Clark County, Indiana - Biographical sketches, 1909 (part 11 of 15)

It has been said that success treads on the heels of every right effort, and amid all the theorizing as to the cause of success, there can be no doubt that this aphorism has its origin in the fact that character is the real basis of success in any field of thought and action. He of whom the biographer now writes has gained a substantial footing in his native community not by reason of the fact that someone has mapped out his life work for him or aided him in any material way, but because he has been a man of industry and honesty of purpose all his life and employed such methods as always make for success.

county. Indiana, the representative of an old and highly honored family. He was educated in the common schools of Utica township in which he made a splendid record, but not being satisfied with a common school education he entered Oberlin College, where he remained two years, standing high in his classes.

After leaving college Mr. Burtt decided that the free and imtrammeled life of the agriculturist and horticulturist was the most attractive for a man of his tastes and he accordingly went to fanning, which he has since continued with signal success. He has a highly productive and well improved farm of one hundred and ten acres, which is mostly used for the raising of fruits, being in orchard and grass. He is known in this part of the county as "the peach king," being one of the largest peach growers in Southern Indiana. He is a good manager and has a most desirable fann on which stands a good dwelling and other buildings.

Mr. Burtt was united in marriage with Lillace Holman, a native of Jeffersonville township, and the daughter of an excellent family. The date of their wedding was October 22, 1890. Mrs. Burtt was born December 10, 1866, in Utica township, where she attended the common schools, after which she took a course at Oberlin College.

Two children living and one dead have been born to the subject and wife, namely: Eli Ivan, born October 17, 1891, died January 8, 1892; Glen Eli, born November 11, 1895; Leta Kathr^-n, born November 25, 1903.

Mrs. Burtt is a member of the Christian church, and in politics Mr. Burtt is a Democrat. In his fraternal relations he is a Mason and a \\^oodman, and his daily life would indicate that he believes in living up to his lodge vows, for he is known as a man of upright principles in all his relations with his fellow men.

Henry E. Smith

Among the many sturdy settlers from Kentucky that made their way across the Ohio river into Indiana in former years, were the parents of Henry E. Smith, who was born in Utica township, Clark county, Indiana, on the 25th of April, 1878. He was the son of George D. and Mary E. (Howes) Smith, both of whom were born on Kentucky soil, and were the parents of four children, two of whom. Alia and Mitchell, are at home. The third, Charles, was married to Lilly Eversole. Henry E.. of this review, was the fourth in order of birth. He received his education in the local district school and as a boy proved to be a lad of steady habits and pleasant temperament. He made his schooling the instrument for wider study and self-culture, and after reaching maturity, entered into the Government sen-ice as a packer in the quarter- master's department, and has continued therein ever since. The same cliaracteristics that marked him as a boy have clung to him in his maturer years, and his genial disposition has won for him many warm and appreciative friends.

Mr. Smith was joined in marriage to Man,- Wallace, daughter of John and Lucy Wallace, the former being a native of Clark county, Indiana, while the latter was born in Kentucky. John and Lucy \\"allace were the parents of five children, besides the wife of our subject. They were : Gertrude, Katie. Cora. Helen and Charles.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith have become the parents of four children. \-iz : ^^'allace F.. !\Iar\- L.. James H.. and George D. They reside in Port Fultnn.

Mr. Smith holds liberal religious views, and says that it has been his practice through life to place the emphasis on the spirit of one's conduct, rather than on the formal side of creed or doctrine. Politically he affiliates with the Republican party, but has made no effort at office-seeking or political prominence of any kind. He is a member also of the Knights of Pythias, in which he has shown an active spirit and has contributed freely of his time to promote the welfare of the order. Thus as a citizen and a neighbor he fills a useful place in the community life.

Frank G. Dobbins

County Armagh in Ireland has contributed generously of her citizenship to the building up of the great Republic across the sea. When the great army of Irish immigrants came pouring in during the forties and fifties no part of the Emerald Isle was better represented than old Armagh and many of those who came from there "made good" after they reached the American shore. They are found in all the walks of life, in the mercantile world, in politics, in every branch of trade, in the great manufacturing and the railroad world. They are always proud of their native land, the "old sod" as they call it. and well they may be as, in the language of the famous Sergeant A. Prentiss, " it has contributed to the world more than its due share of wit and eloquence and its sons have fought successfully on all fields save their own." It was previous to the Civil war that the Dobbins family emigrated from Armagh and took up their residence in the East. As the result of the marriage of S. H. and Sallie (Garwood) Dobbins, there were several children and one of these is the young man whose name appears at the head of this sketch.

Frank G. Dobbins was born in Trenton. New Jersey, in 1872, and remained at the place of his nativity until after passing his majorit^^ He attended the public schools of Trenton, where he laid the foundations of the education, which is indispensable to all those who enter upon the sharp struggle for existence in this country of great competition, no matter what the line of business selected. It was in 1895 that young Dobbins decided to come to the West and grow up with the country as was advised by old Horace Greeley unto all who were ambitious of success in life. Arriving at Madison, Indiana, he first found employment in a drug store, a line of work which appealed to his taste and fancy. After a brief sojourn in the old Ohio river town he transferred his residence to Bedford, and later came to Jefifersonville, where he found satisfactory relations and has since made his home. At the present time he is city salesman for the Peter Neat Richardson Drug Company, of Louisville, Kentucky, and is prospering satisfactorily in this employment. He is a young man of good address, of quiet demeanor and has the faculty of making and holding friends. As a salesman he has proved a success and he is popular both in the business and social circle in which he moves.

On April 28, 1903, Mr. Dobbins was united in marriage with Margaret Mitchell, a worthy young lady of Jefifersonville. She is the daughter of James R. and Ellen (Blizzard) Mitchell, the former of Henryville and the latter of Scottsburg. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Dobbins is a bright little daughter whom they have named Helen Frances. The family are well known and highly esteemed in the younger social set to which they belong.

Abner Biggs

Abner Biggs, who resides near Henr}'ville, Clark county, is a widely known native-born citizen of this community. At the close of the Civil war he started on his career as a farmer in his present location, and during the years since then he has met with the success which his hard-working disposition deserved. His personality has at all times been marked with the qualities which engender a sense of trustfulness and mutual helpfulness among neighbors. As a conequence he has made many life-long friends. He is the son of one of the older pioneers who engaged in many a grim encounter with the Indians from behind the palisade of tlie old fort which stood east of the present town of Henryville in those primitive days. The elder Biggs was in the fort at the time of the Pigeon Roost massacre.

