss
Frances Folsom of Buffalo, N. Y. , and in Oc-
tober, 1 89 1, a daughter, Ruth, came to bless
the union, and later a second daughter was
born. The first act of Mr. Cleveland, on tak-
ing his seat for his second term, was to convene
congress in extra session for the purpose of re-
pealing the Sherman silver bill, and accordingly
that body met September 4, 1893, and both
houses being democratic, the bill, in accord-
ance with the recommendation of the presi-
dent, was unconditionally repealed.
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B. HARRISON.
PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES.
121
^V^ ENJAMIN HARRISON, the twenty-
mf^ third president, is the descendant of
J^ P one of the historical families of this
country. The head of the family
was a Major General Harrison, one of Oliver
Cromwell's trusted followers and fighters. In
the zenith of Cromwell's power it became the
duty of this Harrison to participate in the
trial of Charles I, and afterward to sign the
death warrant of the king. He subsequently
paid for this with his life, being hung October
13, 1660. His descendants came to America,
and the next of the family that appears in his-
tory is Benjamin Harrison, of Virginia, great-
grandfather of the subject of this sketch, and
after whom he was named. Benjamin Har-
rison was a member of the continental con-
gress during the years 1774-5-6, and was one
of the original signers of the Declaration of
Independence. He was three times elected
governor of Virginia.
Gen. William Henry Harrison, the son of
the distinguished patriot of the Revolution,
after a successful career as a soldier during the
war of 1812, and with a clean record as gov-
ernor of the Northwestern territory, was
elected president of the United States in 1840.
His career was cut short by death in one
month after his inauguration.
President Benjamin Harrison was born at
North Bend, Hamilton county, Ohio, August
20, 1833. His life up to the time of his grad-
uation by the Miami university, at Oxford,
Ohio, was the uneventful one of a country lad
' of a family of small means. His father was
I able to give him a good education, and nothing
; more. He became engaged while at college
to the daughter of Dr. Scott, princioal of a
K female school at Oxford. After graduating,
he determined to enter upon the study of the
law. He went to Cincinnati and there read
law for two years. At the expiration of that
time young Harrison received the only inher-
itance of his life; his aunt, dying, left him a
lot valued at $800. He regarded this legacy
as a fortune, and decided to get married at
once, take this money and go to some eastern
town and begin the practice of law. He sold
his lot, and with the money in his pocket, he
started out with his young wife to fight for a
place in the world. He decided to go to
Indianapolis, which was even at that time a
town of promise. He met with slight encour-
agement at first, making scarcely anything the
first year. He worked diligently, applying
himself closely to his calling, built up an ex-
tensive practice and took a leading rank in the
legal profession. He is the f ather of two
children.
In i860 Mr. Harrison was nominated for
the position of supreme court reporter, and
then began his experience as a stump speaker.
He canvassed the state thoroughly, and was
elected by a handsome majority. In 1862 he
raised the Seventeenth Indiana infantry, and
was chosen its colonel. His regiment was
composed of the rawest of material, but Col.
Harrison employed all his time at first master-
ing military tactics and drilling his men; when
he therefore came to move toward the east
with Sherman his regiment was one of the
best drilled and organized in the army. At
Resaca he especially distinguished himself,
and for his braverp at Peachtree Creek he was
made a brigadier general. Gen. Hooker speak-
ing of him in the most complimentary terms.
During the absence of Gen. Harrison in
I the field the supreme court declared the office
of the supreme court reporter vacant, and
another person was elected to the position.
I From the time of leaving Indiana with his
regiment until the fall of 1864 he had taken
I no leave of absence, but having been nomi-
nated that year for the same office, he got a
\ thirty-day leave of absence, and during that
I time made a brilliant canvass of the state, and
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was elected for another term. He then started
to rejoin Sherman, but on the way was
stricken down with scarlet fever, and after a
most trying siege made his way to the front in
time to participate in the closing incidents of
the war.
In 1868 Gen. Harrison declined a re-elec-
tion as reporter, and resumed the practice of
law. In 1876 he was a candidate for governor.
Although defeated, the brilliant campaign he
made won for him a national reputation, and
he was much sought, especially in the east, to
make speeches. In 1880, as usual, he took
an active part in the campaign, and was
elected to the United States senate. Here he
served six years, and was known as one of the
ablest men, best lawyers and strongest de-
baters in that body. With the expiration of
his senatorial term he returned to the practice
of his profession, becoming the head of one of
the strongest firms in the state of Indiana.
The political campaign of 1888 was one of
the most memorable in the history of our coun-
try. The convention, which assembled in
Chicago in June and named Mr. Harrison as
the chief standard bearer of the republican
party, was great in every particular, and on
this account, and the attitude it assumed upon
the vital questions of the day, chief among
which was the tariff, awoke a deep interest in
the campaign throughout the nation. Shortly
after the nomination delegations began to visit
Mr. Harrison at Indianapolis, his home. This
movement became popular, and from all sec-
tions of the country societies, clubs and dele-
gations journeyed thither to pay their respects
to the distinguished statesman. The popu-
larity of these was greatly increased on ac-
count of the remarkable speeches made by
Mr. Harrison. He spoke daily all through the
summer and autumn to these visiting delega-
tions, and so varied, masterly and eloquent
were his speeches that they at once placed
him in the foremost rank of American orators
and statesmen. On account of his eloquence
as a speaker and his his power as a debater,
he was called upon at an uncommonly early
age to take part in the discussion of the great
questions that then began to agitate the coun-
try. He was an uncompromising anti-slavery
man, and was matched against some of the
most eminent democratic speakers of his state.
No man who felt the touch of his blade de-
sired to be pitted with him again. With all
his eloquence as an orator he never spoke for
oratorical effect, but his words always went
like bullets to the mark. He is purely Ameri-
can in his ideas and is a splendid tj'pe of the
American statesman. Gifted with quick per-
ception, a logical mind and a ready tongue, he
is one of the most distinguished impromptu
speakers in the nation. Original in thought,
precise in logic, terse in statement, yet withal
faultless in eloquence, he is recognized as the
sound statesman and brilliant orator of the
day. His term of office as president of the
United States expired on March 4, 1893, when
he surrendered the high position to Stephen
Grover Cleveland, allusion to which fact is
made on a preceding page.
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GOVERNORS OF INDIANA
AND . .
REPRESENTATIVE MEN,
GOVERNORS OF INDIANA AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN,
HRTHUR ST. CLAIR, one of the most
noted characters of our early colonial
days, was a native of Scotland, being
born at Edinburg, in 1735. Beconri-
ing a surgeon in the British army, he subse-
quently crossed the Atlantic with his regiment
and thenceforward was identified with the
history of this country until the day of his
death. Serving as a lieutenant with Wolfe in
the memorable campaign against Quebec, St.
Clair won sufficient reputation to obtain ap-
pointment as commander of Fort Ligonier, Pa. ,
where a large tract of land was granted to him.
During the Revolutionary war he espoused the
colonial cause, and before its close had risen
to the rank of major general. In 1785 he was
elected a delegate to the Continental congress
and afterward became its president. After the
passage of the ordinance of 1787, St. Clair
was appointed first military governor of the
Northwest territory, with headquarters at Fort
Washington, now Cincinnati. In 1791 he
undertook an expedition against the north-
western Indians, which resulted in the great
disaster known in western history as "St.
Clair's defeat." On November 4 the Indians
surprised and routed his whole force of about
1,400 regulars and militia, in what is now
Darke county, Ohio, killing over 900 men and
capturing his artillery and camp equipage.
Gen. St. Clair held the office of territorial
governor until 1802, when he was removed by
President Jefferson. He returned to Ligonier,
Pa., poor, aged and infirm. The state granted
him an annuity which enabled him to pass the
last years of his life in comfort. He died near
Greensburgh, Pa., August 31, 181 8, leaving a
family of one son and three daughters.
at
ILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, first
(territorial) governor of Indiana, and
ninth President of the United States,
was a native of Virginia, born in
the town of Berkeley, Charles City county,
February 9, 1773, [See presidential sketch.]
HOMAS POSEY, the last governor of
Indiana territory, was born near Alex-
andria, Va., on the 9th day of July,
1750. His educational training was
limited, being confined to the branches taught
in the different schools of those days. In
1774 he took part in the expedition originated
by Gov. Dunmore, of Virginia, against the
Indians, and was present at the battle of
Mount Pleasant. At the close of the war Mr.
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Posey went back to his home in Virginia, but
did not long pursue his peaceful vocations,
being called upon, the following year, to take
the part of the colonies in their struggle for
liberty against the mother country. He par-
ticipated in the battle of Bemis Heights, as
captain in Col. Morgan's command; in 1779
was colonel of the Eleventh Virginia regiment,
and afterward commanded a battery under
Gen. Wayne. He bore a gallant part in the
storming of Stony Point, was at the capitula-
tion of Cornwallis at Yorktown, and continued
in the service some time after peace was
declared. In 1793, he was appointed brigadier
general in the army of the Northwest, and,
being pleased with the appearance of the
country, settled in Kentucky not long after.
In that state he was a member of the state
senate, being president of the body from
November 4, 1805, to November 3, 1806, per-
forming the duties of lieutenant governor at
the same time. He removed to Louisiana in
1 812, and afterward represented the state in
the senate of the United States. While a
resident of Louisiana he was appointed gov-
ernor of Indiana territory, by President Mad-
ison, and in May, 18 13, he moved to Vin-
cennes, and entered upon the discharge of his
official duties. When his term as governor
expired by reason of the admission of Indiana
into the Union, Col. Posey was appointed
Indian agent for Illinois territory, with head-
quarters at Shawneetown, where his death
occurred March 19, 1818.
>Y'0NATHAN JENNINGS, the first gov-
J ernor of Indiana, was born in Hunter-
/H V don county, N. J., in the year 1784.
His father, a Presbyterian clergyman,
moved to Pennsylvania shortly after Johna-
than's birth, in which state the future gov-
ernor received his early educational training
and grew to manhood. He early began train-
ing himself for the legal profession, but before
his admission to the bar he left Pennsylvania
and located at Jeffersonville, Ind., where he
completed his preparatory study of the law,
and became a practitioner in the courts of
that and other towns in the territory. He
was subsequently made clerk in the territorial
legislature, and while discharging the duties
of that position became a candidate for con-
gress, against Thomas Randolph, attorney
general of the territory. The contest between
the two was exciting and bitter, the principal
question at issue being slavery, which Mr.
Randolph opposed, while his competitor was
a firm believer in the divine right of the insti-
tution. Jennings was elected by a small
majority. He was re-elected in 181 1, over
Walter Taylor, and in 181 3 was chosen the
third time, his competitor in the last race
being Judge Sparks, a very worthy and popular
man. Early in 18 16, Mr. Jennings reported a
bill to congress, enabling the people of the
territory to take the necessary steps to convert
it into a state. Delegates to a convention to
form a state constitution were elected in May,
1S16, Mr. Jennings being chosen one from the
county of Clark. He was honored by being
chosen to preside over this convention, and in
the election which followed he was elected
governor of the new state by a majority of
1,277 votes over his competitor, Gov. Posey.
In this office he served six years, also acting
as Indian commissioner in 1818 by appoint-
ment of President Monroe. At the close of
his term as governor, he was elected as repre-
sentative in congress, and was chosen for four
terms in succession. He was nearly always
in public life and filled his places acceptably.
He died near Charleston, July 26, 1834.
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,V^ ATLIFF BOON, who became gov-
I /^T ernor of Indiana upon the resignation
J , P of Jonathan Jennings, September 12,
1 822, was born in the state of Georgia
January 18, 1781. When he was young his
father emigrated to Kentucky, setthng in War-
ren county. Rathff Boon learned the gun-
smith trade in Danville, Ky. , and in 1809
came to Indiana and settled on the present
site of Boonville, in what is now Warrfck
county. In the organization of this county
he took a prominent part, was elected its first
treasurer, in the session of 18 16-17 he was a
member of the house of representatives, and
in 1818 was elected to the state senate. In
1 8 19 he was elected lieutenant governor on
the ticket with Jonathan Jennings, whom he
succeed, as stated above. He was re-elected
to the office of lieutenant governor in 1822,
but resigned that office in 1824, to become a
candidate for congress, to which he was elected
in August of the same year. He was re-elected
in 1829-1831-1833-183S and 1837, serving
most of the time as chairman of the com-
mittee of public lands. In 1836 he was a
candidate for United States senator, but was
defeated by Oliver H. Smith. His congres-
sional career ended March, 1839, and a few
months afterward he removed to Missouri,
settling in Pike county. In that state Gov.
Boon became active in public affairs, and was
one of the leading men of the state. Placing
himself in antagonism to Col. Thomas H.
Benton, who then controlled the politics of
Missouri, he incurred the latter's deadly
enmity. He again became a candidate for
congress in 1844, but his death on November
20th of that year put an end to his earthly
career. Mr. Boon was a pioneer of two states
and left the impress of his character upon
both.
vx
ILLIAM HENDRICKS, governor of
Indiana from 1822 to 1825, was
born at Ligonier, Westmoreland
county, Pa., in 1783. His parents
were Abraham and Ann (Jamison) Hendricks,
descendants from old families of New Jersey.
William Hendricks was educated at Cannons-
burg, Pa., and shortly after his graduation, in
1 8 10, went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he
studied law in the office of Mr. Carry, sup-
porting himself in the meantime by teaching
school. In i8i4he removed to Indiana, and
located at Madison, which continued to be his
home during the rest of his life. He began
the practice of law at Madison, where he was
also identified with journalism for some time,
and shortly after his removal to the state he
was made secretary of the territorial legisla-
ture at Vincennes. In June, 18 16, he was
appointed secretary of the constitutional con-
vention, and in August of the same year was
elected as the first and sole representative to
congress from the newly created state, serving
three successive terms. He discharged the
duties of his high position with so much
acceptability that at the end of his third term,
1822, he was elected governor of the state
without opposition. Before the expiration of
his term as governor, the legislature elected
him a senator of the United States, and on
February 12, 1825, he filed his resignation as
governor. In 1831 he was re-elected, and at
the expiration of this term, in 1837, he retired
to private life and never afterward took upon
himself the cares of public office. In 1840
he was one of the state electors on the Van
Buren ticket, and it was during the campaign
of that year that he contracted a disease from
which he suffered the remainder of his life.
Gov. Hendricks was a man of imposing ap-
pearance. He was six feet in height, hand-
GOVERNORS OF INDIANA
some in face and figure, and had a ruddy com-
plexion. He was easy in manner, genial and
kind in disposition, and was a man who at-
tracted the attention of all and won the warm
friendship of many. He was brought up in
the Presbyterian faith, early united with that
church, and lived a consistent, earnest, chris-
tian life. The Indiana Gazette of 1850 has
the following mention of him: "Gov. Hen-
dricks was for many years by far the most
popular man in the state. He had been its
sole representative in congress for six years,
elected on each occasion by large majorities,
and no member of that body, probably, was
more attentive to the interests of the state he
represented, or more industrious in arranging
all the private or local business intrusted to
him. He left no letter unanswered, no public
office or document did he fail to visit or
examine on request; with personal manners
very engaging, he long retained his popu-
larity." He died May 16, 1850.
>rr*AMES BROWN RAY, governor of Indi-
M ana, was born in Jefferson county, Ky. ,
^J February 19, 179).. Early in life he
went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and after
studying law in that city he was admitted to
the the bar. He began the practice at Brook-
ville, Ind., where he soon ranked among the
ablest and most influential of an able and
ambitious bar.
In 1822 he was elected to the legislature.
On the 30th of January, 1824, Lieut. Gov. Rat-
liff Boon resigned his office, and Mr. Ray was
elected president pro tempore of the senate,
and presided during the remainder of the ses-
sion. He was governor of the state from 1825
to 1 83 1, and during this time was appointed
United States commissioner with Lewis Cass
and John Tipton, to negotiate a treaty with
the Miami and Pottawatomie Indians. The
constitution of the state prevented the gov-
ernor from holding an office under the United
States government, in consequence of which
he became involved in a controversy. He
remembered the difficulty Jonathan Jennings
had encountered under like circumstances, and
sought to avoid trouble by acting without a
regular commission, but his precaution did not
save him from trouble. Through his exertions
the Indians gave land to aid in building a road
from Lake Michigan to the Ohio river. Gov.
Ray was active in promoting railroad concen-
tration in Indianapolis, and took an active
part in the internal improvement of the state.
At the expiration of his term of office he
resumed the practice of law, and in 1837 was
candidate for congress in the Indianapolis dis-
trict, but was defeated by a large majority.
This want of appreciation by the public soured
him, and in later years he became very eccen-
tric. In 1848, while at Cincinnati, he was
taken -with the cholera, which terminated in
his death, August 4, of that year. In person
Gov. Ray, in his younger days, was very pre-
possessing He was tall and straight, with a
body well proportioned. He wore his hair
long and tied in a queue. His forehead was
broad and high, and his features denoted intel-
ligence of high order. For many years he was
a leading man of Indiana, and no full history
of the state can be written without a mention
of his name.
^>^^ OAH NOBLE, fourth governor of
I ■ Indiana, was born in Clark county,
I ^ Va. , January 15, 1794. When a
small boy he was taken by his parents
to Kentucky, in which state he grew to man-
hood. About the time Indiana was admitted
into the Union, Mr. Noble came to the state
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131
and located at Brookville, where, a few years
later, he was elected sheriff of Franklin county.
In 1824 he was chosen a representative to the
state legislature from Franklin county, in
which body he soon became quite popular and
gained a state reputation. In 1826 he was
appointed receiver of public moneys to suc-
ceed his brother, Lazarus Noble, who died
while moving the office from Brookville to
Indianapolis, in which capacity he continued
with great acceptability until his removal, in
1829, by President Jackson. In 1830 he was
appointed one of the commissioners to locate
and layout the Michigan road. In 1831 he
was a candidate for governor, and although a
whig, and the democracy had a large majority
in the state, he was elected by a majority of
2,791. This was remarkable, for Milton Stapp,
also a whig, was a candidate, and polled 4,422
votes. In I834 Gov. Noble was a candidate
for re-election, when he was also successful,
defeating his competitor, James G. Reed, by
7,662 votes. In 1839, after his gubernatorial
term had expired, he was elected a member of
the board of internal improvements. In 1841
he was chosen a fund commissioner, and the
same year was effered by the president of the
United States the office of general land com-
missioner, which he declined. Gov. Noble
died at his home, near Indianapolis, February
8, 1844. Gov. Noble had a laudable ambition
to go to the United States senate, and in 1836
was a candidate to succeed William Hen-
dricks, but was defeated by Oliver H. Smith.
In 1839 he was again a candidate to succeed
Gen. John Tipton, but was defeated by Albert
S. White on the thirty-sixth ballot. Oliver H.
Smith says that Gov. Noble "was one of the
most popular men with the masses of the state.
His person was tall and slim, and his consti-
tution delicate, his smile winning, his voice
feeble, and the pressure of his hand irresisti-
ble. He spoke plainly and well, but made no
pretense to oratory. As governor he was very
popular, and his social entertainments will
long be remembered."
5>^ AVID WALLACE, governor of Indi-
I I ana from 1837 to 1840, was a native
^^_^ of Mifflin county. Pa., born April 24,
1799. He removed with his father
to Brookville, Ind., when quite young, and in
early manhood began the study of law in the
office of Miles Eggleston, a distinguished jurist
of that day. In 1823 he was admitted to the
bar and soon obtained a large practice. He
served in the legislature from 1828 to 1830,
and in 1831 was elected lieutenant governor
of Indiana, and re-elected in 1834. In 1837
he was elected governor over John Dumont,
an able and distinguished lawyer, who lived at
Vevay, on the southern border of the state.
During his periods of service as legislator and
lieutenant governor, he was active as an advo-
cate of internal improvements and in estab-
lishing a school system, and he was elected
governor upon those issues.
In 1 84 1 he was elected to congress from
the Indianapolis district, defeating Col. Nathan
B. Palmer. As a member of the committee
on commerce, he gave the casting vote in favor
an appropriation to develop Col. S. T. B.
Morse's magnetic telegraph, which vote had
great weight in defeating him for re-election in
1843. At the expiration of his term in con-
gress he resumed the practice of law, which he
continued uninterruptedly until 1850, when he
was elected a delegate to the constitutional
convention from the county of Marion. In
1856 he was elected judge of the court of com-
mon pleas, which position he held until his
death, on the 4th of September, 1859. Gov.
Wallace was twice married. His first wife was
a daughter of John Test, and his second a
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daughter of John H. Sanders. The latter still
lives and is prominent in reformatory and
religious work. When a young man, Gov.
Wallace had a well proportioned body, but in
his later years its symmetry was marred by an
undue amount of flesh. He h9.d black hair,
dark eyes, and a ruddy complexion. He was
cultured and well bred, his address was good
and his manners unexceptionable. He was a
laborious and impartial jurist, a painstaking
executive, and as an orator had few equals in
the nation.
^~V*AMUEL BIGGER, who succeeded
•^^^T David Wallace as governor of Indi-
k^^ ana, was born in Warren county,
Ohio, March 20, 1802, and was the
eldest son of John Bigger, a western pioneer,
and for many years a member of the Ohio leg-
islature. He was prepared for college in his
own neighborhood, graduated with honors from
the university at Athens, and afterward began
the study of law. In 1829 he removed to Lib-
erty, Ind,, where he was duly admitted to the
bar, and soon secured a lucrative practice. He
remained at Liberty but a short time, remov-
ing thence to Rushville, where his public life
began in 1834 as representative of Rush coun-
ty in the state legislature. He was re-elected
in 1835, and shortly after the expiration of his
term was chosen judge of the eastern circuit,
a position for which he proved himself ably
qualified, and which he held in an acceptable
manner for many years. In 1 840 he was nomi-
nated for governor by the whig state conven-
tion, and after an exciting race was elected,
defeating Gen. Tilghman A. Howard. He was
a candidate for re-election in 1843, but was
defeated by James Whitcomb. After the ex-
piration of his gubernatorial term. Gov. Big-
ger moved to Fort Wayne, Ind., and resumed
the practice of law, which he continued until
his death, September 9, 1845. "Gov. Bigger
possessed talents of a high order, rather sub-
stantial than brilliant. His judgment was
remarkably sound, dispassionate and discrimi-
nating, and it was this chiefly that made him
eminently a leader in every circle in which he
moved, whether in political life, at the bar, or
society at large." He was a man of fine form
and presence He was six feet two inches in
height and weighed 240 pounds. His hair was
black, his eyes a blue hazel, and his complex-
ion dark. The expression of his face was kind
and benignant, and denoted goodness of heart.
He was a patriotic citizen, an incorruptible
judge, and an executive officer of very respec-
table ability.
>^AMES WHITCOMB was born near
J Windsor, Vt., December i, 1795. His
m J father removed to Ohio, and settled
near Cincinnati, when James was quite
young, and it was there upon a farm that the
youthful years of the future governor and
senator were passed. He received a classical
education at Transylvania university, subse-
quently studied law, and in March, 1822, was
admitted to the bar in Lexington, Fayette
county, Ky. Two years later he came to Indi-
ana and located at Bloomington, where he soon
became known as an able advocate and suc-
cessful practitioner. In 1826 he was appointed
prosecuting attorney of his circuit, and in the
discharge of the duties of this office traveled
over a large scope of country and became
acquainted with many leading men of the state.
In 1830 and 1836 he was elected to the state
senate, where he did much to stay the progress
of the internal improvement fever which was
then at its highest point. In October, 1836,
President Jackson appointed Mr. Whitcomb
commissioner of the general land office, to
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which he was reappointed by President Van
Buren, and served as such until the expiration
of the latter's term of office. Early in 1841
he returned to Indiana and resumed the prac-
tice of law in Terre Haute, where he soon
acquired a large and lucrative business. He
was at that time one of the best known and
most popular members of his party, and at the
democratic state convention of 1843, he was
nominated for governor of the state. His op-
ponent was Samuel Bigger, whom he defeated
by a majority of 2,013 votes. Three years
afterward he was re-elected, beating Joseph G.
Marshall, the whig candidate, by 3,958 votes.
When he became governor he found the state
loaded down with debt, upon which no inter-
est had been paid for years, but when he left
the office the debt was adjusted and the state's
credit restored. He also, by his efforts, crea-
ted a public sentiment that demanded the
establishment of benevolent and reformatory
institutions, and he awakened the people to
the importance of establishing common schools
and providing a fund for their maintenance.
During his term of office he raised five reg-
iments of infantry that represented the state
in the war wfth Mexico. The legislature of
1849 elected Gov. Whitcomb to the senate of
the United States, for which high position he
was well qualified by talent, by education and
by experience. Owing to feeble health he
was unable to discharge his senatorial duties
as he wished, and he died from a painful dis-
ease when he had served little more than half
the term. In 1843 he wrote a pamphlet
entitled, "Facts for the People," the most
effective treatise against protective tariff ever
known. As a lawyer, Mr. Whitcomb ranked
among the ablest in the country, and as gov-
ernor will always be remembered as one of the
ablest of the distinguished men who have
occupied that position. Gov. Whitcomb was
compactly and strongly built; he was some-
what above the average size of man; he had a
dark complexion and black hair. His features
were good and expressive, and his manners the
most elegant. He was a talented and an
honest man, and when the roll of Indiana's
great men is made up, among the first in the
list will be the name of Whitcomb.
,>^ ARIS C. DUNNING was born in Guil-
1 m ford county, N. C., in March, 1806,
^ but emigrated to Indiana with his
mother and elder brother, and located
at Bloomington in 1823. He studied law and
was admitted to practice about 1830. In 1833
he was elected to represent Monroe county in
the state legislature, and was three times
re-elected. In 1836 he was elected to the
state senate from Monroe and Brown counties,
and remained there until 1840, when he vol-
untarily retired. He was chosen as a demo-
cratic presidential elector in 1 844, and during
the campaign exhibited extraordinary energy
and ability as a public speaker. In 1846 he
was elected lieutenant governor on the demo-
cratic ticket, and when Gov. Whitcomb was
elected to the United States senate, Mr. Dun-
ning succeeded him as governor. After his
retirement in 1850, he practiced his profession
for many years, having meantime declined a
nomination for congress. In 1 860 he was a
delegate to the Charleston and Baltimore
national conventions, where he distinguished
himself as an earhest advocate of Stephen A.
Douglas, and subsequently worked assiduously
for that statesman's election to the presidency.
At the breaking out of the rebellion in 1861,
Mr. Dunning identified himself with the Union
cause, and throughout the war rendered val-
iant aid to the country. In 1861 he was
elected to the state senate without distinction
of party. Subsequently he was elected twice
as president of the senate. Goveror Dunning
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was twice married, first to Miss Sarah Alex-
ander, and the second time to Mrs. Ellen D.
Ashford. Ex-Gov. Dunning takes high rank
as one of the self-made men of Indiana, and
he filled the many positions of honor and trust
conferred upon him with great credit to him-
self and to the entire satisfaction of the cit-
izens of Indiana.
>j*OSEPH A. WRIGHT, for seven years
m governor of Indiana, was born in Wash-
/»! ington, Pa, April 17, 1810. In 1819
his family moved to Bloomington,
Ind., where he and his two brothers assisted
their father at work in a brickyard, and in the
brick business generally. In 1822 his father
died and he, then fourteen years of age, hav-
ing but little if any aid from others, was left
entirely upon his own resources. He attended
school, and college about two years, and while
at college was janitor, rang the bell and took
care of the buildings. It is said that what
little pocket money he had was made by gath-
ering walnuts and hickory nuts in the fall and
selling them to students in the winter. He
subsequently studied law with Craven P. Hes-
ter, of Bloomington, and began the practice of
his profession, in 1829, at Rockville, Park
county, where he met with good success from
the start. In 1833 he was elected to the state
legislature, and in 1840, the year of the Har-
rison political tornado, was chosen a member
of the state senate. He was also elected dis-
trict attorney for two terms in 1836 and 1837,
and later was appointed by President Polk
United States commissioner to Texas. In
1843 he was elected to congress from the
Seventh district, over Edward McGaughey, by
three majority, and served until Polk was in-
augurated, March 4, 1845. In 1849 he was
elected governor of Indiana, under the old
constitution, and in 1852 was re-elected by
over 20,000 majority^ and served until 1857.
In the summer of the latter year he was
appointed minister to Prussia, by James
Buchanan, and as such served until 1861. In
1862 he was appointed by Gov. Morton United
States senator, and sat in the senate until the
next January. He was appointed commis-
sioner to the Hamburg exposition in 1863,
and in 1865 went again to Prussia as United
States minister, and remained there until his
death, which occurred at Berlin March 11,
1867. Gov. Wright will be best remembered
as governor of Indiana, his services in the
general assembly, aenate and congress being
too brief for him to make much impression in
any of those bodies.
As governor, he was an important factor
in shaping legislation and molding public
opinion. He was an orthodox democrat of
the straightest sect, stood high in the councils
of his party, and contested with Jesse D.
Bright for the leadership, but without success.
He was strong with the people but weak with
the leaders. In personal appearance Gov.
Wright was tall and raw-boned. He had a
large head and an unusually high forehead.
His hair was light and thin his eyes blue, and
his nose and mouth large and prominent. He
was an effective speaker, mainly on account
of his earnestness and simplicity. While not
the greatest man in the state, he was one of
the most influential; and to his honor be it
said, his influence was exercised for the public
good. Economy and honesty in public life,
and morality and religion in private station,
had in him an advocate and an examplar.
HSHBEL PARSONS WILLARD was
born October 31, 1820, at Vernon,
Oneida county, N. Y, , the son of
Col. Erastus Willard, at one time
sheriff of Onedia county. He pursued his pre-
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paratory studies in the Oneida Liberal insti-
tute, and when eighteen years of age entered
Hamilton college in the class of 1842. After
graduating from that institution he studied
law for some time with Judge Baker, of his
native county, and later emigrated to Michi-
gan, locating in the town of Marshall, where
he remained for over a year. He then made
a trip to Texas on horseback, and on his
return stopped at Carrollton, Ky. , and there
taught school. After this he taught for some
time at Louisville, but subsequently left the
school room for the political arena. In the
contest for the presidency in 1844, between
Clay and Polk, young Willard began stumping
for the latter, and during the campaign made
a speech in New Albany, Ind., which made
such a favorable impression that many of the
first men of the town solicited him to come
and settle among them. He soon afterward
located in New Albany which place remained
his home nntil his death. He at once opened
a law office, but was compelled to encounter a
very able bar, in consequence of which his
practice for some time was by no means lucra-
tive. The first office he held was that of com-
mon councilman. He took pride in the place
and won the good opinion of the people irre-
spective of party. In 1850 he was elected to
the state legislature, and from that time until
his death he occupied a conspicuous place in
the public mind. Such was his career in the
legislature that when the democratic conven-
tion of 1852 convened the delegates were met
by an overwhelming public sentiment demand-
ing the nomination of Willard for lieutenant
governor. The demand was recognized and
the nomination made. He filled this office
until 1856, when he was elected governor,
after a very bitter and e.xciting political con-
test. In the summer of i860 his health gave
way, and he went to Minnesota in quest of
health, which he did not find, but died there
on October 4th of that year. Gov. Willard
was the first governor of Indiana to die in
office. The people, without respect to party,
paid homage to his remains, and a general
feeling of the most profound sorrow was felt
at his untimely taking off. "In person Gov.
Willard was very preposessing. His head and
face were cast in finest molds, his eyes were
blue, his hair auburn, and his complexion
florid. A more magnetic and attractive man
could nowhere be found, and had he lived to
the allotted age of mankind he must have
reached still higher honors."
HI^RAM ADAMS HAMMOND, who
succeeded to the governorship on the
death of A. P. Willard, by virtue of
his office of lieutenant governor, was
a native of Vermont, born in the town of
Brattleboro, March 21, 18 14. He came to
Indiana when six years of age, and was raised
near Brookville, where he began the study of
law in the office of John Ryman, a lawyer of
note in that town. He was admitted to the bar
in 1835, moved to Columbus, Bartholomew
county, in 1840, where he was afterward
chosen prosecuting attorney, an office which
he filled with more than ordinary ability. In
1846 he became a resident of Indianapolis,
and the following year removed to Cincinnati,
Ohio. He returned to Indianapolis in 1849,
and in 1850 was chosen first judge of the com-
mon pleas court of Marion county. In 1852
he emigrated to California, and for some time
practiced his profession in San Francisco.
He soon returned to his adopted state, loca-
ting in Terre Haute, where he resided until
his election as lieutenant governor in 1852.
He made a most excellent presiding officer of
the senate, his rulings being so fair and his
decisions so just that even his political oppo-
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nents bestowed encomiums upon him. On
the death of Gov. Willard, in i860, Mr. Ham-
mond became governor, and as such served
with dignity until the inauguration of Gov.
Lane, in January, 1861. Gov. A.A.Hammond
was not a showy man, but he was an able
one. He possessed an analytic and logical
mind, and was remarkably clear in stating his
positions when drawing conclusions. When
in his prime he was a fine specimen of physi-
cal manhood. He was of medium height,
compactly built, and of dark complexion.
His head was large and well shaped, while the
expression of his countenance was mild and
gentle. Frank in manners, honorable in his
dealings, and dignified in his deportment, he
commanded the esteem of all with whom he
came in contact.
aONRAD BAKER, governor of Indiana
from 1867 to 1873, was born in
Franklin county, Penn., February 12,
1 8 1 7. He was educated at the Penn-
sylvania college, Gettysburg, and read law at
the office of Stevens & Smyser, and was ad-
mitted to the bar in the spring of 1839, at
Gettysburg, where he had a lucrative practice
for two years. He came to Indiana in 1841,
and settled at Evansville, where he practiced
his profession until after the commencement
of the rebellion. He was elected to the lower
house of the general assembly of Indiana in
1845, and served one session, elected judge of
the district composed of the counties of Van-
derburg and Warrick, in 1852, in which capac-
ity he served about one year, when he re-
signed. In 1856 he was nominated for
lieutenant governor by the republican party
without his knowledge, on the ticket with
Oliver P. Morton. They were defeated by
Willard and Hammond. In 1861 Mr. Baker
was commissioned colonel of the First cavalry
regiment of Indiana volunteers, which he or-
ganized, and with which he served until Sep-
tember, 1864, in which year he was elected
lieutenant governor. In 1865 Gov. Morton
convened the general assembly in special ses-
sion, and immediately after delivering his
message, started for Europe in quest of health,
leaving Col. Baker in charge of the executive
department of the state government. Gov.
Morton was absent five months, during which
time the duties of the executive office were
performed by Lieut. Gov. Baker. In Febru-
ary, 1867, Gov. Morton was elected to the
senate of the United States, in consequence of
which the duties of governor devolved upon
Mr. Baker. He was unanimously nominated
by the republican convention of 1868, for
governor, and was elected over Thomas A.
Hendricks, by a majority of 961 votes. He
served as governor with ability and dignity,
until the inauguration of Mr. Hendricks in
1873, since which time he has been engaged
in the practice of law in Indianapolis, being a
member of one of the strongest and most
widely known firms in the state.
OLIVER PERRY MORTON, Indiana's
great war governor and United States
senator, was born in Saulsbury,
Wayne county, Ind., August 4, 1823.
The family name was originally Throckmorton,
and was so written by the grandfather, who
emigrated from England about the beginning
of the Revolutionary war and settled in New
Jersey. Gov. Morton's father was James T.
Morton, a native of New Jersey, who moved
in an early day to Wayne county, Ind. , where
he married the mother of Oliver P., whose
maiden name was Sarah Miller. Of the early
life of Gov. Morton but little is known.
When a boy he attended the academy of Prof.
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Hoshour, at Centerville, but owing to the
poverty of the family, he was taken from
school, and at the age of fifteen, with an older
brother, began learning the hatter's trade.
After working at his trade a few years, he de-
termined to lit himself for the legal profession,
and with this object in view he entered the
Miami university in 1843, where he pursued
his studies vigorously for a period of two
years. While in college he earned the repu-
tation of being the best debater in the institu-
tion, and it was here that he developed those
powers of ready analysis and argument which
made him so celebrated in after life. He be-
gan his professional reading in the office of
Judge Newman, of Centerville, and after his
admission to the bar was not long in rising to
an eminent place among the successful law-
yers of Indiana. In 1852 he was elected cir-
cuit judge, but resigned at the end of one
year and afterward increased his knowledge
of the profession by an attendance at a Cin-
cinnati law school. On resuming the prac-
tice the number of his friends and legal cases
rapidly increased, and his reputation soon ex-
tended beyond the limits of his own state. As
a lawyer he possessed the faculty of selecting
the salient points of a case and getting at the
heart of a legal question. His mind was
massive and logical, and he could apply great
principles to given cases, discard non-essen-
tials and reach decisive points. Mr. Morton's
political career was of such a brilliant char-
acter that his great achievements in the arena
of statesmanship, his wonderful power as an
organizer, won for him a recognition from the
strongest opponents, and faith in his powers,
and the lasting fealty and admiration of thous-
ands of friends until he reached the highest
point among the great American statesmen.
Up to his thirty-first year, Mr. Morton
was a democrat. The county in which he
lived was largely whig, thus virtually preclud-
ing him from holding elective offices. He
was opposed to the extension of slavery, how-
ever, and upon the organization of the repub-
lican party he entered the movement, and in
1856 was one of the three delegates from
Indiana to the Pittsburgh convention.
His prominence was such that in 1856 he
was unanimously nominated by the new party
for governor of Indiana, against Ashbel P. Wil-
lard, an able and brilliant speaker, the superior
of Mr. Morton as an orator, but his inferior as
a logician and debater. These two distin-
guished men canvassed the state together, and
drew immense crowds. The speeches of Wil-
lard were florid, eloquent and spirit-stirring,
while Mr. Morton's style was earnest, convinc-
ing and forcible. He never appealed to men's
passions, but always to their, intellect and rea-
son, and whether in attack or defense, proved
himself a ready, powerful debater. Although
beaten at the polls, he came out of the contest
with his popularity increased, and with the
reputation of being one of the ablest public
men in the state. In i860 he was nominated
for lieutenant governor on the ticket with Hon.
Henry S. Lane, with the understanding that if
successful he should go to the senate, and Mr.
Morton become governor. He made a vigor-
ous canvass, and the result of the election was
a republican success, which placed Mr. Lane
in the senate and Mr. Morton in the guberna-
torial chair. From the day of his inauguration
Mr. Morton gave evidence of possessing extra-
ordinary executive ability. It was while filling
this term as governor that he did his best pub-
lic work and created for himself a fame as
lasting as that of his state. A great civil war
was breaking out when he became governor,
and few so well cornprehended what would be
its magnitude as he. He was one of the first
to forsee the coming storm of battle and most
active in his preparations to meet it. Perceiv-
ing the danger of a dilatory policy, he visited
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Washington soon after the inauguration of
President Lincoln, to advise vigorous action
and to give assurance of Indiana's support to
such a pohcy. He commenced preparing for
the forthcoming conflict, and when Sumter
was fired on, April 12, 1861, he was neither
surprised nor appalled. Three days after the
attack, President Lincoln called for 75,000
men to put down the rebellion, and the same
day Gov. Morton sent him the following
telegram :
"Indianapolis, April 15, 1861.
" To Abraham Lincoi^n, President of the United
States: On behalf of the state of Indiana, I tender
you, for the defense of the nation, and to uphold the
authority of the g-overninent, 10,000 men.
" OwvEK P. Morton,
" Governor of Indiana."
In seven days from the date of this offer
over three times the number of men required
to fill Indiana's quota of the president's call
offered their services to the country. Never
in the world's history did the people of a state
respond more cheerfully and more enthusias-
tically to the call of duty, than did the people
of Indiana in 1861. This record of the state,
which Mr. Morton was instrumental in plan-
ning, reflects imperishable honor on his name,
and from that time forth he was known through-
out the nation as the ' ' Great War Governor. "
During the entire period of the war he per-
formed an incredible amount of labor, coun-
seling the president, encouraging the people,
organizing regiments, hurrying troops to the
field, forwarding stores, and inspiring all with
the enthusiasm of his own earnestness. His
labors for the relief of the soldiers and their
dependent and needy families were held up as
matters of emulation by the governors of other
states, and the result of his efforts seconded by
the people was that during the war over
$600,000 of moneys and supplies were col-
lected and conveyed to Indiana soldiers in
camp, field, hospital and prison. The limits
of a sketch like this forbid a detailed account
of Gov. Morton's public acts. He displayed
extraordinary industry and ability, and in his
efforts in behalf of the soldier justly earned
the title of "The Soldiers' Friend." The
legislature of 1862 was not in accord with the
political views of Gov. Morton, and it refused
to receive his message, and in other ways
treated him with want of consideration and
respect. It was on the point of taking from
him the command of the militia, when the
republican members withdrew, leaving both
houses without a quorum. In order to carry
on the state government and pay the state
bonds he obtained advances from banks and
and county boards, and appointed a bureau
of finance, which for two years made all dis-
bursements of the state, amounting to more
than $ 1 , 000, 000. During this period he refused
to summon the legislature, and the supreme
court condemned his arbitrary course, but the
people subsequently applauded his action. By
assuming great responsibilities he kept the ma-
chinery of the state in motion and preserved
the financial credit of the commonwealth by
securing advances through an eastern banking
house to pay the interest on the public debt.
In 1 864 he was again nominated for governor
against Hon. Joseph E. McDonald, whom he
defeated by an overwhelming majority. These
two distinguished men made a joint canvass
of the state, and passed through it with the
utmost good feeling.
In 1865 Gov. Morton received a partial
paralytic stroke, affecting the lower part of
the body, so that he never walked afterward
without the use of canes. His mind, how-
ever, was in no wise affected by the shock,
but continued to grow stronger while he lived.
In January, 1867, he was elected to the United
States senate, and immediately thereafter re-
signed the governorship to Conrad Baker, who
served the remainder of the gubernatorial
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term. In 1873 he was re-elected to the senate
and continued a leading member of that body
while he lived. In the senate he ranked
among the ablest members, was chairman of
the committee on privileges and elections,
was the acknowledged leader of the republi-
cans, and for several years exercised a deter-
mining influence over the course of the party.
He labored zealously to secure the passage of
the fifteenth amendment, was active in the
impeachment proceedings against Andrew
Johnson, and was the trusted adviser of the
republicans of the south. In the national
republican convention of 1876 he received
next to the highest number of ballots for the
presidential nomination, and in 1877 was a
member of the celebrated electoral commis-
sion. In 1870 President Grant offered Sen-
ator Morton the English mission, which was
declined. After visiting Oregon in the spring
of 1877, as chairman of a committee to inves-
tigate the election of Senator Grover, of that
state, he suffered another stroke of paralysis,
which terminated in his death, November ist,
of the same year. The death of no man, with
the exception of President Lincoln, ever cre-
ated so much grief in Indiana as did that of
Senator Morton, and he was mourned almost
as much throughout the entire nation. On
the 17th of the next January, Mr. McDonald
offered in the senate a series of resolutions in
relation to Senator Morton's death, which were
unanimously adopted. In speaking on these
resolutions, Mr. McDonald said: "Naturally
combative and aggressive, intensely in earnest
in his undertakings, and intolerant in regard
to those who differed with him, it is not
strange that while he held together his friends
and followers with hooks of steel, he caused
many, whose patriotism and love of country
were as sincere and unquestioned as his own,
to place themseles in political hostility to him.
That Oliver P. Morton was a great man is
conceded by all. In regard to his qualities as
a statesman, men do differ now and always
will. But that he was a great partisan leader
— the greatest of his day and generation — will
hardly be questioned, and his place in that
particular field will not, perhaps, be soon sup-
plied." Senator Burnside said: " Morton was
a great man. His judgment was good, his
power of research was great, his integrity was
high, his patriotism was lofty, his love of
family and friends unlimited; his courage
indomitable." The following is from Senator
Edmonds: " He was a man of strong passions
and great talents, and as a consequence a
devoted partisan. In the field in which his
patriotism was exerted it may be said of him,
as it was of the Knights of St. John, in the
holy wars, ' In the fore front of every battle
was seen his burnished mail and in the gloomy
rear of every retreat was heard his voice of
constancy and courage.'" The closing speech
upon the adoption of the resolutions was made
by his successor, D. W. Voorhees, who used
the following: "Senator Morton was without
doubt a very remarkable man. His force of
character cannot be over estimated His will
power was simply tremendous. He threw
himself into all his undertakings with that
fixedness of purpose and disregard of obstacles
which are always the best guarantees of
success. This was true of him whether en-
gaged in a lawsuit, organizing troops during
the war, conducting a political campaign, or a
debate in the senate. The same daring,
aggressive policy characterized his conduct
everywhere. "
* y ^ ENRY SMITH LANE, for two days
l'^^ governor of Indiana, was born Feb-
^ F ruary 24, 181 i , in Montgomery county,
Ky. He secured a good practical
education, and at the age of eighteen com-
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menced the study of law. Soon after attain-
ing his majority he was admitted to the bar,
and in 1835 came to Indiana and located at
Crawfordsville, where he soon obtained a good
legal practice. His winning manners made
him very popular with the people, and in 1837
he was elected to represent Montgomery county
in the state legislature. In 1840 he was a
candidate for congress against Edward A. Han-
negan, whom he defeated by 1,500 votes. He
was re-elected the next year over John Bryce,
and as a national representative ranked with
the ablest of his colleagues. He took an
active part in the presidential campaign of
1844, and made a brilliant canvass throughout
Indiana for his favorite candidate, Henry Clay.
On the breaking out of the Mexican war, Mr.
Lane at once organized a company, was
chosen captain, and later became a major and
lieutenant colonel of the regiment, and fol-
lowed its fortunes until mustered out of the
service.
In 1858, Col. Lane was elected to the
United States senate, but, owing to opposition
on the part of democratic senators, he did not
take his seat. February 27, i860, he was
nominated by acclamation for governor, and
was elected over Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks
by a majority of about 10,000 votes. Two
days after the delivery of his first message.
Gov. Lane was elected to the senate of the
United States. He at once resigned the gov-
ernorship, the shortest term in that office on
record in Indiana. In the senate, Mr. Lane
did not attain any great distinction, as it was
not the place for the exercise of his pecular
talents as an orator, which were better suited
to the hustings than to a dignified legislative
body. When Col. Lane's senatorial term ex-
pired, he returned to his home in Crawfords-
ville, and never afterward held public ofifice
except the appointment of Indian commis-
sioner, by President Grant. He was chosen
president of the first national convention that
assembled in 1856, and nominated John C.
Fremont. It is worthy of note that every
nomination ever conferred upon him was by
acclamation and without' opposition in his
party. In person. Col. Lane was tall, slender
and somewhat stoop shouldered. His face
was thin and wore a kindly expression. In
his later days, the long beard he wore was
white as snow. He moved quickly, and his
bearing was that of a cultured man. He de-
parted this life at his home in Crawfordsville,
on the 1 8th day of June, 1881.
HOMAS A. HENDRICKS was the
son of Maj. John Hendricks, and the
grandson of Abraham Hendricks, a
decendant of the Huguenots, who
emigrated to New Jersey and thence to Penn-
sylvania, prior to the Revolution. Abraham
Hendricks was a man of remarkable force of
character. He was elected to the Pennsyl-
vania assembly first in 1792, and served four
terms, the last ending in 1798. William Hen-
dricks, second governor of Indiana, preceded
his brother John in moving to this state from
Ohio, and had gained much notoriety as a tal-
ented and public man when Major John finally
concluded to risk his fortune in the wilds of
the new west. John Hendricks, prior to 1829,
resided with his family at Zanesville, Ohio.
His wife, whose maiden name was Jane
Thompson, and a niece, were the only mem-
bers of the Thompson family who emigrated
west, the others remaining in Pennsylvania
and other eastern states, where some of them
gained enviable reputations in iaw, medicine,
politics and ministry. Shortly after their
marriage John Hendricks and wife moved to
Muskingum. Ohio, where they lived for some
time in a rude log house, one story, one room.
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one door and two windows, built of round logs
and chinked and daubed after the pioneer
fashion. In this little domicile were born two
sons, Abraham and Thomas A. The last
named, Thomas A., was born September 7,
1819. The next year, 1820, lured by the
brilliant career of William Hendricks, hereto-
fore spoken of, Maj. John ^Hendricks, with his
little family, removed to Madison, Ind. , then
the metropolis of the state. Two years later (
the family removed to Shelby county, at that ]
time a wilderness, and settled on the present [
site of Shelbyville. Here the father com-
menced to erect a house and carve a career
for their hopeful son, then scarcely three years
of age. A dwelling was soon constructed,
trees felled, and a farm opened, and the
Hendricks house early became a favorite stop-
ping place for all who saw fit to accept its hos-
pitalities. The future vice president received
his early educational training in the schools of
Shelbyville, and among his first teachers was
the wife of Rev. Eliphalet Kent, a lady of ex-
cellent culture, fine education, graceful, and
nobly consecrated to the Master, to whom Mr.
Hendricks was largely indebted for much of
his training and success. Having completed
his course in the common schools, he entered
Hanover college in 1836, where he remained
for the greater part of the time until 1841.
On leaving college he returned to Shelbyville,
and commenced the study of law in the office
of Stephen Major, then a young lawyer of
brilliant attainments and considerable tact and
experience. In 1843 ^r. Hendricks went to
Cham bersburg, Pe
where he entered the
law school, in which Alexander.was instructor,
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a man of distinguished ability, extensive learn-
ing, and much experience as judge of the six-
teenth judicial district of that state. After
eight months' arduous work in this institution,
he returned to Shelbyville, passed an exam-
ination, and was the same year admitted to the 1
bar. His first case was before Scjuire Lee,
his opponent being Nathan Powell, a young
acquaintance, who had opened up an office
about the same time. The case was a trivial
one, yet the young attorneys worked hard and
with the vim of old practitioners for their re-
spective clients. Mr. Hendricks won, and
after complimenting Mr. Powell upon his ef-
fort, he gracefully served the apples which had
been generously furnished by an enthusiastic
spectator. Thus started the young advocate
who was destined to become one of the na-
tion's greatest and most beloved statesmen.
In 1843, he formed the acquaintance of Miss
Eliza Morgan, who was the daughter of a
widow, living at North Bend, 'and two years
later, September 26. 1845, the two were
united in the bonds of wedlock.
So soon as Mr. Hendricks emerged from
boyhood, his success as a lawyer and public
man was assured. Having established an
office in Shelbyville, he gained in a short time
a fair competence, and soon became one of
the leading attorneys of the place. As an
advocate he had few equals, and as a safe
counselor none surpassed him at the Shelby
county bar. In the year 1 848 Mr. Hendricks
was nominated for the lower house of the gen-
eral assembly, was elected after a brilliant
canvass, and served his term with marked dis-
tinction. In 1850 he was chosen a delegate
to the state constitutional convention, in the
deliberations of which he took an active part,
having served on two very important commit-
tees, and won distinction by a brilliant speech
upon the resolution relative to the abolition of
the grand jury system. The following year
was the beginning of Mr. Hendricks' career in
national politics. He was nominated for con-
gress at Indianapolis, May 16, 1851, over
several other candidates, made a vigorous
canvass, and was elected by a decided majority
over Col. James P. Rush, the whig candidate.
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In congress he progressed with signal ability,
and was called to act on some of the most
important committees, and soon won a national
reputation. Scarce had congress adjourned
when he was required to make another cam-
paign, for the constitution had transferred the
congressional elections to even years, and the
month to October. The whig candidate, John
H. Bradley, of Indianapolis, was a brilliant
man and a public speaker of rare attainments,
whom Mr. Hendricks defeated by a largely
increased majority. In 1854, when the north-
ern whigs were in a chaotic condition, pro-
slavery, anti-slavery, free-soilers, abolitionists,
know-nothings and democrats commingling in
a storm of confusion a "fusion" state and
congressional ticket was formed for the oc-
casion. Opposed to Mr. Hendricks was Lucian
Barbour, a talented lawyer of Indianapolis,
who exerted himself to combine all the oppo-
nents of democracy. Mr. Hendricks made a
vigorous and manly contest, but was defeated,
after which he retired to his profession and his
home at Shelbyville. In 1855 he was ap-
pointed by President Pierce general land com-
missioner, in which capacity he served nearly
four years, and i860 was nominated for gov-
ernor of Indiana against Henry S. Lane.
After a brilliant and able canvass, during
which the two competitors spoke together in
nearly every county of the state, defeat again
came to Mr. Hendricks. In the same year he
moved to Indianapolis, where he lived until
his death. In January, 1863, he was elected
to the United States senate, which position
he held for six years. In 1872 he was again
nominated for governor, his opponent being
Gen. Thomas Brown, a man of ability and
enviable reputation. This campaign was
peculiar in one particular. The republicans
had infused the crusaders with the idea that
they were the salvation of their cause, while
the democracy opposed all sumptuary laws.
Yet Mr. Hendricks went before the people as
a temperance man — opposed to prohibition,
but willing to sign any constitutional legisla-
tion looking toward the amelioration of crime
and the advancement of temperance. He was
elected and kept his pledges to the letter. He
always kept his pledges inviolate, and ever
remained true to h^s friends. He had a high
sense of duty, and a spirit of philanthropy
pervaded his whole nature. In 1876 he was
nominated for the vice presidency on the dem-
ocratic ticket with Samuel J. Tilden, of New
York, and of this election it was claimed they
were flagrantly defrauded by returning boards
and the electoral commission. In 1880 the
name of Thomas A. Hendricks was placed in
nomination for the presidency at Cincinnati,
by Indiana, and his nomination was strongly
urged in the convention. In 1884 he was a
delegate to the Chicago convention, and as
chairman of the Indiana delegation presented
in fitting terms and masterly manner the name
of Joseph E. McDonald for the presidency.
After the latter had positively refused to
accept the second place on the ticket, Mr.
Hendricks was unanimously chosen, and the
successful ticket for 1884, the first in twenty-
five years, became Grover Cleveland and
Thomas A. Hendricks. But few greater calam-
ities ever befell the people than the death of
Vice President Hendricks, which occurred on
the 25th day of November, 1885, at his home
in Indianapolis, of heart disease. Mr. Hen-
dricks was one of the nation's greatest men;
deep, broad-minded, diplomatic and, above all,
a true man. His acts and speeches in con-
gress, both in the house and senate, his defense
of what he conceived to be right, his labors
for the poor, the oppressed and the wronged
of every class in this and other countries, were
of great interest to his people and worthy of
emulation by all. His devotion to his party,
his candor and honesty of purpose, his noble
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ambition to serve the people faithfully, his
philanthropy and universal love of mankind,
all combined to make hirti one of the noblest
of men. Strong in his convictions, yet court-
eous to opponents; great in intellect, yet
approachable by the humblest of men; high in
position, he met every man as his equal;
independent in thought, self-reliant in prin-
ciple, and rich in pleasant greeting to all whom
he met; though dead, he yet lives in the hearts
of the people, and his noble characteristics
stand out in bold relief as beacon lights to
guide and direct generations yet to be.
>-T»AMES D. WILLIAMS was born in
M Pickaway county, Ohio, January i6,
A 1 1 80S, and moved with his parents to
Indiana in 181S, settling near the
town of Vincennes, Knox county. He grew
to manhood there, and upon the death of his
father, in 1828, the support of the family de-
volved on him. He received a limited educa-
tion in the pioneer log school-house, but, by
mingling with the best people in the neighbor-
hood, he obtained a sound practical knowledge
of men and things, which, in a great measure,
compensated for his early deficiency in liter-
ary studies, so that when, on reaching his ma-
jority, he was unusally well versed for one in
his circumstances. He was reared a farmer,
and naturally chose agriculture for his life
work, and followed it with much more than
ordinary success, until the close of his long
and useful life. Gov. Williams entered public
life, in 1839, as justice of the peace, the duties
of which he discharged in an eminently satis-
factory manner for a period of four years, re-
signing in 1843. In the latter year he was
elected to the lower house of the state legisla-
ture, and from that time until his election to
the national congress, in 1874, he was almost
continuously identified with the legislative
service of the state. Few men in Indiana
have been so long in the public service, and
few have been identified with more popular
legislative measures than he. It is to him
that the widows of Indiana are indebted for
the law which allows them to hold, without
administration, the estates of their deceased
husbands, when they do not exceed $300 in
value. He was the author of the law which
distributed the sinking fund among the coun-
ties of the state, and to him are the people
largely indebted for the establishment of the
state board of agriculture, an institution that
has done much to foster and develop the agri-
cultural interests of Indiana. He was a dele-
gate to the national democratic convention at
Baltimore in 1872, and in 1873 was the nom-
inee for United States senator against Oliver
P. Morton, but the party being in the minor-
ity, he was defeated. He served in the
national house of representatives from Decem-
ber, 1875, till December, 1876, when he re-
signed, having been elected governor in the
latter year. The campaign of 1876 was a
memorable one, during which the opposition,
both speakers and press, ridicnled the demo-
cratic nominee for governor, making sport of
his homespun clothes ond plain appearance,
but the democracy seized upon his peculiari-
ties and made them the watchwords of victory.
Gov. Williams, or Blue Jeans, as his friends
were pleased to call him, was a man of the
strictest integrity, and was known as a careful,
painstaking executive entering into the minu-
test details of his office. He was self-willed
and self-reliant, and probably consulted fewer
persons about his official duties than any of
his predecessors. In personal appearance.
Gov. Williams was over six feet high, remark-
ably straight, had large hands and feet, high
cheek bones, long sharp nose, gray eyes, and
a well formed head, covered profusely with
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black hair. He was courteous in his inter-
course with others, a good conversationalist,
and possessed in a very marked degree shrewd-
ness and force of character. He died in the
year 1880.
HLBERT G. PORTER.— Among the
self-made men of Indiana, none
stand higher or have a more note-
worthy career than the distinguished
gentleman whose name heads this sketch. Al-
bert G. Porter was born in Lawrenceburg, Ind. ,
April 20, 1824. He graduated at Asbury uni-
versity in 1843, studied law, was admitted to
the bar in 1845, and began to practice in
Indianapolis, where he was councilman and
corporation attorney. In 1853 he was ap-
pointed reporter of the supreme court of Indi-
ana, and was subsequently elected to the same
position by a very large majority of the voters
of the state. He was elected to congress
from the Indianapolis district in 1858, on the
republican ticket, overcoming an adverse
democratic majorit}' of 800, which he con-
verted into a majority for himself of 1,000.
Two years subsequently, he was re-elected by
a smaller majority. On March 5, 1878, he
was appointed first comptroller of the United
States treasury, which position he filled with
distinguished ability until called therefrom to
become a candidate for governor of Indiana on
the republican ticket. He resigned, and en-
tered into the campaign of 1880, which will
ever be memorable in the history of the state.
After a canvess of remarkable bitterness and
excitement, in which every inch of ground
was stubbornly contested, Mr. Porter was
elected governor by a handsome majority. He
held the office from 1881 to 1884, his adminis-
tration being regarded by friend and foe, alike,
as on of the ablest in the history of the state.
Mr. Porter has for many years ranked as one
of the ablest and most successful lawyers in
Indiana, and his " Decisions of the Supreme
Court of Indiana " (5 vols., 1853-6), are re-
garded as among the best of their kind in the
state. Besides his talent in politics and law,
Mr. Porter enjoys a literary reputation of no
mean rank, attained chiefly from his law writ-
ings and lectures. He is especially good
authority on matters relating to pioneer his-
tory in the west, and has in preparation a
history of Indiana, which will undoubtedly
rank as a classic in that line of literature. At
this writing (September, 1890), Mr. Porter
occupies the position of United States minister
to Rome, which high honor was conferred
upon him by his friend. President Harrison.
ISAAC P. GRAY is a native of Pennsyl-
vania, having been born near Downing-
town, in Chester county, October 18,
1828. His father, John Gray, moved
to Ohio and settled near Urbana, when Isaac
was almost eight years old. Within a short
time thereafter his parents removed to near
Dayton, Ohio, but did not long remain there,
when they moved to New Madison, Darke
county, Ohio, where young Gray grew to man-
hood and became proprietor of a dry goods
store. He married Eliza Jaqua, a few years
his junior, and the daughter of Judson and
Jaqua, who resided about two miles from
New Madison, in a neighborhood (which had
a postoffice) called Yankee town. Gray's
parents are of Quaker descent, but they never
adhered to the society Their ancestors came
over with William Penn and took a prominent
part in early colonial times. On November
30, 1855, Isaac P. located at Union City, Ind.,
his family then consisting of his wife and two
baby boys, Pierre and Bayard S. From the
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time of his arrival he became one of the lead-
ing citizens of the then small town. He was
always active, energetic and progressive, and
no work or enterprise in the town was consid-
ered without his advice and counsel, and in
many cases financial co-operation. He always
bore a prominent part in all public matters and
was depended upon to speak for the interests
of the place.
He was engaged in the dry goods business
for a while after he came to Union City, then
in the banking business, finally drifting into
the law, where by reason of his pleasant
speech, excellent judgment of human nature
and the happy faculty of condensing and mak-
ing plain his thought, he became a successful
advocate.
After a few years of practice in the law,
however, the civil war came on, and Gray,
being a strong unionist, was appointed colonel
of the Fourth Indiana cavalry, which position
he held from September 4, 1862, to February
II, 1864. He also raised and organized the
147th regiment Indiana volunteers, mustered
in March 13, 1865, Col. Peden ; mustered out
August 4, 1865. He was also colonel of the
105th Indiana (minute men). Served five
da3's —July 12-17, '863. At the close of the
war he became a banker, organizing with Hon.
N. Cadwallader, the Citizens' bank, of which
he is a prominent stockholder and vice presi-
dent. In 1866 he was candidate of the anti-
Julian wing of the republican party for con-
gress Entered the law in 186S, and was
state senator of Randolph county in 1868-72,
on the republican ticket, of which body he
took position as a leading member. In 1870,
he was appointed by Presidant Grant consul to
St. Thomas, West Indies, and confirmed by
the senate, but declined. In 1872 he was ap-
pointed a delegate at large for the state of
Indiana to the national liberal republican con-
vention at Cincinnati, and, by that conven-
tion, was made the member, for the state of
Indiana of the liberal republican national ex-
ecutive committee.
Dissatisfied with the administration of Gen.
Grant, he joined the Greeley liberal move-
ment in 1872, and from that time on acted
with the democrats. In 1876 the democratic
state convention nominated him by acclama-
tion for lieutenant governor, and he was elected
to that office in October, 1876. In 1880 he
was a candidate for governor before the demo-
cratic state convention, and lost the nomina-
tion by four votes, but was named by accla-
mation a second time for lieutenant governor.
In the general democratic defeat incurred in
October, 1880, Col. Gray shared the catas-
trophe. But, by the death of Gov. J. B. Wil-
liams, in November, 1880, Lieut. Gov. Gray
was promoted to the position of governor of
Indiana, which honor he sustained with appro-
priate dignity, addressing the legislature in
perhaps the most voluminous message ever
presented by any occupant of the gubernatorial
chair to any legislative body. In 1884 he
received the democratic nomination for gov-
ernor, to which position he was triumphantly
elected in the fall of that year, and for four
years served in a manner so satisfactory to
his partisan friends that he became the recog-
nized leader of the democratic party in Indi-
ana, and it has always been insisted by his
supporters that his name, on the ticket with
Cleveland, in 1888, would have that year
secured the presidency of the United States to
the democratic party. In the spring of 1894
Mr. Gray was appointed by the Cleveland
administration United States minister to the
republic of Mexico.
Isaac Pusey Gray is a man about five feet
ten inches high, well proportioned and stands
erect, with a semi-military carriage, and
weighs about 180 pounds; his hair was black
and curly, but is now somewhat tinged with
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gray; bold, prominent forehead, a full, frank,
plump and florid face, strongly indicative of a
high order of intelligence, and light blue eyes,
beaming with good nature. His face is un-
adorned except with small chin whiskers.
Suave of address and of kind disposition. He
is always cordial and pleasant with strangers
and extremely sociable among his friends and
acquaintances. He enjoys the society of his
friends. Perhaps one of the elements of his
great popularity and steadfast hold upon his
friends, is his freedom from any aristocratic
reserve, and yet no one has a keener sense of
the demands of true dignity; a man of great
decision and firmness, yet always respectful of
others' feelings. The home Gray left in Union
City was and is to-day one of its finest resi-
dences, a spacious brick dwelling located on a
large plat of ground. He has built and owned
some of the best residence properties in the
city. He took great pride in his house, which
was nicely furnished and supplied with a fine
library, where he and his wife, who were
great readers, gratified their literary tastes.
Mrs. Gray is a blonde of medium height,
with gray eyes, well defined features, clear
complexion, good figure, easy and graceful
carriage. She is regarded as a fine looking
lady, whose years rest upon her with becom-
ing grace and dignity. By descent she comes
from an honorable French family, whose
ancestors at an early date settled in New
England and New York.
His son Pierre, the elder, graduated at the
Indiana State university in 1874, and his
younger son, Bayard S. , graduated at De
Pauw university in 1876. Pierre followed his
graduation by a course of law, and has ever
since practiced his chosen profession, except
while he acted as private secretary to his father
as governor, 1885-1889. He is now associ-
ated with his father, in the practice, at Indian-
apolis. Pierre was married, about ten years
ago, to Miss Kate Alma McDonald of Union
City; they have no children. Bayard S.,
after returning from his alma mater, studied
in his father's law office, but soon thereafter
took up journalism, in which he made a brill-
iant success He has however abandoned
that field and located in Chicago, where he is
again at the law. Like his father, Bayard S.
has a taste for politics, and being a fluent
speaker, with an unlimited vocabulary, he has
taken a more or less active part in politics
since his majority. Since his removal to Chi-
cago he has achieved considerable prominence
and is now regarded as one of their public
speakers.
HLVIN P. HOVEY.— This gentleman,
who was elected governor of Indiana
in 1888, has had a notable career,
both civil and military. He was
born in 1821, in Posey county, Ind. , where he
has spent his whole life. After a common
school education, he studied law and was ad-
mitted to the Mt. Vernon bar in 1843, where
he has practiced with success. The civil posi-
tions he held previous to the war were those
of delegate to the constitutional convention of
1850; judge of the third judicial circuit of Indi-
ana from 185 1 to 1854, and judge of the su-
preme court of Indiana. From 1856 to 1858
he served as United States district attorney
for the state. During the civil war he entered
the national service as colonel of the Twenty-
fourth Indiana volunteers, in July, 1 86 1. He
was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers
on April 28, 1862, and breveted major-general
for meritorious and distinguished services in
July, 1864. He was in command of the east-
ern district of Arkansas in 1863, and of the
district of Indiana in 1 864-1 865. Gen. Grant,
in his official reports, awards to Gen. Hovey
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the honor of the key battle of the Vicksburg
campaign, that of Champion's Hill. This is
no small praise; also, it is remembered that
military critics, in view of the vast conse-
quences that flowed therefrom, have ranked
Champion's Hill as one of the five decisive
battles of the civil war, and second in impor-
tance to Gettysburg alone. Gen. Hovey re-
signed his commission on October i8, 1865,
and was appointed minister to Peru, which
office he held until 1870. In 18S6 he was
nominated for congress by the republicans in
the Evansville district, which theretofore had
steadily given a large democratic majority.
Gen. Hovey's personal popularity and military
prestige overcame this, and he was elected by
a small majority. In congress, he attracted
attention by his earnestness in advocating
more liberal pension laws, and every measure
for the benefit of the ex-Union soldiers.
Largely to this fact was due his nomination
for the governorship of Indiana, by the repub-
lican party in 1888, the soldier element of the
state being a very important factor in securing
his nomination, and his subsequent election.
In his social relations. Gov. Hovey has always
been very popular, and his family circle is one
of the happiest in the state. Though a strong
partisan, he is never abusive or vindictive, and
at every trial of strength at the polls, he has
received strong support from many personal
friends in the ranks of the opposite party.
IRA J. CHASE was born in Clarkson,
Monroe county, N. Y. , December 7,
1834. His father, Benjamin Chase,
moved into Orleans county, where most
of Ira's years were spent up to the age twenty.
After leaving the public school of that day,
he attended the Milan (Ohio) seminary and
Medina academy. At twenty he accompanied
his father to Illinois, driving a team much of
the time alone through Michigan and Indiana,
landing in Chicago in the spring of 1855.
Farming, merchandising and school teaching
filled up the time until the war broke out. In
1857 he united with the Christian church.
March 24, 1859, he married Miss Rhoda J.
Castle, of Cook county. In 1861 he was the
first man to enlist in the town of Barrington,
111. He assisted in raising a company of men
and was unanimously elected first lieutenant.
The enlistments were so numerous that the
government could not accept them all, and
the organization disbanded, a part going into
company C, Nineteenth Illinois, June 17, 1861,
of which Chase was made sergeant, This
regiment saw hard and continuous service from
the start, being always on the move, serving
in Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee the first
year of the war. While in camp at Elizabeth-
town, Ky., he heard the news of the birth of
his second child. He was appointed drill ser-
geant and placed on special duty, owing to
poor health. In this capacity the Eighteenth
O. V. I. officers invited him to aid in drilling
their men, as they were fresh from the farms
of their state. A petition, signed by Col.
Stanley, Lieut. Col. Grim, for years chief
justice of Iowa, and Major C. H. Grosvenor,
famous as a soldier and statesman, was pre-
sented to the field officers of the Nineteenth
Illinois, asking for his transfer to a lieutenancy
in the Eighteenth Ohio. This was endorsed
by Gen. J. B. Turchin, brigade commander,
and by Maj. Gen. O. M. Mitchell, division
commander, but denied by Maj. Gen. Buell,
department commander. Our soldier was in
the seige of Nashville. 1862; was discharged
and returned home from Nashville in 1863,
and entered into business, but sold out, owing
to a long and very serious illness of his wife
that left her blind and lame for years. He
prepared himself for the ministery and became
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pastor of the Christian church in Mishawaka
in 1867, and has served at LaPorte, Wabash
and Danville. For a period of time he la-
bored in Pittsburgh and Peoria. He has been
prominent in G. A. R. circles, was twice de-
partment chaplain and once department com-
mander. In 1886, while in California, he was
nominated for congress by the fifth district.
Upon his return he accepted and made his
first political campaign. Col. C. C. Matsonhad
received his fourth nomination. His average
majority for the three terms previous had been
about 1,800. In 1886 it was 532. In 1888
Mr. Chase was spoken of for governor, and
though there was no activity manifested re-
ceived a handsome vote. Gen. Hovey was
nominated and private Chase was nominated
for lieutenant governor by acclamation. He
served two terms as presiding officer of the
senate.
On the death of Gen. Hovey he served the
state as governor from November 24, 1891, to
January 8, 1893. At the state convention
called by the republicans to nominate state
officers, Gov. Chase was nominated by accla-
mation to succeed himself. He entered into
the campaign with all the earnestness of his
nature, and everywhere it has been said that
no man ever fought a harder fight.
aLAUDE MATTHEWS, who at this
time fills most acceptably the office
of governor of Indiana, was born in
Bethel, Bath county, Ky. , December
14, 1845. His father, Thomas A. Matthews,
was a farmer, and also for a time a commis-
sion merchant at Maysville. His paternal
grandfather, Capt. George Matthews, com-
manded a company of soldiers at the battle of
the River Thames, in the war of 181 2.
Through his mother, Eliza (Fletcher) Mat-
thews, Mr. Matthews traces his origin to
one of the most worthy names in the common-
wealth, and his maternal grandfather, Jefferson
Fletcher, represented the Bath district in the
national house of representatives in the days
Henry Clay. Young Matthews attended such
I schools as the county of his nativity afforded
until his fifteenth year, then removed to Mason
county, Ky., his father having purchased a
farm near Maysville. Here the schools were
of a better class, and he availed himself of
their advantages by riding six miles each way
daily. In 1863 he entered Center college,
Danville, Ky. , where he graduated in June,
1867. January i, 1868, he married Miss
Martha Renick Whitcomb, only daughter of
James Whitcomb, one of the honored gov-
ernors of this state, from 1843 to 1849. The
marriage took place in Ross county, Ohio,
where Mrs. Matthews is connected on her
mother's side with the Renicks, well known for
their wealth and public spirit. The young
people moved to Vermillion county, Ind. , in
1869, where Mr. Matthews settled down to
the occupation he had chosen for his life work,
the useful and honest calling of farming. His
capacity for public affairs, and the evidence he
gave of sensible ideas as to public needs, led
to his selection by the democrats of Vermillion
county, in 1877, as their candidate for repre-
sentative in the legislature. That he was well
appreciated by his neighbors was shown by
some five hundred republicans of his county
voting for him, and he had the honor of being
the first democrat elected from that county of
heavy adverse majorities. His record in the
legislature was a fine one, and in 1880 he had
a strong following for lieutenant governor. In
1882 Mr. Matthews was a candidate for state
senator in his district, and cut down the
republican majority of 900 to 300. In August,
1890, he was nominated by the democrats for
secretary of the state and triumphantly elected
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at the ensuing election, his phiraHty reaching
the astonishing and almost unparalleled figure
of 20,000, in round numbers. His conduct of
the office of secretary of state was so satisfac-
tory to the people, that he was called upon to
head the democratic state ticket in 1892.
Although being a candidate before the state
convention for renomination as secretary of
state, he was nominated candidate for gov-
ernor, and in the following November elected
to that office by a plurality of nearly 7,000,
leading the state ticket by several hundred
votes, and higher than the average upon the
electoral vote. He was inaugurated governor
January 9, 1893, and is now, with the same
earnestness and conscientious regard of public
duty, performing the work of that office. Gov.
Matthews, while faithfully attending to his
duties as a state officer, still keeps up his
interest in farming and the class of workers to
which he belongs. He has done much in the
way of improving the breeds of cattle and
domestic animals by importing valuable speci-
mens, and was the founder of the Short Horn
Breeders' association of Indiana, the first asso-
ciation of the kind ever organized in the
United States. He was also originator of the
American Short Horn association of the United
States and Canada. While his business is
that of farming, he is. nevertheless, a fluent
speaker, and withal a man of fine address and
genial manners. Mr. Matthews has three
children; the eldest, Mary, is the wife of Sen-
ator Cortez Ewing, of Greensburg; Renick
Seymour Matthews, who, after a course
in the Rose Polytechnic institute, is fitting
himself in electrical engineering, and Miss
Helen, a school girl, aged fifteen. Mr. Mat-
thews is a man of positive character and
strong intellect, and no man is more loyal in
his citizenship, more faithful in his friendship,
more devoted in his home life, or more worthy
the regard of his fellow men.
at
ALLER TAYLOR, one of the first
senators from Indiana, after her
admission as a state, was born in
Lunenburg county Va., before
1786, and died there before 1826. He re-
ceived a common school education, studied
law, served one or two terms in the Virginia
legislature as a representative from Lunenburg
county. In 1805 he settled in Vincennes,
Ind., having been appointed a township judge.
He served as aid de camp to Gen. William H.
Harrison at the battle of Tippecanoe, and in
the war of 181 2-1 5. On the admission of In-
diana as a state, he was elected United States
senator, and at the close of his term was re-
elected, serving from December 12, 18 16, un-
til March 3, 1825. He was a man of fine lit-
erary attainments and a prominent political
leader of his day.
'^t'AMES noble was the son of Thomas
M T. Noble, who moved from Virginia to
A 1 Kentucky, near the close of the eight-
eenth century James Noble grew to
manhood in Kentucky, and after his marriage,
which was consummated before he had at-
tained his majority, began the study of law in
the office of Mr. Southgate, of Covington.
After finishing his legal studies and being ad-
mitted to the bar, he removed to Brookville,
Ind., and commenced the practice of his pro-
fession, and soon became known as one of the
most successful lawyers and most eloquent ad-
vocates of the Whitewater country. When
Indiana became a state Mr. Noble represented
Franklin county in the constitutional conven-
tion, in which he was chairman of the legisla-
tive and judiciary committees. In August,
1 8 10, he was elected a member of the first
legislature under the state government, which
met at Corydon, November, 1816, and ad-
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journed January, 1817. November 8, 18 16,
the general assembly, by a joint vote, elected
James Noble and Waller Taylor to represent
Indiana in the senate of the United States.
" In the senate Gen. Noble had for associates
the ablest men the country has yet produced.
He was not dwarfed by their stature, but
maintained a respectable standing among
them." He remained in the senate until his
death, which occurred February 26, 1831.
Mr. Noble was a large, well proportioned man
of fine address and bearing. He was a good
lawyer and as a speaker was very effective be-
fore a jury or promiscuous assembly. Person-
ally he was quite popular and his warm heart
and generons nature made him the idol of the
people of his section of the state.
^^^EN. JOHN TIPTON was born in
H ^\ Sevier county, Tenn., August 14,
\^Jr 1786, and was the son of Joshua
Tipton, a native of Maryland, a man
who possessed great positiveness of character,
with keen preceptions and uncommon execu-
tive ability. These peculiarities induced him
to remove from his native state and settle in a
home further west, where he afterward became
a leader in the defense of the frontier against
tne hostile Indians. He was murdered by the
savages on the i8th of April, 1793. Left thus
early in life ii^ the midst of a frontier settle-
ment, surrounded by the perils incident there-
to, the son, inheriting the sagacity and self-re-
liance of his father, soon began to develop
that positive energy of character which dis-
tinguished his after life. In the fall of 1807,
with his mother and two sisters and a half-
brother, he removed to Indiana territory and
settled near Bringley's Ferry, on the Ohio river,
where he purchased a homestead of fifty acres,
which he paid for out of his scanty earnings,
making rails at fifty cents a hundred. These
early experiences laid the foundation of
his future success in life. June, 1809, he en-
listed in a company recruited in his neighbor-
hood, which was soon afterward ordered to
the frontier for the protection of the settle-
ments. September, 181 1, the company en-
tered the campaign which terminated in the
battle of Tippecanoe. Early in that memor-
able engagement all his superior officers were
killed, and he was promoted to the captaincy,
when the conflict was at its height. Subse-
quently he rose, by regular gradation, to the
rank of brigadier general. At the first elec-
tion under the state constitution, he was
chosen sheriff of Harrison county, which po-
sition he filled two terms, and in 18 19 was
elected to represent this county in the state
legislature. While a member of that body he
served on the committee to select a site for
the location of the state capital, which selec-
tion was made in June, 1820, and approved
January, 1S21. He was re-elected in 182T,
and at the following session was chosen one of
the commissioners to locate the boundary line
between the states of Indiana and Illinois. In
March, 1823, he was appointed by Pres. Mon-
roe general agent for the Pottawatomie and
Miami Indians on the upper Wabash and Tip-
pecanoe rivers, and immediately thereafter
moved to Ft. Wayne, the seat of the agency.
At his instance the agency was removed from
Ft. Wayne to Logansport, in the spring of
1828, where he continued to discharge the
functions of his trust with fidelity and success.
At the session of the legislature, December,
1 83 1, he was elected United States senator
from Indiana, to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the death of Hon. James Noble, and was
re-elected at the session of 1832-33, for a full
term of six years. While a member of that
distinguished body, he was noted for the
soundness of his judgement and the independ-
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ence of his actions on all questions involving
the interests of the state or general govern-
ment. He opposed the views of President
Jackson in reference to the re-charter of the
United States bank, and recognized no party
in determining the line of duty, always acting
from motives of public right. As a civilian
and citizen, he was alike successful in direct-
ing and executing, to the extent of his power,
whatever purpose his conscience approved or
his judgment dictated. After locating in
Logansport he directed his energies toward
the development of the natural resources of
that town and surrounding country, and to
him more than to any other man is due the
credit of supplying the settlements with grist
and saw-mills and other improvements, and
for taking the initial step which led to the or-
ganization of the Eel river seminary, at that
time one of the best known educational insti-
tutions of northern Indiana. He was also pro-
prietor of four additions to the town of Lo-
gansport, and was interested with Mr. Carter
in the plan and location of the original plat
thereof. Mr. Tipton was twice married, the
first time to Miss Shields, who died within two
years after their marriage. The second time
was in April, 1825, to Matilda, daughter of
Capt. Spier Spencer, who was killed at the
battle of Tippecanoe. The second Mrs. Tip-
ton died in the spring of 1839, about the close
of her husband's senatorial career. Gen. Tip-
ton closed an honorable life on the morning
of April 5, 1839, in the full meridian of his
usefulness, and received the last sad honors of
his masonic brethern on Sunday, .April 7,
1839.
SO BERT HANNA was born in Laur-
ens district, S. C. , April 6, 1786,
and removed with his parents to
Indiana in an early day, settling in
Brookville as long ago as 1802. He was
elected sheriff of the eastern district of Indiana
in 1809, and held the position until the organ-
ization of the state government. He was
afterward appointed register of the land office,
and removed to Indianapolis in 1825. In
1 83 1 he was appointed United States senator,
to fill the unexpired term caused by the death
of James Noble, and served with credit in that
capacity from December, of the above \ear,
until January 3, 1832, when his successor took
his seat. He was afterward elected a member
of the state senate, but suffered defeat, when
making the race for re-election. He was acci-
dentally killed b\- a railroad train while walk-
ing on the track at Indianapolis, November 19,
1859.
OLIVER HAMPTON SMITH, congress-
man and senator, was born on
Smith's island, near Trenton, N. J.,
October 23, 1794. He attended
school near his home at intervals until 18 13,
at which time, owing to the death of his
father, he was thrown upon his own resources.
He afterward found employment in a woolen
mill in Pennsylvania, and, on attaining his
majority, received $1,500 from his father's
estate, which he soon lost in an unfortunate
business investment. Mr. Smith came to In-
diana in 1817, and settled at Rising Sun, Ohio
county, but, in a short time, moved to
Lawrenceburg, and began the study of -law.
In March, 1820, he was licensed to practice,
and soon afterward removed to Versailles, Ripley
county, where he opened an office, but, be-
coming dissatisfied with the location, in a few
months he located at Connersville, thence in
1839 flioved to the state capital. In August,
1822, he was elected to the legislature from
Fayette county, and while a member of that
body served as chairman of the judiciary com-
mittee, an important position, and one usually
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given to the ablest lawyer of the body. In
1 824 he was appointed prosecutor of the third
judicial district, and in 1826, became a candi-
date for congress against Hon. John Test, who
had represented the district for three full terms.
He made a vigorous canvass, and defeated his
popular competitor by 1,500 majority. Mr.
Smith served with distriction in congress, and
was ever attentive and industrious in his pub-
lic duties. In December, 1836, he was a can-
didate for United States senator, his competi-
tors being Noah Noble, William Hendricks and
Ratliff Boon. He was elected on the ninth
ballot. In the senate, Mr. Smith was chair-
man of the committee on public lands, and
took great pride in the place, which he filled
with distinguished ability. In 1842 he was a
candidate for re-election, but was defeated by
Edward A. Hannegan; in March, 1843, his
senatorial services terminated. Soon after his
return home, his attention was directed to
railroads, and Indianapolis is mainly indebted
to him for the building of the Indianapolis &
Bellfonte road, now known as the "Bee Line."
In 1857 he commenced writing a series of
sketches for the, Indianapolis Journal on early
times in Indiana, which attracted much atten-
tion, and which were afterward brought out in
book form. This volume is valuable as a rec-
ord of early Indiana times, and contains
much information not otherwise noted. Mr.
Smith died March 19, 1859. As a political
speaker, he exhibited much the same qualities
and powers of mastery that he did as a forensic
speaker, but he was less successful on the
stump, because argument and close reasoning,
which were his mode of dealing with political
questions, were not as popular as anecdotal
and declamatory style. "As a lawyer, Mr.
Smith was ever true to the interest of his client,
and in the prosecution of his cases in court, he
displayed much zeal and earnestness. He was
an honest opponent, and very liberal in his
practice, and yet very capable, and sometimes
ready to seize upon the weakness or oversight
on an adversary. His career at the bar was a
successful one, and he well merited the high
tribute paid to his memory at the time of his
death." "In person, Mr. Smith was five feet
ten inches in height and weighed about 180
pounds. He was broad chested, and large
from the waist up. His eyes were dark, his
hair was black and stood up upon his head.
He had large shaggy eyebrows, and the general
contour of his features denoted energy, pluck
and endurance. His place is in the front rank
of the great men of Indiana."
HLBERT S. WHITE, one of the most
scholarly of Indiana's distinguished
men, was born in Blooming Grove,
N. Y. , October 24, 1803. He gradu-
ated from Union college, that state, in 1822,
in the same class with Hon. William H. Sew-
ard, and after studying law for some time at
Newburg, was licensed to practice his profes-
sion in 1825. Soon after this, he came to
Indiana and located at Rushville, thence, one
year later, moved to Paoli and subsequently
took up his permanent abode in Lafayette.
In 1830 and 1831 he was assistant clerk of
the Indiana house of representatives, and
served as clerk of the same from 1832 to 1835.
In 1833 he was candidate for congress against
Edward A. Hannegan, by whom he was de-
feated. "He had neither the brilliancy nor
the eloquence of Mr. Hannegan, but was the
superior of that erratic man in education, cul-
ture and in most of the qualities which go to
make up the successful man." In 1837 he
was more successful, having been elected to
congress by an overwhelming majority over
Nathan Jackson. The year previous, he was
on the whig electoral ticket, and in the elec-
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toral coHepje cast his vote for William Henry
Harrison. In iS^qIk? was elected to succeed
Gen. John Tipton in the United States sen-
ate, the struggle having been an animated one,
requiring thirty-six ballots divided among Mr.
White, Noah Noble and Col. Thomas H.
Blake. He entered the senate a young man,
but his training eminently fitted him for the
duties of that distinguished body, in the delib-
erations of which he bore an active part. He
strenuously opposed the annexation of Texas,
as he did every measure which was calculated
to extend the'area of slavery. "He was of a
conservative temperament, and usually voted
with the moderate men of his party, but he
was conscientiously an anti-slavery man and
always acted with those who strove to confine
slavery to the territory it then polluted." He
was active in securing grants of land to aid in
the extension of the Wabash & Erie canal,
and took a prominent part in shaping legislation
to promote other internal improvements. On
the expiration of his term, Mr. White resumed
the practice of law, but soon abandoned the
profession and entered actively into the busi-
ness of railroad building. He was president
of the Indianapolis & Lafayette railroad from
its organization until 1856, and during a part
of that time was at the head of the Wabash
& Western railway. In i860 he was again
called into public life as a member of congress,
where his thorough knowledge of political and
state affairs soon enabled him to take high
rank. He was made chairman of a select com-
mittee, raised to consider the question of com-
pensated emancipation, and also reported a
bill appropriating $180,000,000 to pay loyal
men for their slaves, and $20,000,000 to aid
in the colonization of freedmen. His con-
gressional career was eminently honorable, but
he failed of a renomination, mainly on account
of his action in regard to the emancipation
question. In January, 1864, he was appointed
by President Lincoln United States judge for
the district of Indiana, to till the vacancy
caused by the death of Ilnn, Caleb H. Smith.
He soon atla])tecl liimsrll to his new position,
and had he lived, would have proved a worthy
successor of his eminent jiredecessor. His
term was cut short by his death, which oc-
curred on the 4th day of September, 1 864.
"Mr. White had but little in ronnnon with the
typical western pioneer, aiul it is therefore
somewhat strange that he should have reached
the eminence he did. He never sunk his man-
hood nor lowered his self-respect, by trying to
get down to the level of every man that ap-
proached him. He was in no sense a dema-
gogue, and never sought to curry favor by
pretending to be what he was not. He was
always dignified and always a gentleman." In
personal appearance, Mr. White was below
the medium height, quite spare and had a nar-
row visage with a prominent Roman nose.
Physically he was weak, but intellectually
ranked with the strong men of the state and
nation. "He was one of the first men of the
Wabash country, and of the state, and his
name will not be forgotten while learning and
scholarship are chesished and honor and pat-
riotism revered."
eDWARD A. HANNEGAN was a na-
tive of Ohio, but in early life moved
to Kentucky, and settled at Lexing-
ton, where he grew to manhood. He
received a liberal education, and after several
years spent in the study of law. was admitted
to practice at the Lexington bar at the early
age of twenty-three. Not long after this he
settled at Covington, Ind. , where he opened
an office and practiced his profession with flat-
tering success for a number of years. He
soon entered the political arena and ere long
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was honored by an election to the state legis-
ture, in the dehberations of which he soon
took an active and brilliant part. His career
in the legislature brought him into prominent
notice, and in January, 1833, he was elected
to the congress of the United States, defeating
Albert S. White, afterward his colleague in the
senate. In 1840 he was again a candidate for
congress, but after a very exciting contest was
defeated by Hon. Henry S. Lane, afterward
governor and United States senator. In 1842,
much to the surprise of every one, Mr. Han-
negan was elected United States senator, de-
feating Oliver H. Smith and Tilghman A.