Abner Biggs was born January 28, 1844, in Monroe township on the farm on which he now lives. He is the son of Abner and Emily (Miller) Biggs. Abner Biggs, senior, was born about 1799. In early life he lived with his father on the old Indian trail northeast of Henryville. Later, as above stated, he became an Indian fighter and was known as a man of great nen^e and a good shot. There were large numbers of Indians in the immediate neighbor- houd in his clay, and on one occasion he came witliin a narrow margin of being kithiapped by them ; the event being planned with all the craftiness of the aborigine. Abner Biggs, Sr., was also a farmer and stijck raiser. In his youth he attended scliool in the old lug subscrijjtion schools. He acquired timber land which included our subject's farm. In those days blazed trails thri)Ugh the woods were the only roads available and civilization thrnughdut the entire Middle \A'est was in its early stages. The mother of Abner Biggs was born February 6, 1802, in Clark county. Her marriage took place about 1820, and fifteen children were born to the union. Abner being the thirteenth in order of birth, and his br(;ther, James, was the tirst person buried in Mount Zion cemeter}-. His father died in December, 1872, in Henryville, and his mother at the age of ninety-one, in 1893.

Abner Biggs started on his own way in life when about eighteen years of age. In the year 1865 he enlisted in the Union army at JefTersonville, in Company H, One Hundred Forty-fourth Indiana Volunteers, under command of Colonel Riddle and Capt. Stephen Cole. While on their way to Richmond, Virginia, news of General Lee's surrender was brought. Soon after our subject was mustered out of service at Indianapolis. As a Civil war veteran he is a well known member of the Grand Army of the Republic, Post No. 4C)i, at Henryville. On his return home he married in the year 1872, Mary Gray, who was born in 1850 in Clark county. She died April 13, 1891, having borne her husband eight children. They were: Claude L., who was born December 3, 1873, ^"-^^ '^I'S'-l June 18,1874; Jessie was born July 24. 1875, and married Matthew Clegg; they have four children and li\e in ]\[onroe tijwnship. Edgar H. was born August 19, 1876, and lives in Jeffersonville ; Herman, born Alarch 14, 1878, married Hettie Wells, lives in Monroe township, and has two children ; Alec G., born January 7, 1880, married Laura McClellan : they have one child and live in Monroe township. Bertha M.. born December 13, 1882, married John Xash ; she lives in Oklahoma, and has one child. Emma G. was born on March 7, 1885, and Anna J., who married Ernest Thomas, and lives in Clark county, was born June 7, 1886.

Our subject married secondly on October 11, 1896, Alamie Wells, who was previously married to John Pfister. Mamie ( Wells) Pfister was born in 1867, February 20th. and was the daughter of Isaac and Lucy (Hall) Wells. She was born in Kentucky, her people being all Kentuckians, and came to Clark county when she was about five or six years old. Mrs. Biggs had two children by her first marriage, viz: Thomas F. Pfister, bom December 2S. 1886, and Annie May, biirn February 21, 1888, who died August 25, 1896. Mrs. Biggs has become the mother of one child, Claude R., born July 4, 1898, by her second marriage.

Abner Biggs is a Republican in politics and a staunch party supporter, though not himself desirous of public life. He recei\ed his education in the schools of the county, and in religious life belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church. Though he himself did not see extended sen-ice in the Civil war, his brother, Robert, did, having served all through that conflict.

James R. Ferguson

James R. Ferguson, retired farmer and veteran soldier, of Henryville, Clark county, is one of the older generation that has contributed so much to the progress and upbuilding of the community. His father. Colonel Ferguson, who died in 1868, was the foimder of Henryville. He was the foremost man in getting the railroad through that part of the countrv and induced Ben Marsh, the engineer who surveyed the railroad, to survey and help him lay off the town of Henryville, which was afterwards named in his honor. Our subject is well versed in the blacksmith trade, having spent ten years of his life in that business: the remainder of his career, outside of his militan,^ experiences, was spent in farming pursuits in which he has been unquestionably successful. He and his wife live in retirement in Henryville in a manner fitting to their time of life.

James R. Ferguson was born on June 23, 1837, in \\'^ashington county, Pennsylvania, and was the son of Hemy and Nancy (Young) Ferguson. Col. Henry Ferguson, as he became known in later life, was born in 1804, in the same county in Pennsylvania. He was a farmer and came to Clark county, Indiana, about 1842, and located on the present site of Henryville, owning all the land on which the town now stands. In order to induce the railroad authorities to open up Clark county, about 1848 or 1849 'le both donated and sold them land. He helped to do the grading work on the road and was afterwards kept in the company's employ as paymaster, holding the position until his retirement from same. He retired from the service of the railroad in his fiftieth year. Colonel Ferguson was educated in the common schools of Pennsylvania, was a Democrat in politics, and Ijelonged to the Presbyterian faith. He was a great friend of President Armstrong, of the Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis Railroad, and was known all over the county. He was quite active in the political circles of his day, but never sought a public office. He was at one time colonel of a regiment of Pennsylvania militia, and was also employed by the state to collect all the old government arms in Clark, Scott, Floyd and Washington counties. He and James Allen hauled them to Indianapolis. He died in i860, just before the war broke out His wife died in 1844, when our subject was quite young. James R. besides himself had five brothers and two sisters. He and his sister, Maria Calender, of I^uisville, Kentuckv. are the onlv survivors.

James R. Ferguson started for himself when about sixteen years old. He learned the blacksmith trade, at which he worked for ten years with good results. In the year 1861. at tne caitbreak of the war, he enlisted in Company D. Forty-ninth Indiana Infantry, as a private, on September 19th. He fought in the battles of Cumberland Gap, Memphis, Tennessee: Vicksburg. and in the campaign around the last named district. He then participated in the Red River Expedition, came home on furlough, and was mustered out in 1863, at which time he held a commission as captain. From that time until a year ago he was a prosperous farmer.

In the year 1879 he married Mamie Connor, who was born on the 22d of November, 1850, and was the daughter of Mary and Brvan Connor. Her parents were natives of Ireland, though she herself was born in Maryland. Her mother died in Henryville and her father was killed in an accident on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, in Virginia, about 1856. Her mother, whose death occurred in 1885, was in her sixty -first year. Mrs. Ferguson and her husband have been blessed w-ith the following children: Ray, born May 5, r88o: Earl R. was born December 4, i88r, and 1i\'es in California : Chester C. born May 13, 1885: Henry H. was born in February, 1887: Charles Blaine was born in 1890, January nth, in Louisville, and James A. on December

James R. Ferguson obtained his education in the common schools. He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. In politics he is a Republican and served as Assessor of the township for one term. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, Post No. 461.

Richard T. Elrod

Richard J. Elrod, of Hcnry\ille, Clark county, is one of Monroe township's representative farmers and a man of straightforward and honorable character. Ever since 1876 he has been associated with the district in which he lives and has met with marked success in the general farming line. He is now approaching his seventieth year and his long life of industry enables him to enjoy the declining period of his career in security. He was bom on the loth of August, 1840, in Washington county, and was the son of Stephen and Elizabeth (\\'yman) Elrod. Stephen Elrod belonged to an old North Carolina family and was born there in 1793. He was a farmer, and in his young days came to Washington county, Indiana, where his marriage took place, and where his after life was spent. He became known as a raiser of hogs, cattle and sheep on a large scale. As a Justice of the Peace he was widely known as 'Squire Elrod. In his early life he obtained an education in the old log sub- scriptinn schools. His death occurred in 1847 in Washington county. His wife, who was born in Germany, came to the United States when quite young witli her parents, and settled in Washington county. She was born in 1798 and died in 1852. Twelve children, fnur girls and eight boys, were born to them, only four of their sons, including our subject, now stn-vi\-ing. They are : Eli and Robert. \vA\\ living in ^\'ashington county : Thomas Benton lives in Oklahoma, and Richard J-, the youngest living.

Richard J. Elrod has made his own way in the world since his eleventh year, at which period he became an orphan. In the year 1867 his marriage to Lucinda B. Walker took place. She was born in Washington county October 4, 1845, ^"fl '^^'^s '^'is daughter of William S. and Louisa Walker. To Richard and }ilrs. Elrod one child, William D., was born in 1873. He married Laura Townsend : they live in ]\Ionroe township and have two children.

\Vhen thirty-three years of age our subject came to Clark county and resided in Alonroe township, where he still lives in section 266. As a general farmer he was successful and used to bring his farm produce to Salem, which was the nearest large market town, in order to dispose of same. His education was obtained in the common schools of Washington county, and in his early days the country round was pretty well settled. \\\ politics he is a Democrat. He has never sought political office, devoting the greater part of his time to home and farm life. His wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Previous to his present marriage he married in the year 186 1, Katherine Swain, who died about eighteen months afterwards leaving him a daughter, Cora, born in 1862, who married Sheridan ]\IcGrew. They live in Holton, Kansas, and have two children.

James A. Clegg

James A. Clegg, retired farmer of Henryville, Clark county, is a well known and respected member of the community in which he has lived and a man whose family has been actively associated with the prosperity and progress of that section of the state. His father was known throughout Clark county as a lawyer of ability and reputation, and a man of honorable character. Our subject was himself a participant in the Civil war, and at the close of his tenn of ser\'ice was discharged with honor. Since that time he has been most successful in his farming pursuits.

James A. Clegg was born on February 2, 1839, in Wood township, Clark county, and was the son of Matthew and [Martha C. (Allen) Clegg. Matthew Clegg was born in the year 1799 in Pennsylvania, and came to Clark county where he located, near Utica, when he was quite young. He lived there a short time and then moved on Silver Creek, at which place his parents, who also came to Clark county, hdth tlied. He got little regular education, but succeeded in educating himself through home study in his spare time. In this manner he took up the study of law and became one of the best pioneer lawyers of his day in Clark county. He became judge of the Criminal Court and was Prosecuting Attorney for many years. He participated in the Civil war as first lieutenant in Company M, Fifth Indiana Cavalry, emerging from the conflict as a captain after three years' service. Having been captured at Macon, Georgia, by the Southern troops he spent six months in Libby prison. Three sons, one of whom was our subject, served with him. James A. was in the same company with his father, a brother and two nephews. The brother, whose name was Matthew, died in Andersonville prison. Returning from the war the older Clegg went back to his law practice in this part of the county, and previous to his death in 1881. lived in Henry ville for many years. His first marriage to Catherine Anderson occurred about 1835. They had two children, both of whom died when young. His second wife, Martha C. Allen, was the daughter of James and Mary (McBride) Allen. The second Mrs. Clegg's parents were married about 1837: her mother being born about the year 1819 or 1820 and was a native of Ohio. James A. Clegg is the second of a family of fourteen children. The death of both parents occurred on the same day, the 6th of February, 188 1, in Henryville. The elder Clegg was one of the best known men in Clark county and well liked by everyone.

James A. Clegg started for himself at the time of his marriage in i860, to Martha Dietz, who was born in 1840 in Monroe township. She was the daughter of John Frederick and Sarah (Lewis) Dietz. John F. Dietz was born on the 4th of October, 1788, and died March 15, 1874: his wife was born April 23, 1806, and died on the 5tli of November, 1873. John F. Dietz was a farmer and an early pioneer. He came here in the Indian days with his parents. They had to go to the scattered block-houses on several occasions for protection from Indians, and met with much hardship in consecjuence. John F. Dietz was also known as a large fruit grower. His parents came from Philadelphia.

James A. Clegg enlisted in Company M, Fifth Indiana Cavalry, in 1862. at Jeft'ersonville. He joined as a private, and at the end of three years was mustered out as a sergeant. At the end of the war he became a farmer in Monroe township at which occupation he remained until ten years ago, when he retired and came to Henr}-\ille. He obtained iiis education in the subscription schools of Clark county. In politics he is a Republican and in religion he is a member of the Christian church. He is commander of the local post No. 461 Grand Army of the Republic at Henryville. The following children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Clegg: Richard M., who was born September 19, 1861. married Ellen Cain: thev live at Cainville, Missouri, and have two children. ]\Iary A. was lx)rn July 7, 1865. and married John Copeland ; they live at Manford,

Oklahoma, and have three children. Sarah C. Clegg was born July 28, 1868, and married Charles M. Clark; they live in Jeffersonville and have five children. John W. was born April 7. 1871, and lives in Oklahoma; Alatthew S. was born I\Iay 13, 1873; he married Jessie Biggs; they live in Clark county and have four children. James A. was born on the 28th of June. 1876; he married, has one child and lives in Oklahoma, being an undertaker at IManford. Frank, the youngest child, was born August 3, 1879, and remains at home with his parents.