Howard on the sixth ballot. He took his seat
in the senate on the 4th of December, 1843,
and served until March 4, 1849, during which
time he made several speeches which attract-
ed the attention of the country. While a
member of that body his votes were always in
accord with his party. In March, 1849, Presi-
dent Polk nominated him for minister to Prus-
sia, but being unfit for diplomacy by nature
and habit it is no wonder that his career at
Berlin added nothing to the character of the
government he represented. He was recalled
the next January, and with that recall the pub-
lic life of the brilliant but erratic statesman
ended. He returned to his home at Coving-
ton, and the next year was defeated in a race
for the legislature, which he took much to
heart and which served to drive him further
into the convivial habits which ultimately
proved his ruin. The habit of drink con-
tinued to grow upon him until in a fit of
drunken -frenzy he took the life of one whom
he dearly loved — his brother-in-law, Capt.
Duncan. The two had been drinking deeply
and angry words passed between them. Mr.
Hannegan finally went into a separate apart-
ment, but was followed by Capt. Duncan, who
applied some bitter epithets to him and
slapped him in the face. Upon this Mr. Han-
negan seized a dagger and buried it to the
hilt in Duncan's body, the effect of which was
death the following day. He was not indicted
and tried for this killing, the universal senti-
ment of the people being in his favor. He re-
moved to St. Louis, in 1857, and on the 25th
of January, 1859, he died in that city. Mr.
Hannegan was warm in his friendships and
had a large personal following. His manners
were elegant, and he was ardent, impulsive
and undaunted, thinking, acting and speaking
with the utmost freedom. In person he was
below the medium height, firmly and compact-
ly built, but in after years became quite cor-
pulent. He was a charming companion, and
as an orator was more eloquent than logical.
"He was not a profound man nor a great
scholar, but what he lacked in profundity he
made up in brilliancy, and his deficiency in
scholarship was largely compensated for by
his quick wic and fertile imagination, and his
power to express himself in the choicest lan-
guage. He was of Irish descent, and inherited
many of the characteristics of that warm-
hearted, impulsive race."
>T^ESSE D. BRIGHT, for twenty years a
m leading politician of Indiana, was born
^ 1 in Norwich, N. Y. , December 18, 181 2,
and came to this state when a boy, lo-
cating with his parents at Madison, where he
grew to manhood's estate. He received an
academic education, and after a preparatory
course of reading was admitted to the bar,
where his talents soon won for him a conspic-
uous place among the successful lawyers of
Indiana. He was not profound in the philos-
ophy of jurisprudence, but, being a fluent
speaker and quite popular with the people, he
succeeded in gaining a lucrative practice, which
extended throughout the counties of the lower
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Wabash and elsewhere. He was elected
judge of probate in Jefferson county, and sub-
sequently received the appointment of United
States marshal for Indiana, and it was wiiile
holding the latter office that he laid tlic found-
ation of his political career. In the forties,
he made the race for the state senate against
Williamson Dunn and Shadrack Wilber, whom
he defeated, and in that body was soon recog-
nized as the leader of the party. In fact, he
was a born leader of men, and alwa\s stood
at the fore-front of the line. In 1845 he was
lieutenant governor on the ticket with James
Whitcomb, and such was the ability he dis-
played in the discharge of the duties of that
position, that the senators and representatives,
with all of whom he sustained relations of the
warmest friendship, afterward elected him to
the senate of the United States. At this time
he was barely eligible to a seat in the senate,
on account of his age, being the youngest man
ever elected to that distinguished body. In
1850, he was a candidate for re-election
against Hon. Robert Dale Owen, who subse-
quently withdrew from the contest, thus mak-
ing Mr. Bright's election without opposition.
In 1856, his term having expired, he again
sought a re-election, which was granted him
after a memorable contest which was decided
by the United States senate, in a strictly party
vote. In the senate, Mr. Bright ranked high
as a connnittee worker, and enjoyed great per-
sonal popularity. Such was his standing that
on the death of Vice President King, in 1853,
he was elected president pro tempore of the
senate, which he filled with ability until the
inauguration of John C. Breckinridge, in 1857.
In the latter year, when forming his cabinet.
President Buchanan offered Mr. Bright the
secretaryship of state, which position he saw
fit to decline. He continued a senator until
1862, when he was e.xpelled for disloyalty, by
a vote of thirty-two to fourteen. The princi-
pal proof of his crime was in recommending to
Jefferson Davis, in March, 1861, Thomas Lin-
coln, of Te.xas, a person desirous of furnishing
arms to the confederacy. Mr. Bright organized
and led tiic Breckinridge party in Indiana in
i860, and in stumping for the brilliant young
Kentuckian gave the movement all the force
and vitality it had in this state. He left Indi-
ana soon after the legislature of 1863 refused
to return him to the United States .senate, and
took up his residence in Kentucky, in the legis-
lature of which state he subsequcntl\- scr\c(i
two terms. In 1874, he removed to Balti-
more, in which city he died on the 20th of
May, 1875, of organic disease of the heart.
Mr. Bright had a splendid physique, and
weighed about 200 pounds. He had a good
head and a good face, but was inqierious in
manner and brooked no opposition from either
friend or foe. -'He was the Dantmi i.f Indiana
democracy, and was both loved and feared by
'his followers. "
>Y*OH\ PETTIT was born at Sackctfs
i Harbor, N. Y., July 24, 1S07. an.l
^y died in Lafayette, Ind., June 17, 1S77.
After receiving a classical education
and studying law, he was admitted to the bar
in 1838, and ctjunnenced the practice of his
profession at Lafayette, Ind He soon became
active in state politics, was in the legislature
two terms and served as United States district
attorne}' He was elected to congress as a
democrat in 1842, re-elected to the next con-
gress and served with distinguished ability in
that body from December 4, 1843, to March
3, 1849. He was a democratic elector in
1852, and in January, 1853, was chosen
United States senator to fill the unexpired
term occasioned by the death of James W'hit-
comb, serving as such until March 3, 1855,
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during which time he earned the reputation of
an able and painstaking legislator. In 1859
he was appointed, by James Buchanan, chief
justice of Kansas, and in 1870 was elected
supreme judge of Indiana He was a delegate
to the Chicago democratic convention in 1864,
and as a political leader wielded a strong in-
fluence in Indiana in a number of state and
national contests. He was renominated for
supreme judge in 1876, but owing to scandals
connected with the court, which excited popu-
lar indignation, he was forced off the ticket,
and the name of Judge Perkins substituted.
aHARLES W. CATHCART, of whose
public and private history but little is
now known, was born on the island
of Madeira, in 1809. He received a
liberal education and early in life shipped as a
sailor, and after a number of years spent on
the sea located, in 183 1, at La Porte, Ind.,
where he engaged in farming. He served sev-
eral years as land surveyor, was a representa-
tive in the legislature, and in 1845 was an
elector on the democratic ticket. He was
elected to the congress of the United States in
1845-47, re-elected the latter year to serve
until 1849, and was afterward appointed to
fill the unexpired term occasioned by the
death of James Whitcomb. He served as
senator from December 6, 1852, to March 3,
1853, and at the expiration of his term re-
turned to La Porte county, where his death
subsequently occurred.
^""^^RAHAM N. FITCH was born in Le
■ ^^ Roy, Genesee county, N. Y. , on the
\^M 5th of December, 1810, and is said
to have been the first white child
born in that town. His grandfather was a
soldier in the Revolutionary war, and his
father, a soldier in the war of 1812, was
wounded at the battle of Queenstown. Mr.
Fitch received a liberal education, and in
early life chose the medical profession for a
life work, and completed a course of study in
the same in the college of physicians and sur-
geons of western New York. He came to
Indiana in 1834, and settled at Logansport,
where his successful career soon won for him
the reputation of one of the most skillful sur-
geons and thorough practitioners in the west.
In 1844 he accepted a professorship in Rush
Medical college, at Chicago, and occupied the
chair of theory and practice during the years
1844-47. Though not naturally a politician,
Dr. Fitch, from force of circumstances, was
drawn into the arena of politics, where his
commanding talents and energy marked him
as the people's choice. In 1836 and again in
1839, he was chosen to represent Cass county
in the state legislature. Subsequently, at the
election in August, 1847, he was chosen to
represent his district in the lower house of
congress, holding that responsible position
until 1852. During his membership he was
active and efficient in the discharge of his
duties, earning the reputation of a good legis-
lator. His legislative capacity was further
tested by an experience in the senate of the
United States, commencing in 1860-61. The
honorable distinction acquired in subordinate
legislative positions was not dimmed by his
senatorial experience, and he left that distin-
guished body with a record of which posterity
need not be ashamed. Although a democrat
in political affiliations, he always esteemed
principals above mere partisanship and was
not slow to manifest disapprobation when his
party seemed disposed to pursue a course of
policy in antagonism to his better judgment.
In the triangular contest for the presidency
between Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Douglas and Mr.
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Breckinridge, he gave his undivided support
to the last named gentleman, influenced there-
to by a belief that his election would prevent
the threatening civil war. Again, when his
party rallied to the support of Mr. Greeley, he
manifested his dissent by supporting Mr.
O'Conor for the presidenc}-. When the war
came on, he raised a regiment, the Forty-sixth
Indiana, and at its head entered the federal
service. He did brilliant service in several
campaigns, but owing to an injury received by
the falling of his horse, .was compelled to leave
the service before the expiration of the war.
Since the close of the war, he has continued
to practice his profession, not interfering in
political affairs except to preserve the integ-
rity of his inherent ideas with the vigor of his
palmier days, opposing whatever he conceives
to be wrong in civil and political affairs. In
personal appearance. Dr. Fitch is a remarkable
specimen of physical manhood, having a well
knit frame and a courtly dignity which
bespeaks the polished gentleman. In his
prirrte he appeared a knight among men, and
while a member of the United States senate
is said to have been the finest looking man in
that bod)-.
,V^^ AVID TURPIE was born in Hamil-
I I ton county, Ohio, in 1829, graduated
/^^_^ at Kenyon college, studied law, and
began practice at Logansport, Ind.,
in 1849. He was a member of the legislature
in 1852, was appointed judge of the court of
common pleas in 1854, and of the circuit court
in 1856, which post he resigned. He was
again a member of the state house of repre-
sentatives in 1856, and was elected to the
United States senate from Indiana, as a dem-
ocrat, in place of Jesse D. Bright, who had
been expelled, serving from January 22 to
March 3, 1863. Nearly twenty-four years
afterward he was again called on by his party
to represent them in the senate, to which
body he was elected by the Indiana legislature,
at the session of 1886-7, after a memorable
struggle. His opponent was Benjamin Harri-
son, afterward elected president, and he was
defeated by the votes of one or two independ-
ents in the legislature, whe held the balance
of power between the two great parties, which
were almost equally divided in voting strength
among the members. Mr. Turpie enjoys the
reputation of being one of the ablest constitu-
tional lawyers in Indiana, and is also graded
high as a man of literary attainments.
<y^ AXIEL D. PRATT w.is born at Pal-
I I ermo, Maine, October 24, 1813, and
/^^ died at Logansport, Ind., June 17,
1877. His father was a physician
and the son of David Pratt, a revolutionary
soldier, of Berkshire county, Mass. Mr.
Pratt's early years were years of excessive toil,
necessitated by the circumstances of his fath-
er's family. His early education was acquired
in the district schools of Madison county, N.
Y., and in 1825 he entered the .seminary at
Cazenovia, that state, and two years later
entered Hamilton college, from which he
graduated in 183 i. He was a natural orator,
and as a classical scholar was rarely excelled.
Immediately after graduating he accepted a
professorship in Madison university, and with
the means thus earned began the study of law.
In the spring of 1832, he decided to move
west. Accordingly he set out for Cincinnati,
making a part of the journey on foot, and later
made his way to Rising Sun, Ind., where he
taught a term of school. Subsequently he en-
tered the law office of Calvin Fletcher, at
Indianapolis, and in 1836 located in Logans-
port, at that titnd- a mere opening in the
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wilderness. The bright promises of his early
youth were soon fully realized, for no sooner
was he admitted to the bar than he rapidly
rose in his profession, and in a few years the
fame of the eloquent young advocate resounded
throughout northern Indiana. He was one
who never courted notoriety, but he made
himself a necessity in the field of action, and
it was often a race between litigants to see
who could reach his office first. At the time
of his election to the United States senate in
1869, he was recognized as the ablest lawyer
in northern Indiana, and his fame was not
confined to this state alone, but extended
throughout the western country. For twenty-
five years he was without a rival in northern
Indiana, before a jury. Gov. Hendricks and
Sec. Thompson divided the palm with him in
the south and west parts of the state. His
eminent merits were recognized, and in 1 847
he was nominated for congress, but was de-
feated by Charles Cathcart. In 1848, he was
one of the presidential electors, and in 1851-
53 was elected to the legislature, and soon be-
came the leader in the house. In i860 he
was secretary of the national convention at
Chicago, which nominated Abraham Lincoln
for the presidency, and attracted great atten-
tion by his eloquence and commanding pres-
ence. During the war Mr. Pratt was a zeal-
ous and patriotic advocate of the Union cause.
In 1863 he received the unanimous vote of his
party, then in the minority, for United States
senator, and in 1868 was elected to congress
by a handsome majority. In 1868 the legisla-
ture, without solicitation on his part, promoted
him to the United States senate. It was un-
fortunate that he entered that body so late in
life, as he was then tifty-si.x years of age, and
with the exception of two terms in the state
legislature was without public training. The
artificial restraint thrown around him in the
national capital disgusted him, and interfered
with his splendid oratorical powers. As it
was, however, he was recognized as one of the
ablest men of that body during the period of
his service, and although he made but few
speeches, those he delivered were sound, log-
ical and comprehensive. For six years he was
a member of both claim and pension com-
mittees, and for two years was chairman of
the pension committee. Millions of dollars
were allowed and dis-allowed on his recom-
mendation. So conscientious was he that
Wendell Phillips once remarked that ' ' Pratt is
the most absolutely honest man I ever knew."
Upon the expiration of his ^erm as senator, at
the solicitation of Pres. Grant he took charge
of the internal revenue department. In 1876,
the republicans urged Mr. Pratt to become a
candidate for governor of the state, but he de-
clined. Personally Mr. Pratt was one of the
most cheerful and genial of men, and in his
social life, and all his associations, shed an in-
fluence around him which was like sunshine.
Although he never sought literary honors, his
talents could not be unappreciated, and in
1872 Hamilton college conferred upon him
the honorary degree of LL. D. In appear-
ance he was above the average height, being
over six feet and correspondingly portly. His
presence was dignified and he moved among
men as one born to command. In his death
the nation lost one of its faithful public serv-
ants, the state a great man, the legal profes-
sion one of its ablest members and the com-
munity one of its best citizens.
>Y*OSEPH E. Mcdonald was bom in
M Butler county, Ohio, August 29, 18 19,
A 1 the son of John McDonald, a native of
Pennsylvania, and of Scotch descent.
Maternally, Mr. McDonald is descended from
French Huguenot ancestr}'. His mother,
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Eleanor (Piatt) McDonald, was a native of
Pennsylvania and a woman of superior order
of intellect. Seven years after the death of
John McDonald she married John Kerr, who
moved with his family to Montgomery county,
Ind., in the fall of 1826. Joseph McDonald
was seven years of age when the family moved
to Indiana, and until his twelfth year he lived
upon the home farm. In his twelfth year he
became an apprentice at the saddler's trade in
Lafayette, in which capacity he served out
five years, studying law in the meantime, for
which he early manifested a decided taste. At
the age of eighteen he entered Wabash col-
lege, began the study of the higher branches,
supporting himself mainly by plying his trade
when it was possible for him to do so. He
afterward became a student in the Asbury
university, and in 1842 began the systematic
study of law at Lafayette, Ind., in the office
of Zebulon Beard, one of the leading lawyers
of the state. He was nominated for the office
of prosecuting attorney before his adfnission to
the bar, and was elected to that position over
one of the prominent lawyers of Lafayette.
He was re-elected prosecutor, and discharged
the duties of that office for a period of four
years. In the fall of 1847, he moved to
Crawfordsville, which place was his home
until 1859. In 1849 he was elected from the
old eighth district and to the twenty-first con-
gress, and served one term, and in 1856 was
elected attorney general of Indiana, being the
first chosen to this office by the people. He
was re-elected in 1858, and served two terms.
In 1864 he was nominated for governor of
Indiana by the democratic state convention,
and made a joint canvass with Oliver P. Mor-
ton, the republican nominee. At the election
he received 6,000 more votes for governor
than the state ticket did in 1862, but. Mr.
Morton was elected by nearly 20,000 votes.
Throughout his entire life he has strictlv
adhered to his resolution to follow the law and
make a success of the profession, and as a
lawyer he has for years ranked among the
most successful and profound in the nation.
He was elected to the United States senate
for si.\ years, to succeed David D. Pratt, and
entered upon the duties of that position March
5, 1875. While a member of that body he
was chairman of the committee on public
lands, a member of the judiciary committee,
took a conspicuous part in the debates on
finance, and ranked as one of the ablest law-
yers in that body of distinguished men. He
served with distinction until 1881, since which
time he has given his attention principally to
the practice of of his profession, though taking
an active part in political affairs, being one of
the recognized leaders of the democracy in the
United States. He made the principal argu-
ment for the objectors in the count of the
electoral vote of Louisiana before the electoral
commission appointed to determine the result
of the presidential election in 1876. In the
national democratic convention, held in Chi-
cago in 1884, Mr. McDonald's name was pre-
sented as a candidate for the presidential
nomination, and he had a strong following in
the delegation from a number of states. He
is and always has been a representative demo-
crat of the Jeffersonian school, and beliexes
that the true idea of democracy is to preserve,
unimpaired, all the rights reserved to the
states respectively, and to the people, without
infringing upon any of the powers delegated to
the general government by the constitution.
"He believes in the virtue of the people, and
in their ability and purpose to maintain their
institutions inviolate against the assaults of
designing men." "As an orator, both at the
bar and on the hustings, he is cool, logical and
forcible, and as a citizen, he has the confi-
dence and respect of all who know him,
regardless of political creeds." "His \iews
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are broad and comprehensive on all questions
of public interest, and his steadfastness of pur-
pose, his honest desire of accomplishing what
is best for the people, have given him a home
in their hearts and won for him the greatest
honors they had to bestow."
^.y^ ANIEL W. VOORHEES was born
I 1 in Butler county, Ohio, September
/^^_y 26, 1827, and was brought to Indiana
by his parents when two months old.
The family settled in Fountain county, where
Mr. Voorhees grew to manhood on a farm
about ten miles from the town of Covington.
His father, Stephen Voorhees, was a native of
Mercer county, Ky. , and a descendant of an
old Holland family, many representatives of
which were among the early settlers of the
eastern states in the time of the colonies. His
mother was Rachel (Elliot) Voorhees, born in
Maryland of Irish ancestry, and married
Steqhen Voorhees in the year 1821. The early
farm e.xperience of Mr. Voorhees proved of
great value to him in after life, and served to
bind him in ties of sympathy with the com-
mon people. He graduated from the Asbury,
now DePauw, university, at Greencastle, in
1 849, and soon afterward entered the law office
of Lane & Wilson, Crawfordsville, and on
his admission to the bar, began the practice of
his profession at Covington, Fountain county,
where he soon effected a co-partnership with
Hon. E. A. Hannegan in 1852. In June, 1853,
Mr. Voorhees was appointed by Gov. Wright
prosecuting attorney of the circuit court, in
which position he soon established a fine repu-
tation as a criminal lawyer. In 1856 he was
nominated by acclamation democratic candi-
date for congress, but was defeated by 230
majority in a district previously republican by
2,600. In 1857 he removed to Terre Haute,
and the following year was appointed United
States district attorney for the state of Indi-
ana by President Buchanan. He was elected
to congress in i860 and 1862, and in 1864 was
again a successful candidate, but in the last
election his majority of 634 votes was contested
by his competitor, Henry D. Washburn, who
obtained the seat. He was again elected in
1868, re-elected in 1870, but in 1872 was de-
feated by Hon. Morton C. Hunter. In 1859
Mr. Voorhees was retained as counsel to defend
Col. Cook, who was arrested with John Brown
as an accomplice of the latter in the celebrated
Harper's Ferry raid, and his speech at the
trial was one of the greatest ever delivered
before an American jury, and it gained him a
national reputation. It was listened to with
rapt attention by a vast audience, and was
afterward published all over the country, and
in Europe in several different languages. Mr.
Voorhees was appointed November 6, 1877, to
succeed Gov. Morton in the United States
senate, ahd has served by successive re-elec-
tions in that distinguished body until the pres-
ent time. From his entrance into public life
he has occupied a conspicuous place in the
eyes of the public, and at the bar, on the stump
or in the halls of national legislation, he has
been a man of mark. His powers as a parlia-
mentary orator and a statesman are a portion
of the history of the nation, and as a party
leader few if any have exercised as great an
influence upon the people of Indiana as he.
"From the sobriquet of the Tall Sycamore of
the Wabash, so often applied to him, it will be
inferred that he is of tall stature, which is the
case, as he is over six feet in height and weighs
over 200 pounds. He carries himself erect,
and his commanding presence and dignified
bearing make him a conspicuous figure in the
senate chamber." During his term of service
in the senate he has been assiduous in his
attention to the public needs. He is always
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and authority on subjects relating' to biolof,'iral
work.
present and allows no measure of his political
opponents to pass without the severest scru-
tiny, and with him vigilance is the price of
liberty.
^V^ R. DAVID J. JORDAN.— The above
I I named gentleman is one of the most
/^^_^ prominent of that coterie of scientific
writers who have done so much to
attract attention to the physical resources of
Indiana. For many years Prof. Jordan has
been president of the state university. He
was educated at Cornell university, and after-
ward studied biology under the famous Agassiz,
in his celebrated summer school, Penikese is-
land. Coming west, Jordan taught his spec-
ialty in the university of Wisconsin, Indianapo-
lis high school, Butler university and finally the
Indiana university, of which his talents even-
tually made him president. Prof. Jordan de-
voted most of his attention for many years to
the study of the habits and classification of the
fishes of North America. On this subject he
has published over 200 papers, besides a large
work which has become a standard authority
on ichthyology. In enthusiastic pursuit of his
favorite study. Dr. Jordan made a fine and
extensive collection of nearly ten thousand
specimens of fishes, reptiles and birds, but un-
fortunately these were all destroyed by a dis-
astrous fire in 1883. With characteristic
energy he set to work to repair the damage,
and soon had a better collection than ever.
He has been a voluminous writer on scientific
subjects; the greater part being devoted to his
specialty, the fishes of the western states. He
has gathered around him, at Bloomington, a
school of students who have grown up under
his care, imbibed his tastes, and greatly assist-
ed him in his scientific researches. The re-
sult of their conjoint labors and writings has
been to make the state university the center
eK()I<. JOHN COLLETT, tiu' mo.st
distiiiguishL'd of Indiana geologists,
is a native of tiiis state, having been
born in Vermillion county in 1828 and
graduated at Wabash college in 1847. He
has taken an active part in politics, having
been state senator, state house conimissicmer,
state statistician and state geologist, l^ut his
chief fame and his chief claim upon the grati-
tude of his state, are based upon his work as a
scientist. Prof. Collett's life has been studi-
ous, useful to the geology of Indiana, and has
done more than any other person to make
known the natural resources of the state, es-
pecially to advertise to the world the \alue of
its coal measures and stone quarries. Chiefly
through his efforts, the building stone of In-
diana has been introduced to commerce, and
is now used extensively for the construction of
public buildings in all parts of the Union. He
proved its superiority by a series of tests.
From 1880 to 1884, he was state geologist,
and for many years previously had served as
an assistant in that office, to which he contri-
buted his most earnest labor and the riches of
his well stored mind. In 1884, he published
the first and best geological map of the state
ever issued, and has written voluminously on
all subjects relating to the geology of the state.
There is not a county he has not visited and
studied, nor one with those geological history,
dating far back into the dim twilight of the
pre-historic periods, he is not so familiar as to
be able to trace and read like an open book.
Prof. Collett belongs to that useful class of
citizens which, while not obtaining the passing
applause and glittering fame that is conferred
upon the politician in high office, confer more
lasting benefits upon mankind and arc of more
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actual value to a state than all its politicians
put together. Indiana needs more John Col-
letts and fewer "statesman" of the Col. Mul-
berry Sellers and Senator Dillworthy type.
(D
AURICE THOMPSON.— There is
no more picturesque personality in
the Hoosier state than the poet,
^ naturalist, essayist, story writer and
publicist, whose name heads this sketch. A
native of the south, he possesses the frank-
ness, ardor, geniality of disposition and fervent
feelings so characteristic of the warm latitudes.
His home, however, since the war has been in
Indiana, with whose institutions and people he
has become thoroughly identified. Mr.
Thompson's tastes are literary and his occupa-
tion and fame lie in that direction, but occa-
sionally he takes an excursive flight into poli-
tics, more by way of diversion than otherwise.
He has served one or two terms as member of
the lower house of the legislature, and one
term also as state geologist by appointment of
Gov. Gray. He prefers, however, to wander
over the fields and woodlands, watching the
habits of birds, and studying nature in all her
varying moods. On these subjects he writes
most entertainingly in stories, in poems, and
in magazine essays. He is a born naturalist
and is never so happy as when studying the in-
teresting flora and fauna of his adopted state.
He views naturS with the eye of an artist, and
describes her charms with the heart of a poet.
One of his books covering these subjects, en-
titled "Sylvan Secrets," is as charming as an
Arabian tale. "The Red-head Family" is a
bird sketch of the most delightful description,
in which the imaginings of a poet, and the
word painting of an artist are mingled with,
and give color to, ornithological information of
the most exact kind because gathered by a
student of nature in actual contact with what
he describes. Bird song, nest building, bird
anatomy, the loves, hates, trials and habits of
the songsters of the grove, are themes which
this poet-naturalist has enriched with the ap-
preciation of a Thoreau, and the descriptive
powers of a Goldsmith. One of his articles, a
gem of its kind, describes the habits of the
mockidg-bird in his native southern haunts.
Mr. Thompson says, what is not generally
known, that the mocker sometimes sings as it
flies, after the manner of the skylark, and he
dwells at length, on one of these "descending
songs," which the mocker poured forth as he
fluttered on ecstatic wing from branch to
branch, and finally, by slow degrees, to the
earth, where he fell exhausted with the efforts
to produce his own exquisite melody. Mr.
Thompson is a voluminous magazine writer
and covers a wide variety of topics with un-
flagging ability. He is a conspicuous member
of that galaxy of literary stars who have shed
such luster upon Indiana since the war period,
and contributed so much to give her high rank
in the world of letters.
>^AMES WHITCOMB RILEY.— Some
M fifteen or twenty years ago there
A 1 commenced to appear in various pa-
pers of Indiana poems in dialect, re-
lating to homely phases of human life and
touching on those domestic topics that are
common to every fireside. At first they only
attracted the attention of a few, but by de-
grees their fame spread as they were more and
more appreciated, and people began to en-
quire the author of such pieces as "The Old
Swimmin' Hole," "When the Frost is on the
Punkin and the Fodder's in the Shock," "The
Flying Islands" and other gems, the charac-
teristics of which were a gentle humor, always
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accompanied by a rich vein of tenderest
pathos. Usually these poems purported to be
written by "Mr. Johnson, of Boone," or some
other bucolic individual unknown to fame.
Most of them were published in the various
newspapers edited by the late George C.
Harding, himself a universal genius of the
first water, and always in sympathy with ris-
ing literary talent, which he did more than
any other newspaper proprietor of the state
to foster and develop. Hy degress it leaked
out that the author of the popular dialect
poems was none other than James Whitcomb
Riley, a young man of Hancock county, who
from the rude life of a farmer boy found him-
self drifting irresistibly into rhyme, like the
noted Mr. Wegg. In the course of time, Mr.
Riley's fugitive pieces were collected and
published in a volume, which was succeeded,
at intervals, by others of a similar tenor, all
of which were were warmly welcomed and
generally read by lovers of that kind of verse
which deals with lowl\- human nature, and as
it comes from the heart of the writer, goes di-
rectly to the hearts of the readers. Soon Mr.
Riley had a state reputation and was wel-
comed everywhere with affection as the typi-
cal "Hoosier Poet." It was not until the
national meeting of authors in New York, in
the winter of 1886-87, that Riley's fame
spread across the state lines and extended to
boundaries that are touched by the two great
oceans. The select critics of literatare in the
east fell easy victims to his genial personal
address and platform ability, and when the
meeting adjourned, Mr. Riley was, by general
consent, placed high up on the temple of fame
alongside of the most popular American poets.
After that, he figured conspicuously on the
lecture platform as a reciter of his poems,
and has been much sought after for concert
and lyceum work. Mr. Riley is a distinctive
Hoosier product and his poems are rich with
the flavor of the soil from which their author
sprang. He has done much to give Indiana high
rank in the literary world, and for this, as well
as for the intrinsic merits of his compositions,
enjoys a warm place in the hearts of his fellow
citizens of the Hoosier state.
*y-» KWIS W.U.LACE.— Though a sol-
I r (iier of distinction in tW(i wars, it is
I Jl not as a military man that Gen. Wal-
lace has achieved his principal fame.
It has been rather with the pen than the
sword he has conquered, and no Indianian has
carved his name so high on the literary temple
as the distinguished subject of this sketch. A
son of Gov. l)a\id \\'allace, he was born in
Brookvillc, Ind.. on the lOtli of April, 1S27.
He received a conniion school education and
was studying law when the Mexican war roused
him from his reveries. He served in that war
with credit as a first lieutenant, and at its close
resumed his profession, which he practiced
chiefly in the cities of Covington and Craw-
fordsville, Ind. He scrveti a term of four
years in the state senate, but never took kindly
to politics. At the breaking out of the civil
war, he was appointed adjutant general of In-
diana, soon after becoming colonel of the
Eleventh Indiana volunteers, with which he
served in West \'irginia, participating in the
capture of Roinney and the ejection of the
enemy from Harper's I'erry. He became a
brigadier general of volunteers in the fall of
1 861, led a division at the capture of Fort
Donelson, and displayed such ability as to
receive a major general's commission in the
following spring. He participated conspicu-
ously in the fated field of Shiloh. In 1864 he
was assigned to the command of the middle
department, with headquarters at Baltimore,
Md. With 5,800 men, he marched to the
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banks of the Monocacy, and there offered bat-
tle to the overwhelming forces of Gen. Jubal
A. Early, who, with 28,000 men, was march-
ing triumphantly upon the national capital.
On the afternoon of the 9th of July, hard by
the railroad bridge that spans the Monocacy,
near Frederick, Md. , was fought one of the
bloodiest engagements of the war, in propor-
tion to the number engaged. Gen. Wallace
was entrenched behind stone fences that
stretched along the heights near the bridge and
at right angles with the river. McCausland's
cavalry, which led the vanguard of Early's
army, -crossed the stream and made a vigorous
assault upon Wallace's lines, but, after a very
spirited and bloody engagement, they were
forced to retreat, but took up and held a posi-
tion in the rear. Soon thereafter a long line
of infantry were seen fording the Monocacy,
and filing right under cover of hills and trees
to a position in front of Gen. Wallace's center.
These troops were the famous ' ' Stonewall
brigade," formerly made immortal by Jackson,
but now consolidated with other seasoned vet-
erans into a division commanded by Major
Gen. John C. Breckinridge. They deployed
and were ordered to advance directly to the
assault of Gen. Wallace's main position. The
onset was furious and the fatalities on both
sides many hundreds in a few minutes. The
Union troops resisted stubbornly, but were
finally forced to give way, and the hundreds of
dead bodies observable on the field after the
fight showed how bravely they had endeavored
to stem the tide of invasion. Though defeated.
Gen. Wallace and his troops had accomplished
the important duty of delaying Early until
reinforcements could reach Washington.
Gen. Wallace was second member of the
court that tried the assassins of Lincoln and
president of that which convicted Wirz of the
Andersonville prison horrors. In 1878 Gen.
Wallace was governor of Utah and served
from 1 88 1 to '85 as minister to Turkey. He
has lectured extensively and is one of the most
popular of the platform speakers of the day.
His chief fame, however, rests upon his
authorship of the religio-historical novel,
"Ben Hur; a Tale of the Christ," of which
over 290,000 have been sold without diminu-
tion in the demand. It has already become
an American classic, and takes front rank
among the imaginative works of the world.
Other popular works by Gen. Wallace are,
"The Fair God," a story of the conquest of
Mexico, "Life of Benjamin Harrison" and
"The Boyhood of Christ." No other Indian-
ian has done so much to give his state high
rank in the field of polite literature.
^~^ CHUYLER COLFAX, statesman, and
•^^^^T vif^s president of the United States,
^^ y was born in the city of New York,
March 23, 1823. His grandfather.
Gen. William Colfax, was a native of Con-
necticut, and served with distinction in the
war of American independence. His father
died before his son's birth, as did also a sister,
and thus he became the only child of his wid-
owed mother. The early years of Mr. Colfax
were spent in his native city, where he attend-
ed the public schools and afterward became
clerk in a store. In 1836 he came to Indiana,
and located at New Carlisle, St. Joseph coun-
ty, where he again entered a store as clerk,
and in 1841 he became a resident of South
Bend, in which city he subsequently received
tne appointment of deputy auditor. In 1842
he was active in organizing a temperance soci-
ety at South Bend, and continued a total
abstainer throughout his life. At this time he
reported the proceedings of the state senate
for the Indianapolis Journal, and in 1844
entered the political arena as a public speaker
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169
for Henry Clay. In 1845 he became editor
and proprietor of the St. Joseph Valley Reg-
ister, of which he was also founder, and he
continued its publication for a period of eight-
een years. He was secretary of the Chicago
harbor and river convention in 1847, and in
1848 was elected secretary of the national
whig convention, at Baltimore, which nomin-
ated Gen. Zachary Taylor for the presidency.
He was a member of the Indiana constitution-
al convention of 1850, and in 1851 received
the whig nomination for congress. His oppo-
nent was Hon. Graham N. Fitch, an able pol-
itician and and a fine speaker, with whom he
engaged in a joint canvass, during which the
two men traveled over 1,000 miles and held
over seventy discussions. The district was
strongly democratic, yet Mr. Colfax was
defeated by only 200 votes. In 1852 he was
a delegate to the national convention which
nominated Gen. Scott for the presidency, and
in 1854 was elected to the Thirty-fourth con-
gress by the memorable majority of 1,776
votes, although the same district in previous
years gave a democratic majority of 1,200. In
1858 he was again triumphantly elected to
congress, and served as a member of that body
by successive elections until 1869. He was
elected speaker of the house in December,
1863, and on April 8th, of the following year,
he descended from the chair to move the
expulsion of Mr. Long, of Ohio, who had
made a speech favoring the recognition of the
southern confederacy. The resolution was
afterward changed to one of censure, and Mr.
Colfax's action was generally sustained by
Union men. On the convening of the Thirty-
ninth congress, Mr. Colfax was again elected
speaker by 139 votes, his opponent, Mr.
Brooks, of New York, receiving but thirty-six.
March 4, 1867, he was for the third time
chosen speaker, and his skill as a presiding
officer, often shown under very trying circum-
stances, gained the applause of both friends
and political opponents. In Mav, 1 SfiS, the
republican national cunvcntion at Chicago
nominated him on the first ballot for vice pres-
ident. Gen. Grant being the presidential nom-
inee, and the ticket having been successful, he
took his seat as president of the senate March
4, 1869. In August, 1 87 1, the president
offered him the position of secretary of state
for the remainder of his term, but he declined.
In 1872 he was prominently mentioned as a
presidential candidate, and the same year he
refused the editorship of the New York Trib-
une. "In 1873, Mr. Colfax was implicated in
the charges of corruption brought against
members of congress who had received shares
in the credit mobilier of America. The house
committee reported that there was no ground
for his impeachment, as the alleged offense, if
committed at all, was committed before he
became vice president." "He denied the
truth of the charges and his friends have
always regarded his character as irreproacha-
ble." His latter years were spent mostly in
retirement at his home in South Bend, and in
delivering public lectures, which he freciuenth'
did, before large audiences. The most popu-
lar of his lectures was that on "Lincoln and
Garfield." He died at Mankota, Minn,, Jan-
uary 13, 1885.
,>^ OBERT DALE OWEN was the son
|/^ of Robert J. Owen, a celebrated
J 9 English reformer, who was born in
1 77 1 and died 1858. He was born
near Glasgow, Scotland, November 7, 1801,
and after receiving a liberal education in his
native country, came to the United States in
1823 and settled at New Harmony, Posey
count)', Ind. In 182S, in partnership with
Mrs. Frances Wright, he began the publica-
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tion of a paper called the Free Enquirer,
which made its periodical visits about three
years. He was three times elected to the
Indiana legislature, and in 1843 was elected to
congress, in which body he served until 1847,
having been re-elected in 1845. When in
congress he took a prominent part in the set-
tlement of the northwestern boundary dispute,
and was largely instrumental in establishing
the Smithsonian institute at Washington, of
which he became one of the regents, and
served on the building committee. He was a
delegate to the cohstitutional convention in
1850, and no one bore a more prominent part
in the deliberations of that body than he. In
1853 he was appointed charge d' affaires at
Naples, and in 1855 was minister at Naples,
holding the position until until 1858. During
the civil war he was a firm supporter of the
Union, and one of the first to advocate the
emancipation of the slaves. Mr. Owen was a
firm believer in the doctrines of spiritualism,
and was fearless in his advocacy of the same.
He inherited the communistic notions of his
father, who had failed in numerous attempts
to carry the system into practical operation,
and he also signally failed in his attempts to
accomplish a similar purpose. His scholastic
attainments were of the highest order, and he
possessed a mind well stored with general
knowledge. He was indeed a man of tran-
scendent ability and may justly be regarded as
one the greatest, as well as one of the best,
men Indiana has ever claimed. He contribut-
ed largely to the literature of his day, and the
following is a partial list of his best know
works: "Moral Physiology," "Discussion
with Original Bachelor on the Personality of
God, and the Authenticity of the Bible,"
"Hints on Public Architecture," "Footfalls
on the Boundaries of Another World," "The
Wrong of Slavery and tne Right of Emancipa-
tion," "Beyond the Breakers," a novel,
"The Debatable Land Between this World
and the Next," "Treading My Way," an au-
tobiography. Mr. Owen departed this life at
Lake George, N. Y. , January 24, 1877, aged
seventy-six years.
,>^ ICHARD W. THOMPSON, ex-sec-
I /^ retary of the navy, is a native of Vir-
l ^ P ginia, born in Culpeper county, June
9,1809.. In the fall of 1831 he emi-
grated to Indiana, and taught school in the
town of Bedford, afterward establishing the
Lawrence county seminary, which he con-
ducted about one year. Abandoning school
work he embarked in the mercantile business
in Lawrence county, and while thus engaged
began the study of law. He was admitted to
the bar in 1834, and the same year he was
elected a member of the Indiana legislature,
in which body he not only displayed great
ability and foresight, but was also instrumen-
tal in shaping much important legislation. In
1838 he was returned to the house, and the
following year was chosen state senator, of
which he was president pro tempore on the
occasion of the resignation of Lieut. Gov.
Wallace. In 1841 he was elected to the
United States congress over Hon. John W.
Davis, but declined a renomination to the
same position, and in 1843 removed to Terre
Haute, in which city he has since resided.
He was a presidential elector on the Harrison
ticket in 1840, zealously supporting Gen. Har-
rison in public speeches, and by his pen, and
was a defeated candidate for elector on the
Clay ticket in 1844. In 1847 he was again
elected to congress by the whig party, and be-
came prominent in national legislation during
his term, but at its expiration retired from
public life. In 1849 he was appointed United
States minister to Austria, by Gen. Taylor,
AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN.
171
but declined to accept the honor, and was also
tendered several other appointments by the
general government, all of which he saw fit to
refuse. During the war for the Union he was
active and rendered valuable service to his
country, was commandant of Camp Dick
Thompson, near Terre Haute, and also served
as provost marshal of the district. He was
again a presidential elector on the republican
ticket in 1864, and a delegate to the national
conventions of that party in 1878, and 1876,
in the latter of which he nominated Oliver P.
Morton for the presidency. In i S67-69 he
was judge of the eighteenth circuit of the state,
and on March 12, 1877, he entered Pres.
Hayes' cabinet, as secretary of the navy. He
served nearly^^through the administration, but
resigned the position in 1881, to become chair-
man of the American committee of the Pana-
ma Canal company. Mr. Thompson has
written many political platforms, and obtained
a reputation for his ability in formulating
party principles. He is an eloquent and effec-
tive speaker, and a man of benevolence and
unassuming manners.
aOL. FRANCIS VIGO, whose name is
prominently identified with the early
history of Indiana, was born in the
kingdom of Sardinia in 1 740, and
died at Vincennes, Ind., in 1836. Until 1778
he was a resident of the Spanish port of St.
Louis, where, as an Indian trader, he acquired
the title of the "Spanish Merchant." He re-
moved to Vincennes a short time previous to
its capture by Gen. George Rogers Clark,
whom he was instrumental in assisting, for
which he was afterward arrested by the British
as a spy. In the Illinois campaigns of 1778
and 1779, Col. Vigo rendered valuable service
to the arm\' of ("lark l.\- :ulv:iiicing large sums
of money for food and clnlliiii^. Tiuough his
patriotism and sclf-sacrilice, he served the
army and gave victory to the cause of the col-
onies of the west. He was made commandant
of the militia of Vincennes in 1790, and in
iSiowasone of Gen. Harrison's confidential
messengers to the Indians. His name will
ever be associated with the early history <>(
the Wabash vallcv.
>Y*OHX \V. D.WIS. one nf Indiana's most
M noted men, was born in C'umbcrland
/* 1 county, Peini., July 17, 1799, and
. died in 1859. He was well educated
and graduated in medicine at Baltimore in
1 82 1, shortly afterward removing to Carlisle,
Ind. He was soon embarked on a political
career and graduated for the purpose in that
universal and popular school, the state legis-
lature. He served several years in that bod\',
and was chosen speaker of the house in 1832.
In 1834 he was appointed a commissioner to
negotiate a treaty with the Indians. He was
elected to congress by the democrats, and
served from December 7, 1835, until March 3,
1837, was re-elected, and again served from
1839 until 1 84 1, and from 1843 till 1847.
During his last term he was speaker ol the
house of representatives, having been elected
on December i, 1845. He was United States
commissioner to China in 1843-50, and gov-
ernor of Oregon in 1853-54. He presided over
the convention held at P>altimore in 1852, that
nominated Franklin Pierre for the presidency.
Mr. Davis was a strong man and a party leader
of long continued popularity and well recog-
nized ability. He was also a derided feature
of the list of self-made Indiana publicists.
'^^
DELAWARE COUNTY,
INDIANJ^.
THOS. SHARP.
MATHEW Mccormick.
M. A. CUNNINGHAM.
MIINCIE CITY AND CENTRE TOWNSHIP.
ai
'ILLIAM ABBOTT, a retired farmer
and prominent citizen of Centre
township, Delaware county, Ind.,
was born in Warren county, Ohio,
December 15, 1833, son of James and Rose
(Keenan) Abbott. James Abbott was born
where the city of Cincinnati now stands, Feb-
ruary 27, 1794. He was a son of Aaron Ab-
bott, of Enghsh extraction, who was born near
Boston, Mass., but reared in Warren county,
Ohio. Shortly after the removal of the family
to that county the colony was attacked with
cholera, and Mr. Abbott was one of the few
who survived the scourge. Soon after the
birth of his son, James, he died, and all pre-
vious records of the family were lost. James
Abbott was reared in Warren county, and
there learned the trade of cabinet maker.
While yet a minor he enlisted in the war of
1812, and in 18 13 was in one of the vessels on
Lake Erie during the battle between Commo-
dore Perry of the Lawrence and the British
fleet. His service did not extend over very-
many months, and after his return home he
located at Lebanon, Ohio, where he worked
at his trade, remaining here until his marriage
June 19, 1823. After this event he removed
to Miami county, Ohio, where he engaged in
farming for about twelve years, when he re-
moved, in 1S47, to Indiana and became one of
the early pioneers of Delaware county. He
purchased a fine farm of one hundred and sixt\-
acres, located about one mile east of Granville,
in Niles township, and there remained until
his death, which occurred October 14, 1874.
His wife died April 16, 1881, and both were
laid side by side in the Granville cemetery,
where a modest stone marks their last resting
place. Mr. Abbott was a successful business
man and became possessed of considerable
propcrt}-. Both he and his wife were mem-
bers for many years of the Free Will Baptist
church. In his early days he was a whig, but
upon the birth of the republican party he joined
that and supported its principles through Tife.
He became the father of seven children: Aaron,
who died in 1862; John K.. a resident of
Miami county, Ohio ; Ellen, deceased ; William ;
James D., a resident of Delaware county;
George, a resident o! Albany, this county, and
Sarah E., wife of Amos Wilson, of Henry
county, Ind.
William Abbott was born on the farm in
Warren county, Ohio, and, like all farmer
lads of that time, was early in life inured to
hard labor. While still young he learned the
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trade of carpenter, and when there was no
work to be performed on the farm he busied
himself working at his trade. His educational
advantages were very limited, and at the age
of eighteen years he began life for himself, en-
gaging in farming and working at the carpen-
ter trade. For several years he rented land,
but in 1866 he bought eighty acres in Niles
township, this county. At the age of twelve
years he had accompanied his father to Dela-
ware county. After purchasing his farm he
engaged in work upon it for some years, but
in the fall of 1872 he moved into Muncie,
where he conducted a private restaurant and
hotel, which is now known as the Abbott
house and is managed by a Mr. Braun of the
the same place. In 1879 Mr. Abbott retired
from this business, and two years later con-
nected himself with the Citizens' National bank
as director, which position he still holds.
After leaving the hotel Mr. Abbott was ap-
pointed courtroom bailiff, serving as such for
seven years. He has a beautiful home of
eight acres at Riverside, one of the most valu-
able pieces of property in the neighborhood.
June I, 1856, Mr. Abbott was married, in
Delaware county, to Miss Frances M. Adset,
born in Warren county, Ohio, daughter of J.
and Mary Adset. Four children have been
born of this marriage: Josephine, deceased;
Marion; John C, an official in the bank, and
an infant, deceased. Mr. Abbott enlisted in
the service of his country, February 8, 1865,
in company B, One Hundred Forty-seventh
Indiana volunteer infantry, for one year, and
served uutil July i, 1865, at Cumberlan, Md.,
but was not called upon for active duty.
Politically Mr. Abbott affiliates with the
republican party and has served as a justice of
the peace in Niles township for eight years.
Mrs. Abbott is a member of the Methodist
church, and the famil) occupies a position of
the greatest respectibility and prominence.
aHARLES E. ADAMSON has become
well known to all the principal busi-
ness houses throughout the country
as a patent attorney and the owner
and patentee of the "Adamson Process Imita-
tion Typewriting," wnich is much in use in the
large cities for a certain class of printing. Mr.
Adamson was born in Howard county, Ind.,
Aug. 25, 1 86 1, and is a son of Edom Adam-
son, a native of Indiana, whose birth occurred
in the township of Mt. Pleasant, Delaware
county, in the year eighteen hundred and thir-
ty-five. The father of Edom Adamson was
Andrew Jackson Adamson, who is remembered
as one of the pioneers of Delaware county and
a prominent factor in the early developement
of the section in which he resided. When a
young man, Edom Adamson located in How-
ard county, and there married Miss Lydia
Timmons, and engaged in agricultural pur-
suits. Subsequently, in 1872, he removed to
Iowa, where he followed his chosen calling
until 1878, when he returned to Howard coun-
ty, wnere his death occurred in 1884. Edom
Adamson was one of the brave men who left
family and fireside and offered their lives upon
the altar of their country during the dark peri-
od of the great civil war. In 1861 he enlisted in
company A, One Hundred and Thirtieth Indi-
ana volunteer infantry, with which he served
until the cessation of hostilities, and with
which he took part in a number of bloody bat-
tles and campaigns. For many years he was
a prominent member of the Christian church,
and he bore the reputation of a christian gen-
tleman against whose character no breath of
suspicion was known to have been uttered. Of
the five children born to Edom and Lydia
Adamson two daughters and one son are
deceased, and two sons, Charles E. and
Andrew Gilmore, reside in Muncie.
Charles E. Adamson accompanied his par-
ents to Iowa when • nine years of age and
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received his principal education in the schools
of that state. Upon the return of the family
to Howard county, he came to Muncie, and in
the spring of 1883 established his present busi-
ness, that of a general practice in the law per-
taining to patents and the obtaining of patents.
In this department of the legal profession he is
considered an authnrity and very successful,
and such has been the growth of his extensive
business that at this time he requires the
assistance of a large number of clerks in the
Muncie office, and in his branch offices in
\\^ashington and Chicago. Mr. Adamson is a
broad-minded, keen business man, and his suc-
cess for one so young in years has been much
beyond the ordinary. He has been identified
with a number of the leading enterprises of
Muncie, was a charter member of the first
board of trade of the city and one of the first
gas well companies. He also subscribed to the
Citizens' Enterprise company. Fraternally he
belongs to Muncie lodge, I. O. O. F. In 1881
Mr. Adamson and Miss Louisa E. Polk (daugh-
ter of Dr. Robert Polk, an old and respected
citizen of Centre township, Delaware county),
were united in marriage, and one daughter,
Anna Leo, has been born to their union. Re-
ligiously Mr. Adamson subscribes to the Uni-
versalist creed.
>T^ONATHAN P. ADAMSON, deceased,
J was one of the energetic, enterprising
nt J and sagacious merchants of Muncie in
her palmy days. A son of Jonathan
and Ruth (Williams) Adamson, he was born
near Economy, Wayne county, Ind., Decem-
ber 16, 1818, and until forty-five years old
lived on his native farm. He was largely self-
educated, but his acquired knowledge excelled
in its extent that of many who had had more
extended advantages for securing school
advantages. After having passed nearly a half
century in the pursuit of agriculture, he dis-
posed of his eighty acre farm in Wayne coun-
ty, and about May i, 1865, or three weeks
after the surrender of Gen. R. E. Lee, at
Appomattox C. H., \'a. (April 9, 1865), Mr.
Adamson came to Muncie, Delaware county,
Ind., and engaged in mercantile trade, going,
first, into the grocery business, having for his
partner his nephew, B. R. Adamson; he then
changed to the dry goods trade, with Mr.
Hammer for his partner; later he resumed the
traffic in groceries, with James N. Cropper as
partner, and still later with Riley Jones, with
whom he remained associated until within two
weeks of his death, June 17, 1890, when he
sold out. He met with great success as a
merchant, especially with farmers, as he was
genial and sociable, and well posted in farm-
ing topics, as was quite natural, from his long
personal experience in agriculture. He was
of a religious turn of mind, but it was not
until 1862 that he was baptized. In that year
he united with the church in Jacksonburg,
Wayne county, and on coming to Muncie, he
and wife became prime movers in organizing
the First Christian church, in which he at once
became an elder and faithfully filled the posi-
tion until the end. In politics he was a pro-
nounced partisan but never an office seeker,
yet for nine years, as a matter of duty to his
fellow citizens, he filled the office of justice of
the peace in Wayne county. He was first a
free soiler, then a republican, and was lastly
an ardent prohibitionist.
November 22, 1838, Mr. Adamson was
most happily united in marriage to his now
venerable life companion, Emily Macy, daugh-
ter of Reuben and Lucinda (Petty) Macy.
This lady is also a native of Wayne county,
Ind., and was born in 1822. There were no
children born to their union, but they reared
to useful maturity two girls and one boy, viz:
Lucinda Hammer (a niece of Mrs. Adamson),
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now the wife of Thomas McCulloch, a farmer
of Delaware county; John Adamson, a nephew,
who fell in the defense of the Union, and last-
ly, they adopted Nettie Adamson, at the age
of three years, whom they educated in the best
institutions of learning in the city, and who
was married to William Fadely, of Muncie.
Mr. and Mrs. Adamson, up to the time of his
demise, had been companions over fifty-two
years, and November 22, 1888, celebrated the
golden anniversary of their wedding. " G. W.
T. ," writing at Union City on the melancholy
occasion of the death of Mr. Adamson, for
publication in one of the daily journals, makes,
among others, the following appropriate re-
marks:
' ' Jonathan P. Adamson was born and raised
in "Wayne county, Ind. In 1861 he heard the
writer of this preach the primitive gosple, the
first among our people he ever heard. After
this he heard others of our preachers. 1862
he was baptized on a profession of faith in the
Christ, and to the day of his death he lived a
faithful christian. He died on June 17, 1890,
at the age of seventy-one years, six month and
one day. I had been intimately acquainted
with him for twenty-nine years. In the year
1865 he removed to Muncie, Delaware county,
Ind., and became closely allied to the cause
there, and through his personal efforts, as
much, or more than any other, was due the
planting of our cause in that city. He was an
officer in the church in Muncie from its organ-
ization till his death. He was an upright
citizen; as a business man, energetic and ap-
preciated by all; outspoken on all leading
questions, favoring what he conceived to be
right and against the wrong. The only
question with him was: Is it right.' If so, he
did it. He had been afflicted for a number of
years with catarrhal trouble, and was confined
to his room about five months. The writer
talked with him often about the future. He
was willing and ready to depart and be with
Christ. He was one of the noble men of earth,
a known quantity. His word was as good as
his bond. He never betrayed a friend or
truckled to any schemes. I think he would
have died rather than consent to a wrong.
He was one who enlisted during the war, and
he was always on duty, never having a fur-
lough. May our kind father raise up some
one to take his place in the church. The
writer spoke to a large concourse of friends
and neighbors, who had gathered to pay a
tribute of respect to him, from Rev. xlv 13,
after which at the close of a beautiful day, as
the sun was low in the west, we laid him in
the beautiful cemetery at Muncie, to rest until
Jesus shall call him to his final reward. For
his faithful companion who walked side by
side with him in all his efforts to do good for
nearly fifty-two years, we pray the consola-
tions of the gospel of the grace of God.
'Rest, brother, rest, till Jesus calls, and we
shall meet again.'" G. W. T.
a APT. EDWIN C. ANTHONY, the
son of one of Muncie's greatest bene-
factors as well as one of her earliest
settlers, was born at Cincinnati, Ohio,
May 29, 1818. In order to fully show his in-
timate relationship with the growth of Muncie,
it is necessary to revert somewhat liberally to
the career of his father, Dr. Samuel P. An-
thony, who was born December 2, 1792, in
Lynchburg,, Va., and at the age of twenty
years, removed with his father to Ohio. Dur-
ing the war of 1 81 2, he served as a teamster
in the United States army, and after the close
of the war (in 18 14), went to Cincinnati,
Ohio, where he and his father started the first
tobacco manufacturing establishment west of
the Alleghany mountains, and conducted a
DR. S. P. ANTHONY.
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181
very successful tobacco and general merchan-
dise trade for several years. While at Cin-
cinnati he studied medicine, and after com-
pleting his medical education, removed to
Clinton county, Ohio, where he was engaged
for three years in the practice of his profession.
At the end of that time he removed to Cedar-
ville, in that state, where he was engaged in
the practice for an equal length of time. He
then located at Muncie, Ind. , in 1831,- where
he spent the residue of his life, practising med-
icine and selling merchandise. He invested
largely in real estate, purchasing thousands of
acres in this and adjoining counties, and, by
close attention to business, amassed a large
fortune, which, at the time of his death, was
variously estimated at from $250,000 to $500,-
000. He opened a general merchandise store
at Muncie, shortly after his arrival here, and
for more that forty years was identified with
that branch of the public interests of the
town. He practised medicine for more than
twentj'-iive years, and, during that time, es-
tablished a fine reputation as a successful
physician. He was active in all public enter-
prises which seemed to him calculated to pro-
mote the interests of this city, and county.
When the Belle fontaine & Indianapolis rail-
road was advocated, he at once enlisted to
help the project along, by taking stock to the
amount of several thousand dollars, and per-
sonally soliciting subscriptions to the road.
He served as one of the directors of this road,
and, later, was elected president, in which
capacity he served about a year. He then re-
signed and was succeeded by Hon. John
Brough, of Ohio, and again became director.
He was president of the Fort Wayne & South-
ern railway, and a director of the Lafayette,
Muncie & Bloomington railway.
He was active in the affairs of Muncie to
the very last, and even on the day preceding
his death, he transacted his business as usual,
and at evening, repaired to the residence of
his son, with whom he was living. He felt no
premonitions of what was to come until late
in the night, when he was seized with violent
pains, which culminated in paralysis, and, at
I o'clock on Saturday morning, July 22, 1876,
he died. He was twice married — first in 181 7,
to Miss Narcissa Haines, who died in May,
1858, leaving one son — Edwin C. ; In 1859
he married Miss Emily V. \'annaman, who
now resides in Muncie.
Capt. Edwin C. Anthony, the son of Dr.
Samuel P. and Narcissa (Haines) Anthony,
attained distinguishment equal to that of his
father, but chiefly as a merchant and a pro-
moter of the interests of Muncie. After hav-
ing been fully educated at Richmond, Ind., he
entered the store of his father at Muncie, and
then became his partner and so continued
until the war of the rebellion burst forth.
Then Edwin C. Anthony valiantly went to the
front, raising a company of cavalry that was
assigned to the army or the Cumberland, and
of which he was commissioned captain. In
the winter of 1861-62 he had an arm broken,
his health altogether ruined and he was com-
pelled to resign his commission and returned to
Muncie, where, after he recovered his health, he
entered the dry goods business in which he
continued until his father's death, when he.
somewhat exhausted, sought relief by passing
the winters for nearly ten years at the south.
In Florida, during these ten closing years of
his life, he became greatly interested in land
on which were developed phosphate mines,
tjiat were discovered in Marion county, that
state, in 1889. This interest, the care of his
realty and care of his live stock at "Six Miles,"
where he had extensive live stock farms, occu-
pied his attention during the last decade of his
life, which ended at his farm in Florida, known
as Anthony, June 7, 1884, at the age of sixty-
MUNCIE CITY
The marriage of Capt. Anthony took place
on the 30th day of September, 1849, to Miss
Rebecca G. Vannaman, daughter of Joseph
and EHzabeth (Campbell) Vannaman, at that
time residents of Centerville, Wayne county,
Ind. The parents were from Philadelphia,
but Mrs. Anthony was born in Ohio, during a
temporary stay of the parents in that state on
their journey to Indiana. To the marriage of
Capt. Edwin C. and Rebecca G. Anthony were
born six children, viz: Florence Virginia, wife
of Henderson Swain, fruit grower of Anthony,
Fla. ; Samuel P. , who is still interested in the
management of the immense phosphat indus-
try established at Ocala, Fla. ; Edwin C. , Jr. ,
who died at the age of twenty-eight; Ella,
who was the wife of George Gamble, of Mtln-
cie, but who died at the early age of twenty-
five years; Charles H., whose sketch is given
more in detail in close connection with this,
and Addie Anthony, the deceased wife of
Frank Robinson. Mrs. Rebecca G. Anthony
still lives on the old homestead, in Muncie, an
honored and respected lady, whose many acts
of charity, indeed, command the respect
bestowed upon her. To her, the sight of suf-
fering on the part of others is something not
to be borne, and her willing heart and ready
purse in some way find a means of affording
instant relief. Quick in her response to every
cry of distress or every call of charity, she has
won the gratitude of hundreds of hearts in
Muncie, and will hold it until the uttermost
end.
aHARLES H. ANTHONY, real estate
dealer and capitalist of Muncie, Ind.,
is a son of E. C. and Rebecca G.
Anthony, of whom mention is made
elsewhere, and was born in Muncie May 10,
1858. Muncie, also, gave his earlier education,
which was supplemented with a two years'
course at the Chester (Pa.) Military college.
In 1877, having become interested in business
with his father, he visited Florida and made
investments in lands, and in 1880 planted a
sixty-acre orange grove, which he brought to
full fruition and five years later sold to an
English syndicate. His land investments in
Florida were greatly increased, and he now
owns a large number of acres, containing beds
or the -most valuable phosphates, which he
mines and ships for fertilizers to European
markets for use on impoverished soils. But
his active mind is not content alone with the
handling of real estate in Florida. The in-
dustrial interests of Muncie and development
also claim much of his attention. He is presi-
dent of the Economy Co-operative Gas com-
pany, of which he was the principal organizer,
and a member of the Citizens' Enterprise com-
pany, is likewise a stockholder in the Delaware
county National bank, and his handling of
real estate in the city, as dealer and agent, is
something immense. In 1880 he and his
mother sold in the city and environs over 420
acres of- land, now known as the Muncie
Land company's Addition, the Gray Addi-
tion, and the Anthony Park Addition.
In 1887, Mr. Anthony erected the superb
building known as the Anthony block on the
northwest corner of Walnut and Jackson
streets, which has not its equal in the state.
The development of natural gas has always
been a matter of peculiar interest to him, in-
asmuch as in that great product he foresaw a
source of wealth unequaled by any other than
his native city. He was among the first to
become financially interested in drilling in the
Muncie field, and has not yet relinquished the
concern he has felt in this great factor of
Muncie's prosperity. In 1884 he became a
partner in the extensive real estate firm of
Heath, Lenon & Anthony, so well known in
the city and throughout the county.
EDWIN C. ANTHONY.
REBECCA G. ANTHONY.
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Fraternally he is a member of Delaware
lodge. No. 46, F. & A. M., and the Muncie
commandery and chapter, and also of the B.
P. O. E., and the I. O. R. M. In politics he
is a republican. His marriage took place
February 10, 1887, to Miss Harriet B.
Mitchell, daughter of Dr. Harvey Mitchell, and
this union has been blessed with tlie birth of
one child, Harvey M. Anthony, now four years
old.
^y^AVID R. ARMITAGE, M. D., was
I I for many years a distinguished phj-
^^^_^ sician and surgeon of Muncie and.
occupied the front rank among the
successful medical men of central Indiana. Dr.
Armitage was born near Portsmouth, Ohio,
October 22, 1831. When he was eight years
of age his parents and grandparents removed
to the wilds of Delaware county, Ind., and
settled the farm about three miles southwest
of the city of Muncie, on what is now the Mid-
dletown turnpike, where the grandparents, the
doctor's father and mother, and lastly the doc-
tor himself, resided until their respective
deaths. Mr. Armitage availed himself of the
best education possible as he grew to manhood,
and for several years was engaged in teaching,
in which profession he acquired an enviable
reputation. He early evinced a decided pref-
erence for the medical profession, and, after
the death of his first wife, began to study the
same in the office of Dr. Samuel V. Jump, at
New Burlington, Ind., under the able instruc-
tion of whom he made rapid and commendable
progress. He completed his professional edu-
cation by a thorough course in the Michigan
university, Ann Arbor, and also the Ohio
Medical college, of Cincinnati, graduating from
both of these well known institutions, after
which he began the practice of his chosen call-
ing at Chesterfield, Ind. , where his ability won
for him much more than a local reputation.
While at Chesterfield he became acquainted
with Miss Clara E. Sharpe, a very estimable
lady, who subsecjuently became his wife. Miss
Sharpe was born in South Salem, Ross county,
Ohio. April 27, 1840, and is a daughter of
Robert and Ann (Davis) Sharpe, natives of
Ohio, who moved from Ross and Union
counties, Ohio, in 1851. In the latter county
Robert Sharpe served as sheriff four years, but
in 1883 moved to Kansas, where he died in
June, 1892, his wife, however, having pre-
ceded him to the grave in Union county. Ohio,
in 1863. They were the parents of four rhil-
dren, viz: Matilda ; William, killed in tiie
army; Russell, of Middletown, Ind., and
Clara B., wife of Dr. Armitage. The parents
of these were devout members of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, of which the father had
been appointed a class leader by Adam Poe,
an essential factor in that religious body.
To the union of Dr. Armitage and Miss Sharpe
was born one child, Nellie M., February 7,
1869, now the wife of Charles B. Fudge, to
whom she was married June 14, 1892, Mr.
Fudge is a son of John S. Fudge (whose sketch
appears elsewhere in the volume), and was
born in Xenia, Ohio, September 24, 1863.
He was educated in the common schools and
remained at home until twenty years of age,
when he engaged as a clerk in a clothing store
at Albany, Ind., where he remained two years,
! and then came to Muncie, and entered the
j employ of Bliss & Keller, clothiers, etc., and
! is now their genial and obliging foreman. To
Mr. and Mrs. Fudge has been born one child
—Mildred Marie— May 10, 1893. Mr. Fudge
is in politics a republican. Fraternally, he is
an Odd Fellow, and a member of Muncie
lodge. No. 74, and of Canton Muncie, No. 4,
Patriarchs Militant.
After his marriage. Dr. Armitage moved to
his farm southwest of Muncie, where, during
the many years that remained of his life, he
MUNCIE CITY
devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits
in connection with the practice of his profes-
sion. As a physician, Dr. Armitage was suc-
cessful in all the term implies, and no man in
the community, where he was raised and
lived so long, enjoyed a greater degree of
popularity of the people. He was indeed the
friend of the common people, and to him it
seemed a special pleasure to relieve the suffer-
ings of the aged with whom he had been asso-
ciated from his early boyhood, He was a
public-spirited man, and took an active and
prominent part in all enterprises having for
their object the moral and material welfare of
the community and county. In religion he
was an earnest member of the Methodist
church, and, as such, did much to the growth
of that denomination in Delaware and other
counties. He was also member of Delaware
lodge, No. 146, Free and Accepted Masons,
and of Muncie Commandary, No. 18, Knights
Templar and was a chartered member of Rich-
woods lodge. No. 499, Knights of Honor. In
a business sense, the doctor exercised prudence
and forethought, and during his life accumlat-
ed a comfortable competence for his wife and
daughter, both of whom live in Muncie at this
time. He died suddenly at his home August
21, 1 89 1, at the age of sixty years, and left,
as his choicest legacy to his family, a name
against which no breath of suspicion was ever
known to have been uttered. He was
mourned by all who knew him, and in his
death Delaware county lost one .of its most
successful physicians and high minded philan-
thropic citizens.
HGAGE ARRASMITH, the leading
photographer of Muncie, Ind., was
born near Eaton, Preble county,
Ohio, February 17, 1859, son of R
B. and M. J. (Lewis) Arrasmith, the former a
native of Ohio and the latter of Kentucky,
who were married in Putnam county, Ind , in
1848, and moved to Preble county, Ohio, in
the same year. In i860 Mr. Arrasmith, Sr. ,
changed his residence to Miami county, Ind.,
where he engaged in farming until 1880
Since 1880 he has led a retired life, engaging
a tenant to work his farm. Mr. and Mrs.
Arrasmith, Sr. , were Universalists in religious
convictions and in this belief Mrs. Arrasmith
died July 21, 1886, her remains being laid to
rest in Miami county, Ind. They were the
parents of seven children, as follows: Emma
L. , wife of John Parks, Peru, Ind. ; Willie and
Alonzo, deceased; Horace F. , of White county,
Ind. ; Mary, wife of C. Strode, of Miami
county, Ind. ; A. Gage and L Josephine, wife
of S. A. Holt, of London, Ohio.
A. G. Arrasmith was reared on the home
farm and when but eighteen years of age en-
gaged, as an apprentice for two years, with
J. Wharton of Wabash, Ind., in a photograph
gallery. For the three following years he
studied as a portrait artist and became
thoroughly competent to undertake all classes
of fine art work. Until 1886 he led a roving
life, traveling through many states, mostly en-
gaged in the practice of his chosen profession.
Finally, deciding to locate, he selected Muncie
as his place of residence, and purchased the
gallery he is now in, and equipments, and has
since been recognized as the leading photog-
rapher of Delaware county, Ind. Mr. Arra-
smith's success has been very marked and is
due to the excellent quality of the work and
to his faithfulness in the smallest detail. He
began with very limited capital, but by his
energ}', the excellence of his work and his
courteous manner, has placed his studio in the
front rank and has made it popular with all
classes.
February i, 1888, Mr. Arrasmith married
Miss Ida M. Miller, of Hartford City, Ind.,
DAVID R. ARMITAGE, M. D.
MRS. CLARA E. ARMITAGE.
AND CENTRE TOWNSHIP.
who was born April ii, 1862, a dauf:;hter of
Samuel and Marj^aret (Bruc) Milltr. One
child has been born to this union, a son,
Glenn. Politicallj- Mr. Arrasmith is a repub-
lican, and socially he is connected with I. O.
O. F. lodge No. 74, and also of the Twa Twa
tribe of Red Men.
BENRY B. ATHEY was born in Hard.v
count}-, a part of what is now the
county of Grant, in the state of \'ir-
ginia, on the 27th day of September,
1853. His father, Daniel Lewis Athey, was a
native of New York, but early accompanied
his parents to Virginia, and from early boy-
hood was engaged in driving cattle to the
eastern markets, principally to Philadelphia
and New York city, before the days of rail-
roads. He married Lavina C. R. Smith,
daughter of Henry Smith, Esq., of Virginia,
and became the father of eleven children, six
girls and five boys, nine of whom are living at
this time, Henry B. being the eldest son. Mr.
and Mrs. Athey left Virginia in 1855, emigrat-
ing to Illinois and settling in the county of
Piatt when that part of the state was almost
wholly unimproved. Mr. Athey is now living
in Farmer City, Dewitt county. 111., practical-
ly retired from active life. He has followed
agriculture, in which he has met with reason-
able success, is independent in his political
views, and' for a number of years has been an
active member of the Methodist church. He
is essentially a self-made man, his sole capital
on reaching his new home in the west amount-
ing to but $5, from which insignificant begin-
ning he succeeded, by his unaided efforts, in
acquiring a comfortable competence.
At the age of two years, Henry B. Athey
was taken by his parents to Illinois, in which
state he grew to manhood on a farm, and early
became accustomed to the hard work incident
to that useful occupation. His early educa-
tional training, owing to circumstances over
which he had no control, was sadly neglected,
and his attendance at school was limited to
about eighteen months, divided among several
years. His first school experience was in a
little frame smokehouse upon his father's farm,
and the teacher, b\' no means a classical
scholar, received his pay by the subscriptions
of his patrons. Possessing an inquiring mind,
Mr. Athey was not content to remain in igno-
rance of books, and by wide reading and self-
culture, together with a practical education
acquired from contact with business men in
various capacities, he has since become a well
informed man.
At the age of twenty he left the parental
roof and began life for himself as a farm labor-
er, and later found employment in a lumber
yard, in which he subsequently purchased an
interest. He continued in the lumber business
for a period of seven years, selling out at the
end of that time and accepting a position as
traveling salesman for the Champion Machine
company, of Springfield, Ohio, in which ca-
pacity he continued until 1889. While trav-
eling for this firm, Mr Athey in June, 1883,
located in Muncie and for some time thereafter
kept books for R. H. Mong. Subsequently he
became manager of the Muncie Foundry and
Machine company, in which he now owns a
one-fifth interest, but he still looks after the
business of the establishment, which owes
much of its present success to his careful fore-
sight.
March 27, 1878, Mr. Athey was married to
Miss Ella L. Green, daughter of George W.
and Nancy (Fleming) Green, who has borne
him one child, a daughter, Georgia G. Athey,
born December 24, 1879. Mrs. Athey was
born September 24, 1854 on W'alnut street
this cit\-. In politics Mr. Athey is a democrat.
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MUNCIE CITY
and as such wields an influence for his party
in Muncie and Delaware county. He served
in the village council of Mansfield, 111., for four
years ; acted as treasurer or tax collector for
some time in the county of Piatt, that state,
and for one year served as village clerk and
afterward as trustee for the village of Mans-
field. Air. Athey is not identified with any
church or religious order — being quite liberal
in his views concerning all movements having
for their object the welfare of his fellow-men.
He is progressive, takes an^ active interest in
the material developement of Muncie, and is
deserving of mention with its representative
citizens.
OLIVER E. BALDWIN, one of the
leading grocers of Muncie, is a native
of Wayne county, Ind., and dates his
birth from the 30th day of September,
1830. His father, Elias Baldwin, a North
Carolinian, was brought to Indiana when a
mere child, and in early manhood worked at
the tanner's trade in Wayne county, later en-
gaging in agricultural pursuits, which he con-
tinued to follow until his death, in January,
1892. Financially, Elias Baldwin was more
than ordinarily successful, and he was fortunate
in accumulating a comfortable portion of this
world's goods. He was a member of the So-
ciety of Friends, a republican in his political
affiliations, and in every relation of life proved
himself to be a high minded, an honorable man,
and a true type of the courteous christian gen-
tleman. His wife, whose maiden name was
Lydia Hough, was a daughter of William
Hough, a prominent citizen of Wayne county,
and she became the mother of six children,
namely: Ella, Emma, Alice, Oliver E.,
Charles and Mary, all living but the first
named, who died in 1890.
Oliver E. Baldwin remained under the
parental roof until his eighteenth year, assist-
ing his father on the farm and attending the
country schools at intervals in the meantime.
His first practical experience in life was as a
clerk in a drug store at Fountain City, where
he remained two years, at the end of which
time he accepted a position as salesman in a
grocery house at the same place, continuing in
the later capacity for a period of about eight-
een months. In 1884 he came to Muncie and
accepted a position in the wholesale grocery
house of Jos. A. Goddard, in whose employ
he continued until the latter part of 1887,
from which date until 18S9 he was similarly
employed with James N. Cropper, one of the
leading grocery dealers of Muncie. In the
latter year, Mr. Baldwin purchased an interest
in the grocery house of A. B. Phillips on Main
street, and the firm of Phillips & Baldwin con-
tinued until 1 89 1, when Mr. Baldwin became
sole proprietor. He has since conducted the
business with success and financial profit, his
patronage having constantly increased until,
at this time, he is recognized as one of the
leading dealers in general groceries in the city.
Mr. Baldwin possesses superior business quali-
fications and by judicious management has
built up a large and remunerative trade. He
has accumulated a competence of worldly ef-
fects, enjoys the prosperity acquired by years
of industry, and occupies a deservedly con-
spicuous place among the successful commer-
cial men of Delaware county. Socially he is
very popular, and fraternally he is prominent-
ly identified with the Improved Order of Red
Men, belonging to Muncie tribe. No. 144.
A republican in politics, he has never been an
office seeker. He is a birth right member of
the Society of Friends, and his daily life and
conversation are practical exemplifications of
the pure precepts of that simple but sublime
faith.
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195
Mr. Baldwin was married in the year 1882
to Miss Sadie E. Lister, daughter of John and
Judith Lister, of Randolph county, to which
union two children, Earl L. and Clarence W. ,
have been born, both living. Mrs. Baldwin is
a respected member of the same religious or-
der to which her husband belongs.
5>^ETERH. D. BANDEY, late promi-
W W nent manufacturer of Muncie, was
£ born in Westminster, London, Eng-
land, on the 27th of February, 1837.
He came to the United States at the age of
eighteen years, and settled in Iowa, where a
brother who had preceded him resided ; later,
he located at Indianapolis, where he remained
for a limited period, and about the year 1858
came to Muncie, Ind., where for some time he
was employed as a laborer in a saw mill. Sub-
sequently, he purchased an interest in the
mill, which, under the firm name of Matthews,
Ryan & Bandey, did a very successful business
for some time, the name afterwards changing
to Matthews & Bandey. Eventually, Mr.
Bandey became sole proprietor of the mill,
which, under his efficient management, con-
tinued to do an increasing business until it be-
came necessary to enlarge its capacity in order
to meet the demands of trade ; accordingly,
new and improved appliances were added
from time to time, including a full set of
machinery for planing lumber, and the estab-
lishment soon became one of the leading
manufacturing enterprises of Muncie. Under
the name of The Bandey Planing mill it was
operated with the most gratifying success until
Mr. Bandey's death, since which time it has
been under the able management of T. J.
Zook with Miss Maud Bandey as assistant,
and is still one of the firmly established and
financially successful manufacturing establish-
ments of Delaware county.
Mr. Bandey took an active interest in the
material prosperity of the city of his adoption,
and as a business man he was straightforward,
upright and honorable ; as a citizen, he was
highly regarded in business and social circles,
and he enjoyed the respect and confidence of
the community in an eminent degree. He
never desired nor sought for political honor or
office, although he filled several positions of
trust and responsibility with the most com-
mendable fidelity. In early life he was not
favored with any peculiar advantages and his
success was entirely due to the indomitable
will and energy which he displayed in all his
undertakings. In 1868 Mr. Bandey was mar-
ried in Muncie to Miss Mary E. Zook of
Philadelphia, Pa., daughter of John A. and
Anna M. Zook, who moved west when Mrs.
Bandey was a mere child. To Mr. and Mrs.
Bandey were born five children, two of whom,
Maud and Charline, are living at this time.
For his standing as a representative business
man as well as for his strict integrity and
nobility of character Mr. Bandey was held in
the highest esteem by the people of Muncie,
and his death, which occurred on the 21st day
of April, 1882, was universallj regretted by
all classes. Of his character and standing in
the community, the subjoined e.xtracts from
the press of Muncie upon the occasion of his
demise furnish a good and correct expression,
as they do also of his life and career while a
resident of this city.
"Mr. Bandey was a zealous member of the
Masonic order for many years and was an of-
ficer in the Masonic council at the time of his
death. He united with the Universalist
church in 1870 and was a faithful attendant
at the services at the church until disease pre-
vented further attendance. Several times
was Mr. Bandey elected to represent his ward
in the council, and that he tilled the office
conscientiousl)- and well is a fact well known
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MUNCIE CITY
to all who are acquainted with his history.
In business he was comparatively successful,
and leaves property sufficient to keep his fam-
ily in comfortable circumstances if properly
managed. As a mechanic Mr. Bandey was
without a superior in his line, and he leaves
numerous monuments to attest his architectur-
al skill in many of the fine buildings that had
been erected under his supervision in this city
and county during the quarter of a century
that he was a resident among us. Mr. Ban-
dey, like all other men, had his faults, but
they were few. He was a man of firm con-
victions and did not hesitate to express his
opinions whenever the occasion required. He
was a man of principle, and honesty was one
of the component parts of his composition.
He never made a promise that he thought he
could not fulfill. His word he considered as
good as his obligation. It has been said that
'when a good man dies the people mourn.'
In the death of Mr. Bandey we have lost a
good man, an honest and upright and a patri-
otic citizen and we mourn his loss as such."
Mrs. Bandey, a lady of many noble quali-
ties of mind and heart and a true helpmeet to
her husband through his many struggles and
successes, departed this life on the iith day
of January, 1892, aged forty-five years. As
already stated the elder daughter, Maud Ban-
dey, is assistant manager of the planing mill,
and in the discharge of the duties of that posi-
tion she displays business qualifications of a
very high order.
'^-t'AMES M. BARNES was born in Mun-
M cie, October 25, 1855, a son of William
/• 1 and Eveline (Wachtell) Barnes, who
became citizens of Delaware county in
1837. Wm. Barnes was, by occupation, a
cabinet maker and carpenter and followed this
trade all of his life, until his death, July 17,
1890. He was considered the finest mechanic
in Muncie, he being the last of his family.
His widow still makes her home in this city.
Both were members of the Presbyterian
church. Politically he was a .democrat, a man
of strict views and always ready to uphold his
church or party. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Barnes
were the parents of seven children, as follows:
Millie J. , Calista A. , Ella, James M. , John W. ,
Bertha and Bessie.
James M. Barnes received a good educa-
tion, and, at the age of twenty-one, began to
learn the trade of photographer, entering a
gallery first in Muncie, and then working at
various places, learning all of the newest and
most approved methods, until 1890, at which
time he permanently located in this city at his
present stand, and has since that time carried
on a very successful business. He has dis-
played much talent in his line, turning out
some very superior and satisfactory work and
bids fair to become known in a much larger
territory, in the near future. Mr. Barnes has
the manner of a successful business man, being
courteous and pleasant to all, thus making his
gallery a desirable one in every way. Frater-
nally Mr. Barnes has connected himself with
the order of Knights of Pythias, uniform rank,
in which he is an active and interested mem-
ber. Mr. Barnes was married May 3, 1893,
in Muncie, to Mattie E. Suber, born October
25, i860, in Delaware county, daughter of
Robert P. and Hanna Suber, also natives of
this county.
^y'^ERRY N. BARR, the eminent horse-
1 m man of Muncie, Ind., was born at
J Wheeling, Delaware county, Ind.,
October 29, 1857, and is a son of
Arnold and Emily (Heath) Barr. The father
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197
died when Perry was but six years of age, and
when seven years old his mother moved to
Muncie with her three children. Here Perry
attended school until twelve, when he lost his
mother also, and was thus left to shift for
himself in the wide world. For about five
years he worked in a grocery, and at the age
of seventeen went to learn the carriage trim-
ming business with Cook & Kinsley, remain-
ing with them two years, when he went to
Bellefontaine, Ohio, where he completed his
apprenticeship. He worked, next, as a jour-
neyman in Marion, Urbana and Springfield,
Ohio, and then started on his travels, which
carried him through nine states. Eventually
settling at Bucjrus, Ohio, he bought a half
interest in a carriage shop, which interest he
sold out two years later, returned to Muncie,
and worked at his trade for some years, mak-
ing large wages by turning out a larger amount
of work than the average. In 1882 Mr. Barr
married Miss Flora T. Sears, of Muncie. Mr.
Barr is a K. of P. and a member of the I. O.
R. M., in which latter he has passed all the
chairs, and is also a member and trustee of
the grand lodge of Indiana. He is also local
agent for the Farmers' and Stock Breeders'
Live Stock Insurance company, and is the
owner of the filly Blondie G., by Bonnie
Doon, dam Blue Bull. Mr. Barr became first
identified with the horse interests of Indiana
by the purchase of the bay mare Cuba, as an
undeveloped four year old. She won her
maiden race in the Delaware county trot of
1888, and in 1890 faced the starter in twenty-
one races, of which she won first money sev-
enteen times and a place in every race, going
into winter quarters with a record of 2:29^.
The rare speed and endurance of the gallant
little mare enlisted Mr. Barr's interest in and
resulted in the purchase of her stoutly bred
and excellent sire, Bonnie Doon, 5322, in
1890. He is perhaps the best living son of
the great Blue Bull, 75, his maternal lines
tracing direct to Sweet's Mambrino, Alexan-
der's Abdallah, and a thoroughbred founda-
tion. Bonnie Doon's roll of honor includes
Cuba, 2:25.\, Maud M., 2:30, and a number
of other young csndidates for 2:30 records.
The progeny of Bonnie Doon make typical
carriage and buggy horses, and will contribute
their full share to the improvement of the
horse stock of the country. Mr. Barr has
fitted up convenient and healthful breeding
stables on West Main street, which also con-
tain the black stallion Abdallah King (grand-
son of Abdallah, 15, sire of Goldsmith Maid,
2:14), and other well bred stock. Mr. Barr is
an intelligent horseman, and is active as a
promoter of the country's live stock interests,
whose stables have already taken a foremost
position among the best in the county. In
politics, Mr. Barr is a stanch democrat.
kJ^ ARRINGTON BEHYMEK, the gen-
\c^ tleman for whom this biography is
J^^J written, is a well known resident of
Delaware county, Ind., an ex-soldier
and one of her most esteemed citizens. Mr.
Behymer was born in Clermont county, Ohio
January 10, 1833, a son of John and Nancy
(Leach) Behymer. The former, born in the
state of Virginia in 1803, is consequently now
ninety years of age, but still retains his facul-
ties in a remarkable degree, and has led a
good, benevolent life, residing at present in
Clermont county, Ohio, where he married in
1830. He saw the full growth of the county
and all of his active life was spent in farming
or in following the carpenter trade until 1875,
at which time he retired from business. Eight
of his family of thirteen children are yet living
and are heads of families themselves. He is
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a republican in politics and still takes great
interest in the progress of public affairs.
Barrington Behymer was reared on the old
home farm, where he remained until twenty-
five years of age, and enjoyed excellent edu-
cational advantages, attending first the com-
mon schools, and later spent two terms at
what is known as the Farmers college near
Cincinnati, Ohio. At the age of twenty years
he began teaching school, and, with the ex-
ception of three years spent in the army, ■ re-
mained in the educational field until 1865,
teaching in all about twenty terms. On the
lOth day of September, 1861, he enlisted in
company A, Fifth Ohio cavalry, and served in
Gen. Grant's division in Tennessee, Mississippi
and Alabama, and in March, 1862, for gallant
and meritorious conduct was promoted batta-
lion sergeant major. One year later this rank
was abolished by act of congress, after which
Mr. Behymer was made regimental sergeant
major, in which capacity he served until March
10, 1864, when he was promoted second lieu-
tenant of compan}' L, Fifth Ohio cavalry. He
continued in the latter capacity until honor-
ably discharged from the service October 27,
1864, at which time he resumed the arts of
peace at his home in Ohio. During his period
of service Mr. Behymer took part in the bat-
tles of Shiloh, where he was engaged two days;
Big Hatchet, Cold Water, Mission Ridge,
Lookout Mountain, and various other fights
and skirmishes.
In 1865 Mr. Behymer moved to Jennings
county, Ind., and served as deputy circuit
court clerk there for a period of three years, at
the end of which time he returned to Ohio and
engaged in teaching school during the winter
of 1869-70. He embarked in the mercantile
business in the spring of 1872, which he fol-
lowed during the years of 1872 and 1873, and
in 1875 resumed teaching, which profession he
followed successfully during the succeeding
three years. In 1888 he once again engaged
in the goods business in the county of Cler-
mont, Ohio, where he remained until the
spring of 1884, when he removed to the town
of Mason, in the same state, thence after a
short time returned and purchased the same
property he had sold in Clermont county, and
from the fall of 1884 to the spring of 1887 was
engaged in the goods business, with a miscel-
laneous assortment of merchandise. In the
spring of 1888 he removed to Indiana, locating
in the city of Muncie, where, the following
year, he was appointed justice of the peace, in
which capacity he has since served, having
been re-elected in 1890. He was also admit-
ted to the bar as an attorney at law, and in
addition to his official duties gives considerable
attention to the legal profession. Mr. Behy-
mer was married in his native county, April 7,
1866, to Miss Lizzie McDonnald, also a native
of Clermont county, born on the iith day of
December, 1848, the daughter of David and
Ann (Wheeler) McDonnald, parents of Scotch
and English ancestry respectively. Three chil-
dren have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Behy-
mer — the first an infant named Pearl, who died
at the age of three weeks ; the others, Anna,
who is still with her parents, and Arthur L. ,
an error clerk in the railway mail service at
Cincinnati. In his political affiliations Mr.
Behymer is a stanch supporter of the republi-
can party, and he is one of the prominent
members of the G. A. R. of Muncie. He is a
man of much more than ordinary intelligence,
has been a wide reader and close observer and
has decided views upon all the leading ques-
tions of the day, which he has no hesitancy in
expressing. He is widely and favorably known
in the city of his residence and possesses in an
eminent degree the esteem and confidence of
his many friends and neighbors. He has ac-
quired an enviable reputation as an attorney,
and gained a lucrative practice.
C. L. BENDER.
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aHARLES L. BENDER, formerly the
senior partner in the great clothing
firm of Bender & Shoemaker, pro-
prietors of the Globe clothing house
of Muncie, but now the sole successor to the
business, is a native of Yorktown, Mount
Pleasant township, Delaware county, Ind. ,
and was born September 27, 1855. His
father, John Bender, was born in Strassburg,
Germany, and in 1850 came to the United
States, locating in Philadelphia. He was then
a young man, and while in the city of Broth-
erly Love learned shoemaking. In 1852 he
came to Indiana and took up his residence in
Hagerstown, Wayne county, and in the same
year married Miss Gertrude Simon. From
Hagerstown he moved to Yorktown, where he
resided four years, and then moved to Salem
township, where he worked for a year in a
tannery, and then moved to Daleville, where
he now has his residence, and is still engaged
in tanning. His marriage with Miss Simon
was blessed by the birth of four sons and five
daughters, named as follows: John, drowned
at the age of four, at Yorktown; Charles L. ,
whose name opens this sketch; Rosetfa A.,
now Mrs. Charles Smock; Mary E., wife of
S. J. Simmons, of Muncie; William H., de-
ceased; Edward P., salesman; Augusta, Allie,
deceased, and Nellie.
Charles L. Bender engaged in the affairs of
life for himself at the early age of twelve, go-
ing to Chesterfield, Madison county, Ind.,
where he learned carriage painting, and gained
his early schooling. He then carried on the
business awhile on his own account, next
clerked in a general store at Daleville, next
was employed in frescoing, worked awhile at
Indianapolis, then returned to Daleville, where
he went into business for himself again for a
season, and then went into the dry goods
store of J. B. Garrett, as clerk, and next
took the management of the dry goods
and grocery store of J. H. DusaTig. In
1877 he came to Muncie and was a clirk
in the Kirby house for two iminths, after
which he went to Anderson as clerk for E. M.
Ha}s & Son, later clerked for Samuel Rose.
March 10, 1880, he returned to Muncie and
clerked for Parker & Powell, then proprietors
of the Globe clothing house, which was a small
concern at that time and located on east Main
street; the store was subse(]uently sold to
James Boyce and others, and Mr. Bender was
given the management. Two years later Mr.
Bender formed a partnership with J. P. Shoe-
maker, a wealthy grain merchant of Middle-
town, Ind., and together they purchased the
stock of the Globe, the business of which, un-
der the efficient management of Mr. l>cndcr,
so increased that within a short time enlarged
quarters had to be secured, and the west end
of the Boyce block was selected, where an
immense trade was done, until Mr. Bender, in
the summer of 1893, purchased the entire con-
cern, and now carries the largest stock of
clothing and gentlemen's furnishing goods ever
seen in eastern Indiana, and the Globe is doing
a larger trade than ever at the same old stand
of Bender & Shoemaker.
Charles L. Bender was married May 19,
1880, to Miss Isabel Gray, and the couple re-
side in an elegant mansion on east Main street.
Although not a member of any church, Mr.
Bender is a moral man in every respect and is
highly respected by the whole community. He
is a prominent Odd Fellow, is a Knight of
Pythias and a member of the B. P. O. E. He
is liberal in his donations to school and church
and his private acts of charity are munificent,
but by no means ostentatious. Although yet
quite young, Mr. Bender has reached much
prominence as a business man, and his success
has been the result of his individual merit.
He is affable and appreciative of his custom-
ers' wants, and always reliable.
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'ILLIAM BENNETT has for some
years been a prominent citizen of
Delaware county, and at this writ-
ing is one of the strong financial
men and leading spirits of the city of Muncie.
Mr. Bennett is a native of Ohio, born Septem-
ber 4, 1826, in the county of Pickaway, to
which John and Sarah (Downs) Bennett moved
a number of years ago from Delaware.
William is the sixth child of the above couple,
and he grew to manhood in his native county,
in the schools of which he received his educa-
tional training. Reared on the farm he laid
the fouddation of a character which in later
years has enabled him to accumulate vastly
more of this world's goods than usually !alls
to the lot of the average man. In 1849, he
was united in marriage to Miss Rhoda Van-
Buskirk of Pickaway county, Ohio, daughter
of John and Sophia Van Buskirk ; she died in
the spring of '74, leaving three daughters and
one son: oldest. Sophia, wife of James O. Day,
of Madison county, Ohio ; Mary, wife of James
McClimons of Madison county, Ohio ; Laura,
wife of Fred W. Heath of this city, and Win-
field Scott, who died at twenty-one years and
three months, and, some years thereafter, Mr.
Bennett followed the pursuit of agriculture near
his old home. Later Mr. Bennett removed to
the county of Madison, near Mt. Sterling,
where he remained for eight years, a part of
which time was devoted to his chosen calling
but later, owing to impaired health, he was
compelled to abandon the active work of the
farm. Mr. Bennett became a resident of
Indiana in the year of 1882, locating in the
thriving city of Muncie, where he has since
resided. In 1868, he purchased real estate in
Mt. Pleasant township, also became the pos-
sessor of valuable farming lands in the town-
ship of Harrison, also a farm in Salem township,
and at different times made judicious invest-
ments in various parts of the county until he
finally became the largest owner of real estate
in Delaware county. In addition to his holdings
in the county, Mr. Bennett is also largely pos-
sessed of Muncie real estate, and real estate in
Pickaway and Madison counties, Ohio. He
has two farms in Pickaway county of 700 and
400 acres respectively, and one farm in Madi-
son county of 287 acres, very valuable — which,
with the other possessions, are the legitimate
result of his wise foresight. He is a large
stockholder in the Co-operative Gas company
of Muncie, is, also, prominently identified with
the Cammack Gas company, beside taking an
active interest in various other industrial en-
terprises and other movements.
Mr. Bennett is now in the sixty-seventh
year of his age, possesses in a marked degree
his faculties both mental and physical, and, is
still quick of preception and prompt in decis-
ion. His success in life is to be attributed to
a naturally well endowed mind, plus caution,
energy, frugality, integrity and earnest en-
deavor, which qualities have established a
character above reproach and gained for him
the esteem and confidence of many. Politi-
cally a republican, he has never been promi-
nent us a partisan, preferring to give his en-
tire attention to his business enterprises; reli-
giously the Methodist church represents his
creed, and for some years he has been an ac-
tive member of the High street congregation
of Muncie.
Mr. Bennett remarried December 17, 1874
to Miss Mary Maddux of Pickaway county,
Ohio, by whom he has had one child, named
Pearl R. , who still resides at home.
OWEN BEOUY, deceased, was born
near Wheeling, Delaware county,
Ind., January 22, 1852, and was a son
of Edmond Beouy, mention of whom
will be found in detail in another portion of
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this volume. Although in early life trained to
be a tiller of the soil, he, even as a boy,
evinced a fondness for horseflesh, which in-
creased -in intensity as the }ears rolled on, and
at his majority he engaged almost exclusively
in buying and selling animals, and eventually
became one of the most extensive dealers in
eastern Indiana, and certainly the largest ship-
per, by far, in Delaware county. A few years
before his death he was employed by a Boston
firm to purchase and ship, on their account,
every animal that was suited to their trade,
and for this one firm he, in a single year,
shipped 836 horses, in addition to supplying
the wants of his other customers. More than
a year prior to his death his health broke down,
and for several weeks he passed his time at
Hot Springs, Ark. , with the hope of recupera-
ting, but, on returning to his home, although
he felt much improved, his restless industry
caused a relapse, which again laid him on a
sick bed, from which, a few days later, his
gentle spirit took its flight November i 5, 1892.
Mr. Beouy was a man invariably recognized as
being generous to a fault, and as kind as he
was generous ; and the community has lost
few better men. He was a charter member of
Twa Twa tribe, I. O. R. M., but his impaired
health precluded his taking even the initiatory
degree. His worship was within the pale of
the Methodist Episcopal church, and the last
sad funeral rites were conducted at his former
residence, at the corner of Jefferson and Gil-
bert streets, by Rev. James M. Lewis, of Dun-
kirk, Ind. , and Rev. George H. Hill, pastor of
the High street M. E. church, of Muncie.
The marriage of Mr. Beouy occurred in
Jonesboro, Ind., September 7, 1889, the bride
being Miss Emma Taylor, a most amiable
young lady, with whom he became acquainted
shortly after first making his headquarters in
the "Magic" city, and until his last hour the
union was one of unallo}ed happiness. Mrs.
Hcouy was born at Irwin, in Westmoreland
county, Pa., March 2>). 1S59, daughter of
George W. and Caroline 1 Bossard) Tavlor.
eDW'ARI) W. BISHOP, the leading
insurance man of Muncie, was born
in Worthington, Franklin county,
Ohio, March 21, 1847. His father,
William Bishop, was born at Poughkeepsie, N.
Y. , January 23, 1802, the son of John Bishop,
who with his wife and family emmigrated to
Ohio in 18 18, locating in what is nowWester-
ville, Franklin county, of which part of the
country- he was one of the earliest pioneers.
W'illiam Bishop assisted his father in clearing
land which the latter purchased from the gov-
ernment, and remained with his parents until
failing health induced him to go to Sulphur
Springs, Va., where he learned the saddler's
trade. Returning to Ohio he established him-
self in that business at Worthington, where,
at the age of twenty-eight, he married Char-
lotte Wolcott, daughter of Judge Wolcott of
Franklinton, Ohio. In 1854 he disposed of
his saddlery interests at Worthington and en-
gaged in the hotel business for a number of
years. In an early day William Bishop was
largely instrumental in locating the college at
^\'orthington, and later was very successful in
establishing the Ohio Wesleyan university at
Delaware. He was a leading member of the
Methodist Episcopal church, and in politics
was originally a whig, but afterward a repub-
lican. For several years prior to the civil
war, he was connected with the Under Ground
railroad, and his barn was used as a hiding
place for escaping slaves. The following are
the names of the children born to William and
Charlotte Bishop : Celia, Erville B., Luella,
Edward W. and F"rank W. In addition to
the above there were four that died in infancy
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unnamed, and Luella is now deceased. Mrs.
Bishop died during the cholera scourge of
1850. Mr. Bishop died at Worthington,
Ohio, about the year 1870, at an advanced
age.
Edward W. Bishop was three years of age
when he was called upon to part with his
mother. He spent his boyhood days in his
native county, attended at intervals the coun-
try schools, and, at the early age of fifteen,
enlisted, at Camp Chase, Ohio, in company C,
One Hundred and Thirteenth Ohio Volunteer in-
fantry; was mustered in, August, 1862, as a pri-
vate, but within a short time was promoted adjut-
ant's orderly, and served in the army of the Cum-
berland until August, 1863, when, on account
of impaired health, he received an honorable
discharge. Returning home, he was for some
time employed as clerk in a general store, and
later accepted the position of bookkeeper in a
manufacturing establishment at Mount Vic-
tory, Ohio, where he remained ten months.
In September, 1866, he came to Muncie, Ind. ,
and accepted a clerical position in the Bee
Line office for eight months, and was then
appointed the company's agent at Winches-
ter, and filled the latter position for eleven
years. Mr. Bishop next engaged as traveling
salesmen for a mercantile firm of Hagerstown,
Md. , passed three years on the road, returned
to Muncie, and again entered the employ of
the Bee Line Railroad company, continued for
a limited period, and then became agent for
the L. E. & W. for about three years. He
then renewed his connection with the Bee
Line, which in the meantime had been
changed to the C, C, C. & St. L. R. R ,
becoming cashier in the freight department at
Muncie, where he remained for three years,
and then, owing to ill health, was compelled
to resign.
His next venture was the insurance business,
which he has since conducted upon quite an ex-
tensive scale in Muncie, representing at this time
twenty of the leading companies of the world
and carrying policies for many large manufac-
turing establishments of the city. Mr. Bishop
was married October 20, 1869, to Miss Elsie
Dana, daughter of Dr. Marcus Dana of Fos-
toria, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop are the par-
ents of three children, namely: ErvilleD. , Mar-
cus S. and Charlotte L., all living. Socially
he occupies a prominent place in the society
of Muncie and in politics supports the princi-
ples of the republican party. In the Masonic
fraternity he stands high, having taken a num-
ber of degrees, including that of Sir Knight,
and he is also an active worker in the G. A.
R. Erville D. Bishop was born November 6,
1870, received his education in the Muncie
schools, graduating in 1891, after which he
became associated with his father in business.
November 7, 1892, he was united in marriage
with Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Prutz-
man. Marcus, the second son, is a bright in-
telligent lad of thirteen, and Charlotte is a
charming Miss of eleven years.
>^OHN H. BLOOR, D. D. S., Muncie,
M Ind., was born in Mansfield, Ohio,
«1 July 6, 1864, and is the son of Will-
iam and Jane E. (Au) Bloor. His
youthful days were passed in Mansfield, and
while yet attending public schools had begun
the study of dentistry, during vacations, in the
office of Dr. C. M. Roe — graduating from a pub-
lic school in 1884 and pursuing his studies an-
other year. In 1885 and 1886 he attended
the Ohio Dental college at Cincinnati, and be-
gan practice at Fredericktown, Ohio, and then,
in 1 89 1, went to Indianapolis, Ind., as assist-
ant demonstrator of crown and bridge work
in the Post Graduate school of prosthetic
dentistry, and at the same time attended the
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Indiana Dental college, from which he re-
ceived the degree of D. D. S. He next went
to Louisville, K}'. , where he took an interest
in the New York Dental company, incorpor-
ated under the laws of the state of Kentucky,
and September 20, 1892, opened a branch of-
fice of the company in Muncie, with parlors in
the Wildermuth block, 2o8.\ south Walnut
street. The doctor has made an excellent
reputation in Muncie, as elsewhere, and makes |
a specialty of crown and bridge work, con-
sidered, to-day, the highest branch of dentist- |
ry, and is, in the largest cities, the practical
test of proficiency in the art. i
Dr. Bloor was happily married, in 1888, to i
the accomplished daughter of H. E. Kendall,
of Mansfield, Ohio. The doctor is a member
of tne I. O. O. F. and of the Knights of
Pythias, and he and wife enjoy the respect of
a large circle of friends and social acquaint-
ances, while the doctor's professional stand-
ing is with the highest.
BARRA L. BOTKIN is a native of Ran-
dolph county, Ind., born April 7,
1868, and is a son of William T. and
Martha (Cropper) Botkin. He re-
ceived his preliminary education at the com-
mon schools of the county, passed through the
three terms of the normal school at Winches-
ter, and then began the study of veterinary
science at London, Ont., with Dr. J. H. Ten-
nant, in October, 1888, and for two years pur-
sued a private and practical course of study
under that distinguished practitioner. He en-
tered the Ontario Veterinary college, at Tor-
onto, in the fall of 1890, and took another
regular course for two years, being in actual
practice with his old preceptor during vaca-
tions, and graduated March 25, 1892. During
his terms of study he received the silver medal
for the best examination in pathology, and also
the gold medal for the general examination in
the sessions of 1891-92 in a class of 164 stu-
dents from the United States, Canada, Eng-
land, Scotland, Ireland, the West Indies and
South America. In the spring of 1 892 Dr.
Botkin located in Muncie, supplied with all the
appliances and instruments necessary to per-
form any surgical operation. In connection
with his veterinary work, he makes a spec-
ialty of dental surgery, in which he has
acquired considerable skill. A liberal patron-
age has already been given to him, and as soon
as his qualifications shall have been known
more generally he will not, by any means, be
left with idle time on his hands. The doctor
fully appreciates the exacting demands which
the conscientious practice of veterinary science
entails, and is prepared to meet them. It is a
science whose representatives have made all
the more important by the application of vital
as well as medical truths in recent years,
among which are the "germ theory of di.sease"
by Pasteur (himself a veterinarian), and oth-
ers of similar importance.
HOMAS J. BOWLES, M. D., one of
the most talented members of the
medical profession in the county of
Delaware, Ind., is a native of the
state, having been born in Rush county, July
24, 1836. His parents were James and Sarah
A. (Smith) Bowles, natives of Kentucky, who
settled in Rush county, Ind., about 1826.
James Bowles was of English extraction, was
born in 1807, and was reared to farming and
stock raising. Having married Miss Smith in
his early manhood, he took his departure by
wagon from Kentucky to Indiana in 1826, and
here settled among the pioneers of Rush
county. His wife, and one Kentucky born
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child, Christina, were his companions, and
after his arrival in Rush county, Ind., there
were born to him five others; one infant, Paul,
that was born and died in Kentucky, found its
final repose in that state. Indiana gave birth
to Joseph, Thomas J., Mary A,, James H.
and Amanda. The father of this family,
James Bowles, although not highly educated
at school, was a man of deep reading and
deeper observation, and still deeper thought.
He held a sympathy and a communion with
all nature, and was a lover of man — a philan-
thropist. He was active in all enterprises cal-
culated for the promotion of the well being of
the inhabitants of his adopted county of Rush,
and set an example to the younger members
of the community by accumulating acres to the
number of i,ooo, in order to show that in real
estate there is a command over the respect of
fellow men that is absent when there is no tangi-
ble property to show that the individual has at
least strained his sinews and bent his thought
toward giving an evidence that he meant to
deserve and win the esteem of his fellows.
He took great interest in educational affairs,
and was never niggardly in assisting their ad-
vancement. In his early life he was an ardent
whig, and a great admirer of Henry Clay, and
later became as strong an adherent of Abraham
Lincoln. In physical stature he was robust,
but of medium build. Sickness was a stranger
to him until within a few months of his death,
which occurred in his eighty-sixth year, in
September, 1892. In religious matters he was
as deep thoughted as in worldly affairs, and
by the world was thought to be agnostic.
Mrs. Sarah A. (Smith) Bowles, of German
parentage, was a woman of strong mind and
clear thought, but of devout christian instinct
and charitable tendencies. She died at the
age of seventy-six, a consistent member of the
Christian church.
Thomas J. Bowles was in his early days
inured to farm life among the pioneers of In-
diana on his father's homestead, and inherit-
ing all his father's intelligence and shrewdness,
developed not only the complete farmer but
the perfect man. His earlier school days were
passed in the subscription schools of his
neighborhood, and the thirst for knowledge
there acquired was further whetted under the
celebrated A. R. Benton, of Fairview, under
whom he studied three years. He next en-
tered the office of Dr. A. C. Dillon, near
Rushville, and for two years gave his whole
attention to the study of medicine. In 1858,
toward the latter part of the year, he entered
the Ohio Medical college at Cincinnati, from
which he finally graduated in 1867. His
first practice had been at Windsor, Randolph
county, Ind., where he made his mark and
kept his patients until his return from college
in 1867. After another course of study he re-
sumed his practice at Blountsville with re-
newed success, until 1874, when he came to
Muncie. Here he at once leaped into a fore-
most professional position, but his love for
study was not satisfied, and another course
was taken at Bellevue hospital. New York,
and at Chicago (111.) Rush Medical college.
Thus equipped for the practice of his chosen
profession, he has since made Delaware and
adjoining counties the scene of his professional
triumphs; Muncie, however, has been his home
and the seat of his chief success, and here
medicine and surgery have found their pro-
foundest exponent in him. He was an organ-
izer of a number, and is a member of all, the
medical socities and associations of the cit)',
county and state, and his lectures and contri-
butions have received from the members of
them all the most marked attention. In poli-
tics he is a republican, but has never been an
office seeker nor a partisan. Ardent in his
advocacy of principle, he lends a willing hand
and voice to the promotion of his party's cause.
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and as early as the days of John C. Fremont's
campaign made numerous eloquent and effect-
ive speeches in favor of free soil, as republi-
canism was then called.
Dr. T. J. Bowles is a man of rare and
superior attainments; an extensive reader,
especially of works of advanced minds, scien-
tific and otherwise; is keenly alive to the
interests of humanity; a bitter opponent of
dogmatic theology, believing it to be an ene-
my to human progress; an agnostic in belief,
the doctor is an evolutionist and endorses
Darwin's theory to the letter, believing that
the evils of the world must be cured by the
moral and intellectual growth of mankind; a
man with an ardent desire to elevate the
standard of intelligence and morality in our
own city, and a faithful worker to attain that
end, he has been the originator and principal
organizer of several societies that have accom-
plished great good in this direction, namely — the
Scientific and Literary association; Literary
Fireside; Home Circle and Ethical society.
His peculiar mental attainments have fitted
him for the work in hand. He is probably che
best extemporaneous speaker in the city of
Muncie. Florid in expression, a good debater,
deeply in earnest, frequently sharp and incisive
in his remarks, but of the most tolerant dispo-
sition; a man of refined tastes, neat in person,
temperate and industrious, a good neighbor, a
good husband, an indulgent parent and firm
friend. His benevolence makes him a philan-
thropist. Science, art, ethics and literature
absorb his attention and study, and all associ-
ations for their culture and promotion meet
with his hearty support. He has made him-
self acquainted with ancient and modern phil-
osophy and various theologies and mythologies,
both modern and ancient.
The doctor was married October 14, i860,
to Miss Sophora Spangler, a daughter of Henr\-
and Anna (Reves) Spangler, who resided near
the historic battle ground of Gettysburg, Pa.,
and were of German descent. Mrs. Bowles was
born in March, 1841, and is a member of a
family composed of thirteen rhildren, all of
whom were remarkable for their physical vigor
and the purity of their German characteristics.
Her early education was obtained at the com-
mon schools of her native state, but her liter-
ary training is chiefly due to the doctor. She
has been a diligent student and an omniverous
reader, and is thoroughly in sympathy with her
husband. She is remarkably acute as a critic
in the mythologies, the theologies and the
philosophies of ancient and modern times, and
is altogether companionable. She is the
mother of seven children, born in the following
order: Herschel, Homer, Ardella, Leora,
Ada, Herbert and Herman, of whom, however,
Herbert and Ardella are deceased. The doc-
tor and his family are most highly esteemed in
Muncie, and the refined society of the city is
always rejoiced at their presence within its
circle.
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HARLES W. BOYCE, the Muncie
electrician, was born in Alliance, Ohio,
December 27, 1866, and is a son of
James and Eliza I^oyce, who came to
Muncie, Ind., when their son Charles W.,
with whose name we open this sketch, was
but four years of age. The latter received his
education in the schools of Muncie and at the
Miami Commercial college, Dayton, Ohio.
At the age of seventeen he went to Portland,
Ore., where for two years he was a pressman
in a printing office, and in 1885 clerked for a
dry goods house. In 1887 and 1888 he worked
as pressman at Des Moines, Iowa, on the
State Register, whence he went to Chicago,
and for a time was in the press department of
Rand, McNally cS: Co. Next he became a
traveling salesman for Randall, Hall & Co.,
MUNCIE CITY
for a brief period, and then engaged for two
years as superintendent for his father in his
electric plant. Fort Wayne, Ind., was the
next scene of his operations, and there he
became manager of the Jenney Electric Manu-
facturing company, and assisted them in
putting in a plant at Evansville, Ind., and
ether points. In 1891 the Falher block was
burned, and Mr. Boyce was called in to re-
wire it. He has ever since been superintend-
ent of the Heat, Power & Light company,
the plant being now situated at the corner of
Elm and Willow streets, Muncie. This com-
pany has four Edison incandescent dynamos,
two Brush arc dynamos, about five miles of
wire, fifty arc lights and 1000 incandescent,
with uninterrupted service.
Mr. Boyce was married, in 1889, to Miss
Minnie, daughter of Charles P., and Nancy
(Humphries) Thomas, of Fortville, Ind., the
union being blessed with one child, James G.
Mrs. Boyce is a lady of remarkable literary
talent, and the following extract from a metro-
politan daily, will give an adequate idea of
some of her work in this line:
"Tragedies, comedies, romances are being
lived all around us — it is the art of the story
teller to give our every day experiences that
touch of nature which makes all the world
akin. Hoosier life is fertile and teeming with
an element which is found nowhere else ; a
humorous and a pathetic side which delights
the world at large, and from this element
springs the popularity of our own inimitable
James Whitcomb Riley. No less popular are
the wholesome and clever story delineations of
Minnie Thomas Boyce. Her ' Punkin Holler'
sketches, first appearing in the Chicago Inter
Ocean, have been widely copied and no less
widely admired. 'Bertha Jane,' which was
published in the Ladies' Home Journal, is a
story of much power. Mrs. Boyce adds to
her talent as a story writer fine abilities as an
elocutionist. She writes her own recitations
and never fails to delight an audience. She
composes rapidly and is more fortunate than
most young writers in that she finds a ready
market for MSS. Most of writers have their
special hours for composition, her's are in the
evening when the cares of the day are over.
Mrs. Boyce has on hand a series of 'Hoosier
Stories' which will appear in book form in the
near future ; her original recitations may also
be given to the public at a later date. She
gives great promise in the developement of
that western literature of which we are so
justly proud and which is second to none in
the world of literary art."
HLLISON B. BRADBURY, M. D.,
deceased, was born in Wayne coun-
ty, Ind., September 17, 1842, and
was one of fourteen children born to
Abner M. and Mary (Boyd) Bradbury. Alli-
son B. Bradbury received his preparatory edu-
cation in the public schools of his native
county, and this was supplemented by a course
in the Ann Arbor (Mich.) university. After
graduating from the medical department of
that institution of learning he entered on the
practice of his chosen profession at Milton,
Wayne county, Ind., in the spring of 1865,
having taught school for several years just
prior to his finally engaging in practice. In
1868 and 1869 he attended the college of
Physicians and Surgeons, at Brooklyn, N. Y. ,
for which he had been prepared by a course of
study under Dr. Griffis, of Middletown, Ind.,
and in February, 1872, resumed his practice at
Milton, Ind., for a short time, afterward re-
siding at Cambridge City, Ind., where he met
with flattering success, and felt justified in re-
maining until 1879, when he was called to the
more extensive and remunerative field of Mun-
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cie, where he held a prominent position in the
practice until his death,. January 23, 1892.
The marriage of the doctor was a most felici-
tous one and took place July 26, 1863, to Miss
Sarah Burr, who was born in Middletown,
Ind., September 9, 1843, the daughter of
Chauncy and Jane (Williams) Burr, both pio-
neers of Henry county, Ind., the former a tan-
ner by trade, and one of the most highly re-
sjjected citizens of Henry county, in which lie
served as justice of the peace for over fnrt\-
years.
To the union of Dr. Bradbury and Miss
Burr were born three children, vi/: Bertrand
F., Zerelda (deceased), Jane, a teacher in the
city schools of Muncie. It was just about the
time of the occurrence of his marriage that the
doctor entered the one hundred days' service,
which time he served with effective gallantry
in the One Hundred and Thirt}-seventh
Ohio national guards. Dr. Bradbury was
a prominent republican and an active work-
er from principle and not from aspiration
to any public office. Although many times he
sought to fill public office, he never acquiesced
to his friends except to assume the office of
secretary of the board of health of Muncie,
which he filled creditably for a number of
years. His death came suddenly, the result of
an accident, and was a shock to his many
friends, as he was a man dearly loved by all
and filled a niche in society and his profession
which can never be filled. He was a pioneer
in spirit and purchased 400 acres of land near
Carmack station in the wildest state, and
transformed it into one of the best farms in the
county.
Bertrand F. Bradbury was born August i O,
1866, and was a son of Allison and Sarah
(Burr) Bradbury. His education was acquired
at the public schools, and at the age of eight-
een he began his business life by becoming a
clerk in the store of J. B. Knowlton, imple-
ment dealer, and luxt as book-keeper for J.
Vogt, nicrciuint tailor, with whom he remained
three years, after which time, in November,
1889, in company with Lee Shaw, engaged in
the hat trade, and since i S92 has been con-
ducting the establishment on his sole account,
making hosts of friends.
*w ^ ON. ARTHUR W. BKADY, mayor of
|f^ Muncie, is a nati\e of Delaware
jL,r courrty, Ind., born on the 13th day
of January, 1865, the son of Gen.
Thomas J. and Emeline (Wolfe) Brady. After
receiving a primary education in the schools
of Muncie and attending a preparatory school
in New Preston, Conn., Mr. Bradj', in 1883,
entered Yale college, in which he completed
the prescribed course, graduating in the class
of 1887 with the degree of B. A. He then
studied law in the office of K. C. Bell, of Ft.
Wayne, Ind., one year, entered the law de-
partment of the university of Michigan at Ann
Arbor, and graduated in the year 1889. Mr.
Brady, in the fall of the above yeaX, was ad-
mitted to the Delaware county bar; has done
an extensive legal business in the courts of
Delaware county and the United States court,
and in 1890 was made local attorney for the
L. E. & W. R. R., which position he still re-
tains. Mr. Brady is a democrat in his politi-
cal affiliations, and in 1891 was nominated by
his party for the office of mayor or Muncie, to
which, with the assistance of independent re-
publican voters, he was elected by the hand-
some majority of 660. He has the honor of
being the youngest man ever elected to this
responsible position, and he has discharged
the duties of the office in a manner highly
creditable to himself and satisfactory alike to
his friends and to those who opposed him po-
litically.
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Mr. Brady is a man of much more than or-
dinary mental capacity, and with his facuhies
well disciplined by collegiate training he has
already arisen to a prominent place among his
professional brethren of the Delaware county
bar. Mr. Brady is an affable gentleman,
courteous and kind hearted, and his integrity
and worth have made him quite popular not
only with his professional associates but with
all classes of his fellow citizens of the city of
Muncie. He was one of the organizers of the
Ancile club, of which he has served as direct-
or, and belongs to Muncie lodge. No. 443, A.
F. & A. M. ; also to Welcome lodge, K. P.
@EN. THOMAS J. BRADY was born
in the city of Muncie, Delaware coun-
ty, Ind., on the 12th day of Febru-
ary, 1840. His father, John Brady,
the second son of William and Julia Ann
(Lerch) Brady, was born in Warren county,
Ohio, September 30, 1803. John Brady, in
March, 1824, removed to Indiana, settling at
Richmond, where, on the i6th of March,
1825, he was united in marriage to .Mary
Wright, who, with her mother, had immi-
grated to Indiana from Maryland in 1824.
Afterward, he removed to Muncie, in 1836.
John Brady served as associate judge from
1 841 to 1 85 1 and as postmaster from 1847 to
1 86 1. Subsequently, in 1865, he was elected
mayor of Muncie, and filled the office from
that date until 1867. In 1871 he was chosen
a member of the city council and served until
1873. From 1878 to 1880 he served as town-
ship trustee, and for many years was one of
the city commissioners. He died in the year
1884, deeply lamented by all who knew him.
The following are the names of his children:
William, died at an early age, Samuel F. ,
Thomas J. and Edward W.
Thomas J. Brady was educated in the
Delaware county seminary and at Asbury
universit}' at Greencastle, Ind. After gradu-
ating, he entered the office of Hon. Thomas J.
Sample of Muncie as a student. During the
winter of 1S58-59, he served in the capacity
of clerk to the judiciary committee of the
state senate. After being admitted to the bar,
he removed to Bethany, Mo., but one year
later returned to Muncie, served as census
enumerator in 1 860, and the same year was
appointed principal of the Washington schools,
which position he held during one winter. At
the breaking out of the war Gen. Brady raised
the first company that went from Delaware
county, in 1861. This company was at first
assigned to a provisional regiment organized
by Gov. Morton, with Gen. Lew Wallace in
command, to assist in averting the danger that
menaced the national capital. The company
from Delaware county, however, became com-
pany C, Eighth Indiana infantry — three
months' service. They served under Gens.
McClellan and Rosecrans in West Virginia.
Subsequently Capt. Brady's company became
company A, and the regiment was assigned to
the department of Missouri. Shortly after the
battle of Pea Ridge, Capt. Brady became
major of the regiment, which afterward formed
a part of Gen. McClernand's corps in Missis-
sippi.
Gen. Brady participated in the battle of
Port Gibson, the Black River and Champion
Hills campaigns, and was also active-
ly engaged during the siege of Vicks-
burg. On the 19th of September, 1863,
he was made the recipient of a colonel's
commission by Gov. Morton. His regi-
ment was the One Hundred and Seven-
teenth Indiana infantry, six months' troops.
The term of enlistment of the One Hundred
and Seventeenth expired in 1864, and, on the
loth of October of that year. Gen. Brady was
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commissioned colonel of the One Hundred and
Fortieth regiment Indiana volunteer infantry,
over one half of which he raised by his own
efforts during the summer of that year. With
this regiment he went to Nashville, to Mur-
freesboro', Tenn., and finally to garrison duty
at Fort Rosecrans, where he remained during
the siege of Nashville. He participated with
his command in all the engagements in the
vicinity of Murfreesboro, and the regiment af-
terward formed a part of the Third brigade.
First division. Twenty-third army corps, un-
der the command of Gen. Cox. In 1865 the
regiment took part in the storming of Fort
Anderson, and subsequently was engaged in
the action at Town Creek bridge. The regi-
ment was mustered out of service July i i ,
1865, and within a short time thereafter Col.
Brady was honored with a promotion by brevet
to the rank of brigadier general of volunteers.
In the winter of 1863-64 Gen. Brady returned
to Muncie and was united in marriage to Miss
Emeline, daughter of Adam Wolfe, on the
loth day of May of the latter year, and at the
close of his army life, he resumed the practice
of his profession. The children born to his
marriage are named Arthur W. , Elizabeth W.
and Winfield E. Brady.
In 1868 he purchased the Muncie Times.
In 1870 he was appointed, by Pres. Grant, to
the consulate of the island of St. Thomas,
West Indies, and on this account he severed
his connection with the Times. In 1874,
while on leave of absence, he was appointed
chairman of the republican state central com-
mittee. He resigned his position as consul
in 1875, and was soon after appointed super-
visor of internal revenue for the states of Ohio
and Indiana. Subsequently he was transferred
from this district to the one embracing Ken-
tucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana. In July, 1876, Gen. Grant ten-
dered him the position of second assistant
which he accepted, but
lice when he has resided
postmaster gener;i
resigned in 1881,
at the east.
Adam Wolfe, hitc i>n>iniiicnt nierriiant of
Muncie, Ind., was born in Washington county,
Pa. , December 9, 1807 His paternal grandfather
came from Germany before the American Rev-
olution and settled in Little York, Pa. , where
he married, and afterward moved to Wash-
ington county, that state. The father of
Adam Wolfe was John Wolfe, and his mother
was Catherine Devore. Adam Wolfe was the
seventh of eleven children, all of whom
reached adult age and reared large families.
During his infancy his parents moved to
Coshocton county, Ohio. His time was. most-
ly employed on the farm until he attained his
majority, at which time his father died. In
1829 he engaged in the mercantile business at
New Guilford, Coshocton county, where he
remained until May, 1830, at which time,
owing to his partner's dishonesty, he was
obliged to abandon the mercantile trade, hav-
ing lost the greater part of his capital. Sub-
sequently he embarked in the goods business
in the town of W^estfield, where he remained
until 1 84 1, at which time he went into the
pork packing business. He soon lost all he
had accumulated and became heavily involved
in debt. From 1842 to 1855. he engaged in
the manufacture and sale of fanning mills in
connection with the mercantile business, and
during this period amassed a large fortune. In
1855 Mr. Wolfe moved to Muncie, Ind., in
which state he had previously opened three
stores, and for some time thereafter was
engaged in the banking business in Marion and
Columbia City. Prosperity attended his
enterprises, and besides two banks he became
the owner of five stores, one in each of the
counties of Delaware, Madison, Grant, Hunt-
ington and Blackford.
Politically Mr. Wolfe was a democrat and
MUNCIE CITY
cast his first presidential vote for Andrew
Jackson. His large business prevented his
engaging actively in politics, and, though often
urged, he always refused to accept office. Mr.
Wolfe was married, April 26, 1832, to Miss
Elizabeth Elliott, daughter of Samuel Elhott
of New York, by which union he had seven
children, of whom the following are now liv-
ing : Sabina W. Willson, of Marion, Ind., and
Clara E. Bell, of Ft. Wayne, Ind.
Mr. Wolfe was steadily engaged in business
for over half of a century, and the large for-
tune he accumulated proved him to be pos-
sessed of superior ability. He gained his
wealth honorably and used it worthily, and he
was a liberal contributor to both public and
private charities and assisted in building
schools, colleges and churches. He had many
admirable traits of character, being so kind,
forbearing and conscientious that his home
life was always peaceful, and his relations
with others were never known to be broken by
a quarrel. It is said that he had no enemy,
and the entire community regarded him as an
excellent man and a model merchant. His
death occurred March 20, 1892.
^^^EORGE W. BROOKS, proprietor of
■ ^\ of Brooks' creamery, was born in
\^M Cumberland county, N. J., Septem-
ber, II, 1850, a son of Lewis M.
and Rachael (Wilson) Brooks, natives of New
Jersey and Pennsylvania, respectively. He
was reared in Chester county, Pa. , and was
educated in the excellent public schools of his
district, later serving a three years' apprentice-
ship to the trade of miller. In 1872, Mr.
Brooks came west and located in Delaware
county, Ind. , engaging in farming on what is
now known as the Galliher addition, two
years later purchasing a farm in Hamilton
township and living upon the same until 1886,
when he moved into the city of Muncie. In
June, 1887, he established his present pros-
perous creamery business, success having
attended it from the beginning. Now the out-
put is as much as 150,000 pounds of butter
yearly, the most of which goes to supply the
home market, the excellence of the product
causing its ready sale. Politically Mr. Brooks
is a republican; he also is a member of the
I. O. O. F. and of the Order of Red Men, In
1880, he married Miss Naomi Moore, the
daughter of Aaron Moore, of Hamilton town-
ship, but she was removed by death, January
10, 1885, leaving one daughter, Mary Ernes-
tine. Mr. Brooks is a member of Grace
Methodist Episcopal church of Hamilton town-
ship, and is considered one of the best and
most prosperous citizens of the community.
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ILLIAM BROTHERTON, deceased
lawyer of Muncie, was born near
Winchester, Va., October 3, 1826.
His father, John Brotherton, was a
native of Yorkshire, England, and after coming
to America, engaged in farming. His mother,
whose maiden name was Mary P. Hodge, was
born in Virginia. They removed in 1835 to
Greene, county, Ohio, when their son William
was nine years of age. His early education was
largely obtained by earnest study at home, al-
though good use was also made of the meager
advantages afforded by a country school. In
1849, he gratified his long cherished desire to
study law, by becoming a student in the office
of Judge Moses Barlow, of Xenia, Ohio, and in
1 85 1, was admitted to the bar. Selecting
Muncie, Ind , as the field of his future efforts,
Mr. Brotherton at once removed thither, and
commenced the practice of law. With limited
pecuniary means, without influence, and an
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entire stranger in the place, he entered upon
the toilsome way for legal distinction. He
gradually gained a lucrative practice, and also
interested himself in politics, in which his
abilities soon obtained general recognition.
In 1853, only one year after his arrival in
Muncie, he was elected district attorney of the
common pleas court for the counties of Dela-
ware, Grant, and Blackford, served two years,
and in 1855 was elected prosecuting attorney
of the Seventh judicial circuit.
The republican party had just begun the
struggle for supremacy, and on that ticket, in
185S, Mr. Brotherton was elected to a seat in
the legislature as representative from Dela-
ware county. The nomination was accepted
only by the urgent solicitation of friends. At
the close of the term, in accordance with a
resolution expressed at his election, he resumed
the duties of his profession, and never after-
ward permitted himself to be made a candi-
date for any political office. In 1853 he mar-
ried Miss Martha Richardson, of Centerville,
Ind. They have three children, Lillie B.,
wife of W. H. Halliday, of Columbus, Ohio;
Wm. R., attorney of Muncie, and Mamie M.
Mr. Brotherton's great independence of spirit,
of which his life was a constant illustration,
is shown particularly in the fact that when
he was prosecuting attorney, and his duties
requiring him to travel over the country, he
refused the gift of a horse, proffered by his
parents. He was a man of liberal religious
opinions, and broad views, of a generous, sym-
pathetic, and retiring disposition, and very
humorous, which latter feature made him very
companionable. In his domestic relations he
was one of the most amiable of men, his home
being the scene of perfect harmony. He was
one of the ablest lawyers and most highly
respected citizens of Delaware county. He
continued in the practice of his profession until
his death, which occurred July 11, 1888.
William R. Brotherton, son of William Broth-
erton, spoken of above, was born in Muncie,
Ind., July 28, 1858, graduated fn.ni the high
school of Muncie in 1878, studied law with
his father and was his able office assistant. In
1888 he was admitted to the bar, since which
date he has conducted his deceased father's
legal business with the most satisfactory
results.
^V^ EV. ABRAHAM BUCKLES, late of
I /^ Muncie, was born in Ohio, August
M . r 26, 1799, and died at his home, near
Muncie, Ind., October 9, 1878, in
the eightieth year of his age. His father,
John Buckles, was a native of Virginia, to
which his grandfather, Robert Buckles, emi-
grated from England before the Revolution,
and settled at a place afterward known as
Bucklestown. Abraham was married, Sep-
tember 3, 1818, to Elizabeth Shanks, a lady
of German and Welsh descent. After the
marriage he removed to Springfield, Ohio,
and thence to Miami county in that state. In
1829 he was ordained minister of the Baptist
church. In October, 1833, he removed, with
his family, to Delaware county, Ind., and
settled on a farm near Muncie, where he re-
sided till the close of his life. Soon after his
arrival in that neighborhood he organized the
Muncie Baptist church, and served as its pas-
tor forty-five years without other reward than
a consciousness of the faithful discharge of
duty. In the early part of his life Mr. Buck-
les held various political offices, and in 1839
was elected to a seat in the general assembly
from Delaware county, a position which he
filled with honor. Mr. Buckles had five chil-
dren: Hon. Joseph S. (see sketch); Thomas
N., now in California; John S. , deceased,
formerly an able lawyer in Geneseo, 111 ; Mary
(Mrs. Goble); and Ellen (Mrs. Campbell), who
died a few years ago.
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MUNCIE CITY
>^UDGE JOSEPH S. BUCKLES, of
m Muncie, was born near Springfield,
/» 1 Ohio, July 29, 1 819, a son of
Rev. Abraham and Elizabeth (Shanks)
Buckles. His mother was Elizabeth Shanks,
whose parents were Joseph and Eleanor
(Clawson) Shanks, respectively of Scotch and
German descent. Joseph Buckles lived till he
was fourteen years old in Miami county,
Ohio, to which his father had removed several
years before; and then, in 1833, went to Mun-
cie. This has ever since been his home, ex-
cept during a period of nine months spent in
Blackford county. Much of his time was
necessarily employed in the work on the farm
and little could be devoted to school; but
while he did attend he studied most diligently.
Such was his thirst for knowledge that when
obliged to labor all day he pursued his studies
at night by the light of an open fire-place. In
this manner, aided to some extent by pri-
vate instruction, Mr. Buckles acquired pro-
ficiency in the common branches and some ac-
quaintance with general history. He now be-
gan, at the age of nineteen, the labors of a
district school teacher. While thus engaged,
in 1838 he was urged by Mr. Kennedy, then
member of congress from this district, to com-
mence the study of law. This he did in Mr.
Kennedy's office and was admitted to practice
in the circuit court in 1841, and in the state,
supreme, and the federal courts in September,
1850. After practicing about five years, Mr.
Buckles was elected prosecuting attorney for
the Sixth circuit. At the close of the term of
two years he was chosen state senator from the
district composed of the counties of Grant and
Delaware; and while in the senate was chosen
chairman of the judiciary committee. In
1857, at the expiration of his term, he re-
turned, and devoted his time to his clients un-
til 1858, when he was elected judge of the
Seventh judicial circuit. In this position he
remained twelve years, and then resumed
practice in the state and federal courts. Dur-
ing the campaign of 1872 Judge Buckles
served as a senatorial elector, and canvassed
the greater part of the state. Prior to 1S80 he
was a free-soil democrat; but then deemed it his
duty to support President Lincoln's admin-
istration, and has ever been strongly attached
to the republican party.
Judge Buckles also took a prominent part
in the organization of the United party in the
state of Indiana during the war. As already
stated he resumed the practice of his profes-
sion at the expiration of his official term in
1 870 and was actively engaged in the courts
of Delaware and other counties in eastern
Indiana until 1886, when he practically retired
from business life. In the latter year he was
elected to the state legislature, in which he
served one term, and while a member of that
body served on the agriculture and finance
committees. In the development of the great
gas fields of Indiana, Judge Buckles has acted
a very important part. He is a stockholder
and president of the York Prairie Manufactur-
ing company and is also a member of the Cit-
izens' Enterprise company of Muncie. Judge
Buckles was one of the originators of the
Lafayette, Muncie & Bloomington railroad,
and is its attorney and a member of its board
of managers; he was also instrumental in the
construction of the Fort Wayne & Southern
railway, and became the treasurer and general
financial agent of the company. He married,
January 27, 1842, Catharine H. Williams.
She was born in Ohio, and was a daughter of
Abel and Rebecca Williams, the former of
whom is of Scotch descent. To Mr. and Mrs.
Buckles were born eight children, four of
whom are living: Elizabeth, wife of Captain
A. K. Lindsey, of Kansas; Rebecca, now Mrs.
J. W. McCrea; Josie, wife of William E.
Yost, of Muncie; and Cora, wife of William
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McVay, who resides in Sterling, Kan. Mrs.
Buckles died September, 1888, and in Decem-
ber of the following year the judge was united
in marriage with Miss Louisa S. Schroerlucke,
of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Judge Buckle's farm contains 680 acres of
choice land, with good buildings. For twenty
years he has been successful in politics, and
one of the leading lawyers in that part of the
state in which he resides. The circuit in
which he administered the duties of judge
embraced five of the most populous counties.
He is a man whose mind is controlled by a
motive power that does not require the advan-
tage of wealth and influence to attain success,
but steadily and surely advances. Judge
Buckle's e.xample should encourage every as-
piring youth to feel that, however dark the
future may appear, perseverance, with a con-
scientious regard for truth, will win a just
reward. He has never deviated from that
rigid rule of honor that ought to actuate and
govern a true man.
^'^AMUELO. BUDD, senior member of
•^^^ the famous dental firm of Budd & Son,
r\,^J Muncie, Ind., is a native of West-
chester county, N. V., and was born
November 23, 1829. His parents, John P.,
and Hebe (Sands) Budd, were also natives of
New York state, the former of whom was of
Scotch and French extraction and the latter of
English parentage. To John P. and Hebe
there were but two children born — Susan and
Samuel O. The family came to Union county,
Ind., in 1836, and settled near Fairfield, where
Samuel O. was reared on a farm until twenty
years of age. In April, 1S53, they came to
Muncie, but in the meantime Samuel O. had
learned both the carpenter's trade and gun-
smithing, and on arriving in Muncie opened a
gunsmith shop and carried on tlir business until
i860. He then began the stud)- of dentistry
with Drs. Riley & McCormick, and in a short
time, under their preceptorship, he became a
proficient in the art. In iS^i he ojicncd a
dentist's office, but still continued doing odd
jobs at gunsmithing. By 1863 his fame as a
dentist had become established, and from that
time on he has devoted his entire attention to
the science. He has been a hard student and
is thoroughly posted in his profession, has
made an excellent reputation and enjoys a
lucrative practice.
Dr. Budd was married, in 1853, to Miss
Indiana Allen, daughter of John Allen, a
pioneer of Franklin county, Ind. ; this lady
was born November i, 1834, and has become
the mother of five children, viz: Ada S. A.,
now Mrs. Edwin p:ilis; Chester Allen, who
entered into business with his father Jidy 15,
1879; Rose; wife of William S. Stewart; Mary,
deceased, and John M. The doctor and his
amiable wife are members of the Universalist
church being charter members of their church
society. In his earlier days the doctor was a
republican in politics, but in i 884 he became
a prohibitionist and now is one of the stanchest
advocates of that cause. He is a royal arch
Mason, and as a member of society he and
family enjoy the sincere respect of their
neighbors, and as professional men he and his
son hold positions among the foremost dentists
of Muncie.
a HESTER ALLEN BUDD, i,l the firm
of Budd & Son, the famous dental
surgeons of Muncie, Ind., is a native
of the city and was born March 13.
1S57, and of whom furtluT mention of his
parentage has been made abo\e. Chester A.
i has passed his whole business career in Mun-
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cie and all of his social career. From her
high school he graduated in June, 1875, fol-
lowing which date he entered the Ohio college
of Dental Surgery at Cincinnati, and after
graduating in 1879 returned to Muncie and en-
gaged in practice with his father, and from
that date on has filled a foremost position in
the profession in all its various branches, pros-
thetic and theoretical. He was most happily
married, September 18, 1879, to Miss Fran-
ces L. Corbly, who was born in Mount Wash-
ington, Hamilton county, Ohio, December 20,
1854, a daughter of William and Louise (Den-
ham) Corbly, a most respectable family now
residing in Muncie, having come to the state
in 1874. Seven children have been born to
bless this union and are named Alma S.,
William O., Ada May, Chester F., Bessie E. ,
Frank W. and Allen M. Mr. Budd is a mem-
ber of Muncie lodge. No. 74, I. O. O. F., and
the Muncie encampment. No. 30. In politics
he is a republican, and with his wife he is a
member of the Universalist church.
<>^OBERT A. BUNCH, M. D., one of
I /^ the most successful physicians and
M . P surgeons of Muncie, was born Octo-
ber 28, 1852, in the town of Portland,
Jay county, Ind. Paternally he descended
from French ancestry, and on the mother's
side traces the history of his family back to
Ireland. His grandfather, William Bunch,
left France in an early day, emigrating to the
United States and settling in North Carolina.
He served with distinction in the war of 181 2,
and many years ago moved to Indiana, set-
tling in the town of Portland, thence later
moved to Plymouth, Marshall county, where
his death occurred at the advanced age of
eighty-nine years. The doctor's maternal
grandfather was born in Ireland, from which
country he emigrated to Virginia, and after
residing in that state a number of years became
a resident of Ohio. Ishmael Bunch, the doc-
tor's father, was born in North Carolina and
came to Indiana at the age of thirty, settling
west of Portland, in Jay county, where he en-
gaged in farming and stock raising. He mar-
ried, at the age of thirty-five. Miss Margaret
Bishop of Greene county, Ohio, by whom he
had five children, namely, Dixon M., Robert
A., Nathan E., John A. and Elizabeth N. Of
these, Robert A., Nathan E. and John A. are
living at this time. Ishmael Bunch died on
the 25th day of February, 1865, at his home
in Jay county, after an illness of almost two
years.
Dr. Bunch attended the public schools of
Portland until his fifteenth year, and then en-
tered Liber college. Jay county, which he
attended five terms, supplementing his educa-
tion in that institution by a course in the
Northern Indiana Normal school at Valparaiso.
He early signified his intention of becoming a
physician, and after finishing his literary course
he began reading medicine in the office of
Gillam & Allen of Portland, under whose
instruction he continued for some time, and
then began the practice of his profession at
DeSoto, a small village in Delaware county.
With a laudable desire to increase his profes-
sional knowledge, Dr. Bunch entered the
Eclectic Medical institute of Cincinnati, Ohio,
in which he completed the prescribed course,
graduating in June, 1881. He continued the
practice at the town of DeSoto for a number
of years, and then sought a wider- field in
Muncie, moving to the latter city in 1889,
where he has since established a large and
growing practice and earned the reputation of
one of the most successful physicians in Dela-
ware county. So extensive has his practice
become that he has found it necessary to em-
ploy an assistant, and his professional business
R. A. BUNCH, M. D.
MRS. R. A. BUNCH.
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at this time is perhaps larger tlian that of any
other medical man in Muncie. Dr. Bunch
combines, with a thorough knowledge of his
profession, the sympathizing nature and tender
touch of the true healer; and he has earned
the reputation of the poor man's friend, never
turning any one away on account of inability
to remunerate him for services rendered. He
has good business tact, and his careful judg-
ment, diligence, and faithful application to
his profession, have secured him not only a
very large and lucrative practice, but have
made him exceedingly popular with all classes
of people with whom he has had professional
or other relations. He is a man of good pres-
ence and dignified bearing, benevolent in all
the term implies, and is certainly entitled to
prominent mention among the representative
men of Delaware county. Dr. Bunch was
married April 20, 1877, to Miss Mary A. Bair,
and his home has been brightened by four
interesting children : Bessie G., RoUie H.,
Freddie L. , and Morrell McK., all living.
EON. JOHN \V. BURSON was born
August 21, 1820, at the Burson
homestead in Springfield township,
Bucks county. Pa. , within five miles
of the town Bursonville. His parents were
Dr. Edward and Jemima (Stroud) Burson,
who removed from Bursonville to Stroudsburg,
Pa. , and subsequently to Wilmington, Ohio.
His father was an able physician, practiced
both in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and died at
Waynesville, Ohio, in 1852. His mother died
at Richmond, Ind., in 1863. His paternal
grandparents were David and Lydia (Will-
iams) Burson. Lydia Williams was one of a
numerous family who settled near the Dela-
ware river, above Bristol, and not far from
Irvina. Dr. Burson's father was a native of
Wales and settled in America about the mid-
dle of the eighteenth century. The matertial
grandparents were Col. Jacob and ICli/abcth
(McDowell) Stroud. Jacob was the foundiT
of Stroudsburg, now a flourishing and beauti-
ful village situated above the Delaware Gap.
In the campaign of the English against the
French, Col. Stroud, although a young officer,
served on the staff of Gen. Wolfe, and was
present at the death of his general at the
storming of Quebec.
In the year of 1 837, Mr. Burson accompanied
his father's family to Clinton county, Ohio,
where for seven years his time was employed
in superintending a farm near Wilmington
Subsequently he learned the carpenter's trade,
and worked in Ohio and afterward at LaPorte,
Ind. Returning from the latter city to Ohio,
he was engaged in mercantile pursuits with
the means saved from his earnings as a me-
chanic. He possessed the qualties of a suc-
cessful business man, more as the endowment
of nature than the result of education, and, in
1 848, at the age of twenty-eight years, he was
elected teller of the Eaton branch of the old
State Bank of Ohio, where he remained for
about four years. It was during this period
that he formed the acquaintance of his devoted
wife, Mary E. Wilson, to whom he was united
in marriage February 19, 1851.
In 1853, he left the Eaton branch bank,
and with John Hunt founded the Cambridge
City bank, at Cambridge City, Ind. In the
great financial crisis of a few years later, this
was one of the few banks that withstood the
shock. In 1856, he came to Muncie and
formed the Muncie branch of the State I^ank
of Indiana, with a capital of $100,000, which
was soon increased to $150,000. In 1S65,
this bank was reorganized under the national
bank act, with a capital of $200,000, and a
surplus sum of $100,000, and Mr. Burson was
its ca.shier. In 1S71, the capital increased to
$300,000, the surplus remaining as before.
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For a number of years Mr. Burson was a di-
rector of the "Bee Line" railway, and a di-
rector of the Lafayette, Muncie & Blooming-
ton railway at the time of his decease. In
politics he was a republican, and served as a
member of the state central committee from
this district from 1868 to the time of his de-
mise. Once only did he permit himself to be-
come a candidate for office. This was in 1 870,
wh^n he was elected state senator from the
districts composed of the counties of Delaware
and Madison.
After an illness of three weeks, Mr. Burson
passed peacefully away on September 21,
1872. The obsequies took place on the 24th,
and a special train draped in mourning carried
the Masonic order of neighboring cities,
together with a large number of friends, to
mourn the loss of the deceased. Business was
suspended in Muncie, and the entire county
was in mourning. The funeral services were
conducted according to the rites of the Mason-
ic order, and the corpse was in charge of the
Muncie commandery. No. 18, of which he
was a member. Raper commandery, and the
members of the Scottish Rite order, from Indi-
anapolis, were also in attendance. Among
the distinguished visitors who came to mingle
their tears with those of the bereaved family,
was ex-Gov. Oliver P. Morton, between
whom and Mr. Burson a strong personal
friendship had existed for many years. Dur-
ing that terrible period embraced between the
years of 1861 and 1865, Gov. Morton had no
firmer friend, no truer ally, and none to whom
he could look with more positive assurance of
encouragement and assistance, than Mr. Bur-
son. Nothing was thought too extravagant,
when represented as a need of the nation's
defender; no journey was too tedious or too
dangerous for him to undertake, and what-
ever sum of money was asked by ' 'the war
governor" of Indiana to further his plans or
relieve the wants of the Indiana soldiers, it
was cheerfully and unhesitatingly advanced.
He became a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church in 1858, and, throughout
his life was a faithful attendant upon its serv-
ices and means of grace. He was a consist-
ent and enthusiastic Free Mason and a Knight
Templar. He received the orders of knight-
hood in Raper commandery. No. i, at Indian-
apolis, July 8 and 22, 1863; was a charter
member of the Muncie commandery, No. 18,
and took the thirty-second degree of Masonry
(Scottish rite), at Cincinnati, Ohio. At the
annual conclave of the grand commandery his
death was referred to in touching language by
the grand commander in his address, and both
branches of the general assembly of Indiana
adopted appropriate resolutions, while the sen-
ate chamber was draped for a period of thirty
days. In the church and in the Sunday
school, in political and commercial affairs, his
voice was heard, and his influence felt and
acknowledged; and his keen judgment and
scrupulous principles made him a safe and val-
ued counselor in matters affecting public or
private interests.
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ILLIAM CALAWAY, proprietor of
one of the largest sale and livery
stables in Muncie, Ind., was born
in Wabash county, this state, in
November, 1855, and was reared in the town
of "Wabash, where his father, Stephen Cala-
way, kept hotel. William attended school
until thirteen years old, and then, of his own
accord, left home and made his way to Wich-
ita, Kan., did any work he could handle until
seventeen, and then for a year and a half
carried the mail between Wichita and Chey-
enne, a distance of 1 20 miles. He next
bought a feed yard at Wichita, but sold out at
the expiration of two years, returned to Indi-
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ana, and traded in and shipped horses for a
year at Fort \\'ayne; thence he went to Ko-
konio, Ind., and for six years carried on a
Hvery stable, and afterward owned stables at
Liberty, then at Dublin, and again at Liberty,
where he also bought and shipped horses in
partnership with Hollis Beard. Here he sold
out to his partner and came to Muncie in
August, 1893, bought a livery stand on Frank-
lin street, and also owned a feed yard on Elm
and Main streets for a time, then sold and
purchased his present barn, on Gilbert street,
of Milt Hamilton. This is the largest and
most popular livery, feed and sale stable in
the city, as 510 horses have been sheltered in
it at one time, and it is here where the semi-
monthly Delaware county horse sales were
held. Mr. Calaway also carries a full line of
rigs for hire, at the lowest rates, and his ani-
mals are among the best in the land. He has
owned such thoroughbreds as Wild Duck,
winner in Illinois and Iowa, and the Kentucky-
bred horse. Kill Dove, that won several places
in Ohio in 1891 ; also several trotters and pa-
cers of note.
Mr. Calaway was married, in 1880, to Rosa
McCarty, of Marion, Ind. , but lost his lady in
1886. In June, 1887, he married Miss Helen
Rood, of Liberty, Ind., and this union has
been blessed with four children, viz: Mary,
Gertrude, Homer and Ma.\. Mr. Calaway is
a <member of the I. O. O. F. , and as a busi-
ness man he is regarded as strictly upright and
without guile. Socially he is popular, and is
agreeable in his intercourse with his fellow-
men, accommodating and obliging.
jV^AVID CAMMACK.— The grain and
I I lumber bu'feiness of the city of Mun-
/^^^ cie, of late years, has become quite
extensive and profitable, and among
the prominent men interested therein is the
gentleman whose name introduces this biogra-
phy. David Cammack was born in Wayne
county, Ind., January 25, 1846, and is the son
of Nathan H. and Priscilla (Morris) Cammack,
natives of Indiana and North Carolina, respect-
ively, the father for many years a successful
manufacturer of woolen goods in Wayne
county, this state. David Cammack received
his elementary education in the public schools,
and later became a student of Earlham college,
Richmond, Ind., where he pursued his studies
until December, 1 863, at which time he entered
the army as private in company K, One Hun-
dred and Twenty-fourth Indiana volunteer
infantry, with which he served until the close
of the war. His regiment formed a part of
the army of the Cumberland, and during his
period of service he participated in many of
the noted and hard-fought battles of the south-
western campaign, through all of which he
passed without receiving an injury. After
peace had once more descended upon the land,
he returned home and became a partner with
his father in the manufacturing business, which
he continued until his removal to Cambridge
City in the year 1869. He early became pro-
ficient in the manufacture of woolen goods, and
all the clothing worn by himself until his
twenty-eighth year was made from goods
woven with his own hands. In Cambridge
City he began dealing in lumber, and after a
successful continuance there of ten years re-
moved to what is known as Cammack Station,
Delaware county, and began the manufacture
of hard-wood lumber, which he has since con-
ducted upon an extensive scale in connection
with the buying and shipment of grain.
In 1890 Mr. Cammack was instrumental in
organizing the Muncie Coil Hoop company, of
which -he was president until F"ebruary, 1892.
In a business sense Mr. Cammack is thorough-
going and progressive, and the varifius enter-
prises which have inured so greatl}- to the ad-
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vancement of this flourishing city have found
in him an earnest friend and Hberal benefactor.
At this time he is president of the Co-opera-
tive Fuel Gas company, and he was the princi-
pal mover and is now the executive head of
what is known as the Cammack Gas company,
the success of which is directly traceable to his
efforts. He is also a potent factor and promi-
nent member of the Citizens' Enterprise com-
pany, and was a member of the Indiana State
Cracker company, and acted as its president,
and also vice-president of the Muncie Indus-
trial Loan company, and also the vice-presi-
dent of the Muncie Savings and Loan com-
pany.
In 1 891 Mr. Cammack effected a co-part-
nership with J. L. Streeter and William Marsh
under the name of D. Cammack & Co. , which
firm does a very extensive grain business, hav-
ing warehouses at Cammack, Royerton and
Selma. In 1883 the station and post office at
the point known as Cammack were named in
honor of David Cammack, through whose
efforts so much has been accomplished toward
the material development and upbuilding of
this section of the gas belt. He is proprietor
of a large lumber mill at Mulberry, Ind. ,
which does a very extensive and lucrative bus-
iness, and is also prominently identified with
various other enterprises which have resulted
in great good to the country. Mr. Cammack
is prominently identified with the Masonic fra-
ternity, belonging to Muncie lodge, chapter,
council and commandery, also to the Indiana
consistory, S. K., the Murat temple, N. M. S.,
and the Muncie lodge of B. P. O. E. He
was an organizer, and at this time is past sa-
chem of the Cammack White Feather tribe,
I. O. R. M., and is also a prominent member
of Williams post, G. A. R., of Muncie. Po-
litically Mr. Cammack is uncompromisingly
republican and adheres to the doctrines of his
party as persistently as he attends to his other
duties of life. Mr. Cammack is in every re-
spect a representative business man, and his
success in his various enterprises has been the
result of superior intelligence, directed and
controlled by wise forethought. He has an
elegant home in Muncie, his residence being
among the finest in the city, the building alone
representing a capital of over $8,000, and the
furnishing, all of which is of the latest and
most improved pattern, cost the sum of $5,000.
In 1873 Mr. Cammack and Miss Ella E. Mar-
son, daughter of John Marson of Cambridge
City, Ind., became man and wife, and three
children have been born to their union: Ralph,
Grace May and Adda. The first named was
born in 1880, and lost his life in an accident
at the Cammack mills on the 17th day of July,
1885. Mrs. Cammack and daughters are
members of the Baptist church, but Mr. Cam-
mack, himself, adheres to the simple Quaker
belief of his forefathers.
^>^ OBERT P. CAMPBELL, a success-
I /^ ful business man, well and favorably
J , P known in the city of Muncie, was
born in Zanesville, Muskingum coun-
ty, Ohio, July 27, 1857, a son of Thomas and
Margaret (Smith) Campbell. The father was
a native of England, born in the city of
Carlysle, April 13, 1825, and eame to the.
United States in 1845, locating in Zanesville,
Ohio, where he became a leading druggist and
where he resided until 1886. In the latter
year he removed to Baltimore, Md., where he
died November 29, 1887. He was a brave
soldier in the war of the rebellion, and was a
popular citizen and business man in the city
where he resided. His wife died on the 5th
of April, 1869. She bore her husband five
children, whose names are as follows: Robert
P., Maria, Thomas, editor of the Laborers'
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Journal of Zaiiesville, Ohio; Lizzie, ami Mar-
garet, deceased.
Robert P. Campbell was reared in his native
city and enjoyed exceptional advantages for
obtaining an education, graduating with honors
from the high school at a comparatively early
age From his fifteenth year he evinced a de-
cided preference for the trade of book binding,
to which he devoted all of his spare moments
and in which he acquired an unusual degree
of skill and proficiency. This trade requires
extreme nicety of labor and an eye skilled to
form and color, and such was the talent dis-
played by young Campbell that the firm of
Sullivan & Brown of Zanesville received him
as an apprentice, the result of which was his
retention by this well known house for a period
of eleven years Here he became a skilled
workman, but afterward acquired a more
thorough knowledge of the trade in the great
establishments of Dayton, Columbus, Balti-
more and Chicago, following which, he located
in the city of Lima, Ohio, where he carried on
a successful business until his removal to Mun-
cie in December, 1892 Since locating in the
latter city Mr. Campbell's success has fully
met his expectations, and he now has a tastily
arranged office and business room in the Boyce
block, which is supplied with all the modern
appliances for book binding and the making
of blank books of every description. He is
thoroughly familiar with every detail of his
business, has an extensive and constantly in-
creasing patronage, and his reputation as a
skillful workman in every line of the trade is
already much more than local. In the affairs
of business and of every day life Mr. Camp-
bell's actions are governed by a high sense of
honor, and since locating in Muncie he has
gained the confidence of all with whom he has
come in contact. Socially he is quite popular,
and those whom he meets or with whom he
has business or other relations unite in pro-
nouncing liim a most congenial, companion-
able and courteous gentleman.
Mr. Campbell was married in Zanesville,
Ohio, October 30, 1879, to Miss Ella Emery,
daughter of James and Catharine (Watson)
Emery, natives of Tyrone, Ireland, who be-
came citizens of Zanesville in the year 1842.
Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs.
Campbell, namely: Robert, deceased; Clar-
ence R., Robert P., Jr., and Ruth. Mr. and
Mrs. Campbell are members of the Methodist
church, in which they are highly regarded.
Politically Mr. Campbell is a supporter of the
republican party, belongs to the Sons of Vet-
erans and is a member of the Roval Arcanum.
\y^ EV. OLIVER CARMICHAEL, of the
I /^ Christian church, Muncie (retired),
M . F was born in Monroe township, Dela-
ware county, Ind., in 1841, and is a
son of Patrick and Louisa (Gibson) Carmichael.
He was reared on a farm four miles south of
Muncie, and remembers when the city was but
a small village. He was educated in the com-
mon schools of Delaware county until he had
passed his twentieth birthday, when he enlist-
ed in company E, Nineteenth I. V. I., under
Col. Sol Meredith, and was assigned to the
army of the Potomac, being soon promoted to
first sergeant. His first heavy engagement
was at the second battle of Bull Run; then at
South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg,
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. Here, on
the first day of the battle, he sustained a gun-
shot wound back of the right knee; was taken
to the hospital (the court house), but owing to
the vast amount of work to be done by the
surgeons, his wound was neglected for two
weeks, and gangrene set in; being sent to the
hospital at Baltimore, he was confined for
three months, the gangrene in the meanwhile
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eating in a large hole in the flesh and render-
ing the whole side of the lower part of the
limb devoid of sensation. He was then trans-
ferred to the Twenty-second Veteran Reserve
corps, being unfit for further field service, and
put on guard duty at Washington until honor-
ably discharged, July 29, 1864, after three
years' service He then returned to the farm
in Delaware county, on which he remained
until 1875, when, his health having further
failed, he located in Muncie, and taught
school at various intervals until about 1880.
About the year 1865 he had united with the
Christian church, in which he became an
active worker, filling the position of elder for
a long period. About 1 880 he began regular
ministerial work, preaching at different points
in Delaware county, principally as pastor at
Smithfield, Pleasant Run, Royerton, Switzer,
Centre, Swazee, and Converse, and after fer-
vent and eloquent pleading for the cause of
his Master, closed his labors about 1892 on
account of failing health.
Mr. Carmichael was married, in 1864, to
Miss Martha, daughter of John add Mary
(Thompson) Losh, of Delaware county. Five
children blessed this union, viz: Otto, on the
the editorial staff of the Detroit Journal;
Milton, city editor of the same paper, and also
former assitant chief of the Muncie fire depart-
ment; Wilson, cutter in a custom tailoring es-
tablishment at Indianapolis; Jesse, reporter on
the Muncie News, and Mary, at home, Mr.
Carmichael is a member of the Williams post,
G. A. R. , and in politics is a stalwart repub-
lican.
^>^ EV. VALENTINE G. CARMICHAEL
I /<^ is a native of Delaware county, Ind. ,
I , y and a member of one of the earliest
pioneer families of the present town-
ship of Monroe. His father, Patrick Car-
michael, was born in Ohio, the son of Andrew
Carmichael, a descendant of an Irish family,
representatives of which came to the United
States at an early period of the country's his-
tory. Patrick Carmichael came to Delaware
county with his parents as early as 1827, lo-
cating on government land in Monroe town-
ship, a part of his original entry being now
owned by Rev. Valentine G. He cleared a
farm, taught school for some years in an early
day, and about the year 1839 or 1S40 was
united in marriage with Miss Louisa Gibson,
daughter of Valentine and Catharine (Harrold)
Gibson, who became residents of the county
of Delaware as early as 1825, moving to this
part of the state from Tennessee. Patrick and
Louisa Carmichael reared a family of fifteen
children, namely. Oliver; Milton, member of the
Fifty-seventh Indiana volunteers, died while in
the service ; Andrew, also died while serving his
country in the late war, member of the Sixty-
ninth regiment, Indiana troops ; Valentine G. ;
Eliza, wife of J. J. Clevenger ; Mary A., de-
ceased ; Charles ; Catharine, married to Joseph
Stiffler, resides in South Dakota ; William,
deceased ; John, deceased ; Ephraim F. , re-
sides in Muncie ; George W., also a resident
of Muncie; Firmin V., lives with his mother
on the old homestead ; Margaret, deceased,
and Coloston, deceased. Patrick Carmichael
was one of the well known pioneers of Dela-
ware county, and during a long and very useful
life earned the reputation of a straightforward
and honorable man. He was a member of the
church of Christ and supported the principles
of the republican party, although descended
from a family noted for its adherence to the
democratic faith. He departed this life on
the home farm and was laid to rest at the old
cemetery in Monroe township.
Valentine G. Carmichael was born July
29, 1845, in the township of Monroe, and
passed his youthful years on a farm, attending
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in the meantime the country schools, in which
he pursued his studies until his eighteenth
year. He attended two terms in Muncie high
school, and in the fall of 1866 entered Wabash
college at Crawfordsville, in which institution
he took a three years' course, making substan-
tial progress. On leaving college he returned
to Delaware county, and for a number of years
thereafter was acti\ely engaged in educational
work, having taught in all seventeen terms,
thirteen of which were in District No. i, in
Monroe township. As a teacher, Mr. Car-
niichael was careful and painstaking, and he
brought to his work a mind well disciplined by
long and careful study, which earned for him
the reputation of being one of the ablest
instructors of Delaware county. His success
in the field of education is sufSciently attested
by the fact of his having been retained for so
many successive years in one place. Mr. Car-
michael united with the church of Christ in
the year i S69, and shortly thereafter began
his first public religious work as a teacher in
the Sunday school, and he was also frequently
called upon to address other religious assem-
blages. For a period of eighteen years he
taught the infant class, and in 1S74 entered
upon the active duties of the ministry, preach-
ing at different points throughout the country,
principally for congregations unable to support
a regular pastor. For this work he received
no pecuniary remuneration worthy of mention,
supporting himself in the meantime by teach-
ing and from the proceeds of his farm. On
August 14, 1869, Mr. Carmichael was united
in marriage with Samantha B. Tidd, daughter
of Moses and Sarah (Golden) Tidd, of Ohio,
to which union two children have been born;
Anna, wife of Sherman Whitney, and Lacy,
wife of Frank W. Ross, both daughters resid-
ing in Monroe township.
Mr. Carmichael resided upon his farm until
February, 1892, when he rented out the
place and moved to Muncie, since which time
he has devoted nearly all his time to the active
work of the ministry, preaching at different
points, his present charges being at Woodland,
III., and Frankton, Ind. In his ministerial
work he has been very successful, and through
his instrumentality many have been induced
to unite with the church and start upon a
better life. He has always been an uncom-
promising enemy of the liquor traffic and
carries his ideas of intemperance beyond the
mere indulgence of intoxicants, and his life has
been singularly free from those habits, which
destroy so many men. He never remembers
of swearing a single oath, and five cents spent
years ago for tobacco represent the sum total
of his money invested in narcotics of any kind.
Financially Mr. Carmichael has met with
gratifying success, being in possession of a
comfortable competence gained by his own
efforts. His life has indeed been one of great
activity and usefulness, and the future awaits
him with bounteous rewards.
'^j'OHN CASSELL. a well-to-do farmer
M and popular citizen of Centre township,
A 1 is a native of Virginia, born in the
county of Wythe, on the 23d day of
July, 1825. David Cassell, his father, was
born in Pennsylvania and married, in Virginia,
Catherine Keesling, of Wythe county, who
bore him ten children, seven of whom are liv-
ing at this time. David and Catherine Cassell
spent their married life in Virginia, where
their deaths occurred in 1866 and 1867
respectively. They are remembered as most
excellent people, popular in the commimity
where they resided, and were for a number of
years devoted members of the Lutheran
church. John Cassell was reared to manhood
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in his native county and state, received his
education in such schools as the country
afforded, and on attaining his majority began
life for himself as a farmer, which useful voca-
tion he has since successfully followed. He
resided in Virginia until 1871, at which time
he moved to Indiana, locating in Monroe
township, Delaware county, where for a peri-
od of two years he farmed land for a part of
the proceeds. In 1873 he purchased eighty
acres of land where he now resides, in addi-
tion to which he also owns seventy-eight acres
of land in the township of Hamilton. Mr.
Cassell was married in Wythe county, Va. ,
June 10, 1858, to Mary F. Umbarger, who
was born in the same county and state on the
1 2th day of October, 1838. The parents of
Mrs. Cassell, Michael and Nancy (Cassell)
Umbarger, were both natives of Virginia, and
descendants of old German families that set-
tled in the Dominion state at an early period
of its history. To the marriage of John and
Mary Cassell have been born four children:
Martin L. , of Delaware county, Ind. ; Nancy
C, wife of William N. Williams; Margaret,
who lives with her parents, and Berton,
deceased.
Mr. Cassell participated in the late war as
a private in company C, Fifty-first regiment
Virginia infantry, enlisting in 1863 and serv-
ing until August of the following year. He
received a severe wound in the side at the bat-
tle of Sniggersford, Va. , shortly after going to
the front, and from July 1 8 until September 20
was in the disabled list at Winchester, where
his hurt was properly cared for. ;For some
time after returning to his home, owing to the
effects of his wound, Mr. Cassell worked at
the shoemaker's trade, but when sufficiently
recovered he resumed the pursuit of agricul-
ture, to which he has since devoted his atten-
tion. He is a representative citizen, a suc-
cessful farmer, and one of the substantial men
of the neighborhood where he resides. In his
political affiliation he is a republican, and in
religion he and wife are communicants of the
Lutheran church.
HBRAM W. CHAPMAN.— Prominent
among the well known and success-
ful business men of Muncie and Dela-
ware county is Abram W. Chapman,
who was born in Brooke county, W. Va. , on
6th day of April, 1837. His father, Thomas
W. Chapman, also a native of the same coun-
ty and state, was born June 21, 181 5, the son
of William and Eli/abeth Chapman. Until
the age of twenty-two, Thomas W. Chapman
remained with his parents upon the farm, and
then married and later removed to a place of
his own in the same county, where he followed
the pursuit of agriculture for the period of
three years. At the end of that time he re-
moved to Stark county, Ohio, where he be-
came a very extensive farmer and stock raiser
among the most celebrated in the state, and
after remaining there until 1889 removed to
Indiana, locating in Muncie, where he at present
resides. Thomas W. Chapman was for many
years prominently identified with the political
history of Ohio, and at one time represented
the counties of Stark and Carroll in the general
assembly. He met with most gratifying suc-
cess as a stock raiser, and by careful foresight
and successful management accumulated a
handsome fortune, the greater part of which
he has since shared with different members of
his family. When twenty-two years of age he
married Rebecca Warner, daughter of John
and Rebecca (Howenstein) Warner of Penn-
sylvania, and raised a family of six children,
whose names are as follows: Abram W. ,
William M., Clara A., Maria, Elizabeth E.
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and Alice, all living- with the exception of
AVilliam M. The mother of these children
died 1 89 1, and her remains were laid to rest
in the Home cemetery, Stark county, Ohio.
Abram W. Chapman grew to manhood in
Stark county, Ohio, early became inured to
the rugged usages of life on the farm, and at
the age of fifteen entered Heidelberg college at
Tiffin, where he pursued his studies until his
eighteenth year, making substantial progress
in the higher branches of learning in the mean-
time. On the completion of his education he
returned home and assisted his father on the
farm until his marriage, at the age of twenty-
five, to Susannah Walter, daughter of Capt.
John and Elizabeth Walter of Tuscarawas
county, Ohio, when he acquired a farm of his
own and pursued agriculture and stock raising
in his native state until July, 1885. At that
date he disposed of his farm and purchased a
tract of improved land adjoining the city of
Muncie, Ind. , coming into possession of the
same a short time prior to the discovery of
natural gas in October, 18S6. The discovery
of gas at once caused all real estate in the
vicinity of Muncie to increase very rapidly in
value, and in the spring of 1887 Mr. Chapman
sold his farm at a greatly advanced price, re-
alizing from the sale a very valuable consider-
ation. W^ith wise forethought he at once
engaged in real estate transactions and loan
business, effecting a co-partnership therein
with J. W. Ream, and the firm thus consti-
tuted was soon conducting a very extensive
business in both of these lines.
Mr. Chapman soon afterward organized the
well known Muncie Savings & Loan compa-
pany, with a capital of $1,000,000, of which
he has since been the executive head, and
which, under his prudent management, has
proved one of the most successful financial
enterprises ever established in the city. The
almost unprecedent success of this company-
induced Mr. Chapman and other progressive
business men to organize a new association,
which was effected in 1892, and which, like
the former, is now on the high road to pros-
perity. In his real estate transactions Mr.
Chapman has been signally fortunate, and in
this line he easily leads the business in Muncie
and Delaware county. As a business man he
has few equals in the cit\-, and in his trans-
actions of various kinds he has been governed
by principles of the highest honor. Politically,
he wields a potent influence for the democratic
party. For a period of five years he has held
the office of city commissioner, and in March,
1893, was appointed, by the governor, a com-
missioner of the metropolitan police system of
Muncie, being at this time chairman of the
board. His first wife, by whom he had no
children, died in January, 1886, and subse-
quently, November, 1888, he was united in
marriage with Miss Emma Ankeney of Greene
county, Ohio, who bore him three children,
all of whom died in infancy. Mr. Chapman
is a Presbyterian in his religious belief, and an
earnest worker for and liberal contributcr to
the congregation in Muncie.
aHARLES H. CHURCH, a prominent
business man of Muncie and one of
the city's popular and highly esteemed
citizens, is a native of New York,
born on the 7th day of May, 1839, in the
county of Chenango. His father, William
Church, also a native of the same county, was
born in the year 1806 at Church Hollow, a
small hamlet named in compliment to the
family, and was a descendant of one of the
early pioneers of that section of the Empire
state. For a number of years William Church
was engaged in the mercantile business in
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Chenango county, and later carried on the
same Hne of trade in the county of Orange,
where his death occurred in 1890 at the ad-
vanced age of eighty-four years. He was a
man of more than ordinary mental endow-
ments, took an active interest in all public
matters, and at one time represented his
county in the general assembly of New York,
in which body he served two sessions. Politi-
cally he was an ardent supporter of the old
whig party, and religiously was for many years
a leading member of the Presbyterian church
in the community where he resided. His first
wife, the mother of Charles H. Church, bore
him five children, three sons and two daugh-
ters, only two of whom are living at this time,
one in Muncie and one at Susquehanna, Pa.
Charles H. Church, when but three years
of age, suffered the loss of that dearest of all
earthly friends — mother — and his youthful
years were passed in his native village, in the
schools of which he received the rudiments of
an English education. Subsequently he pur-
sued the higher branches of learning in a local
academy of Chenango county, and obtained
his first insight into the active business of life
as a clerk in his father's store, in which capac-
ity he continued until embarking in mercan-
tile trade for himself, at the age of twenty-one,
at Coventry, a small country town. He con-
tinued at this point for two years, doing a
very encouraging business in the meantime,
and then abandoned merchandising, and for
five years thereafter dealt extensively in live
stock and wool in Chenango and adjoining
counties, frequently extending his business
operations throughout various parts of the
Western Reserve, Ohio. At the of twenty-
six, Mr. Church was united in marriage with
Miss Lou Tyler, daughter of Henry P. and
Ann Tyler, natives of Vermont, but at that
time residents of the Buckeye state. Imme-
diately after his marriage, Mr. Church en-
the mercantile and grain trade at
New London, Ohio, in both of which lines his
success was very marked, and he also estab-
lished the First National bank in that city, of
which he was vice president and manager for
a period of about fourteen years. Disposing
of his various business interests in New Lon-
don, Mr. Church, in the spring of 1886, came
to Muncie, Ind. , and assisted in organizing
the Delaware County bank, of which he was
cashier, which was succeeded by the Dela-
ware County National bank, of which he also
became cashier. He was the prime mover in
the organization of the Hathaway Investment
company, of which he has since been a di-
rector; is secretary of the Muncie Street Rail-
way company, and for several years has been
treasurer of the Muncie Savings & Loan asso-
ciation, in the establishment of which he bore
a prominent part In all his business transac-
tions Mr. Church has shown himself to be a
man of uncommon sagacity and discreetness
of judgment, of scrupulous integrity and gen-
tlemanly demeanor. In all public enterprises,
having for their object the general good of his
adopted city, his name and individual efforts
have always been foremost, and in all the at-
tributes of honorable manhood, honesty of pur-
pose and uprightness of character, he stands
prominent, enjoying in full measure the friend-
ship and good will of all with whom he has been
associated. Financially his success has been
commensurate with the activity displayed
throughout a long and varied business career,
and he is certainly entitled to a conspicuous
place among the representative self-made men
of the county of Delaware. Mr. Church cast
his first presidential vote for Abraham Lin-
coln, since which he has been a supporter of
the republican party, but is not a partisan in
the sense of seeking official preferment. He
is the father of two children: William H.
and Earnest, both living in Muncie.
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Q ARC US S. CLAYPOOL, proprietor
of Alameda Place, the famous stock
farm, of Muncie, was born near
Connersville, Fayette county, Ind.,
August I, 1 85 1, and is the son of Austin B.
and Hannah A. (Petty) Claypool, of Indiana.
Marcus S. lived in Wayne county, on a farm,
until ten years of age, when the family re-
turned to Connersville, Fayette county, at
which place he received his preparatory edu-
cation ; then he attended school at Dublin,
Wayne county, and eventually graduated from
Asbury (now DePauw) university, in 1872. In
July of the same year he came to Muncie, and
for seven years was assistant cashier of the
Bank of Muncie. In 1879 he was sept to
Colorado as agent for the Victor and Yandes
consolidated silver mining companies, and
also there became the treasurer and secretary
of the consolidated Columbia Tunnel & Mining
company, which he organized, and remained
in the country until 1884, when he returned to
Muncie, and has here since devoted his atten-
tion to the breeding of trotting horses, Jersey
cattle and Shropshire sheep. Like his father,
he had always been a lover or trotting horses,
and as far back as 1875 he had secured some
well bred mares and had patronized such fa-
mous stallions as Blue Bull (75) and Hamble-
tonian Tranby — the best bred in Indiana at
the time — securing some superior road horses,
that, however, were not trained for speed.
John E. Burson, brother-in-law of Mr. Clay-
pool, had established the stock farm at
Alameda Place, now in the Riverside addition,
and on his removal to St. Louis, Mo., Mr.
Claypool bought from him three stallions and
six mares — the stallions being Happy Traveler,
2:27 1-2, son of Hambletonian Prince, dam
Lady Larkin by Little Jack; Gift, Jr., still in
stud, and Stansifer's Woful ; the si.x mares
were by such sires as Hailstorm, Bonny Scot-
land, etc. Mr. Claypool has now at Alameda
Place three high-bred stallions, sired by the
best producing sons of such animals as George
Wilkes, Electioneer and Harold, further en-
riched by the best producing dams from other
renowned sires of trotting families. They are
Agricola, son of Gambetta Wilkes : first dam
by Princeps ; second dam by Volunteer ; third
dam. Flora Belle (2:22 3-4). Messala, son of
Norval (2:14 1-4): first dam by Onward (2:25
1-4), second dam, Blanche Armour (2:26),
third dam by Pilot, Jr., Russellami, by Lord
Russell : dam. Lamia by Onward. Following
these are the great stock horses Silvertone, by
Happy Traveler, dam Little Dolly (dam of
Gift, Jr., 2:27 1-2); Wilkes Pilot, son of
Hambletonian Wilkes ; dam by Mambrino
Chief, Jr., making him brother in blood to
Phebe Wilkes (2:11); Gift, Jr. (2:271-2),
sire of Sable Gift (2:24 1-4), also of Monk,
(2:30) and others, and his son Edgewood, out
of a daughter of Hambletonian Tranby. The
entire collection of richly bred dams, colts and
fillies number thirty-two head. The registered
Jersey herd number nine, including the blood
of Tormentor, Landseer's Fancy, and Signal.
The Shropshire flock contains eighteen head,
registered from the best imported strains.
The farms include forty-eight acres at Alameda
Place, 400 acres east of Muncie adjoining
the city limits, and other extensive tracts in
Centre township.
Mr. Claypool has been secretary of the
Delaware county board of agriculture for sev-
eral years, and a member of the state board ;
also a member of the Indiana Trotting and
Pacing Horse Breeders' association, and secre-
tary of the Eastern Indiana Jersey Cattle
Breeders' association, and is thoroughly posted
in everything that pertains to live stock in all
its characteristics.
The marriage of Mr. Claypool took place
at Muncie, Ind., Jan. 14. 1880, to Miss Eliza-
beth Burson, daughter of the late John W.
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Burson, banker of Muncie, whose sketch will
be found in another part of this volume.
m
'ILLIAM H. M. COOPER, one of
the prominent members of the Del-
aware county bar, and a man who
has achieved an extensive acquaint-
ance through the medium of his abstract office,
was born in Bartholomew county, Ind., Octo-
ber 13, 1840, son of Henry and Lucy (Wil-
liams) Cooper, natives respectively of the
counties of Decatur, Ind., and Clarke, Ohio.
Mr. Cooper is the eldest of a family of seven
children born to the above parents. He
received his primary education in the common
schools, subsequently took a course in Marion
academy, and after completing his literary
studies in the academy at Greencastle, began
teaching, which profession he followed very
successfully for several months. In 1859 he
located in Perry township, Delaware county,
and on the 2nd day of July, 1861, entered the
army, enlisting in company K, Nineteeth Indiana
volunteer infantry, with which he shared the
vicissitudes and honors of war until August 28,
1863, when he was honorably discharged from
the service, on account of wounds received at
the second battle of Bull Run. In r865 Mr.
Cooper was elected recorder of Delaware coun-
ty and served in that position for a period of
five years, after which he took a course of law
in the university of Michigan at Ann Arbor,
having previously taken a commercial course
at the Bryant & Stratton business colleges at
Indianapolis and Cincinnati. He was admit-
ted to the Delaware county bar in the year
1 87 1, and has since practiced his profession at
Muncie, where his well known legal abilities
have won for him a large and lucrative busi-
ness.
For many years Mr. Cooper has been en-
gaged in the abstract business, in which he has
become very proficient, being considered
authority upon all matters pertaining to real
estate in Muncie and Delaware county. Mr.
Cooper is prominently identified with a num-
ber of fraternal organizations, including Wil-
liams post, G. A. R. ; the I. O. O. F. , encamp-
ment and canton; Indianapolis lodge, B. P.
O. E. ; Improved Order of Red Men; the
Independent Order of Foresters; the Indiana
Society Sons of the Revolutfon, in all of which
organizations he is an active and valued mem-
ber. In politics he is a stanch republican,
and, as such, his counsels have been of valua-
ble service and have contributed much to his
party's success in a number of local and gen-
eral campaigns. Mr. Cooper was married, in
1868, to Miss Susannah N. Ellis, daughter of
John H. Ellis, of Muncie, the fruit of which
union is one child, Carrie T. , wife of A. G.
Adamson. Mr. Cooper and family are attend-
ants of the Presbyterian church of Muncie, and
they move in the best social circles of the city.
Throughout the entire county of Delaware,
Mr. Cooper has the reputation of an honora-
ble man and painstaking attorney, and when
he assumes charge of a case his clients well
know that all that can honestly be done in
their favor will be performed. He has a com-
prehensive knowledge of legal principles,
exhibits great skill in the management of his
cases, is faithful to clients and friends in all
his business transactions, and in all relations
of life is a true type of the honorable profes-
sional man and christian gentleman.
5>^ANIEL W. COTTRELL, M. D.—
I I Prominent among the successful
/^^_^ members of the medical profession of
Muncie, Delaware county, Ind., oc-
curs the name of Dr. Daniel W. Cottrell, who
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was born in the town of Scott, Cortland
county, N. Y., January 4. 183S. His parents
were Peleg S. and Mar}- Jane (Small) Cottrell,
the former of whom was a native of western
Rhode Island, a lineal descendant of William
Cottrell, who settled there in 1669; while the
mother was a native of Gilmanton, N. H.,
and taught for five years in the Lancaster
school of Albany, N. Y. In 1S51 the family
removed to Fayette county, A\'. Va., where
they remained for ten years, removing to Indi-
ana in 1 861. Upon arrival in the last named
state they settled in Daleville, Delaware county,
where the mother died one year later. The
father survived for ten years, dying in 1872.