James A. Clegg. his wife and son live comfortably in their nice home at Henryville. Both the elder people are still well preserved and enjoy good health.

Though the medical profession of Southern Indiana contains a bright galaxy of physicians, there are none better known or more highly esteemed than Doctor Hancock. Though still in the prime of life he has accomplished much in the line of his profession and has before him a still more brilliant future. William Hancock, his father, was a Kentuckian by birth, but came early to Indiana and still lives at Memphis. He married Catherine Smith, who was born in England, but came to America when ten years old. By this union there were five children: George W. and Edward L. are residents of Seymour, Indiana; Mrs. Patience Goumsey also lives at Seymour; Mrs. Eugene Dunlevy is a resident of Memphis, and Mrs. Albert Puddell resides at Charlestown, Indiana. Dr. James N. Reynolds, a half-brother of the above mentioned, is a practicing physician at Memphis.

Charles F. C. Hancock, next to the youngest member of this family, was born at Memphis, Clark county, Indiana. February 3. 1867. He was a diligent pupil. In 1 88 1 he entered the Seymour high school, and the following year became a student in Eikosi Academy, at Salem, graduating from the latter institution in the spring of 1883. He began the study of medicine under Doctor Reynolds, and in the intervals taught two terms of school. During this period he burned much "midnight oil" in his efforts to master the contents of the learned books put before him, many of his nights and most of his vacation periods being devoted to fitting himself for his exacting profession. In 1885 he entered the Medical Department of the University of Louisville, and a year later matriculated in the Aledical College of Ohio at Cincinnati, from which he was graduated in the class of ^larch, 1887. He formed a partnership for practice with the late Dr. E. J. Kempff. at Jasper, but one year later located at Jeffersonville, which has since been the theater of his operations. He has met with success and has steadily risen both in ex- tent of practice and reputation as a g'eneral practitioner. Since 1892 he has been local surgeon for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He is a member of the Clark County Medical Society and the State ^ledical Association. His fraternal relations embrace membership in Clark Lodge. No. 40, Free and Accepted Masons; Horeb Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and Jeffersonville Commander}', Knights Templar. Though wedded to his professional duties and realizing that medicine is a jealous mistress, the doctor occasionally takes an excursion into the realms of politics and proved his popularity in 1904. when he made a successful race for State Senator from this district on the Republican ticket. He served out his term acceptably, which embraced two sessions of the Legislature.

On October 27. 1897. Doctor Hancock was married to Nora Clark Duffy, member of a prominent and wealthy family of Clark county. Her parents were James T. and Nora (Robinson) Duffy, the hirmer well known for many years in the business circles of Jeffersonville. Fuller particulars concerning him will be found in the sketch of James T. Duffy, appearing elsewhere in this volume. Doctor and Mrs. Hancock have live children : James D.. James R.. Catherine V.. William and Charles F. C. Jr. Doctor Hancock is of quiet, unostentatious manners, of a frank and friendly nature and fond rather of his home and family than of society or any kind of display. Philantropic and kind hearted, he finds many opportunities to do favors on the quiet to his deserving and less fortunate brethren. On the whole it is not too much to pronounce him not only a skillful and successful physician, but a model citizen, friend and neighbor.

This enterprising citizen lives in L'tica township, Clark county, and is a representative of two pioneer families. His birth occurred November 7. 1874, only a short distance from his present home, and his parents, Isaac A. and Loretta (Lawrence) Jacobs, were born in the same township. Isaac A. Jacobs was a resident of Utica township, all his life and he became known as a prosperous and influential farmer. The maternal grandfather of Wallace L. Jacobs, Albert Lawrence, was lx>rn in New Jersev and, coming to Indiana, settled in Clark county, where he passed his remaining years, dying at Jeffersonville at the age of eighty-four years. \\"allace Lawrence Jacobs is the only child of his parents. He was reared as a farmer boy and received the advantages offered by the country schools, supplemented by one year in the high school at Utica. When twenty-one years of age he engaged in farming for himself and later purchased the place where he now lives, having prospered from the first. He owns fifty-two acres of well improved land, and the buildings thereon are such as his needs and comfort require.

Mr. Jacobs was united in marriage with Catherine A. Smith, November 22, 1898, she being a daughter-of \\'. W". and Nancy ( Bottorff ) Smith, a'so natives of Utica township, Clark county. The children born unto Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs are four in number and their names are: Herbert \\'., Irwin A., Nanetta and Ruth R.

In politics Mr. Jacobs has supported the principles of the Republican party and both he and Mrs. Jacobs are members of the New Chapel Methodist Episcopal church, he being one of its trustees. This family is held in high esteem by their neighbors as a result of lives of industry, honesty and hospitality, causing them to rank among the township's valued citizens.

Harry C. Montgomery

Harry C. Montgomery was born in Jeffersonville, Indiana, April 9. 1870, and while yet young in life has become Judge of the Clark Circuit Court. His father, a man of many sterling attributes, was J(>hn R. Montgomery, a captain and pilot on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers before, during and after the war between the states, whose life was brought to a close by the dread scourge of yellow fever, September i, 1873. John R. Montgomery married Mary L. Mauzy, representative of an influential family. She is living at this writing in San Angelo, Texas, with two of her daughters, Mrs. Jessie Abbott and Mrs. May Wear. At an early age the Judge was compelled by circumstances to make his own way, successively as a newsboy, upholster's assistant, musician on the Ohio river steamboats; also as a school teacher in country schools of Clark county, and finally, in 1895, graduated from the I'uiversity of Louisville, law department, as valedictorian of his class. He was admitted to the bar of Clark county and soon thereafter entered upon his chosen profession. He was always a close student and an original thinker, and he allowed no opportunity to advance his education to pass in his school days. In both the grade schools and in the Jeffersonville high school he held a distinctive and leading position among his classmates, and his record here and at the State University at Bloomington shows that he made a conscientious and careful application to his studies.

The success at the bar of Judge Montgomery was instantaneous and has gradually increased. In 1896, after a practice of one year, his abilities were recognized by the citizens of this community and he was elected prosecutor of the Fourth Judicial Circuit, in which position he very ably and conscientiously served until 1900, in fact, it was the splendid discharge of his duties in this capacity, to a great extent, that made his election tn the l^ench a certainty. In 1904 Air. Montgomery was elected Judge of the circuit, which he had served so well in the capacity of prosecutor and he has given his constituents entire satisfaction in this office. Although one of the younger generation of lawyers of Clark county he has discharged his duties in an eminentl just and conservative manner, for he came to the bench well qualified for its exacting duties and responsibilties, and from the beginning his judicial career was characterized by such a profound knowledge of the law and an earnest and scientious desire to apply it impartially that he was not long in gaining the respect and confidence of the attorneys and litigants and earning for himself an honorable reputation among the leading jurists of this part of the state. The Judge has ever kept in touch with he inerests of his city and county and is an ardent advocate and liberal patron of all worthy enterprises making for their advancement and prosperity. He is active in every movement for the good of his fellow men, and his popularity is bounded only by the limits of his acquaintance. As a lawyer he is easily the peer of any of his professional brethren in this locality, and the honorable distinction already achieved at the bar is an earnest of the still higher honors to be achieved in years to come, as he is just in the prime of manhood. Behind him lay his years of toil and adversity, the formative period of his life; but before him are higher honors and larger rewards, both in public and private life, for he is not only an accomplished lawyer, a skillful advocate, an honorable and just Judge, also a genial and courteous gentleman.

James Ernest Burke

In tracing the genealogy of the well known business man of Jeifersonville whose life record is presented in the following paragraphs the biographer finds that he is a worthy scion of sterling Irish ancestors on the paternal side, his father, James Burke, for many years a prominent contractor of this city, having been born in the Emerald Isle, and who in 1854. when a young man, immigrated to the United States, locating in Jeffersonville, Indiana, where his brother had previously settled. He was a carpenter by trade and he followed this and contracting on street work, wharves, railroad work, etc., for many years. He married Cornelia Crandle, a representative of a well established family of Troy, New York. James Burke died in Jeffersonville several years ago at the age of seventy-three years. He was an active worker in the Democratic party, and for his local services he was chosen City Treasurer, serving three terms: he also served in the City Council, proving himself to be an able exponent of the people's interests. His widow, whom he married in

New Orleans, snr\i\ecl him several years, dying at the age of sixty-eight. They were the parents of seven children, five of whom grew to maturity, three living at the present writing.

James Ernest Burke, the sixth child in order of birth in his father's family, was born in the city of Jeffersonville, January 17, 1865, and was reared in his native town. He received a common school education, and later, in order to fit himself for a business career, attended the Bryant and Stratton Business College in Louisville, Kentucky. After finishing his education he remained with his father as clerk and bookkeeper for several years while they were engaged in railroad construction work. In 1883 Mr. Burke purchased a wholesale and retail coal business of A. B. Howard & Company, and he has since carried on this enterprise with success, having built up a liberal trade with the surrounding community and proving himself to be a man of energy and good judgment in business afifairs. He is located at the corner of Chestnut and Wall streets.

The domestic chapter in the life of James E. Burke dates from 1893, when he was united in marriage with Bertha C. Read, a native of Jeffersonville, the accomplished daughter of John F. and Eliza A. Read. After a brief and harmonious married life, Mrs. Burke was called to her rest in 1894.

Mr. Burke is a Democrat in his political relations, and fraternally he belongs to Jeffersonville Lodge, No. 362, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks ; also the Knights of Columbus, in which he has taken a deep interest, as he has in the former been past exalted ruler of the Elks. He is a member of St. Augustine Catholic church and a liberal supporter of the same.

John A. H. Owens

A citizen of the LInited States can wear no greater badge of honor than the distinction of having served the government in the four years of war between the states. One of these defenders of the nation's integrity is the gentleman whose name appears at the head of this article, a well known citizen of Clark county, Indiana, and one of the local contributors to the history of this county.

John A. H. Owens was born in Scott county, Indiana, August 7, 1842, the son of Charles and Sarah (Whitson) Owens. The Owens family were native Hoosiers, the father was born in Charlestown township in Clark c(junty, August 22, 1808. His wife was born July i6th, the same year in Utica township. There were eleven children in Grandfather Owens' family, the oldest having been born in 1788. They were all born in Clark county, Indiana. The paternal grandfather of our subject was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1768 and his wife was born in 1767. They emigrated to Indiana, coming down the Ohio river in boats. John Owens and Sarah Jackson, the subject's grandparents, married in Spring Station, Jefferson county, Kentucky, April 5, 1787. The Owens and Jacksons reached the Falls of the Ohio, or Bear Grass, as it was then known, about 1785. Here the grandparents of the subject were married. The maternal great-grandparents of the subject, John and Elizabeth Jackson, who were natives of Scotland, moved from Pennsylvania to Bear Grass, Kentucky, where they lived for many years, and in 1809 settled in Clark county, Indiana, where they died. They were buried in an old family grave yard, four miles east of Charlestown. John and Sarah Jackson Owens were the parents of the following children : David, born in Clarksville, Indiana, in 1788; John, born in 1790; Elizabeth, born in 1792; George, born in 1795; Harvey, born in 1797; James, born in 1798; William J., born in 1799; George Clark, bom in 1802; Charles was born in 1804; Rebecca was born in 1806; Charles was born in 1808.

Charles and Sarah (Whitson) Owens were married May 9, 1837, and to them three children were born, two girls and one boy, namely : Philena was born May 11, 1838, and married a Mr. Johnson. She died in Potomac, Illinois, after becoming the mother of five children ; Susan, the second child of Charles and Sarah Owens, was bom March 2, 1840; she became the wife of Capt. Thomas R. Mitchell. She died in Charlestown, Clark county, Indiana, in May, 1899, after becoming the mother of four children, three of whom are living at this writing. John A. H., our subject, was the third child. For some time he lived with his uncle, William Owens. He received his education in the common schools of Clark county, Indiana. Although his text-book training was somewhat limited it was good for the times in which he was reared. He afterward entered the high school at Charlestown, and became a teacher, having taught in a very creditable manner from 1866 to 1879 in the country schools, during which time he became well known as an able educator and his services were in great demand.

Feeling that it was his duty to sever home ties, give up his teaching and assist in defending his country's integrity, when the great Rebellion broke out, our subject enlisted in Company I. Eighty-first Volunteer Infantry, and was transferred to the Marine Brigade March i, 1863, from which he was discharged at Vicksburg, Mississippi, January 17, 1865, after being in the service two and one-half years.