Both parents were members of the Seventh
Day Baptist denomination and were most ex-
cellent people. Dr. Cottrell is the eldest of
the four sons and two daughters that composed
his father's family. He received his literary
education at the Homer academy, N. Y. , and
by private instruction in West Virginia. In
order to read medicine, in 1856 he went to
Allegany county, N. Y., and studied under
Dr. Brayton Babcock. Finishing his course,
Dr. Cottrell practiced medicine from 1859 to
1 86 1 in West Virginia, but at the latter date
came with the family to Daleville, Delaware
county, Ind., following his profession there
until 1 88 1, when he located in Muncie, where
he has since remained, engaged in his life call-
ing. In addition to his studies under Dr.
Babcock, Dr. Cottrell attended lectures in the
medical department of the university of New
York during the winter of 1858-9, at which
time he began the practice of his profession.
In August, 1863, Dr. Cottrell enlisted in the
Third Indiana battery, and served until the
close of the war.
The marriage of the doctor occurred
December 8, 1859, with Miss Emily Jane
McVey, of West \'irginia. Their married life
was a short one, as she died April 5, 1863,
leaving one cln-ld, nelphilia Loui.^e, wife of
Motley H. Flint, United Slates post olfice in-
spector for the Pacific coast, residing in Los
Angeles, Cal. In 1867 Dr Cottrell married
again, his second wife being Miss Catherine
Drennen, of Delaware county, Ind., b\- whom
he has had two children — John Francis and
Charles Orrin. Dr. Cottrell is a member of
the County Medical society and the Delaware
District Medical societ)-. Politically he is a
republican and supports the nominees of his
party whenever occasion demands. Dr.
Cottrell is an earnest and painstaking physi-
cian and fully merits the trust reposed in him
by the people of Muncie. During a twelve
years' residence in the city lie has built up a
fine practice, which is steadily increasing.
@RANVILLE COWING. -Joseph Cow-
ing, father of the gentleman whose
name introduces this sketch, was
born in the city of Carlisle, England,
September 12th, 1800. He received a fair
education in Dumfries, Scotland, came to
America in 18 19, landing in Alexandria, Va. ,
where he worked at his trade as a tailor.
Later he visited relatives in Washington, D.
C. , and after remaining there a short time
went with Nathaniel Horner, who afterwards
became his brother-in-law, to Weston, W.
Va., where he married Miss Rachel Hor-
ner and located. In 1830 he removed to Fair-
field, Greene county, Ohio, where he pursued
his trade and acquired some property. In
1840 he removed to Andersonville, Franklin
county, Ind., at which place he served as post
master for a period of twelve years. In 1853
he removed to the county of Delaware and
bought a farm near Muncie, where he resided
until i860, at which time he removed to De-
catur county. Six years later he retunred to
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Delaware county, where he made his home un-
til the death of his wife, after which, until his
own death on 6th of May, 1878, he lived with
his children. His wife, Rachel Horner, was
born in Hardy county, May 10, 1803, married
in 1820 and died January 18, 1873, a consist-
ent member of the Methodist church. Mrs.
Cowing's great-grandfather, Richard Horner,
was a native of Scotland and came to America
with Lord Baltimore. For services rendered
the colony he obtained a patent for 10,000
acres of land lying between Annapolis and
Baltimore. After his death his son, also
named Richard, became sole heir, who, dying,
left his estate to Benj. Horner, the grand-
father of the subject of this mention. Benj.
Horner was for three years a sailor and after-
ward served as soldier in the army of Gen.
St. Clair, from which he was honorably dis-
charged September 14, 1800. To the union
of Joseph and Rachel (Horner) Cowing were
born nine children, three girls and six boys,
two of the former dying in early childhood.
Granville Cowing was born March i, 1824,
near the town of Weston, Lewis county, Va.
He learned to read, before six years old, by
attending school taught by an old lady in her
own house near his home. In 1830 he accom-
panied his parents to Fairfield, Ohio, where
he remained for nine years, in the meantime
attending school in the winter and working on
farms during the summer seasons. In August,
1839, he went to Rushville, Ind., to live with
his brother-in-law, in whose establishment he
learned the trade of a tailor. Soon finding
this business distasteful, he abandoned it to
become a printer in the office of the Rushville
Whig, a newspaper started in 1840 by P. A.
Hackleman, to aid the election of Gen. Harri-
son to the presidency. After serving an ap-
prenticeship of three years, he continued in
the office until the year of 1 845, at which time,
in partnership with N. W. Cox, a life-long
friend, he purchased the paper and published
it for about three years, when, on account of
ill health, Mr. Cox retired from the business,
disposing of his interest to another party. In
the fall of 1 849 Mr. Cowing also sold his inter-
est in the paper and went to Washington, D.
C, traveling over the Alleghanies by stage
coach to Cumberland, Md. , where, for the first
time in his life, he saw a railroad, on which
he traveled until reaching his destination.
He spent his first year at the capital in the
office of the National Era, the great anti-
slavery organ, which was then introducing
tJncle Tom's Cabin to the public in its weekly
issue. The paper was edited by Dr. Gamaliel
Bailey and John G. Whittier, the poet, was
printed by Buell & Blanchard, and its office
was much frequented by the great anti-
slavery leaders, Seward, Chase, Hale, Gid-
dings, and others. Clay, Calhoun and Web-
ster were engaged at the time in public affairs,
and were familiar figures in the national capi-
tal. In the fall of 1850 Mr. Cowing was ap-
pointed to a place in the second auditor's
office of the treasury department by Thomas
Corwin, where, for six years, he settled all
accounts of officers of the army for all com-
pany arms and warlike stores required in
active service. These duties often brought
him in contact with many men who afterward
became great leaders in the late civil war.
His health suddenly failed in the beginning
of 1857, and, obtaining leave of absence for
three months, he returned to Indiana in the
hope that the change might benefit him, but
it did not; consequently he resigned his posi-
tion. Before leaving Washington city, D. C ,
J. T. Ouisenberry, a friend with whom he had
been associated in office for six years, fell heir
to 2, 100 acres of land near San Antonio, Tex-
as, and offered to give him 100 acres of it if
he would go there with him, settle upon it and
become his neighbor. This generous offer was
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declined with thanks, mainly beiause Mr.
Cowing believed that ci\il war couKl not long
be averted and he had no desire to be a citi-
zen of a southern state when hostilities began.
Since his return to Indiana in 1857, Mr. Cow-
ing has resided on the same farm near Mun-
cie — a period of thirt\-five years — cultivating
farm crops and small fruits, and during that
time he has been a constant contributor to
horticultural magazines and newspapers. The
strawberrj' has been his favorite fruit, and he
was the first, and, for many years, the only
person in Delaware county, who cultivated it
largely for market.
On September 2, 1S51, Mr. Cowing was
united in marriage to Miss Ann Fitzgerald, of
Washington, who died February 16, 1853,
leaving one child, Frances Alice, whose death
occurred on the i6th day of December, 1854.
On the 1 8th of February, 1855, Mr. Cowing
married Mrs. Lucy O'Farrell, to which union
have been born three sons and one daughter:
Lewis G. , George Edward, Hugh A. and Flor-
ence. Lewis is one of the leading fruit grow-
ers of Delaware county and an enthusiastic
horticulturist; George Edward died at the age
of six years, and Hugh is one of the promi-
nent physicians of Muncie.
The following is a brief sketch of the re-
maining children of Joseph and Rachel
Cowing. John G. Cowing was born Septem-
ber 25, 1825, became a painter, married and
settled at Andersonville, Franklin county,
where he still resides. He enlisted at the be-
ginning of the civil war and was made a con-
firmed invalid at the siege of Forts Henry and
Donelson by reason of exposure to snow and
ice while in the trenches. Cultivating fruits
is his favorite employment. Joseph L. Cow-
ing was born in Virginia in 1826, became- a
tailor, located in New Salem, Rush county,
Ind., where he served as post master for many
years and also several terms as township trus-
of
SSo. Alvin
acijuircd a
tee. He dic<l in tlu- au
M. Cowing was born in N'irgini;
limited education in the ordinary schools, and,
when old enough, K'arned tlie tailor's trade,
in which he became quite proficient. He
married Miss Judith Kemper of Clarksburg,
Ind., and, soon afterward, with Mr. Jefferson
Kemper, purchased the Rushville Republican,
which he published for several years. Subse-
quently he disposed of his interest in the paper
and removed to Montezuma, Iowa, where he
founded another newspaper. He was elected
clerk of the Iowa legislature, and afterwards
became one of its members, and in i860
bought his father's farm near Muncie, Ind., to
which he at once removed. August i, 1862,
he enlisted in the Sixty-ninth regiment Indiana
volunteers, was made lieutenant in company
B, and received his death wound at Richmond,
Ky., on the 30th of the same month, while
endeavoring to rally his men toward the close
of the battle. William J. Cowing was born
in Ohio and entered the printing office of his
brother Granville in 1848. He owned and
edited the Rushville Republican for several
years, and in 1861 received an appointment in
the treasury department of Washington city.
He remained in the national capital until the
breaking out of the war, when he resigned
his place and established a daily paper
in Alexandria city, Va., which he published
until the war ended. He was secretary of
state under the restored government of \'ir-
ginia, and afterwards received a place in the
department of agriculture, which he retained
until his death, in October, 1893. George
W. Cowing was born in Ohio— became a
printer, and was long employed in the govern-
ment printing office in Washington city.
During the war he was coimected with the
quartermaster's department. He died Janu-
ary 16, 1873, and his body was laid to rest
in Beech Grove cemetery at Muncie, Ind.
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OSCAR W. CRABBS.— Conspicuous
among the representative and suc-
cessful business men of the city of
Muncie is Oscar W. Crabbs, who
was born in Montgomery county, Ohio,
March 12, 1852. His parents, Benj. F.
and Louise (Folcarth) Crabbs, are natives
of the same county and state, where they now
reside. Oscar W. Crabbs early manifested
great aptitude for business, and at the age of
seventeen embarked upon his commerical
career by dealing in coal, wood, hay, grain,
etc. , in which lines his success was fully com-
mensurate with his expectations. In 1885 he
located in Muncie, Ind., and engaged in buy-
ing, pressing and shipping hay, from which
has been developed his present business — one
of the most successful of the kind in the city.
He deals extensively in wheat, corn, clover,
seeds, etc., and from long practice and wide
experience has so learned to manage his busi-
ness that prosperity has attended his efforts.
Mr. Crabbs is a member of the Co-operative
Gas company of Muncie, and is now looking
after the city's interest as a member of the
common council from the First ward, in which
body he is chairman of the important commit-
tees on water works, cemetery and judiciary.
Politically he is a republican and stoutly sup-
ports the party with which he is identified,
believing that its principles inure to the best
interests of the country. Mr. Crabbs was
married in 1872 to Miss Mary E. Hosier,
daughter of Robert Hosier of Montgomery
county, Ohio, to which union have been born
three children, namely: Claudia Burdelia,
Frank Dodds and Robert Benj. Mr. Crabbs
holds to the creed of the Methodist church,
and with his family belongs to the Muncie
congregation, in which he holds the position
of trustee. He was one of the members of the
building committee, and to him is largely due
the credit of pushing forward to completion
the present magnificent church edifice
which the congregation worships.
OZRO N. CRANOR, a leading mem-
ber of the Delaware county bar and
state senator for the counties of Del-
aware and Randolph, was born in
Wayne county, Ind., September 4, 1855, and
is a son of John and Elizabeth (Study) Cranor,
both families pioneer settlers of Wayne coun-
ty. John Cranor, however, was born in
Ohio, July 6, 1828, but has passed his whole
life, so to speak, in Wayne county, having
been brought here by his parents in the fall of
the year of his birth. He now has his resi-
dence in Dublin, that county, and has been a
minister in the United Brethren church for
thirty-three years. Mrs. Elizabeth (Study)
Cranor, also a native of Wayne county, Ind.,
was born April 7, 1830. The maternal grand-
mother of Ozro N. Cranor bore the maiden
name of Lomax, and her family settled in
what is now Wayne county, Ind., as early as
1811.
Ozro N. Cranor is the second eldest in a
family of five children. His preliminary edu-
cation was obtained at the common schools of
his native county, and this was supplemented
by attendance at the Hartsville and Otterbein
universities. In the spring of 1876 he went
to Vermillion county, and for six years taught
school, and while there, on the 4th day of
September, 1878, was married to Miss Mattie
J. Arrasmith, but insatiate Death stepped in
ere little more than a year had passed, and
claimed the bride as his own. Her death
occurred September 28, 1879, but she left her
husband a pledge of her love — Bertha — born
June 23, 1879. In 1882, Mr. Cranor came to
Delaware county, and November 23, 1883,
chose for his second wife Miss Victoria L. ,
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daughter of Capt. John and Ehza B. Koss, and
to this happy union have been born two chil-
dren — John R., born August 27, 1884, and
Gifford B. , born May 21, 1893. Mr. Cranor
having duly prepared himself, began the prac-
tice of law in Muncie in 1889, and in this pro-
fession he soon forged his way to the front.
In politics he is a republican through and
through, is a worker for his party, and is as
popular in its ranks as he is before
the general public. In 1888 he was elected
to represent his fellow citizens of Del-
aware county in the lower house of the
state legislature, and so well did he take
care of their interests during the term, that he
was sent back to the state capital in 1892, as
joint senator from the counties of Delaware
and Randolph, of which office he is still the
incumbent. Mr. Cranor is a member of Mun-
cie lodge. No. 74, I. O. O. F. , and of Muncie
Encampment, No. 30, and he and wife are
consistent and faithful members of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church. As a professional
man his success has been most gratifying, and
as a member of society his gentlemanly de-
portment has won him hosts of friends.
@EORGE W. CROMER, one of the
enterprising and successful members
of the Delaware county bar, and a
prominent politician of this part of
the state of Indiana, was born in Columbus,
Madison county, Ind. , May 13, 1857, a son of
Joshua and Mary (Shultz) Cromer, natives of
Maryland, and Wayne county, Ind., respect-
ively. These parents moved to Salem town-
ship, Delaware county, in 1857, where they
purchased a farm and where they now reside.
George W. Cromer in early life attended the
public schools in Salem township and supple-
mented his elementary education by a full
course in the State university, at Bloomington,
from which he graduated in 1882. Thus
thoroughly equipped, he was ready to choose
a profession, and, deciding upon the law,
entered the office of Ellis & Walterhouse in
1883, and so great was his application and
natural ability that one year later he was ad-
mitted to the Delaware county bar. Since
that time he has been kept busy practicing in
the district, county and state courts, and has
succeeded in building up a large and lucrative
legal business, being one of the most success-
ful lawyers of the city of Muncie, which has
long been known for its men of high legal at-
tainments.
Politically, Mr. Cromer is a republican, and
has always been an active and energetic
worker for his party. In 1892 he was chair-
man of the county central committee and a
member of the state republican committee for
the Sixth congressional district. He was
elected prosecuting attorney for the Forty-
sixth judicial district in 1886, was re-elected
in 1888, and discharged the duties of that po-
sition in a manner highly creditable to himself
and eminently satisfactory alike to his friends
and to those opposed to him politically.
Fraternally he is a member of the B. P. O.
E., the I. O. R. M. and the I. O. O. F. He
is also a member of the Evangelical Lutheran
church. He is considered one of the rising
men of the city, and his career is watched
with much interest by his friends, who predict
for him a future of great promise.
>nr'AMES N. CROPPER was born in Ran-
m dolph, county Ind., February 7, 1838,
A 1 son of Bela W. and Elizabeth Cropper.
Bela W. Cropper was a native of
Woodford, county Ky., where he grew to man-
hood on a farm, and later followed boating on
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the Ohio river, in which business he continued
with a reasonable degree of success for some
years. He married, in his native state, Ehza-
beth Ashby, who was born in Henry county,
Ky. , and after a brief residence in Ohio and a
return to Kentucky, moved to Indiana about
1833, setthng in Randolph county, eight miles
southwest of Winchester, where he engaged
in agricultural pursuits. Bela W. and Eliza-
beth Cropper represented a parentage of four-
teen children, five of whom are living at this
time, the youngest of the family being James
N. He was for many years an active mem-
ber of the Regular Baptist church, being a
deacon, and also serving as clerk of the asso-
ciation. He was for many years a justice in
the township of West River, and achieved
considerable reputation in his community as a
local politician, first as a whig and later as a
republican. He was one of the pioneers of
Randolph county, being among those who en-
tered the county at a time when but little
effort had been made to disturb the original
possessors of the soil — the savage red man and
.the wild beast of the forest. He possessed
many noble traits of mind and heart, which
have been reproduced in his descendants, and
died at his home in West River township,
Randolph county, at a ripe old age deeply la-
mented by all who knew him His widow sur-
vived him a short time, and now rests by his
side in the cemetery at Huntsville near his old
home.
James N. Cropper was reared to agricul-
tural pursuits on the homestead in Randolph
county, and early became familiar with all the
details of farm life. His primary education
was acquired in the country schools, the train-
ing thus received being afterwards supplement-
ed by a course in what was known as the
Farmers' academy. Jay county, in which insti-
tute he made such commendable progress that
within a short time he was sufficiently ad-
vanced in his studies to procure a license
enabling him to teach in the public schools.
He served as local correspondent for the coun-
ty papers and contributed to them and other
publications numerous articles on topics of
public interest. He was engaged as teacher
in the winter seasons until the breaking out of
the war, at which time he deemed it his duty
to assist in preserving the Union. According-
ly, on the 19th of July, 1862, he enlisted as
private, and was mustered into the service at
Indianapolis, as a sergeant, August 19, same
year, in which capacity he continued until his
promotion to the lieutenancy a few months
later. He discharged the duties of the latter
position in a creditable manner until 1864,
in July of which year, owing to the consolidat-
ing of his regiment into a battalion, and death
at home, and with the consent of his com-
manding officer, he resigned his commission,
returned home and engaged in farm work and
teaching. On the i6th day of November,
1865, Mr. Cropper and Sallie A. Mills, daugh-
ter of Rufus K. and Elizabeth J. (McPherson)
Mills, were united in the bonds of wedlock,
remaining for one year thereafter on a farm in
Randolph county. In 1866 Mr. Cropper
embarked in the general mercantile trade at
the town of Huntsville, where he remained for
about four and one-half years, at the end of
which time he disposed of his stock, the busi-
ness not proving remunerative, and located in
Muncie, where, for some months, he was var-
iously employed, working for a livelihood at
whatever he could find to do. This was a
trying period in his life, but he encountered
and successfully overcame obstacles which
would have discouraged many a man of less
determination and will power. Among the
different occupations in which he was engaged
after coming to this city were wood sawing,
gathering corn for neighboring farmers, market
gardening, and various other kinds of labor.
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and teaching school in the country in winter.
He was appointed and accepted the position of
deputy township appraiser and assessor, and
served five terms. He also served as deputy
sheriff cf Delaware county under Andrew J.
Slinger, the duties of which position he dis-
charged in an eminently satisfactory manner
for a period of two years. He then clerked
with different mercantile firms of the city until
1883, when he effected a co-partnership in the
grocery trade with Jonathan P. Adamson,
which relationship was severed two years later,
Mr. Cropper purchasing the entire stock and
continuing the business very successfully until
June, 1892. He disposed of his stock in that
year and retired from mercantile pursuits,
since which date he has given his attention
almost exclusively to his real estate interests
in Muncie, being one of the principal movers
in the Riverside addition, where his holdings
are large and very valuable.
Mr. Cropper is a commendable example of
what may be accomplished by perseverance
and prudent management, and he has shown
himself to be a man of discreet judgment,
scrupulous integrity and gentlemanly de-
meanor. That he has been successful in his
various business enterprises is sufficiently at-
tested by his present conspicuous standing in
Muncie, where only a few years ago he arrived
without any capital worthy of mention, save a
well formed determination to make the best of
very discouraging surroundings and to over-
come obstacles which to the majority of men
would have appeared practically insurmount-
able. He is not identified with any church,
but affiliates with the Society of Friends, as
also does his wife. He served as superintend-
ent of the Mission Sunday school of this
society for several years, commencing with its
organization. Since attaining his legal ma-
jority, he has exercised his elective franchise
in behalf of the republican party, the princi-
ples of which he believes to be for the best
interest of the country. Mr. and Mrs. Cropper
have one child, a daughter, Ina C., wife of
F. B. Nickey, one of the leading business men
of Muncie.
@EORGE W. CROZIER, general man-
ager of The Crozier Washing Machine
company, is one of the progressive
citizens who serve to build up and
improve any community in which fortune has
placed them. Mr. Crozier was born in Piqua,
Ohio, July 21, 1847, a son of William. J. and
Ann (Ross) Crozier, the former a native of
Scotland, and an early settler of Piqua,
and the latter a native of the same county.
They now reside near Toledo, Ohio.
George W. Crozier was educated in the
public schools of Defiance, Ohio, after which
he learned the machinist's trade, displaying a
natural aptitude for mechanical work. In
1873 he opened a foundry and machine shop
at Napoleon, Henry, county, Ohio, which he
conducted until 1879, when he removed to
Columbia City, Ind., and changed his business,
becoming the proprietor of the Central house.
In 1883 he came to Muncie, and soon after
this invented a patent buggy top, and engaged
in manufacturing the same for four years, also
manufacturing the Crozier gas regulator, of
which he was also the inventor.
In 1 890 Mr. Crozier was so fortunate as to
patent something which filled a long felt want,
this being the now celebrated Crozier washing
machine, and he at once began the manafac-
ture of them, in January, 1892, organizing the
Crozier Washing Machine company, and be-
coming general manager of the same. This
company does the largest business in their line
of any firm in the city. He is a stockholder
in several co-operative gas companies, and is a
member of the Citizens' Enterprise company.
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and is socially connected with the I. O O. F.
and the I. O. R. M. Politically he is a demo-
crat, and stanchly upholds the principles of
his party.
In 1872 Mr. Crozier was married to Miss
Mary A. Rogers, daughter of Joseph Rogers,
of Henry county, Ohio, but he was called
upon to mourn her death in 1881. She left a
family of five children, as follows: Gary, May,
Elta, Leroy and Walter. In 1886, Mr. Cro-
zier married Mrs. Jennie Ray, of Muncie, a
lady of many fine qualities, and a member of
the Baptist church.
ai
ALTER L. DAVIS, the well known
journalist and business man of
Muncie, is a native of Warren
county. Pa. , born October 2 1 , 1850,
in the town of Youngsville. His father, Wil-
lard J. Davis, also a native of the same county
and state, was born May 17, 1828, the son of
Abraham and Ruth (Mead) Davis, whose an-
cestors came to the United States from Wales
a great many years ago. Willard J. Davis
still lives upon the farm where he was born, a
part of which is embraced within the corporate
limits of Youngsville, and is perhaps the largest
bee raisers in the state of Pennsylvania — his
apiary consisting of over five hundred stands,
the product of which finds sale in Philadelphia
and other large eastern cities. He married, in
1849, Miss Laura Littlefield, daughter of
Stephen and Elizabeth (Mead) Littlefield, of
Warren county, Pa. , a union blessed with the
birth of four children: Walter L. , Homer F.,
James H., who died at the age of eleven years,
and Mary Alice. Willard J. is a prominent
member of the Methodist Episcopal church in
the town where he resides, and for a period of
fort}' years has been leader of the choir in the
congregation of Youngsville. He has served
as justice of the peace for a number of terms,
has been a member of the school board for
more than twenty years, and is a man of
much more than ordinary mental endowments.
Walter L. Davis was reared on the home
place at Youngsville, and received his early
educational training in the schools of that
town, which he attended until his nineteenth
year. He finished his studies in the high
school of Muncie, Indiana, to which city he
came in 1 869, and on quitting school accepted
the position of salesman with his uncle, P. F.
Davis, a dealer in agricultural implements.
He was thus employed from 1870 to 1877, re-
tiring from the business in the latter year and
purchasing an interest, with Col. J. D. Will-
iams, in the Muncie Courier-Democrat, with
which paper he was connected for two years.
He then became city editor of the Muncie
Daily News, and one year later, in partner-
ship with Charles Alf Williams, purchased an
interest in the Muncie Democrat, which paper
he managed very successfully during the cam-
paign of 1880. Disposing of his interest in
the Democrat to L. A. Kirkwood, Mr. Davis
resumed his former position on the News, and
continued in that capacity until 1885, in
December of which year he again purchased
the Democrat, consolidating it with the Mun-
cie Herald, forming a partnership in the news-
paper business with Thomas McKillip, editor
of the latter, a relationship which continued
until August, 1889, when he Sold out and be-
came manager of the paper which he had
formerly owned. He filled the latter position
two and one-half years, when he retired from
journalism, and in May, 1892, accepted the
position of assistant secretar}- of the Muncie
Savings & Loan company, one of the most
successful associations of the kind in the state
of Indiana. Mr. Davis was one of the original
directors of this enterprise, and to his activity
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and judicious management is the association
indebted for much of its present prosperity.
Mr. Davis was married October 8, 1879,
to Isadora F. Morehouse, daughter of Henry
and Mary (Hiatt) Morehouse, of Michigan.
To this union one child has been born: Ethel,
whose birth occurred March 17, 1882. Mr.
Davis belongs to the Masonic fraternity.
Knights of Maccabees and the National Frater-
nal union. In politics he is a democrat, and
at this time holds the position of deputy state
supervisor of oil inspection in the state depart-
ment of geology. Mr. Davis is a man of good
business tact, and his knowledge of men, and
his experience as a journalist and newspaper
man, have enabled him to discharge with credit
the duties of the various positions to which,
at different times, he has been called. He
enjoys the confidence and esteem of his fellow
citizens of Muncie, and is one of the city's most
intelligent and progressive business men.
>^OHN WORTHINGTON DRAGOO was
M born in Perry township, Delaware
« 1 county, Ind., May 7, 1858, the son of
William and Amelia (Gibson) Dragoo,
old settlers of the county, and highly respected
residents of their township. William Dragoo,
the father of John W., was a native of West
Virginia, as it is now known, but at the early
age of seven years, was brought to Delaware
county by his father, who entered eighty acres
of land in Perry township, the patent being
signed by Andrew Jackson, and this land never
changed hands until the death of the patentee,
when it was divided among his heirs. William
Dragoo was a member of a family of seven
children that reached maturity, and had the
advantage of an excellent education that he
acquired at the schools of Muncie and New-
castle, having as classmates such young men
as Judge Shipley and C. Spilker, of Muncie,
and others that became famous in later life.
The early business life of William Dragoo was
that of a general merchant at New Burlington,
Delaware county, but later on he withdrew
from mercantile trade and engaged in the pur-
suit of agriculture, which he followed most
successfully until his retirement from active
labor to pass the remnant of his days at the
residence of his son, John W., in Muncie.
John W. also was reared a farmer, and was
educated at the public schools. At fifteen
years of age he relinquished his studies, and
at twenty-one left the farm, and for five years
was employed in school teaching and in at-
tending schools of a higher grade. The next
five years found him again on the farm, and
from the expiration of that time until the
present the school room has again been the
field of his labor. He has in all taught over
fifty months, included in which period are a
term of one year as superintendent of the
Yorktown schools and his present superin-
tendency of the schools of Congerville. He
has reached a high position in the estimation
of his fellow citizens, and by them was elected
county assessor in the winter of 1892.
The marriage of Mr. Dragoo took place
May 7, 1884, to Miss Frances R. Jump, the
accomplished daughter of Dr. S. V. Jump, of
New Burlington, and four children have been
the fruit of this happy union, viz: Charles,
Earl, Nina F., Mary L. and Charlene. In
politics, Mr. Dragoo is a republican, and fra-
ternally he is a Patriotic Son of America. He
has led a studious and industrious life, has
been faithful and energetic in the discharge of
his professional and public duties, and has
proven himself to be in every respect fully
worthy of the responsible trusts reposed in
him. The family hold a position in society of
which they may well feel proud.
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>^OSIAH W. DRAKE, an ex-soldier and
■ well known citizen of Muncie, Ind.,
A 1 was born in Brown county, Ohio, Jurie
3, 1 841, a son of Robert and Melissa
(Gardner) Drake. They were natives of Ohio,
and after marriage followed farming. In 1851
they came to Hamilton county, Ind. , where
they now reside. Josiah W. Drake received
a common school education, and engaged in
business on his own account in 1865, begin-
ning the harness making in Boxley, Hamilton
county, Ind. He was appointed post master
of the village by Andrew Johnson, serving in
that capacity for one year. He then engaged
in saw and flour milling, following these occu-
pations for two years, and then spent one
year in Orange county, at French Lick, for
the benefit of his health. Becoming some-
what better, he returned to Hamilton county
and engaged for one year in selling Wheeler
& Wilson sewing machines; then located at
Berlin, Clinton county, Ind. , where he fol-
lowed the mercantile business for one year,
but sold this and removed to Circleville, same
county, where he engaged in painting for the
four succeeding years. At the end of that
time he took a contract for supplying the ties
for the L. E. &. W. R. R. for one year, and
then removed to Muncie, continuing in the
employ of the same road in the bridge depart-
ment. Mr. Drake's war record is an honor-
able one, and his pension of six dollars a month
was valiantly earned. In July, 1861, he en-
listed in company B, Thirty-ninth Indiana
volunteers, and at the expiration of his term
of service re-enlisted at Ringgold, Ga. , in Feb-
ruary, 1863, serving in company B, Eighth
Indiana cavalry. He participated in many
hard skirmishes and took part in the battle of
Chickamauga, being finally discharged at
Wilmington, N. C. In 1885 Mr. Drake en-
gaged in the restaurant business, and has since
continued in the same line, becoming pro-
prietor of the LaClede, October 13, 1892.
Mr. Drake was married in Hamilton county,
Ind., October 6, 1866, to Miss Aman-
da Phillips, who was born in Morgan county,
Ind., daughter of Thomas Phillips, a native of
North Carolina. Three children have been
born of this marriage — Myrtle and two infants,
all deceased. Politically Mr. Drake is a dem-
ocrat, and is one of the sterling citizens of the
flourishing city of Muncie.
Wi
ILLIAM EDGAR DRISCOLL, B.
S., M. D., is one of the prominent
professional men of Muncie, a native
son of Indiana, born in Centre
township, Delawai-e county, near where the
Indiana Iron works now stand, on the 6th day
of October, 1858. His parents were John and
Maria (Gibson) Driscoll. The doctor received
a liberal education, graduating from Purdue
university, Lafayette, Ind., in June, 1882, fol-
lowing which he entered upon the study of
medicine under the guidance of Dr. S. V.
Jump, of New Burlington. He further took a
full course at the Medical college of Ohio, at
Cincinnati, where he graduated March, 1886,
after which he began the practice at Cowan,
Delaware county, where he resided for two
years. In June, 1888, Dr. Driscoll located
permanently in Muncie, where he has since
enjoyed a large share of the remunerative
practice, and where his superior medical
knowledge has won for him a conspicuous
place among the successful medical men of
central Indiana. In April, 1886, he was
elected coroner of Delaware county, and filled
the office by successsive re-elections for the
six succeeding years.
Doctor Driscoll is well known among his
professional associates, being a member of the
Delaware County Medical society, of which he
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AND CENTRE TOWNSHIP.
was formerly president; belongs to the Dela-
ware District Medical society, and the State
Medical society of Indiana. In 1892, his ad-
vice and good judgment were secured for the
city by an election to the common council
from the Third ward, and he is now serving in
that body as a member of the police, street,
and educational committees, and is also chair-
man of the library board, in which organization
he has taken a very active interest. Dr.
Driscoll was appointed by Gov. Matthews to
attend the first Pan-American medical con-
gress, held at Washington, D. C , September
5 to 8, 1893, in which he represented his state
in the lectures on hygiene, and quarantine
and infectious diseases. Politically Dr. Dris-
coll is a republican, and, fraternally, belongs
to Muncie lodge. No. 74, I. O. O. F. , and to
Delaware lodge, No. 46, A. F. & A. M. He
was one of the incorporators of the Muncie
Silver Ash institute, and is physician in charge
of the same at this time. He is a member of
the Citizens' Enterprise company, and of
various other projects having for their object
the public good, and he is progressive and en-
terprising in all those terms imply. Profes-
sionally the doctor stands high in Muncie.
His mental faculties, thoroughly disciplined
by collegiate and professional training, enable
him to keep pace with the advancement of
medical science; his success is due as much to
his original experiments and investigations, as
to his extensive reading. On the 29th day of
September, 1886, Dr. Driscoll and Maggie J.,
daughter of Samuel Chapman, of Oxford, Ind.,
were united in marriage, and one child has
come to gladden their home, namely: John
C. Driscoll. Mrs. Driscoll is a lady of cult-
ure, refinement, and rare intelligence, having
graduated in the same class with her husband
at Purdue university. Dr. and Mrs. Driscoll
are highly respected members of the High
street Methodist church of Muncie, and they
move in the best social circles nf the city.
The attention of the reader is called to the
fine portrait of the doctor on the o|)posite
page.
>T^OSEPH F. DUCKWALL, eminent as
m an attorney at law of Muncie, was born
/• 1 near Batavia. Clermont county, Ohio,
July 8, 1834. His father was a
wealthy and prosperous farmer, and the early
life of Joseph F. was spent upon the paternal
farm. The pursuit of agriculture not being
suited to his inclinations, at the age of nine-
teen, he left the farm and engaged in teaching,
having received his early education in the
common schools and the academy. In 1853
he entered the Ohio Wesleyan university at
Delaware, Ohio, where he remained nearly
three years, defraying the principal portion of
his expenses with his earnings as a teacher.
He is liberally educated, and a gentleman of
fine culture and extensive information. His
maternal grandfather, Thomas Foster, was a
soldier in the war of 1812, and was in Hull's
infamous surrender, of which he could not
speak except with deep indignation. His
grandmother was the sister of the well known
pioneer Methodist minister, Rev. Wm. H.
Raper. His mother, Elizabeth (Foster) Duck-
wall, was the cousin of Randolph S. Foster,
D. D., now a bishop of the M. E. church.
In June, 1857, Joseph F. Duckwall came
to Muncie and engaged in the publication of
the Muncie Messenger, of which he was editor
and proprietor. In August, 1858, he moved
his press to Anderson, and started the Madi-
son County Republican, which he continued
to publish until March, 1859, when he was
compelled to suspend its publication for want
of patronage. In this unfortunate venture he
lost all that he possessed. He returned to Mun-
cie, and on June i, 1859, was married to Miss
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Addie Jones, daughter of Wm. F. Jones, ex-
mayor of Muncie, and soon after he was em-
ployed as principal of the Muncie public
schools, which position he held during the
school year. In the summer of i860, at the
solicitation of the Hon. Walter March, who
kindly gave him financial aid, he purchased
the Eastern Indiana Courant, the name of
which he changed to The Delaware County
Free Press, which he continued to edit and
publish until the fall of 1867, when he sold
the Press to Hon. Alfred Kilgore. The Free
Press was a republican journal of the radical
type, and was an able advocate of republican
principles. Its columns doubtless contributed
largely to the creation of that sterling republi-
can sentiment which has long been the boast
and pride of the people of Delaware county.
His paper was regarded as one of the ablest in
the state, and its editor acknowledged to be
an able and forcible writer by all. His paper
was admired for its independence and fearless
advocacy of the right, regardless of policy or
pecuniary gain or personal advantage.
In the year 1869 Mr. Duckwall went to
Greenfield, Mo., and engaged in the practice
of law, and soon took position in the front
ranks of his profession. His ability as a law-
yer soon received public recognition. In 1 874,
without his knowledge or consent, his name
was placed upon a ticket as a candidate for
prosecuting attorney of the Twenty-fifth judi-
cial circuit, and came very near being elected.
In the campaign of 1876, his services were
demanded on the stump, and he made a large
number of speeches in the interests of the
republican party. In the fall of that year the
republican convention of Greene county, held
at Springfield, placed him before the people
as a candidate for attorney general of the
state, and instructed its delegates to vote for
him in the state convention. He received
similar endorsements from several other county
conventions of southwestern Missouri, and
when it is considered that he had not even
thought of being a candidate for that office,
this action is a high compliment to his ability
and worth. The state was overwhelmingly
democratic, and a place, upon the republican
ticket was solely one of honor, and he made
no effort to secure the nomination. In the
fall of the same year he was nominated, by
acclamation, by the republican convention of
Dade county, for prosecuting attorney, and
the nomination so made was tendered to him
with a request that he accept the same, which
he did, and was elected. This office he held
for two years, discharging its duties with sig-
nal ability and fidelity. Immediately after
the expiration of his term of office he returned
to Muncie, where he resumed the practice of
law. Soon after his return he was solicited to
become the editor of The Daily Times, which
position he accepted and occupied nearly two
years.
Mr. Duckwall has been prominently identi-
fied with the politics of Delaware county for
many years, and has contributed with his pen
and upon the rostrum to the advancement of
the cause of republicanism and good govern-
ment. He not only wields a trenchant pen,
but is a forcible and entertaining public
speaker. In addition to the positions of pub-
lic trust held by him, above mentioned, he
was the first city clerk of Muncie, and also
city attorney, having been elected to the form-
er and appointed to the latter. These offices
he filled faithfully and acceptably to the peo-
ple. As a lawyer, Mr. Duckwall is recognized
as one of high rank and scholarly attainments,
and well equipped in every branch of the pro-
fession. Although he has never allowed the
use of his name as a candidate, he has been
favorably mentioned as a candidate for judge
of the Delaware circuit court, and his eminent
fitness and qualification for the position are,
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MRS. E. DUNGAN.
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251
by those wlio know him, fully recognized.
As a citizen, he is honest, upright and exem-
plar}-, and universally respected. He is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church,
and is regarded as a conscientious christian
gentleman. He has practically retired from
the practice of his profession, and is living a
peaceful and quiet life in his pleasant home in
Riverside, resting from the labors of an active
and busy life, and rationally enjoying the
fruits of his toil and the confidence and esteem
of his fellow men.
>T^OHN W. DUNGAN, proprietor of the
m Glendale Jersey farm, and an old and
A J honored resident of Delaware county,
was born in Fayette county, Ind., June
2, 1824, a son of Benjamin and Margaret
(Mitchell) Dungan. The former was born in
Bucks county, Pa., and was the son of John
Dungan, a native of Ireland, who had come to
America many years prior and located in New
York state, later removing to Pennsylvania.
Benjamin Dungan married in Butler county,
Ohio, and removed with his family to Fayette
county, Ind. , in quite an early day, where he
engaged in farming (following the occupation all
his life), and became the father of ten children
the record of whom is as follows: Rebecca,
Elias, William, Elizabeth, Esther and James,
all deceased; John W. , Joseph A., of Muncie;
Isaac J., a farmer of Missouri, and Benjamin
W., deceased. The mother died January 22,
1836, and the father September 15, 1855,
both members of the Baptist church. Politi-
ically, Mr. Dungan was a whig. After the
death of his wife he removed to Delaware
count}', in 1836, and remained here until 1853.
John W. Dungan was reared to hard work
on the farm and had very limited opportunities
of becoming educated. He remained with his
father until 1842, at which time he came to
Muncie and engaged with Thomas S. Neelcy
in the blacksmith trade, which he followed
until 1859, when he was elected sheriff of
Delaware county, serving in this position un-
til he enlisted, October 19, 1864, in the Union
army for one year. Before the expiration of his
term of service he was honorably discharged,
May 8, 1865, at Indianapolis. After his re-
turn from the war, Mr. Dungan engaged in
working at his trade, which he continued until
1869, then sold implements for three years,
and from 1873 to 1877 was employed as sales-
man in a hardware store. At the end of that
time he was re-elected to the office of sheriff
and served from August, 1877, to August,
1 88 1, when he retired to his farm adjoining
the city. He had purchased eighty acres of
land in 1879, and has forty acres now in Part-
wico.
In Muncie, October 18, 1848, he married
Miss Edith Dragoo, who was born in Preston
county, W. Va. , in 1827, a daughter of Will-
iam and Elizabeth (Prunty) Dragoo, natives
of Virginia, of Irish ancestry, who came to this
county in 1838, being among the pioneers.
The family of Mr. and Mrs. Dungan bear the
following names: George, a resident of Mun-
cie; Leonidas, a blacksmith of this city; Cor-
nelia A., deceased; Walter R., deceased; Caro-
line, the wife of William Weeks, of Muncie;
Jessie J., the wife of George Carmichael, a
farmer of the county; Willie, deceased; Nettie,
at home, and Harry F. , a commission mer-
chant, in company with D. T. Haines, Jr.
The parents are members of the Methodist
church and have brought up a fine, moral
family. Politically, Mr. Dungan is a republi-
can, and was assessor of his township three
terms, street commissioner two years, and has
taken a great interest in the progress of the
county. He is a member of the Masonic
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order and of I. O. O. F lodge, No. 74.
Mr. Dungan is the proprietor of a fine farm
whicli is known all over the county as the
home of some of the finest thoroughbred
Jersey cattle in this part of the state. He
has made a success of, and takes great inter-
est in, the breeding of these and other fine
cattle.
,>'^-OBERT DUNN, senior member of
1 /^ the firm of Dunn Lime & Sewer Pipe
I ^ P company, contractors for plastering,
and wholesale and retail dealers in
lime, hair, cement, plaster of paris, fire brick,
fire clay, etc., is one of the representative
business men of Muncie, and a highly respected
citizen of Delaware county. He was born
October 11, 1830, in Abbeville district, S. C,
the son of James and Bethome (Evans) Dunn.
The father was a farmer, which vocation he
carried on in his native state in connection
with shoemaking, and later in Fayette county,
Ind. , where he moved in 1832, settling near
the town of Connersville. In 1833 he moved
to Rush county, this state, where he resided
for two years, and then became a resident of
the county of Hancock, where he made his
home until 1846, at which time he located in
Marion county, where his wife's death oc-
curred in I 847. Subsequently he removed to
Indianapolis, where he resided for a limited
period, and then returned to his farm in Mari-
on county, but did not long remain there,
moving, within about one year, to the southern
part of the state, and eventually returning to
the county of Fayette. In 1851 he went back
to his native state. South Carolina, and after
a few years' residefice there, returned to Fay-
ette county, in the year 1858. His second
wife was Polly Simms. James Dunn was the
father of eight children, namely: Elizabeth j.,
deceased; Robert, whose name introduces this
sketch; James R. , deceased; Nancy, who lives
in Chicago; Martha G., deceased; Andrew J.,
of Indianapolis; William Thomas, deceased,
and George, a citizen of Marion county, Ind.
Robert Dunn, the second of the above
children, was reared on a farm until 1848, at
which time he began learning the trade of
plastering in Indianapolis, and with the ex-
ception of two years spent in farming in Rush
county, has followed that vocation ever since.
He became a resident of Muncie in the year
1888, and now does a very extensive and lu-
crative business as a plasterer, beside dealing
very largely in the articles enumerated in the
introduction of this sketch — his place on west
Dumont street being one of the well known
business houses of the city. Mr. Dunn has
been twice married; the first time, in August
1850, to Miss Martha Day, who was born in
Marion county, this state, in 1830, the daugh-
ter of Mark and Elizabeth Day, of Ohio. To
this union were born five children: William
L. , associated with his father; Mary A.,
Richard W. , also his father's associate; Har-
vey E. of Muncie, and George E. , who works
at the tailoring business. The mother of
these children, a most excellent christian
woman, and for many years a member of the
Methodist church, died in the year 1869. In
1870 Mr. Dunn married his present wife,
Mrs. Eliza J. W^olfe, of Rushville, Ind. Mr.
Dunn is a republican in politics and fraternal-
ly belongs to the I. O. O. F. Since his re-
moval from Rushville to Muncie in the year
above noted, he has succeeded in building up
a large and lucrative business, and as a skilled
workman he has been extensively employed in
the city and throughout the country. He is
one of the substantial citizens of Delaware
county, and in a modest way has contributed
his full share toward its development and
prosperity.
^^^t^'^rnjiA & S^&€^-\^
AND CENTRE TOWNSHIP.
^y^R. PETER B. DICK, one of the
I I most prominent and most experienced
A^^_^ medical practitioners of Muncie.
Ind., is the youngest son of Hierony-
mus and Mary Ann (Brunner) Dick, and was
born in Highland county, Ohio, April 27, 1838.
At the age of eight years he was brought to
Indiana by his mother, who located in Jay
county on a farm near North Salem, where
she resided until Peter B. was about thirteen
years old, when the family moved to a farm
near Union City, Randolph county, where our
embryo physician received his preparatory ed-
ucation at the common schools, and in 1856
took a course at Liber college, paying his own
way from his own earnings. At the age of
sixteen, he entered the store of L. D. Lambert
as clerk, and there passed five or six years in
the capacity mentioned, but utilized the win-
ters in teaching school in Randolph county.
Finally he became a partner with Mr. Lambert
for two years in a store on the Ohio side of
Union City, reading medicine in the meantime
with Dr. Noah Simmons of that place. He
made most rapid progress, and in 1867 grad-
uated from the Eclectic Medical institute of
Cincinnati, Ohio. His practice was begun at
Daleville, Ind., whence he went to Union
City, and thence to western Kansas, where he
met with the most flattering success, but,
after six years, ill health compelled him to re-
linquish the profitable field and return to In-
diana; accordingly, in 187S, he established
himself in Muncie, where he has ever since en-
joyed a high position in the esteem of the
general public and in that of his fellow pro-
fessionals. He is an active member of the
State Medical society and keeps well abreast
of the progress made in medical science.
The doctor was first married, in 1863, to
Miss Martha Vale, who became the mother of
two children, both of whom died in infancy,
and in 1 867 the doctor also suffered the afflic-
tion of the loss of the motiier and wife. The
second marriage of the (li_)ctor occurred at
Daleville. Ind., in 1870. to Miss Sallic Slicpji,
who, in 1S73, bore one son, Kenneth Dick,
now an operator for the Western Union Tele-
graph company, at Muncie. In politics. Dr.
Dick is a republican, and while in Kansas was
elected coroner of Kane county, by that party,
an office which he held at the time of leaving.
He is an Odd Fellow, and has jxissed all the
chairs of his lodge. For twenty-fi\'e }'ears he
has been a member of the Disciples' church,
and for many years has been very active in
the Sunday school work of that denomination.
The father of Dr. Dick was a native of Ran-
dolph county, Va. , was a large land owner,
and moved to Ohio about the }ear 1833 ; he
settled near Hillsboro and died about 1840,
leaving a widow and eight children — three
sons and five daughters — who subsequently
moved to Jay county, where the widow kept
her family together until her removal to Ran-
dolph county. Her death took place in 1878,
at the age of eighty-four, in Olmstead county,
Minn., at the home of her son, John Dick.
She was a woman of very strong character and
a sincere Christian, adhering faithfully to the
tenets of the Baptist church. There are five
of her eight children still living; viz: Harriet,
wife of William Stooksberry, a farmer of Ran-
dolph county, Ind.,; Rhoda, married to Ben-
jamin Curtis, farmer of Delaware county, Ind. ;
John, farmer of Minnesota ; Elizabeth, wife of
L. D. Lambert, attorney, and Dr. Peter B. ,
whose name opens this sketch. The three
deceased were Henry, the second son, who
was a soldier in the Eighty-fourth Indiana in-
fantry, and while on detail duty was killed by
a sharpshooter just before the battle of Atlanta;
Mary, wife of Hiram Grice, of Ja\- coimty,
Ind., died about 1854; Rebecca, the wife of
Tate Wright, a merchant of Illinois, died in
1874.
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MUNCIE CITY
'^j'AMES E. EBER, a successful agricul-
J turist of Centre township, Delaware
A 1 county, of which he is a native, is the
son of Henry and Susan Eber. Henry
Eber was a native of Germany, came to Dela-
ware county when twenty-eight years old, locat-
ing in Muncie, where he married Susan Clark,
who bore him the following children: John, de-
ceased ; William H., deceased ; Mary, wife of
A. Drumn, of California, and James E., whose
name appears at the head of this sketch ;
George, and Catharine, deceased. On locating
in Muncie, Henry Eber engaged in the busi-
ness of brewing, which he followed for two
years, and then purchased a tract of land in
Centre township, and began tilling the soil.
Financially he was quite successful, owning at
one time 462 acres of valuable land in Dela-
ware county, besides other property, which
entitled him to a prominent place in the ranks
of those who were more than ordinarily
wealthy. He accumulated a handsome estate,
and left all of his children in very comfortable
circumstances. His religious belief was em-
bodied in the Presbyterian creed, and his first
wife, a most excellent christian lady, was a
member of the Catholic church. She died
May 20, 1862, and Mr. Eber afterwards
married Nancy Alban, who departed this life
in 1879; Mr. Eber was called to his final re-
ward on the 26th day of January, 1876.
James E. Eber was reared in Delaware
county and assisted his father on the farm un-
til the latter's death. His education was re-
ceived in the common schools, and on the 22nd
day of June, 1872, he was united in marriage
to Miss Bitha Scott, who was born in Adams
county, Ohio, August 8, 1852, daughter of
David and Sarah (Ham) Scott. Mr. and Mrs.
Scott were both natives of Ohio; the former of
German parentage, and the mother descended
from Irish ancestry. Mr. and Mrs. Eber have
an interesting family of six children, namely:
Ida, Lee, Katie, Stella, Pearl and Earl. One
child, Emma, died December 13, 1890. As
already stated, Mr. Eber is a successful agri-
culturist, and no one would question his high
standing as a representative citizen of Centre
township. His beautiful farm of 190 acres is
well improved, and in addition to tilling the
soil, he pays considerable attention to live
stock, breeding and dealing in the same quite
extensively. He is a democrat in his political
belief, fraternally belongs to the Improved
Order of Red Men, and with his wife is a
communicant of the Methodist church. Mr.
Eber takes a father's pardonable pride in his
family; his children are certainly very promis-
ing, and bid fair to grow to manhood and
womanhood, an honor to their parents and a
blessing to the community.
'^t'OHN C. EILER, a prominent business
m man and a justice of the peace, of
/• 1 Muncie, Ind. , was born in Troy, N. Y. ,
March 4, 1838, a son of Jacob and
Bena (Fetzer) Filer. The parents removed
from New York to Ohio, and from there, in
1849, to Wabash county, Ind., and were pio-
neers of that county. Mr. Eiler accompanied
his parents to Ohio when four years of age,
and when eleven years old came with them to
Wabash county, Ind., where he grew to
maturity, and received his education in the
public schools. His first position of public
trust was that of deputy clerk of Wabash
county, which office he acceptably filled for
several years. In 1858, he removed to
LaGrange county, Ind. , and was made depu-
ty clerk of that county until 1859, at which
time he came to Muncie. In 1861 he was
appointed a clerk in the census department at
Washington, D. C, but in 1862 he was trans-
fered to the pension department, where he
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continued until 1865, when he was forced to
resign his position on. account of poor health;
he then returned to Muncie and engaged in
the horticultural business. This built up his
shattered health, and, at a special session of
the house of representatives, in 1872-3, he
was appointed file clerk. In March, 1875, he
was appointed post master at Muncie, under
Pres. Grant, serving in this position for eight
years. In June, 1883, he was appointed jus-
tice of the peace, and was elected to the
office in 1884, 1888 and 1890. In the last
year he was made a member of the city coun-
cil, in which he served one year and then
resigned. Politically, he has been an ardent
worker in the republican party from its organ-
ization to the present time, and was chairman
of the republican central committee of Dela-
ware county in 1890 and 1891.
Mr. Eiler was admitted to the bar in 1859,
but has never practiced his profession. He
now conducts an insurance and loan business
in connection with his duties as justice of the
peace. His social instincts have caused him
to connect himself with the Muncie lodge of
I. O. O. F. , and he is a charter member of the
Citizens' Enterprise company. In the spring
of 1 89 1, Mr. Eiler received the nomination of
his party for the office of mayor of Muncie,
but owing to a defection in the party, the
whole ticket — mayor, marshal and treasurer-^
was defeated. With the exception of one year,
from 1877 to 1883, Mr. Eiler was the editor
of the Muncie Times, and editor and proprie-
tor from July 1881, to January, 1883.
On the first of January, 1862, he was
married to Miss Margaret B. Cassady, of
Delaware county, and is the father of two
children, Annie and Erma. He and family
are connected religiously with the Presbyter-
ian church of Muncie, and are among the
most esteemed residents of the city. Mr.
Eiler has always been regarded as a conserva-
tive and profound thinker, guided by principles
of strict justice and goodness ol heart, and
void of all e\il intent.
@EORGE L ELLIOTT, deceased, for
many years a leading jeweler of Mun-
cie, was born January 28, 1 83 1 , at the
town of Chardon, Geauga county,
Ohio. His parents, Edmund G. and Nancy
(Taylor) Elliott, were natives of New England,
born, reared and married in the state of Mass-
achusetts. Shortly after their marriage they
removed to Ohio, and for a number of years
Edmund Elliott carried on the jewelry busi-
ness at Chardon and Springfield, that state.
Subsequently, he removed to Anderson, Ind.,
where his death occurred after a long, active
and successful business career; his wife follow-
ing him to the grave a short time after. Ed-
mund and Nancy Elliott reared a family of
five children, all sons, namely: Jerome, Al-
fred, George L. , Ozias and Dallas K., of
whom Jerome, Alfred and George L. are de-
ceased.
George L. Elliott began learning the
jeweler's trade at the age of thirteen with his
father, and after acquiring great skill and pro-
ficiency in his chosen calling worked at the
same with his father until about 1854, at
which time he went to Cincinnati, where he
remained for a limited period, returning home
the following year. In May, 1855, he was
united in marriage to Elizabeth Smith, daugh-
ter of John and Ruth (Marshall) Smith of
Greene county, Ohio, removing in August of
the same year to Muncie. Ind., where he rent-
ed a window and engaged in repairing watches,
jewelry, etc., on a very moderate scale.
Later he entered the emplo\- of Armstead
Klein, with whom he remained a short time,
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and then opened an establishment of his own
on the corner of Main and Walnut streets,
where he continued the trade for a period of
nearly forty years, during which time he be-
came one of the best known and most popular
business men of Muncie. In all his relations
with his fellow-men Mr. Elliott was the soul
of honor, and his kindness of heart and uni-
form courtesy were the subjects of remark by
all, and became proverbial throughout Muncie
and Delaware county. "Uncle George," as
he was familiarly called, always had a cheer-
ful word and pleasant greeting for every one,
and he was one of those noble characters
whose very presence exerted a genial influence
throughout the community — one of nature's
noblemen, whose honest impulses were mani-
fested in every act of his life. In the home
circle he was a model of gentleness, and his
daughter, with whom he was ever on terms
of the closest intimacy, cannot recall the
memory of an unkind word or act. In his re-
ligious belief Mr. Elliott was a Universalist,
but he encouraged all churches, irrespective of
doctrine or creed, and was ever in hearty sym-
pathy with all movements of a benevolent or
philanthropic nature. Politically he was an
active supporter of the democratic party, and
fraternally was indentified with Delaware
lodge. No. 46, A. F. & A. M., and DeEmber
tribe. No. 30, Improved Order of Red Men.
He was noted as a friend of the poor and
needy, was kindly disposed to all, and died, as
he had lived, possessing the profound respect
and esteem of his fellow-citizens. His death
occurred on the ist day of April, 1892, and
his remains were followed to their final place
of repose by one of the largest funeral corteges
ever seen on the streets of Muncie. Mr.
Elliott was the father of one child, a daughter,
Ida M., wife of John H. Ritter, an able opti-
cian, who resides in the city at the present
time.
BRANK ELLIS was born in Delaware
township, Delaware county, Ind.,
February 12, 1842, a son of John H.
and Phebe (Kirkpatrick) Ellis, both
natives of Ohio, who came to Delaware county
at an early day, and were married in the
county. By trade, the father was a carpen-
ter, but finally engaged in the collection busi-
ness and the practice of law, in Muncie. At
the breaking out of the war he raised company
B, of the Eighty-fourth Indiana, and served
as captain of the same until he was killed at
the battle of Chickamauga, on September 20,
1863. His wife survives him, and now resides
in Muncie.
Frank Ellis is the eldest of ten children,
and received but a limited education in the
township and village schools of that period.
He engaged in brick making for a short period,
and then entered the office of the Delaware
County Free Press, as office bo}', where he re-
mained, except one term of three months, dur-
ing which he taught a country school, until
1862, when he enlisted in his father's company
and served until the close of the war, being
mustered out in June, 1865. After the death
of his father he was made captain of company
B, and he held that position all through the
remainder of the war. He participated in the
battles of Sherman's Atlanta campaign, and
was with Thomas' army at Franklin and Nash-
ville. In 1864 Mr. Ellis was nominated for
the office of treasurer of Delaware county, and
in the fall of that year was elected to the posi-
tion, taking possession of the same in August,
1865. In 1866, he was unanimously renomi-
nated and triumphantly re-elected, serving in
all four years, after which he engaged in mer-
cantile business for some years, in the mean-
time reading law, for which profession he had
a great predilection. He was admitted to the
Delaware county bar in 1882, and immediately
formed a co-partnershjr> — -th Judge Lotz,
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which continued until the latter was called to
the bench, when Mr. Ellis formed a co-part-
nership with John T. Walterhouse.
Mr. Ellis is a prominent and active mem-
ber of the republican party, and has been a
member of the state central committee. He
served as mayor of the city from 1883 to 1885,
and had been a member of the city council
from 1883 to 1 89 1. On February 9, 1891, he
was appointed postmaster of Muncie by Pres.
Harrison, since which time he has efficiently
served the people in that capacity. He is a
member of Williams' Post, No. 78, G. A. R. ,
and was one of the organizers of the Sons of
Veterans. In early life he joined the Dela-
ware lodge, A. F. & A. M., and was one of
the organizers of the Muncie lodge, No. 433,
A. F. & A. M., and is a member of Muncie
commandery. No. 18. Also, he is a member
of Muncie lodge. No. 74, I. O. O. F. , and the
encampment and canton, and the grand lodge
and grand encampment of that order. He is
a charter member of the Red Men, and of the
Elks; and is also a member of the Ancile
club of Muncie.
Mr. Ellis was married, in 1870, to Miss
Mary E. Martindale, daughter of Benjamin F.
Martindale, of Muncie, a well known minister
of the Christian church. Three children have
been born to Mr. and Mrs. Ellis: Elizabeth,
Mary, deceased, and Ethel Joy.
^~V*AMUEL M. ELLIS, of Muncie, Ind.,
•^^^k* was born in Albany, in the same
K^__y state, November 25, 1850, and is a
son of John E. and Phctbe (Kirkpat-
rickj Ellis. When about three years of age
he was brought by his parents to Muncie, and
was here educated in the public schools until
thirteen years old, when he quit, to enter the
army, being then the youngest soldier from
Delaware county, and the only one nf the
nine children in his father's family that did
not graduate from the high school. In 1864
he entered company B, One hundred and Forty-
seventh I. \'. I., and served with the army of
the Cumberland until the close of the war, tak-
ing part at Winchester, Va , and a number of
minor engagements. When hostilities ceased
he went on the Fort Wayne. Muncie & Cincin-
nati railroad as brakeman; as baggage master
from Fort Wayne to Connersville, as yard-
master at Muncie for the same company; was
also in the employ of the "Bee" line for some
years; broke, fired, switched, and was yard mas-
ter and conductor on the Lake Erie & Western
main line, between Sandusk} , Ohio, and
Bloomington, Ills., for a long time — in all.
railroaded over twenty years; and, having
learned the trade of brick making prior to this
time, worked at that trade at intervals about
fifteen years, principally at Muncie. After
relinquishing railroad work, Mr. Ellis, in 1890,
began contracting for brick work in Muncie
and followed that vocation until 1893, when
he leased the McKinjey brick stable, at iio
Howard street, where he transacts a livery,
feed and boarding business, and keeps a full
line of double and single rigs.
Mr. Ellis is vice president of the Muncie
Bricklayers' union, and still keeps a watchful
eye over the interests of his former trade and
craftsmen. He was married, in 1 871, to Miss
Catherine J. Hawk, of Muncie, and is the
father of one son, Harry J. Ellis.
BRANK A. ELROD, city clerk of
Muncie, Ind., a prominent politician
and very pleasant and agreeable gen-
tlemen, was born in Wabash county,
Ind., June 7, 1853, a son of James J. and
Juliet M. (Hess) Elrod, natives of Lawren'
MUNCIE CITY
and Blackford counties, Ind., respectively.
Mr. Elrod, Sr. , was a farmer by occupation
and also a minister of the Methodist Episco-
pal church, being connected with the North
Indiana conference. He was a prominent
Mason, and at his death, in 1858, was buried
with the appropriate ceremonies of the order.
Frank A. Elrod was reared in Cadiz, Hen-
ry county, Ind.,- was educated in the public
schools of that county, and afterward engaged
in mercantile business. In 1881 he made a
trip to Texas, and remained for six years,
employed in the freight department of the
Southern Pacific railroad, but, in 1887, he
returned to Indiana, locating in Muncie,
where he was employed as assistant shipping
clerk for H. Roads & Co. In the spring of
1892 he was elected city clerk and entered
upon the duties of that office in September of
the same year. Politically he is a republican,
and takes an active interest in the manage-
ment of the affairs of his party. He is a mem-
ber of Delaware lodge. No. 46, A. F. & A. M.,
Welcome lodge. No. ^^j, K. of P., and Twa-
Twa tribe. No. 145, I. O. R. M.
Mr. Elrod was married February 21, 1876,
to Miss Emma Personett, daughter of James
Personett, of Henry county, Ind., and has a
family of four children, James, Lizzie, Clara
and Lloyd. He and wife are members of the
High street Methodist church, and are among
the most highly esteemed residents of the city
of Muncie.
QAJ. WARREN CHASE EMERSON
(deceased) was born in New Hamp-
shire, November 7, 18 16, of Eng-
lish ancestry, and graduated from
Harvard university in 1835. For a year or so
he followed teaching, and in 1836 removed to
Preble county, Ohio, where he was engaged
in clerical work for a time, but later resumed
teaching, and afterward became the first post-
master at West Florence. His marriage took
place January 30, 1840, to Eleanor McWhin-
ney, a native of Preble county, Ohio, born
June 6, 1 82 1, and daughter of Matthew and
Temperance McWhinney, of Scotch-Irish an-
cestry. To this union, which was consum-
mated in Preble county, Ohio, were born
twelve children, of whom five boys and five
girls still survive, viz: Joseph, a broker;
Matthew, in the lumber trade; Thomas M.,
traffic manager of the Atlantic Coast Line rail-
road; Charles, publisher of the Muncie City
and Delaware County (Ind.) directory, and an
extensive dealer in real estate; Horace M.,
general passenger agent of the Atlantic Coast
Line railroad; Elizabeth, wife of J. D. Fudge;
Temperance, wife of A. C. Morse; Emmaretta,
wife of Albert H. Williams; Mary A. and
Eleanor. The father remained in Preble
county until February 23, 1864, when he re-
ceived a commission as army paymaster of the
late rebellion, and located his family at Yellow
Springs, Ohio, to receive the benefit of the
excellent schools at that point. He served as
paymaster until November i, 1866. He then
located at Campbellstown, Ohio, where he
was engaged in the mercantile business one
year, and then moved to Marion, Ind., and
was in the employ of the railroad company
three years. In March, 1872, he came to
Muncie and engaged in the manufacture of
staves, heading and plow beams until 1885,
when he retired from active business on ac-
count of ill health. In politics he was a re-
publican, and fraternally was a member of the
A. F. & A. M. ; in religion he was a Congre-
gationalist, and died in that faith, November
3, 1890. He left his family in comfortable
circumstances, and his sons all in prominent
business positions, and his remains were fol-
lowed by a large concourse of mourning rela-
tives, friends and acquaintances to their last
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resting place from his late residence on east
Jackson street, Muncie, Ind. His widow, who
is a devout adherent of the Presbyterian church,
is still an honored member of Muncie's best
society, respected and honored by all who
know her.
Charles Emerson, real estate dealer and
publisher of Muncie City and Delaware Coun-
ty Directory, and son of Major Warren C.
Emerson, whose sketch is given in detail above,
was born in Butler county, Ohio, March 9, 1853.
He attended school at Yellow Springs, Ohio,
until fourteen years of age, when he was com-
pelled to quit on account of ill health; he then
engaged, as his first business venture, as assist-
ant to his father in the railway office at Mari-
on, Ind. , until 1872, when, with his parents,
he moved to Muncie and became the super-
vising agent of the Singer Manufacturing com-
pany, which position he held until the spring
of 1873, when, by the advice of his physician,
he went south, locating at Nashville, Tenn.,
where he was engaged by the Howe Sewing
Machine company to travel and establish
agencies throughout eastern Tennessee until
the fall of 1873, when he went to Savannah,
Ga. , and engaged with the New York Publish-
ing company in publishing city, county and
state directories, remaining with the company
for one year. He then engaged in the direc-
tory publishing business for himself, and has
published directories throughout eleven differ-
ent states, gaining a national reputation as a
competent and painstaking publisher. In
1886 he accepted a position with the Singer
Manufacturing company as manager at Rich-
mond, Va. , which position he held until 1889,
when he again engaged in the directory busi-
ness and continued until February i, 1892.
He then came to Muncie, Ind. , and under the
firm name of Lyons & Emerson opened an
office in the real estate and loan business
which firm is now considered one of the lead-
ing real estate firms of the city. Mr. Emer-
son was married November 14, 1881, to Miss
Maggie M. Houston, of Greensboro, N. C,
and this union has been blessed by the birth
of one child, William C.
'^j'AMES N. EVERS.— Among the valua-
M ble industries of the growing city of
A 1 Muncie, that of the Cottage Steam
laundry is deserving of worthy mention.
James N. Evers, its proprietor, is a native of
Indiana, born in the county of Wells on the
17th day of September, 1853, a son of Parry
and Jane (Golliver) Evers. The parents were
both natives of Ohio, but removed to Indiana
shortly after their marriage, settling in Put-
nam county, where Mr. Evers engaged in the
pursuit of agriculture. Later the family re-
moved to Wells county, where Mr. and Mrs.
Evers live a retired life in the pleasant town of
Bluffton. Parry Evers has been a prominent
citizen of Wells county for a number of years,
is public spirited, and a man of great liberality.
He is a republican in his political preferences,
and the father of nine children, whose names
are as follows: Minerva R., James N. , Darius
A., David W. , Anna E., Colonel E., Parry J.,
Cora and Hugh W. Evers.
James N. Evers was reared on the home
farm, attending the country schools at intervals
until sixteen years of age, when he began life
for himself, choosing the useful vocation of
agriculture for an occupation. He continued
tilling the soil until his twenty-si.xth year, at
which time he came to the city of Muncie and
embarked in the mercantile business, making
a specialty of the grocery line, which he car-
ried on with success and financial profit for a
period of six years. He severed his connection
with merchandising in 1890, and established
the Cottage Steam laundry, which he has sue-
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cessfully conducted ever since and which under
his judicious management has become the
largest and most profitable enterprise of the
kind in the city. He fitted up his laundry
with all the modern conveniences and improve-
ments at a liberal expenditure of money, and
such has been the constant increase in his busi-
ness that additional appliances have been
added, from time to time, until now fifteen
helpers are employed in order to meet the de-
mands of his growing custom. Mr. Evers has
fully met his expectations in his business ven-
ture, and, as a result of good management and
earnest desire to please his patrons, he has
acquired a reputation much more than local,
and is justly esteemed among the worthy and
reliable business men of Muncie. Socially he
is popular with a large circle of friends in both
city and country, and his public spirit has won
for him a prominent place in the estimation
of his fellow citizens. In his political senti-
ments Mr. Evers is an earnest supporter of
the republican party, and takes an active in-
terest, in its advancement, but prefers to be
considered a worker in the ranks rather than
a seeker after the emoluments of of^ce. Re-
cently he met with a heavy loss by reason of
an accident in his laundry, but, with com-
mendable energy, he has repaired the same,
and greatly enlarged his business by the addi-
tion of the latest and most improved appli-
ances used in his line of work. On the 17th
day of March, 1879, in Columbia City, Ind. ,
Mr. Evers and Miss Lizzie A. Goodwin of
Ohio, daughter of Smith and Sarah (Conway)
Goodwin, were made man and wife. Mrs.
Evers died December 30, 1887, and on the
1 5th day of January, 1889, Mr. Evers was
united in marriage to his present wife, whose
maiden name was Kate Stuckey, a native of
Muncie, and daughter of Christian and Sarah
(Grower) Stuckey. Mr. and Mrs. Evers are
members of the Baptist church, in which they
are highly esteemed. Fraternally, Mr. Evers
is prominently connected with the orders of
P. O. S. of A., Red Men, and Foresters.
^'^EORGE W. FAY.— Among the citi-
■ ^\ zens of Delaware county whose life
\^^^ work is ended, few, if any, are held
in more grateful and affectionate re-
membrance than the late George W. Fay, of
Muncie. Mr. Fay was a native of New York,
born in the month of July, 1832, and his an-
cestors for several generations had resided in
the Empire state In the year 1858 he be-
came a resident of Delaware county, Ind., and
shortly after he arrived in Muncie accepted a
clerkship in the dry goods house of Moses
Neeley, in which capacity he continued for
several years. Subsequently, he effected a
co-partnership in the butchering business with
Cyrus G. Neely. — Mr. Fay becoming widely
and favorably known, not only as a most suc-
cessful business man, but as an eminently
sociable citizen as well. Later Mr. Fay be-
came a street contractor, at which he con-
tinued for several years, and to him is due the
credit of providing Muncie with a system of
streets which, in point of improvement and
general utility, will compare favorably with
those of any other city in central or eastern
Indiana. On abandoning street work he em-
barked in manufacturing, and was thus em-
ployed for some years, meeting with success
and financial profit in the meantime. Mr.
Fay was a prominent member of the Masonic
fraternity, in which he took a number of de-
grees, including that of Sir Knight, and he
was always a man of large sympathy and
christian charity. In all the attributes of
noble manhood Mr. Fay stood prominent
among his fellows, and his one fault, if fault
it may be termed, was an open handed gener-
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osity frequently exercised to his own financial
detriment, but to the great financial benefit of
the numerous beneficiaries of his munificent
generosity.
During a long and active business career,
which of necessity brought him in contact
with all classes, including the many unfortu-
nate individuals who became his debtors, he
was never known to sue on an account or resort
to the courts to collect an obligation, in con-
sequence of which his popularity became great,
and his friends were numerous in Mimcie and
throughout Delaware county. But for his
generous and charitable disposition he could
have acquired a large fortune, but he preferred
to invest his means in those securities which.
always return a princely income to the pos-
sessor, namely: Liberal aid to the deserving
pocr, and a financial as well as a heart-felt
sympathy for all unfortunates who appealed to
him for assistance. In all public and private
charities of Muncie, Mr. Fay's name and indi-
vidual efforts were ever foremost; he served
one term as township trustee, in the discharge
of the duties of which office, as well as those
pertaining to every trust reposed in him, he
brought to bear the strict integrity which char-
acterized his life in all its various relations.
As a citizen, his private character was above
reproach; while his whole life, in whatever
capacity he acted, was devoted to the public
weal — in short, "he was one of those sturdy,
upright and popular men, who, in the course
of a long and useful career, leave their mark
upon the times and the communities in which
they dwell. The death of Mr. Fay occurred
on the 1 2th day of June, 1889. His wife,
Martha A. Braddock, daughter of Joseph and
Margaret J. (Galbraith) Braddock, to whom
he was married in 1876, survives him, as does
also one daughter, Catherine Fay, an accom-
plished young lady of Muncie, just budding
into womanhood.
m:
ILLIAM H. FOKTNER, one of the
most highly respected residents of
the city of Muncie, is a native of
Franklin county, Ind., born De-
cember II, 1838, the eldest of si.\ children —
five sons and one daughter — born to Solomon
H. and Elizabeth E. (James) Fortner, natives,
respectively, of Franklin county, Ind., and the
state of Virginia. William H. was reared on
the farm of his paternal grandfather Levi, a
pioneer of Franklin county, Ind., until fifteen
years of age, having, at the age of nine, lost
his father. At the age of eleven he began
supporting himself, working on the farm in
summer and attending school in winter. In
1853 he went to Greensburg, Ind., and during
one winter worked in a general store and a
hotel for his board; in the spring of 1854 he
became clerk of the hotel and held the posi-
tion nine consecutive years, interlarding the
! time as newsboy, in which last capacity he
carried the first copy of the Cincinnati En-
quirer and Commercial delivered in Greens-
burg. In 1 86 1 he enlisted in Company F,
Seventh I. V. I., in the three months' service,
and did duty in West Virginia at Philippi,
Laurel Hill and Carrick's Ford.
He sold out his paper route in 1863, and
went to work upon a farm, near Greensburg,
for eighteen months in order to regain his
health, and then returned to town and worked
for J. & J. Pool, marble dealers, for fourteen
years, and was then, for six years, in the grain
business with John Emmert. In March, 1885,
he came to Muncie and here engaged in the
wholesale furniture business with L. H. Har-
per, but in the December following sold out
and engaged as yard foreman and bookkeeper
for Joshua Truitt for two years, and then went
into the hotel business, which he followed four
and one half years. In politics Mr. Fortner
is a democrat; fraternally he affiliates with the
I. O. O. F. encampment, No. 42, and Dela-
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ware lodge No. 143, and has filled all the
chairs in each branch, and was a trustee for
six years; he is also a member of the I. O. R.
M., the K. of H., of which he was a trustee,
and the K. & L. of H., of which last he has
served as secretary.
The marriage of Mr. Fortner took place
February 18, 1863, to Miss Angelia Dillier,
daughter of Joseph Dillier, a native of France.
Mrs. Fortner is one of the most fashionable
dressmakers of the city, and for years resided
at Greensburg.
*Y-» ONE A. FRANLIN, was born in
I r Delaware county, Ind., July 9, 1863,
1 ^ the son of Pierson W. and Emily
(Dragoo) Franklin. He was reared
in the city of Muncie, in the schools of which
he received a practical English education, and
at the early age of seventeen, began business
upon his own responsibility as a buyer and
shipper of live stock, principally cattle and
hogs, which he shipped to the eastern markets.
He continued in this line until 1886, at which
time he engaged in the livery business, and is
now the proprietor of one of the largest and
most extensively patronized livery barns in
Delaware county.
P. W. Franklin, the father of Lone A., one
of the oldest residents of Delaware county, and
one of its most highly esteemed citizens, was
born in Clark county, Ohio, September 19,
1826. His father, James Franklin, and his
mother, whose maiden name was Catherine
Stover, were both natives of Botetourt county,
Va. , and descendants of early German settlers
of the Old Dominion state. James Franklin
removed with his family to Clark county, Ohio,
early in the twenties, and, in 1831, emigrated
to Delaware county, Ind., settling about one
and a quarter miles southeast of the public
square of Muncie, where he purchased eighty
acres of heavily timbered land. Upon this piece
of land not a stick of timber had been cut, and a
more uninviting prospect would be difficult to
imagine. For a period of nine weeks the
family lived in a rudely improvised camp, on
which the rain poured down in torrents nearly
every day. A small log cabin was in due
time constructed, and in this primitive dwell-
ing, without floor or windows, life in the back
woods began in earnest. Mr. Franklin subse-
quently entered two eighty acre tracts adjoin-
ing his original purchase, and a part of the
homestead farm is now within the corporate
limits of Muncie. On this place James and
Catherine Franklin spent the rest of their
days, rearing a family of eight children, five sons
and three daughters, to manhood and woman-
hood. Mr. Franklin and his good wife were
true types of the hardy pioneers, and their
struggles for years with the hardships and
trials incident to that period, cannot be ap-
preciated by the younger people of the present
generation. They lived to a good old age, the
father reaching the Scriptural allotment of
three score and ten years; the mother was
called to her reward at the age of sixty.
P. W. Franklin was but five years of age
when his father settled in the woods near
Muncietown. The court house square was at
that period covered with hazel brush and logs,
and wild game of any kind was killed. Mr.
Franklin was enabled to attend the indifferent
schools of the country only four or five weeks
each year. He early assisted in removing the
forest growth and developing the farm, be-
came strong and rugged, and remained under
the parental roof until his majority. He then
began life for himself, working in the woods,
and the first winter after leaving home he
split rails for thirty-three cents a hundred,
and later cleared forty acres of land, for which
he received the equivalent of three dollars per
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acre in trade. In the spring of 1848 he found
himself the possessor of $15.00 in money and
a small horse, and with these he started west-
ward for the purpose of herding cattle in Illi-
nois. Until he could secure such employ-
ment as he desired he worked as a farm laborer
at $8.00 per month, but eventually he se-
cured a place as a herder and continued the
same for four or five years. Returning to
Indiana he worked at different occupations for
some time, and, on the i8thdayof December,
1855, was united in marriage to Miss Emily
Dragoo, who was born in Virginia, April 4,
1834, the daughter of William and Elizabeth
(Prunty) Dragoo, early settlers of Delaware
county.
Shortly after his marriage, Mr. Franklin
located a piece of land southeast of Muncie,
upon which about forty acres had been cleared,
and here he and his family resided for twelve
years. He developed a fine farm, and became
one of the leading agriculturists of Centre
township. He came to Muncie for the pur-
pose of schooling his children. He owns a
substantial home on East Jackson street,
which, with his farm of 1 70 acres of highly cul-
tivated land, is the result of his own unaided
efforts. Mr. Franklin still manages his farm,
driving to and from the same each day, and
he yet possesses much of the physical vigor for
which he was noted in the days of his youth
and early manhood. He is a democrat in pol-
itics, and in religion a Methodist. His wife,
also a worthy member of the Methodist church,
is a woman of many excellent traits of char-
acter, and has been a helpmeet to her hus-
band during the long years and many struggles
of their wedded life. Their children are Carl
P., a groceryman; Lone A., liveryman and
stock dealer; Cary, dealer in horses, and
Laura E. , wife of William W. Shirk, hard-
ware dealer of Muncie.
Lone A. Franklin is a splendid example of
what energy and foresight, coupled with a
determination to succeed, can accomplish in
the face of adverse circumstances. He started
out in life for himself empty-handed, and by
his industry, enterprise and perseverance, has
overcome the many difficulties by which his
path was beset, and has steadily worked his
waj- upward to a position which entitles him
to mention with the representative business
men in Muncie. Mr. Franklin has given a
great deal of attention to the horse, and is
considered an authority upon all matters per-
taining to the breeding and training of the
same. In his barn may be seen some very
fine roadsters, among which Charley Ross and
Lady Reece are well known beyond the con-
fines of Muncie. Recently Mr. Franklin has
completed a large and commodious three story
brick barn on Mulberry street, which, in its
various appointments and equipments, is far
ahead of any other barn in Muncie, and second
to but few structures of the kind in the state.
The ground floor of this building embraces an
area of 62^x125 ft., has two fine large halls on
the second floor for the storage of his vehicles,
and the large room on the third floor is used
for an armory and a place of public entertain-
ment. His line of surreys, buggies and car-
riages is very full and complete, representing
the workmanship of the best factories, and his
horses, of which he keeps from eighteen to
twenty head, are in the best condition, and
show the skillful care of their owner.
Mr. Franklin supports the democratic
party by his ballot, and, as every true Ameri-
can citizen should do, takes an interest in po-
litical affairs, although he has never been a
seeker after the honors or emoluments of office.
He is a prominent member of the Masonic
fraternity, belonging to lodge No. 433, of
Muncie, and has also taken the degree of Sir
Knight.
MUNCIE CITY
QARTIN GALLIHER, a deceased
pioneer of Delaware county, Ind.,
was born near Brownsville, Pa.,
April 2, 1809, and was reared in
Monongalia county, Va. (now West Va. )
His early work was at cutting wood in the
mountains of Virginia at twenty-five cents per
cord, and at farm work at $7.00 per month.
In fact, he started in life a poor boy, having,
at the age of three years, lost his father by
drowning, and beginning to earn a living at
the age of eleven. He eventually made a
fortune, however, and by his own unaided ex-
ertions. On first coming west he engaged in
street and turnpike contracting in Covington,
Ky. , and later, in 1840, coming to Muncie
with his savings, amounting at that time, to
about $500. In the meantime, however, he
had married, September 3, 1837, at Carthage,
Ohio, Miss Rhoda A. Ogden.
Martin Galliher, after coming to Muncie
in 1840, opened a store, first where Baldwin's
grocery now is, and later where Duck Everett's
restaurant now stands. He built the three
rooms from the alley west, and of these the
first is still in the family. He continued in
the goods business about nineteen years, and
eleven years of that period were employed
packing pork, having his packing house on
Jackson street, on the present site of Ira Tur-
ner's saloon. In this traffic he hauled pork
to Cincinnati on wagons, and hauled back his
goods for sale in Muncie. He retired from
mercantile pursuits in 1852, and retired to his
farm, and up to within ten years of his death
devoted his attention and industry to develop-
ing his agricultural interests, in which he was
as successful as he had been in his mercantile
affairs. He at one time owned all the land
from Bee line to Ohmer avenue, between
Madison street and Macedonia avenue, between
the railroad and Williard, made four addi-
tions to the city of Muncie, and afterward
bought 100 acres south, making in all, before
selling the Galliher sub-division, 340 acres,
also 10 acres south. In politics Mr. Galliher
was a democrat and a co-worker with Adam
Wolf and Henry Wysor, and was a frequent
delegate to both county and state conventions.
In his religious faith he was a Baptist, and
his wife was the first actual Baptist in Muncie.
He joined the church in September, 1859, and
was a faithful member until his death, June 29,
1887, and was very liberal in donations to-
ward erecting the Baptist church edifice. He
was one of the charter members of the first
Odd Fellows' lodge in Muncie, but was non-
affiliating during the .later years of his life.
In his death Muncie never lost a more useful
citizen, a more enterprising merchant, or a
more charitable man. His surviving children,
who live to do honor to his name, are four in
number, and are Martin Jerome, Susan Zon-
netta, Ida G. and Charles W. , of whom fur-
ther mention will be made elsewhere in these
pages. Six other children were taken away
in infancy.
Mrs. Rhoda A. Galliher was the daughter
of Samuel and Mary (Parnell) Ogden born at
Cedarville, New Jersey, January 29, 1814. At
the age of fifteen she was converted and joined
the Baptist church at Roadstown, New Jersey.
In the year 1 834, before the advent of railroads,
she emigrated to southern Ohio, and Septem-
ber 3, 1837, at Carthage, Ohio, she was mar-
ried to Martin Galliher, then engaged in con-
tracting and building streets and turnpikes in
Ohio and Kentucky. In the year 1840, she
came with her husband to Muncie, Ind.,
then only a hamlet of a few hundred
inhabitants. Here Mrs. Galliher became a
positive and potential factor, in promoting and
building up the religious interests of the town.
Being among the earliest of her denomination
to settle here, her home was the nucleus of
the first Baptist Missionary efforts to plant a
M. GALLIHER.
MRS. RHODA GALLIHER.
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church in this community. After nearly a
score of years, in the year 1859, a little band
of twelve believers, of which she was one,
effected a church organization, and from that
time forth she and her worthy husband were its
most devoted members and stanch supporters.
They gave material aid in erecting the old
church on Jackson street, and her munificent
contributions to the new church, made its
erection a possibility. She further contrib-
uted a beautiful memorial window, and made
provision for the pastor's salary for the next
ten years.
The closing years of her life witnessed no
diminution of her interest in the Master's
work. Feeling a profound interest in the
religious welfare of our industrial classes, she,
with her devoted daughter, Mrs. Ida G. Rea,
who contributed the site, and without materi-
al help from others, built Calvary Chapel, a
mission church in that suburb of Muncie,
known as Industry. Thus, with the benedic-
tion of a useful life, of nearly four score years,
service in the Master's Vineyard, she passed
from this life, July 31, 1893, in the blessed
hope of a glorious immortality beyond the
grave.
QARTIN JEROME GALLIHER, son
of Martin and Rhoda A. Galliher,
is a native of Muncie, Delaware
county, Ind. , and was born Febru-
ary 15, 1847. At the age of eleven he went
on his father's farm of 160 acres, which the
elder Mr. Galliher had first become possessed
of in 1852, but which, in 1858, had been but
partially cleared, and improved with a log
cabin and a barn, and this tract Martin J.
assisted in clearing up, and also a tract of
eighty acres to the east, on which are now lo-
cated Ball's glass factory and nail works.
Here he was engaged in farming until the
discovery of natural gas, when, in April, 1887,
217 acres were sold to the Heekin syndicate,
there being only twenty-three acres retained
for the family and known as Galliher's reserve.
This was sub-divided among Mr. Galliher and
his two sisters, Mrs. Rea and Mrs. Nutting.
Mr. Galliher has been living in retirement for
a number of years, in the enjoyment of the
society of his family.
His marriage took place, in this county,
September 24, 1872, to Miss Caroline Moore,
daughter of Parker Moore, and to this happy
union have been born four children, viz: Er-
nest J., Edward M., Homer (deceased at two
years) and Adelbert. Mr. Galliher has been
a member of the Baptist church for twenty
years or more, is a trustee, and was a member
of the building committee when the new
church edifice was in course of construction.
Mr. Galliher has proven himself to be the
worthy son of a worthy sire, and his walk has
been through life such as to show that he is
conscious that he does not live for himself
alone.
IDA (GALLIHER) REA, daughter of
Martin and Rhoda A. Galliher,. was
born on the Galliher homestead at
Muncie, Ind., April 24, 1856, gradu-
ated from the high school in 1872, and was
married, July 3, 1878, to Dr. George N. Rea,
of New Castle, Ind. Dr. Rea was born at
Louisville, near New Castle, Henry county,
Ind., in 1852, and graduated from the Ohio
Medical college in Cincinnati, in 1878. He
practiced medicine with great success at New
Castle and Ft. Wayne until his death, Febru-
ary 19, 1885, when his mortal remains were
laid to rest at New Castle. To the marriage
of Mr. and Mrs. Rea were born three children.
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viz: Clarence G., Rhoda O., and Martin J.,
the latter having died at the age of sixteen
months. On the death of her husband, Mrs.
Rea hastened and ministered with loving hands
to both her father and mother in their last
sickness.
^"V* USAN ZONETTA ( GALLIHER )
•^^^ NUTTING, daughter of Martin and
^^ J Rhoda A. Galliher, was born in June,
1850, opposite the court house, on
Main street, Muncie, Ind. , and was but two
years of age when taken by her parents to live
on the home farm, now within the city limits,
and then the best in Muncie. She graduated
from the high school in 1 869, made a travehng
tour with her father, and in June, 1873, was
married to Edward Nutting, who was born at
Evesham, England, within nine miles of Lon-
don, in 1847, but who, when a young man,
came to the United States, and to Muncie in
1872. He had landed in New York city with
three dollars in his pockets, but he had learned
carpentering in England, was an expert stair
builder and architect, having been entrusted
with the supervision of the new Wysor Grand
opera house here, and is now engaged in de-
signing and contracting. To the union of Mr.
and Mrs. Nutting have been born six children,
Earl Galliher, Esther Louise, Carl Edward
and Eugene, living ; two, Rhoda Alice, aged
two years and eight months, and Beatrice,
aged fourteen months, were taken away within
twelve days of each other, dying from scarlet
fever.
aHARLES W. GALLIHER, theyoung-
est member of the family of Martin
and Rhoda Galliher, was born Oct-
ober 26, 1864. He was educated at
the Muncie schools until within one year of
graduation, when he entered the carriage fac-
tory of J. B. McFarland, of Connersville, for
the purpose of learning the trade of carriage
painting. After an apprenticesnip of two
years at this business, he became a traveling
salesman for the Chicago Eagle Rubber works,
and passed some months in their employ;
then he visited southern Indiana and passed a
year and a half, at the end of which time he
returned to Muncie. In March, 1888, on the
opening of the Boston store in this city, he
took charge of its carpet department, and,
being an accomplished salesman, he has
retained the position ever since. Mr. Galliher
was married June 28, 1888, at Rushville, Ind.,
to Miss Mary E. Boyer, daughter of the late
Rev. Henry Boyer and Amanda (Griffin)
Boyer. He is a member of the order of
Knights of Pythias and of the Knights of Mac-
cabees, and is held in high esteem by the citi-
zens of Muncie generally.
>^EREMIAH GARRARD, a prominent
m real estate dealer of Muncie, is a na-
A 1 tive of Ohio, born in the county of
Warren, January 29, 1S45. His father,
Harvey Garrard, was the son of John and
Mary (Kirby) Garrard, who emigrated to Ohio
from their native state, Pennsylvania, and
settled in Warren county shortly after their
marriage. Harvey Garrard was born March
22, 1812, and grew to manhood on a farm.
At the age of twenty-two, he married Hannah
Gustin, daughter of Samuel Gustin of Warren
county, Ohio, and engaged in farming for him-
self, which calling he followed in his native
state until his removal to Delaware county,
Ind., in the year 1857. He settled in Union
township, where he resided until 1874, at
which time, he retired to the village of Royer-
ton, where his death subsequently occurred.
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Harvey Garrard was a man of great industry
and energy, was a republican, and for fifty
years belonged to the Christian church, of
which his good wife was also a faithful mem-
ber. Harvey and Hannah Garrard were the
parents of ten children, namely; Huston,
Amelia, George, Mary, Joseph, Jeremiah,
Clara, Sarah, Emma and an infant (deceased.)
Of these, Huston and Mary are deceased.
Jeremiah Garrard came to Delaware coun-
ty with his parents at the age of twelve years
and was reared on a farm near the village of
Shindler, attending the common schools at
intervals during his minority. In January,
1864, he enlisted in company C, Twenty-first
regiment. First Indiana heavy artillery, army
of the Gulf, under Gen. Canby, who was after-
ward killed by the Modoc Indians in Oregon.
Mr. Garrard participated with his company in
all the battles in which it was engaged, and
bore the hardships of camp life until mustered
out, January 10, 1866, at Baton Rouge, La.,
and on the 21st day of the same month was
honorably discharged at Indianapolis, Ind.
Mr. Garrard returned to Delaware county, and
for some time thereafter attended school for
the purpose of preparing himself for teaching,
but he never saw fit to engage in that profes-
sion. On quitting school, he was united in
marriage to Miss Savanna Green, daughter of
Dr. A. J. and Massy (Johnson) Green, of Dela-
ware county, after which he rented a farm in
Hamilton township and followed agricultural
pursuits for three years. In the fall of 1872,
he engaged in merchandising at the town of
Royerton in partnership with his father-in-law,
and carried on a successful trade until 1880,
in the meantime serving as postmaster of the
town for six or seven years. He next engaged
in the furniture and undertaking business at
Muncie with W. K. Wright, under the firm
name of Wright & Garrard, which partnership
was continued very successfully for four years.
Mr Garrard then became interested with John
K. Ritter, of Muncie, in the manufacture of bed
lounges, mattresses, etc., for nearly two years,
and then became a partner with I. T. Lake in
the general furniture business for three years,
and then sold out and engaged in the real es-
tate and loan business, in partnership with
John A. Keener. The firm of Keener & Gar-
rard has done a very extensive business in
Muncie and Delaware county, and also oper-
ates to a considerable extent in other parts of
the state. Mr. Garrard is a substantial citi-
zen, quiet and unostentatious, and is very
popular with those with whom he has business
or other relations. He is an earnest supporter
of the republican party, and for twenty-five
years has been a consistent member of the
Christain church. He is prominently identi-
fied with several fraternities, belonging to the
G. A. R., I. O. O. F., K. of P. and I. O. R. M.
He belongs to the uniform rank of the Pythian
order, takes an active interest in the branch of
the fraternity known as the Pythian Sisters,
and also belongs to the Rebecca degree in
Odd Fellowship.
EENRY N. GATES, harness maker, ol
Muncie, Ind., is a native of York
county, Pa., born August 4, 1845,
and is a son of John and Mary (Nay-
lor) Gates, who were of Pennsylvania German
e.xtraction, residents of Little York, and who
reared a family of six boys and six girls, nine
of whom are still living, although the parents
are now deceased. Henry N., at the age of
ten, was tajcen to Cumberland county, Pa.,
and placed ^n a farm, on which he lived, at-
tending schbol meanwhile and learning har-
ness making, until the civil war broke out,
when he enlisted, in June, 1862, in the Twen-
tieth Pennsylvania cavalry, company A, at
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Mechanicsburg, being then not seventeen years
of age. At the expiration of his term of six
months he re-enlisted for three years and
served until the close of the war. During his
first term he served under Gens. Couch and
Hunter, and fought at Piedmont and in vari-
ous skirmishes. On veteranizing in January,
1863, he was assigned to the consolidated
Twentieth and Twenty-second Pennsylvania
cavalry, which was designated the First Pro-
visional, under Gen. Philip Sheridan, first divis-
ion, second brigade, sixth armycorps,and 1863-
64-65, serving at Gettysburg, Lynchburg,
Ashby's Gap (near which place he was cap-
tured, in Loudoun valley), Cold Harbor, second
Fredericksburg and Winchester. At the latter
place, with thirty others, he was again cap-
tured and taken to Lynchburg, Danville, An-
dersonville and Libby prison, and in all was con-
fined eight months and three days, during
which time Mr. Gates was reduced from 1 50
to ninety-six pounds in weight. At Richmond
he was out on parole thirty days, and in
March, 1865, was released, receiving an hon-
orable discharge from the service July 13,
1865. Returning to Mechanicsburg, he fin-
ished learning the trade of harness making,
worked as journeyman until 1868, and then
moved to Columbiana, Ohio, where he worked
fifteen years. In 1883 he went to Indianapo-
lis, worked at his trade three years, and then
came to Muncie, and from 1886 until August,
1 890, was foreman for Stuckey & Co. , and was
also with Wachtell & Son until J. C. Cun-
ningham opened his store, when he worked
for that gentleman one year and ten months,
then at the old Stuckey stand for seven months,
when he bought out Mr. Cunningham in De-
cember, 1892, and has since been the proprie-
tor of the oldest harness shop in Muncie, on
the west side of the court house, square, carry-
ing the largest and best assorted stock of har-
ness and saddlery, turf goods, etc. , in the city.
The marriage of Mr. Gates took place at
Columbiana, Ohio, October 25, 1871, to Miss
Mary E. , daughter of Samuel and Esther
(Brown) Sheets, and to this union were born
three sons, viz: Robert Egbert, boiler maker,
aged twenty-one years; William Ralph, aged
seventeen, learning harness making with his
father, and John Samuel, aged thirteen, at
school in Orville, Ohio. The mother of these
children was called away March 27, 1893, at
the age of forty-two, and was sadly missed by
her sorrowing family. Mr. Gates is a member
of the Masonic fraternity, but is no longer an
affiliating brother, but he still retains his con-
nection with the G. A. R. He is highly re-
spected by the community, and is regarded as
one of Muncie's most useful citizens.
>T^OSEPH A. GODDARD, prominent
m among the active business men of
A 1 Muncie, was born in Cleveland, Ohio,
December 19, 1840, and is a son of
John H. and Ann (Wilson) Goddard. He
was reared in and near the above city until
his seventeenth year, attended the public
schools, in which he obtained a practical edu-
cation, and attained his majority well equip-
ped to do battle with the world. On leaving
the parental roof he went to Cincinnati, in
which city he found employment in the
grocery business, and, with the exception of
the time spent in the army, continued there
until the year 1874. In 1862, with thousands
of other young men who responded to the
country's call for volunteers, Mr. Goddard
entered the army, enlisting in company M,
Fourth Ohio cavalry, with which he served
for a period of six months, when he was as-
signed to company D, of the same regiment,
with the rank of second lieutenant. Later he
was promoted captain of the. company, be-
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MRS. JOS. A. GODDARD.
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coming; quarter master on the staff of Gen.
W. L. Elliott, and later on the staff of Major
Gen. W. H. Wilson. He was with his com-
mand in several battles of the rebellion,
among which were Chickamauga and Nash-
ville, and served in the army of the Cumber-
land, taking an active part in many of the en-
gagements of the southwestern campaign.
At the close of the war he returned to Cincin-
nati and took service with his former employers,
later becoming a commercial traveler for the
firm, and was thus engaged until his removal
to Indiana in 1874. On locating in Muncie,
Mr. Goddard engaged in the grocery business
with Mr. B. R. Adamson, which partnership
continued until 1880, when the firm dissolved,
Mr. Goddard, at that date, engaging exclusive-
ly in the wholesale trade and eventually be-
coming one of the leading jobbers in Indiana.
He has now an extensive and lucrative busi-
ness, which is constantly increasing and re-
quires the services of three traveling salesmen,
the house supplying the trade in many of the
counties of eastern Indiana, besides being
very extensively patronized by all the grocery
establishments of Muncie. Mr. Goddard is a
self-made man in all that term implies, and
his present high standing in commercial circles
has been attained by his own unaided efforts.
He possesses business qualifications of a high
order, his integrity and honor have never been
questioned, and his fair and upright dealings
have borne legitimate fruits in the large busi-
ness which has made his name popular among
the representative men of Muncie.
Mr. Goddard was one of the organizers of
the Citizens' Enterprise company, and for the
past seven years has held the responsible po-
sition of president of the Muncie school board.
Politically he is a republican. In 1866 Mr.
Goddard was united in marriage to Miss Mary
Hough, daughter of William Hough, of Wayne
county, Ind., to which union three children
have been born, namely: William H., Grace
and Annie — the last named being the wife of
Mr. C. M. Rich. Mr. Goddard and family
are prominent and consistent members of the
Friend's society in Muncie, in the organization
of which he was a leading spirit, and in which
he now holds the position of elder. While
his standing in the commercial world is that of
a first-class business man, sound in judgment
and wise in counsel, he also possesses in a
generous degree the confidence of the public,
and all movements having for their object the
moral and educational welfare of the com-
munity, find in him a liberal patron and gen-
erous benefactor.
Vj'OSEPH MILTON GRAY, the effi-
m cient manager of the Muncie Casket
A 1 company, is a native of Delaware
county, Ind., born November 22, 1854,
on a farm in Salem township. His father,
James M. Gray, was born in Tennessee in
Januar}-, 1S29, went to Ohio when a youth,
and became a resident of Delaware county,
Ind., in early manhood, locating in the town-
ship of Salem, where he carried on farming
for several years. Later he embarked in the
mercantile business at Daleville, where he car-
ried on a fairly successful trade for twenty-
eight years, removing, at the end of that time,
to the city of Anderson, where he engaged in
the sale of buggies and carriages. His first
marriage was consummated with Elizabeth
Shoemaker, of Salem township, who died
November 20, 1866, the mother of seven chil-
dren — two sons and five daughters — Joseph
M. being the third in order of birth. Mr.
Gray's second marriage took place in the year
1868 with Mrs. Mary A. McClanahan, widow
of the late Elijah McClanahan, the union re-
sulting in two children — a son and a daughter
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— the latter dying in infancy. For a number of
years James M. Gray has been a leading mem-
ber of the Christian church, and a prominent
Mason. He met with encouraging success in
his various business ventures, but suffered
severe financial reverses during the panic of
1873-
Joseph M. Gray first attended the district
schools, and after the removal of his parents
to Daleville became a pupil in the school of
that village, obtaining thereby a fair English
education. After the death of his mother,
which occurred when he was twelve years old,
he went to live with his uncle, P. M. Rudy,
whose house was his home for about two years,
or until his father's second marriage, when he
returned to the village of Daleville and entered
his father's store. At the age of nineteen he
purchased an interest in the business, which
from that time until the fall of 1881 was car-
ried on very successfully under the firm name
of J. M. Gray & Son, the latter retiring at
that date, and effecting a co-partnership in the
general mercantile and grain business with his
two uncles, J. P. and S. B. Shoemaker, under
the firm name of Shoemaker, Gray & Co.
The relationship thus constituted lasted about
nine years, at the end of which time Mr. Gray
disposed of his interest, and with J. P. Shoe-
maker purchased a controlling interest in the
Muncie Casket works, of which he was made
secretary. Subsequently he assumed general
management of the concern, a position he still
ret^iins, and under his able supervision the
volume^ of business has been greatly increased,
being over one hundred per cent, in excess of
what was done when Mr. Gray became a part-
ner. Mr. Gray has met with the most flatter-
ing success in his various enterprises, and his
judgment is seldom wrong in matters of busi-
ness policy. He possessess rare executive
abilities, is prompt and methodical in the
management of his affairs, not given to specu-
lation, being satisfied with legitimate gains; in
short, he possesses those correct business
principles which when directed and controlled
by good judgment, seldom fail of insuring suc-
cess.
Mr. Gray was married June 24, 1877, to
Miss Jennettia Griffis, daughter of Robert
Griffis, an old and prominent physician of
Middletown, Henry county; two children re-
sulted from this union: Owen Leslie, who
died at the age of twenty-two months, and
Myron Herbert, a bright boy of twelve,
whose birth occurred on the 7th day of Sep-
tember, 1 88 1. Mr. Gray has been a life-
long republican, but his ambition has never
run in the direction of seeking office, never
having been a candidate for any position. He
is a member of the Improved Order of Red
Men and the order of Maccabees, and for some
years has been a prominent Odd Fellow. He
became identified with the Christian church in
1870, since which date his life has been a
practical exemplification of his religious pro-
fession.
^^>^ FORGE R. GREEN, M. D., the
■ ^\ well known physician whose name
\^F introduces this sketch, is one of the
most skillful and experienced of the
city of Muncie, where he has many brother
practitioners. He was born in Hamilton
township, Delaware county, Ind., October 15,
1 85 1, a son of Andrew J. and Massy (Johnson)
Green, and a grandson of William Green, who
was a native of New York and of English
descent. William Green in an early day
moved from from New York to Ohio, and
from that state to Delaware county, Ind.,
where he purchased a tract of land in Niles
township, being among the earliest pioneers
of that section. Andrew J. Green was born
in Athens county, Ohio, and accompanied his
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GEO. W. GREENE.
AND CENTRE TOWNSHIP.
parents to Delaware county, Ind., when a
child, and was here reared and educated. Af-
ter attaining his majority he engaged in teach-
ing school and also preached in the Christian
church, later practicing medicine and continu-
ing the latter profession for many j'ears. He
was a man of many gifts, mainly self-educated,
and proved his business acumen by the enter-
ing of a tract of land in Hamilton township,
which he cleared and made very valuable.
His death occurred January 5, 1885, his wife
still surviving him and residing in the city of
Muncie. She was a North Carolinian by birth,
and a daughter of James Johnson, who was an
early settler of Wayne county.
Dr George R. Green was reared in Ham-
ilton township, received his literary education
in the high school of Muncie, and after leaving
school engaged in teaching for three years,
read law for one year, and then began the
study of medicine under his father. Subse-
quently, in 1877, he graduated from the col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons, and the year
following received an ad eundem degree from
the Medical college of Indiana. He was a
very bright and intelligent student, and during
his course was selected from the class to be
assistant to the demonstrator of anatomy, and
graduated with high honors. Actuated by a
commendable desire to excel in his profession,
the doctor has since supplemented his medical
education by a post-graduate course in the
New York Polyclinic, and has also taken pri-
vate instructions in gynecology at New York.
Dr. Green began his medical practice in Roy-
erton, Ind., but in June, 1885, came to
Muncie, where he has since enjoyed an excel-
lent and remunerative practice in Delaware
and adjoining counties. He is a member of
the Delaware County Medical society, the Del-
aware District society, and the Indiana State
Medical society, in the deliberations of which
bodies he has taken an active and prominent
part. He has served as president of the
County Medical society, and is also a member
of the American Medical association. Frater-
nally he has connected himself with the
Masonic fraternity, K. of P. and the A. O. U.
W. , and politically is a republican. Dr.
Green is a married man, his marriage to Miss
Mary E. Monroe, daughter of Hugh Monroe,
of Ohio, having taken place in 1871, and
three children, Dwight, Earl and Bessie, with
Mrs. Green, comprise the pleasant family.
They are all valued members of the Presby-
terian church, in which body the doctor is an
elder.
@EORGE WASHINGTON GREENE.
— The following sketch of this most
estimable gentleman was published
at the time of his decease, in the local
press of Muncie. George Washington Greene
was born in White Hall, Washington county,
N. Y. , October 6, 1829, and died at his resi-
dence in Muncie, Ind., June 30, 1887. Mr.
Greene was one of the early settlers of Muncie.
His mother, whose maiden name was Char-
lotte Gilbert, was a sister to Goldsmith C,
William and Edmund Gilbert, who were
among the pioneers of Muncietown. She was
first married at her home in New York to Mr.
Fuller, who died there, and subsequently she
was united in marriage to George W. Greene,
father of the subject of this sketch.
Mr. and Mrs. Greene and their family, con-
sisting of three children, came to Muncietown
in 1830 and settled on the southeast corner of
Walnut and North streets, where the father
afterward died. Charles H. Greene, a third
son, was born about six weeks after his
father's death. Mrs. Greene was afterward,
November 5, 1837, married to William S.
Collins, and the family then moved to what
has since been known as the "Kirby Pasture
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land," on the Middletown pike After the
mother's death the family was broken up, the
children going to different parts of the country,
George W. , or "Wash" as he was familiarly
called, being taken into the family of his uncle.
Goldsmith C. Gilbert, with whom he lived un-
til that gentleman's death in 1844, when he
began working as a farm laborer in the north-
ern part of the county. He did not remain
long in the country, however, but soon came
to Muncie and served an apprenticeship at the
tailor's trade under William Perkins, whose
shop stood on the ground now occupied by
the Little block. He took charge of the busi-
ness when he had "served his time," and,
carried on tailoring until he entered the army.
After his return from the war he was elected
clerk of Delaware county circuit court in 1 866,
and entered upon the discharge of his official
duties August 23, of the following year. He
was re-elected and held the office until August
23, 1875, when he retired with the record of
honorable service, having earned the reputa-
tion of an honest and efficient officer. After
his retirement from office he engaged in no
active business, but occupied his time in look-
ing after his property and managing his farm.
Mr. Greene was married to Miss Nancy H.
Fleming on October 6, 1851 ; she died in Mun-
cie, December 13, 1857, aged twenty-eight
years, three months and twenty-three days.
The first child, George, died at the age of
about six months. Their second and last
child, Ella, wife of H. B. Athey, survives her
father, and her only child bears his name,
Georgie G.
By no means the least interesting part of
the life of George W. Greene is his career as a
soldier. He enlisted in company E, Nine-
teenth Indiana volunteers, July 29, 1861, and
immediately thereafter was commissioned first
lieutenant. Upon the honorable discharge of
Capt. Luther B. Wilson, Lieutenant Greene
was promoted captain of the company, and
was at the head of his men when taken prison-
er at the battle of Gettysburg on the first day
of that memorable fight, July i, 1863. He
was first taken to Libby prison, where he was
confined for ten months, and was one of the
daring fellows who, with Col. A. D. Streight
of Indianapolis, tunneled a way out of the
horrible prison pen and made their escape.
Unfortunately, Capt. Greene was recaptured
and returned to prison. He was then con-
fined in Danville, Macon, and Charleston
rebel prisons until March 12, 1865, at which
time, he was paroled prisoner of war, and dis-
charged at Washington, D. C. After long
confinement in these prison pens in the south
he became very much reduced in body and
spirit, and was very sick and unable to walk.
Capt. Greene never fully recovered from the
effects of his twenty months' starvation and
prison life, and suffered constantly, some-
times severely, with rheumatism and bone
fever, and his death was caused by general
wearing out of a debilitated body. Mr. Greene
was a good and faithful soldier, a brave and
efficient officer, a generous and faithful friend,
and a citizen in whom the people of Muncie
and Delaware county placed the most implicit
confidence. He was known and respected
throughout Delaware county, and in his death
all who knew him realized that they had lost
a friend.
t>^ ALPH S. GREGORY was born in
1^^ Delaware county, Ind., February 28,
I^P 1846. He lived upon a farm until
fifteen years old, when he entered
the high school at Muncie, Ind. After com-
pleting the course of study there he entered
Wabash college, where he continued his
studies until 1862, when he entered the army
as a private soldier in company B, Eighty-
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THE R. S. GREGORY FAMILY.
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fourth Indiana volunteer infantry. He remained
in the army about two years, when, on account
of faihng health, he was honorably discharged
at Shellmound, Tenn., having attained the
rank of orderly sergeant. On returning home,
having regained his health, he again entered
Wabash college and remained there through
the junior year. He then entered Asbury
university, now Depauw university, where he
graduated with honors in the class of 1867.
The year following his graduation he was
superintendent of the high school of the city
of Huntington, Ind. He studied law and was
admitted to the bar in 1 869, and has since
continued the practice of that profession. His
practice in both the civil and criminal courts
has been successful and lucrative. He has
won an enviable reputation for himself as an
advocate, and is known throughout the state.
He has won especial distinction in the prac-
tice of the criminal law. He has a large
library of the best text books and law reports,
in addition to which he has a private library
composed of the choicest works on history, art
and literature. He belongs to many of the
leading secret and fraternal societies, such as
the Masons, Knights Templar, Knights of
Pythias, and the Improved Order of Red Men,
and has held many of the great offices in these
societies, and especially in that of the Im-
proved Order of Red Men, in which order he
has been the great Incohonee, which is the
chief officer of the order in the world. He is a
close observer of men and things, and per-
haps no one in Delaware county has a wider
and more intimate acquaintance with the peo-
ple of the state than he. He has always been
a republican since his majority, except in the
campaign of 1892, when his study of the
tariff, and the attitude of certain leading
statesman on the subject of bi-metalism, or
the coinage of gold and silver as money upon
a parity and equality, compelled him to with-
hold his political influence from the success of
the republican candidates. He is a firm be-
liever in bi-metalism, and recognizes that
silver money has been the established friend of
the people, and that without its use as money
the masses must necessarily be at a disadvan-
tage with the rich or the security holders.
He believes the McKinley bill as constructed
was, and is, the most ingeniously prepared
personal legislation that was ever devised by
man. He is not a free trader, but believes in
such a tariff as will sufficiently raise revenues
to maintain the government, and that that
tariff should be so placed as to protect labor
and the industries in the true spirit of Ameri-
can independenoe.
Mr. Gregory has a wife and two children,
Walter Leon, and Florence Madden Gregory.
Mrs. Anna C. Gregory, the mother of these,
was born at Piqua, Ohio, in 1863, a daughter
of Timothy C. Madden, of Irish parentage;
was educated in her native city, and is highly
accomplished in music. The pictures of his
wife and children are in a group in this
volume, on the opposite page from his own.
He is cool in discussion and forms no dislike
for any one who honestly entertains an opin-
ion differing with his.
\^'~\ F- GRIBBEN, the accommodating
\f^\ ticket agent of the " Big 4" railroad
JK^J company at Muncie, Ind., was born
in Pittsburg, Pa., June 4, 1852, and
there attended the public schools until sixteen
years of age, subsequently taking a special
course at book keeping in the high school,
and also served an apprenticeship at iron
molding at Union City, Ind., where his father
was partner in the foundry of White, Gribben
& Co., and served from 1868 to 1871, when
he returned to Pittsburg and worked in the
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Westinghouse air brake works, at his chosen
trade, and a year and a half later returned to
Union City and took charge of the Wooley &
Fischers Electric Light company's molding
department for a year; worked three months
in the freight office of the " Big 4" and was
then transferred to Muncie and was baggage
master for eight years, and in August, 1890,
was appointed to his present position. During
his residence in Union City he was city clerk
for seven years, on the Ohio side, and was the
first president of the Delaware county and
Gray club, of Muncie, a democratic organiza-
tion. He was married in Union City, in 1873,
to Miss Laura J. Dill, daughter of John W.
Dill, of Greenville, Ohio, and has two chil-
dren — Pearl M., at home, and Perry A., an
employe of the Kirby house.
Andrew J. Gribben, father of the subject,
B. F. Gribben, was born in Pennsylvania,
in 18 1 8, and settled in Union City, Ind., in
1 868, and engaged in the foundry and machine
business until 1872. While not licensed a
lawyer, he was well posted in legal matters,
and during the last few years of his life was
engaged in real estate transactions. He was
mayor, justice of the peace, and president of
the board of education at different times, and
died in August, 1 890, honored by his fellow
citizens as a useful member of society and as
an upright man. He married Harriet A.
Verner, and had born to him five children,
viz: Mary A., wife of Charles A. Gould, of
Pittsburg ; B. F. , whose name opens this
sketch ; Perry, yardmaster at Anderson ; Belle,
wife of Herman C. Scranton, of Union City ;
and Lizzie M. , wife of James E. Folley, of
Anderson. The mother is still living in Union
City, aged sixty-four.
B. F. Gribben has most successfully won
his way through the world by his almost un-
aided self-exertion, and much credit is due him
for his perseverance.
,>^ OSCOE C. GRIFFITH.— The busi-
I ^^ ness interests of the city of Muncie,
I j f Ind., are well represented by the le-
gal profession, and the subject of the
present sketch has done his share in promot-
ing the various enterprises which have served
to make this place known throughout the
state. Roscoe C. Griffith was born December
15, 1863, in Huntington, Ind., and is the son
of William H. and Seraphina (Clark) Griffith.
William H. Griffith was born in the same
county and state, January 9, 1834, and was
the son of Jesse Griffith, a native of Pennsyl-
vania, and one of the pioneers of Huntington
county. He helped to cut the first road from
Huntington to Goshen, and was one of the
first jurymen in the first court held in Hunt-
ington. Politically he was a democrat and a
man of great prominence at that time. Wil-
liam H. Griffith, his son, was reared on the
farm and subsequently learned the trade of
baker, engaging in that business in South
Charleston, Ohio, but afterward returned to
Huntington county, Ind., where he followed
his chosen calling for a number of years. He,
too, was a member of the democratic party,
as his father had been; also was a prominent
Mason, and treasurer of his home lodge for
many years. He reared a family of seven
children, six of whom are yet living, as fol-
lows: AdorahJ., wife of Frank H. Minnich,
of Muncie; David M., of Huntington; Roscoe
C, Leota S., at home; Charles E., of Muncie:
and Clark C.
Roscoe C. Griffith received his education
in the schools of Huntington, graduating from
the high school of that city in 1883, and in
October of the same year entered the law
department of the university of Michigan, at
Ann Arbor, in which he completed the pre-
scribed course, graduating in June, 1885, and
receiving the degree of B. of L. He began
the practice of his profession in Huntington,
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and in 1886 he was appointed deputy prose-
cutor of that county, but resigned the office in
March, 1888, to remove to Muncie, where he
has since conducted a very successful legal
business, and now is the attorney for the Mun-
cie Savings & Loan association. In May,
1890, Mr. Griffith was made manager of the
Galliher sub-addition to the city, and filled
that position until September, 1892, when he
resigned it to engage in a general real estate
business, and in February, 1889, became a
partner in the insurance agency of Shipley &
Wright. Fraternally, Mr. Griffith is a char-
ter member of Muncie lodge. No. 38, Knights
of Maccabees, being past commander in the
same, and is also a member of the K. of P.
Politically he is a democrat, and his counsels
and advice are of value to the party. Mr.
Griffith was married August 12, 1886, to Miss
Clara L. Marson, daughter of John Marson, of
Wayne county, Ind. Both he and wife are
members of the First Baptist church. Mr.
Griffith is one of the enterprising citizens of
Muncie, progressive and active, and not only
urges others to duty but sets the example, put-
ting his own shoulder to the wheel. He is
one of the organizers of the Citizens' Enter-
prise company, and has devoted time and en-
ergies to the success of that corporation,
besides taking an active interest in all move-
ments having for their object the moral and
material welfare of his adopted city, with the
growth and development of which he has
been- so prominently identified.
* w ^ ON. THOMAS S. GUTHRIE, a well
l'^^ known and prominent citizen of Indi-
l^^P ana, is a native of Ohio, born in
Madison county, that state, August
10, 1830, the son of John C. and Jency J.
Guthrie, who emigrated to Ohio in the year
1826 from Campbell county, Va. The family,
although poor, had always been honorable and
highly respected, and consisted of the parents,
eleven sons and one daughter. At the time
of their settlement in Madison county, the
country was comparatively a wilderness — bear
and deer were yet frequently seen, and game
of all kind was found in great abundance.
With his brothers, Thomas early engaged in
agricultural labor and assisted in clearing up
five farms — four in Ohio and one near Winter-
set, Iowa, about the year 1849 or 1850. At
the age of twenty-two, Mr. Guthrie found
himself with but limited educational training,
there being no school nearer than the town
of Mechanicsburg, distant about nine miles
from his home. This obstacle, however, did
not deter him from carrying out his intention
of receiving an education. Accordingly, he
made arrangements to walk the distance on
Monday mornings and return home on Friday
evenings, and so well did he succeed in his
studies, that in 1853 he received a certificate
entitling him to teach in the public schools.
His first effort in this direction was in the
town of Carysville, Champaign county, Ohio,
where he remained some months, teaching
during the winter and working at manual
labor during the summer season. He was
ambitious to succeed, and during this period
studied medicine, and later practiced to some
extent at Millerstown, Ohio, during 1856-57,
but did not long continue in that profession.
On March i, 1856, he was married to Miss
Mary A. Comer, and they had born to them a
son, J. A., and twenty-two years later a
daughter. Ruble. From early boyhood Mr.
Guthrie had been religously inclined, and at
the age of nineteen connected himself with
the Methodist church, but sometime after-
ward, his views having undergone a change,
withdrew from that religious body and joined
the Universalists in 1853, with which demomi-
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nation he has since been prominently identi-
fied. He preached a sermon in Palestine,
Shelby county, in 1854, but did not formally
engage in the work of the ministry until 1858,
at which time he was received into fellowship
with the Ohio convention. Since that date
he has served as pastor of Universalist churches
in Eaton, Cleveland and Springfield, Ohio,
and at Lafayette and Muncie, Ind., in the
latter place filling the pulpit for a period of
eleven years. As a preacher, Mr. Guthrie is
eloquent and logical, and for years has been
considered one of the ablest expounders of the
peculiar doctrine of his denomination in cen-
tral Indiana. He is a pleasing and popular
orator, and for special occasions is frequently
sent for at long distances, going to Cleveland,
Ohio, Bloomington, 111., and other cities on
such missions. As already stated, Mr.
Guthrie's early educational advantages were
somewhat hmited, and, feeling the need of
more extended literary knowledge, he entered
college at Canton, N. Y., in 1870, being at that
time forty years of age, and made rapid and
substantial progress in the various higher
branches of learning.
Mr. Guthrie at one time engaged in busi-
ness, which, proving very successful, enabled
him to accumulate a handsome competence,
and he is now living in very comfortable cir-
cumstances. At the breaking out of the great
civil war he responded to his country's call
for volunteers, and enHsted, dechning the po-
sition of captain of his company, but ten days
later was promoted chaplain and served in
that capacity until the discharge of the regi-
ment at the expiration of its term of service in
1864. During his military career he partici-
pated in a number of engagements, including
the taking of Lexington, Va., battle of Cum-
berland, and Hunter's defeat at Lynchburg, in
the last of which he, with his comrades, endured
great suffering. He was honorably discharged
September 2, 1864, and has a military record
of which he feels deservedly proud. He is a
member of the Grand Army and of the Loyal
Legion, and proudly wears a badge placed
upon him by ex-Pres. Hayes, who was at that
time commander of the Loyal Legion com-
mandery.
Inheriting the Virginia blood of his ances-
tors, Mr. Guthrie grew up pro-slavery in name
and a democrat, but at the early age of twelve
years began to oppose the nefarious institu-
tion of African servitude, which led to a com-
plete change in his political convictions. He
voted for John C. Fremont and for all suc-
ceeding republican candidates for the presi-
dency, and has contributed largely to the suc-
cess of the republican party in nearly every
local and general election for the last quarter
of a century. Mr. Guthrie was elected a
member of the Fifty-seventh general assembly
of the state by a majority of 1,456. He fig-
ured fairly in the legislative body. He intro-
duced bills on free text books; to forbid the
playing of base ball on Sunday; on local
option; on fees and salary, and favored the
bill that did pass, and labored to have it take
effect at the publication of the laws. He also
introduced a bill, the object of which was to
prevent capital punishment. Mr. Guthrie is
now permanently located in Muncie, and has
been prominently identified with a number of
its principal business interests, having been a
charter member of the Economic Gas com-
pany, the first co-operative gas company of
the city. He takes pleasure in recalling the
stirring scenes of the late war, is popular with
the surviving comrades of company B, One
Hundred Fifty-second Ohio volunteer infantry,
and is a member of the G. A. R. Post at
Springfield, Ohio. He is also prominent in
Masonic circles, having taken a number of
degrees, including that of Sir Knight, and
belongs to the lodge meeting in Muncie.
AND CENTRE TOWNSHIP.
BRANK D. HAIMBAUGH, editor of
the Muncie Herald, was born in Fair-
field county, Ohio, in September,
1856, and is a son of David and
Margaret N. • (Leonard) Haimbaugh. The
family came to Indiana, and located in Fulton
county in 1863, and here he was thoroughly
trained to the hard labor of tilling the soil,
being the only boy in the family.
Until seventeen years of age he pursued
his studies in the common schools preparatory
to teaching, and an attendance at the Roches-
ter high school, from which he graduated in
1878. In 1880 he completed the scientific
course at the Western Indiana Normal school
at Valparaiso, from which he also graduated.
The five years following he was engaged in
teaching, during four of which he was princi-
pal of the Brookston (Ind.) Academy. In
1885, without any solicitation on his part, the
trustees of his native county, Fulton, elected
him county superintendent of schools, and
during his two years' incumbency of the office,
through his capability and thoroughness, these
schools were placed upon a very high plane.
In 1887 he engaged in the life insurance
busines in Iowa and Indiana, but, this voca-
tion not proving congenial to his taste, he
bought an interest in the Miami county (Ind.)
Sentinel, in 1889. He did some very excel-
lent editorial work on this journal until April,
1 89 1, when he sold his interest, removed to
Muncie and bought a half share in the Herald,
of which paper he is now the editor. He soon
made his mark as a strong, logical and fear-
less writer, who never hesitates to express his
conviction as to the right or wrong of any
public question. He became very popular
socially and politically, and in 1889 was elect-
ed door-keeper of the Indiana house of repre-
sentatives, and that popularity still clung to
him, as, in 1891, he was again elected door-
keeper, an honor never before conferred on
any individual — that of being elected to the
office for two consecutive terms. In 1893 he
was elected, by a unanimous vote, secretar\ of
the democratic editorial association of the
state, showing the high esteem in which he is
held by his fellow democratic journalists
throughout the state. His acquaintance with
the leading men of Indiana, especially with
those of the democratic party, and his sound
judgment in matters political, although not
professing to be a politician, make him a
valuable factor in party councils, and his voice
is never unheeded. He is a strong tariff re-
former, and is regarded as an eloquent politi-
cal orator, as he handles his subject in the
hustings with the ease and clearness that come
from well-founded convictions.
In May, 1890, Mr. Haimbaugh was united
in marriage with Miss Emma Elginfritz, of
Warsaw, Ind., the union being blessed with
one child, Paul A., whose presence in the
household adds sunshine to the already bright
and happy home of the parents. Mr. Haim-
baugh, it will be perceived, has raised himself
to his present elavated position solely through
his own talents and persevering industry.
aALVIN HAINES, a successful busi-
ness man of Muncie, was born in
Clinton county, Ohio, September 5,
1 841, son of Stacy and Judith Haines,
an appropriate mention of whom is found else-
where in this volume. Mr. Haines was reared
on the home farm until his thirteenth year,
and then removed, with his parents, to the
village of Sligo, Ohio, where he attended
school until eighteen years of age. On quit-
ting school he apprenticed himself to a Mr.
Andrews to learn the blacksmithing trade, at
which he worked for a period of three years,
or until August, 1862, when he entered the
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army, enlisting in company I, Seventy-ninth
Ohio volunteer infantry, with which he served
until the close of the war. He was with his
command in the Tennessee and Georgia cam-
paigns and participated in all the battles from
Chattanooga to Atlanta, through all which he
passed without receiving the slightest injury.
At one time, he was confined to the hospital
at Nashville on account of sickness, but re-
covered in time to take part in the great battle
fought near that city which resulted in the de-
struction of Hood's army. He was sent to
Goldsborough, N. C, in 1865, and in June of
that year was honorably discharged from the
service at Washington, D. C. Returning
home at the close of the war, Mr. Haines en-
gaged in farming for two years, and then
embarked in the grocery business, which he
carried on with a reasonable degree of success
until March, 1 869, at which time he disposed of
his stock and moved to Muncie.
On coming to this city he engaged in the dry
goods trade until 1878, at which date he began
handling feed, and also embarked in the ice
trade, both of which lines he conducted until
1884, and the former of which occupied his
attention until 1891. In the latter year he
disposed of his feed store and opened a meat
market, which he conducted with success and
financial profit until June, 1893. Mr. Haines
has managed his various business enterprises
with judicious care, and since becoming identi-
fied with the commercial interests of Muncie,
he has been recognized as one of the city's
efficient and progressive citizens. He was
married September 5, 1867, to Mary T. Har-
vey, of Clinton county, Ohio, daughter of
Simon and Ann (Townsend) Harvey, to which
union three children have been born, namely:
Walter H., a business man of Pueblo, Col;
Harvey C, deceased; and Frank, who resides
with his parents at home. Mr. and Mrs.
Haines are consistent members of the Society
of Friends; in politics Mr. Haines is a repub-
lican.
^y^ AVID T. HAINES, one of the repre-
I I sentative business men, and for many
>^^_^ years a prominent citizen of Dela-
ware county, is a native of Ohio and
a member of an old Virginia family which
settled in the "Buckeye" state before the
dawn of the present century. John Haines,
the grandfather of David T. , was born in Vir-
ginia August 15, 1769, and married in Freder-
ick county, W. Va. , December 4, 1792, Eliza-
beth Allen, whose birth occurred on the lOth
day of May, 1768. Shortly after marriage
they moved to Warren county, Ohio, and set-
tled in Wayneville, where he built the first
mill in that part of the state, which began
operations in 1797. Subsequently, he dis-
posed of the mill and moved to Greene county,
Ohio, entered a tract of land in the vicinity of
Xenia, cleared a farm and reared a family of
nine children, eight of whom grew to years of
maturity. He died in November, 1823, and
was buried on the old home farm near Xenia,
where an appropriate monument marks the
place; his wife died in Highland county, Ohio.
Stacy Haines, son of John Haines and father
of David T., was born August 2, 1795, in
Frederick county, Va. , and was united in mar-
riage December 3, 1817, in Highland county,
Ohio, to Judith Terrell, who became the
mother of twelve children; David T. , Noah,
Mary, Amos, Samuel T. , John, Sarah, Stacy
A.,' Martha wife of John Moore; Judith A.,
wife of George Breckney; Edwin A. and Cal-
vin. Of these children David T., Stacy,
Martha, Judith, Edwin A., Calvin and Allen
are still living. Stacy and Judith Haines
were birthright members of the Society of
Friends, to which both branches of the family
have belonged for several generations. The
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father died October 5, 1854, and on the 6th day
of January, 1861, the mother was called away.
David T. Haines was born in Xc-nia, Ohio,
October i, 1818. He was reared on tlie home
farm in Ohio, and in the common schools
received an education, which, supplemented
by subsequent years of association with the
world, has enabled him to transact the duties
of an active business life. While still younp^.
he was engaged in teaming to Cincinnati,
Dayton and other points, and at the age of
twenty years began learning the tratie of mill-
ing in Clinton county, Ohio, in the mill pur-
chased there by his father in 1838. He con-
tinued the trade for twelve years, and in 1848
he came to Muncie, Ind., where, until 1853,
he was engaged in the wholesale and retail
grocery business. To Mr. Haines is largely
due the credit for the general system of inter-
nal improvements which did so much towards
developing central Indiana and Delaware
county, and in locating the Fort Wayne &
Southern railroad through this part of the
state, of which company he was secretary from
1853 until its failure in I855. He continued
as custodian of the archi\-es, stocks, bonds
and books of the company until 1868, when
they were turned over to John C. Parker, who
attempted to rebuild the road from Jefferson-
ville to Muncie. After the failure of this proj-
ect, he assisted in organizing the company
that built the road from Fort Wayne to this
city, now the Ft. W. , C. & L. , of which he
was secretary and treasurer, and later became
vice-president of the road until sold to Chas.
H. Dalton and others. He was elected an
official in 1868 of the company that construct-
ed the road from Connersville to Fort Wayne,
which was subsequently leased to the Cincin-
nati railroad company, after which he became
secretary and a director of the same line, since
known as the Fort Wayne & Cincinnati road.
He was one of the committee that bought the
iron for the road and the first six engines that
are still in use by the company. He contin-
ued with the company until it disposed of its
interest to a Boston syndicate, and retained
his official connection until the road changed
hands. Practically ]\Ir. Haines had personal
charge of the construction of the road, and it
was by his exertions alone, and careful man-
agement; that the company was enabled to
complete the work at the time specified, in
order to receive the subsidy promised by the
citizens of Muncie and Delaware and Wells
counties. He was identified with the com-
pany until the sale of the line in 1872, at
which time he devoted his attention largely to
the grain trade in Muncie and other points,
and in 1867 began to speculate in Kansas real
estate. In 1865 he began buying grain in
Chicago, later extended his operations in this
line to Cleveland, Ohio, and in 1875 became
prominently identified with the Muncie
Machine works, of which he was a director
and of which he afterwards became general
manager. In 1881 Mr. Haines moved to Kan-
sas, where he remained until 1892, at which
time he returned to Muncie.
Mr. Haines was married October 10, 1841,
to Deborah Sever, of Warren county, Ohio,
where her birth occurred on the 1 7th day of
October, 18 19; she bore her husband three
children, namely: Elma, wife of A. G. F.
Janes of Topeka, Kan ; Adelbert, of Kansas
City, Mo., and Melvina, widow of Samuel C.
Gregg. Mrs. Haines died in 1852, and De-
cember 7, 1853, Mr. Haines was united in
marriage with Elizabeth Dragoo, a daughter
of William and Elizabeth (Crantz) Dragoo.
Mrs. Haines is a native of West Virginia and
dates her birth from May 19, 1827. To Mr.
Haines' second marriage three children have
been born: Elizabeth, wife of J. N. Smith;
Allen, of this city, and David T. , a commission
merchant in Kansas City, Mo.
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Mr. Haines is a man of the highest stand-
ing in the community, and his reputation has
been gained by a long course of honest and
straightforward conduct. He was a member
of the common council of Muncie for two
terms, and is entitled to the honor of introdu-
cing Odd Fellowship to the city — being a
member of the original lodge organized here
in 1849. He was the original proprietor of
the National hotel, which he conducted three
and one half years under the name of the
Haines house, and it was by his capital that
the building was erected. In his political
affiliations Mr. Haines is a republican, and in
religion is a member of the Society of Friends,
to which denomination his wife and different
members of the family belong.
HRCHIBALD HAMILTON, deceased,
was one of the most successful agri-
culturists and general business men
of Centre township, Delaware county,
Ind., and was born in Monongalia county, Va.
(now West Va.), February 19, 1828, the son
of Stephen and Elizabeth (McAbee) Hamilton.
He was the youngest son in a family of eight
children: Alvin, farmer near Lyndon, Kan.;
Washington, deceased when a young man;
Henry (see sketch of Milton Hamilton),' Selina,
wife of Silas Bates, farmer near Jerseyville,
111. ; Mary, first wife of William Walling, of
Muncie; Thomas, deceased, was a farmer near
Deepwater, Mo. ; Stephen, farmer of Centre
township, and Archibald, whose name heads
this sketch. Archibald was but two and a
half years old when brought to Centre town-
ship, where his father entered 160 acres of
land, on which Archibald was reared, and of
which he in due time became part proprietor
with his father until the latter's death. After
receiving a fair amount of schooling in his
neighborhood, but a still larger amount of
farm training, he started for the gold fields of
California with a company, of which his father
and brother, Stephen, were also members,
and of which party Archibald was the youngest.
Having been fairly successful in the mines,
Archibald returned, in 185 i, and invested $800
of his earnings in a part of the old homestead
and engaged in raising and dealing in live
stock, in which enterprise his brother, Henry,
afterward became associated, and which they
together carried on until some time in 1868,
when the partnership was dissolved. Then
Archibald bought out the other heirs to the
home farm, which then comprised 404 acres,
and took upon himself the care of his parents.
For the last fifteen or eighteen years of his
life, Mr. Hamilton rented out this property
and other that he had accumulated, amount-
to 600 acres of farm land and numerous valu-
able town lots.
In December, 1887, Mr. Hamilton was
married to Miss Harriet Fleming. Her par-
ents, Isaac and Amelia Fleming, were from
Marion county. West Va. , and settled in
Henry county, Ind., in 1855. The father
died in 1857, leaving a widow and seven chil-
dren. His remains were interred in the ceme-
tery at Hillsboro, Ind. In 1865 the widow
removed to Muncie, Ind. , where she ended her
days in March, 1892, at the age of seventy-
nine, leaving as her survivors one son and
three daughters, viz: Hugh H. Fleming, whole-
sale hardware merchant of Sedalia, Mo. ;
Harriet, widow of Archibald Hamilton; Mrs.
Amanda Coffeen, widow of Zelomir Coffeen,
and Lydia, wife of George H. Andrews. Three
children, deceased, were named David, Pres-
ton and Charles.
Archibald Hamilton was called from life
July 5, 1890. He was a man of extraordinary
business sagacity and yet of great tenderness
of heart. His good qualities are summed up
A. HAMILTON.
AND CENTRE TOWNSHIP.
in the few sentences following: He was very
liberal with the poor and afflicted; was never
extortionate with his tenants, but always gen-
erous in his benefactions to public enterprises
of merit; he was possessed of remarkable
financial ability and was a wonderful mental
mathematician; he was lenient to an extreme
with his debtors, and seldom made a forclos-
ure, and was, in the full sense of the term, a
large-hearted, sympathetic man. He was a
lover of fine horses and always drove a good
one, and his aesthetic tastes are exemplified
in the remodeling of his late residence, now
occupied by his amiable and ladj'like widow.
His name will be remembered with gratitude
by hundreds of recipients of his bounty, and
his loss deplored by his famil}- till time to them
shall cease.
y'TX ILTON HAMILTON, commission
■ I ■ salesman, sale and livery stable
\^ £ ^ keeper, Muncie, is a native of Dela-
ware county, Ind., born in Centre
township, January 3, 1853. His father, Henry
Hamilton, was a native of West Virginia and
son of Stephen and Ann (McAbee) Hamilton,
who were among the pioneers of Delaware
county, settling, many years ago, about three
miles north of Muncie, upon 380 acres of land
purchased from the government. Henry Ham-
ilton was but eleven years of age when he ac-
companied his parents to this county, and he
grew to manhood amid the stirring scenes of
pioneer times. It is stated that he never knew
the use of a shoe until after his eleventh year,
and during his youth he bore his full share in
contributing toward the support of the family
in their new home in the woods. He received
his educational training in the indifferent
country schools of that period, and at the age
of twenty-four went to Illinois and entered a
tract of government land in HenrN' county, that
state. \Mien thirty-two years old, he was
united in marriage with Mary C. Cpe, daughter
of William and Harriet Coe, of Indiana, and
immediately thereafter disposed of his interest
in Illinois, and, returning to Delaware county,
settled on the old home farm, where he re-
mained, a successful tiller of the soil, until his
death, which occurred on the 17th day of
March, 1884. His wife survived him nearly
two years, departing this life in January, 1886.
Henry and Mary C. Hamilton had a family of
four children, namely: Milton, Millard F.,
William Harry and Carl E. Of the above,
William Harry is deceased; Millard F. and
Carl are at this time engaged in farming and
real estate business in the new state of Wash-
ington.
Milton Hamilton was reared on the home
farm in Centre township and received his
educational training in the district schools.
He remained under the parental roof until his
twentieth year, at which time, thinking to bet-
ter his financial condition in the west, he went
to the distant state of California, where for a
period of seven years he was engaged in agri-
cultural pursuits in Sacramento valley, princi-
pally in the counties of Butte and Napa.
He met. with a fair degree of success as a
farmer, and in 1879 went to Washington terri-
tory, pre-empted land, and there he resided
until his return to Delaware county in the
spring of 1884. From the latter year until
September, 1892, Mr Hamilton was engaged
in farming the old homestead, and then effect-
ed a copartnership with F. Karn in the com-
mission, sale and livery business, which he
has since carried on and in which his success
has been very encouraging. Mr. Hamilton is
well known in business circles in Muncie, and
his financial standing is first class in every
particular. His close attention to his various
lines of business has been marked by careful
forethought, and he has been enabled to accu-
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mulate thereby a handsome property, owning
at this time a valuable farm of 320 acres, be-
side other real estate in the city and county.
He is a director and stockholder in the Farm-
ers' National bank of Muncie, and the business
firm with which he is at present identified is
one of the leading establishments of the kind
in the city.
Mr. Hamilton was married in Puget Sound,
Wash., December 8, 1885, to Hattie C,
daughter of John and Hattie McArdle. This
union has been crowned with the birth of three
children, namely: Hazel, Henry C. , and
Louise — the second child dying in infancy.
Mr. Hamilton's political affiliations are with
the republican party, but he has never been a
partisan in the sense of seeking oiScial prefer-
ment.
^^TEPHEN HAMILTON, of Centre
•^^^k* township, Delaware county, Ind.,
p^^y was born in Monongalia county, W.
Va., December 27, 1825, the son of
Stephen and Anna E. (McAbee) Hamilton,
natives, respectively, of Pennsylvania and
Maryland. After their marriage Stephen and
Anna Hamilton settled in Monongalia county,
W. Va., where they made their home until
the fall of 1830, at which time they moved to
Delaware county, Ind., locating on what is
now the Granville turnpike. Centre township,
where they purchased from the government
240 acres of land. To this Mr. Hamilton
subsequently added another tract of 140 acres,
and began life in the backwoods. His first
dwelling was a rude log structure, eighteen by
twenty feet in dimensions, covered with a
clap-board roof held to place by weight
poles, the door made of clap boards fastened
with wooden hinges, while light was admitted
to the interior of the domicile through a
window in which greased paper was used in-
stead of glass. Mr. Hamilton, for some time
after coming to the new country, supplied his
table with the meat of deer, bear, wild turkey
and other game, with which the forests at
that time abounded. He acquired great skill
with a rifle, and no wild animal upon which
he drew his deadly aim was ever known to
have escaped. He was one of the original
" Forty-niners" who sought the gold fields of
far away California, and he started for the
Pacific coast by a private conveyance to Rich-
mond, Ind., thence by stage to Cincinnati, at
which place he took a steamer for New
Orleans and across the gulf to Chagres City.
After crossing the Isthmus of Panama he was
detained for about six weeks, at the end of
which time, in company with a number of
other spirits as daring as himself, he chartered
an English vessel and proceeded to San Fran-
cisco. He was engaged in mining for a period
of eighteen months, during which time he
accumulated considerable money. He re-
turned home by the same route as he went to
Calafornia, resumed farming, and was thus
employed until his death, which occurred on
the 17th day of May, 1872; his wife died
December 11, 1868, on the home farm.
These excellent people were members of the
Episcopal church; they reared a family of
eight children, whose names are as follows:
Alvin, of Osage county, Kan. ; Washington,
deceased; Henry, deceased; Selina, wife of
S. Bates, of Illinois; Mary A., deceased;
Thomas, deceased; Stephen, whose name
opens this sketch, and Archibald, deceased.
Stephen Hamilton was but four years of
age when brought to this county, within the
boundaries of which the greater part of his
subsequent life has been passed. He re-
calls, with pleasure, the exicting scenes of
pioneer life, and amid the rugged duties,
incident to the clearing and developing of
the home farm, he acquired strength of
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body and determination of will which served
him well in after years. In the primitive log
school house he acquired the rudiments of an
education, and at the age of twenty-three, in
company with his brother Archibald, accom-
panied his father upon the latter's long and
perilous journey to the gold fields of Cali-
fornia. For a period two years and two months
he worked in the mines, and during that time
succeeded in accumulating a considerable sum
of money, which he judiciously invested in
1 60 acres of fine land upon his return to Dela-
ware county. The place he purchased is in
Centre township, and he has since resided
upon the same, being the owner at this time of
a comfortable home and a hightly improved
farm.
Mr. Hamilton was married October 18,
1855, to Miss Rachael Moore, whose birth oc-
curred in Butler county, Ohio, July 8, 1837.
Her parents, Mark and Mary (Davis) Moore,
both natives of Ohio, were married April 4,
1835, and reared the following children:
Zerelda, deceased; Rachael, whose name ap-
pears above; John, a contractor of Muncie;
Robert C, deceased; Anna, of Muncie; Lany,
wife of John Pugh; Virginia, wife of J Smith of
Kansas; Vincent T., of Muncie, a contractor.
The father of these children died November
24, 1 881; the mother still lives and makes her
home in the city of Muncie. The wedded life
of Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton has been crowned
by the birth of ten children, whose names are
as follows: Charles E.. of Seattle, Washing-
ton; Lillie Z. , wife of George Shafer; Ann E.,
wife of L. Michner; F"rank E., Henry, Mary
E., deceased; Iva, deceased; Archibald A.,
Grace S. and infant who died unnamed. Mr.
Hamilton is a man of popularity m his com-
munity; prudence and moderation are among
his chief characteristics, and his life has been
governed by pure and just precepts. By suc-
cessful management he has accumulated a
competency of this world's goods, and owns
the fine farm already noted, beside valuable
property in the city of Muncie. He is a re-
publican in politics, and has always taken an
active interest in the material prosperity of
his township and county.
^^^KAXT HANCOCK, contractor, of
■ ^\ Muncie, Ind,, is a son of Watson and
\^W Elizabeth (Davis) Hancock, and was
born in Wayne county, Ind., June 1,
1864. Watson Hancock was born near Ham-
ilton, Ohio, in 1820 or 1821, was married at
College Corner, Ohio, settled in Wayne coun-
ty, Ohio, shortly after that event, thence
moved to Randolph county, where he followed
farming until about 1871, when he settled in
Delaware county, near Yorktown, where he
followed farming for about ten years, and
then moved to Edgar county. 111., where
he and wife are now living — he at the age of
seventy-two years. These parents have ten
children now living, viz: George, a farmer of
Randolph county, Ind. ; Caroline, wife of Jerry
Bennett, of Paris, 111. ; William, in business at
Red Key, Ind. ; Hannah, wife of Frank Reed,
Hildreth, 111. ; Alice, wife of Stephen Johnson,
farmer, of Edgar county, 111. ; David, farmer of
the same county; Grant Hancock; Ida, unmar-
ried, at home with her parents; Watson, a car-
penter, of Muncie, Ind. , and Nora, unmarried,
with her parents.
Grant Hancock, at the age of seventeen,
worked for himself a year in Illinois at farm-
ing* and from that on in Randolph county,
Ind., until twenty-two. But agriculture was
not congenial to his taste, and at the age
named he apprenticed himself at carpentering
— first to John Williams and then to George
Barnett, who were doing much work along the
line of the I. B. & W. railroad in Kan-
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dolph county. After two years' work for
these parties he was prepared to do business
on his own account, and began contracting.
He erected a large number of buildings near
Modoc and Losantville, and for three years
met with much success, and then came to
Muncie, in 1889, and began contracting as a
member of the firm of Hancock & Smith for
the first, season. In 1890 he formed a partner-
ship with his brother David for one year,
since which time he has been contracting
alone. His work has been quite extensive
since then, having, since 1892, built ninety-
two dwelling houses, to-wit: Forty for W. A.
Sampson, and thirty-five for A. L. Johnson &
Co., in Gray's addition in 1892, and twenty-
two in the spring of 1893, before the financial
depression came on. In active times his ef-
fective force of employees numbers 100 men.
Mr. Hancock is in politics a democrat, and,
as he believes in "live and let live," assisted in
the organization of the carpenters' union in
Muncie, but resigned in 1892, yet continued to
treat his employees with the same considera-
tion as the other contractors in the city. Mr.
Hancock started at contracting with limited
capital, but by skill, strict business integrity,
promptness in filling his contracts, he has
placed himself at the head of the contractors
of Muncie, as the attendance of patrons at
his office, 406 east Adams street, will attest.
Mr. Hancock was married, in 1886, to Miss
Rosa M. Grubbs of Modoc, Ind., who has
added happiness to this home by the addition
of three bright children — Alvin, Bertha and
an infant son.
HOMAS E. HARRINGTON, the pres-
ent efficient recorder of Delaware
county, was born in Caroline county,
Md. , May 25, 1843, a son of James
and Martha (Numbers) Harrington, natives of
the same state, and of Caroline and Kent
counties, respectively. In 1872 these parents
removed to Henry county, Ind., and located
on a farm where the father died the same
year; the mother survived him until 1889,
departing this life in the city of Muncie. They
belonged respectively to the Methodist Episco-
pal church and Friends' Society, and were peo-
ple eminently respected in the community
where they resided. They were the parents
of seven children, of which family four are
now living, namely: Thomas E. ; Margaret,
wife of John Anderson of Muncie; Lydia M. ,
and J. Harry, an employee of the Indiana
Bridge company. Thomas E. Harrington was
reared in his native county until eighteen years
of age, and received his education in the pub-
lic schools. On the breaking out of the rebel-
lion he entered the army, enlisting, in 1861,
in company D, First regiment Maryland vol-
unteer infantry, and gave three years and
three months to the service of his country.
He was made fife-major of his company, and
during the period of his service participated in
the Gettysburg campaign, was on the block-
ade service, and for some time was under the
command of Gens. Butler, Lew Wallace, Dix
and Brigadier-Com. Lockwood. After being
honorably discharged, he returned to his
native state and engaged in teaching, which
he followed until 1870, when he came to Indi-
ana, where he was similarly employed in
Franklin county until 1874.
In the spring of 1875 ''^r. Harrington lo-
cated in Muncie, and in November of that
year removed to Selma, where he taught
school during the winter seasons and worked
at the carpenter's trade in summers, until the
fall of 1890, at which time he was compli-
mented by his fellow citizens by being elected
to the office of county recorder. In the dis-
charge of the duties of this position Mr. Har-
rington has been uniformly kind and obliging,
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301
and his manner of conducting the affairs of
the office is proof sufficient of the party's wis-
dom in his election. Pohtically, Mr. Har-
rington is and always has been a supporter of
the republican party, and has contributed
largely to its success in several important cam-
paigns. He is post commander of the S. J.
Williams pest, G. A. R., being also adjutant of
the same, and is a member of the Selma lodge,
No. 189, I. O. O. F., in which he is past
grand chief and past grand patriarch; he is
also a member of the Twa Twa tribe of Red
Men. Mr. Harrington's marriage was solem-
nized in December, 1865, with Miss Sue B.
Norris, daughter of William Norris, and they
are the parents of the following children:
Alice L. , wife of C. O. Hanna of Selma, Ind. ;
Dela S., Harry C, William H., Martha V.,
Charles O. (deceased), Lola J., Thomas R.
and Georgia. Mr. Harrington and family are
members of the Methodist church, belonging
to the High street congregation of Muncie,
and are among the most esteemfd residents of
the city. His domestic relations, with the
exception of the sadness occasioned by the
one visitation of death to the family, have
been of the most felicitous nature, and his
public and social positions have been commen-
surate in their pleasant current with the flow
of his domestic huppiness. He has been de-
serving o' all that has been bestowed upon
him, and will ever be able to sustain the high
position he has attained in the esteem of his
fellow men.
>^OHNJ. HARTLEY.— Perhaps no one,
M from choice, would desire to be thrown
f% J upon his own resources at an early age,
but history continually gives the world
examples of successful lives, where the youth-
ful days were full of privation and self denial.
John J. Hartley was born in Freedom, Beaver
county. Pa., September 21, 1856, son of
Charles A. and Barbara (Heffner) Hartley,
natives of Baden Baden, Germany, who set-
tled in Beaver county. Pa., in 1834. The
father was a teacher by profession, had been
educated for the ministry, but never entered
the sacred calling, preferring teaching, and fol-
lowing it in his native country and for some
time after coming to America. He taught in
tee schools of Pittsburg, and later became
the principal of the Trevelyn school, Pennsyl-
vania. He and wife died in Freedom, Beaver
county. Pa.
John J. Hartley received a limited educa-
tion in the public schools, and at the early
age of twelve years left home and for eight
years thereafter acted as agent for Riley &
Sargent and for the Union News company.
He naturally took to business, and during the
years of 1876 and 1877 he rented the privilege
on the limited express trains on the P., Ft.
W. & C. R. R. from Pittsburg to Crestline,
and operated them successfully. In 1877 he
became the manager of the Tremont house at
Mansfield, Ohio, and the same year, June 21,
was united in marriage to Miss Anna Mc-
Sherry, the former proprietor of the Tremont.
In 1882 Mr. Hartley engaged in the man-
ufacture of crackers, which business he con-
tinued one year under the firm name of Pur-
tell, Hartley & Black, but, owing to poor
health, was obliged to dispose of his interests
and turn his attention to other pursuits. In
1884 he engaged in the real estate and insur-
ance business in Mansfield and continued
there very successfully until the spring of
1889, at which date he came to Muncie and
since that time has given his entire attention
to real estate transactions. In 1887 he pur-
chased twelve acres of land and laid out what
is known as the Hartley & Lowenstine addi-
tion to Muncie, a very valuable and desirable
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part of the city. Mr. Hartley has been fore-
most in every enterprise having for its object
the pubhc welfare. He assisted in the organ-
ization of the Muncie Real Estate exchange,
of v^'hich he is the treasurer, and is also a
stockholder in several large manufacturing
plants, and one of the active members of the
Citizens' Enterprise company, in the organi-
zation of which he contributed $ 1,000 and
much of his time. He is recognized as a busi-
ness man of superior ability and marked prob-
ity, and the city of Muncie recognizes in him a
gentleman of exemplary character in the pri-
vate walks of life as well as before the public
gaze. His political attachments, though
strong, are ever held in subservience to his
sense of right, and as a member of the repub-
lican party he is frequently consulted on mat-
ters of interest in both local and general cam-
paigns. He has been active in behalf of the
city's welfare as member of the common coun-
cil, to which body he was elected in 1891, and
in which he served as chairman of the com-
mittee on water works and other important
committees. Fraternally he belongs to the
Masonic order, in which he has taken a num-
ber of degrees, including chapter, commandery
and Scottish rite. He is also a member of
the Pythian fraternity Mr. and Mrs. Hartley
were formerly members of the Congregational
church at Mansfield, Ohio, and now belong to
the First Presbyterian church of Muncie.
^"VETH G. HASTINGS, M. D.— Mun-
•^^^kT cie is a city that rejoices in a number
^\ ^^ of very efficient and skillful physi-
cians and surgeons, and prominent
among these is Dr. Hastings, who was born in
Henry count), Ind. , March i, 1840, son of
Wilham and Jane (Reece) Hastings. William
Hastings was bo n in Wayne county, Ind. ,
son of William Hastings, a native of North
Carolina, and one of the pioneers of Wayne
county, Ind. The mother of the doctor was a
native of North Carolina, who settled in Henry
county, Ind., in 1823. The doctor's parents
were married in the latter county and began
mar ied life on a tract of land which they
entered and proceeded to clear, residing there
for many years. The father died in that
county in 1854, but the mother still survives,
making her home in Muncie with her son Seth
G. Hastings.
Dr. Hastings is the fourth child in a family
of seven children, and received his education
in the public schools. In the fall of 1859 he
removed with his mother to Richmond, Ind.,
and graduated from the high school of that
city, after which he entered Earlham college,
graduating in the class of 1867. For the next
eight years Dr. Hastings was a most efficient
teacher and superintendent of schools in
Wayne county, later being made the superin-
tendent of the B. C. Hobbs school at Bloom-
ingdale academy. After this he taught three
years in the Wabash public schools, finally
serving most acceptably as superintendent of
the Decatur public schools for three years.
During this time Dr. Hastings devoted some
of his spare time to the study of medicine, and
after filling the last named position at Decatur,
he attended the Homeopathic Medical college,
at Cleveland, Ohio, and finished his medical
course at Cincinnati, graduating in 1877.
After finishing his studies Dr. Hastings began
his practice at Decatur, Adams county, Ind.,
but in 1 887 came to Muncie, where he has built
up an extensive practice. He is a member
of the State Homeopathic Medical association.
Dr. Hastings was one of the organizers of the
prohibition party in Indiana, and since that
time has been a stanch supporter of the same.
In 1892 he was the nominee of the party for
DR. S. G. HASTINGS.
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coroner of Delaware county. February 3,
1870, Dr. Hastings was united in marriage
with Miss Edith Towell, daughter of Isaac
and EHzabeth (Cox) Towell, of Fountain
county, Ind. Mrs. Hastings died November
2, 1889, leaving four children — Alton P.,
Laura Ellen, Williard S. and Carrie Esther.
Dr. Hastings is a member of the Society of
Friends, of Muncie, being very active in both
church and Sunday school work. He has
served as president of the Adams county Sun-
day school union and of the District Sunday
school association, embracing the Sunday
schools of Wayne, Henry, Randolph and Del-
aware counties. Dr. Hastings is deservediy
popular with all the people with whom he is
brought in contact, not only in a professional
way, but as a friend and neighbor. The ca-
reer of Dr. Hastings, as a professional, has
been of the most flattering character, not only
from a financial point of view, but from a
scientific stand point. His reputation as an
exponent of the particular school to which he
belongs is widespread and exalted, and he may
with complacency look upon the long list of
patients his skill has brought him. His stand-
ing in society is commensurate with his stand-
ing as a physician.
^^TEPHEN HATHAWAY, M. D., de-
•^^^ ceased, one of the oldest and most
K^_^ experienced physicians and surgeons
of eastern Indiana, was born near Co-
lumbus, Ohio, August 1 , 1 8 1 9, and was a son
of Erastus and Mercy (Norton) Hathaway,
natives of Massachusetts. He was reared on
a farm, educated primarily in the common
schools, and began the study of medicine under
a private preceptor in Columbus, attended a
medical college at Cleveland, graduated, came
to Delaware county, Ind., in 1844, and prac-
ticed at Granville until the California gold fever
became rife in 1 849. He at once joined a com-
pany of some fifty Muncie and other Delaware
county people and went to the gold fields, where
he passed a year and did fairly well. On his
return he settled in Muncie in practice, and
was also for some years in partnership in the
drug business with John C. Helm. The doc-
tor was favored with a large practice, extend-
ing over a wide area, until about the close of
the civil war, when he retired to a farm of
thirty-three acres at what is now known as
Riverside. Of this he made a nursery and
fruit farm, and carried it on for several years,
closing out the nursery in 1888. He was a
man of great industry and perseverance, but
was stricken with paralysis, and died in April,
1 89 1, in his seventy-second year. His mar-
riage took place May 26, 1853, to Sarah Jar-
rett, daughter of Daniel Jarrett, for many years
a resident of Delaware county. This union
was favored with the birth of nine children, in
the following order: Charles, who died at the
age of eleven years; William, of Lafayette,
Colo. ; D. Jarrett, in the lumber business at
Topeka, Kan. ; May, wife of J. B. Ragan, of
Sidney, Neb.; Stanley, at home; Sherman, in
the stone business at Denver, Colo. ; Lydia,
stenographer, at Pittsburgh, Pa. ; Addie, a ste-
nographer, and Sallie, at home.
Of the old Hathaway homestead, thirty-one
acres constitute a part of the new and attrac-
tive addition to Muncie, known as Riverside.
It is laid out in wide streets, and forms one of
the most desirable and beautiful residence sub-
urbs of the city, is attracting the best class of
business men; possesses good natural drainage
and is underlaid with deep strata of gravel; is
in close proximity to the business portions of
the city, and is entirely free from factories and
other annoyances that mar the quiet peace and
repose of retired domesticity.
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^>^ EV. JACOB W. HEATH, was born
I /^T February 23, 1829, in Wayne county,
£ 9 Ind. , and is of English stock; his
great-grandfather, together with two
brothers, crossed the Atlantic, from.their Lon-
don home, and stopped in Maryland, where
the grandfather, Jacob Heath, was born and
reared; and, early in his life, removed to Guil-
ford county, N. C. , where Ralph Heath,
father of Jacob W. , was born, reared and mar-
ried to Miss Mary Tomlinson. After the birth
of three sons and one daughter — the daughter
dying in infancy — the parents decided to move
the young family to the wilds of Indiana, and
in October, 1828, they left their home in the
sunny south, crossing the mountains in the lit-
tle wagon, to Wayne county, Ind., where Mr.
Heath stopped with his family for one year.
During the summer of 1829 Ralph Heath came
to Delaware county, to enter land; less than
200 voters were in the county, and much of
the land, where the city of Muncie now stands
was congress land, subject to entry, at $1.25
per acre. But Mr. Heath finally located in
Salem township, five miles sonthwest of Mun-
cie; built a cabin, and brought his family
here December 25, 1829 — but one family liv-
ing nearer than the little village of Muncie-
town, five miles distant. The growling of
the bear, the scream of the panther, and the
howling of the wolf with all the loneliness of
this wilderness country, were what the father
and mother had to endure. The sons older
than Jacob W. were Albert, now of Hannibal,
Mo.; John W. , of Muncie, and the Rev.
James W. , deceased, who all shared in the
hardships of pioneer life with their father and
mother. The father was a christian man
and was among the first to open his cabin
to the early missionaries of the M. E.
church. This cabin was the preaching
place in the early settlement for years, and
this early training that Jacob W. received
from the early ministers and parents fixed him
in his religious convictions during life.
Jacob W. Heath remained with his parents
until of age attending the district schools dur-
ing the winter and working on the farm dur-
ing the summer. In 1848 and '49, he was a
student in the old Delaware county seminary.
In 1850, he was united in marriage to Miss
Rhoda A. Perdiue, daughter of the Rev. Abner
Perdiue, a pioneer minister, and an early
settler of Delaware county. Mr. Heath, at
the time of his marriage, was engaged in
teaching, but soon engaged in the business of
the farm, and continued in the same till 186S,
when he removed to Muncie, since when his
time has been taken up in the grocery busi-
ness, life insurance and real estate.
Mr. Heath joined the M. E. church when
sixteen years of age. He has filled the offices
of leader, steward, trustee. Sabbath school sup-
perintendent, exhorter, and for the last seven-
teen years, local minister. Mr. Heath became
a member of Delaware lodge, No. 46, Free &
Accepted Masons, in 1856, and is a strong be-
liever in the principles of that order. He has
been for many years a zealous workers in the
cause of temperance, and has been heard from
in almost every pulpit in the county and state.
He attended the constitutional amendment
case of the supreme court, in the city of Des
Moines, Iowa, in 1S83, and did effective work
there.
In politics, Mr. Heath is a republican, and
has been at all times in line with his party, and
taken an active part in all political campaigns
since i860. While Mr. Heath was not in the
army during the dark days of the war, there
was no man in the south part of the county,
where he at that time resided, who did more
for the support of the families of the men who
went to the front, according to his financial
ability. The fruits of J. W. Heath and wife's
marriage, have been six sons and two daugh-
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ters, namely: John B., Frederick W., Perry
S., Fletcher S. , Cyrus R. , Cassie E. and
Mary A., and one son, Arthur, deceased.
Mr. Heath calls to mind, the first death
and funeral, that occurred between the very
small village, of Muncietown and Middletown.
In December, 1833; was present at the funeral,
and saw the few early settlers deposit the
remains of the wife and mother in the silent
and new cemetery; this being the first one
laid to rest in what is know now as the Old
Heath cemetery.
'Srj'ULIUS A. HEINSOHN, proprietor of
M the Kirby house and one of the genial,
A w pleasant and hospitable hosts of Muncie,
is a native of Germany, born June 10,
1837, the son of Andrew and Martha (Drum-
mer) Heinsohn. He was reared and educated
in the country of his nativity, where he
remained until his eighteenth year, at which
time, October i, 1856, he came to the United
States, locating in Louisville, Ky. , where, until
1859, he was engaged as bookkeeper, and in
that year, in company with his brother, George
E. , also of Louisville, came to Muncie, Ind.,
and engaged in the manufacturing business,
which he continued until his return to Louis-
ville in 1 86 1. In that city Mr. Heinsohn again
became bookkeeper, in which capacity he con-
tinued without change until 1872, when he
returned to Muncie, Ind., and became proprie-
tor of the well known Kirby house, which,
under his management, has become one of the
favorite resorts of the traveling public. Since
taking charge of this hotel, Mr. Heinsohn has
twice rebuilt the house, and in its appoint-
ments and modern improvements it is now con-
sidered one of the most complete places of the
kind in the city. During his residence in
Muncie, Mr. Heinsohn has not been unmind-
ful of the city's material advancement, and he
has been a potent factor in many of the impor-
tant measures which have brought prosperity to
this part of the gas belt. He was one of the
organizers of the Muncie Natural Gas company,
and is a director and stockholder in the Muncie
Artificial Ice company, also a charter member
and one of the board of advisers of the Citi-
zens' Enterprise company. In politics Mr.
Heinsohn is an unswerving supporter of the
republican part}-, but has never sought pulitical
distinction, preferring to devote his energies to
his business. In business circles his presence
is always felt, and socially his integrity of
character has made him exceedingly popular
with all classes of his fellow citizens of Muncie.
Mr. Heinsohn was married November 8, 1866,
to Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Kirby, of
Muncie, and is . the father of two children,
namely: Thomas Kirby, the present captain of
the Muncie Fencibles, and Sarah Heinsohn.
Mr. Heinsohn and family are members of the
Episcopal church, belonging to the Muncie
congregation, in which he has served as ves-
tryman.
*W ^ H. HIGHLANDS.— In these times
1^^^ of modern invention and improve-
M. . r ment, so much of the comfort of
living is due to the plumber and gas
fitter that the business has become one of the
greatest interest and importance to all. The
efficient and capable business man whose
name introduces this sketch is a practical
plumber and gas fitter, and is also much
more — being one of the city's leading legisla-
tors and one of the most energetic and pro-
gressive among its well known business men.
H. H. Highlands was born in Carroll county,
Ohio, November 8, 1858, and is a son of Daniel
and Mary (Gregory) Highlands, both parents
natives of the same county and state. During
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the late war Daniel Highlands served his
country as private in the One Hundred and
Forty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, and died
in the year 1864.
H. H. Highlands received a practical edu-
cation in the public schools, and when eighteen
years of age engaged with the Alliance (Ohio)
Gas Light company, of which in a few years
he was made manager. In 1883 he accepted
a position with the American Water Works
and Guarantee company of Pittsburg, Pa.,
and built the gas works and the electric
plant, also of that city, and the water works
at Connellsville, Pa., and superintended the
construction of the gas plants at Muncie and
Marion, Ind. ; he then returned to Muncie and
for some years had sole charge of the con-
struction of the water and gas company's
plants. In 1887, in partnership with P. T.
Kirby, Mr. Highlands purchased the business
of the Muncie Plumbing company, which,
under the firm name of Highlands & Kirby,
continued until January i, 1891, when Mr.
Kirby retired and Mr. Highlands became sole
possessor. At that date he severed his con-
nection with the American Water Works and
Guarantee company, since which time he has
done an extensive wholesale business, and is
now the leading dealer in chandeliers, gas
fixtures, etc., in Muncie. He is prominent in
many ways in the city, being an important
member of the Masonic fraternity and a
charter member and one of the leading movers
and organizers of that important business as-
sociation, the Citizens' Enterprise company,
which has resulted so greatly to the benefit of
Muncie city and Delaware county. He was
one of the first to drill many of the gas wells
in the vicinity of Muncie, and to his energy,
perseverance and wise foresight is the city
largely indebted for its present position as the
leading city in the great Indiana gas belt.
Politically Mr. Highlands has been a po-
tent factor in the republican party of Delaware
county, and his efforts in behalf of the city
have been rewarded by his election to the
common council, of which body he is a lead-
ing spirit. He is a true guardian of the inter-
ests of the city, a man of clear cut ideas, keen
and thoughtful, and his career as a municipal
legislator proves him to be a true servant of
the people. He also served as chairman of
the judiciary committee in 1891, Mr. High-
lands was married in 1888 to Miss Margaret
H. Smith, daughter of M. C. Smith, Esq., of
Muncie, and has one child — Hubert Highlands.
Mrs. Highlands is a member of the Episcopal
church and a lady of culture, intelhgence and
fine social qualities. The family is much
esteemed in Munc'e, and move in the best
social circles in the city.
^'^EORGE NEWTON HIGMAN, of
■ ^\ Muncie, a popular real estate and in-
^lW surance agent, as well as secretary of
the Mutual Home & Savings associa-
tion, was born in Niles township, Delaware
county, Ind., August 23, 1856. His father, a
native of the state of Delaware, bore the
name of Alexander Higman, and was brought
to Delaware county by his parents. He was
educated in the common schools, and faithful-
ly helped to clear the home farm, which com-
prised 160 acres entered from the government.
Until his father's death, which occurred
August 23, 1855, with a younger brother he
aided in clearing this new home, and later
aided his widowed mother, effecting the most
satisfactory results to the family. In 186 1 he
removed to Albany, and in 1863 to Morriston
(now known as Parker), where he embarked
in the saw milling business, and was making
another success, when he was accidentally-
killed, July 18, 1864, being caught on the saw
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carriage while paying in a log. He had mar-
ried Miss Sarah Coulter, a daughter of Reese
and Rhoda (Pugh) Coulter, and the result of
the union was four boys, named as follows:
George N. , whose name heads this sketch, John
C, Arthur W., and Elmer E., all still living.
George N. Higman was but a lad of seven
years of age when he was left with his three
younger brothers and their widowed mother.
The family resided on a farm in Niles town-
ship, to which they had removed after the
father's death, and there George N. attended
school and worked for neighboring farmers
until his mother's marriage, two years later,
to William T. Hale, when they all moved to
a farm two and a half miles northwest of
Albany, where the step-father died when
George N. was fourteen years of age. On the
settlement of the estate the mother moved to
Blackford county and purchased a farm of
forty acres, and for two and a half years there
passed the time with her children; she then
sold out and bought property in Dunkirk,
where George N. worked at farm labor and
again attended school until he was qualified
to teach. For three terms he taught in Jay
county and then came to Muncie, Delaware
county, and engaged in the real estate busi-
ness, in which he has made so great a success
and to which he afterward added loans, in
December 1883. After the discovery of
natural gas he organized, in '889, the Mutual
Home Savings association, of which he has
been the secretary ever since. He is, also,
a member of the Standard Manufacturing
company, which is engaged in the production
of a very ingenious little invention for stretch-
ing and tacking floor carpets.
Mr. Higman was married September 13,
1 88 1, to Miss Martha A. Sullivan, daughter of
James A. and Margaret (Shaffer) Sullivan of
Jay county, Ind., and their three children
have been named, Paul, Homer and Ruth.
Since his residence in Muncie no person has
1 taken a more lively interest in its progress.
I and real estate has felt the effect of his in-
fluence from the time of his coming. From
the organization of the Real Estate exchange
he has been its secretary, and this fact alone
is indicative of his deep interest in the welfare
of his adopted city.
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BRANK HINES, one of the progressive
farmers of Centre township and son
of John R. and Abigail Hines, was
born in Delaware county, Ind., Janu-
860. He received a good education
common schools, remained with his
parents on the home farm until obtaining his
legal majority, and then engaged in agriculture
for himself, which vocation he has since
carried on with success and financial profit.
He purchased forty acres of land in 1881, and
subsequently added another forty tract, thus
making a comfortable home and one of the
best farms of its size in the township of
Centre. Mr. Hines believes in the dignity of
his calling and is one of the representative
men of his class in Delaware county. Intelli-
gent, energetic, and possessed of good busi-
ness ability, he has made a success of life,
and he occupies a deservedly high place in the
estimation of his many friends and fellow citi-
zens, all of whom respect him for his many
sterling qualities of manhood. He takes an
active interest in matters political, and since
his twenty-first year has exercised the elective
franchise in behalf of the republican party.
Mr. Hines was married April 4, 1^77, to
Lucy, the accomplished daughter of Caleb and
Rachael Armitage. Mrs. Hines was born
June 29, 1 86 1. Her parents, Caleb Armitage
and Rachael McDonnald, both natives of
Ohio, were married in Centre township, Del-
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aware county, Ind. , in the year 1858. To
Mr. and Mrs. Hines have been born the fol-
lowing children: Ina, Claude, Berl, Grace,
John, Charles, Walter, and Blanche.
'^j'OHN R. HINES is a native of Indiana,
m born in the county of Randolph on the
^1 8th day of June, 1828. His father,
John Hines, was born in North Caro-
lina, in which state his ancestors settled at a
period antedating the struggle for American
independence. Many years ago, John Hines
emigrated to Highland county, Ohio, where
he married Rachael Branson, thence, some-
time after that event, moved to Randolph coun-
ty, Ind., where he lived until 1830, at which
time he became a resident of Delaware coun-
ty, settling in Perry township, where he made
his home for a limited period. Subsequently,
he entered 120 acres of land in the township
of Delaware, where he cleared a good farm
from the woods, and five years later sold the
same and purchased the farm in Perry town-
ship upon which he had previously settled. In
1839, he moved to Monroe township and was
an honored resident of the same until his
death, which occurred in 1865; his wife died
previous to that time, the date of her demise
being June, 1838. John and Rachael Hines
reared a large family, only three of whom are
living at this time, namely: Nolan, of Clarke
county, Iowa; John R., and William, who re-
sides in Kansas. The names of those deceased
are as follows: Buella, Robert, Ellen, Reece,
Elizabeth, Sarah, Lucinda, John and Rachael.
John Hines was originally a whig in his politi-
cal belief, and afterwards became a supporter
of the republican party. He subscribed to
the Universalist creed and believed in the final
restoration and redemption of the entire
human family.
John R. Hines spent the years of his youth
and early manhood amid the stirring scenes of
pioneer times, and, on attaining his majority,
began life for himself as a farmer. He con-
tinued to till the soil until his twenty-third
year, at which time, in the fall of 185 1, he
joined the vast concourse of gold seekers, and
went to California, via the Panama route,
and remained for a period of three years, en-
gaged in mining. He was one the few whose
efforts in this direction were crowned with suc-
cess, and after accumulating a handsome fort-
une, he returned to Delaware county, and for
one year thereafter was engaged in general
merchandising. Since 1856 he has devoted
his attention entirely to agricultural pursuits
and stock-raising, and his success in the voca-
tions has been very marked, and he now occu-
pies a very conspicuous place among the repre-
sentative farmers of the township of Centre.
He ownes 200 acres of valued and highly im-
proved land not far from the county seat, and
in addition to tilling the soil, he has given a
great deal of attention to the breeding and rais-
ing of horses.
Mr. Hines was married December 14, 1856,
in Smithiield, this county, to Abigail Mans-
field, who was born January 10, 1834, the
daughter of Charles and Hannah (Shaffer)
Mansfield, natives of Ohio, and early pioneers
of the county of Delaware. The wedded life
of Mr. and Mrs. Hines was blessed with eight
children: Charles, a resident of Muncie; Han-
nah, wife of O. McConnell; Frank, also a res-
ident of Centre; George, who lives in Kansas;
Elnore, wife of E. Kennedy; Henry R., de-
ceased; Lucy J.; Mark, deceased, and Wil-
liam, of Muncie. The mother of these chil-
dren died in May, 1888, and an appropriate
monument marks her last resting place in the
city cemetery of Muncie. Mr. Hines has a
beautiful home, the abode of plenty and hos-
pitality. He is a man of intelligence, broad
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Mrs. John R. Nines
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and liberal views, and anionj; the well-to-do
citizens of Centre township he occupies a
deservedly conspicuous place. He is a repub-
lican in politics, but not a partisan in the sense
of seeking ofifice.
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ILLIAM E. HITCHCOCK, one of
the leading manufacturers of Mun-
cie, and a gentleman well known
and highly regarded by all with
whom he comes in contact, is a native of the
state of Connecticut, born on the 30th of
January, 1859, in the city of Meriden. He is
the elder of two children born to E. A. and
Mary A. (Greene) Hitchcock, and was reared
to manhood in Ashtabula, Ohio, to which city
the family removed in his childhood, and in
the schools of which he received a practical
English education. Leaving his books at the
age of fifteen, he accepted the important po-
sition of teller in an Ashtabula bank, the
duties of which he discharged in a very credit-
able manner; and subsequently, from 1876 to
1 879, was bookkeeper for the Meriden Bri-
tannia company, of Meriden, Conn. In the
latter year he severed his connection with the
above company, and, returning to Ashtabula,
embarked in manufacturing, becoming associ-
ated with his father in the manufacture of
skewers, etc., an enterprise which was con-
ducted very profitably in that city until the
removal of the business, in 1884, to Muncie,
this state.
On locating in the latter place, Mr. Hitch-
cock, in partnership with A. L. and J. C.
Johnson, organized the Muncie Skewer com-
pany, for the manufacture of butchers' skew-
ers, flag sticks, trunk slats, dowels, etc., etc.,
an enterprise which has proven eminently sat-
isfactory, the factory at this time having a
daily capacity of over one million skewers, the
product in the several other lines being in
proportion, for all of which there is a great
demand in the markets of the United States
and other countries. As sole manager of this
large and important enterprise, Mr. Hitchcock
has displayed rare executive ability, and his
judgment on all matters of business policy
pertaining to his manufacturing and other
interests is seldom, if ever, called in question
by his business associates. In addition to
looking after the various interests of the firm
with which he is identified, Mr. Hitchcock is
prominently connected with a number of pub-
lic enterprises, being a director in the Muncie
Savings & Loan company. He holds a simi-
lar position with the Industrial Savings &
Loan association, and is also a director of the
Merchants' National bank, of Muncie; presi-
dent and treasurer of the Muncie Transfer
company; and represents his party, the repub-
lican, on the Metropolitan Police board of the
city.
As a business man he is zealous and am-
bitious, and successful in the fullest sense in
which that term is usually accepted; but no
act inconsistent with the strictest honor and
integrity has ever been imputed to him. Ab-
sorbed in the prosecution of his various enter-
prises, he still finds time to devote to political
matters, being, as already noted, a republican,
in the deliberations of which party, in Dela-
ware county, he has been a potent factor.
Fraternally he is a member of the A. F. & A.
M., and in the social circles few stand higher
in the estimation of the best people of Muncie.
The marriage of Mr. Hitchcock was solem-
nized September 30, 1885, with Miss Estelle
Morehouse, of Muncie, a union blessed with
the birth of two children: Edward H. and
Fred W. , the latter of whom, a most interest-
ing boy, was spared to his parents until Octo-
ber 4, 1892, when he was called away, aged
three years, six months and eighteen days.
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>T-»ACOB R. HUMMEL, manufacturer and
M dealer in fine confectionery, and pro-
A 1 prietor of the leading bakery of Muncie,
is a native of Indiana, born in Con-
nersville, Fayette county, March lo, 1861.
His parents were George J. and Mary (Smith)
Hummel, who brought him to Delaware
county when but six months of age — conse-
quently nearly all of his life has been passed
within the present limits of Muncie. He
acquired a good English education in the pub-
lic schools, and, at the age of fifteen, went to
Indianapolis and learned the confectioner's
trade, which he worked at there two years and
four months, and in which he became unusu-
ally skillful. On attaining his legal majority,
he became a partner with his father in the con-
fectionery business, which relationship existed
for six years, when he became sole proprietor,
and has since carried on the trade with encour-
aging success. As a manufacturer of fine con-
fectionery, etc. , Mr. Hummel easily leads the
trade in Muncie, and the product of his bakery,
consisting of bread, crackers, all kinds of fine
and fancy cakes, such as are turned out by
first-class establishments, have a large sale in
Muncie and neighboring cities and towns. He
manufactures ice cream for the retail and
wholesale trades, and his ice cream parlor, by
far the finest in the city, is extensively patron-
ized, and has become a popular and favorite
resort during the season when delicious refresh-
ments are looked upon as almost a necessity.
Mr. Hummel possesses fine business qualities,
is thoroughly familiar with every detail of the
trade to which he has devoted so much time
and attention, and his place on east Main
street is one of the well known business houses
of the city. Mr. Hummel is in the prime of
life, has before him a future of much promise,
and by judicious management, he has already
accumulated a comfortable portion of this
world's goods. He is a prominent member of
the Odd Fellows fraternity, belonging to the
subordinate lodge, encampment, canton and
Rebecca branch, and he is also an active
worker in the Pythian order, both in the sub-
ordinate lodge and the uniform rank. He is a
Mason in good standing and has risen high in
the order of Red Men, being one of the lead-
ers of the subordinate lodge, and has also
taken the Pocahontas degree. Politically Mr.