Mr. Owens was married February i, 1872, to Eliza Riley, who was born in Clark county, Indiana, March 19, 1845. Her family came to this county before 1820, not long after Indiana entered the Union. They have two children living, Charles, who was born December 30, 1873, is a barber in Charlestown, Indiana; Bessie C, who was born August 21, 1881, is a graduate of the Charlestown schools. She is single and living at home.

!Mr. Owens devoted his life to farming after the war until 1881, when he moved to Charlestown and entered business there, makiog a success of the same, for he has always been known as a man of industry and one wlmm the people could trust.

In politics Mr. Owens is a Republican and he has ever taken a li\ely interest in political affairs and the advancement of his county's interests in any way. He faithfully and very acceptably served the city of Charlestown as postmaster under President Benjamin Harrison. He was elected Trustee of Charlestown township, and his work elicited the hearty approval of everyone concerned. Mr. Owens stands high in the estimation of the people of Clark county.

Wixxie Clare Lewmax

The Lewmans may be described as a family of contractors as several members of it have achieved success in that line, while the activities of others extended into financial and commercial subjects. ^Moses T. Lewman. wdio w-as born in Clark county, subsequently became an influential citizen of Putnam county, where lie did contracting work on a large scale and held the office of Sheriff. His first work at contracting was the construction of the Bethany Christian church on the Charlestown pike, near Charlestown. He was a successful m&n of affairs, and accumulated considerable property, but met an untimely death by drowning, in 1870, at a sea-side resort, near Savannah. Georgia. He married Xaomi Lavina Conover, and became the father of a number of children, who are now; located in various parts of the country. John B. and Harry L. are contractors. The former married Annabell Newman, the daughter of a Louisville plumber. Leon D., the third son, married Idoline Sparks, of Atlanta, Georgia, w here he is engaged in banking and contracting. Nora, the eldest daughter, is the wife of a Mr. Moore, and resides at Seattle. Bessie, wife of J. R. Riggs, is a resident of Sullivan. Indiana. The wife of Harry was fomierly Lelia Curtis, of California, whose mother was a member of the Holman family of Clark county.

Winnie Clare Lewman was born at Greencastle. Indiana. May 12. 1871, and recei\-ed his education in the schools of his native city. After leaving Greencastle he was a student for some time at the Bardstown Male College and also Hano\-er. He returned from his studies to the farm at Prather and remained at home for several years. In 1894. he engaged in the seed business at Louisxille. but after following this for a year he began contracting, which he has steadily followed since then. His work which has taken him to manv parts of the South has included the construction of many large public buildings. He met with success and before he reached middle life was able to construct for himself a home, whicli in beauty of surroundings, fine finish and tasteful furnishings is something exceptional. This residence, erected in 1906, is located on the Charlestown pike, near Prather, and is one of the landmarks of the vicinity. Standing on high ground, with an extensive lawn in front, it commands a wide view, extending for many miles in every direction. The structure is surrounded by broad verandas, whose supporting columns are made of rough hewn native stone. The downstairs interior is finished in "mission oak," with fluted columns of the same material, marking the dividing line between the large double parlors. The upstairs rooms are of various finishes, one in light oak, another in mahogany, others of contrasting woods, and with furniture to match. Other luxuries of this home -are the tile-floored bath room with all modern equipments, furnace, hot and cold water, chandeliers of beautiful design, lighted by electricity. An electric plant of most modern construction furnishes both lights and power. Being skilled in everything relating to the art of construction Mr. Lewman has exhibited his good taste in the selection of all the furniture and decorations, which enter harmoniously into the color scheme of the entire surroundings.

Air. Lewman is a member of the Alutual Construction Company, a corporation of contractors which put up large public buildings throughout the South. His fraternal relations are with the Knights Templar and the Free and Accepted Alasons. He also holds membership in Cement Lodge of the Odd Fellows at Prather.

On November i6. 1892. he was married to Daisy, daughter of James Edgar Brown, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Lewman have one child, a daughter named Vere. at present a student in the Teffersonville schools.

The Greex Faahly

William Raleigh Green came from England about the year 1750, and settled near Poolesville, Montgomery county, Maryland. About the year 1770 he moved with, his family to Iredell county. North Carolina, where his children grew up. married and most of them removed to homes farther west. Of these the names of Isaac. Thomas, ^^'illiam. John and Alartha have been preserved.

\\'illiam Green was born in 1761. grew up in Iredell county, and on March 17, 1796, was married to Chloe Ann Roby. In 1806 he moved to Kentucky and in 1809 came to Clark county, where he settled permanently, about four miles north of Jeffersonville. William Green died March 23, 1823. and his wife August 11, 182 1. They are buried in the old Jacobs cemetery, about four miles northeast of Jeffersonville. The children of William Green and his wife, Chloe Ann Green, were as follows: John W'illetts Green, born July 31, 1797: Thomas Wilkinson Green, bom October 3, 1799: Martha Green, bom November 15, 1801 : Lurana Green, born January 7, 1804: Sarah Adeline Green, born July 19, 1807: Leonard Roby Green, bom December 29, 1809: ^Iar\' Green, born March 11, 1812, and William Henry Green, bom July 13, 1814. All grew up in Clark county. Thomas \\'ilkinson Green located near ^^'orthington, Greene county, where he died February 16, 1880. Leonard Roby Green engaged in newspaper work in Xew Albany, where he owned and published the ^^'eekly and Daily Bulletin. He sold out there in 1849 and died in Goliad, Texas, August 7, 1853. William Henry Green learned the printer's trade at the age of seventeen in the ofBce of the New Albany Gazette and was engaged in newspaper work for more than fifty years, owning and publishing papers in New Albany. Connersville and Brookville, Lidiana. He was Auditor of Fayette county, Lidiana, for twelve years, and died at Shelbyville, Lidiana, in 1907.

Isaac Green, eldest son of \\'illiam Raleigh Green, was bom August 21, 1755, and was married to Elizabeth Wilson, ^lay 28, 1780. They remained permanently in L'edell county. North Carolina, where he died November 22, 1833. The children of Isaac and Elizabeth Green were: Zachariah, John, Thomas, William, Isaac, Hetty and Annie. Zachariah Green married Ann Jacobs and located in W'apello county, Iowa. John Green located in Kentucky. Thomas Green fought in the Seminole war, received a land warrant, and located in Morgan county, Indiana. Isaac Green remained at the old home in North Carolina. Hetty Green married John Summers and settled in Tennessee. Annie died young, and ^\'illiam Green located in Clark county, Indiana.