Hummel is a democrat, but he prefers to give
his entire attention to his business instead of
seeking official position at the hands of his fel-
low citizens. Eminently sociable, he is a
favorite with all, and it is but justice to accord
him a prominent place with the popular young
men of Muncie.
BRANK G. JACKSON, M. D., one of
the most efficient members of the
medical brotherhood of Muncie, is a
native of Delaware county, Ind. ,
born November 25, 1858, the son of William
N. and Sarah (Collins) Jackson. The _ father
was a native of Greenup county, Ky. . and a
descendant of an old Virginia family which
emigrated from Loudoun county, that state, to
Ohio many years ago. The mother of the
doctor was born in Delaware county, Ind.,
to which part of the state William N.
Jackson had come with his parents in
the year 1844. Thomas Jackson, the doctor's
grandfather, was one of the pioneers of Mun-
cie, in which city William N. now lives re-
tired from active life. William N. Jackson
was a soldier in the late war, entering the
army, in 1862, as a member of company E,
Nineteenth Indiana infantry, with which he
served until the cessation of hostilities. His
regiment formed a part of the army of the
Potomac, and took part in all the Virginia
campaigns under Gens. Meade, Hooker, Mc-
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Clellan, Burnside and Grant, and participated
in forty-nine battles, in all of which Mr. Jack-
son distinguished himself as a brave and gal-
lant soldier. At this time he is adjutant of
of Williams post, G. A. R. , in the organiza-
tion of which he was a leading spirit, and in
politics he wields an influence for the republi-
can party. Religiously he is an active mem-
ber of the Methodist church, as was also his
wife, who died in the year 1879.
Dr. Jackson is the third in a family of
eight children, and was educated in the Mun-
cie schools, graduating from the city high
school in 1878. His early inclinations led
him to select the medical profession for a life
work, and he began preparation for the same
in 1876 with Dr. H. C. Winans, under whose
able instruction he pursued his studies for
some time with most encouraging results.
Subsequently he enlarged his professional
knowledge by attendance at the Ohio Medical
college, Cincinnati, in which he completed the
prescribed course, graduating in 1882. With
a thorough knowledge of his profession he
entered upon the practice of the same, imme-
diately after his graduation, at Mt. Summit,
Henry county, Ind. , where he remained six
years, at the expiration of which period he
removed to Muncie, where he has since resided
and where he now enjoys a large and lucra-
tive practice, yearly becoming better known
and more appreciated. The doctor has met
with much more than ordinary success in his
chosen calling, and stands deservedly high
among his professional brethern of Muncie and
Delaware county. He keeps fully abreast of
the times in all matters pertaining to his pro-
fession, is a close student and wide reader,
and his large experience has won for him a
prominent place in the medical fraternity of
eastern Indiana. The doctor is a member of
the Delaware County Medical society, and is
now serving as secretary of the same. He
was complimented by an offer of its presiden-
tial ofifice, but was compelled to decline the
honor on account of professional duties, which
required his close and constant attention. He
is also a member of the Delaware District soci-
ety, the State Medical society and the
American Medical association, to the
last named of which he has been chosen
delegate a number of times. His connection
with the Masonic order is very prominent,
having served in different official capacities at
different times, and in 1891 was elected
worshipful master of Delaware lodge. No. 46.
He is considered one of the brightest blue
lodge Masons in Muncie, and is widely and
favorably known in the order throughout the
state. The doctor is a charter member of
Walterhouse camp, S. of V., and was also an
original member of New Castle lodge, S. of
v., in the organization of which he took an
active part. For the past two years he has
been surgeon of the Indiana division, and in
1890 was the accredited delegate at large for
the state of Indiana to the national command-
ery, which convened at St. Joseph, Mo. In
addition to the above fraternal orders. Dr.
Jackson is also a member of Twa Twa tribe
of Red Men, in which he is as active as in the
other societies with which he is so prominently
identified.
Politically the doctor is a republican, and
manifests a lively interest in public affairs.
He has been successful financially, having by
close attention to his profession succeeded in
accumulating a valuable property, his real
estate holdings in Muncie being considerable.
In 1892 he was made health officer, being the
first official of the kind in the city, and he has
since discharged the duties of the position
with commendable fidelity. In 1883 Dr.
Jackson was united in marriage with Miss
Jesse Ice, daughter of E. T. Ice, of Mt. Sum-
mit, Ind., to which union two children have
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been born, Lola J. and Sarah R. The family
are members of the First Baptist church and
are among the esteemed residents of Muncie,
where they enjoy the respect and esteem of a
large circle of friends.
QILTON JAMES, M. D., late a prom-
inent physician of Muncie, was
born March 4, 1836, near the city
of Greenfield, Ross county, Ohio,
and was one of fourteen children born to
Reuben and Mary James. Eight of these
children are living at this time, five brothers
and three sisters. Dr. James was reared on a
farm and acquired, during his minority, a fair
education, and before reaching manhood's
estate entered the office of Dr. Milton Dun-
lap, an eminent physician of eastern Ohio,
with whom he began the study of medicine.
After a thorough course of reading, he entered
the Ohio Medical college, from which well
known institution he graduated in the year
1859. After completing his medical course he
returned to the office of Dr. Dunlap, with
whom he effected a co-partnership in the prac-
tice of his profession. It was during this
time, and before going into the army, that the
doctor passed through a severe spell of sick-
ness, which was the cause of much suffer-
ing and distress in later years. After recover-
ing his health. Dr. James enlisted, in Decem-
ber, 1863, as surgeon, and was assigned to the
Eighth division, Mississippi squadron, with
headquarters on the United States war ship,
Brilliant. He continued in the service until
November 20, 1865, when he was honorably
discharged and returned to his former home in
Ohio. After a short visit among friends and
the scenes of his boyhood days, a trip was
taken throughout the west, during which he
made a visit to Muncie, where several acquaint-
ances of his had previously settled. It was
while making this visit that he concluded to
open an office in Muncie, and in the spring of
1866 his shingle, bearing the inscription,
" Doctor M. James," was tacked on his office
door. In the following year, although a
stanch democrat, he had so won the esteem
and confidence of the people that he was
elected coroner of the county, which position
he held for two years. He also served the
people as county physician for a term of years,
and was a member of the city council for some
time, having been elected from a republican
ward.
In the year 1874 Dr. James was elected,
by the Indiana legislature, as one of the
trustees of the Deaf and Dumb asylum of
the state, and was again elected in 1876
and 1880, serving continuously in that ca-
pacity for a period of ten years, eight years
of which time he was treasurer of the
board. No breath of suspicion was ever
breathed against his honesty, integrity, or
capability, and when he servered his con-
nection with the asylum, in 1884, the record
made was without spot or blemish. Dr.
James was always regarded an earnest and
hard working democrat, and he served his
party in Delaware county for twenty years as
chairman of the county central committee,
and only relinquished the position at his own
request. He was continued in party work,
however, as one of the election commissioners,
which position he held at the time of his
death. After the election of Pres. Cleve-
land, 1884, at the request of friends. Dr.
James became a candidate for commissioner
of pensions, his claim being pressed by many
old soldiers of the state. He failed, however,
of the appointment, but was offered by the
president a deputy commissionership, which
he declined. He was afterwards tendered the
Muncie postoffice appointment and later a
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position in the interior department at Washing-
ton, but saw fit to dedine both these honors.
In poHtics, the doctor was a devoted ad-
herent to his party and a recognized leader,
and while he took a prominent part in all
political contests, yet his genial and forgiving
disposition won confidence, esteem and
friendship, that set aside all feelings of party
differences, thus marking him as a man of big
heart and generous disposition. In his pro-
fession, Dr. James stood high as a successful
practitioner, and at the time he was taken
sick he was one of the oldest physicians in the
city. It was his devotion to his patients,
whether rich or poor, that acquired for him a
reputation unconfined to classes, and while
possessed of a large practice, yet his generous
disposition was such that he never acquired
more than a comfortable competency in a
quarter-century in his profession. He was a
charter member of the DeEmber tribe of Red
Men, in the deliberations of which order he
always took an active and prominent part.
Dr. James was united in marriage to Martha
M. Kennedy, youngest daughter of the late
Hon. Andrew Kennedy, on the 29th of Octo-
ber, 1867. Andrew Kennedy was a member
of congress from Indiana from 1841 to 1847,
and in the latter year received the democratic
caucus nomination of the Ind'ana legislature
for United States senator, but died before
being elected to that body. Dr. and Mrs.
James had born to them four children: Philip,
Pearl, Ned and Fanny, the two former dying
in childhood. Ned was born August 31, 1876,
and Fannie July 6, 1880, and both survive to
mourn with the mother and wife the great loss
of husband and father, a trial and sorrow that
none can know except where like afflictions
have been sustained. Dr. James died on the
1st day of April, 1891, and his death was felt
as an almost irreparable loss by all classes in
the city which had so long been his home.
HBBOTT L. JOHNSON, one of the
prominent and successful business men
of Muncie, Ind., and one who has
been largely instrumental in develop-
ing her resourses, was born in Herkimer
county, N. Y. , August 26, 1852, a son of Henry
I. and Eliza (Ferguson) Johnson, both parents
natives of the same state. Mr. Johnson, Sr. ,
was engaged in agricultural pursuits in New
York, but subsequently, in 1864, removed to
Ashtabula, Ohio, at which date he retired
from active business life. In 1881 the family
once more removed, locating in Muncie, Ind. ,
in which city the father departed this life in
1886, but where his widow still resides. Mrs.
Johnson is a devout member of the Methodist
church and has raised a family of eight
children, the subject of this mention being the
seventh in order of birth.
Abbott L. Johnson was reared in Ashta-
bula, Ohio, from the age of twelve to twenty-
one, and received his education in the public
schools. On attaining his majority he started
in business for himself, locating at Bluffton,
Ind., where he engaged in the timber trade.
He had previously been engaged with the
Bentwood works at Ashtabula, and he located
at Bluffton for the purpose of assisting in
starting a plant in that place, which was
afterwards disposed of to J. H. Smith & Co.,
now of Muncie. Soon after starting the Bent-
wood works he engaged in the lumber busi-
ness, remaining in Bluffton four years, at the
end of which time he removed to Montpelier,
associating with himself Mr. J. T. Arnold,
doing business under the firm name and style
of A. L. Johnson & Co. , for seven years, two
years of which Mr. Johnson spent in Montpe-
lier. He then engaged extensively in the lum-
ber business, forming a partnership of seven
years' duration with J. T. Arnold, which firm
soon became widely and favorably known in
business circles throughout the United States.
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On locating in Muncie, in 1878, he erected a
lumber mill, and, in partnership with Mr.
Arnold, operated two mills under the firm
name A. L. Johnson & Co., until 1885, at
which time he purchased the entire interest
and became associated with his brother, J. C.
Johnson, and the firm thus constituted still
exists, being one of the leading enterprises of
the city.
In 1883, Mr. Johnson, in partnership with
Mr. W. F. Hitchcock, engaged in the manu-
facture of skewers, etc., and they now do an
extensive business under the firm name of the
Muncie Skewer company. Mr. Johnson is one
of the principal stockholders of the Muncie
Natural Gas company, being vice-president of
the same, and is a stockholder in the Muncie
Water Works company, the Conger Land
company and the Indiana Iron company. In
addition to the above enterprises, he is identi-
fied with the Citizens' Enterprise company, in
the organization of which he was a potent
factor; is president of the Live Poultry Trans-
portation company, of Chicago, which owns
one hundred and fifty cars for the transporta-
tion of poultry, and is also interested as a
stockholder in the Ashtabula Water Works
company, of Ashtabula, Ohio. Beside the
flourishing and important enterprises enumer-
ated, Mr. Johnson, in partnership with George
F. McCulloch, is largely interested in real
estate transactions, owning Johnson's first and
second additions to Muncie, also being inter-
ested in the Gray's addition, one of the very
best in the city.
Throughout his long and successful busi-
ness career Mr. Johnson has been actuated by
the most honorable principles, and his success,
indeed very flattering, is the result of carefully
planned purposes and dignified business trans-
actions. In business circles he enjoys much
more than a local reputation, and to such men
is due the credit of promoting the growth and
prosperity of the enterprising cities of the gas
belt, of which Muncie may be taken as a type.
In his political affiliations Mr. Johnson is a
republican. In the Masonic order he stands
high, having become a member of the chap-
ter, commandery, Scottish rite and of the
Mystic Shrine, and he not only bears the
honors of these degrees, but his daily life is a
practical exemplification of their precepts.
Mr. Johnson was married, in 1872, to Miss
Florence Merriman, daughter of Chas. Merri-
man of Ashtabula, Ohio; a family of three
children has blessed this union, namely: J.
Edgar, Ray P. and Florence Grace. The
family are members of the First Baptist
church of Muncie, in which Mr. Johnson holds
the offices of deacon and trustee. He was
chairman of the building committee of the
new church and contributed liberally, both in
time and money, to the successful completion
of the beautiful edifice in which the congrega-
tion now worships.
>^OHN C.JOHNSON.— The thriving city
M of Muncie, Ind. , is very proud of the
A 1 long list of prosperous and successful
business men who have shown such an
enterprising and progressive spirit, and have
caused the advancement of the place beyond
all reasonable expectations. Among those who
have largely contributed to the progress of the
city, John C. Johnson deserves extended
mention. He was born in Albany county, N.
Y., May 21, 1843, son of Henry I. and Ellax
(Ferguson) Johnson.
At the age of seven years, he accompanied
his parents to Herkimer county, N. Y. , where
he received a common school education, and at
the age of seventeen he enlisted in the Union
army, entering company K, Forty-fourth New
York, known as the "Ellsworth Avengers,"
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and served one year. Being wounded at the
battle of Hanover Court House, he was sent
to the Albany, N. Y., hospital, and from
there to the Lexington Avenue hospital, in
New York city, from which he was discharged,
after recovery. His school days having been
so rudely interrupted, he felt the advisability
of continuing his studies, consequently he en-
tered the Boys' academy at Albany, N. Y. ,
where he continued for two years, making
rapid progress in the meantime. Following
this, he took a course at Bryant & Stratton's
Commercial college, and then entered the
quartermaster's department at City Point, Va.,
under Captain C. E. Jones, in which capacity
he continued until the close of the war.
The next business which Mr. Johnson
undertook was a clerkship with the lumber
firm of H. W. Sage & Co . of Albany, N. Y.,
continuing for fifteen years with the same
house (with the exception of a short time
when he acted as bookkeeper for D. Weidman
& Co. , .wholesale grocers) and thus obtained a
thorough knowledge of the lumber business in
all of its details. In 1882, he removed to
Bridgeport, Conn., and became one of the
organizers of the Bridgeport Lumber company,
and was made secretary and treasurer of the
same. He sold his interests in that concern
in 1884, and purchased an interest in the firm
of A. L. Johnson & Co., of Muncie, moving
to this city in that year and immediately be-
coming interested in public matters. He was
one of the organizers of the Muncie Skewer
company, and in 1891 engaged in the manu-
facture of mineral paints and felt roofing,
which business was placed in a stock company
organized in 1892 and known as the Muncie
Paint & Roofing company, of which he has
since acted as president. He was formerly a
stockholder in the Indiana Bridge company,
but sold his interest in that in 189 1, and is now
a stockholder and one of the prime movers in
the Live Poultry Stock Car company, and is
also largely interested in real estate, particu-
larly in the Johnson and McCulloch additions
to the city of Muncie. He is also stockholder
and director in the Farmers' National bank
and the same in the Delaware County Building,
Savings & Loan association. Mr. Johnson is
a representative type of that substantial class
of business men who, in a great measure,
mold the welfare of the country, for upon the
efforts of such citizens depend, in a large
degree, the vital interests of the people.
Actuated by the loftiest motives, he has ever
conducted his transactions in an honorable
manner, in consequence of which his reputa-
tion in business circles is that of an upright
and dignified christian gentleman.
Politically, Mr. Johnson is a republican,
and has served as a member of the city coun-
cil for the past four years, in which body he
has been chairman of the finance, street, light,
and a member of the sewer and drainage com-
mittees. Fraternally, Mr. Johnson is a mem-
ber of the A. F. & A. M., chapter and com-
mandery, and a member of the George S.
Dawson post, No. 63, G. A. R., of Albany,
N. Y.
In 1873, Mr. Johnson and Miss Martha J.
Hutchison, daughter of David Hutchison, of
Albany, N. Y. , were united in the holy bonds
of wedlock, and one child, Mary E., has been
born to their union. He and wife are active
members of the First Presbyterian church, of
Muncie, of which Mr. Johnson is a trustee
and member of the building coniinittee.
^^^EORGE R. JONES, one the ener-
■ Q\ getic men of Muncie, dealer in gen-
, ^^^W eral groceries, is a native of this city,
I and dates his birth from October 3,
I 1858. His father, Thomas Jones, was born
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in Greene county, Ohio, March, 1828; married,
in 1850, Eliza Coffin, and, immediately
thereafter located in Muncie and engaged in
coopering, which trade he followed the greater
part of his life. He is now living a life of
retirement in North View, Muncie, and can
easily recall the time when this flourishing
city was but a country town of a few hundred
inhabitants. He is a democrat in politics,
and a member of the Methodist Protestant
church; his wife belongs to the Christian
church, and they are both highly regarded by
their many friends and neighbors in Muncie.
George R. Jones received his educational
training in the country schools of Centre town-
ship, Delaware county, and, before attaining
his majority, learned the trade of coopering
with his father, and became quite a skilled
workman. He followed his chosen calling un-
til his twenty-second year, and then accepted
a clerkship in the grocery and feed store of J.
P. Adamson, of Muncie, in which capacity he
continued for a period of eight years, acquiring
a thorough knowledge of every detail of the
business in the meantime. Subsequently, in
partnership with his employer, Mr. Adamson,
he purchased the property on Walnut street
now owned by Gilpin & Whetsel, and for five
years sold groceries very successfully. In
1 89 1 he moved to the corner of Howard and
Liberty streets, where he purchased a lot and
erected a comfortable and commodious store
room, which is well stocked with a full line of
choice groceries, notions, etc., and has since
done a very comfortable and safe business. In
fact, Mr. Jones is a successful tradesman, con-
sults the wishes of his numerous customers,
and always keeps on hand a full line of gro-
ceries, etc., found in first class establishments
of the kind. His store is well patronized, and
Mr. Jones is certainly entitled to great credit
for the active part he has taken in the com-
mercial and industrial developement of Mun-
cie. He is what may truthfully be termed an
enterprising business man, and his popularity
has for years been a matter of comment
among his fellow tradesmen of the city. Mr.
Jones was married February 16, 1888, to Mag-
gie McConnel, a native of Delaware county,
Ind., daughter of David and Christina (Saun-
ders) McConnel. Mr. and Mrs. Jones live in
a beautiful home on Liberty street and they
have a great many friends in Muncie. Mr.
Jones is a democrat in poHtics and a member
of the Pythian fraternity; Mrs. Jones is a com-
municant of the Christian church.
*w * EVI J. JONES, general contractor,
I C Muncie, Ind., was born in Owen
[ ^ county, Ind., on a farm, January 23,
1847, and is a son of Warren and
Sarah (Stauffer) Jones, the former a native of
Virginia, and the latter of Pennsylvania.
When Levi J. was a lad of fifteen, the family
settled on a farm in Randolph county, Ind.,
on which he was reared until reaching man-
hood. At his majority, he became owner of a
farm in Washington township, Randolph
county, on which he lived until 1883, when he
sold out and moved to Muncie, Delaware
county, where he teamed for two years, and
then began taking contracts for street improve-
ments, cellar excavations, and other work of
like character, including the City, Anthony,
Ball and Opera House blocks. Young & Kess-
ler's, Darnell's, Wachtell's excavations, and
those for the public schools; Maring Hart
glass works; crushed stone on Ohmer avenue,
Blaine, Tenth, Walnut, Hackley and Main
streets, Kirby avenue and many others; side-
walks on Berlin street; constructed the McCul-
loch boulevard and all the principal streets in
Whitely's first and second additions; has em-
ployed from fifteen to twenty men, run six
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teams of his own and hired ten to forty others.
He has planned and built his own handsome
residence on west Jackson street, and has also
had erected five houses on five acres of ground
(Ml west Main street. In j-ears gone by he also
had a contract for several thousand cross-ties
for the railroad from Richmond to Portland,
and, later, a contract with the Grand Rapids &
Indiana road for a hundred and fifty cords per
month for two years.
The marriage of Mr. Jones took place, in
1 87 1, in Randolph county, to Miss Mary A.
Wood (sister of W. H. H. Wood, city engi-
neer), a native of Richmond, Ind. To this
union have been born eight children, vi^: Nel-
lie, Jessie (died at eighteen months), Walter,
Frances, Thomas, Clara, Minnie and Ruby.
The parents of Mr. Jones came to Indiana
with their parents, located in Wayne county,
moved to Owen, and then to Randolph coun-
ty. The father is now seventy-three years of
age and the mother seventy. They have had
born to them eleven children, viz: Melvina
(Mrs. Hinsnaw), died at the age of thirty;
Levi J. ; John Henry, farmer of Randolph
county; Edmond, farmer of Jay county;
■Jacob, teacher in Muncie; Granville, farmer in
Randolph county; Lizzie, at home, unmarried;
Ruth Ellen, wife of Mr. Duke, farmer of
Wayne county; Herod, painter, Cheyenne,
Wyo. ; Hannah (Bryant), whose husband is a
farmer in Randolph county, and Sarah, wife
of a farmer of Wayne county, Ind.
Mr. Jones has acquired an enviable reputa-
tion as a contractor, gives the strongest secur-
ity for the faithful performance of his work,
in\ariably makes his promises good, and does
his work in the best manner possible and
always in accordance with the specifications in
every respect, and is always promptly on time.
His name stands without a blemish both as a
business man and a citizen, and his position in
society is all that could be desired.
•"V'TEPHENC. KEESLING, proprietor
•^^^ of an establishment for the manufac-
^^ y ture of vulcanized rubber roofing, one
of the well known enterprises of Mun-
cie, is a native of Delaware county, Ind., born
February 2, 1850, son of Martin and Coressal
Keesling, well known residents. Mr. Keesling's
boyhood days were spent amid the routine of
farm labor until his seventeenth year, and he
received an education in the common schools,
which he attended at intervals until attaining
his majority. He remained with his parents
until his twenty. first year, at which time he
began life for himself, working for a short
time at different occupations, and then turned
his attention to the mercantile business, which
he carried on for a limited period in Muncie.
Later he was interested in different enter-
prises, and in 1886 went to California, where,
for four years, he was overseer of a marble
quarry, in which he also purchased an inter-
est. At the end of the time noted, he re-
turned to Indiana, and, for one year thereafter
was engaged in merchandising in the city of
Anderson, and then opened a merchant tailor-
ing establishment in Muncie, which business he
carried on until the early part of 1892. In that
year he began the manufacture of the well
known composition, vulcanized rubber roofing,
which he still carries on, and which, as already
stated, has become one of tne well known and
popular enterprises of Muncie. Mr. Keesling's
business is already of large proportions and
the permancy of his establishment in Muncie
is already an assured fact. He has a large pat-
ronage the city and the product of his factory
is being quite extensively introduced through-
out the United States and elsewhere.
Mr. 'Keesling is an earnest supporter of the
republican party and a prominent member of
the order of Red Men. He was married in
Muncie to Catharine M. Eber, daughter of
Henry Eber. One child was born to this
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union — Ray, deceased — and Mrs. Keesling de-
parted this life June i8, 1891.
*w - ^ ENRY J. KELLER, so prominent
1^^^ among the self made men of the gas
^ , * belt of Indiana, was born August 15,
1 86 1, in Winchester, Randolph coun-
ty. His father, George Godfried Keller, was
born in Wurtemberg, Germany, June 8, 1827,
came to the United States in 1852, and located
in Bucyrus, Ohio, where he met and married
Elizabeth Kayser. After spending- two years
in Bucyrus, Mr. Keller removed to Winches-
ter, Ind. , where he was engaged in the boot
and shoe business until the spring of 1869, at
which date he embarked in the retail grocery
trade. In 1883 he retired from business and
is now spending his days in the city of Win-
chester. George G. Keller has been an active
man of affairs and has borne a conspicuous
part in the material developement of the city
in which he resides, owning considerable prop-
erty, including residences and two business
blocks. He has been a leading member of the
German Evangelical church for a number of
years, is a geat reader, and ranks among the
most intelligent and progressive men of the
county of Randolph.
Henry J. Keller was rear-ed in Winchester
and spent his youthful years alternately in the
city and on the farm. A common school edu-
cation and the practical knowledge gained in
his father's store ended in the development of
an aptitude for mercantile pursuits, and while
still young he became a clerk for a dry goods
and clothing firm in Winchester. Subse-
quently he was similarly employed with var-
ious business houses of that city, and in Janu-
ary, 1888, he came to Muncie and entered into
partnership with George W. Bliss, of Indian-
apolis, in the retail clothing trade, opening a
large stock of goads in the New Anthony block
on Walnut street. Under the efficient man-
agement of Mr. Keller, his partner being on
the road as traveling salesman the greater part
of the time, the business grew and prospered,
and in time a new and more commodious
apartment suitable to the increasing demands
of the trade was procured in the Little block.
As a business man, Mr. Keller has won a con-
spicious place among the successful retail
dealers of Muncie, and his place contains one
of the largest and most complete stocks of the
kind in the city. He began life, if not in the
field of adversity, at least comparitively un-
aided and dependent almost wholly upon self
support, his capital consisting of a full share
of brain power, energy and an inbred determi-
nation to succeed. Personally Mr. Keller is
very popular, eminently sociable, and, in every
respect, a kind and courteous gentleman.
He belongs to the B. P. O. E. , F. & A. M.
and K. of P., holding official position in the
former order; and he was a leading spirit in
the organization of the Ball Business college
of Muncie, of which he was made treasurer at
the time of incorporation.
The marriage of Mr. Keller and Miss Edna
Haynes, daughter of Jesse G. and Matilda
Haynes, was solemnized on the 2nd day of
April, 1885; three children gladden the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Keller, namely: Esther,
aged five years; Nellie, aged three, and Paul
G. , an infant at this writing.
V^^ENERAL WILLIAM HARRISON
mQ\ KEMPER, M. D., is a native of
^lM Indiana, born in Rush county, Decem-
ber 16, 1839. His parents, Arthur
S. and Patience (Bryant) Kemper, were na-
tives of Kentucky and of German descent.
The doctor's early life was similar in nearly
G. W. H. KEMPER, M. D.
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every respect to that of the majoritj- of coun-
try boys, having been reared on the farm,
with the rugged usages of which he early be-
came famihar. His father died in 1849, and
at the early age of ten years he was compelled
to rely very largely upon his own rescources.
During the succeeding seven years, he was
employed in tiUing the home farm, attending
the common schools at intervals in the mean-
time, in which he acquired a practical English
education, and, later, pursued the higher
branches of learning at the seminary at
Greensburg, Indiana. In 1856 he removed to
Iowa, locating at the town of Montezuma,
where for one year he was employed as clerk
in a dry goods house, at the end of which
time he accepted a position in a printing
office, in which he continued for a period of
two years. He returned to Indiana in the
winter of 1859, from which time until January,
1 86 1, he resided at Greensburg, attending
school as above noted. Having early decided
to make the medical profession his life work,
he began the study of the same, at the age of
twenty-one, in the office of John W. Moodey,
M. D. , under whose instructions he continued
until the breaking out of the war, when he
responded to his country's call, enlisting in
company B, Seventh regiment Indiana volun-
teer infantry, April 24, 1861. This was the
first company to enter the service from Deca-
tur county, and the doctor served for three
months in the capacity of a private. On Sept-
ember 25, 1 86 1, he re-enlisted and was ap-
pointed hospital steward of the Seventeenth
regiment Indiana volunteers, in which capaci-
ty he served until February 20, 1863, when he
was promoted assistant surgeon of said regi-
ment, a position which he creditably filled un-
til the expiration of his term of service, July
27, 1864. While in the army the doctor ac-
companied his regiment throughout its varied
experiences, participating in a number of hard-
fought battles, including Hoover's Gap, Chat-
tanooga, Rock Spring, Chickamauga, McMinn-
ville, Farmington, Mission Ridge, Cleveland,
siege of Knoxville, Dallas, Big Shanty, Noon-
day Creek, Kenesaw Mountain, and the vari-
ous engagements before Atlanta.
During the winter of 1864-5 the doctor
further increased his knowledge of the healing
art by attending a course of lectures at the
university of Michigan, and the following
spring took a course at the Long Island Col-
lege hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y. , from which
well known institution he graduated in 1865.
In the latter year Dr. Kemper located in Mun-
cie, Ind., where he has since been engaged in
the general practice of his profession. He was
coroner of Delaware county from 1870 till
1875, and was one of the examining surgeons
for pensions from May, 1872, to June, 1893,
with the exception of a period of two years,
when he was removed for political reasons.
Dr. Kemper is a member of the Delaware
County Medical society, the Indiana State
Medical society, the American Medical associ-
ation and the National association of Railway
Surgeons, and takes an active interest in the
deliberations of these bodies. In 1879 he was
elected treasurer of the Indiana State Medical
society, and served as such until 1886, when
he was honored by election as its president,
presiding during the session of 1887. The
doctor is not unknown in the field of medical
literature, having at different times contrib-
uted a number of valuable papers on various
medical subjects. He has studied much, and
carefully examined many cases, and being an
original thinker and a clear, logical writer, he
has made known his investigations from time
to time in a number of essays contributed to
various medical journals or read before medi-
cal societies.
Among the contributions from his pen the
following were much discussed: "Operation
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for the Radical Cure of Varicocele," "Ex-
ophthalmic Goiter," "Labor Complicated by
Peritoneal Adhesions of the Uterus," " Biblical
Medicine," "Case of Inversion of Uterus,"
"Retention of Utero of the Dead Fcetus,
Considered Particularly with Regard to its
Effects upon the Mother," "Is Labor Pro-
tracted by Early Spontaneous Rupture of the
Membranes?" "A Case Illustrating the Use of
Intrauterine Injections for the Arrest of Post
Partum Hemorrhage," "Sequel to a Case of
Retained Foetus," "A Case of Podolcoma,"
"A Contribution to Medical Jurisprudence,"
"Four Hundred Obstretrical Cases — Statis-
tics and Observations," "Affections of the
Gall-bladder Tending to Result in Cutaneous
Biliary Fistula," "Ligation of the Femoral
Artery," "Primary Cancer of the Lungs,"
"Angel-wing Deformity," "A Case of Lodge-
ment of a Breech Pin in the Brain; removal
on the second day; recovery," "Antiseptics in
Normal Labor," "One Thousand Cases of
Labor and their Lessons," "A Case of Senile
Gangrene." The above papers and essays
contain much which is of value to the medical
fraternity. They are the fruits of reason and
e.xperience combined, and met with much at-
tention in the medical journals both at home
and abroad.
The doctor has not neglected, as many
practitioners do, to record the result of his
experience for the benefit of others. During
the session of 1875-6, he was assistant to the
chair of obstetrics and diseases of women and
children in the college of Physicians and Sur-
geons of Indiana, and he has achieved flatter-
ing success in the varied fields of surgery and
in the general practice of the healing art. In
1872 he formed a co-partnership in the prac-
tice with Dr. Robert Winton, a successful
physician of Muncie, and at this time is asso-
ciated with Dr. Hugh A. Cowing. The doc-
tor is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church, is an earnest advocate of temperance
reform, and labors- zealously in behalf of all
religious, educational and temperance move-
ments, thus setting an example worthy of imi-
tation by his fellow citizens. In his person-
ality. Dr. Kemper realizes the ideal of a suc-
cessful physician and surgeon, adding to a'
quick apprehension and thorough professional
knowledge the gentle manner and sympathetic
heart of a true healer. In every relation with
his fellow man he has borne well his part, and
now enjoys, in full measure, the confidence
and esteem of his brethren in the profession
and of his fellow citizens in all the walks of
life. Dr. Kemper was married August 15,
1865, to Hattie, daughter of William Kemper,
Esq. , of Oskaloosa, Iowa, a union blessed
with the birth of three children, namely:
Georgette Moodey, Arthur Thomson, and
William Winton Kemper.
HSBURY L. KERWOOD traces his
ancestral history back through a
number of generations to England,
from which country his great-grand-
father, Richard Kerwood, with his family,
consisting of wife, two sons and four daugh-
ters, started for the United States about the
year 1792. During the voyage, both himself
and wife fell victims to ship fever and died a
few days subsequent to their arrival. The
captain of the vessel, who was a member of
the Masonic fraternity, to which Mr. Kerwood
also belonged, took a kindly interest in the
welfare of the orphan children and succeeded
in finding them homes. Richard, the grand-
father of the subject of this sketch, was ap-
prenticed to a blacksmith of Bordentown,
N. J., and after mastering the details of his
trade, moved to western Pennsylvania, locat-
ing in Washington county, where he became a
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prominent and highly respected citizen. He
married in New Jersey Mary Minor, who bore
him five sons and two daughters, namely:
Samuel, William, John R., Abia M., Richard,
Nancy and Elizabeth. Richard Kerwood de-
parted this life in Washington county. Pa., in
1838. Mr. Kerwood's maternal ancestors
were of Irish nativity, James Peden, the
grandfather, immigrating to the United States
in an early day and settling in Pennsylvania.
He married Margaret Love, also a native of
Ireland, and in 1835 removed to Ohio, thence
subsequently to Henry county, Ind., where
both he and wife died. The children of James
and Margaret Peden were James, Joseph,
David, Milton, Reuben, Hiram and Eliza-
beth.
Abia Minor Kerwood, father of Asbury L. ,
was born in Washington county. Pa. , where
he grew to manhood, working with his father
at blacksmithing until attaining his majority.
Later he went to Oxford, Ohio, where, in ad-
dition to working at his trade, he attended for
some time the Miami university. He was
married, in 1840, to Miss Rebecca Peden in
Preble county, Ohio, and shortly therafter en-
gaged in mercantile pursuits at Sugar Valley,
a town of that county, where he carried on
business for several years, subsequently en-
gaging in farming. In 1848 he moved to
Wayne county, Ind., where he continued the
pursuit of agriculture, varied by teaching
school at intervals during the winter season,
and in 1852 purchased and removed to a
home on West river in the county of Ran-
dolph. In the fall of 1854 he entered the
ministry of the Methodist church, in which
denomination he had long been a local preach-
er and traveled various circuits for a period of
twenty-five years. In 1879 he was placed on
the superannuated list and spent the closing
years of his life in Muncie, where he died in
April, 1886. The family of Abia M. and
Rebecca Kerwood consisted of four sons — As-
bury L. , David L. , William R. and Albert,
and two daughters, Mary E. and Margaret F.
The eldest son, Asbury L. , was born June
21, 1842, in Preble county, Ohio, and acquired
a fair English education in the common schools
of that and Wayne county, Ind., attending
one term at Liber college, Jay county, after
he was fifteen years of age. In October, 1859,
he was apprenticed to Judge John Brady of
Muncie to learn the trade of saddler and har-
ness making. While thus employed the coun-
try became enveloped in the clouds of civil
war, and he enlisted April 6, 1861, in a com-
pany raised by Gen. Thomas J. Brady for the
three months' service. He accompanied his
command to the front and participated in one
of the first engagements of the war — the battle
of Rich Mountain, W. Va., where he received
a wound in the left arm and right breast,
being the first soldier from Delaware county to
receive injury by rebel bullets.
On the 6th of August, 1861, he was honor-
ably discharged, and in November of the same
year he enlisted in Company F, Fifty-seventh
Indiana volunteer infantary, as duty sergeant.
His regiment went into camp at Richmond,
Ind., thence moved to Indianapolis in Decem-
ber, 1 86 1, and on the 23d day of the same
month proceeded to the scene of conflict, the
first engagement being the bloody battle of-
Shiloh, which was reached after a forced
march of thirty miles. Subsequently, Mr.
Kerwood participated with his regiment in the
following battles: Perryville, Ky. , three days'
battle at Stone River, where for gallant con-
duct he was promoted to rank of first sergeant;
Mission Ridge, Tenn. , Rocky Face Ridge,
Resaca, New Hope Church, Kenesaw Moun-
tain, and other battles of the Atlanta cam-
paign, in all of which he earned laurels as a
brave and gallant soldier. Later he was with
his regiment in the battles of Peachtree Creek,
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siege of Atlanta, Jonesboro, Ga., Franklin,
Tenn., Springhill, Tenn., and Nashville.
February 4, 1865, Mr. Kerwood was
honorably discharged from the service, and
after his return to Indiana was engaged at
school teaching and other pursuits in Wabash
and Hamilton counties, and devoted his time
to the collection of material for the history of
his regiment, which he completed and pub-
lished in the spring of 1868. In the spring of
1866 Mr. Kerwood made a tour of the eastern
states, and upon his return temporarily located
at Fairmount, Grant county, where he worked
at his trade during the summer of that year.
In October, 1867, he settled at Wheeling,
Delaware county, where he made his residence
until 1875. July 22, 1868, Mr. Kerwood and
Mrs. Susan Craw, daughter of William P. and
Sarah Reasoner, and widow of Ephraim Craw,
were united in the bonds of wedlock. At the
republican county convention, 1874, Mr. Ker-
wood received the nomination for the office of
the clerk of the circuit court, and in October
of the same year was elected by the largest
majority on the ticket. He was re-elected in
1878 by a very large majority, and discharged
the duties of his position in a faithful and
able manner until the expiration of his term in
August, 1883. In April, 1884, he was elected
a director in the Citizens' National bank, to
.fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry
Hamilton. In April, 1885, he succeeded
George W. Spilker to the presidency of the
bank, and has since filled that honorable po-
sition to the eminent satisfaction of all con-
cerned. In 1887 Mr. Kerwood became a
member of the city school board, of which he
is now treasurer, and to him is largely due
much of the credit of bringing the schools of
Muncie to their present high state of efficiency.
He was one of the organizers of the Muncie
Land company, of which he has since been a
director and vice-president. For the past five
years he has been a member of the firm of E.
P, Smith & Co., manufacturers of hubs and
spokes, and was one of the original directors
of the Muncie Exploring company, which
drilled the first gas well in Muncie. In addi-
tion to the above enterprises Mr. Kerwood
was a member of the first advisory board of
the Citizens' Enterprise company. It will
thus be seen that Mr. Kerwood's career has
been oneof great business activity. He proved
himself a faithful and efficient officer, and in
all relations of life, whether official, business
or social, he has shown himself to be worthy
of the confidence and esteem of his fellow citi-
zens, and those with whom he comes in con-
tact unite in pronouncing him a true type of
the intelligent and well bred gentleman.
Q ORRIS D. KIDNOCKER, a well-
known miller, was born in Morgan
county, Ohio, October 2, 1837, the
son of Goodlief and Lucinda
(Miller) Kidnocker. The father was a native
of Germany and the mother of Massachusetts.
Goodlief and Lucinda Kidnocker were married
in Marietta, Ohio, and reared a family of eight
children, as follows: Sarah (deceased), Robert,
Malinda, Morris D. , David (deceased), Caro-
line, Samantha and Luther. The father was
a man of unblemished moral character, an
earnest supporter of the republican party, and
was honored by all who formed his acquaint-
ance. He died in January, 1883; his wife
died in March, 1865. Like her husband, she
was a member of the U. B. church and a
woman of eminent respectability.
Morris D. Kidnocker was reared to man-
hood in the county of his nativity, in the
schools of which he received a good education,
and at the early age of seventeen, began
teaching, which profession he followed with
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creditable success for several years. On at-
taining his legal majority he engaged in the
manufacture of lumber, which business, in
connection with agriculture, he pursued until
1865, when he began the manufacture of flour
in Ross and Hawkins counties, Ohio, to which
calling he has since devoted his attention.
He was married in Hawkins county, Ohio, in
i860, to Clarissa Jane Wiggins, who was born
March 18, 1838, the daughter of John T. and
Nancy (Schultz) Wiggins. The parents of
Mrs. Kidnocker were natives respectively, of
Kentucky and \'irginia, and were among the
early pioneers of the Buckeye state. The
wedded life of Mr. and Mrs. Kidnocker was
blessed with the birth of ten children: Ella,
Albert, Silas (deceased), Gilbert, Hattie, Lillie,
Rosie, Alma, Ottie and Wilber (deceased).
The mother departed this life December 22,
1 88 1, and, subsequently, in 1884, Mr. Kid-
nocker was united in marriage with Mrs. Anna
Witt, mother of Enoch Witt, a biographical
mention of whom appears on another page of
this volume. Mr. Kidnocker is a substantial
citizen, and his life, though comparatively
uneventful, has not been unfruitful of good
results and kind deeds in behalf of his fellow-
man wherever he has resided. He thoroughly
understands the business to which so many of
his years have been devoted, and the confi-
dence and respect of the community are his in
a satisfactory degree. He is a supporter of
the republican party and takes an intelligent
interest in public affairs.
>T^UDGE DAVID KILGORE, late of
M Delaware county, was born in Harri-
« 1 son county, Ky., April 3, 1804, the
second in a family of four sons. His
father, Obed Kilgore, was a native of Pennsyl-
vania, but for many years, was a riti/iMi of
Kentucky, where he carried on farming until
1 8 19, when he removed with his family to
Franklin county, Ind. , then a wilderness, but
soon died at the residence of his son David at
the age of eighty-two. Judge Kilgore's mother
was Rebecca (Cusic) Kilgore; she died in
Franklin county, in 1843. After the usual
course of study in the common schools of his
native place and of Franklin county, Ind., Mr.
Kilgore commenced reading law without a
preceptor, but was occasionally aidetl by Gov.
James B. Ray and John T. McKinney, the
latter afterward judge of the supreme court of
Indiana. In 1830, having finished his pre-
paratory studies, he started on foot for Dela-
ware county, carrying all his worldly effects,
which consisted of a small bundle of clothes,
four law books and $4.75 in money. On
reaching his destination, he secured a pre-
emption claim and located upon it, but com-
menced the practice of his profession. In
1832 he was chosen on the whig ticket to
represent Delaware county in the legislature,
was several times re-elected, and in 1836 be-
came speaker of the house. In 1839 Mr.
Kilgore was elected judge of the judicial cir-
cuit, composed of the counties of Randolph,
Delaware, Grant, Jay, Blackford, Madison,
Wells and Adams, and served seven years. In
1850 he was a member of the convention that
revised the state constitution. He was elected
by heavy majorities to the thirty-fifth and
thirty-si.xth congresses, and bore a part in the
exciting discussions that there occurred during
Buchanan's administration. Judge Kilgore
was very active as one of the original builders
of the Bee-Line railway, and was one of its
directors for about twenty years. He was a
stockholder in the Citizens' National bank of
Muncie, and also a stockholder in the Muncie
Natinal bank, and in the First National bank
of Indianapolis. He was chiefly instrumental
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in establishing the Indiana Hospital at Wash-
ington during the first year of the civil war.
Judge Kilgore was a member of the Free
and Accepted Masons and took all the council
degrees. H°e helped organize the republican
party, to which he remained firmly attached.
He was born within the pale of the Presby-
terian church, but afterward changed his rela-
tions and became connected with the Metho-
dist denomination. He married July 4, 1831,
Mary G. Van Matre, daughter of Absalom
Van Matre, a prominent resident of Virginia.
Mr. and Mrs. Kilgore had a family of six sons:
Henry C, who died in infancy; Alfred, who
was a captain in the Thirty-sixth volunteers,
afterward a district attorney and also member
of the legislature three terms; Obed; Tecum-
seh, a surgeon of the Thirteenth Indiana
cavalry; David, also a captain, and James, a
leutenant, both of the Nineteenth infantry.
Alfred Kilgore, late of Muncie, will always
be remembered as one of the most talented
men of Indiana. With an ordinary English
education, he arose by his own active energies
to the high position he occupied at the bar, in
political circles, and in the army. He was the
son of Hon. David Kilgore, and was born
April 7, 1833, on the homestead farm, in
Mount Pleasant township, Delaware county,
where also occurred his death, August 22,
1 87 1. During boyhood he attended the old
seminary at Muncie. On leaving school he
engaged for a year or two in teaching, then
studied law and was admitted to the bar in
1857 in Muncie, where he soon gained an
enviable reputation as a criminal lawyer. Mr.
Kilgore held numerous local offices in the city
and county, prior to i860; but when the first
alarm of war was sounded in 1861, he was one
of the first to offer his services. He recruited
a company, which was assigned as company
B, of the Thirty-sixth Indiana volunteer
infantry, with which regiment he remained,
and participated in all the campaigns of the
army of the Cumberland until the battle of
Shiloh. Though his spirit was brave his body
was too weak to endure the hardships of the
camp and field. Stricken with disease, he
lingered in the hospital for months, then was
brought home to die. His strong will con-
quered the disease in a measure, but only par-
tially, for it was the cause of his death. In
appreciation of his talents and services, his
friends elected him to the state legislature for
two terms. Soon after the expiration of his
term of office he was appointed United States
attorney for the district of Indiana. Mr.
Kilgore married, August 2, 1854, Miss Susan
Shoemaker, now the wife of Hon. James N.
Templer. Of this happy marriage two chil-
dren were born — Charles W. , a young lawyer,
who seems to have inherited his father's
genius, and Mollie G. (Mrs. Davis), a lady of
rare beauty
aHARLES W. KILGORE, son of the
late Hon. Alfred Kilgore, was born
February 20, 1855, inYorktown, Dela-
ware county, Ind. He received his
education in the schools of Muncie and Smith-
son college, Logansport, and at the age of
eighteen began the study of law in the office of
Templer & Gregory, under whose instructions
he continued two years, making rapid progress
in the meantime. He was admitted to the
Delaware county bar in 1874, and his abilities
soon won for him an extensive legal business
as well as a prominent position among the
successful lawyers of Muncie. In 1876 he be-
came associated in the practice with Hon.
O. J. Lotz, and continued the relationship un-
der the firm name of Lotz & Kilgore, until his
election as mayor in 1879, when he retired
from active participation in the law in order to
devote his attention to the discharge of his
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official functions. In the spring of 1893 Mr.
Kilgore became interested in the construction
of the Chicago, Indiana & Eastern railroad
through central Indiana and Delaware county,
and as a director of the same he was chiefly in-
strumental in pushing the enterprise to a suc-
cessful completion. The legal career of Mr.
Kilgore presents a series of continued suc-
cesses, and since his admission to the practice
has been a prominent factor in the Muncie
bar, standing deservedly high in the profes-
sion. Although not as actively engaged in
the practice as formerly, he still maintains an
office and gives his attention to the prosecu-
tion or defense of cases involving interests of
great moment and requiring a high order of
legal talent. For a number of years Mr. Kil-
gore has been identified with various busi-
ness enterprises in Muncie, among which
are the Muncie natural gas plant and
the Muncie Architectural Iron works —
being vice president of the latter, and
devoting to it the greater part of his
attention. He was active in behalf of the
city's interest for some time as a member of
the common council from the First ward, and
while identified with that body was instrumen-
tal in promoting much important municipal
legislation. Mr. Kilgore is a man of decided
opinion and great strength of character, fear-
less in the expression of what he believes to
be right, and an active politician of the Jeffer-
sonian school of democracy. His personal
popularity is very great in Muncie, a proof of
which was his election to the mayoralty, also
his election to the common council from a
ward which has always cast a heavy vote in
favor of the republican nominees. Mr. Kil-
gore was married June 20, 1877, to Addie,
daughter of Milton Hess, of Henry county, a
union which resulted in two children — a son
and daughter: Alfred and Archa.
a HAS. M. KIMBROUGH, clerk of the
Delaware circuit court, and president
and general manager of the Indiana
Bridge company of Muncie, was born
in Clinton county, Ohio, Nov. 5, 1847, and
is a son of Ira and Clarissa (Howland) Kim-
brough, natives of the same county and state.
Mr. Kimbrough was educated in the public
schools, and his early inclinations leading him
to mechanical pursuits, he learned the trade of
blacksmithing, in which he accjuired skill and
proficiency, and which he followed until his
twenty-sixth year. He then engaged in the
mercantile business in Connersville, Ind.,
where he remained until 1876, on April 4 of
which year he removed to Muncie and opened
the first exclusive book and paper store in the
city. His place of business was in the Walnut
street Opera House block, and Mr. Kimbrough
conducted a very successful business in his
line until 1887, at which time he disposed of
his mercantile interest in order to become
manager of the Indiana Bridge company, of
which, two years later, he was elected presi-
dent. This company was established in 1886,
and employs about i 50 persons.
As a loyal citizen Mr. Kimbrough did serv-
ice in defense of the national Union as mem-
ber of company I, Eighteenth Ohio volunteer
infantry, with which he served for a period of
eight months, being discharged at that time at
Augusta, Ga. His official career began in
November, 1890, at which time he was elected
to the responsible position of clerk of the
Delaware county circuit court, the duties of
which he has since ably discharged. As a
member of the common council representing
the Third ward, and as a member on the com-
mittee on finance, he has been instrumental
in effecting much important municipal legisla-
tion. In matters educational, Mr. Kimbrough
was also very energetic, having been a member
of the city school board. As a business man
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he occupies a deservedly prominent place in
the estimation of the people Muncie, and as
presiding officer of the large manufacturing
establishment with which he is identified has
shown executive ability of a very high order.
Personally, Mr. Kimbrough enjoys great popu-
larity, and, irrespective of his position as a
leading republican, has numerous friends
throughout the county, irrespective of party
affiliations. He is one of the busy, thorough-
going, rehable men of Muncie, and as a mem-
ber of the Citizens' Enterprise company
manifests great interest in everything that
pertains to the material welfare of this thriving
city. Fraternally Mr. Kimbrough stands high
in Masonry, in which he has taken a number
of degrees, including both chapter and com-
mandery, and he also belongs to Williams
post. No. 78, G. A. R. In 1870 Mr. Kim-
brough and Miss Margaret A. Curry, daughter
of James and Mary Curry, of Clinton county,
Ohio, became man and wife, and their union
has been blessed by the birth of three children:
Hal C, Frank H. and James Lloyd. Mr.
Kimbrough and family are communicants of
the Methodist Episcopal church, and he holds
the position of trustee in the High street con-
gregation.
• HOMAS KIRBY (deceased).— Proba
bly none of the early settlers of
Muncie were more closely identified
with the town and its growth than
Mr. Kirby. He was one of its earliest as well
as one of its most prominent citizens — having
settled here when Muncie was but a small
clearing in the wilderness, and was still called
by its aboriginal name, "Outainink," by the
Indians who lingered about the former town
of the Delaware tribe. He was a member of
the first mercantile firm in Muncie, and a
leader in all public enterprises. If a sub-
scription was to be raised for a turnpike, rail-
road, or other object of a public nature, he
was always the first to be solicited for his
patronage, and never withheld his bounty.
He was one of the first trustees elected in
Delaware county, but was not a politician,
and never aspired to the public positions to
which his ability entitled him. He was born
in the town of Stockbridge, Mass., December
25, 1804, and, at the age of ten years, became
an apprentice in a woolen factory. While
thus employed, he gained an early education,
by attending school in the winter; but this was
supplemented by practical experience in later
years. In the fall of 1827 he removed to
Richmond, Ind. , and accepted employment at
his trade with Levinas King. One year later
he began to trade in furs, deerskins and gin-
seng, buying about six thousand pounds of
the latter article every year. In 1830, he
removed to Muncie and was engaged in the
mercantile business for five years. In the
meantime he had acquired a large tract of
land (a portion of which is now within the city
limits), and retired from business life, and
devoted his time to agricultural pursuits. He
owned about one thousand acres adjoining
Muncie, and made six additions to the town at
various times, and donated the grounds on
which were erected the Universalist and Pres-
bjterian churches. He was a kind hearted
landlord, and was repeatedly known to sell
lots, and, when subsequent developements
convinced the purchasers that they could not
meet their obligations, instead of foreclosing
the mortgages, he would refund the money
already paid him, purchase the partially com-
pleted buildings at their actual cost, and sell
the lots to some one else. He erected the first
brick store in Muncie, and also a fine hotel
which bears his name. On the 1 5th of July,
1833, he married Miss Sarah Tomlinson, a
native of North Carolina, and daughter of
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Judge Tomlinson, one of the ea-^ly associate
and probate judges of Delaware county. They
had three sons — Thomas Hickman, John M.
and George, now prominent business men of
Muncie, and three daughters — Martha A., — ife
of A. H. Hamilton; Elizabeth, wife of J. A.
Heinsohn, proprietor of the Kirby house, and
Sarah, who died quite young.
About 1829 Mr. Ivirby traveled through
the sparsely settled regions of eastern Indiana,
on foot and on horseback, peddling goods for
Stone & Co., of Dayton, Ohio, and brought
his first stock of merchandise to Muncie by ox
teams from that point. He was uniformly
kind and honorable in his dealings with the
world, and his memory is treasured in the
hearts of all who knew him. He died August
19. 1879- The funeral sermon was preached
by Rev. Marion Crosley, of Fort Wayne, at
the Universalist church, of which society Mr.
Kirby was a member. His remains were in-
terred in Beech Grove cemetery, and the cas-
ket containing his remains was borne to the
grave by Minus Turner, Warren Stewart, Mar-
tin Galliher, John Brady, Thomas S. Neely,
Daniel Pittenger, Robert Meeks, Joseph Strad-
ling, Joseph S. Buckles, J. Henry W^ysor,
Walter March, Marcus C. Smith, Arthur F.
Patterson and Lloyd Wilcoxson.
'^j'OHN M. KIRBY, a prominent business
M man of Muncie and son of Thomas
/• 1 Kirby, whose sketch appears above, is
a native of Delaware county, Ind. ,
born on the 6th day of November, 1839. His
educational training was acquired in the public
schools of his native city, supplemented by a
two years' course in Farmer's college of Cin-
cinnati, in which institution he obtained a fair
knowledge of the higher branches of learning.
His early inclinations led him to embark upon
a business career, and in i860 he engaged in
the hardware trade in partnership with T. E.
Putnam, and the firm thus constituted soon
became one of the leading mercantile estab-
lishments of Muncie. He continued in the
hardware business very successfully until 1889,
and in the meantime, 1879, became interested
with his brothers in the lumber business, with
which line of trade he has since been promi-
nently identified. As a business man Mr.
Kirby enjoys a reputation more than local, and
to him is due in a great measure the present
substantial growth of Muncie, in the material
development of which he has always mani-
fested a very active interest. Quick to foresee,
wise to plan, and possessing business qualifi-
cations of a high degree, he has wrought wisely
and well, and in him have been reproduced the
sterling qualities which for so many years
marked the career of his father.
In his political belief Mr. Kirby is an ar-
dent supporter of the republican party, but
he has never sought nor desired official prefer-
ment. In religion he subscribes to the creed
of the Episcopal church, in which faith the
different members of his family have been
reared and educated. Mr. Kirby is promi-
nently identified with several fraternities, in-
cluding the Royal Arcanum, Independent
Order of United Workmen, and the A. F. &
A. M. , in the last of which he stands high,
having taken the Scottish rite degree, also that
of Sir Knight. On the 14th day of June,
1866, in the city of Muncie, was solemnized
the marriage of John M. Kirby and Mary F.
Putnam, daughter of F. E. Putnam, a union
blessed with the birth of the following chil-
dren: Thomas P. ; Ada, wife of Lewis Over;
Susette and Sarah. The mother of these chil-
dren died August 16, 1887, and on the nth
day of March, 1S91, Mr. Kirby married his
present wife, Mrs. Belle J. Gilbert, who was
born in Muncie, the daughter of John Jack,
Esq., deceased.
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@EORGE KIRBY, prominent among
the successful business men and rep-
resentative citizens of the county of
Delaware, was born in Muncie, Ind. ,
on the 6th day of December, 1844. He is the
son of Thomas and brother of T. H. and J. M.
Kirby, and for the greater part of his life has
been a valued citizen and an active business
man of the city of his nativity. He was
reared to manhood in Muncie, in the public
schools of which he acquired his early educa-
tion, and in 1863-4 attended the schools of
Aurora, 111. Returning home in the latter
year he entered the army, enlisting in company
B, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Indiana
volunteer infantry, for the three months' serv-
ice under Capt. Reese, and, after remaining
with his command for a period of four months,
was honorably discharged in September, 1 864,
at Indianapolis. On severing his connection
with the army Mr. Kirby resumed his studies,
and after completing his education returned
home and took charge of his father's business
and was thus employed until the latter's death
in 1879. During the succeeding year he man-
aged the home farm, and in 1886 was elected
treasurer of Delaware county, and immediately
thereafter removed to Muncie and took charge
of the office. He was re-elected in 1888, and
discharged the duties of the office in a highly
satisfactory manner until 1890, since which
time he has been extensively engaged in real
estate transactions in partnership with T. F.
Rose, and through his instrumentality, aided
by the efforts of other progressive men,
a large number of manufacturing estab-
lishments have been located in Muncie,
thus making the city the most enterprising
manufacturing center of the great gas belt.
Mr. Kirby has been a prominent and active
member of the Citizens' Enterprise company,
of which he is a director, and he also served
as trustee of the Manufacturers' association.
much of the success of which is directly trace-
able to his efforts. He is almost constantly
conducting some enterprise that will inure to
the city's advancement, and in him Muncie
and Delaware county find one of their most
substantial, energetic and highly respected
representatives. As an official he displayed
ability of a high order, and his dealings with
his fellows in all relations of life have been
marked by that high sense of honor which has
made him deservedly popular with all with
whom he has come in contact. Mr. Kirby is a
republican in politics, and fraternally belongs
to the Masonic order, in which he occupies a
prominent position, being a Knight Templar
and a member of the Scottish rite branch.
He was married January 14, 1866, to Miss
Kate W. Whipple, who was born in Washing-
ton county, N. Y. , on the 19th day of March,
1846, the daughter of Joab T. and Maria
(Wilson) Whipple, the latter a sister of the
late Volney Wilson, of Muncie. To the mar-
riage of Mr. and Mrs. Kirby have been born
the following children: Wilson W. , teller of
the Citizens' National bank; Marion E. ,
Louise, John M. and Julius T.
HOMAS P. KIRBY is the head of one
of the leading plumbing and gas fit-
ting establishments of Muncie and is
entitled to mention as one of the
city's representative young men. He is a son
of John and Mary Kirby and was born in Mun-
cie, Delaware county, Ind. , on the 4th day of
April, 1867. He was educated in the city
schools, and on attaining his majority began
clerking for his father, in whose employ he
continued for a period of two years, and then
entered upon an apprenticeship for three years
with the Muncie Water company for the pur-
pose of learning the plumbing trade, in which
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he acquired great proficiency. After becoming
familiar with the details of the business, he
established his present plumbing, gas, steam fit-
ting and sewer work, which, as already stated,
is one of the largest and most successful enter-
prises of the kind in the city of Muncie. In
his business Mr. Kirby has displayed commend-
able energy and foresight, and he has met
with success such as few attain in a much
longer life. He retains, in a marked degree,
the respect and confidence of his fellow citizens
of Muncie, and by inheritance as well as by
steady application, possesses those sterling
qualities essential to the successful manage-
ment of affairs, and which undoubtedly insure
for him a future of much promise and useful-
ness.
Mr. Kirby was married in Muncie on the
5th of July, 1888, to Miss Gertrude Maddy,
whose birth occurred in the year 1867. Mrs.
Kirby is the daughter of William R. Maddy,
and she has borne her husband two children,
namely: Frederick and Edgar. In his relig-
ious views Mr. Kirby subscribes to the Episco-
pal creed, of -which church his wife is also a
member, and in politics he supports the princi-
ples of the republican party. He is prominent
in the Masonic order, having taken a number
of degrees, including that of Sir Knight, and
he is also an active worker in the Pythian
fraternity.
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W. KIRBY, receiving and paying
teller of the Citizens' National bank
of Muncie, Ind. , was born Septem-
ber 13, 1867, in Muncie city, where
he has since continued to reside. He attended
the Muncie schools during the years of his
minority, and at the age of seventeen obtained
his first insight into the practical affairs of
life as an assistant to his father in the stock
business, with all the details of which he soon
became familiar. Subsequently he took a
course of mechanical engineering in the Rose
Polytechnic institute, Terre Haute, and upon
the election of his father as treasurer of Dela-
ware county, he left his studies and became
deputy county treasurer, the duties of which
he discharged with commendable fidelity;
within a short time of the expiration of the
term of office, however he accepted the posi-
tion of receiving and paying teller in the Citi-
zens' National bank of Muncie. Mr. Kirby is
an accomplished accountant, understanding
thoroughly the many details of banking, and
has already made a creditable record as a safe
and reliable business man. He is energetic
in all he undertakes, enjoys great personal
popularity in his city, and by his honorable
and manly course has succeeded in winning
for himself a prominent position in the estima-
tion of the public. He was united in marriage
January i, 1890, with Miss Carrie Louise, the
accomplished daughter of Dr. Robert and
Elmira Winton, of Muncie. (See sketch of
George Kirby, father of W. W. Kirby. )
aHARLES A. KITTS, of the firm of
Kitts & Everet, real estate dealers,
Muncie, Ind., is a son of Williard
and Lottie (Adams) Kitts, and was
born in Oswego, N. Y., March 8, 1861. He
graduated from Union college, Schenectady,
N Y., in 1884, and in 1885 began the manu-
facture of knit underwear at Canastota, N.
Y., on his own account, but two years later
moved to Piqua, Ohio, where he formed a
joint stock company, with $50,000 capital,
which was incorporated as the Piqua Hosiery
company, and of which he was made general
manager and vice president, and was acti\e in
the manufacture for two years — the company
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being still in operation. While in Piqua he
also laid out and developed two or three addi-
tions to the city. At the end of six years he
sold out his interests and organized a land
syndicate, with a capital of $80,000, and went
to San Antonio, Tex., where he sub-divided
Keystone Park, inaugurated street car service,
sold a considerable portion of the tract, and
still retains quite a number of the choice lots.
He was also interested in developing Spring
City, Tenn., and Kanawha, West Va. ,
and his efforts resulted in substantial gains
for both places. In 1891, he became asso-
ciated with W. N. Whitely in his Indiana
gas belt enterprise, Eaton, Ind. , being the
first town to enter into negotiation, and
through the active exertion of Mr. Kitts, a
subscription fund of $80,000 was raised and
1,000 acres of land optioned — the largest
bonus ever raised by an equal population for
the purpose; but, owing to the superior bank-
ing and shipping facilities of Muncie, Mr.
Whitely decided upon that city as his head-
quarters. Mr. Kitts thereupon organized the
Fort Wayne Land & Improvement company,
which took up the Eaton properties, located
the Paragon Paper company and other indus-
tries, and established a bank. Mr. Kitts a' so
actively assisted the Whitely Land company in
developing its property. After Mr. Whitely's
withdrawal, Mr. Kitts formed a syndicate at
Pittsburg, Pa., with $125,000, which pur-
chased the 140-acre tract known as the Wysor
Heights, together with the interests of the
original company, and in the spring of 1893
located the Whitely Malleable Ironworks. Of
this company Mr. Kitts is a director, and with
his partner, E. E. Everet, has general charge
of its large real estate interests. Kitts &
Everet were also the prime movers in devel-
oping Parker, Ind. , where they formed a land
syndicate, and in 1893 disposed of over 200
lots at public sale and located three factories.
Mr. Kitts was married in Chittenango, N.
Y., in 1886, to Miss Hattie Walrath, a gradu-
ate of Vassar college in the class of 1884, and
the accomplished daughter of the late Frank-
lin Walrath, wholesale grocer of Syracuse, N.
Y. To this felicitous union has been born one
daughter — Frances. Mr. Kitts is a chapter
Mason, and as a business man enjoys a most
enviable reputation, not only in Muncie, but
wherever else known.
KC. KLEIN is a son of Armstead M.
and Sarah Klein, and was born in
Delaware county, Ind., November 18,
1842. He was reared to manhood in
Muncie, received a good education, and in
1855 entered as apprentice under his brother,
John A. Klein, to learn the jewelry trade, in
which he early acquired great proficiency.
After serving three years he began, in 1858, to
work at his chosen calling at Richmond, Ind. ,
with Charles Dickenson, and one year later
went south, locating at Vicksburg, where he
carried on business until the breaking out of the
war in 1861, when he returned home and en-
listed in company E, Nineteenth Indiana vol-
unteer infantry, for three years. Owing to
physical disability, he was discharged after a
few months' service, but, after regaining his
health, re-enlisted in the same company in
October, 1861, and shared, with his comrades,
all the vicissitudes of war, until his honorable
discharge at the cessation of hostilities in 1865.
During his period of service he participated in
many of the leading battles of the Virginia
campaign, including, among others, second
battle of Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam,
Fredericksburg, Fitz Hugh Crossing, Chancel-
lorsville, and Gettysburg, in the last of which
he received a severe wound in the hip, which
necessitated his being sent to the United States
AND CENTRE TOWNSHIP.
liospital of Philadelphia. Later he was trans-
ferred to the hospital at Indianapolis, and was
absent from his command for a period of about
four months. After having sufficiently recov-
ered, he rejoined his regiment and took part
in the bloody battles of Mine Run, Wilderness,
Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Wel-
don Railroad, Hatcher's Run, and a number of
lesser engagements, in all of which his conduct
was that of a brave soldier.
He has in his posse.ssion a beautiful record,
in silk, containing the names of corps, brigade
and regiment to which he belonged, and all
the battles in which his command took part.
On returning home he resumed the jewelry
business, being at this time the leader in that
line in Muncie. Since 1878 he has been sole
proprietor of a large establishment which con-
tains a magnificent stock, calculated to meet
all the demands of the current trade. Mr,
Klein is also interested in the manufacture of
artificial ice in Muncie, beside which he has
been a libe al promoter of the various enter-
prises which have given Muncie its present
high standing as the leading manufacturing
city of Indiana. Mr. Klein is a republican,
and fraternally belongs to the Masonic order,
in which he stands high, having taken the
Thirty-second degree. He also belongs to the
society of Elks. Mr. Klein was married Feb-
ruary 19, 1866, to Sarah C. Spilker, of Mun-
cie, and sister of Geo. W. Spilker, mention of
whom is found on another page of this volume.
This marriage was blessed with the birth of
five children, whose names are as follows:
Efifie, deceased; Geo. A., Edward M., Arm-
stead M. and Fred A. Mrs. Klein died No-
vember 17, 18S7, and July 29, 1889, Mr.
Klein was united in marriage with Flora Pat-
terson, of Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Klein are
members of the Presbyterian and Methodist
Protestant churches, respectively.
Armstead Mason Klein, the pioneer jeweler
of Muncie, was born at tht' town of Water-
ford, Loudoun county, \'a., on the 26th day
of June, 1S17. His father kept a hotel at
that town, and apprenticed his son for eight
years to a jeweler at Leesburg, \'a. Armstead
reached Newark, Ohio, early in 1837, and.
within a few months thereafter, married Sarah
E. Ethell. In the fall of the same year he
located at Evansville, Ind. , and late in the
fall of 1838 came to Muncie. There were a
few clocks and watches to be repaired in the
village and county, and he found sufficient
work
do to provide a very good livelihood
for his family. About 1846 he opened a shop,
■ the first of its kind in Delaware county, and
situated on west Main street in a little frame
I house. He kept abreast of the times, increas-
ing his stock as occasion demanded, until he
carried a fine line of goods valued at thousands
of dollars. He worked at the bench sixteen
and eighteen hours a day, for many years,
I and only gave up the laborious part of his
[ business to his sons, five years ago.
I His first wife died March 2, 1859, leaving
him with the care of five children, one of whom
has since followed her to the grave, leaving
Henry C., Madison C, William C, and Sarah
E. On the 26th day of June, 1859, he married
Justina Hardy. This union was blessed with
j two children, both now deceased.
' Mr. Klein was a well known citizen, and
j no words of eulogy from our pen could add to
his popularity, or the high grade in which he
was held by all who know him. He was a per-
i sistent worker, always honest and upright in
his business transactions, and in his social rela-
'tions genial and hospitable. In the summer
1 of 1853 he united with the Masonic and Odd
j Fellows' fraternities at Muncie. He was a
Knight Templar in the former, and in the lat-
ter took all the degrees in the subordinate
I lodge and encampment, and was a member of
I the grand lodge of Indiana. He was an ardent
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republican in politics, and served four years as
a member of the city council of Muncie.
>T^UDGE GEORGE H. KOONS was born
m April 2, 1848. His parents are Peter
A 1 and Katharine (Rinard) Koons, both
natives of Henry county, Ind. , where
they still live in the old homestead in Blue
River township, respected by all, and loved
most by those who know them best; they are
honest, industrious, hospitable, unpretentious
people. His ancestors were lovers of rural
life, tillers of the soil, and were noted for
industry, thrift and the prompt payment of
debts. He is of German and Anglo-saxon
descent. His grandparents on his father's side
were George and Mary Koons, and on his
mother's side were Nancy (Reddy) Rinard and
George Rinard, who was a local preacher, and
a very ardent abolitionist. His grandmother,
Mary Koons, was a woman of remarkable
memory, always keeping herself thoroughly
posted in the doings of her ten children and
her numerous grandchildren, being able, up to
the time of her death, at the age of eighty-
five years, to give in detail the condition of the
affairs of each and all of them, which she took
great delight in doing, taking to the last the
keenest, liveliest interest in their welfare.
Judge Koons received his education in the
common schools and at the New Castle acad-
emy in Henry county, and at the State univer-
sity at Bloomington. At the age of fourteen
he began teaching in the common schools of
Henry county. While a student at the New
Castle academy, he taught in the country
schools during the winter, and became well
known as a successful common school teacher.
After finishing his course of academic study,
he served four years as superintendent of the
schools of Middletown, Henry county, Ind.,
where he gained an enviable reputation as a
thorough and capable instructor. Having pre-
viously pursued his legal studies under Messrs.
Brown & Polk, attorneys at New Castle, he
entered the law department of the State uni-
versity in 1869, where he graduated with
honors in 1 871, in a class of thirty-three, re-
ceiving the degree of LL. B. After leaving
the university he studied law during that sum-
mer under the instruction and guidance of
Hon. Jehu T. Elliot, of New Castle. In the
of fall '71 he again accepted the position as su-
perintendent of the Middletown schools for
another year, at the close of which he began
the practice of law in that town and remained
there until June of 1874, when he removed to
Muncie, where he has since remained in the
enjoyment of a large portion of the legal busi-
ness of the city and county. For a few years
after coming to Muncie, he struggled along
with apparently indifferent success, but by dint
of industry, pluck, energy and perseverance,
he gradually arose to the front rank among the
lawyers of the Delaware county bar.
Politically, the judge has been a life-long
republican, and at one time was a candidate
for the nomination by his party for the state
legislature, but was defeated in the contest by
the Hon. John W. Ryan. In 1892 he defeat-
ed the Hon. J. N. Templer for the nomina-
tion for judge of the Forty-sixth judicial cir-
cuit of Indiana, at the primary election held in
Delaware county, receiving the nomination of
his party by a large majority of all the votes
cast, and in the fall of that year was elected
by a majority of 2, 024 votes over his democrat-
ic competitor, the Hon. Chas. W. Kilgore,
Rev. E. Holdstock, candidate on the prohibi-
tion ticket, receiving a vote of 214. After his
election, upon receiving his commission he
immediately assumed the duties of his office
and has continued to discharge the same with
the wisdom and dignity expected of him by the
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people. As a judge he is popular alike with
the lawyers and the litigants. He possesses a
clear, judicial mind and enunciates his rulings
with clearness and impartiality, is strictly up-
right and honest and commands the respect
and confidence of the people. He is blessed
in a high degree with those qualities which are
so necessary to success in the profession of
law, and has been recognized for many years
as a sound advocate, an able, safe and wise ,
counselor and adviser. He is a man of broad, '
humanitarian views, thoroughly democratic in
feeling, and in close sympathy with his fellow
men; a lover of all that is real, noble and
good in humanity, and a steadfast friend of
humble, lowly, well-meaning men in all the
walks of life. Fraternally, the judge is a
member of the A. O. U. W. and of the Im-
proved Order of Red Men, and while at col-
lege became a member of the Phi Kappi Psi
Greek fraternity. He was a charter member
of the Literary and Scientific association of
Muncie, out of which grew the Literary Fire-
side, the LTterary Home Circle, and finally the
Ethical society, with the last three of which
societies he and his wife have been prominent-
ly identified, both being charter members.
He was united in marriage September 6,
1 87 1, to Josinah V. Hickman, daughter of
William H. and Clarissa W. Hickman. They
have four children, three of whom a e living.
He is a kind husband and father, and his
home life is a beautiful, quiet, and happy one.
^'TX RS. J. V. H. KOONS is number three
■ I ■ in a family of nine children. Her
V 1 ^ father was William H. Hickman,
whose mother was Josinah Van-
matre Hickman and whose father was Joshua
Lewis Hickman, a pioneer Baptist preacher,
and whoso grandfather was Ezekiel Hickman,
a captain in the Revolutionary war, who
mortgaged a tract of land in Alleghany county,
Pa., to one Isaac Mason and raised a company
of seventy-five men and furnished them with
horses at his own expense.
Her mother was Clarissa Williams, daugh-
ter of Rachael (Ball) Williams and David
Williams of Lebanon, Ohio, whose paternal
grandfather was William Williams, who was
also a soldier of the Revolution, and came
from Wales and was of the family of Roger
Williams. From her mother she inherits her
taste and talent for poetry. Her childhood
was spent in the old home where she was born
near Springport, Henry county, Ind. She
attended the district schools and availed her-
self of the meager advantages the}' afforded,
afterward teaching successfully in the country
schools. Once she received fifteen dollars
more than the sum she had agreed to teach
for, because, in the language of one of the
trustees "She has teached the school better
than a man could teach it."
She early began to write original verses.
The first to receive favorable mention ap-
peared in the Lebanon (Ohio) Western Star,
February 23, i860, and since that time, as
fancy has dictated or opportunity afforded,
she has written stories, sketches and poems,
some of which have gone the rounds of the
papers, receiving their full meed of praise.
Little can be said of interest to biography
lovers of a woman wholly devoted to her home
and domestic duties, doing through all the best
years of her life the lowly work that lay be-
fore her. Only through her poems may
glimpses here and there be had of the heart's
struggle and the soul's great hope. She has
shown us her creed in her peom entitled
"White Days," in which she defines the word
as follows: " The creeds are but notes in the
world's hymn of praise. "
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The Muncie Times says of her:
MRS. J. V. H. KOONS.
In Indiana's annals,
"In the long-
Hereafter of her speech and song-,"
besides the names of her Wallace, her Eggles-
ton and her Riley, many -will stand forth as
representatives of all that is best and purest
in the literature of our state. Muncie can at
least boast one truly inspirational poet in the
person of Mrs. J. V. H. Koons. At her beau-
tiful home in Riverside she creates without
any study or effort those gems of melodious
versification which glow with the "humanity
of her sympathy," and which show a delight-
ful familiarity with all that is artistic, tender
and elevating in song. With a magnetic
touch she charms the ear and shows the warm
and tender heart of noble woman and the
friend as well as the true poet. Whatever is
best, purest and truest is voiced in her fervid
and loving strains.
She is the wife of Judge George H. Koons,
and the mother of four children, three of
whom are, Clara, Reda, and George Koons,
jr. Mary Maud, the eldest, died in babyhood.
The reader will view with pleasure, on the
following pages, the life-like portrait of Mrs.
J. V. H. Koons, and also that of her husband,
Judge George H. Koons.
St
'ILLIAM P. KOONS, a prominent
member of the Delaware county
bar and a rising lawyer of eastern
Indiana, was born in the county of
Henry, this state, on the loth day of Decem-
ber, 1862. He is the son of Peter Koons and
brother of Hon. G. H. Koons, the present
judge of the Delaware circuit court. Mr.
Koons attended the country schools and re-
mained on the home farm in Henry county
until his fourteenth year, at which early age
he began to teach, and was thus employed four
consecutive years at the same place. The
school over which young Koons exercised super-
vision had an unsavory reputation, and before
he accepted the position four teachers had
already been compelled to withdraw on ac-
count of the insubordination of a class of
young men who attended for the purpose of
creating a disturbance. Mr. Koons' success
as an instructor is attested by the fact that,
during the four terms which he taught at that
point, he was never compelled to resort to cor-
poral punishment of any kind, a record unpre-
cedented in that locality. Subsequently Mr.
Koons attended three successive years the
Muncie high school, after which he resumed
educational work, teaching six terms in Henry
county at the towns of Messick and Hillsboro,
reading law in the meantime with his brother,
Hon. George H. Koons, of Muncie. After
becoming familiar with the principles of his
profession he was admitted to the Ijarin 1889,
and began the practice with his brother, with
whom he remained until appointed, by Joseph
Leffler, deputy prosecuting attorney. He dis-
charged the duties of that position in a very
able and satisfactory manner until the election
of his brother to the judgeship, after which he
resigned and took charge of the latter's exten-
sive legal business, and has been one of the
active practitioners at the Muncie bar ever
since. Mr. Koons is ambitious and zealous in
his chosen profession, and as a rising lawyer
has undoubtedly a promising future. He is
well grounded in the principles of the law, is
a ready advocate, a wise and safe counselor,
and his abilities are frequently recognized by
his retention in many important and intricate
cases. Mr. Koons was married June 28, 1892,
to Miss Jennie, daughter of Samuel and Cath-
erine (Allender) Downs, of Hillsboro, Ind.
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^^EORGE F. LEAGER. deceased, the
■ ^\ famous restaurateur of Muncie, was
\^_^ born in Caroline county, Maryland,
August 12, 'S40. His parents, Ris-
dom and Susan (Digging) Leager, were
also natives of Maryland and were mar-
ried in 1835. The father, however, died
eleven years later, leaving his widow with two
sons, George F. and Thomas, and a daughter,
Mary. George F. Leager was reared on the
old homestead and early inured to hard work
on the farm before the war, he being the oldest
male member of the family after his father's
death. At the outbreak of hostilities he en-
listed in company D, First regiment Maryland
Eastern Shore volunteers, September 11, 1861,
and served until honorablj- discharged, Novem-
ber 2, 1864. He participated in the battle of
Gettysburg and others, but was chiefly on
duty in guarding the peninsula of Maryland
and Virginia. While thus employed he there
met, in 1861, Miss Sarah E. Melson, a daugh-
ter of John and Margaret (Kelley) Melson,
who reside at Accomac C. H., she being then
but thirteen years of age. Mr. Leager was at
that time suffering from some slight disability
incurred in the performance of his duty as
guard, and was in the habit of calling at the
dwelling of the Melson family to obtain supplies
of butter, milk, etc., and thus during his year's
detail as guard, an acquaintanceship sprang
up between himself and the young lady. Af-
ter the war was over Mr. Leager entered a
dry goods store at Greensboro, Md. , where he
was employed some time as clerk, and, in
1 87 1, came to Muncie, where he engaged as
dry-goods clerk for B. Smith for a year.
In 1872 he started a lunch room and con-
fectionery in the Patterson block, opposite the
Walnut street opera house, and at once be-
came popular with the public. He began
with a capital of $600 or $700, but his place
became a favorite resort, and he kept the
same room seventeen years. In the mean-
time, about 1874, a brother-in-law. Rev. R. C.
Jones, who had been in the same regiment
with Mr. Leager, had occasion to visit Virgin-
ia, and while in that state called on the Mel-
son family, met the young lady, who was but
a mere child when Mr. Leager had been doing
guard duty, and found her still single. Mr.
Jones recalled to her mind the Yankee soldier
(if, indeed, she needed any reminder) and sug-
gested a correspondence. The suggestion was
adopted and the result was the union, in 1878,
of the southern belle with the northern war-
rior.
Mr. Leager, however, had been in delicate
health ever after leaving the army, and August
2, 1890, succumbed to the disorder therein
incurred, at the age of fifty years, lacking ten
days. He was an active member of the High
street Methodist Episcopal church, was a
class leader, and a member of the official
board for many years. He was also a charter
member of the Improved Order of Red Men
of Muncie, and a member of the Royal Arca-
num and the G. A. R. Mr. Leager had been
the mainstay of his widowed mother from the
time of his father's death, and the support of
the other bereaved members of the family.
He brought them all with him to Muncie in
1 87 1, and here the mother passed away in
April, 1888, at the age of seventy-three years,
a devout Methodist.
>^OSEPH G. LEFFLER, a prominent
m lawyer of Muncie and prosecuting at-
/• J torney of Delaware county, was born
in Hamilton township, Delaware county,
Ind., December 26, 1864, son of Philip and
Mary (Girard) Leffler, natives of Ohio, both of
whom were brought to this state by their par-
ents in early childhood. The mother of Joseph
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G. died when he was but four years of age.
Philip Leffler has always been engaged in ag-
ricultural pursuits in Hamilton township, where
his father, also named Philip Leffler, settled
many years ago, having been one of the pio-
neers of that section. The latter purchased a
large tract of land of the government in the
township of Hamilton, developed a fine farm,
and in connection with agriculture carried on
the tanner's trade, in both of which he was
very successful. The father of Joseph G.
Leffler was a stanch republican in his political
belief, and proved his loyalty to his country,
in 1863, by enlisting and serving gallantly until
the close of the rebellion. Two of his three
children are still living, namely: James Harvey,
a hardware merchant of Albany, and Joseph G.
Joseph G. Leffler passed the years of his
youth and early manhood on his father's farm,
received his primary education in the public
schools, with some further instruction at the
Danville Normal, but he is chiefly self-educated.
When eighteen years of age he was sufficiently
advanced in his studies to secure a teacher's
license, and was employed four consecutive
terms as teacher of the Center school, Hamil-
ton township, where he earned a reputation of
a careful and painstaking instructor.
In 1884 he began reading law in the office
of W. W. Orr and J. C. Mallette, was admit-
ted to the Delaware county bar in 1888, and
by diligent attention to his profession soon
won for himself a conspicuous place among the
successful attorneys of Muncie. Politically
Mr. Leffler is, like his father before him, a re-
pubhcan, and takes an active interest in the
welfare of the party, which, recognizing his
efficient services, has rewarded him by an
election to an important official position. In
1 890 he was elected to the office of county
prosecutor, and in November, 1892, was
honored by a re-election to the same position,
the duties of which he has discharged in a
manner highly creditable to himself and satis-
factory to the people of the county. Mr.
Leffler is an active political worker, an effect-
ive and forcible speaker, and his ability in this
direction has been very effectually employed in a
number of campaigns. He is well informed
in the principles of his profession, untiring in
his efforts to mete out justice to violators of the
law, and has before him a future fraught with
much promise. Fraternally, Mr. Leffler is a
member of Welcome lodge. Knights of Pythias,
is identified with the Improved Order of Red
Men, belongs to the Sons of Veterans, and is
a charter member of the Ancile club. In 1890
Mr. Leffler and Miss Laura Emerson, daugh-
ter of Joseph Emerson, were united in the
holy bonds of wedlock, to which marriage one
child, Mary Eugenia, has been born. Mrs.
Leffler is a valued member of the First Baptist
church and is one of the popular ladies of
Muncie.
>^OHN OSBORN LEWELLEN.— The
M county of Delaware, Ind., has within
/• J its borders many men of prominence in
business circles, well known manufact-
urers, skillful physicians and lawyers of state
reputation; and she is not lacking in those
who have obtained prominence on account of
intellectual merit in other and just as impor-
tant callings. Among the latter Prof. John
Lewellen, the present efficient county superin-
tendent of schools, occupies a conspicuous
place. ■ Prof. Lewellen's birth occurred in the
town of Smithfield, Liberty township, Dela-
ware conty, Ind., on the 31st of July, 1852, a
son of Z. M. and Sarah Ann (Truitt) Lewellen,
natives of Virginia and Indiana, and of Welsh
and English lineage respectively. These par-
ents settled in Delaware county a number of
years ago; the mother died June 3, 1893, but
JNO. 0. LEWELLEN.
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the father is still living, being among the old
and substantial residents of Seltna, Liberty
township. Prof. Lewellen is the eldest of a
family of six children. He was reared in
Liberty and Harrison townships, and enjoyed
excellent educational advantages, attending
first the schools of the township and subse-
quently the Methodist college at Xenia, Ohio,
the National Normal school of Lebanon, the
same state, and the Northern Indiana Normal
at Valparaiso, Ind., in the last named of which
he finished the scientific course, graduating in
1877. Following this excellent preparation.
Prof. Lewellen taught one term of school at
the town of Eaton, and then accepted a simi-
lar position at Albany, where he followed the
profession successfully for a period of six
years, conducting a normal school for teachers
in the meantime. In 1883 he was elected
county -superintendent of Delaware county,
and has since discharged the duties of that
position in a highly satisfactory manner, hav-
ing been unanimously re-elected each succeed-
ing term, which fact is not only a compliment
to his ability as an official, but attests his
great personal popularity with the people.
Prof. Lewellen is a man of great force of
character, possesses executive ability of a very
high order, and under his able supervision the
schools of the county have been brought to
their present state of efficiency. The recent
improvements in the grading of the country
schools have been brought about altogether by
his efforts, and through his influence, a class
of teachers of exceptional professional ability
has been secured, and the present high
standard attained by the schools of Delaware
county will compare favorably with that of
any other part of the state. Mr. Lewellen is
the originator of an outline course of study for
district schools, which he has had copy-
righted, and which is being extensively
adopted in a number of counties of Indiana
and other states. As a school official. Prof.
Lewellen is widely and favorably known
throughout Indiana, and his suggestions per-
taining to matters educational are respectfully
listened to in all the conventions of county
superintendents which he attends. Politically,
he is a republican, and as such wields a
potent influence for his party in Delaware
county. He is a member of the Literary
Fireside, and of the Pythian fraternity, in the
latter of which he is past chancellor. He also
belongs to Heart and Hand lodge, No. 361, of
Albany, I. O. O. F. , being past grand in the
same, and is an active member of Muncie
tribe. No. 144, of Red Men, also of F. &.
A. M. Prof. Lewellen was united in marriage
December 25, 1877, to Miss Huldah Eleanor
Crampton, daughter of Mahlon Crampton, of
Harrison township, to which union two chil-
dren have been born, namely: Albert Ross and
Harry Crampton Lewellen. Mr. and Mrs.
Lewellen are members of the Methodist Epis-
copal church, and for the past two years have
been teachers in the Sunday school. While
residing in Albany, Prof. Lewellen officiated
as Sunday school superintendent, and did
much in awakening and keeping alive the
religious interest in that place.
>^OHN W. LITTLE, a prominent real
m estate dealer of Muncie, was born in
/• ■ the city of Philadelphia, Pa., March 13,
1844, the son of John L. and Mary A.
(Wilson) Little. John L. Little was a native
of New Jersey, born in the year 1818, and his
ancestors for several generations lived in that
state. His parents were John and Mercy
(Herbert) Little, both natives o' New Jersey
and the father a farmer by occupation. John
L. Little also was reared on a farm, and
when a young man learned the saddler's trade,
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which he followed successfully in the city of
Philadelphia. In after years he engaged in
general merchandising for a coal company in
the interior of the state, but subsequently re-
turned to Philadelphia, where he engaged in
business, and in the spring of 1858 came to
Muncie, Ind. , where until 1866 he dealt quite
extensively in dry goods. In the latter year
he began dealing in sewing machines, and was
thus employed until 1870, at which time he
began the manufacture of feather dusters, es-
tablishing the first and only enterprise of the
kind ever operated in the city of Muncie. He
disposed of his interest in this concern in 1882,
and opened an insurance office and did a very
flourishing business in that line until 1892, on
September 16 of which year his death oc-
curred. He was married in the city of Phila-
delphia, in 1840, to Mary Ann Wilson, who
bore him five children, namely: William L. ,
boot and shoe dealer of Muncie; John W. ,
whose name introduces this sketch; H. W. ,
deceased; Mary, wife of Dr. A. J. Finney;
and D. B. F. , of Elwood, Ind. The mother
of these children, at the age of sixty-eight
years, died in Muncie. Mr. Little was a man
of local prominence in Delaware county, took
an active part in the material development of
Muncie, and erected several buildings which
are among the most substantial in the city.
He was noted for his eminent social qualities,
which made him popular with all, and his be-
nevolence endeared him to a number of fami-
lies of Muncie that received many tokens of
his favor. He was the first man to introduce
the use of coal oil in this city, and, in partner-
ship with Thomas E. Neely, bought the first
sewing machine that was ever used in Dela-
ware county. Following are the names of the
brothers and sisters of John L. Little: Gilbert
C, J. H., Maria, Catherine, Ann, Hannah L. ,
Elizabeth and Jane, all deceased but Hannah,
Elizabeth and Jane.
John W. Little spent the first fourteen
years of his life in his native state, where he
received his early educational training, and in
1858 accompanied his father to Muncie, in the
schools of which city he pursued his studies
until the breaking out of the late rebellion. In
August, 1 86 1, he responded to the countr3''s
call for volunteers, enlisting in company B,
Thirty-sixth Indiana volunteer infantry, for the
three years' service. He was with his com-
mand until honorably discharged, September,
1864, at Indianapolis, a period of three years
and one month, during which time he partici-
pated in a number of bloody battles, including
Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Lookout
Mountain, Mission Ridge, Chickamauga, and
the various engagements of the Atlanta cam-
paign. In 1864, at Resaca, Ga. , he received a
severe wound in the arm, which necessitated
his remaining in the hospital for a period of
three months. After h'is discharge, he returned
to Muncie and embarked in the dry goods
business, -which he continued until 1S66, when
he went to Chicago, thence to Memphis, Tenn.,
where he clerked in a dry goods house until
1868. From the latter year until 1871, he
traveled for a sewing machine company, selling
machines and attachments, and then became a
partner with his father in the manufacture of
feather dusters at Muncie, a relationship which
continued until 1882, when the son became
sole proprietor. After operating his factory
until 1889, he sold out to Chicago parties, and
engaged in real estate and loan business, to
which he has since devoted his entire attention,
and in which he has met with most gratifying
success.
Mr. Little was married, in 1866, to Miss
Flora Case, who died January 2, 1868. On
the 1 1 th day of June, 1871, Mr. Little was
united in marriage to Miss Cornelia Long-
streth of Lebanon, Ohio, who departed this
life on the i6th day of June, 1889. Mr.
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Little's third niarriaye was solemnized on the
28th day of December, 1891, in Muncie, with
Miss Eva Hageman of Lebanon, Ohio, daugh-
ter of Joseph and Amanda J. Hageman. Mr.
Little has been a member of the I. O. O. F.
for twenty-five years, and is a member of the
G. A. R. of Muncie, his name appearing on
the charter of the post of this city. From
1885 to 1887 and from 1890 to 1892, he was a
member of the common council of ^tuncie,
and, during that time, looked after the city's
interest by promoting some very important
municipal legislation. A republican in politics,
he has never sought official recognition, but
his party has always found in him a wise coun-
selor and earnest supporter. His religious
faith is that of the Presbyterian creed, and he
and wife are active members of the congrega-
tion worshiping in Muncie. Possessing an
active mind and having been trained to habits
of industry, Mr. Little has made a success of
life, and in the city of Muncie, where so many
of his years have been passed, few enjoy the
confidence and esteem of the public in a more
generous degree. He is always interested in
everything that pertains to the welfare of the
city and county, and his many sterling quali-
ties of manhood have rendered him one of
^^uncie's most useful and respected citizens.
* w ^ ON. ORLANDO JAY LOTZ, judge
1'''^^ of the appellate court of Indiana,
I ^ P representing the Fourth judicial dis-
trict, was born January 15, 185 1, in
Jay county, Ind. , son of Jeremiah and Melissa
A. Lotz. The father, whose birth occurred
December, 1824, in Gallia county, Ohio, is a
son of Abraham Lotz, who left the Buckeye
state as early as the year 1830, immigrating to
Indiana and locating in the county of Jay.
For a number of years Jeremiah Lotz followed
the fanner's vocation, but subsequently, about
1863, entered the internal revenue service of
the United States, with which he is still iden-
tified, being the oldest living official in that
department of the government. His wife,
whom he married about the year 1845, and
whose maiden name was Melissa A. Schutt,
was born of German and French parentage
and departed this life in the year 1877 in Ran-
dolph county.
Orlando J. Lotz spent his youthful years
amid the active duties of the farm, received
his rudimentary education in the common
schools, and later pursued the more advanced
branches of learning in the high school of
Fort Recovery, Ohio. Subsequently, he was
engaged, for a limited period, as a teacher,
but having early chosen the legal profession
for his life work, he began the study of law in
1873. Having gained a knowledge of the
principles of his profession, Mr. Lotz entered
the National Law school of Washington, D.
C., in which he completed his prescribed
course, graduating in 1874, and the following
year began the practice in Muncie, Ind. From
the beginning of his professional life Mr. Lotz
exhibited a high order of talent, and won for
himself the reputation of an able and success-
ful lawyer.
In March, 1885, upon the creation of the
Forty-sixth judicial circuit, Mr. Lotz was ap-
pointed judge of the same, and at the ensuing
election, in 1886, was duly chosen his own
successor by the direct vote of the people.
He adorned the circuit bench for a period of
seven years and eight months, at the end of
which time he was called to a higher position
of usefulness, being elected, in 1892, judge of
the appellate court of Indiana from the Fourth
judicial district. As a lawyer. Judge Lotz is
studious, careful and judicious in the prepara-
tion of legal papers, and painstaking and
thorough in their presentation to the court.
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He was successful in the practice and came to
the bench with the knowledge that fitted him
for a good judge. Few judges of his age have
acquired so high a reputation for soundness in
the knowledge of the law, and for careful ap-
plication of principles in the investigation and
determination of questions sumitted for his
disposal. Always ready in grasping facts per-
tinent to the issues involved, and fortified by
his convictions of right, he seldom committed
errors of sufficient import to justify reversal at
the hands of the supreme court. As the out-
growth of his legal acumen and power of anal-
ysis, he came upon the bench at a compara-
tively early age, and, leaving that position with
well earned judicial honors, it is but reasonable
to predict for him a career of distinction as a
member of the high tribunal to which he has
so recently been called. Eminently popular
in the profession. Judge Lotz is equally so as a
man and citizen, and is held in great esteem
by his fellow citizens. Politically, he is a
democrat, and as such is recognized as a
potent factor in the councils of his party in
Indiana.
Judge Lotz was united in marriage May i6,
1878, in Muncie, to Miss Amanda Inlow,
daughter of Walter and Rachael Inlow, resi-
dents of Delaware county; one child has been
born of this marriage, a son, Walter J. Lotz.
^^j»AMES B. LUDLOW, the senior- part-
M ner of the firm of Ludlow & Glass,
/• 1 general contractors and builders, with
office at 501 South Jefferson street,
Muncie, Ind., is the son of Israel D. and Eliza
(McMillen) Ludlow, and was born in Miami
county, Ohio, December 4, 1832. He was
reared on a farm, but received an education at
the common schools, which was somewhat
above the ordinary training of farm lads of
that day. In 1850 he entered upon an ap-
prenticeship of three years with Lane &
Buckles, carpenters, at Piqua, Ohio, and,
after fully learning the trade, took a position
as foreman in the door factory of Diltz & Sons,
with whom he remained three years; then fol-
lowed his trade in Troy, Ohio, for nine
months; in April, 1856, he went to Galesburg,
111., and assisted in the erection of Knox col-
lege, and in the fall of 1856 went to Peoria,
and for eight years was foreman for A. J.
Hodges, one of the heaviest contractors of
that city. In the spring of 1864 he came to
Muncie, where he worked for P. H. D. Bandey
and also for Martin Young; later had charge
of the wood work and repairs of the bagging
mill of James Boyce. After this he engaged
for six years years in manufacturing and deal-
ing in furniture, and later was pattern maker
and millwright for the Wysor, Haines & Patter-
son machine shop. About 1883 he went to
Florida, and for five or six years was a con-
tractor in St. Augustine, Chulooto and Oviedo,
meeting with the most flattering success.
About 1888 he returned to Muncie, and for a
year did contracting on his sole account. In
1889 he formed a partnership with Mr. Lee
M. Glass, and established the present thriving
business. Among the edifices erected by this
enterprising firm maj' be named those for
J. W. Heath, M. E. Vandercook, Vernon
Davis, Carl A. Spilker, P. S. Heath, Bowers
Bros., Muncie Glass factory and Young &
Kessler. The firm, which is a progressive one,
pride themselves on the superior character of
their work, and consider it their best recom-
mendation, and this is verified by the fact
that, in 1892, their contracts amounted to
$150,000.00. They employ, in the busy
season, from twenty to fifty hands, and all of
them are first-class workmen. Much credit is
due to both partners for their industry and
intelligent management of their business, as
JAS. H. MCCLUNG.
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they had no outside financial aid at the start:
and, as an illustration of Mr. Ludlow's indomi-
table spirit, it may be mentioned that when he
came to Muncie to remain he walked four
miles to his work night and morning, receiving
$ 1 . 50 per day for his labor.
In 1855 Mr. Ludlow was happily united in ■
marriage with Harriet Merriweather, at Piqua,
Ohio. To this union have been born four
children, viz: Lizzie, who was born in Piqua,
Ohio, but died at Peoria, 111., at the age of
seven years; Ida, born at Peoria, and now at
home with her parents; George W. , who was
born at Peoria in 1 862 ; he was a machinist in
the Indiana Bridge works, but, sad to relate,
was killed while performing his duty, leaving
a bride whom he had married only si.x weeks
previously. The youngest child of Mr. Lud-
low is Lottie M., who was born in Muncie, and
is the wife of Ed. B Tyler, bookkeeper for
the Iron Bridge company. Mr. Ludlow is a
member of Delaware lodge, A. F. & A. M. ;
and he has been a member of the Methodist
Episcopal congregation for forty-two years, is
a trustee of the High street church, and a
member of the building and loan improvement
committee.
To refer to the proximate genealogy of
Mr. Ludlow, it is proper to state that his par-
ents were natives of Cincinnati, and that the
paternal grandparents came from New Jersey
at a very early date, with subjecfs great-
grandfather, who erected the first frame dwell-
ing in that then infant city. They were of
Scotch-Irish stock, and by marriage Salmon
P. Chase was connected with the family. The
maternal ancestors bore the name of McMillen,
and were of Irish Presbyterian descent. Grand-
father McMillen was a magistrate in Cincin-
nati, and at one time had the unbounded au-
dacity to order William Henry Harrison, then
a lieutenant, to be whipped for insubordina-
tion, but the sentence was suspended.
>^AMES H. McCLUNG, of the firm of
J Wildman & McClung, publishers and
A 1 proprietors of the Muncie Times, was
born in New Albany, Ind., February 7,
1834. His father, also named James H., was
a native of Rockbridge county, Va. , born
September 23, 1807; his mother, who bore the
maiden name of Mary Collins, was born in
1 8 10, in Madison county, Ky. . whither her
parents had emigrated from Virginia. The
father died at Fredericksburg, Ind. ; the mother,
who, after her husband's death, had been
married to W. H. Green, a prominent news-
I paper man of the state, died at Brookville,
Ind., June 5, 1887. James H., Jr., led the
uneventful life of a boy about a printing office,
with intervals of attendance at school in win-
ter, until si.xteen years of age, when he was
placed on the footing of a journeyman printer
and was paid journeyman's wages, at that
[ time eight dollars per week. With the excep-
tion of an additional attendance at school in
' 1852, he worked as a journeyman until twenty-
two years of age, and then purchased a half
interest in the office of the Connersville Times,
and in connection with Mr. Green, his step-
father, conducted the paper until December,
[ 1856, when he purchased the office of the
Liberty Herald, then called the Union County
Herald, which he owned and conducted for
almost eleven years. In August, 1856, Mr.
i McClung was married to Miss Clarissa Good-
lander at Connersville. To their happy union
were born three children, two sons and a
daughter, all married and with families of
their own. Mr. McClung enlisted in the early
part of the war in company G, Thirty-sixth
Indiana volunteers. He acted as orderly ser-
geant of his company at Camp Wayne, but
before leaving camp was commissioned as
second lieutenant. He served in various ca-
pacities in the field, being for a time A. A. A.
G. on the staff of Gen. Jacob Ammen; adjut-
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ant of his regiment, and captain of his original
company — G. His company was with the
first of Buell's troops to reach the battle field
of Shiloh, and besides many skirmishes and
small engagements was present at Stone River,
Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge and
Chickamauga. On the 26th of January, 1864,
Mr. McClung resigned his commission in the
army, and returned to Liberty and assumed
charge of his paper. He has, since selling the
Liberty Herald office in 1867, been connected,
as part owner, with the Connersville Times,
Wabash Plain Dealer and the Muncie Daily
and Weekly Times, purchasing in connection
with his son, Charles, a half interest in the
latter October 24, 1887.
William H. McClung, the eldest son of
James H. McClung, was born in Liberty, Ind.,
in September, 1857, and was married at the
same place to Miss Georgia Pierce, who is now
the mother of four children. William H. is
now the foreman of the composition room of
the Muncie Times. Charles T. McClung was
born in Liberty, Ind., September 28, 1864;
was educated in the common schools in his
native town, and spent his boyhood days in
the office of his father. He was married in
Muncie, Ind., March, 1890, to Miss=/Minnie
Smith, born in Liberty, Ind., in June, 1864,
daughter of E. P. Smith, a prominent manu-
facturer of the city. May McClung, the only
daughter of James H. and Clarissa McClung,
is the wife of F. H. Barton, a bookkeeper of
Champaign, 111., and is the mother of six
children.
>T^OHN McCONNELL was born March
m 22, 1832, in Scioto county, Ohio, the
^ I son of William and Arie (Armstrong)
McConnell. William McConnell was
born April 10, 1807, and his parents were
John and Barbara (Bowman) McConnell, the
father of Scotch-Irish and the mother of Ger-
man ancestry. John McConnell had a family
of seven children, all of whom have passed to
that bourne from which no traveler ever re-
turns. In the year 1832 William McConnell,
came to Delaware county, Ind., and entered
eighty acres of land in section 20, township
20, range 10, and the following year, moved
from Ohio to his new home, in what was then
an almost unbroken wilderness. He lived
upon this place the greater part of his remain-
ing life, and in his declining years moved to
Muncie, where his death occurred in 1878.
On moving to this county the present prosper-
ous city of Muncie was but a mere hamlet of
a few inhabitants, and surrounding the village
was a dense forest, through which wild ani-
mals and the scarcely less wild Indian roamed
at pleasure. Mr. McConnell added to his
original purchase from time to time, and
became the possessor of 160 acres of valuable
land, also some good town property. He was
a man of local prominence, popular with his
friends and neighbors, and served as justice of
the peace for a number of years. His wife
was a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church, and died on the 26th day of February,
1863. William and Aire McConnell reared
the following children: Jererriiah, deceased;
Rosanna, deceased; John; Abraham, of West
Virginia; Sarah, wife of George Wilhelm;
Moses, who is living a retired life in Muncie;
Catherine, wife of Samuel Huston. Three
others are dead — Levi, George and William.
As will be seen, by reference to the above
dates, John McConnell was but one year old
when brought by his parents to Delaware
county, in the growth and development of
which he has borne no inconsiderable part.
Reared to manhood amid the scenes of pio-
neer times, his early life, of necessity, was one
of hard work and considerable privation, and
such educational advantages as the country at
J. McCONNELL.
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355
that time afforded were obtained in the old log
school house, which he attended at intervals of
about two months of the year during his mi-
nority. He recalls the primitive log structure,
with puncheon floor, greased paper windows,
slab benches, and large fire place, which took
up about one-fourth of the end of the building,
while the writing desk was made of unplaned
plank, laid upon pins fastened into the wall.
In keeping with the building and its rude fur-
niture was the instruction imparted therein,
notwithstanding which Mr. McConnell laid the
foundation of a practical education. He at-
tended school in Muncie for a brief period and
remained with his parents until his twenty-first
year, at which time he began life for himself
as a farmer, purchasing eighty acres of land in
Blackford county, for which he paid the sum
of $550. Subsequently he exchanged this land
for eighty acres in Monroe township, Delaware
county, which he improved, and upon which he
lived until his removal to his present farm in
section 28, Centre township. His first pur-
chase in the latter township consisted of eighty
acres, to which he afterward added forty acres,
thus making him a very comfortable home and
valuable farm. Besides this he owns his
father's old homestead, a part of which has
been laid out in lots under the name of McCon-
nellsville. This addition consists of 132 lots,
and such has been the growth and develop-
ment of the city that what a few years ago was
a cultivated field, is now a town of itself.
The marriage of Mr. McConnell was sol-
emnized October 7, 1857, in Muncie, with
Margaret Bowers, who was born December 4,
1835, in Perry county, Ohio. The parents of
Mrs. McConnell were George and Margaret
(Foster) Bowers, the former of Pennsylvania
and the latter a native of Maryland. The father
died in Ohio in 1837, ^"d the mother subse-
quently came to Indiana and died in Muncie
November 5, 1883. Her birth occurred in 1 809.
Mr. and Mrs. McConnell are the parents of
the following children: Oliver; William R. ,
deceased; Charles E., deceased; Laura, wife
of Levi Stipp; Emily, deceased, and Nellie.
Mr. and Mrs McConnell are among the few
pioneers of Delaware county who live to tell
the story of their early trials and struggles in
laying a foundation, upon which the prosperi-
ty and high state of civilization of the western
country has been builded. Mr. McConnell is
an intelligent and enterprising man, and for
one of his years retains undiminished all his
faculties, both mental and physical. He is a
man of fine presence, and it is but just to
state that few citizens of his township are as
highly and universally respected as he. A
democrat in politics, he has never been a
seeker after official position, preferring to give
his entire attention to his farm. He belongs
to the I. O. O. F. and the Improved Order of
Red Men.
'^j'AMESMcCULLOCH, M. D., deceased,
■ was born in Springfield, Cumberland
ntj county. Pa., in 181 3, one of a large
family, of Scotch ancestry. His earlier
days were passed on a farm; merchandising
succeeded, and then teaching, after which he
was elected, as a democrat, recorder of his na-
tive county, without solicitation on his part,
and served his term of office at Carlisle, the
county seat. In 1856, he became a republi-
can. In the meantime he read medicine with
Dr. Baughman, and attended lectures in Phil-
adelphia, receiving his diploma from the uni-
versity of Pennsylvania in that city. He com-
menced practice in Carlisle, and at once arose
to distinction. In 1851 he married Miss Car-
oline J., the youngest daughter of Dr. George
D. Foulke, and soon afterward removed to
Kingston, in the same county, resided there
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three years, and in the fall of the third re-
moved to Lancaster, Ohio, and the following
April, a year, after living a few weeks in Leb-
anon, Ind., he became a resident of Muncie,
with his family, in 1856, forming a partnership
with Dr. George W. Edgerly for a few months.
He then continued alone in the active practice
of his profession until failing health compelled
him to retire. He died on the 3rd day of
May, 1877, leaving one son — George F. —
and four daughters.
@EORGE F. Mcculloch was bom
on the 25th day of September, 1855,
in Lancaster, Ohio. His father,
James McCulloch, was a native of
Pennsylvania but left that state, emigrating to
Ohio, thence, about 1856, to Indiana, locating
in the city of Muncie, where he continued to
reside for some years. George F. was then
six , months old, and in. .the Schools of Muncie
he received a liberal education, completing the
high school course in 1870. Meanwhile he
received his first introduction to practical life
as a clerk in the queensware house of W. J.
V. H. Cassad}', and after his graduation in the
year noted, he accepted a position with Will-
iam Steward as a deliverer of groceries, also
carried the mail, delivered express matter, and
handled baggage as his services were required.
In the spring of 1 871, he engaged with J. L.
Little as a salesman of sewing machine at-
tachments for a limited period, and then as a
clerk with the firm of Todd & Powers, dealers
in general merchandise, remaining in their em-
ploy until the fall of the same year. Mr. Mc-
Culloch was next apprenticed to learn photog-
raphy with Lon M. Neeley, of Muncie, in
whose gallery he pursued the study until May,
1872, at which date he became deputy clerk
of the Delaware county circuit court under G.
W. Greene. After the expiration of that
gentleman's official term, Mr. McCulloch was
retained by A. L. Kerwood, the successor of
Mr. Greene, with whom he remained until
January, 1881, severing his connection with
the office at that time and effecting a copart-
nership in the law with John McMahon, Esq.
The firm thus constituted lasted until August,
1883, at which time he assumed the duties of
clerk, to which office he had been elected the
year previous.
Mr. McCulloch proved himself both capa-
ble and popular, and in 1886 he was re-elected
his own successor. Retiring from the office at
the expiration of his term in 1891, Mr. McCul-
loch turned his attention almost entirely to the
industrial development of Muncie. In the
organization of the Citizens' Enterprise com-
pany, he w»s a prominent factor, having been
made secretary of the soliciting committee, a
position which he held for some time at the
earnest solicitation of his associates. In 1892,
he became interested in the Whitely Land
company as general manager of the same, and
to him as much as to any other man is the city
indebted for the present town of Whitely, one
of the most flourishing of the several suburbs
of Muncie. In addition to those noted above,
he is prominently identified with the Indiana
Bridge company, the Nelson Glass works, the
Muncie Natural Gas company, the Street rail-
way of Muncie, of which he is secretary, and
for a period of three years was connected with
the Muncie Transfer company.
Mr. McCulloch's marriage was solemnized
September, 11, 1883, with Miss Cora, only
daughter of Arthur Patterson, of Delaware
county, the result of which is two children —
one deceased. Mrs. McCulloch is a highly
accomplished lady and is a leader in the
society of Muncie. Her parents are members
of one of the oldest families in the county of
Delaware.
T. McKILLUP.
AND CENTRE TOWNSHIP.
iHOMAS McKILLIP, founder of the
Muncie Herald, and formerly a most
successful farmer and stock dealer,
has had a remarkably varied as well
as prosperous career. He was born in Fayette
county, Ohio, in 1840. His father, Thomas
McKillip, also an extensive farmer and stock
breeder, was born in North Carolina in 1809,
but when young was taken by his parents to
Fayette county, Ohio. The mother of our
subject bore the maiden name of Sarah Pow-
ell, and was of Scotch-Irish descent.
Thomas McKillip received a somewhat
limited education, as school houses were few
and far between in the wilds of Ohio in his
youthful days, and they of the rudest construc-
tion, with tutors of a caliber to correspond.
The school term consisted of three months
during the winter, and yet many of the hours
of this limited time were spent in caring for
the live stock on the home place — the after-
noons only, when available, being devoted to
school. Thus the earlier years of Mr. McKil-
lip's life were passed away until his majority
was reached, when, in 1861, he married Miss
Margaret A. Horney, of Jeffersonville, Fayette
county, Ohio. But this matrimonial bliss was
of short duration, as Mrs. McKillip was called
away in January, 1864, leaving behind her one
child about two years old. The following
year, 1865, Mr. McKillip came to Indiana and
purchased a 400-acre tract of land on the
south side of Indian Prairie, in Sugar Creek
township, Clinton county, where he did a very
extensive business, both at farming and at
handling cattle, sheep, hogs and mules, selling
in the Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Buffalo, Indian-
apolis, Chicago and New York markets for
sixteen consecutive years. He was regarded
as an expert in judging live stock, and for a
number of years was a member of the Clinton
County Agricultural association. In politics
he has always been a pronounced democrat.
and as such served three successive terms as
township trustee, or six years in all. For a
number of years, also, he was a member of
the democratic county committee of Clinton
county, and has always been an active and
ardent worker for the good of the party.
The second marriage of Mr. McKillip took
place in 1867, to Cyenda A. Wilson, of Clin-
ton county, Ohio, the result being a daughter
and a son.
The panic of 1873 brought to Mr. McKillip,
as it did to thousands of others, reverse of for-
tune, and caused him to change the base of
his operations, and to make a new financial
start. In 1882 he removed to Muncie, and,
after sundry business ventures, he decided, in
1885, to purchase the outfit of the New Castle
(Henry county) Mercury, which he transferred
to Muncie, and, placing the plant in the Mitch-
ell block, on south Walnut street, issued the
first number of the Muncie Democrat-Herald,
October 2, 1885.
In March, 1886, he issued the first number
of the Daily Herald, which immediately sprang
into popular favor, and, being newsy and ably
edited, it has come to be one of the leading
dailies of eastern Indiana, although the journal
was nurtured in the lap of poverty. Mr.
McKillip, ever persistent and energetic, abso-
lutely "footed it" all through the county, so-
liciting subscriptions and business for the
paper, and at last succeeded in establishing on
a sure foundation this journalistic "little
giant," that has so triumphantly withstood the
onslaught of its political foes in this over-
whelmingly republican county. Mr. McKillip
is the present chairman of the Delaware county
democratic committee. His energetic con-
duct in pushing forward the interests of the
Herald has won for him the confidence of his
party, and the support of the party given to
the Herald has been fully reciprocated on its
part.
MUNCIE CITY
>T*OEL R. McKIMMEY, ex-sheriff of
M Delaware county, Ind., is a son of
/• 1 James and Susan (Adamson) McKim-
mey, and was born in Henry county,
Ind., on the present site of New Lisbon,
August 5, 1834. In October of the same year
the father, with his wife and family of seven
children, moved to Salem township, Delaware
county, and entered 100 acres in the woods on
the Range line road, as it is now called. On
this farm Mr. McKimmey was reared, going to
the old log school, two miles away through
the woods, but going only in inclement
weather, being required to assist in clearing
up the farm when the days were fair. When
twenty years of age, Joel began the affairs of
life on his own account, and bought forty
acres of woodland, and in 1855 married a
girl who owned forty adjacent acres. He set-
tled on this farm in 1856, and by 1874 had
cleared and improved over half of it. In this
year, also, he moved to Muncie, carried on a
meat market for a year, and in 1875 began
riding as deputy for sheriff A. J. Slinger, was
with him two years, and then for four years
was deputy for Sheriff John W. Dungan. In
the spring of 1880, Mr. McKimmey, who is a
stalwart republican and cast his first presi-
dential vote for John C. Fremont, was nomi-
nated in the republican primary as candidate
for sheriff over nine contestants by a good
plurality, and at the polls was elected by 1,670
majority. In 1882 he was renominated with-
out opposition, was re-elected in the fall, and
served until August 27, 1885, when his second
term expired. During his ten years' experi-
ence as deputy and principal, ' during the
greater portion of which time he was com-
pelled to take his prisoners to New Castle,
there being then no jail in Muncie, he never
permitted a man to escape or break jail. In
his incumbency of four years as sheriff, he
handled 655 men in confinement, and during
two years of his service the new jail was in
course of construction. For some time after
the expiration of his second term he was
employed by his successor and b) the county
commissioners in adjusting and arranging the
records pertaining to the various county offices,
and was also, for a term, deputy assessor for
Centre township. For a year following, he
was in the employ of C. Haines in the ice
trade, and about 1890 became proprietor of
the Muncie Lake Ice company. In May, 1893,
he disposed of this lucrative branch of indus-
try, and is now temporarily retired from active
business. Mr. McKimmey has been a member
of Delaware lodge, F. & A. M., since 1856,
and of the I. O. O. F. since 1S78.
The marriage of Mr. McKimmey took
place in Delaware county, in 1855, to Miss
Anna Modlin, who was born in Henry county,
Ind., and who came to Delaware county, in
1850 or 1 85 1, with her parents, John and
Rachael (Parmer) Modlin, who were natives
of North Carolina, had a family of four sons
and one daughter, and died in Delaware
county, Ind. To the union of Mr. and Mrs.
McKimmey have been born five children —
Linley W. , who was for six years in the sher-
iff's office and is now in the employ of the
Lake Erie & Western Railroad company;
Mary M. , now the wife of L. A. Perdiue, of
Muncie; Sarah C. , was wife of W. A. William-
son, of Muncie — died in February, 1892, at
the age of thirty-four; William H. ; and John,
who died when about three years old.
The paternal grandparents of Mr. McKim-
mey came from Ireland and settled in North
Carolina, where the grandmother died. The
father of Mr. McKimmey, also a native of
Ireland, was but three years of age when
brought to America. In 18 16, the latter
came to Indiana and located at Connersville;
in 1 817, he went to Indianapolis with old John
McCormick, and there helped the latter to
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make a clearing before the city had been de-
cided upon as the state capital, and was so
employed about a year; then returned to the
settlements in Henry and Wayne counties;
was married, first, in Henry county, where
New Lisbon now stands, and came to Dela-
ware county in 1834, as has been stated. He
had born to him, by his first marriage, nine
children, of whom six only are now living.
He lost his wife about 1840, and his second
marriage was to Mrs. Nancy Gallon, who bore
him five children. The father, who had been
a justice of the peace for a number of years in
Monroe township, died in 1875, in his eighty-
second year, as highly honored and respected
in his day as are his descendants in theirs.
X)
A. McLAIN,
Dentist,
1 17.J East Jackson street,
Muncie, Ind.
^'^EORGE N. McLaughlin.— The
■ ^\ efficient trustee of Centre township,
^^^M and one of the popular citizens of
Muncie, was born in Delaware coun-
ty, Ind., April 23, 1845. His father, John
McLaughlin, was a native of Ohio, born near
the city of Chillicothe, of Irish and German
parentage. James McLaughlin, the grand-
father of George N., came to the United
States from Ireland many years ago, and was
one of the early settlers of southern Ohio.
John McLaughlin was by occupation a farmer;
he grew to manhood in his native county,
where, in early life, he married Rachael
Beeler and, in 1834, moved with his family to
Delaware county, Ind., locating in the town-
ship of Mount Pleasant, of which he was one
of the pioneers. He purchased 120 acres of
government land, from the woods of which he
redeemed a comfortable home, where he
reared his family, and upon whicli the remain-
der of his life was spent. He was a man of
local importance in his community for a num-
ber of years, was an earnest supporter of the
old whig party, and, for some time, served the
people of his township as a justice of the
peace. He was a man noted for his integrity
and high sense of honor; supported with
energy all improvements of a public nature,
and exemplified in his daily life and conduct
the teachings of the Methodist church, in
which he held the position of class-leader for
a great many years; his wife survived him and
continued to reside on the home farm, keeping
the family together and looking after their in-
terests. Of the five sons and three daughters
born to John and Rachael McLaughlin all
grew to maturity except one, who died in in-
fancy. The following are their names: Will-
iam H., Orlando L., George N. and Thomas
J., all of whom served with distinction in the
late war from this county. James S. was
captured in Georgia while on picket duty, and
shot to death by the enemy. The names of
the sisters are, Maria, Priscilla and Sarah A.,
all living at this time.
George N. McLaughlin inherits in a marked
degree many of the traits which distinguished
his ancestors, and in his veins the blood of the
Celt mingles with that of the Teuton. Like
the majority of country lads, the years of his
boyhood were comparatively uneventful, and
amid the rugged experiences of farm life, he
learned the lessons of industry and economy
which served as a foundation for much of his
success in subsequent years. Being but five
years of age when his father died, he early
did his share of farm work, contributing to
the support of his widowed mother and
younger brothers and sisters, and during his
MUNCIE CITY
minority attended the common schools, in
which he obtained a practical English educa-
tion. In the dark days of the rebellion, when
the ship of state was almost stranded on the
rugged rocks of disunion, Mr. McLaughlin,
with commendable patriotism, responded to
his country's call for volunteers, enlisting, at
the age of eighteen, in company G, One Hun-
dred and Thirty-fourth Indiana volunteer in-
fantry, for the hundred days' service. He was
mustered in, in March, 1862, and upon the
expiration of his term of enlistment veteranized
in company C, One Hundred and Fortieth regi-
ment, Indiana infantry, with which he served
until honorably discharged on the i ith of July,
1865, with the rank of corporal. His first
engagement of any note was the bloody battle
of Murfreesboro, and subsequently he partici-
pated in a number of battles, including Ft.
Anderson, Twin Creek, Goldsborough, Rolla
and Greensborough, N. C, being at the last
named place when Lee surrendered his army
at Appomattox.
After his discharge Mr. McLaughlin re-
turned home and resumed his studies, and in
the fall of 1866 taught his first school in the
Bethel neighborhood, Harrison township. He
followed the profession very successfully for a
period of twenty-two years, and earned the
reputation of a very careful and painstaking
instructor. With the exception of one year,
1883, when he was principal of the Strong
City high school, Kansas, his work in the edu-
cational field was principally confined to Dela-
ware county, and such was his efficiency that
his services were always in demand while he
remained in the profession. While teaching in
1888, he was elected trustee of Centre town-
ship, the duties of which position he dis-
charged with such commendable fidelity that,
in 1890, he was re-elected by a largely in-
creased majority. Mr. McLaughlin proved
himself a trustful custodian of the township
property, and he built several school houses,
which were among the best buildings of the
kind in the county. In politics Mr. McLaugh-
lin is a republican, and as such his counsels
have contributed to his party's success in a
number of general and local campaigns. He is
a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging
to the chapter, commandery and Scottish rite
branches, and has arisen to the thirty-second
degree in his order. He also belongs to the
I. O. O. F., K. of P., the G. A. R. and Patri-
otic Sons of America. He was first married
April 18, 1867, to Eliza A. Thomason, but a
few months later the marriage tie was severed
by mutual consent. December 3, 1870, Mr.
McLaughlin and Miss Orintha J. Kilgore,
daughter of George W. and Tabitha (Van-
Matre) Kilgore, were happily made man and
wife and their superb portraits will be found on
pages adjacent. Mrs. McLaughlin was born
September 5, 1850, and is the mother of one
child, a daughter, Minnie F., who died at the
age of three years. Mr. McLauglin is an effi-
cient and courteous official, an affable and
popular gentleman, universally liked by all
with whom he comes in contact. He feels de-
servedly proud of his success in life, possesses
excellent judgment of men and things, well
balanced by knowledge and experience. He is
a gentleman of good personal appearance and
courteous address, and is certainly entitled to
mention with the representative men of Dela-
ware county.
Sr— ^ ON. WALTER MARCH (deceased)
I^^V was born August 5, 18 14, at the town
^ ^ P of Millbury, Mass., in Worcester
county. His father, Samuel March,
was a native of the same county, and a lineal
descendant of Hugh March, who came to the
colony of Massachusetts from England in the
JUDGE WALTER MARCH.
MRS. M. MARCH.
AND CENTRE TOWNSHIP.
year 1635; and his mother, whose maiden
name was Zoa Parks, was a nati\e of Harvard,
Mass. The parents were industrious and
fruf^al, and, while the proceeds of their farm
did not elevate them to opulence, they were
very comfortably situated, and desired to afford
their children better educational advantages
than they had themselves enjoyed. The latter
improved well their opportunities, and grew
up to fill important and responsible positions.
The eldest son is a manufacturer and farmer at
Charlton, Mass., another is a farmer near
Oshkosh, Wis. ; another is a well known min-
ister of the gospel at Woburn, Mass. ; and
Walter, the second son, is the subject of this
sketch. His boyhood was passed in a manner
quite uneventful, amid pastoral scenes at
home. What time could be spared from farm
work was devoted to the improvement of his
mind and the acquisition of a primary educa-
tion at the common schools and the academy
at Millbury. He entered Amherst college and
graduated in 1837, after a course of four years,
during which time he taught two terms in the
common schools, and, after graduating, again
took up the vocation of school teaching, which
he pursued two terms longer. During this
time and subsequentlj- he studied law with
Judge Ira M. Barton, of Worcester, and after-
wards attended lectures at Cambridge, Mass.
In 1840, he was admitted to the bar at Wor-
cester, and, in November of the same year,
removed to Indianapolis, Ind. He engaged in
the practice in that city, and remained until
March of the following year, when he removed
to Muncie. Here, in January, 1845, he was
united in marriage to Miss Margaret J. ,
daughter of Benjamin and Ann Say re. Her
parents both died at the age of ninety-one
jears, and resided with Walter March until
their death.
Although a young man when he began the
practice at Muncie, in 1841, Mr. March
handled the most complicated cases success-
fully, and, as confidence was established, he
soon built up a large practice. One rule has
marked his entire career: He would never
undertake the cause of a client whom he
thought was in the wrong; and under no cir-
cumstances would he accept a case that he
could not conscientiously defend. In 1850,
he was elected a member of the constitutional
convention from the district composed of the
counties of Delaware and Grant. He was a
democrat, and although this was a whig dis-
trict, he was elected by a goodly majority over
the candidate of that party. At heart he was an
abolitionist, and, much against his convictions,
fealty to party and public trust induced him to
support measures not entire!}' in harmony with
his will — especially those discriminating
against the colored race. The open antago-
nism of his party to his own principles finally
culminated in his withdrawal from it, about
the time of the Kansas and Nebraska troubles.
He was intensely in earnest in his support of
the party, and, as a public speaker, did more
effectual work and accomplished more good in
its behalf, perhaps, than any other man in the
district; for he was an extraordinarily fine
speaker, and a thorough scholar; and when he
joined the ranks of the republican party, he
brought with him the same energy and the
same ability, and devoted himself as earnestly
to the success of the newly espoused cause,
and with results equally fruitful.
While a member of the state constitutional
convention, he advocated a change in the sys-
tem of law practice then prevalent, by which
the old English system should be abolished.
With. the assistance of his associates, this
measure was carried through, and the first
legislature that assembled, after the adoption
of the new constitution, appointed him one of
the committee to draft a code of principles
and practice which should obtain throughout
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the state. Among other things he incorpor-
ated a clause investing circuit judges with the
power to settle disputed points by arbitration,
by which means a great deal of needless liti-
gation could be avoided. It was tried in
many of the counties — Delaware among the
number — with good results; and this private
and friendly mode of settlement was almost
uniformly productive of better fellowship be-
tween the plaintiff and defendant than a suit
at law. But attorneys' fees were diminished
in consequence of this peaceful mode of litiga-
tion, and it was antagonized by attorneys
throughout the state. Finally such was the
pressure brought to bear that it was repealed
by the general assembly of 1865.
In 1852, he was elected judge of the court
of common pleas, on the democratict ticket,
and served four years. In 1856 he was
elected state senator. He had then with-
drawn from the democratic party, and was
elected as an independent friend of the Union.
He served four years, then became the candi-
date of the republican party for the same
position. He was returned for another term
of four years, and served throughout that
stormy period in the history of the Indiana
senate embraced between the years i860 and
1864. Within this period, the democrats,
who were in the majority, attempted to de-
prive the governer of his power over the state
militia, and invest it in the four offices of the
state. They were only prevented from ac-
complishing their plan by the republican mem-
bers absenting themselves from the senate,
and thus breaking the quorum. Judge March
was among the number, and was, in fact the
leader of the "bolt." While in the senate he
occupied many important positions, among
which was that of chairman of the judiciary
committee. He was a recognized leader of
his party and in .many ways proved himself
the soldier's friend. His career in the senate
was characterized by dignity and ability, and
the following tribute was paid him by the
Cincinnati Gazette: "One of the clearest
headed and coolest members of the Indiana
senate is Walter March, senator from the
district of Delaware, Blackford and Grant.
He speaks not half so often as others on the
floor, but always to the point, and with
strength and force. He wastes no time by
idle bombast, and has not the inordinate
vanity possessed by some men, of loving to
hear himself talk.
"When Mr. March rises to make a speech,
every member expects to hear something that
will strike the sense of every one, and com-
mand the attention of all. Although he is a
solid speaker, he is yet almost poetical, and
uses better language and a choicer selection of
words than any other man on the floor of the
senate."
At the close of his senatorial service, in
1864, he resumed the practice of his profes-
sion at Muncie, and in 1867, formed copart-
nership relations with Maj. Jonathan W. Gor-
don and Martin Ray, of Indianapolis, under
the firm name of Gordon, Ray & March, re-
taining at the same time his practice at Mun-
cie. In the fall of 1878, he was elected by
the republicans of this district as their repre-
sentative in the general assembly of the state,
by a majority of 1,250 votes.
His was indeed a busy and a model life.
He devoted himself assiduously to his profes-
sion, and stood at the head of the bar of Dela-
ware county. He was scrupulously conscien-
tious in all his dealings with mankind, and has
won the regard of all classes. He was firm in
his judgment, and fearless in the advocacy of
his convictions. He was a radical temperance
man, and a friend to the deserving poor, but
a relentless hater of impostors, or sham and
hypocrisy in any guise. His private acts of
charity were many, and will long live in the
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hearts of those who have been the recipients
of his bounty. He was ever a friend to what-
ever had a tendency to benefit and elevate
mankind, and many of the pubHc improve-
ments of this county number him among their
warmest coadjutors. He was ever a lover of
sciences, and found his chief recreation in
study and reflection upon this theme. He
was elected first president of the Literary and
Scientific society of Muncie in 1879, and was
a director of the Library Association of Mun-
cie from the time of its organization until his
death. A man of strong individuality, a fin-
ished scholar and a polished gentleman, he
occupied a special niche in society that none
other can fill. He died March 31, 1883.
Mrs. March, a lady of many admirable traits
of character, contributed in no small degree to
her husband's success in life. Mr. and Mrs.
March had no children of their own, but in
1867 they adopted the motherless son of John
Pyle, of Indianapolis, at that time ten years
old and now grown to manhood. His father
died in 1891, since which time he has known
no parent except Mrs. March who so kindly
reared him. The parents of Mrs. March, na-
tives respectively of New Jersey and New
York, came to Muncie in December, 1840,
and engaged in the hotel business.
V-7*0HN MARSH, late cashier of the Citi-
m zens' National bank of Muncie, was
A 1 born in Preble county, Ohio, August
22, 181 1. In his veins the blood of the
Anglo-Saxon mingles with that of the Teutonic
race. His father, Timothy Marsh, was the
son of John Marsh, who came to this country
from England, and settled in what is now Ger-
mantown, Montgomery county, Ohio. He
afterward served in the American army all
through the Revolution. The mother was
Mary Clawson, who was born near the mouth
of the Little Miami river, August 22, 1787, and
is said to be the first white child born in the
territory of Ohio. Cincinnati was not then
laid out, and the country was the home of wild
beasts and of the red man. She died at the
age of ninety, at the residence of her son, Sear-
j ing Marsh, near Logansport, Ind., September
15, 1877. Her father was John Clawson, a
German, who settled first in Kentucky and
afterward in Ohio, and took part in the long
struggle by which the colonies threw off the
British yoke. John Marsh was not allowed to
spend all his boyhood in school, but only the
winter term of every year, the remaining time
being employed in work on the farm. Yet the
school he attended was the best in the county,
and there he obtained a good education in the
common English branches. At the age of
seventeen he went to Eaton, and served an
apprenticeship of five years at the hatter's
trade. During this period his spare hours were
not wasted in the society of the vicious or the
frivolous, but were devoted to the acquisition
of useful knowledge. At length Mr. Marsh
commenced business as a hatter in Camden,
and continued it successfully until 1847, when
he entered upon the dry goods trade. After
one year he was elected treasurer of Preble
county, and held the office by re-election three
terms. So faithfully and well did he discharge
his duties that, at the last election, he re-
ceived all the votes cast in the county except
thirty-six. During this time he was a stock-
holder and a director of the Preble county
branch of the State bank of Ohio. In October,
1854. he removed to Wayne county, Ind., and
was made president of the Cambridge City
bank, one of those that withstood the crisis of
1857.
Mr. Marsh removed to Delaware county in
1856, and organized the Muncie branch of the
State bank of Indiana, becoming its president.
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In 1865 it was converted into the Muricie
National bank, and he remained its president
until 1874. He then sold his interest, intend-
ing to retire from business; but after a few
weeks of recreation, at the earnest solicitation
of a number of prominent men, he organized,
with them, in November, 1874, the Citizens'
bank, (converted into Citizens' National March
15. 1875)1 '^nd being given his choice of
positions, accepted that of cashier. Mr.
Marsh had always been an active politician.
His first ballot was cast for Henry Clay; he
aided in the organization of the republican
party, and ever after was in accord with the
principles set forth. In 1838 he joined the
Masonic fraternity and ten years later, at Day-
ton, Ohic, took the commandery degrees.
He was treasurer of Delaware lodge, of Mun-
cie chapter, and of Muncie commandery, and
helped organize the latter, of which he was
treasurer until his death. After 1854 he was
connected with the Methodist Episcopal
church, of which he was trustee. Mr. Marsh
was an able financier and secured a handsome
competence. He had no small mental capac-
ity, and might have achieved equal success in
more important callings. Few were so en-
dowed with qualities that inspire respect and
friendship, and none lived in happier domestic
relations than Mr. Marsh — his family being a
model one, in which perfect harmony existed.
He married, May 25, 1835, Miss Margaret,
daughter of Nathan and Jane (Carr) Mitchell,
both of Maryland, originally, but afterward
pioneers of Ohio. Four children were born of
this marriage, two of whom are living. Their
mother died of cholera, July 29, 1849. Mr.
Marsh was again united in marriage August 29,
1854, to Mrs. Mary Mutchner, by whom he
had four children. The kindness of heart of
Mr. Marsh was proverbial, and hundreds re-
vere his memory on that account alone, if for
nothing else.
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ILLIAM M. MARSH, son of John
Marsh, was born in Cambridge City,
Wayne county, Ind. , on the 8th
day of November, 1855. He spent
his boyhood days in Muncie, where he en-
joyed the advantages of a liberal education,
graduating from the city schools in 1873, after
which he began with the bank in the capacity
of messenger, the duties of which position he
discharged with commendable fidelity for
some time. Subsequently, he became book-
keeper for the same institution, and was thus
employed until the death of his father, having
in the meantime, for a period of two years,
acted in the capacity of assistant cashier.
Upon the death of his father he became
cashier. Mr. Marsh was married on the loth
day of October, 1883, to Miss Martha R.
Wysor, daughter of Jacob H. Wysor, of whom
a sketch appears elsewhere in this volume.
Mrs. Marsh's birth occurred in Muncie, Decem-
ber 12, 1859, and she has borne her husband
two children, namely: Henry Wysor and
John Edwin. The reputation of Mr. Marsh
for energy and business capacity marks him as
among the foremost, and socially he is deserv-
edly popular with his fellow citizens, both
of the city of Muncie and throughout the
county. He is, at this time, vice-president of
the Citizen's Enterprise company, is connected
with the Ball Glass works, of which he was a
charter officer, and is prominently identified
with the Indiana Iron company. Mr. Marsh
has always manifested an active interest in
the material development of Muncie, to which
he has contributed liberally of his means, and
in 1889-90, he erected on one of the principal
thoroughfares of the city a large and imposing
brick structure known as the New Southern
hotel. Mr Marsh stands high in Masonry,
belonging to the Blue lodge, Muncie chapter,
Muncie council and commandery, and is also
an active member of the Society of Elks.
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>^OHN ROLLIN MARSH, chief engineer
■ of the Indiana Bridge company, was
/* 1 born January 13, 1863, in the city of
Muncie, Delaware county, Ind. He
grew to manhood in his native city, in the
schools of which he obtained his early educa-
tional training, completing the prescribed
course and graduating from the high school in
1879. On quitting school he accepted the
position of deputy clerk, Delaware county cir-
cuit court, later became duputy county record-
er, in both of which capacities he served
several terms under different officials, proving
himself a very efficient and capable assistant.
Actuated by a desire to complete his educa-
tion in the special line of engineering, Mr.
Marsh in the fall of 1883 entered the school
of Mines, Columbia college. New York, where
he pursued his technical studies for several
years, graduating in 1887, after which he
accepted the position of chief engineer of the
Indiana Bridge company of Muncie. In his
theoretical and practical knowledge of engi-
neering Mr. Marsh has few equals in Indiana,
and his name is well and favorably known
among the experts of the profession through-
out the state. He is a finished scholar, a
polished gentleman, possesses the necessary
traits of character which insure success and
popularity, and enjoys the confidence of the
large and well known company with which
he is identified.
He married August 5, 1889, Miss Susie
Ryan, daughter of John W. Ryan, .of Muncie,
and is the father of two bright children, John
Rodney and Mildred Ryan. With the excep-
tion of a college fraternity, Mr. Marsh belongs
to no society or order; he and wife are mem-
bers of the Episcopal church of Muncie, in
which they are highly respected, and their
hands and hearts are ever ready to respond to
the cry of distress or want, as well as to
plain charity.
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ILI.IA^^ E. H. MARSH, the genial
and popular proprietor of the Na-
tional Hotel, Muncie, Ind., is a
native of Chelsea (Boston), Mass.,
was born May 14, i860, and is the only child
of William E., Jr., and Ellen Maria Winship
(Toppan) Marsh, of whom the former was born
at Cincinnati, Ohio, November 11, 1836, of
English and Scotch parentage, and the latter
born at Newburyport, Mass., August 13, 1839,
of English descent. William E. Marsh, Jr.,
was but ten years of age when taken east by
his parents. For four years he attended school
in Virginia, one year in New York state, and
four years in Massachusetts, of the latter period,
two years at Harvard university. On finishing
his literary education he began his business
life by entering the wholesale grocery estab-
lishment owned by his father at Cincinnati,
and for nine years assiduously devoted his at-
tention to acquiring a knowledge of mercantile
affairs; the following nine years were passed in
real estate transactions at Plainfield, N. J., and
the fifteen subsequent years in the hotel busi-
ness, for which he seemed to be peculiarly
adapted. In 1877 he became proprietor of the
Gait House, in Cincinnati, which he conducted
until 1892, when he went to Chicago and leased
the Hotel Brewster, which he retained eighteen
months. He then came to Muncie, Ind., where
he is now interested with his son in the National,
still retaining his interest in the Gait House,
Cincinnati. As a business man he has but few
equals, as a host he is unexcelled anywhere,
being attentive, hospitable, obliging, and liberal
in his consideration of the needs of his guests.
The marriage of Mr. Marsh occurred December
I, 1859; to Miss Toppan, and their union, as
stated, was fruitful in the birth of only one
child, a son. Mrs. Marsh is a consistent mem-
ber of the Baptist church, and in politics Mr.
Marsh is liberal in his views, relying on his own
judgment in such matters, as in everything else.
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MUNCIE CITY
William Edward Henry Marsh is a gentle-
man of splendid executive abilities, and has
been thoroughly schooled in all those graceful
accomplishments and that pleasing tact that
constitute the perfect hotel manager. His
boyhood was passed in Newburyport, Mass.,
and he was educated by private tutors to a
high standard in literature and in the German
and English classics, which training was sup-
plemented by a course of study at the Nelson
Business college at Cincinnati. At the age of
sixteen he became associated with his father
in the management of the Gait House, corner
of Sixth and Main streets, Cincinnati, where
he became so well versed in his vocation, and
in 1890 came to Muncie, Ind., leased the now
favorite National Hotel, which he refitted and
converted into the elegant, and above all, the
comfortable establishment it now is. His in-
tuitive apprehension of the wants of his guests
and anticipation of their wishes have placed
him at the very head and front of hosts, and
created a demand for accommodations at his
house that at times taxes even his ingenuity
to meet. Affable, urbane, and anxious to
please, he has won golden opinions from all
comers. He is a member of the Knights of
Maccabees and the Ancile club of Muncie.
In politics he affiliates with the republicans.
>^OHN S. MARTIN, M. D., the profes-
m sional gentleman whose name intro-
A 1 duces this sketch, is a well known and
highly valued citizen of Muncie, where
his skill and medical knowledge are frequently
called into exercise. Dr. Martin was born in
Johnson county, Ind., November 21, 1851,
and is a son of Samuel C. and Jane (Haw-
thorne) Martin, both parents natives of Henry
county, Ky. He enjoyed superior educational
advantages, attending first the schools of his
native county, and subsequently pursuing the
higher branches of learning in Franklin col-
lege, in which institution he made commenda-
ble progress. After completing his literary
educatiou. Dr. Martin began teaching, which
profession he successfully followed for seven
years, leaving it only to begin his medical
studies with Dr. J. D. George, a well known
and successful practitioner of Franklin, Ind.
With a laudable desire to increase his knowl-
edge of his profession, the doctor entered the
Cleveland(Ohio) Homeopathic Hospital college,
graduated in 1883, and immediately thereafter
located in Muncie, where he has since prac-
ticed with flattering success and financial
profit. He began the practice at Indianapolis
some time before completing his professional
course in the above institution, and since
locating in the gas belt his abilities have been
recognized beyond the limits of Delaware
county, and he is now one of the leading rep-
resentatives of his school in this part of the
state. The doctor's personal characteristics
have won him many friends, and among his
professional brethren he is recognized as a
man of energy and determination, fully abreast
of the times and active in upholding the dig-
nity of the healing art. He is of good person-
al presence, has an unblemished character,
and is a man of high moral and social stand-
ing among his fellow citizens of Muncie. Dr.
Martin is a member of the Indiana institute of
Homeopathy, also of the American institute,
in the deliberations of which body he takes an
active part, and of which he is now serving as
treasurer. He is a prominent member of the
K. of P. and Red Men fraternities, and exer-
cises the elective franchise in behalf of the
democratic party. The doctor was married,
in 1874, to Miss Laura A. Clark, daughter of
John R. and Keziah Clark, of Johnson county,
Ind., the result of which union is one child, a
son, Samuel Albert Martin. Mrs. Martin is a
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member of the Presbyterian church of Muncie,
and is a lady of social prominence in the city.
^"^AMUEL MARTIN, retired, was born
•^^^k* in Clarke county, Ohio, July 29, 1827,
f<^ and is a son of Stephen R. and Nancy
(Kirkpatrick) Martin. His father was
born near Cincinnati on October 11, 1804,
and was a son of Samuel Martin, a native of
New Jersey, who settled in Clarke county, Ohio,
in 1805, where he entered a tract of land, and
also entered a tract of land in Miami county.
Stephen R. Martin moved to Delaware county,
Ind., in 1834, and settled upon a farm in Hamil-
ton township, and entered several tracts of land.
He was one of the originators, the treasurer,
and a director in the Granville pike, and a
stockholder in the Bee Line railway. He was
one of the original stockholders of the Citizens'
National bank of Muncie, and a trustee in the
Christian church for many years. He was a
democrat, and was trustee of his township. His
first wife died in June, 1867, and he remarried
to Susan Spoor, of Iowa, who survives him.
His family consisted of six daughters and two
sons. The living are : Samuel, Phoebe, Ellen, j
Mary, wife of John Pittinger, of Hamilton j
township, and Emily, Stephen R. Martin
died October 19, 1877. Samuel Martin was
reared in Delaware county, and received his
education in its early schools. When twenty-
two years of age he went to California, where
he spent several years in farming and mining,
and then returned to Delaware county. In
1857 he married Miss Mary WilHamson, daugh-
ter of Peter Williamson, of Hamilton town-
ship, and cleared a farm in that township, upon
which he resided until 1879, when he moved
into the city of Muncie, and engaged in the
manufacturing of pumps, under the firm name
of Puckett, Smell & Martin. He was also a
memberof the hardware firm of Martin, Young,
& Kessler. In 1886 he withdrew from all active
business, and has since lived a retired life. He
is a stockholder in the Co-operative Gas com-
pany, and has large real estate interests in the
city. Politically a democrat, he has repre-
sented the First ward in the city council ; is a
member of the A. F. & A. M. chapter and com-
mandery. He and wife are members of the
High street M. E. church, and he is the present
treasurer of the same; also one of the trustees,
and was a member of the building committee.
OSCAR L. MEEKS, the gentleman for
whom this biographical sketch is pre-
pared, is a native of Delaware county,
Ind., born December 7, 1853. the son
of Isaac Meeks. He grew to manhood in his
native city, in the public schools of which he
received a practical English education, and,
having early manifested a decided preference
for mechanical pursuits, entered a furniture
factory, and while still a boy became profi-
cient as a workman. The proprietor of this
factory was his father, Isaac Meeks, with whom
Oscar L. subsequently effected a co-partner-
ship, and the firm thus constituted continued
until the destruction of the establishment by-
fire, which .event occurred a short time before
the senior member's death. Mr. Meeks then
engaged with the Bandey Planing Mill com-
pany as foreman, in which capacity he has
since continued. He is a skillful mechanic,
familiar with all the details of the business
with which he is connected, and is one of the
highly respected citizens of Muncie. Politically
a republican, he cast his first vote for Benja-
min Harrison for governor; and religiously a
Methodist, he is one of the leading members of
the High street congregation of Muncie. Mr.
Meeks was married in June, 1876, to Miss
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Alice Kemper, daughter of William Kemper, to
which union three children have been born,
namely: Bessie, Emily and Harold, the first
named of which is deceased.
Isaac Meeks is a native of Monongalia county,
W. Va. , born July 9, 1829. At the age of ten years
he, with his parents, Amos and Nancy Meeks,
immigrated to Indiana, locating, in the fall of
1832, in the eastern part of Delaware county.
They erected a log cabin in the heart of the
forest and set about clearing off 150 acres of
land. There being a large family (eight broth-
ers and seven sisters, and one half-brother and
half-sister), there was not enough employment
for them on the farm, so Isaac, at the age of
fifteen, decided to come to Mimcie and learn
the cabinet making trade. Being naturally a
mechanic, he soon became skilled in his work
and entered into a partneship with his brother
Robert in the cabinet business, a union which
lasted for forty-five years. He married Mary
E. McProud, of Randolph county, this state,
to whom were born five children — two boys
and three girls. In politics he was a strong
republican — ^the party of his father. He was
a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for
over forty-five years, filling different positions
in the church with a true christian zeal, until
death claimed him, January 16, 1891.
,>^ OBERTMEEKS.— Without a thought
I /^T of disparagement for the many excel-
£ , P lent characters herein illustrated,
perhaps none, taken as a whole, are
more noteworthy and more favorably and
extensively known than the Meeks family. As
the oldest representative of that family now
living, we begin our group of their biographies
with that of Robert Meeks.
The parent stem of this sturdy old pioneer
started in the eternal hills of West Virginia.
He is the son of Amos and Nancy Meeks. His
mother's maiden name was Means. He was
born in Monongalia county, of that state, on
July 8, 1822. The educational facilities of
that time and place were very meager, and he
attended subscription school in winter only.
He was the eldest of fifteen children, nine of
whom were born in West Virginia. He immi-
grated to Delaware county, with his father's
family, in the year 1839, when about seven-
teen years of age. The whole journey was
made in an old fashioned Virginia wagon
drawn by four horses, and it occupied sixteen
days to make the trip. They located about
three miles northeast of what is now the town
of Selma, on or near what is known as Sugar
Ridge. The country was then simply a vast
wilderness, and the next five years were spent
in helping to clear up his father's farm, he
being the main dependence of his father in
this work, as his brothers were younger, and
hence unable to contribute much in this direc-
tion. He came to Muncie in May, 1844, and
began his career for himself as an apprentice
with Nottingham & Swain, to learn the trade
of cabinet-making, in a two story frame build-
ing, located then on the ground where the
Boyce block now stands. He worked thus
about one year, and about eighteen months
later bought an interest in the firm of John
Nottingham. The partnership with Swain
continued less than a year, when Nottingham
purchased the interest of Job Swain. During
this partnership, Robert's brother, Isaac
Meeks, was apprenticed to the firm to learn
the trade also. Still later on, Robert bought
the interest of Nottingham, and was then the
owner of the shop — building and ground. The
firm then became known as R. & I. Meeks,
and continued thus to be successfully operated
for a series of years, during which time the
old sign board, which hung out from the old
shop, bearing the letters of this old firm, was
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synonymous with honesty and fair dcahn^.
About t>^e year 1 871, James \V. Meeks, the
son of Robert, became a partner, and the
style of the firm was then changed to R. & I.
Meeks & Co. At this time a two story brick
building was erected on the southeast corner
of Washington and Elm streets and supplied
with engine, boiler, and all the latest improved
machinery, and the work of making furniture
began on a scale up to the requirements of the
times and the increasing demands for their
products. In the meantime, Isaac Meeks was
in charge of the sales department and storage
rooms, located in their brick business block on
east Main street, while Robert and his son
James were in charge of the manufacturing
shops as described.
This partnership between the elder Meeks
brothers lasted until the death of Isaac, on
the 1 6th day of January, 1891. It is a curious
fact that, while the business of making and
selling furniture, in connection with their large
undertaking business and funeral directorship,
has increased to almost abnormal proportions,
Amos Meeks, the old father of Robert and
Isaac, nearly fifty years ago seriously wondered
what they would do with the vast accumula-
tion of furniture after they had once supplied
the local demand; when the real fact is, the
demand has always increased in a ratio faster
than their facilities were able to supply. The
factory was run to its full capacity until 1 890,
when it took fire and was totally consumed.
It was never rebuilt, and on January 2, 1892,
old uncle Robert Meeks, as he is familiarly
called, accidentally met with a fall, by which
his leg and hip were broken, which confined
him to his bed and house; since which time,
owing to extreme lameness, he has lived in
retirement, resting as well as possible on his
well earned competency. This can certainly
be all the better appreciated, when it is con-
sidered that Mr. Meeks worked the first winter.
after he learned his trade, and received only
seventy-five cents in money, and took the rest
due him in other articles. During his term of
apprenticeship, he got only his board and the
making of one overcoat, and at the end of the
first year, as such, he was as good a workman
as any man in the shop, and was able, in 1 848,
to pay $450 for a half interest in their shop and
building, and now the entire business of the
concern, including undertaking, which he had
carried on from the very start, is under the
exclusive management of his three sons, James
W., William A., and Martin L. Meeks, the
last two having joined the firm of R. Meeks &
Son in the year 1880, while his youngest son,
Jacob Arthur, is associated in business with
James Boyce, of Muncie, a sketch of each of
them appearing in our lists of biographies.
Robert Meeks was married, in 1846, to Miss
Sarah Jones, daughter of Jacob and Beersheba
Jones, who has been a faithful and devoted
wife and mother and a helpmate, indeed, to a
worthy husband.
>^AMES W. MEEKS is the eldest son of
M Robert and Sarah Meeks. He was
/§ 1 born in Muncie, Ind., December 14,
1848, and received a common school
education, graduating from the Muncie high
school in the class of 1870. He had spent
most all his vacations and other spare time in
the furniture factory of R. & I. Meeks, of
which firm his father was a member, and after
graduation went into the employ of said firm
and worked one year. In the year 1871, he
became a member of the firm, when it was
changed to R. & I. Meeks & Co., and has
been actively engaged in this occupation ever
since. From 1871 to 1890, he was superin-
tendent and foreman of the furniture factory,
which was established about 1871, located on
MUNCIE CITY
Washington and Elm streets, and is now the
oldest active member of the iirm of R. Meeks
& Sons, which is the oldest furniture and un-
dertaking establishment in the county, cover-
ing, as it does, a half century of continuous
operation, and therefore one of the best and
most favorably known institutions in eastern
Indiana. Their storage and sales departments
occupy the first, second and third floors of
their large brick business block, No. 1 1 5 east
Main street, in Muncie, where they carry a
most complete line of the latest style and best
made furniture and caskets, and from their
well established reputation for honesty and fair
dealing, do a very extensive retail business.
He and all his brothers are practical under-
takers and funeral directors. They furnish a
free ambulance, and are often called to the
most remote parts of the county. He was
married on June 27, 1876, to Louisa C,
daughter of Joseph and Mary Hummel.
Three children have been born to them —
Amelia B., Sarah M. and Robert H. Meeks.
He has a beautiful home, and, being a tireless
worker and having a taste for horticulture, has
beautiful surroundings and all the home com-
forts, and takes great delight in showing speci-
mens of his home-grown grapes and other
fruits. He is a worthy member of the I. O.
O. F. and its encampment, and in the lodge
he has passed all the officers' chairs. He was
one of the incorporators of the Merchants'
National bank of Muncie, and is one of the
board of directors of the same. Mr. Meeks
is also a faithful and consistent member of the
High street Methodist Episcopal church, and
at present fills the office of steward, and is
treasurer of the Preachers' Aid society of the
North Indiana conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church. Charity never makes a
call in vain on Mr. and Mrs. Meeks, and both
are untiring in church work, while Sunday
schools receive much of their attention.
at
ILLIAM A. MEEKS, second son of
Robert and Sarah Meeks, was born
in Muncie, Ind. , April 8, 1851, and
received the educational benefits of
the Muncie schools, graduating in the higher
branches in the class of 1870. He worked six-
teen months at the harness making trade, then
entered the furniture factory of his father and
brother in the year 1872, where he continued
to work until the steadily increasing demands
made upon the Main street store and under-
taking department had caused it to grow to
such proportions that he was compelled to
transfer his help to that department, where he
has remained ever since. He became a part-
ner in the concern in the year 1881, and by his
zeal and efficient help has contributed his full
share to the success of the business. He was
married on October 17, 1883, to Miss Mary C.
Dungan, daughter of ex-Sheriff John W. Dun-
gan. Her mother's maiden name was Edith
Dragoo, who was a sister to John W. and Will-
iam Dragoo, the latter being ex-auditor of
Delaware county. He is a member of the I.
O. O. F. and K. of P. lodges, and is now the
recording steward and secretary of the official
board of the Methodist Episcopal church of
this city.
QARTIN L. MEEKS is the third son
of Robert and Sarah Meeks, and
was born in Muncie, Ind., October
I, 1853, and, like his brothers, grad-
uated from the Muncie high school in 1872.
In the fall of the same year he went into the
furniture factory of R. & I. Meeks & Co. and
learned the wood turning trade. Immediately
thereafter he took charge of the undertaking
business of that firm, and for the last twenty
years has had exclusive charge of the same.
During this time he has attended personally
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a large number of the funerals that have occur-
red at various times in Muncie. He has re-
ceived instructions in this art from the most
eminent professional embalmers, and keeps up
with all the improved methods that are con-
stantly being made in the line of his profession.
He became a partner in the firm of R. & I.
Meeks & Co. in 1881, and now owns a one-
third interest in the whole concern. He was
married November 21, 1876, to Miss Carrie
Clark, daughter of Robert and Fannie Clark,
of Delaware count}'. Four children have been
born to them, two sons and two daughters:
Arthur C, Earnest S., Mary W. and Fannie,
the latter having died October 29, 1887, at the
age of eight years, seven months and fifteen
days. Martin L. Meeks and family, in com-
mon with all of the families of the name, are
active and consistent members of the Methodist
Episcopal church.
>Y'AC0B ARTHUR MEEKS, the young-
M est son of Robert and Sarah Meeks,
A ■ was born in Muncie, January 15, 1856.
He attended the public schools, and
graduated from the high school in 1873. His
vacations from boyhood had been utilized by
clerking in a grocery, and he was thus largely-
employed byMaddy, Burt & Kirby until 1877.
In that year he completed a commercial course
in the Miami Commercial college, at Dayton,
Ohio. In 1878 he was bookkeeper for a
wholesale hat house at Toledo, Ohio. March
I, 1880, he entered the emplo}- of James Boyce
as bookkeeper in his bagging factory, and on
August I, 1 88 1, he purchased an eighth inter-
est in the plant. The day following his pur-
chase the entire factory burned down, entailing
a heavy loss, as the ratio of insurance was
small, and the year following another dis-
astrous conflagration occasioned a loss of $20,-
j 000, principally on manufactured stock. Mr.
Meeks continued in the manufacture of bagging
! with Mr. Boyce until 1885, when they sold
their entire plant to the Muncie Bagging com-
pany. In the same year he purchased a half
interest of James Boyce in the Muncie Handle
works, and operated that plant successfully
until it was destroyed by fire in April, 1893.
The loss, however, was largely covered by in-
surance, and in six weeks thereafter the works
were rebuilt and ready for operation. They
employ a complement of thirty hands, and an-
nually make from 50,000 to 75,000 dozen of
"D" and long shovel handles. Mr. Meeks is
also interested in the Boyce Rivet company,
and devotes his entire time to the management
of these industries. He was married, in 1879,
to Miss Lydia Gray, daughter of J. M, Gray,
now a resident of Anderson, and of this union
there is one son, Erie G. Meeks.
*w ^ IKAM MESSERSMITH, real estate
l*^^^ dealer of Muncie, was born near the
M. . r Tippecanoe battle ground, Tippeca-
noe county, Ind., September i i, 1840.
His ancestors were early settlers of Virginia,
from which state his grandparents immigrated
to Indiana many years ago, locating in the
county of Fayette. His father, Samuel Messer-
smith, was born in the year 1807, and early in
life became a skillful manufacturer of edged
tools, in which line of work his antecedents for
several generations had excelled. Samuel
Messersmith married Miss Charity Freeman, a
native of New York, and began housekeeping
at Metamora, Franklin county, Ind., where
Mr. Messersmith £or some time carried on a
general blacksmithing business. Subsequently
he removed to Connersville and worked at his
trade, and later moved to the country and for
several years carried on farming in connection
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with blacksmithing. His next move was to
Tippecanoe county, where he resided until one
year after the birth of Hiram, at which time
he emigrated to Iowa and entered government
land in the vicinity of Des Moines, a part of
which city now occupies a portion of his origi-
nal purchase. Two years later he returned to
Indiana and located in Rush county, where,
owing to sickness, superinduced by the expo-
sure incident to his constantly moving from
place to place, he died in the fall of 1843. Six
children were born to Samuel and Charity
Messersmith, namely: Almarine, Ephraim,
Nancy, Sarah, Hiram and Clarissa; of these
Nancy and Sarah are dead; the mother still
survives and makes her home with her young-
est daughter at Connersville. She has reached
the ripe old age of eighty-two years and pos-
sesses, in a marked degree, her physical and
mental faculties.
Hiram Messersmith was but three years of
age when his father died, after which event he
was taken by his mother to Columbia, Fayette
county, where his boyhood days were passed.
He worked at various occupations until the
age of sixteen, when he learned the plasterer's
trade, which he followed at Connersville and
vicinity until 1865, in the meantime spending
thirteen months in the army. In that year he
went to Danville, 111., and, after becoming
comfortably located in that city, returned to
Indiana and married, on the 4th day of Octo-
ber, 1865, Miss Sarah H. Lister, who accom-
panied him to his new home. In 1869 Mr.
Messersmith purchased a farm about six miles
southwest of Connersville, near his old home,
and for eight years thereafter was engaged in
agricultural pursuits. He abandoned farming
in 1877, and, moving to 'Glenwood, Rush
county, embarked in the drug business, which
he carried on for a period of eleven years.
Disposing of his drug stock in 1888, Mr.
Messersmith came to Muncie and engaged in
the grocery trade, but after a few months
severed his connection with merch'andising
and opened a real estate office and has since
been extensively engaged in real estate trans-
actions in Delaware and other counties. The
following are the names of the children born
to Mr. and Mrs. Messersmith: Delia, wife of
R. L. Gwynn; Gustave and a deceased infant.
Mr. Messersmith is a democrat in politics and
a member of the I. O O. F. While not a
member of any church he is a believer in the
truths of the Bible and contributes liberally to
all religious and charitable purposes. His wife
is a member of the Presbyterian denomination
— a lady highly respected by all who know her.
At the breaking out of the war Mr. Messer-
smith enlisted, at the age of twenty, in company
E, One Hundred and Sixteenth Indiana volun-
teer infantry, which was mustered in at Con-
nersville for the three months' service. His
military record began at the first call of the
president for volunteers, three days after the
firing on Fort Sumter. While he was absent
at home on a furlough his regiment left for the
front. In company with five others he solic-
ited aid from the citizens of Richmond to enable
him to rejoin it. He rode in a cattle car to
Baltimore, Md., but on reaching that city
learned, to his great surprise and vexation,
that the regiment had left sometime previous.
Accordingly, he remained with the Twenty-first
regiment for two weeks, in the meantime
doing his utmost to ascertain the whereabouts
of his command. Through the kind offices of
Gen. Hicks he secured transportation to Point
of Rocks, Md., but the only information he
received there was that the regiment had passed
through the place about two weeks before.
He at once formed the resolution of following
on foot, and after a number of days' rambling
from place to place, at length succeeded in over-
taking his comrades one nightfall in camp near
what was then known as Sugar Loaf Mountain.
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Mr. Messersmith was in the army for a period of
thirteen months and received an honorable
discharge from the service at Washington, D. C.
>^AMES MILLER, a brief review of
■ whose Hfe is herewith presented, was
/• 1 born October 27, 1836, in Dayton,
Montgomery county, Ohio. James
Miller, the father, a farmer by occupation,
was a native of Adams county, Ohio, and later
became a resident of Dayton, to which city he
removed about the year 1830. He married,
in his native state, Martha J. Lynn, who bore
him eleven children, six of whom are living at
this time, James being the sixth member of
the family. James Miller, Sr. , died in 1876,
while on a tour through the west in search of
a location; Mrs. Miller is still living at her
home in Dayton, Ohio.
James Miller was reared on a farm n^ar
Dayton, and received his education in the
schools of that city. When the war cloud
appeared in 1 861, he enlisted in the fall of
that year in the Seventy-fourth Ohio volun-
teer infantry, was mustered into the service at
Xenia, Ohio, after which the regiment went
into camp at Columbus. From Camp Chase
the command went to Nashville, Tenn., and
joined the army of the Cumberland under
Gen. Rosecrans, and its first active participa-
tion in the war was at Bowling Green, Ky.
Mr. Miller took part at Stone River, Chicka-
mauga. Mission Ridge, Buzzard's Roost,
Resaca, Big Shanty, Kenesaw Mountain,
Manetta, Chattahootchee, Atlanta, Jonesboro,
Savannah and Bentonville, and was with
Sherman in the celebrated march from
Atlanta to the sea. He was fortunate in
escaping with but a single wound, received at
Stone River, and he points with pride to the
fact that during the long period of service
he never missed a nnister, or a battle
in which his regiment was engaged.
Mr. Miller received his discharge at Golds-
boro, N. C, and immediately returned to
Ohio and resumed the pursuit of agriculture
in Montgomery county. After three years
thus spent he located on a farm in Madison
county, Ind., not far from Anderson, where a
little later he was united in marriage to Miss
Nancy Jane Myer. After farming there seven
years he removed to the city of Muncie, where
for a period of five years he followed the tim-
ber business, buying extensively throughout
Delaware, Madison and other counties of cen-
tral and eastern Indiana. In the spring of
1883 Mr. Miller was appointed a patrolman of
Muncie, served with great credit for eight
years, and was then elected city marshal.
His popularity with the people, irrespective of
political affiliation, is sufficiently attested by
the fact of his having been elected to the
office of marshal as a democrat, overcoming a
republican majority of 700, and receiving 622
more \otes than his competitor. Mr. Miller
proved himself a very capable and efficient
guardian of the peace, was popular with all,
courteous in the discharge of his official func-
tions, and it is a compliment well deserved to
accord him a prominent place among the
most capable and painstaking officials of Mun-
cie, having been appointed superintendent of
police March 17, 1893, and holding that posi-
tion at present. Mr. Miller belongs to the
G. A. R. and I. O. R. M., in both of which
fraternities he is an active worker. The fol-
lowing are the names of the children born to
Mr. and Mrs. Miller: Margaret Jane, Charles
Andrew, James Franklin, John Andrew, Mary-
Frances, William Wilbert, Earl Clarence and
Harry Miller. It will be seen from the above
that James Miller was not only a brave soldier
in conquering a peace, but has been equally
brave in preserving it.
MUNCIE CITY
^>^ARIUS CLINTON MITCHELL oc-
I I cupies a very important position
/^^^ among the well known and promi-
nent business men of Muncie, Ind.
He was born in Clarke county, Ohio, April 3,
1 85 1, son of Joseph R. and Sarah (Saylor)
Mitchell, natives of that county, who in 1865
came to Muncie, where the father was engaged
in contracting and building for about twelve
years, but is now living retired. The mother
passed from earth in 1880. Mr. and Mrs.
Mitchell reared four sons, as follows: William
H., superintendent of the Indiana Bridge
company, of Muncie; Alpheus, of Detroit,
Mich. ; Joseph, a resident of Indianapolis, and
Darius C. Darius C. Mitchell was educated
in the public schools of Muncie, served an
apprenticeship to the trade of carpenter in
Indianapolis, and as early as 1872 began con-
tracting in Muncie, which has resulted in the
following record of fine buildings erected by
him: The New Southern hotel, at a cost of
$17,000; Central block, at a cost of $16,000;
Fred Klopfer's building, $9,800; George Bow-
er's block, $7,000; Eagle block, $9,000;
Branch Brothers' block, $8,000; Leager Block,
$5,000; Boyce block (rebuilt), $9,000; Or-
phans' Home, $8,500; Architectural Iron
works, $7,500; Shoe factory, $7,000; Muncie
Glass factory, $4,500; Muncie Casket factory,
$10,000; Ball Bros. Glass works, $5,000;
Muncie Rubber works, $3,000; David Cam-
mack, residence, $5,000; twenty-five houses
in Boyceton, $15,000; twenty houses in Avon-
dale, $16,000; fifty houses, Homestead com-
pany, $28,000; the Common Sense Engine
works; J. H. Smith's residence; William E.
Hitchcock's residence; the R. E. Hill Knit-
ting works, and the Nelson Glass works.
Mr. Mitchell has always taken a prominent
part in everything that has seemed to offer
benefit to the city, and was one of the largest
contributors to the Citizens' Enterprise com-
pany, and was a stockholder in the first gas
well company. In politics Mr. Mitchell is a
firm republican, and stanchly upholds the prin-
ciples of his party upon every occasion. In a
social way, he is a prominent member of the
Masonic fraternity, having gone from the Blue
lodge on to the Mystic Shrine, and takes a deep
interest in the workings of the different lodges.
Mr. Mitchell was married, in 1872, to Miss
Elmira Newcomb, a daughter of Lyman B.
Newcomb, of Yorktown, Ind.. and he is the
father of four children, as follows : Lillian,
Gertrude, Fern and Horace Irvin. He and
family are members of the High street Metho-
dist Episcopal church, in which he holds the
office of steward. He is a free supporter of
all churches and benevolent organizations, and
is considered one of the most enterprising and
valuable of the business men of the city of
Muncie.
The high standing in the social circles of
Muncie occupied by Mr. Mitchell and his family
has been worthily won by that gentleman, and
the citizens may well congratulate themselves
on the fact that he so early took up his resi-
dence among them, for his presence here has
certainly done much toward lifting the city to
its present high position as the chief among the
manufacturing points of the natural gas belt.
* w ^ ARVEY MITCHELL, M. D., was
l^^^V born in Greene county. Pa., July 21,
\ W 1825, and is the son of Thomas and
Sarah Mitchell, both parents natives
of the same county and state. Thomas Mitchell
was born March, 1801, married in 1822 Sarah
Shideler, whose birth occurred in the year 1 802,
and in 1830 emigrated to Ohio, locating in
Miami county, where he engaged in the pursuit
of agriculture. He died in Ohio, September,
1 86 1, after which event his widow went to
D. C. MITCHELL.
MRS. ELMIRA MITCHELL.
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California, where she departed this life at the
home of her only daughter, Mrs. Carl, in the
)ear 1866. Thomas and Sarah Mitchell were
people of sterling worth and for many years
leading members of the Christian church.
They reared the following children: John A.,
a successful farmer of Troy, Ohio; Dr. Harvey,
the subject of this mention; Isaac, a well
known physician of Greenville, Ohio; Margaret,
wife of Wesley Carl, a miner of California;
Shadrach, farmer, residing in Dane county.
Wis., and David, a railroad engineer, whose
home is in California.
The early years of Dr. Mitchell were spent
on the home farm, and his educational train-
ing embraced the studies usually taught in the
common schools of that period. At the age of
seventeen he yielded to an inclination of sev-
eral years' standing and began the study of
medicine, subsequently taking a full course in
the Medical college at Columbus, Ohio, from
which he was graduated in 1850. Thoroughly
prepared for the active duties of his chosen
calling, the doctor began the practice of the
same at the town of Granville, Delaware county,
Ind., in 1850, and continued there with most
flattering success for a period of fourteen years,
removing to Muncie in 1864. From that date
until 1890 he continued in the active practice,
but in the latter year, on account of failing
health, was compelled to take a long needed
rest, since which time he has gradually retired
from the profession. In 1893 he met with a
painful accident, resulting in the fracture of
the bone in one of his lower limbs, the effect
of which has made him an invalid, though he
still retains, unimpaired, allof his strong mental
faculties. Dr. Mitchell has met with encour-
aging success in his profession, and financially
his expectations have been more than realized,
being at this time one of the wealthy men of
Muncie. He is largely interested in real estate,
owning valuable property in the country and
cit\-, among his improvements in the latter
being the well known Mitchell block. Orig-
inally he was a supporter of the democratic
party, but of late years has gradually drifted
from the pr-nciples of that political faith, and
is now a republican. In his religious views he
adheres to the Christian church, of which he
has been a consistent membt'r for a number of
years.
Dr. Mitchell was married in Granville,
Delaware county, Ind., October 9, 1853, to
Miss Catherine Ash, who was born in Green
county, Ohio, May 30, 1837, daughter of
William Ash. Two children resulted from this
union: Sarah Florence, deceaseti, ami Har-
riet B., wife of C. H. Anthonv.
>^AMES F. MOCK, senior member of the
m firm of Mock Bros., manufacturers of
A 1 brick and brick machinery, Muncie,
Ind., was born in Clarke county, Ohio,
October 4, 1843, the son of Peter and Sarah
(Ayers) Mock. These parents were married in
the above county and state and resided upon
a farm there until 1845, at which date they re-
moved to Delaware county, Ind., and pur-
chased 120 acres of land in Centre township,
now Boyceton. They resided upon this place
until 1 85 I, when they moved to what is now
known as Mock avenue, Muncie, thence, in
1864, to the corner of Macedonia and Kirby
avenues, where the widow now resides, Mr.
Mock having died November 11, 1885. Mr.
and Mrs. Mock were the parents of six chil-
dren, 'namely: Mary, wife of J. Russell; James
F. , John D., Martin G., Riley (deceased) and
Andrew. James F. Mock, was reared to agri-
cultural pursuits, received his education in the
common schools, and on attaining his legal
majority entered into partnership with his
father and brother in the manufacture of brick
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MUNCIE CITY
and drain tile, with which business he was con-
nected for a period of twelve years. Disposing
of his interest in the above business, he went
to Indianapolis and there engaged with Cooper,
Lamb & Co. in the manufacture of brick, and
after one year thus spent he was for the same
length of time engaged in the manufacture of
carriages. He then returned to Muncie and
continued in the same line for a period of two
years, meeting with success in the meantime.
His next venture was as a manufacturer of
farm implements, which he carried on with a
fair degree of success until 1881, at which
time, in partnership with his brother, John D.
Mock, he engaged in the manufacture of brick
and brick machinery, a business which is still
conducted by the same firm, and which has be-
come one of the well known industries of Mun-
cie. The Messrs. Mock employ forty men
continually, and the output of their mill is es-
timated at over six million brick per year,
nearly all of which find ready sale in the local
market. Mr. Mock was married November 6,
1876, to Elizabeth C. Vannort, who was born
in Brookville, Ohio, on the i6th day of Janu-
ary, i860, the daughter of Thomas and Mary
(Williams) Vannort. To Mr. and Mrs. Mock
have been born the following children: Annie,
Arthur and Leo C. Politically Mr. Mock is a
democrat, and as a business man his reputation
is not confined altogether to Muncie and Dela-
ware county, but extends throughout the vari-
ous parts of the United States.
>^OHN D. MOCK, brother of the pre-
M ceding, was born in Delaware county
A J February 28, 1846. He grew to man-
hood in his native county and early
effected a business partnership with his father
and brother, and for many years has been a
prominent manufacturer of Muncie. Mr.
Mock was married May 2, 1*^70, to Mary
Jackson, daughter of William and Sarah (Col-
lins) Jackson, of Delaware county. Mrs.
Mock was born March 23, 1852, in the county
of Delaware, and is the mother of seven chil-
dren, whose names are as follows: James
Frank, now bookkeeper for the firm; Wini-
fred, deceased; Harvey; Jesse, deceased; Mil-
dred, and two infants who died unnamed.
Mr. and Mrs. Mock are members of the Bap-
tist church of Muncie, and are most estimable
and highly esteemed people. Mr. Mock has
shown commendable energy in connection with
the manufacturing establishment with which
he is identified and is recognized in business
circles as a man of honesty and integrity of
purpose. He is a democrat in politics and a
member of the Pythian fraternity. He is a
member of the Order of Maccabees, and for
fifteen years has been a deacon of the Baptist
church of Muncie, also holding the position of
trustee in the same at this time. John D. and
James F. Mock recently purchased a valuable
tract of land, consisting of sixty acres, known
as the Cooper farm, north of the city, where
they now operate an extensive brick factory,
the capacity of which is over 40,000 per day,
being one of the largest establishments of the
kind in Delaware county.
QARTIN G. MOCK, a representative
business man of Muncie, and the
largest collector of ancient relics,
curios, etc., in the west, is a native
of Delaware county, Ind. , a son of Peter and
Sarah Mock, mention of whom appears in
connection with a preceding sketch. Martin
G. Mock was born in Centre township on the
ist day of May, 1848, and after obtaining an
education, embracing the curriculum of the
common schools, engaged with his father in
JAS. F. MOCK.
Ii4i^ ^. M^cA
AND CENTRE TOWNSHIP.
the manufacture of brick, which business he cai, arrhaolof^ical, f,'eol()f,'ical, marine and
continued until 1S74. From the latter year general scientific value, and his large collec-
until 1878, he followed carriage making with tion, which is always o]ien to the inspection
financial ]in>fit in the iit\' of Miiimm^-, ami then nf tlu' public, represents an cNpcnditure of
began dealing in hardware and furniture, with
which lines of trade he was prominently identi-
fied for a period of nine years. At the end
of that time he discontinued the hardware
business and has since given his attention
almost exclusixely to furniture and stoves of
all kinds, being at this time the proprietor of
one of the largest and best stocked houses of
the kind in the city — known as the "World's
Fair." His store rooms, situated on the cor-
ner of Walnut and Wall streets, are stocked
with a full line of all articles of furniture,
ranges, stoves, etc. , demanded by the general
trade, and his business has been conducted
with a wisely directed energy that has borne
results of a most satisfactory financial char-
acter.
For a number of years Mr. Mock has de-
voted much time and attention to the collect-
ing of ancient relics and curiosities of histori-
several thousand dollars in money, and exten-
sive travel throughout nearly every state of
the Union. The collection is the largest
owned by any individual in the state, if not in
the United States, and compares favorably
with the public collection of the different his-
torical societies throughout the countrj-. It is
a museum within itself, and to enumerate the
many curious and interesting objects with
which his cabinets are stored would far tran-
scend the limits of a sketch of this character.
As already stated, the collection is the result of
much tra\el, wide correspondence and pains-
taking research, which certaiidy would have
discouraged any one but a man actuated by
the most intense enthusiasm in this valuable
and fascinating pursuit. His collection of
historical relics includes many articles not ob-
tainable in any part of the country, embracing
ancient arms of warfare, old muskets, which
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did valiant service in the hands of our fore-
fathers in the struggle to throw off the British
yoke; swords wielded by the sturdy hands of
the colonists in their contests with the savages
in ante-revolutionary times; curiously wrought
fire arms from nearly all nations of the world,
rude knives, clubs, spears, slings and other
weapons, representing many of the savage
tribes in different parts of the earth; imple-
ments of domestic use and instruments of tor-
tue, grewsome relics of savage butchery in the
early history of the country, musical instru-
ments used by the ancients, interesting
mementoes from the leading battle fields of the
United States and other countries, and from
scenes of great national disasters, personal
belongings of many of the leading men of this
and other times, autograph letters of eminent
soldiers, statesmen and other men of renown,
books, whose value cannot be estimated, printed
long before the existence of the American con-
tinent was known to the civilized world, ancient
coins, bearing the stamp of rulers who swayed
the destinies of the Roman empire before the
dawn of the Christian era, old land grants
bearing the signatures of the early presidents
of the United States, writs of attachment
issued by the courts of the colonies, numerous
missiles picked up on many southern battle
fields, remnants of flags which annimated
brave soldiers in many bloody struggles of the
late war, and hundreds of other curious and
interesting articles, the mere mention of which
would be an exceedingly difficult undertaking.
Among the many articles in the historical
collection deserving of specific mention the
following may be noted: a flintlock pistol
made in 171 2 and carried by one of Gen.
Braddock's men in the disastrous expedition
against Fort Duquesne, a sword carried by
Capt. Riggins in the Revolutionary war, gun
barrel and six pound shot found at Fort Recov-
ery, Ohio, 1 79 1, German gun elegantly inlaid
with silver bearing the date of 1791, pair of
pistols made in London in 1746, a pair of
candelabrums that belonged to John Quincy
Adams — while he was president of the United
States, also snuffer and trays, and the hammer
that made Washington's shoes while general
of the army.
The archaeological department is especially
rare, and contains many valuable articles such
as are found in no other private collection in
the country, and the counterparts of which
are to be seen in but few state historical col-
lections. The collection of relics from mounds
in different parts of the United States is es-
pecially valuable, and the well preserved
specimens of pottery, axes, knives, spear and
arrow heads, and various stone implements of
domestic use, speak eloquently of a strange
and numerous people whose civilization ante-
dated that of ancient Egypt, but whose his-
tory is forever wrapped up in the silent
mystery of the past. Stone tomahawks, flint
knives, darts, pipes, scrapers, hoes, war clubs
and other arms and numerous specimens of
skillful as well as rude ornaments, are among
the hundreds of relics of the aboriginal period,
while implements and arms of a more recent
type, namely, iron and brass hatchets, bows
and arrows, knives, guns, etc., etc., represent
the more modern status of the Indian tribes
of the United States. A lover of books could
desire no greater pleasure than to linger awhile
among the ancient and rare volumes in Mr.