William Green was bom March 15. 1790, in Iredell county. North Carolina. He was married December 19, 1816, to Celia Lewman and in 1819 in company with the Lewmans removed to Clark county, settling near L'tica. He remained here a short time and then leased a tract of land near the old county farm. They lived here until 1833, when they purchased a tract of land near ^Memphis, which became their permanent home the same vear.

William Green died December 5, 1867. and Celia Green died !\Iay 15, 1877. They with all their children are buried in Ebenezer cemetery, near Memphis.

The children of William and Celia Green were: Isaiah Green, born October 10. 1817, married Matilda Jane Perry, December 10, 1839, and died August 18, 1840. No descendants. Elizabeth Caroline Green, born April 9, 1823, married Francis Durment, ]\Iarch 25, 1847, and settled in Carr township: died March 31. 1907. Only two children grew up and married. Albert N. Durment married Mary King, of Carr township, and Jennie E. married George T Dunlevy, of Bluelick. All located in Carr township.

John Wesley Green, born December 25, 1830. died January 30. 1845. Nancy Ann Green born August 24, 1833. married Joseph Thomas Harrell, December 23, 1855. died August 10. i860. No descendants.

George Washington Green was born April 9. 1837, married Catherine Whitesides November 16, 1859, and died December 22, 1898. George W. Green was highly educated and spent fourteen years teaching. In 1861 he was ordained a minister of the Church of God, or the Adventists. He served this church for many years, held many public discussions on the articles of faith peculiar to that church and traveled much as an evangelist. He later became a member of the Christian church, with which he remained a faithful member and minister until his death. He lived on the old h.omestead, near ^lemphis. and is buried at Ebenezer.

The children of George \\'. and Catherine Green were : Edwin On-ille. born December 26. i860: Annie Alice, born July 2, 1862: Ella Etta, bora April II, 1864; Alvin Ellis, born June 15, 1866; Oscar Otto, born August 20, 1868: Mary Lizzie, born I\Iay 23, 1870 : Clara Daisy, born September 18, 1872: \^'illiam Louis, born September 13, 1874: John Frederick, born JNIarch 23, 1877: Eva Myrtle, born June 11, 1880; Katie Lillian, born December i, 1882; Charles George, born June i, 1885.

Edwin On-ille Green was educated in the common schools of Lnion township, and the Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute ; he taught for six years, and was principal of the schools at Raub, Benton county, in 1886-7, and at Memphis in 1887-8-9. He was appointed to the railway mail service June 8. 1889. and assigned to the New York and Chicago Railway postofifice with headquarters at Cle\'eland, Ohio. He was soon promoted and for many years has been clerk in charge of some of the largest exclusive mail trains in the world. He was married May 3. 1888, to Ella E. Townsend, of Blue Lick. Their children are Florence Catherine, born August 14. 1890: Bernice Edna, born August 15, 1893. and Amos Tuwnsend Green, born September 11. 1898. He has recently purchased a large tract of land in Silver Creek township, near Sellersburg, and expects soon to make it his permanent home.

Ah-in Ellis Green was married March 3. 1889, to Daisy Forest Townsend, of Blue Lick, and owns a fine farm in L'nion township, but at present follows the carpenter's trade in New Albany.

Clara Daisy Green was married December 26. 1897, to Joseph L. Shirley, a farmer of Lnion township. They reside near Memphis, and have three children, Lester Louis, Joseph Irvin and George Shirley.

William Louis Green was educated in the common schools of Union township and at Borden; taught school four years, and in 1896 he entered the Western Reser\-e Medical College of Cleveland, Ohio, where he graduated in 1900: served sixteen months as resident house physician in the Cleveland City Hospital, after which he located at Pekin, Washington county, Indiana, where he has since practiced with great success. He was m-irrietl \\n\\ 8, 1901. to Jessie A. Scott, of W'aucoma, Iowa. They have one son, W'ihiam Thomas Green, and a daughter, Jean Catherine Green.

Katie Lilhan Green was married Octoher j6. 1904, to \'irgil Johantgen, of Union township ; they hve in Jeffersonville, Indiana, and have one child, Inez Catherine Johantgen, born September 13, 1905.

Charles George Green was educated in the common schools of Union tiiwnship and studied telegraphy at New Albany. He now holds a responsible position with the Northern Pacific, and is located at Alissoula, Montana, where he was married June i. 1907, to Adele Basset, a teacher in the ]\Iissonla public schools.

Isaac F. Whiteside

This biographical memoir has to do with a characer of unusual force and eminence, for Isaac F. Whiteside, whose life chapter has been closed by the fate that awaits us all, was for a long lapse of years one of the prominent citizens of the Falls Cities and one of Jeffersonville's most distinguished native sons. He assisted in every way possible bringing about the wondrous transformation from the primitive conditions of the early days to later day progress and improvement. While he carried on a special line of business in such a manner as to gain wide notoriety, he also belonged to that class of representative citizens who promote the public welfare while advancing individual success. There were in him sterling traits which command uniform confidence and regard, and his worthy personal attributes, enshrined in the hearts of hosts of friends, will long be honored.

Isaac F. Whiteside was born in Jeffersonville, Indiana, July 16, 1858, and was therefore only in the fifty-first year of his age when summoned to join the great phantom army on INIay 4, 1909, but although cut off in the zenith of his powers he left behind an inheritance of which his descendants may well be proud - the fruits of a successful career and a good name. His parents were William S. and Rebecca ( Friend) \\'hiteside, the former a native of Charlestown, Indiana, and the latter a native of what is now Danville, Kentucky. His father passed away several years ago, but his mother, a woman of gracious personality and beautiful Christian character, is still living at Jeft'ersonville. They were the parents of eight children, Isaac F., of this review, being the fourth child in order of birth. After reaching as far as the third year in high school he cut short his educational career to become an actor in 1874, his inclination being towards elocution, and his talents were recognized by Benjamin Cassesay, of Louisville, under whom he studied, after which he was offered a position with the stock company at the old Macauley theatre and he made his tlelaut at the Academy of Music, IncHanapohs, in 1875. From that time until 1877 he remained on the stage and assisted in supporting many of the greatest actors and actresses of that time, among them I^eing Edwin Booth. John [McCullougli, the elder Sothern, John T. Raymond. Larence Barrett. Alary Anderson and \\'iniam J. Florence. Ada Rehan was a memher of the company t(_i which Mr. Whiteside belonged. At nne tinu' he was a roommate of W. H. Gillette, the playwright.