Mock's collection, some of which represent the
earliest stages of the art preservative, and
speak of an age when only the wealthy could
afford to gratify the taste for literature. In
this department may be noted a Latin book
250 years old, Luther's translation of the
Bible 346 years old, a complete set of Peter
Pindar's works, very rare; school books of all
kinds, readers and spellers used in our country
in pioneer times, papers printed during the
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Revolutionary period, complete files of tiie
Illustrated Press printed during the late war,
and other publications, manuscripts, etc., too
numerous to mention.
In addition to the numerous articles, of
which but a mere mention has been made, Mr.
Mock has a large and valuable collection of
geological specimens, many varieties of marine
plants and animals of great scientific value,
many of which were gathered by himself in
his travels and search after treasures. His
large collection of ancient clocks, watches and
sun dials is very valuable, and other specimens
of skilled workmanship from many countries
cannot be duplicated in any other collection in
the west. All in all, the collection is a very
creditable one and its value cannot be estimated
in dollars and cents. Mr. Mock certainly
deserves great credit for getting together so
many rare and interesting articles, and the col-
lection represents the labors of no ordinary
mind in this field of research.
Mr. Mock was married October 19, 1871,
to Miss Martha D. Langdon, a native of Law-
rence county, Ohio, born September 5, 1855,
daughter of Elijah J. and Lucinda (Yingling)
Langdon. The wedded life of Mr. and Mrs.
Mock has been crowned with the birth of four
children: Pearl (dead), Robert (living), and
Minnie, and an infant that died unnamed. Mr.
Mock wields an influence for the democratic
party, but has never been an aspirant for politi-
cal recognition or a seeker after the emolu-
ments of of^ce. Religiously he is a Baptist,
to which church his wife and son also belong,
both being valuable members of the Muncie
congregation. He is an active worker in sev-
eral fraternal orders, in which he has held
important official positions: He is P. G. S.,
Improved O. R. M. ; P. C, K. of P.; member
of the I. O. O. ; F. P. M. W., A. O. U. W. ;
S. V. K., K. of P.; second vice-chieftain Na-
tional Chieftains' League, I. O. R. M. Per-
sonally Mr. Mock enjoys popularity with all
classes, and his life has been characterised by
a uniform kindness and courtesy that are com-
mendable in every respect. His many sterling
qualities of mind and heart have won for him
the confidence and esteem of all, and it is with
pleasure that his biographical sketch is here-
with presented with those of other representa-
tive citizens of Delaware county.
^y^ R. ANDREW R. MOCK, son of Peter
I I and Sarah M. (Ayers) Mock, was
/^.^ born near Muncie, March 13, 1859,
and received his early education in
the common schools of the city. In his youth
and early manhood he was employed in farm-
j ing and brickmaking, and in his maturer years
became a street contractor. But medicine
I early attracted his attention, and for some
I time he was a student in the oflice of Dr. D.
Schaub, of Muncie. In 1882 he graduated
from the vitapathic school of the American
Health co lege, and for three years was engaged
j in active practice, and still occasionally con-
sents to give professional advice in urgent
cases. The system includes the clairvoyant
diagnosis of diseases and the magnetic and
massage treatment. In 1888 he entered
largely upon taking street contracts, and im-
proved several of the principal avenues of the
city, graveling Ohmer avenue three miles,
Macedonia avenue one-half mile, and finishing
Heekin avenue over a half mile, and also
graveling other streets and sidewalks, employ-
ing in active times twelve to fifteen men, f\\t^
teams of his own, and hiring others.
I The doctor was married, in 1883, to Miss
1 Lillie F. Stewart, daughter of Mark O. and
Hannah M. (Beemer) Stewart, and this union
' has been blessed with the birth of five chil-
1 dren, viz: Calaburn, George A., .\da May,
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Mabel and Grover Mock. The doctor and
his wife are among the respected members of
Muncie society, and enjoy the reputation of
being among the foremost to forward every
enterprise calculated to advance the moral and
material progress of the city of Muncie.
^V^ARKER MOORE, one of the oldest
1 m and most respected agriculturists of
^ Centre township, Delaware county,
Ind., deserves to the full a brief
notice among those other worthies of the
township of whom mention is made in these
pages. He was born February 28, 1826, in
Scioto county, Ohio. His father, Lewis
Moore, was born in Pennsylvania January 4,
1797, and on the 4th day of January, 18 16,
married Patience Truitt, a native of Arm-
strong county, Pa., then residing in Scioto
county, Ohio. They were the parents of ten
children, namely: Nancy, Aaron, Amanda,
Rhoda, Parker, John, Lewis, Sarah, Mary and
Patience, of whom Nancy, Aaron and John
are deceased. The father was a farmer, and
followed that occupation during life. He
sometimes built flat boats while living in Ohio,
and, loading them with produce, sold it to
towns along the river. He came with his
family to Delaware county, Ind., in 1829, and
entered land in Centre township, where he
claimed and proved a farm. He died Novem-
ber 20, 1 841. His wife died September 22,
1874.
Parker Moore was but three years of age
when he came to this country, and grew up
with but very limited educational advantages.
At the age of twenty-three years he married
Miss Martha, daughter of John and Harriet
Smith, who died December 10, 1871, leaving
four children — Caroline, William R. , George
W. and Parker T. August 8, 1872, he was
united in marriage with Mrs. Christina, daugh-
ter of Gilpin E. Cook, and widow of the late
Andrew N. Ribble, of this county. Her par-
ents came to Delaware county in 1846, where
the mother died in 1854. The father then
moved to Blackford county, Ind. , where he
was engaged in milling operations until his
death, which occurred in 1861. Mrs. Moore
died July 17, 1876. April 16, 1887, Mr.
Moore was wedded to his present companion,
Miss Mary Cook, of this county, and the
daughter ot Gilpin and Sarah (Bush) Cook,
who were natives of Pennsylvania and who
are both now deceased. Mr. Moore is one of
the representative men of this township and
occupies the old homestead farm. He is a
successful farmer and an active friend to pub-
lic improvements and the cause of education.
He and wife are members of the Methodist
Episcopal church, and they enjoy the good
will of all who know them. He is one of the
earnest republicans of this county and has
been voting that ticket since the organization-
of the party in 1854.
m.
LLIAM R. MOORE, the subject of
of this sketch, is an old Delaware
county boy, born and reared in this
county, where he has spent all of
his life, with the exception of about eighteen
years. He is one of a family of eight children,
the son of William J. and Sarah Moore, nee
Wilcoxon, both of whom are now deceased.
His parents were born and raised in Scioto
county , Ohio. They came west with their
parents and settled in this county in 1832.
John Moore, the paternal grandfather, who
was quite well to do, located on the old State
road, about three miles southeast of Muncie,
and built for himself a sub.stantial brick dwell-
ing on what is now known as the James Boyce
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farm. Loyd Wilcoxon, senior, grandfather on
the maternal side, located on the same road a
little east of the other grandfather.
William J. was given the farm by his father
about one-half mile east of the old homestead,
now known as the Charles W. Cecil farm, to
which he added, by purchase, land enough to
make in all 400 acre,^. He built for himself a
comfortable two-story frame dwelling, which
has been moved back to give place for Mr.
Cecil's elegant farm dwelling.
There was finite a colony of Scioto count}'
people located, about the same year, near and
around the ^^oores and Wilcoxons, nearly all
related to them b\' blood or marriage ties, of
whom we will mention the Truitts, Parker,
George and James; Jackson's, Mahlon and
Lemuel G., the latter an uncle of William J.,
and one of the founders of Muncietown, the
Jackson donation to Muncie cornering at the
northwest corner of Walnut and Jackson
streets, being a part of his farm.
In 1822, when what is now a part of the
Big Four railway system, then known as the
Indianapolis, Pittsburg & Cleveland railroad,
was being constructed through this county,
William J. removed from his farm (which was
at that time well stocked, some eighteen head
of horses, with cattle, sheep and hogs in propor-
tion), to Selma, a new station on that road,
six miles east of Muncie, where he engaged in
general merchandising and continued for many
years. Uunfortunately for him he could not
deny any one credit; the result was a large
number of his customers afterward removed to
the far west, owing him in the aggregate thou-
sands of dollars. At about the same time
he, like many others, put his fine farm
and some Muncie property into a railroad
company then proposed building between Cin-
cinnati and Chicago, via Muncie, receiving
therefor stock and bonds of the fraudulent |
corporation, which are still amongst the papers
of his estate, and if they bore interest at six
per cent, would anunmt to more than $75,000,
and yet they are not worth the paper they are
engraved on. He was of the kind- that never
became discouraged, and possessed indomitable
will power. Possessing the confidence and re-
spect of all who knew him, he set himself the
task of retriex'ing his lust fnrtnne. which he ac-
complished by slow but sine degrees. He and
his life partner lived happily together for nearly
fifty-eight years, both departing this life in the
same year, 1893, in the firm belief that " I^eath
does not end all."
William Roby, (jr "Kobe," as many are in
the habit of calling him, was the fifth child,
was born on the farm referred to, March 9,
1S45. He receix'ed a good common school
education, becoming \ery proficient in mathe-
matics. After leaving school he learned the
blacksmith's trade. At the breaking out of
the war of the rebellion, in '61, his father's
patriotism was such that he volunteered his
services to help put down the rebellion, which
was then thought to be a matter that could be
squelched before breakfast. He was too old
to be received into the service. Roby was
then but little past sixteen, too young, but
owing to the trade that he was working at was
remarkably well developed, physically, for his
years. Patriotism was in the air, the war
news and the fife and drum worked upon him
until he finally persuaded his father to permit
him to go in his stead. He enrolled himself
in Capt. Samuel J. Williams' company, who
was a near neighbor of the Moores. On the
2d day of July, '61, Capt. Williams proceeded
to the state capitol with his company. ft was
ordered into camp at Camp Morton. The
various companies that were encamped there
were being drilled daily in the arts and tactics
of war by experienced drill masters. On July
28, Capt. \\'illiams'compan\ was nuistered into
the United States service for three jears or
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during the war. The company was assigned
to the Nineteenth regiment Indiana voUmteer
infantry and drew place as Co. K. Sol. Mere-
dith, of Wayne county, an intimate friend of
the governor, was commissioned as its colonel.
The regiment left for the seat of war on
August 5, arriving in Washington city, D. C,
on the 7th, and went into camp on Kolorama
Heights where daily drills continued. At the
time that this regiment was organized, the
United States government had not adopted
any particular uniform for its troops. The
state of Indiana, through the indomitable will
power of its great chief executive officer, that
grandest of war governors, Oliver P. Morton,
although handicapped by rebel sympathizers, at
its own expense uniformed, armed and equip-
ped its own volunteers and sent them to the
front. The Nineteenth was supplied with a
gray uniform which proved to be a rebel color.
The first engagement that the regiment was in
it was necessary to tie strips of white muslin
around their arms to distinguish them from the
rebel soldiers. The Second, Sixth, and Sev-
enth Wisconsin regiments, the Nineteenth
Indiana and the Twenty-fourth Michigan, com-
posed the famous Iron Brigade, being given
this name after withstanding the furious on-
slaught of a whole division of Stonewall Jack-
son's corps at the battle of Gainesville, Va.
At the time of the battle of Gettysburg, this
brigade was the First brigade, First division of
the First army corps. The First and Eleventh
army corps opened the battle at Gettysburg
and did heroic work in stemming the rebel
advance during the first day until the Union
army came up and secured position to wage
successfully the decisive battle of the war.
Young Moore took part with his regiment
in various heavy battles — those of Gainesville,
Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, Second Bull
Run, South Mountain, Antietam and other
minor engagements, thirteen in all, without
receiving so much as a scratch, until the bat-
tle of Gettysburg, in the afternoon of the first
day's fight, while bearing the regimental ban-
ner, he had the index finger of his left hand
shot away; was shortly after taken prisoner
and held in the town of Gettysburg during all
of the heavy engagements following. On the
morning of the 4th day of July, 1863, the
Union army having been victorious, he walked
away from the place of his confinement, out
through the streets of the little town, viewing
the battle field covered with its thousand upon
thousands of vahant dead soldiers— a battle
field of historic renown, a battle field where
the noble martyr Lincoln in- his unapproach-
able gem of a dedication address of the Nation-
al cemetery said: "But in a larger sense we
cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we
cannot hallow the ground The brave men,
living and dead, who struggled here, have con-
secrated it far above our power to add or de-
tract. The world will little note, nor long
remember, what we say here, but it can never
forget what they did here."
From Gettysburg young Moore was sent to
Philadelphia, where he was given a clerkship
after his wound healed. ' The last six months
of his service were spent in Indianapolis as
chief clerk for Dr. P. H. Jameson, surgeon in
charge of the soldiers' home. He was must-
ered out of the service in August, 1864, and
immediately secured a position on what is now
the main line of the Big 4 system. After-
wards he went to Cincinnati and took a com-
mercial course in Bryant, Stratton & DeHans'
Commercial college. Good luck seemed to
follow him. He has seldom had to seek a
situation. In 1865 he returned to his old
home on a visit; while passing through Indian-
apolis the superintendent of the Bee Line
tendered him the agency of his road at Selma.
His parents persuaded him to accept it, which
he concluded to do. In connection with that
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he engaged in buyinj; and sliippin^ ;;iain and
prospered in his business
In 1866. he man-ied Susanna, daujjhtcr of
W'ilham Miller, who was at one time county
commissioner. Two children, girls, blessed
this union but they were soon called to Him
who gave them. In 1873 he was promoted
and sent to take charge of the station at Sidney,
Ohio. Two years after moving there the direc-
tory of the First National bank of that place
tendered him a position as cashier of their bank
at a salary greatly in advance of any that they
had ever paid previously. He accepted the
position, and the earnings of the bank during
his management was the greatest in its history.
The Resumption act, to take effect in 1879,
scared hundrds of National banks into liquida-
tion. This bank went into voluntary liquida-
tion, paying its shareholders one hundred and
seventy-five cents on the dollar. He after-
wards engaged in the grain trade on an exten-
sive scale, subsequently taking a partner in the
business. They operated several grain eleva-
tors, and owned and operated a line of boats
in connection with their business. Having
splendid banking facilities, they engaged exten-
sively in buying track grain of other dealers
throughout Ohio and Indiana, and shipping it
to the seaboard. During the large crop years
of 1879-80, they got caught in a blockade with
large quantities of grain, which they could not
get into the seaport markets in time ti apply
on their sales, in consequence; the}' were
squeezed badly, crippling them, which event-
ually ended in an assignment. Mr. Moore,
when prosperous, had often said that he would
not give shucks for a young man who could not
get on his feet again after a financial failure,
not knowing that he would so soon have a
chance of trying it for himself. The loss of all
of his money was as nothing as compared with
the anguish and humiliation that he felt reflect-
ed on his business judgment, on which he
.led
his f:
self. Twn days afti
friend from anntlier town ranie over expressly
to offer him employment, knowing that it was
needful for him to do something at once toward
the wolf from the door. The friend pretended
that it was doing him a favor, but it was princi-
pally in the fact of his enjoyment of the con-
sciousness that he had done a kind act to a fellow
man in distress. The offer of emplnyinent was
appreciated and promptly accepted and afforded
time for the " lame duck " to get its bearings.
After traveling a few weeks another friend volun-
tarily offered him money for him to engage in
his former business on a small scale; within six
months he had cleared his first thousand dollars,
passing the Rubicon. Mr. Moore had inherited
from his father father pluck, preseverancc and
good common sense, and with practical knowl-
i edge gained in his varied business experiences
I was soon on the road to prosperity once more.
He removed to Union City, Ind., where he
remained two and one-half years, and where
I splendid opportunities offered for regaining
lost wealth.
In the spring of 1887 he removed to Mun-
cie, and at the present time is devoting all of
I his business ability to official duties of the
! Delaware County Building, Savings and Loan
I association, one of the largest in the state, of
i which he was the promoter and principal or-
i ganizer, he holding the principal office, that
; of secretary. He has had many years" experi-
ence in various capacities in the building and
loan business, and has the reputation of being
; the best posted in this particular line of business
of any one in the state.
Susanna Moore, the wife of William K. , is
the daughter of William and Anna Miller, nee
Janney. Her parents were born and reared in
Stark county, Ohio, and removed to Harrison
township, Delaware county, many years ago,
where they continued to reside up to the year
1865, when they removed to Selma. Her
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mother was of English descent and was a re-
markably beautiful woman in her day. She
died at her home in Selma, June 4, 1882, and
was interred in Mount Tabor cemetery. Her
father possesses a vigorous constitution and is
still living at an advanced old age. He is en-
dowed with good common sense, has a cultiva-
ted mind and a large fund of general informa-
tion. Susanna takes an active part in church
work, in literary clubs and her domestic duties,
and enjoys the confidence and respect of all
who know her.
@EORGE W. MUNN, route agent for
the United States E.xpress company
for all its lines within the state of
Indiana, was born on a farm near
Bradford, Vt., where he lived until he reached
his eighteenth year, attending school in the
meantime. In 1870, he went to Chicago,
whither his brothers had preceded him, and
just after the tremendous conflagration which
swept that city in October, 1871; was ap-
pointed messenger by the American Express
company for the run between Chicago and
Cairo, 111. In 1873 he was appointed deputy
internal revenue collector for the first district
of Illinois, and held the position until October,
1875. In 1876 he went to Emporia, Kans. ,
was employed by the Adams Express com-
pany as messenger on the run from Atchison,
Kans., to Pueblo, Colo., for a year, and then
between Emporia and Denison, Tex. ; he
was then agent for the same company at Jop-
lin. Mo., for six months, and in January, 1878,
accepted a position with the Baltimore &
Ohio Express company as messenger between
Cincinnati, Ohio, and Parkersburg, W. Va.,
filling the position two years; the next nine
months he was transfer agent at Cincinnati
for the Baltimore & Ohio and Ohio & Missis-
sippi companies, and then auditor of express
accounts at Cincinnati for the Ohio & Missis-
sippi company and for a time was acting
superintendent. April 10, 1882, he became
route agent for the Baltimore & Ohio Express
company on the Ohio and Mississippi division
between Cincinnati and St. Louis, and filled
that position until March, 1887; later he was
appointed route agent of the Baltimore &
Ohio Express company for all of the Cincin-
nati, Hamilton and Dayton territory, covering
400 miles, with headquarters at Hamilton,
Ohio. In September, 1887, the United States
Express company succeeded the Baltimore &
Ohio company and Mr. Munn was placed in
charge at Deshler, Ohio. April i, 1891, he
was transferred to Indiana, with headquarters
at Muncie, where he has ever since had cha ge
of the lines of the combined express companies
for the state of Indiana, controlling 805 miles
of road and 103 offices and all the employees.
Mr. Munn was married in July, 1873, to
Miss Jane E. Shants, of Willamette, 111. , the
result being five children, of whom two are
sons: Amos S. , and Clark C. The other
three, daughters, are deceased.
Clark Munn, the father of G. W. Munn,
was born in New Hampshire, in 1801, and led
the life of a farmer in the Green Mountain
state until within the last ten years of his life.
He was highly honored by his fellow towns-
men, was their selectman and trustee. He
ended his days with his children in Chicago,
111., at the age of seventy-seven. His wife,
who was born in West Fairly, Vt., February
I, 1804, was a daughter of Randall Wild, and
survived until December, 1892. Both were
interred in Rose Hill cemetery, ten miles from
Chicago. The family were Congregational-
ists on both paternal and maternal sides, and
Clark and his wife died in that faith. Of
their family of seven sons and four daughters
four are living, George W. being the seventh
C. F. W. NEELY
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hoy, of the others, Benjamin M. Munn is a
member of tlie noted law tirm of Munn cV
Mapledoni, of ("liicago. Daniel W. is a mem-
ber of the criminal legal tirm of Munn iS:
\\' heeler, of the same city, and James Monroe
Munn is in charge of the records of Cook
count}-. 111. Each of these boys was a faith-
ful soldier in the Union army during the civil
war. Of the deceased children all expired in
earh' _\outh e.xcepting two — Mary, wife of
Daniel Hastings, of Corinth, \'t., who died
about 1853, leaving two children, Hallie, and
the other daughter was the wife of Sergeant
Peabody, superintendent of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad at Columbus, and died Ma}- 22,
1893, leaving three children.
aHARLES F. W. NEELY, "editor and
proprietor of the Morning, the Sunda}-
and the Weekly News, Muucie, Ind.,
is a native of the city, born January 4,
1859, and a son of Moses L. and Mary A.
(Kenower) Neely. He was educated at the city
schools, and after graduating at the Muncie
high school, in 1877, studied law for three
years in the office of Blount & Templer.
About the time he was well prepared to enter
upon the practice of his chosen profession, he
found the city of Muncie overcharged with legal
aspirants, and he found employment at other
business at other points, including St. Louis,
Mo , for one year, and Kansas City, in the
same state, for one year, and elsewhere. In
1885 he purchased the Evening News, of Mun-
cie, from N. F. Ethell, who founded that
journal in 1872. It was continued as an even-
ing newspaper until July 5, 1892, w-hen it was
changed to the Morning News. To venture
upon the publication of a morning journal was
a somewhat precarious undertaking, as many
sad failures of similar ventures had occurred in
cities much larger than Muncie, and therefore
the success of the Morning News has been a
source of much gratification to its proprietor.
In August, 1S92. Mr. Neely associated with
himself Frank J. Claypool, and together they
began the publication of the Farmers' Record,
which was, for the time, the official organ of
the F. M. B. A., but when that political and
economic organization began to show evidences
of loss of vigor, Messrs. Neely & Claypool dis-
posed of their organ to the American I'-armer
company, of Springfield, Ohio.
In politics, Mr. Neely has always been an
earnest republican, and for five years has been
chairman of the city central republican com-
mittee; fraternally, he is a member of the B.
P. O. E.. and of the I. O. R. M. He has
always manifested a lively interest in the in-
dustries of Muncie, and has done much toward
forwarding them, both by the use of his pen
and other means. He is a sprightly and
incisive writer, a shrewd politician, and a
born newspaper man. His marriage occurred
March 23, 1886, to Miss Sarah E. Morgan, of
Muncie, a daughter of Thomas Morgan, of
of Madison county, Ohio.
Moses L. Neely, father of Charles F. W.
Neely, was born in Adams county. Pa., April
30, 1 8 16, and was a son of Moses and Jane
(Smith) Neely, who left Pennsylvania in 1834,
and with their son, Moses, and other members
of their family settled in Clarke county, Ohio.
He was married March 20, 1838, to Mary A.
Kenower, a native of Cumberland county, Pa. ,
born March 7, 1818, and taken to Clarke
county, Ohio, in 1835, by her parents, Jacob
and Sarah Kenower. In February, 1839,
Moses L. Neely came to Muncie, Ind., and
was the second cabinet maker in the town.
After some years he engaged in general mer-
chandising at the corner of Main and Walnut
streets, carrying on the business for eighteen
years, and then purchased a farm near town.
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to which he retired to enjoy the fruits of the
labor of his earlier days, but in the short space
of five years, on January 9, 1869, he passed
away, leaving, to mourn his loss, a widow and
ten children, the names of the latter being:
Cyrus G. , Carey O., Charles F. W., Sarah
F., Mary J., Laura S., WilmaE., Leonora I.,
Emma and Kate W. Mr. Neely was a repub-
lican from the organization of that party, and
a pious member of the Presbyterian church,
of which, also, his widow is a consistent
member.
•HOMAS S. NEELY was born Sep-
tember 13, 181 1, in Adams county.
Pa. , of which county his grandfather,
Thomas Neely, and his father, Moses
Neely. were also natives. His father married
Jane Smith in that county, and was engaged
in agricultural pursuits, owning a farm within
eleven miles from Gettysburg. In 1831, he
moved with his family to Miami county, Ohio,
and, about the year i 840, to Randolph count}-,
Ind. , settling near the town of Windsor. His
family consisted of four sons and five daughters,
of whom Thomas S. is the only survivor.
In early life Thomas S. Neely was engaged
in the labor of farm work at home, attending
the district school in the winter until seventeen
years of age, when he was apprenticed to a
blacksmith at Petersburg, Pa., to learn the
trade. He remained with him for nearly three
years, and having acquired a good knowledge
of the trade, he began to work on his own ac-
count, and in 1831 removed with his parents
to Miami county, Ohio. He worked at his
trade in Troy, Urbana, and other Ohio towns,
and, in 1833, returned to his former home in
Pennsylvania, and was wedded to Miss Matilda
Wierman. He lived in Miami count}' six years,
and, in February, 1839, came to Muncie, with
whose interests he has long been identified.
He at first engaged in the grocery trade,
but the town was small and the merchants
plenty, and he was soon convinced that there
was a better opening for the mechanic than
the merchant, and decided therefore to devote
himself to his trade. He accordingly opened
a blacksmith shop, and followed his trade for
over twenty years. From 1842 to 1848 he
served as a member of the board of county
commissioners of Delaware county, and as
school director subsequent to that time. In
June, 1878, he was elected as a member of the
board of education. His first purchase of real
estate was the lot now occupied by the Abbott
house, where he had his residence, and, at a
later date, he erected the brick block on Main
street, in which the photographic rooms of L.
S. Smith are now located. In this building
Mr. Neely established a daguerreotype gallery,
and made the first pictures in Muncie, and
was the leading photographer of this city until
about twenty years ago, when he transferred
the gallery to his son, Lon M.
While carrying on the trade of black-
smithing in Muncie, he was compelled to send
to Cincinnati for iron, hauling it home by
teams, and often had to leave his work here
and make a personal visit to that city, when
important purchases were to be made. This
slow and expensive method of transportation
set him to thinking, and with characteristic
promptness, his thoughts developed into
action. In the spring of 1847 he determined
to move to secure the location of a railroad to
Muncie, by some practical route; and acting
upon this determination, circulated a subscrip-
tion paper to secure funds with which to pay
for posters to advertise a railroad mass meet-
ing, to be held at Muncie. A hard canvass
resulted in his securing only a part of the funds
necessary, and, contributing the balance from
his own purse, he had the bills struck and
posted up, designating June 26, 1847, as the
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day of meeting. This meeting was almost
barren of results, and was adjourned to August
20, when men of talent and public spirit from
abroad were invited, resolutions were passed
recommending Delaware county to vote a tax
of $12,000, at the ensuing fall election, to aid
the enterprise. Mr. Neely, although unac-
customed to public speaking, yet led in the
public discussion of this question throughout
the county, and had the pleasure of seeing it
settled by an affirmative vote.
The happy choice of a companion in early
life proved the solace of other years; and they
were each spared to bless the other, and see
their children grow to honorable and useful
maturity. Eliza is the wife of A. J. Wachtell,
of Muncie; M. Jennie resides with the father;
Thaddeus A., prominent manufacturer of
Muncie, married Miss Harriet Huston, of Par-
is, 111.; Leonidas M., married Miss Welthy
Berkey, of Grand Rapids, Mich., and resides
in Muncie. Mrs. Neely died September 19,
1 886, since when Mr. Neely has lived with
his daughter. Miss M. Jennie.
>^EREMIAH FULLER NICKEY (de-
M ceased), for many years an active busi-
/• 1 ness man and prominent citizen of
Muncie, was a native of Pennsylvania,
born on the 3d day of March, 1826, in the
county of Cumberland. His parents were
Samuel and Elizabeth Nickey, both natives of
the Keystone state, where their ancestors had
resided from an early period in the history of
the country. At the age of sixteen Jeremiah
F. Nickey left the parental roof and located at
Fairfield, Greene county, Ohio, but previous to
that time he had learned the tailor's trade in
the county of his nativity. Owing to circum-
stances, over which he had no control, his
means of obtaining a literary education were
greatly limited, but possessing a mind of great
activity, and desirous of acquiring a knowledge
of books, he devoted his leisure moments to the
accumulation of knowledge, frequently poring
over his studies at a late hour, with no other
light than that afforded by a blazing pine knot.
After becoming proficient in his trade, he
worked at the same for four years, in Ohio,
and, at the same time, read medicine under
the instruction of Dr. McElhaney, of Fairfield.
Later, he added to his literary knowledge by
a course in Wesleyan college, Delaware, Ohio,
which institution he attended for some time,
and after his marriage, in 1850, with Miss
Christina Miller, he located at the town of
Quincy, Ohio, where, in addition to working
at his trade, he taught school until his removal
to Muncie, Ind., in the year 1858.
On locating in this city, Mr. Nickey ef-
fected a co-partnership in the drug business
with Dr. William Craig, which relationship
terminated after five years' duration, the place
of business being on Main street. After the
retirement of his partner, Mr. Nickey con-
tinued on the half square between Walnut
and Mulberry streets, where he carried on
business until his death. Mr. Nickey's life
was characterized by energy and probity, and
by his long residence in Muncie and active
association with the people became widely
known. He fairly solved the problem of suc-
cess, so far as material wealth is concerned,
earned the reputation of a man of honor and
integrity, and ended a well rounded life on
the /th of July, 1886. He was a life-long
member of the Methodist church, and in the
Masonic fraternity he was for many years an
active worker, having taken a number of de-
grees, including that of Knight Templar.
Politically he was a republican. Mrs. Nickey,
who survives her husband, was born in Greene
I county, Ohio, April, 1830, and is the mother
! of three living children: Vinton I., Mary V.
MUNCIE CITY
and Frank B. ; a daughter, Artemissa, is de-
ceased.
Frank B. Nickey, third child of Jeremiah
F. and Christina Nickey, was born June 9,
1867, in Muncie, Ind., in which city his life
has been passed to the present time. His lit-
erary education was received in the Muncie
schools, and in 1889 he graduated from the
St. Louis college of Pharmacy, since May of
which year he has been actively engaged in
the drug trade. He is a Mason, being a mem-
ber of both chapter and commandery, belongs
to Welcome lodge. No. 37, K. of P., and is also
connected with the K. O. E. M. Mr. Nickey
was married, in 1889, to Miss Ina C, daughter
of James N. and Sarah (Mills) Cropper, the
fruit of which union is one child, a daughter,
Pauline.
^V^OBERTI. PATTERSON.— ■•Biog-
I /^ raphies should not be published unless
JL^F there is something in the life or char-
acter of the individual worthy of emu-
lation or imitation by others under like circum-
stances — certainly not for self aggrandizement. "
Such were the words of Mr. Patterson when
approached by the publishers of this work, but
sufficient was drawn from him to learn that
there was something in the inner life of the
man worthy of more than incidental mention.
Robert I. Patterson was born in Muncie, Ind.,
March 28, 1843. His father, S. R. Patterson,
was a native of Vermont, and his mother was
born in Lexington, Ky. , to which place her
father. Burns Turner, moved with his family
from the state of Delaware to assist in build-
ing a house for that sterling patriot and states-
man, Henry Clay. Here her mother died,
and upon the completion of the building the
family came to Indiana and located near Econ-
omy, Randolph county, but later, in 1828 or
1829, moved to Muncie, where her father, and
her brothers. Minus and William Turner,
engaged in burning brick, brick laying and
plastering. At that time Muncie was little
more than an Indian trading post, containing
but a few log houses, and they built the first
brick dwelling ever erected in Delaware county
— the dwelling being on Main street and the
business house on the ground now occupied by
the Delaware County National bank. Minus
Turner also built the first hotel (ortavern),onthe
present site of the Patterson block, corner Main
and Walnut streets. In this hotel the parents of
our subject first met and were married. After
a few years of hardship and privation incident
to pioneer life, they moved in a covered wagon
to Chicago, 111., where the father went into
the tin and stove business, and became the
owner of several lots at the ccrner of Lake
and State streets. Here, also, the subject of
this sketch (then a child) strayed from home
and was lost for two days and a night, an
event which so prostrated the mother that she
was confined to her bed for many months.
Disheartened by sickness and business losses,
the father sold what little was left him and
endeavored to retrieve his fortune at various
points in Illinois. In Bloomington he was
associated with the great land owner and
cattle king, Isaac Funk, and later became ac-
quainted with the then young lawyer, Abra-
ham Lincoln. Being the only whig, or
republican, at that time in a family of eight
brothers, he was always an ardent supporter
of this great and good man, and finally was
killed at Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., in the serv-
ice of this great chieftain. Robert I. Patter-
son inherited this love of country and the
cause of human freedom, and he, too, at the
age of seventeen years, enlisted, in 1861, and
served his country four years in the Nine-
teenth Indiana infantry, and re-enlisted in the
field for three years more. He was wounded
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at Antietam and Gettysburg, and at the latter
place was also taken prisoner.
The services of Mr. Patterson throughout
the war were rendered in the celebrated Iron
brigade, it being the First brigade. First di-
vision of the First army corps of the army of
the Potomac, being the first brigade organized
in the Union army, and the official records
show that it sustained a greater loss in actual
killed than any other. He has an individual
record of fourteen general engagemets, beside
the minor battles and skirmishes in which the
brigade took part. Up till the time of his
enlistment, the life of Robert I. Patterson was
passed in helping to batter the wolf of hunger
and privation from his cabin home, and he was
consequently deprived of even a common
school education, but his father having been a
school teacher, and the son being of a very
studious nature, the latter mastered the rudi-
ments of an English education, which were
later supplemented by knowledge gained in
the great school of experience. The precepts
and examples of an earnest christian mother
were fortitude and devotion at all times,
especially through the dark days of the Rebel-
lion, when she was left at home with eight
small children to care for, one of whom died
just before the father was killed and while the
subject was lying wounded in the United
States hospital. The good people, however,
have been considerate of the claims of worthy
soldiers, and Mr. Patterson has been honored
by them. Being an ardent but consistent
partisan and writer, his influence was appreci-
ated, and he was appointed to a clerkship in
the Indiana house of representatives during
its session of 1876-77, a part of which term,
however, he resigned to accept a position as
railway postal clerk between Pittsburg, Pa. ,
and St. Louis, Mo. He was subsequently
transferred and distributed mail between In-
dianapolis, Ind. , and Cleveland, Ohio. The
service was severe and the strain on his nerv-
ous and physical system immense, aggravating
his army injuries, and he was compelled to re-
sign. About this time his name was men-
tioned as a candidate for county treasurer, but
the convention was corrupted and he lost the
nomination. February 7, 1882, he was ap-
pointed postmaster at Muncie by President
Arthur, and filled the office very satisfactorily,
and a change of administration alone prevented
his re-appointment. The faculty of invention
and construction is largely developed in Mr.
Patterson, and he is the patentee of several
useful inventions, among which are the J. I. C.
steel wire curry-comb, and two patents on
fruit jar fastenings, the complete jar, with its
fastening, being now manufactured at West
Muncie by the Patterson Glass company, and
being pronounced b) experts the most simple,
cheap and durable of any invented. Mr. Pat-
terson, however, is perhaps best known as a
poet, and many of his poems have had an ex-
tensive publication in the poetical and secular
press, some of them in the Indianapolis Jour-
nal, the Judge, Cosmopolitan and other peri-
odicals. Some have become more favorably
known through their rendition by his daughter.
Pearl, (now Mrs. W. R. Bean) who has earned
a wide reputation as an elocutionist.
>^ WALLACE PERKINS is a native of
■ Delaware county, Ind., born in the
A J city of Muncie on the 8th day of Octo-
ber, 1846, the son of William H. and
Susan (Russey) Perkins. The father was a
native of Kentucky and located in Muncie
when it was but a mere village and started the
first tailoring establishment in the place. He
followed his trade in Muncie continuously until
Februar}-, 1855, when he moved to Vandalia,
Mich. , thence two years later to the city of
MUNCIE CITY
Niles, that state, where he resided until his
death in 1875. William H. Perkins displayed
commendable energy in his chosen calling and
his death was the result of over exertion and
exhaustion brought on by the sickness of his
wife, who for a number of weeks had required
his constant attention. He was the first man
to introduce the sewing machine into Indiana,
and the one he operated in Muncie cost him
the sum of $250. He died at the age of sixty-
three; his widow still survives, having reached
the good old age of seventy-five years, and at
this time resides with her youngest daughter
in the town of Carthage, Ind. Mr. and Mrs.
Perkins reared a family of three sons and three
daughters, namely: Harvey W., Mary A., John
S. , J. Wallace, Martha J. and Minnie E. Of
the above sons, Harvey W. and John S. served
in the late war as members of Michigan regi-
ments.
J. W. Perkins spent the first nine years of
his life in Muncie, and in 1855 was taken by
his parents to Michigan, in which state he re-
ceived his educational training, attending the
common schools until his fourteenth year. On
quitting school he entered a printing office in
St. Joseph, Mich., where he worked for six
months for $12.50 and board, and then se-
cured a position in an office at Niles, where he
was employed for about a half year at $30
and board. He remained at Niles until 1868,
and for one year thereafter worked in a job
office at Indianapolis, thence came to Muncie,
where for six months he held a position in the
office of the Muncie Times. Returning to
Indianapolis at the end of that period, he fol-
lowed his trade in that city until, in partner-
ship with William Chandler, he became asso-
ciate publisher of the Muncie Telegraph, with
which paper he was identified for about
eighteen months. On the suspension of the
Telegraph, Mr. Perkins again accepted a posi-
tion on the Times, with which he remained
until 1877, when he accepted a place in the
government printing office at Washington, D.
C, where he remained for a limited period.
Returning to Muncie, he again engaged with
the Times, and in 1 880, started a job office,
which he has since successfully conducted, and
with judicious management has made one of
the leading printing establishments of the
city. Mr. Perkins is a practical printer, thor-
oughly familiar with all the details of the trade,
and his office is equipped with all the modern
improvements and latest appliances, and its
reputation for first class work is second to no
other printing house in eastern Indiana.
Mr. Perkins is a republican in his political
convictions and stands high in the councils of
his party in Muncie and Delaware county. He
is prominent in the Masonic order, having
taken all the degrees of the York and Scottish
rites of the fraternity, including the thirty-
second degree. He held the responsible posi-
tion of eminent commander of Muncie com-
mandery. No. 18, for two years, and for the
past twelve years has served as secretary of
Muncie lodge. No. 403. Mr. Perkins was mar-
ried on October 25, 1877, to Miss Mary L.
Winton, daughter of Dr. R. Winton, a late
prominent physician of Muncie, whose sketch
appears elsewhere in these pages. Mrs. Per-
kins was born in the town of Wheeling, Dela-
ware county, and has passed the greater part
of her life in Muncie, to which city she was
brought, when a mere child, by her parents.
Mr. Perkins has an enviable reputation both
as a citizen and business man, and his success
in life has been altogether due to his own
efforts. He may be truly styled a self made
man, in all the term implies, and his example
should serve to encourage others who start out
to fight life's battles empty handed. Person-
ally, he enjoys great popularity in Muncie and
is highly esteemed by all for his integrity,
good character and sterling qualities of man-
JOHN S. PETTY.
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hood. He is strictly temperate in his habits,
having always abstained from the use of all
intoxicants and tobacco, and with his wife be-
longs to the Episcopal church, in which he
holds the office of vestryman. In a financial
sense, Mr. Perkins has met with well deserved
success and owns several valuable pieces of
property in the cit)'.
>^OHX S. PETTY, deceased, wasprobabl.\-
m one of the most extraordinar\', as well
A 1 as one of the most successful business
men that ever resided in the city of
Muncie. He was a son of Joshua and Sarah
E. (Sheets) Petty, was born at New Paris,
Ohio, July 12, 1830, and when a child was
taken, by his father, to Wayne county, Ind.,
where he was reared on the home farm and
received a good connnon school education.
At the age of eighteen years, his father having
a large family to maintain, he was given his
"freedom," and his first business venture was
to work one hundred days, at fifty cents per
day, for Alvah Macy; he also worked for
a while in the saw mill at Economy, Ind.,
near Hagerstown, and e\-en at that early day
the spirit of speculation was made manifest
within him. He was commissioned by an old
Quaker gentleman to make a purchase of live
stock, and his great success in filling this order
confirmed this spirit. His father, who origi-
nally came from near Winston, N. C. , and
was married at New Paris, Ohio, moved from
Wayne county to Miami county, Ind., and
thither young Petty followed, and began buy-
ing stock in a comparatively small way, on
his own account, realizing handsome profits
on every venture. At the age of twenty-three,
April 22, 1855, he made his first venture on
the sea of matrimony, and wedded Miss Fran-
ces Bailey, of \\'ayne county, Ind., and then
made his appearance in the city of Muncie,
the scene of his future business exploits
and triumphs. Here he was employed
as a clerk in tlu' dry goods store of S.
P. & E. Anthony, whom he served about
two years, and while with them sus-
tained the most serious accidental injury of
his life. The firm carried, in addition to their
stock of dry goods, a line of groceries, and in
an effort to lift a barrel of rice somewhat
heavier than the scope of his strength, Mr.
Petty strained his spine, and for a year after-
ward was invalided. The effect of this injury
was to reduce his stature and to render his
posture a stoop, but he recovered his health
in a general sense, albeit somewhat malformed
physically. On his coming to Muncie, with
his usual astuteness Mr. Petty had invested
his early earnings in western lands, and these
he sold at the proper time at handsome profits.
\^'ith the proceeds he embarked in the dry
goods trade about a year before the breaking
out of the Civil war. As an instance of his
business sagacity, it may be mentioned that
on one occasion during the war he had pur-
chased a bill of dry goods from a firm in Cin-
cinnati, foreseeing the advance in prices
forthcoming, and at the same time took an
option at duplicating the order — which he did
— but the Cincinnati firm saw how they had
been overreached by a superior tradesman,
and offered Mr. Petty $2,000 to be released
from the contract — but Mr. Petty was too far-
seeing to consent to any such scheme, and
realized a handsome profit. His surplus earn-
ings were wisely and judiciously invested in
town and city real estate, and with invariably
remunerative results. So well established was
his reputation for sagacity in business, that he
was constantly consulted by his fellow mer-
chants and others on all important ventures,
and his advice never went amiss. During his
mercantile career he never lost sight of the
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fact that there was money in live-stock, and
his farm was in a great measure devoted to
grazing and breeding, and profitably so.
April 3, 1865, Mr. Petty had the misfortune
to lose his wife by consumption. Her four
children were also swept away by the same
fell disease, two in infancy and two after having
reached the years of maturity. The second
marriage of Mr. Petty took place September
24, 1867, to Mehssa A. Lewis, but a second
time death deprived him of his companion.
May 28, 1868. August i, 1869, he was most
happily married to Melissa J. Bole, daughter
of William Bole, Esq., of Delaware county,
Ind. , and to this felicitous union two children
were born, Wilbur A. and Walter E., both
now at home. Mr. Petty continued in active
business until 1875, when failing health warned
him to retire, and the last seventeen years of
his life were devoted to the care of his farm
and vast city property, not so much for the
purpose of adding to his already large fortune,
but more for the reason that he was of that
nervous temperament that precluded his being
unemployed. He could not abstain, indeed,
from working early and late, and while his
health was unimpaired, he was vigorous to an
extreme. When the time came, however, as
it must come to all, he went to Martinsville for
a week's rest and recuperation, but he went too
late. Tired nature asserted herself, and for
two years had tampered with his stomach and
eventually with his heart, and on September
13, 1892, the strong man yielded to the inevi-
table, and passed to the spirit land at the age
of sixty-two years and two months. He had
been a life long communicant of the Methodist
Episcopal church, and had lived faithfully up
to its precepts, and yet he had had an abiding
faith in the return to earth of the disembodied
spirits of those who had gone before, and with
whom he felt assured that he was in constant
communication. Mr. Petty was a member of
the I. 0.0 F. , and was fully in accord by
nature with that benevolent fraternity, exercis-
ing the doctrine of friendship, love and truth
in and out of the order, none, really deserving,
appealing to him in vain.
,>^ EV. ABNER PERDUIE was born,
I /^ reared and married in Guilford county,
1 , P N. C. He obtained a most ecxellent
classical education and was trained to
preach in the Methodist Episcopal church
when about seventeen years of age. He was
actively engaged in the ministry in his native
state and Virginia until about 1831, when he
removed his family to Indiana, stopping first,
for a few years, in Henry county, then coming
to Delaware county. He entered land and
settled two miles west of Muncie, where he
made a good farm. He taught several schools
and did much preaching, and after his remov-
al to Indiana changed his relation in church
from his early choice to the Protestant Meth-
odist. In this relation he organized and
started most of the churches of that denomi-
nation in Delaware and Henry counties. Mr.
Perdiue was a good orator, fine preacher, well
versed in the theology of the Bible, always
earnest for what he believed was the right,
and popular in the pulpit and out. In his day
he preached more funeral sermons and solem-
nized more marriages than any minister in this
part of Indiana. He died in 1876, aged 72
years.
t^/^ EV. NER H. PHILLIPS, retired
I /^ Methodist Episcopal divine, of Mun-
^ . P cie, Ind., was born in Washington
township, Randolph county, Ind.,
September 11, 1829, and is a son of Thomas
and Rebecca (Hammitt) Phillips, natives of
REV, NER H. PHILLIPS.
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Burlington count}-, X. J., and pioneers of In-
diana, who entered i6o acres of land in Kan-
dolph county in 1818, and made settlement
thereon in 1819. On this farm the father
passed the remainder of his life, being called to
his final home April 9, 1874, and the mother
followed him to his heavenly abode October
10, 1886. They were parents of nine chil-
dren, \'\z: Lydia A., wife of ^\'illiaIn Millman;
Thomas, who died at the age of six years;
Welsey, deceased, and William, twins; Rebec-
ca, widow of John H. Bakehorn; Ner H., the
reverend gentleman whose name opens this
sketch; M. H., a merchant of Warsaw; Ancil
B., a grocer of Muncie, and Hester Ann, wid-
ow of John Hudson, of L}nn, Ind. The ]iar-
ents were both sincere in their belief in the
tenets of the Methodist church. The father
was an industrious, hard-working man, had
cleared from the wilderness over 100 acres of
his 160 acre farm, and paid for his land twice
over through going security for either unscru-
pulous or unfortunate neighbors.
Ner H. Phillips assisted in the clearing and
the cultivating of his father's farm until he
had attained twenty-four years (jf age, in the
meantime, however, a\ailing himself of the
means of education that the neighboring
schools of the period afforded. He never at-
tended college, as the expense of tuition would
be too great a hardship for his father to meet;
but, following an opposite course, became a
mechanic by learning the carpenter's trade,
which he followed as an adjunct to farming
from the age of eighteen until that of twent}-
four — working in the spring and fall, or before
and after the crops had been cared for. Dur-
ing the winters of 1850-51-52 he taught
school, and then at twenty-four years of age
entered the ministry of the Methodist Episco-
pal church, receiving appointments to circuits
and stations in the following consecutive order:
Selma circuit, Delaware count\-, Ind., one
year; Windsor, Randolph county, one year;
Pern station, one year; Selma, again one year;
Alliany. Delaware county, one year; Marion
station, one year; Pendleton, Ind., two years;
Williamsburg and Centreville circuit, one
year; Knightstown station, two years; Pearl
street, Richmond, Iml , two years; Berry
street, Fort \\'ayne, two years; thence to the
Sim]ison chapel, now High Street church,
Muncie, and was presiding elder of the Muncie
district for four years; then on the Warsaw
district for four years, two years in Goshen,
Ind., and then again at Knightstown, for two
years, but during his second year here his
health broke down and lie was compelled to
rest for a year and one half; he then went to
Hartford City for three years, then to Kendall-
ville, Ind , two years; to I'ishersburg three
years, and finally was retired to Muncie with
impaired health. But he remains actively em-
ployed in church work. During all these years
of labor in the ministerial field his piety and
elo(]uence have been duly recognized, and his
work in the vineyard of the Lord perforce ac-
knowledged. He holds membershi]) in North
Indiana conference, which came to him with-
out seeking for it, and was twice a delegate to
and member of the general conference^once
in Brooklyn, N. ^■., in 1872, and once in
Baltimore, Md., in \S;i, an lionor imt to be
slightingly io.,kedupon.
Rev. Phillips was joined in the iioly bonds
of matrimony, August 14, 1S51, in P>looining-
ton, Randolph county, Ind., to Mary (larrett,
who bore him five children, of whom three are
living, viz: Katie, wife of O. B. Thacher, of
Spokane, Wash., Mary J., wife of A. B.
Kline, of Bluffton, Ind., and Emma G., at
home with her father. The mother of this
family was called from earth Januar\- 24, 1879,
at Goshen, Ind., and her mortal remains lie
interred at that place. The second marriage
of Mr. Phillips was solemnized April 13. 1880,
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MUNCIE CITY
in Circleville, Clinton county, Ind., with
Nancy E. (Wilson) White, widow of Dr. J.
B. White. This lady is also a devout mem-
ber of the Methodist church. In politics Mr.
Phillips is a republican. He is at present a
non-affiliating member of the I. O. O. F. , but
before his voluntary withdrawal from active
work iji the order was an honored and promi-
nent member and had attained a high rank in
the brotherhood. Mr. Phillips is a strong ad-
vocate of temperance. He has never tasted
an intoxicant during all his life, and never loses
an opportunity to inveigh against the accursed
traffic in liquor.
,y^ R. ARTHUR JOHN PHINNEY, phy-
I I sician, botanist and geologist," of
/^^^ Muncie, Ind., was born in Russell
township, Geauga county, Ohio, Au-
gust 27, 1850. He was reared on the home
farm until of age, receiving in the meantime a
good common school education, supplemented
by an attendance at Geauga seminary and two
terms at Oberlin college, and at Allegheny col-
lege, Meadville, Pa. , until he reached the ju-
nior year, devoting special attention to the
sciences and mathematics. During his colle-
giate course, also, he employed his spare time
in teaching in the common schools of Geauga
and adjoining counties for six terms. In 1875
he took his first course of medical lectures, be-
ginning in the medical department of Wooster
university; his second course was at Pulte
Medical college, of Cincinnati, in 1876-77,
from which he graduated in the last named
year. For little over a year he practiced in
Gallon, Ohio, and in October, 1878, come to
Muncie, where he has had an excellent prac-
tice ever since. He turned his especial atten-
tion to botany at the time he left college, and
his last work in this line ended with 1882,
when he was employed to prepare a complete
record of the flora of Delaware county, Ind. ,
which was published in the report of the state
geological survey of that year. In this record
he classified 720 plants, including grasses,
sedges, rushes and flowers, and the task occu-
pied him several years. The doctor has been
a student of geology for many years, but his
first official recognition was in 1881, when he
was employed to make a geological survey of
Delaware county, which proved to be so satis-
factory that he was subsequently employed to
survey Randolph, Grant, Henry and the north-
ern portion of Wayne, and the results were in-
cluded in the state report of 1882, 1883 and
1885-86 (two in one). This was a labor of
• five or six years, taken in connection with the
practice of his profession. On the discovery
of natural gas, the doctor began the study of
the phenomenon minutely and scientifically,
keeping a record of all the data obtainable
throughout the state of Indiana, including
records of all the geological strata passed
through in drilling — thickness, altitude, depth
of Trenton limestone; whether gas, oil
or water was found, total depth of well, and
other minute facts, and securing and label-
ing samples of drillings. By these data he
was enabled to determine the limits of the
field, and was the first to accurately define it.
These reports were made the base of a series
of articles, by the doctor, published in the
American Manufacturer and Iron World, in
December, 1887, and afterward, in full, in the
Indianapolis News, and in the Petroleum Age,
at Bradford, Pa., and attracted profound at-
tention throughout the country. Major J. W.
Powell, director of the United States geologi-
cal survey, impressed with the thoroughness
of the work done, appointed the doctor United
States geological surveyor for a continuation
of the survey of the Indiana gas field and di-
rected a complete report to be made thereon.
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This was a labor of three years, and forms a
part of the eleventh annua! rejiort t)f the
United States geological surve}'. It is amply
illustrated with maps and sectional views, and
embraces everything of interest in relation to
the gas field. The doctor has also been
called to different parts of the United States
at various times, in connection with his work.
He has secured one of the most comprehen-
sive working geological libraries in the state,
and has collected an e.xcensive variety of fos-
sils, minerals and fresh water and land shells,
embracing over 17,000 species, all classified
and labeled. In the fall of 1892, this collect-
ion was sold, and donated to Buchtel college,
Akron, Ohio. The bulk of this immense re-
search, study and labor has been accomplished
within the past twelve years, and yet the
doctor has assidiously attended to his daily
professional duties, to which he now exclu-
sively devotes himself, and in which he holds
high rank. Music affords him his only pastime.
The marriage of Dr. Phinney took place,
October 16, 1879, to Miss Mary E. Little,
daughter of John L. Little, of Muncie, and to
this union one child, Louise, has been born.
I his life work. In February, 1869, Mr. Pixley
came to Muncie and engaged in painting with
Alexander Wiley, and three years later became
one of the principal workmen for the firm of
Slinger & Wiley, and was thus employed until
1892, when he became a member of the (inn.
Mr. Pixley is a skillful painter, as is proved by
the many specimens of his handiwork, as seen
in the signs he has turned out. He is a repub-
lican in his political affiliations, a member of
the Odd Fellows' fraternity, and, for some
years, has been an active worker in the Meth-
odist Episcopal church. Mr. Pixley was mar-
ried July 3, 1 861, to Miss Rebecca J. Kichey.
of Delaware county, Ind., and their home has
been gladdened by two children: Gertrude and
Arvil.
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ILLIAM N. PIXLEY, painter, was
born in Adams count}-, Ohio, Sep-
tember II, 1 85 I, son of Elijah and
Harriet A. (Abbot) Pixley. Elijah
and Harriet Pixley were born and married in
the above county and state and reared a fam-
ily of three children: William N., Jennie,
(deceased), and James, who resides in Tacoma,
Washington. The father died of cholera July
4, 1855, and the mother is living at this time
with her son in the city of Tacoma. William
N. received his education in the common
schools of Ohio, and at the age of eighteen began
learning the painter's trade, which he has made
^^k2)H01
HOMAS PORT began life at the bot-
tom of the ladder, which he has
mbed to the top with no help but a
brave heart, industrious hands and
an intelligent brain, and is a living example of
what may be accomplished in this country by
thrift and perseverance, even under discour-
aging circumstances. He was born in Belfast,
Ireland, May 3, 1836, a son of John and Mary
Jane (Carlton) Port. The parents were na-
tives of the same place, married there and
were in comfortable circumstances, but the
long trip across the water to America prett)'
well drained their resources. They located in
Fayette county, Ind., where they engaged in
a general merchandise business, and Mr. Port
followed this all of his life, wl^ich ended in
1839, his wife dying in 1841, and they were
buried in Fayette county. They had been
members of the Presbyterian church, and in
his political views he was a tory. Four chil-
dren were born to them — William, Margaret
and Eli^a J., all deceased, Thomas being the
MUNCIE CITY
only one yet living. The mother afterwards
married Jacob Troxall, and Thomas was reared
by his step-father until he was seventeen years
old, when he left home, possessing one pair of
pants, one shirt and a straw hat, and reached
the home of his sister, the wife of William
Wilson, in the same county, bare-footed.
Here he was given a good home and worked
for a year for his board and clothes, at which
time he decided to begin farming for himself.
He engaged to buy an old horse for $60 on
one year's time, and rented twenty-five acres
of land. He tended a crop on this piece of
land, sold it for $20 per acre, and thus gained
a start in life.
Coming to Muncie the ne.xt winter, his
quick intelligence showed him that money could
be made in the buying and selling of horses,
and he traded all winter, buying in Muncie and
selling in Fayette county, but when summer
came he engaged in farming again. In i860 he
bought eighty acres of land in Centre town-
ship, Delaware county, paying $2,400 for it,
and was able to pay down $1, 100, with notes
for the balance, which long before they became
due were fully paid. In 1864 he sold this land
and then bought in Mount Pleasant township
120 acres, upon which he lived until 1885,
owning at that time 400 acres, and then he
came to where he now resides. Here he bought
160 acres and has made a pleasant home. In
1 89 1 he sold 140 acres, the city of Muncie
having so encroached upon him, and for this
land he received $225 per acre. He has reserv-
ed twenty acres around his home just outside
the city, and he also owns 100 acres in Mount
Pleasant township, which he has well improved.
In 1870 Mr. Port began the buying and
selling of stock very extensively, and has made
it very profitable, managing his business with
good judgment and unceasing care. He was
married September 4, 1859, in Centre town-
ship, to Miss Catherine Williams, a native of
the township, born March i i, 1842, a daughter
of William Y. and Sarah (Tomblison) Will-
iams, who were natives of Ohio and early
pioneers of Delaware county. Mr. and Mrs.
Port had a family of seven children, as follows:
Laura M., wife of Charles Koontz, a glass
manufacturer of Muncie, who was deputy treas-
urer for the term of eight years; Ellsworth,
deceased; John W. . the secretary of the Port
Glass works; Charles H. and two infants, de-
ceased, and Maud, who resides at home. Politi-
cally, Mr. Port is a believer in the principles of
the democratic party, which he cordially sup-
ports Mr. Port is one of the stockholders in
the Port Glass works and is considered one of
the strong financial men of Muncie. The
father of Mrs. Port was born in 181 1, and now
resides in Centre township. The mother of
Mrs. Port died in this township in 1856, at
about forty-one years of age. They had a
family of nine children, as follows: John (de-
ceased), Zadoc, Isaac, Catherine, Henry, Sarah
Ann, William (deceased). Perry and Nathan.
Mr. Williams is a republican and a member of
the Protestant Methodist church.
<>^ RICE PETTIJON POWERS, an old
I t'^L and highly respected citizen of Centre
J^^J township, a native of Monongalia
county, Va. (now W. Va.), was born
January 13, 181 5, and is a son of Nehemiah
and Cassandra (Holland) Powers. Nehemiah
Powers was a representative of an old pioneer
family of (then) Virginia, and first saw the
light of day in a fort which had been erected
to protect the settlement from the incursions
of the savages. By occupation he was a
farmer, and he followed that useful calling all
of his life. He moved to Indiana in 1823,
settling in Wayne county, thence, five years
later, moved to the county of Henry, where his
M. POWERS.
MRS. M. E. POWERS.
AND CENTRE TOWNSHIP.
death occurred in September, 1846. His wife,
whom he married in his native state, was a
daughter of Jacob and Mary (Gordon) Hol-
land, natives of Pennsylvania and Virginia
respectively. She became the mother of
twelve children, six of whom are living at this
time, viz: Brice P. ; Reason H. ; Maria, wife
of John Williams, a retired farmer living in
Muncie; James, a resident of Blackford coun-
ty, Ind.,; Joshua H., of Oregon; and Mar\-,
wife of Noah Branson, a farmer living in Kan-
sas.
Brice P. Powers was but a lad of about
eight years when his parents moved to Indiana,
and he received the principal part of his edu-
cational training in the schools of Centreville,
Wayne county, which he attended about two
years. His first practical experience in life
was acquired in a tan yard, where he was em-
ployed for two years, after which he engaged
in agricultural pursuits in Henry county, where
he resided until his removal to the county of
Delaware in 1852. Upon becoming a resident
of the latter, he located where he now lives in
Centre township, and has since become the
possessor of 328 acres of finely improved and
highly cultivated land, the result of his own in-
dustry and successful financial management.
Mr. Powers has been a hard worker, and his
labors have ever been directed by prudent
forethought, the legitimate result of which is
the comfortable competence he now enjoys.
On the 4th of May, 1844, Mr. Powers and
Hannah Lewis, of Delaware county, Ohio,
were united in marriage. Mrs. Powers is the
daughter of John and Naomi (Kelly) Lewis,
both natives of Ohio, the former of Delaware
and the latter of Butler county. The follow-
ing are the names of the brothers and sisters
of Mrs. Powers: James, deceased; Nancy,
wife of James Rosebraugh; Zeziah, deceased;
Phebe, widow of David Daily; John, a resident
of Iowa; Stephen G., who lives in the same
state, and Rachael, wife of H. Simpson. John
Lewis, the father, died in Randolph county,
Ind., September 15, 1876; his wife died in
Delaware county, Ohio, in September of 1834.
To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Powers five
children were horn, namely; Naomi, widow
of J. H. Helm, of Muncie; Mark, deceased;
Nehemiah, a contractor of Muncie; Amelia,
deceased, and John, who resides with his father
on the home place. Mr. and Mrs. Powers are
communicants of the Baptist church, and their
lives have been fraught with kind acts and
good deeds. They are among the higlily
respected residents of Centre township, and
all with whom they have come in contact unite
in praising them for their many virtues.
John Powers, the youngest sonjof Brice P.
and Hannah Powers, was born May 28, 1858,
in Delaware county. His early educational
training in the high school of Muncie, where
he graduated in 1877, was supplemented by a
thorough course in the literary department in
the State university at Bloomington, which he
completed in the spring of 1881. He taught
school in Yorktown for two years, and is one
of the intelligent and progressive young men of
Delaware county. He lives with his father
upon the homestead, in the management of
which he displays the energy and thrift of the
successful agriculturist.
QARK POWERS, the popular treas-
urer of Delaware count}-, of which
he is a native, was born in Wash-
ington township, on the 4th day of
June, 1845, ^nd is a son of Uriah and Syl-
vania (Wilson) Powers, natives respectively
of Virginia and Pennsylvania. Uriah Powers
immigrated to Indiana as early as 1826. set-
tling in Henr\- county, where he entered and
improved a farm, but in 1 834 liisposed of his
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interest in that part of the state, and removed
to Washington township, Delaware county,
where Mr. Powers became a prominent busi-
ness man, having been one of the pioneers of
that section. For many years he was engaged
in mercantile pursuits, married in Washington
township, and afterward built the Elizabeth
mills, which he operated until his death in
i860; his wife preceded him to the grave, de-
parting this life in 1856. Politically Mr.
Powers was a republican, but could never be
induced to accept any political office, prefer-
ring to give his entire attention to his various
business interests. He adhered to the creed
of the Baptist church, while his wife was an
active member of the Presbyterian denomina-
tion. They reared six children to maturity,
as follows: Bryce, a member of company B,
Eighth Indiana infantry, was taken sick at the
siege of Vicksburg and died in the St. Louis
hospital; John, who died in 1865; Ann, died
in 1 861; Mary, now Mrs. Keesling of Perry
township; Mark, the subject of this mention,
and George, a well known resident of the
township of Washington.
Mark Powers received his primary educa-
tion in the township schools, later attended the
Muncie academy, and subsequently pursued
his studies for two years' in the schools of
Marion, Ind., in all of which he made substan-
tial progress in the various branches of learn-
ing. In 1 861 he went to live with an uncle in
Henry county, this state, and in the spring of
1864 he entered the army as a member of
company B, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth
Indiana volunteer infantry, with which he
served four months, and in 1865 enlisted in
company F, One Hundred Forty-seventh
regiment, with which he served until honorably
discharged at the close of the war. On severing
his connection with the army, he returned to
Delaware county and engaged in farming and
stock raising in Washington township, where
he has since made his home. In February,
1 869, the marriage of Mr. Powers was solem-
nized with Miss Mary E. Furgeson, step-
daughter of Henson Lewis, of Washington
township, and a lady widely and favorably
known for her many excellent traits of charac-
ter. Politically Mr. Powers is a republican,
and as such was elected to the office of trustee
of Washington township, the duties of which
position he discharged with credit to himself
and satisfaction to the people for the period of
eight years. In iSgo Mr. Powers was compli-
mented by his fellow citizens by being called
to a more exalted official station, namely,
treasurer of Delaware county, to which he was
elected in November of that year, was again
elected in 1892, and still fills the office in a
manner gratifying to his friends as well as to
those who differ with him politically. Frater-
nally, he is a member of Lookout Mountain
post, G. A. R. , No. 345, New Corner, belongs
to the Masonic order of Muncie, and is also
identified with the Improved Order of Red
Men of Muncie. Mr and Mrs. Powers have
an interesting family of seven children, whose
names are as follows: George, Burt, Webb,
Susan, Paul, Bruce and John. Mrs. Powers
belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church of
Muncie, of which she is a valued member.
eLISHA J. PUCKETT, M. D. , a
prominent physician and surgeon of
Muncie, was born January 31, 1843,
in the town of Cadiz, Henry county,
Ind. His father was Dr. Henry L. Puckett,
a native of Clinton county, Ohio, and his
mother, whose maiden name was Elizabeth
Comer, was also born in the same state.
Henry L. Puckett received his professional
education in the Botanic Medical college, Cin-
cinnati, and began practicing at the town of
LEWIS REES.
MRS. LEWIS REES.
AND CENTRE TOWNSHIP.
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Martinsville, Ohici, in the latter part of the
thirties, moving thence to Indiana, locating
first in Henrj- county and later in the Indian Re-
serve in the present county of Howard. At
the close of the late war, he went to Rich-
land count}, \\'is. , where his death occurred
in 1887. Mrs. Puckett preceded her husband
to the f,'rave, departing this life in the year
1861 at her home in Tipton county, Ind.
Henry L. and Elizabeth Puckett were the
|iarents of four sons and three daughters:
Elisha J., John L., J. Barkley and George B.,
all of whom entered the medical profession;
John L. resides at Kokomo, Ind. ; J. Barkley
lives in Iowa, and George B., in Minneapolis;
Maria, Letha and Margaret are deceased.
Dr. Elisha J. Puckett spent his youthful
years on the Indian Reserve, and on the death
of his mother went to Anderson, where he en-
listed, at the breaking out of the great rebel-
lion, in company G, Eighth Indiana infantry,
Capt. H. \'anDevender, for the three months'
service. At the expiration of his enlistment,
he re-entered the army for three years or
during the war, joining company K, Si.xteenth
Indiana volunteer infantry, with which he
served until honorably discharged at New
Orleans in 1865. His command formed part
of the Fourteenth army corps, department of
the gulf, and he shared with his comrades the
fortunes and vicissitudes of war on a number
of sanguinary fields and throughout several
hotly contested campaigns.
On severing his connection with the army.
Dr. Puckett returned to Anderson, Ind., and
for three years thereafter studied medicine
with Dr. J. C. Cullon, under whose able in-
struction he made such commendable progress
that, before the expiration of the time noted,
he began the practice of his profession as as-
sistant to his preceptor. During the succeed-
ing four years he practiced at the town of New
Corner, Delaware county, and with the pecun-
iary capital thus acquired and actuated by a
laudable ambition to drink more deeply at the
fountain of professional knowledge, he entered
college at Indianapolis, where in due time he
graduated, receiving his diploma in 1878.
Subsequently he took a post-graduate course,
and in the winter of 1888 located in Muncie,
where he has since resided, building up a large
and lucrative practice in the city and through-
out Delaware county in the meantime.
Dr. Puckett was married in 1861, while
home on furlough, to Miss Malinda Harris,
daughter of Washington and Sarah (GifTord)
Harris, to which union seven children were
born, five li\-ing at this time: Annie L. ,
Frances, Ida Blanch, Bertha and F. W.
Since beginning the practice of the healing
art Dr. Puckett has continued to enjoy a well
merited reputation for success in his calling.
He has always been an ardent supporter of the
democratic party, and during President Cleve-
land's first administration was a member of
the pension examining board of Delaware
county. He is identified with the Methodist
Protestant church, belongs to the I. O. O. F.
and Red Men order, and was initiated into
the mysteries of the Masonic fraternity a num-
ber of years ago at Anderson.
* W * EWIS REES, a prominent citizeti of
I r Centre township, and a member of
^^^^ one of the oldest and best known
pioneer families of Delaware county,
is a native of Ohio and a son of Lewis and
Mary Rees. His paternal ancestors were among
the early settlers of 'Virginia, and on the
mother's side he is a descendant of the sturdy
pioneers of Pennsylvania. Lewis and Mary
Rees emigrated to Ohio many years ago, and
as early as 1821 came to Delaware county,
Ind., locating in the township of Perry, of which
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they were among the very first settlers. Their
first home was located in the woods, and after
developing a farm, Mr. Rees, Sr. , moved to
another part of the township and purchased
160 acres of government land, which was also
in a primitive condition. Being a man of
much more than ordinary thrift and business
foresight, Mr. Rees made a number of judi-
cious purchases, and in time became the owner
of over 600 acres of valuable land, the greater
part of which, under his successful manage-
ment, was brought to a successful state of
cultivation. Upon the home farm in Perry
township, Lewis Rees, Sr. , died in 1852, and
his wife was summoned to her final reward in
1 876. Lewis Rees was a prominent factor in
in the early history and development of Del-
aware county, and at one time filled the office
of probate judge with ability. He became a
republican upon the formation of that party,
and was an earnest supporter of its principles
until the close of his life.
Lewis Rees was born March 11, 1820, and
has spent the greater part of his life in Dela-
ware county. Like all people reared on a farm,
he was early in life made familiar with the
many labors and duties incident thereto, and
until his marriage, at the age of thirty, he re-
sided upon the home place and managed the
same. His marriage was solemnized August i,
1850, with Mary A. Smith, who was born in
Liberty township, Delaware county, January
2, 1 83 1, the daughter of Lewis and Serepta
(Preston) Smith, natives of Vermont, who
moved to this part of the state at an early
period of its history. Immediately after his
marriage, Mr. Rees purchased a farm of eighty
acres, to which he at once removed, and upon
which he resided for a period of eighteen years,
and then moved to his present place in Centre
township, where he has since made his home.
In the meantime Mr. Rees accumulated valu-
able real estate in various parts of the county,
and became the owner of over 300 acres of
fine land, which he divided among the various
members of his family. Since moving to his
present place in Centre township, he has added
to his original purchase from time to time until
he how has in his possession over 377 acres
adjoining the city of Muncie, all of which is
substantially improved and represents a great
value. In the true sense of the word, Mr.
Rees is a self made man and as such ranks
with the most successful agriculturists of Dela-
ware county. He possesses financial ability of
a high order, has always been a man of great
industry, and his example is well worthy of
imitation by those who are just beginning the
struggle of life for themselves. He is one of
the oldest and best known citizens of the
county living at this time, and is fully entitled
to the confidence and esteem of his fellow
citizens, which he enjoys in a very marked
degree. He is a republican in politics and a
member of the Methodist church, to which'his
wife also belongs. Six children have been
born to Mr. and Mrs. Rees, namely: Elwood,
Perhna, Randson, Serepta (deceased), Lucetta
(deceased) and Emma.
aHRISTOPHER RIBBLE, one of the
farmers of Delaware count}-, Ind. ,
now living a life retired from active
business in the pleasant cit}' of Mun-
cie, Ind., was born in Montgomery county,
Va. , November 16, 181 7, son of David and
Mary (Surfess) Ribble, natives of the same
county, who removed to Delaware county in
1830 and settled in Perry township, where
they entered a tract of land in 1829. David
Ribble was a man of more than ordinary edu-
cation for that period, and was prominently
identified with the business and political life of
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the county. He was a republican in politics
and was the representative of the people of
his district for one term. He died in March,
1839. The mother of Christopher Ribble
was a consistent member of the Presbyterian
church, a fjood woman and a kind neig;hbor,
and her death occurred in 1852. They reared
a family of six children, as follows: Elizabeth,
now Mrs. Ingraham Sissell. of Tennessee;
Martin, a resident of Muncie; Nancy, now
Nfrs. Joseph Thomas, of Iowa; Christopher,
William, of Centre, and John of Iowa.
Christopher Ribble came to Delaware
county when about thirteen years of age, and
received his education in the early schools of
the county. In 1839 he married Miss Martha
\'anArsdol, daughter of Cornelius and Jane
(McClellan) VanArsdol, who settled in Perry
township, Delaware county, in 1820. Mr. Van
Arsdol was born in Kentucky and removed,
when a child, with his parents, to Ohio, where
he grew to maturity and married. After com-
ing to Indiana he built a house upon his claim
and cleared a farm. He served as justice of
the peace and as county commissioner; was
also a minister in the Christian church, being
the first preacher of the county. His death
occurred in 1869. He had been a soldier in
the war of 181 2.
After marriage, Mr. Ribble located in Perry
township, where he cleared a farm, and here
the family resided until 1873, when he retired
from business and removed into Muncie. He
is a stockholder in the Five Points Gas Well
company. Politically he is a republican and
takes much interest in public affairs. One son,
Cornelius W. , was born in 1 842 and enlisted in
1 861 in company K, Nineteenth Indiana volun-
teer infantry, and died with typhoid fever,
December 31. 1861, at Washington, D. C.
Another son, William T., is a carpenter and
contractor in the city of Muncie. Mr. and Mrs.
Ribble are members of the High street Metho-
dist Episcopal church, and always take great
interest in religious affairs.
ai
ILLIAM KIBBLE, a prominent
farmer of ("entre township, and one
of the oldest and best known citi-
zens of Delaware county, is a na-
ti\e of Montgomery county, \'a., born Octo-
ber 10, 1 8 19. He is of German descent and
the son of David and Mary (Surfess) Ribble.
His grandparents located in Miami county,
Ohio, in 1828, and in 1830 his parents re-
moved to Delaware count}-, Ind., locating
near Smithfield, Perry township. David Kib-
ble died in 1839 at the age of fifty-two, and his
wife in 1852, when sixty-three years old.
David Ribble followed farming his entire life,
and was chosen representative of Delaware
county, Ind. . in the general assembly from
1835 to 1837. He reared a family of six chil-
dren, viz: Elizabeth, Martin, Nancy, Christo-
pher, WiFliam and John.
William Kibble received the most impor-
tant part of his instruction in the common
schools of Virginia, as the advantages afforded
in the newly settled districts of Indiana were
very meager, and much of his time was em-
ployed in the work of the farm. After the
death of his father, he assumed the manage-
ment of the farm and at once began purchas-
ing the shares owned by his brothers and sis-
ters. He set to work clearing and imiiro\ing
the place, and from time to time purchased
adjoining tracts until 1881, until he was the
possessor of 344 acres of choice land. In
1858, he formed, with his brother-in-law, the
firm of Hutchings & Ribble, at Selma, and
engaged in the sale of general merchandise
and in buying and selling grain and wool,
carrying on the farm in the meantime. At the
death of Mr. Hutchings, which occurred in
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1865, he sold his interest in the business and
again turned his whole attention to agricult-
ural pursuits.
In 1843, Mr. Ribble was elected justice of
the peace on the whig ticket, and later by
appointment of Gov. Whitcomb became major
of the state militia. He assisted in the organ-
ization of the republican party, and in 1874
was elected on that ticket to the general
assembly. Mr. Ribble has been foremest in
various public improvements, among which
were the Smithfield & Burlington turnpike, of
which he was secretary and a director, and
the Muncie & Burlington pike, in which he also
held an official position. In 1856 Mr. Ribble
joined the Burlington lodge of Free & Accepted
Masons, and, in 1867, took the chapter and
commandery degrees. He has been a member
of the Methodist Episcopal church for over
forty years, holding, during that period, the
office of steward.
On the 19th of November, 1844, Mr. Rib-
ble was united in marriage with Harriet Ribble,
who was born in Montgomery county, Va. ,
January 24, 1824, the daughter of George and
Sarah (Surfess) Ribble. George Ribble, in
company with David Ribble, located in Perry
township, Delaware county, in 1830, and in
1 83 1 took command of a company of state
militia, which position he filled until promoted
to the rank of colonel in 1847. Subsequently
(1855) he removed to the state of Iowa, locat-
ing at the town of Clarinda, where he resided
until his death, which occurred on the 27th
day of February, 1887. His wife, Sarah Rib-
ble, died in the same place May 25, 1879, and
they have fifty-six surviving grandchildren,
and fifty-one great-grandchildren. George
and Sarah Ribble, were earnest members of
the Methodist church. To the marriage of
William and Harriet Ribble have been born
ten children, namely: Charles O., a resident
of Liberty township; Helen; Clara, wife of L.
T. Wilson, of Osage county, Kan. ; David,
who lives in Tennessee, George A., a resident
of the township of Liberty; Sarah A., " fe of
T. W. Cornell; Harriet B.. wife of W.
Brown, an attorney of New Castle, In Aiza.,
deceased; Mary R., wife of W. L. Legg, Fort
Scott, Kan. ; Gertrude, deceased, and Lydia
E., deceased.
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EBSTER S. RICHEY.- Among
the officials of Delaware county,
Ind., who do her honor ')y their
efficiency, the gentleman whose
name introduces this sketch occup es a de-
servedly conspicuous place. Since 1890 he
has been the auditor of the county, and has
most ably and faithfully performed tl 2 onerous
duties of the positi6n to the satisfact on of the
people, irrespective of party affiliat' 41.
Webster S. Richey was born in Preble
county, Ohio, March 11, 1S48, and is a son of
Samuel W. and Sarah C. (Fleminj) Richey,
natives of the same state, of the counties of
Preble and Butler, respectively. The father
was a prominent business man of New Paris,
Ohio, and died in 1881, at the advanced age
of seventy-six. Webster S. is the youngest
of a family of eight children and was reared
in his native town until sixteen years of age,
attending in the meantime the public schools,
in which he laid the foundation of an educa-
tion which, supplemented by a subsequent
course of instruction, and a life of great busi-
ness activity and close observation of events,
has made him one of the best informed men
in every community where his lot has been
cast. On the first day of April, 1864, at the
age of sixteen, he entered the service of his
country, enlisting in the Eighth Ohio battery
of light artillery, and served faithfully for
fifteen months, at the end of which time.
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owing to a serious injury rccciveil while mount-
ing a cannon, ami tlie war being over, he
severed his connection with the arni\' and re-
turned to Oiiio, and for some time thereafter
was engaged in the drug business at the town
of New Paris, and while thus employed at-
tended school as occasion permitted. In 1867
Mr. Richey accepted a position as bookkeeper
in a wholesale grocery house at Richmond,
Ind. , in which capacity he continued until
1S70, when he located in Muncie and engaged
in the drug business in partnership with W.
E. Richey, under the firm name of Richey &
Richey. From 1871 to 1876 he was agent of
the American Express company at Muncie and
joint agent for the United States and Ameri-
can companies from the latter year to 1880,
also serving as freight clerk for the Bee Line
railroad from 1880 to 1881. From the latter
year to 1882 he was bookkeeper for James
Boyce, and from 1882 to 1887 was the route
agent through Ohio and Indiana for the United
States Express company. From 1887 to 1889
he was again bookkeeper for James Boyce
and served in that capacity until 1890, in
which year he was elected to his present posi-
tion, auditor of Delaware county.
Mr. Richey is a prominent member of the
Williams post, No. 78, G. A. R. , Muncie, and
was mainly instrumental in the establishment
of a similar organization at New Paris, Ohio,
in 1886, of which he was made commander.
He takes great interest in all matters pertain-
ing to the Grand Army. He is also promi-
nently identified with the A. F. & A. M.
fraternity, belonging to lodge No. 433, of
Muncie, also being a member of Muncie chap-
ter and conimandery. He belongs to lodge
No. 74, I. O. O. F., tribe No. 30, I. O. R. M.,
took an active part in the organization of the
Ancile club and is one of the active members
of the Citizens' Business club. It will thus be
seen that the career of Mr. Richey has been
one of untiring activity, and the important
trusts to which he has been called at different
times, and the important office which he now
so ably and acceptably fills, attest his popu-
larity with the people of his county. A self
made man, he has always been imbued with
the spirit of self reliance, and every interest
imposed in him has been managed with excel-
lent tact and judgment. As an official, he
enjoys in a full measure the confidence of his
fellow citizens, and all who have had business
relations with him bear testimony to his worth
as an intelligent and most affable and courte-
ous gentleman.
Mr. Richey was married October 15, 1872,
to Miss Julia Thomas, daughter of J. Harvey
Thomas, of Dayton, Ohio, and three children
have been born to their union, namely:
Albert S., a student at Purdue university,
where he is taking the course of electrical
engineering; Reba and Paul. Mr. Richey is
himself liberal in his religious views, but his
family are members of the Presbyterian de-
nomination.
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EL M. RIEI). — Among the suc-
physicians of Delaware county,
Samuel M. Ried takes a front
rank, both as to skill and popularity.
Dr. Ried was born in Shelby county, Ohio,
August 27, 1843, ^"d is a son of William R.
and Susan (Young) Ried, natives of V'irginia
and Montgomery county, Ohio, respectively.
William R. and Susan Ried were the parents
of five children, of whom Samuel M. is the
only one now living. Mrs. Susan Ried de-
parted this life March 30, 1863, and the fol-
lowing year Mr. Ried was united in marriage
to Miss Jean Henry, who is still living on the
old home farm in Ohio. William R. Ried died
on the loth day of February, 1893.
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Dr. Ried was reared to manhood in his
native county, in the pubhc schools of which
he received his early educational training, and
later he became a student in the Wesleyan
university, Delaware, Ohio, which institution
he left before completing the prescribed course,
for the purpose of joining the army. Just at
this juncture, however, he was stricken with
typhoid fever, which prevented his doing mili-
tary service, a most grievous disappointment
to him at the time, as he was exceedingly
desirous of going to the front. The six years
following his recovery from sickness he spent
teaching school, succeeding well in the profes-
sion and earning the reputation of a capable
and painstaking instructor. About this time
he decided to gratify a taste, which had been
developing for several years, of fitting himself
for the medical profession; accordingly, he
entered the office of Dr. William R. Venard,
and began the study of medicine, in which he
made most satisfactory progress. He added
to the knowledge thus obtained by taking a
full course in the college of Physicians and
Surgeons of Keokuk, Iowa, from which he
graudated in 1878, and thus, quite well for-
tified for the duties of his chosen call-
ing, he resumed the practice, which he had
previously commenced in 1866 in Warren
county, Ind. He remained in the county of
Warren for a period of twenty-three years,
doing a lucrative practice in the meantime,
and in 1889 located in Muncie, where his
thorough knowledge of the profession soon won
for him a prominent place among the leading
physicians and surgeons. Dr. Ried has much
in his favor, possessing a pleasant personality,
with a manner which inspires confidence —
attributes so necessary to the successful disci-
ple of the healing art. He is upon the kindest
terms with his brother practitioners, belongs
to the Delaware County Medical society, and
is also a member of the State Medical society.
In polititics he is a supporter of the republi-
can party, taking an active interest in the
cause which he espouses, and he has the
courage of his convictions upon all questions
of local and public moment. He is a member
of the Mutual Loan & Savings association
of Muncie, and testifies to his interest in fra-
ternal orders by holding membership in three
prominent organizations, namely: Masonic,
I. O. O. F. and the I. O. R. M. In religion
the doctor subscribes to the Methodist creed,
and as a member of the High Street congrega-
tion he has done much for his denomination in
this city.
The doctor was married, in 1866, to Miss
Jennie Johnson, daughter of Joseph Johnson
of Shelby county, Ohio, and is the father of
three children, namely: Francis A., died May
28, 1876; William J., died April 8, 1877; and
B. Lee, living — his birth having occurred on
the 4th day February, 1877.
*-m ^ ARDIN ROADS, president of the
I'^^V Merchants' National bank of Muncie,
^ . * was born and reared on a farm in
Highland county, Ohio. After mak-
ing such preparations as the common schools
afforded, he began teaching at the age of seven-
teen, and during the years of his early man-
hood followed this occupation, working on the
farm during vacations. Subsequently, he en-
gaged in merchandising at Hillsboro, Ohio,
where he remained actively engaged until i 887,
when he came to Muncie and engaged in the
j wholesale grocery trade for a period of five
years, when he disposed of his business to Mr.
Goddard in 1892. February 4, 1893, Mr.
Roads, with several other leading business men
of Muncie, completed the organization of the
Merchants' National bank, he being chosen
president. The bank, located at the corner of
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421
Main and Mulberry streets, has a capital stock
of $100,000, and is recognized as one of the
solid and successful financial institutions of
the citv.
^^^EORGE W. ROBINSON (deceased),
■ ^\ for many years a popular citizen
\^^ of Muncie, and one of its efficient
officials, was born in Greene county,
Pa., on the 13th day of February, 1836. He
was the sixth in a family of ten children born
to Allen and Jane (Birch) Robinson, the father
a native of England, and the mother of Ireland.
Allen Robinson came to the United States in
early boyhood with an uncle, and became a
prominent physician, which profession he fol-
lowed during life. Mrs. Robinson was brought
to the United States by her parents when but
four years of age, and grew to womanhood in
Washington county, Pa. In 1837, Allen Rob-
inson removed with his family to Mercer county,
Ohio, thence later to the city of Bellefontaine,
where he resided until 1851, at which date he
located in Muncie, Ind., and here practiced his
profession. He died in 1865 at the age of
sixty years, and his wife survived him until
1880, dying in that year at the advanced age
of eighty-four.
George W. Robinson was but a lad when
his parents located in Mercer county, Ohio,
and a boy in his teens when he came to Muncie.
He received a common school education, and
in his fifteenth year entered upon an appren-
ticeship with Calvin Everett, the pioneer shoe-
maker of Muncie, to learn that useful trade.
He followed the business of shoemaking for a
number of years, and upon the death of his
brother, John T. Robinson, became the latter's
successor as town marshal in the fail of 1878,
the duties of which office he discharged con-
tinuously until Muncie was incorporated as
a city, when he was elected city marshal,
which office he filled by successive re-elec-
tions for a period of fifteen years. His effi-
ciency as a guardian of the city's interests
during the period of his incumbency was
greatly appreciated by his fellow citizens, and
as an evidence of the high esteem in which he
was held he was made chief of police, the
duties of which position he discharged in an
eminently satisfactory manner until his death,
which occurred on the i 5th day of May, 1893.
It will thus be seen that the life of Mr. Robin-
son was one of great activity, and his official
career embraced a period of twenty-five jears
of the existence of the city of Muncie. As
an official, he was uniformly kind and courte-
ous, but possessed in a marked degree that
firmness of purpose so essential to an officer
of justice, and which in his case proved a
terror to violators of the law. Personally he
enjoyed great popularity, his kindness of heart
became proverbial, and ail with whom he
came in contact, whether in business, official
or social relations, united in pronouncing him
a true friend and an honorable, upright gentle-
man. In politics he was ever a supporter of
the republican party, and he was prominently
identified with the I. O. O. F. and the frater-
nity of Red Men. Mr. Robinson was twice
married; the first time, on the 25th day of
May, 1854, to Miss Mary Frances Gordon,
who died in 1875, the mother of six children,
three of whom are living, namely: Charles,
Dell and Allen. Mr. Robinson's second mar-
riage was solemnized October 28, 1877, with
Miss Jenette A. Langley, who was born in
Madison county, Ind., in 1861, the daughter
of John and Susan Langley, natives of Indiana
and of German descent.
The moral character of Mr. Robinson was
above reproach, and his constant observation
of the evil effects of crime seemed but to
strengthen his incorruptibility.
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MUNCIE CITY
•HEODORE F. ROSE, prominent at-
torney of Delaware county, and pres-
ident of the Muncie Natural Gas
company, was born in Fairfield,
Franklin county, Ind., the son of Samuel and
Jane (Harris) Rose. The father was one of
the first white children born in the town of
Fairfield and was by occupation a carriage
maker, having carried on an extensive manu-
facturing establishment for many years. He
was a man of local prominence in his neighbor-
hood, was an active and inifuential member of
the Methodist Episcopal church, and always
manifested a great interest in the Sunday
school work. His father, William S. Rose,
removed to Union county in an early day, and
there became a prominent man of affairs, and
was called to fill various official positions.
Mrs. Samuel Rose was. a native of Lancaster,
Pa., and a woman of man}- excellent traits of
both mind and heart.
Theodore F. Rose is the second son in his
father's family, and was reared in his native
place until seventeen years of age. In his
youth he enjoyed superior educational advan-
tages, attending first the public schools and
later becoming a student of Brookville college, i
and afterward graduating, in 1875, from the
regular scientific course in the State university
at Bloomington, Ind. His early inclinations
led him to choose the legal profession for his
life work, and in 1876 he began the study of
the same in the office of Buckles & Ryan at
Muncie, under whose instruction he continued
until his admission to the bar in 1878. He
then began the active practice of his profes-
sion in partnership with Hon. Josiah E. Mel-
lett, at that time prosecuting attorney of Del-
aware county, and was made deputy prose-
cutor, in which capacity he continued
until the expiration of that gentleman's
term of office. The partnership of Rose &
Mellett was continued until 1882, since
which time Mr. Rose has not had any associ-
ate in the practice. He served as city attor-
ney for five years, and is now the attorney for
a number of corporations, and his standing is a
compliment to his abi 