After leaving the stage Air. Whiteside became connected with his father in the grocery business in Jelterson\-ille. and in 1880 took charge in his own name. He proved to be an alert business man from the hrst and two years later built a bakery in connection with his grocery. Branching out further he purchased the produce business of J. S. Fry and established the trrm of I. F. Whiteside & Brother, the junior member, Harry R. Whiteside, being placed in charge. In 1893 he abandoned the grocery and devoted his energies to the bakery and soon pushed his way into the Louisville market witl: such success that in 1895 he decided to move there and build a plant. Later he made additions and in the summer of igo8 opened what is probably the most extensive and best ec|uipped bakery in the South and excelled by but few plants in size and none in equipment throughout the United States. It was opened to public inspection on Air. ^^'hiteside's Irftieth birthday anniversary, July 16, 1908. Air. Whiteside had the novel experience in the winter of 1893 of sending his wagons and teams across the Ohio river on the ice. His bakery in Louisville was at first located at Fourteenth and Alaple streets, later it was removed to Fourteenth and Broadway where the great plant described in detail on another page of this work is now located. Its emergence from the little plant across the river with an investment of about one hundred and fifty dollars recalls the maxim, "how tall oaks from little acorns grow." The fully developed plant has a capacity of one hundred and forty-four loaves per minute and employes one hundred men. Bread is daily shipped from this busy establishment as far southeast as Cumberland Gap, and as far south as Decatur, Alabama. The daily capacity foots up to the tremendous aggregate of one hundred and seventy thousand loaves.

Air. \\'hiteside was one of the most indomitable of wiirkers in the Falls Cities and it was the popular belief about him that he could make no error in a business way. He appeared to have an unerring sense of what was the right thing to do and the best course to pursue and he never lacked the necessary courage to carry through any resolution or scheme upon which he determined. To the last, although his business interests remained in Louisville, Air, Whiteside retained his altection for his home city in whose welfare he never ceased to take a keen interest. It is also remembered with high appreciation by the people of Jeffersonville that it was to Air. Whiteside's faith, courage and will that the city owes her first steps upon the road to improve- ment upon which road she is now making rapid progress with confidence of a great future. The first granitoid walks and the first brick roadway were laid in Jeffersonville under the inspiration of Mr. Whiteside's counsel and are monuments to his determination since they were built in the face of much shortsighted opposition. Mr. Whiteside had faith in the future of his native city and the fact that the future looks brighter to Jeffersonville than the past is due in no small measure to the course he marked out and pursued fur himself when he became Jeffersonville's chief magistrate in i8c;4. He had long been faithful in his support to the Republican party, but had never cared to take part in local politics until pursuaded to enter the mayoralty contest of the year mentioned above. He filled his four years of office with credit to himself and to the entire satisfaction of his constituents and all concerned and with benefit to the city at large. It was during his administration that the national encampment of the Grand Amiy of the Republic was held in Louisville and Mr. Whiteside saw to it that Jeffersonville did her just part in entertaining the visitors to this vicinity, even, it is said, outstripping Louisville, proportionately to her size, upon this occasion. Mr. Whiteside always retained his citizenship in Jeffersonville, and several years ago purchased the old and attractive Henry Peter property on \\'est Front street and that remained his home until the last. Being hospitable and always desiring to entertain his friends, his home and social life were delightful. He was happy in his family relationship, warmly attached to his family and his pleasant home was always a place of harmony and good cheer. Mr. Whiteside's domestic life began when he had just passed his twentieth birthday, having married on August 13, 1878, Miss Louise F. Smith, daughter of John F. and Elmira Smith, the latter still living in Jeffersonville, and by this union there were two children, William S. Whiteside who is in the bakery business, having long been associated with his father, and he resides in Louisville. His sister. Miss Nora Whiteside, resides at home. Their mother was called to her rest in 1888, and two years later Mr. Whiteside married Katherine Beatty, daughter of John J. and Louise (Woodruff) Beatty, of Louisville, and this union resulted in the birth of two children, Sue ]\Iay and Katherine, both members of the home circle. They and their mother are well known in social circles of this vicinity and are held in high esteem by a large circle of friends by reason of their culture, refinement and kindness.

Mr. Whiteside was never much of a secret order man, but was a member of Jefifersonville Lodge, No. 362, Benevolent and I^rotective Order of Elks, and he was not a member of any church, holding to no man-made creed. However, his daily life was exemplary and evinced religious principles. His mother is a Methodist and his inclination was toward Methodism.

Mr. Whiteside slinwed unusual fortitude and courage during his long illness and never complained. His death was announced to the citizens of

Jefifersonville by the tolling of bells and the \arious city buildings were draped in black as a mark of esteem for the honored dead. He was laid to rest in Cave Hill cemetery with universal regret.

The subject of this sketch holds a conspicuous place among the successful business men and public-spirited citizens of Clark county and is an honorable representative of one of the oldest and best known pioneer families in the southern part of the state. He is a son of William J. and Eliza J. (Nett) Bottorff, whose sketch appears elsewhere in these pages, and dates his birth from the 19th day of i\Iay. 1857, having first seen the light of day on the old family homestead, in Charlestown township, wliere his ancestors located when the few sparse settlements of Clark county were but niches in the deep and well-nigh impenetrable forests. Reared amid the beautiful rural scenes by which his childhood home was surrounded and familiar with the rugged duties of the farm he grew up a strong and well developed lad and when his services could be utilized took his place in the fields where he was able to do a man's work long before reaching the years of maturity. Meanwhile in winter seasons he attended the district schools of the neighborhood and after finishing the branches taught tlierein entered the Charlestown Academy, where for two years he pursued the prescribed course.

Mr. Bottorff began his business career as a merchant, conducting for a period of thirteen years a general store and built up a large and lucrative patronage, during the greater part of which time he also had charge of the post-office at Vesta. For the purpose of educating his children he finally disposed of his mercantile interests and moved to Greencastle, but after a brief residence in that city went to New Albany, where he again embarked in general merchandising and millinery business, devoting especial attention to the latter line of trade, which he conducted for some time on a very extensive scale. Mr. Bottorfif's commercial experience at New Albany was financially successful but after some years he sold his stock and returned to Clark county. He invested his capital in land, purchasing one hundred and eighty acres in Charlestown township, since which time he has devoted his attention very largely to his agricultural and real estate interests, meeting with gratifying success the meanwhile and earning an honorable reputation as an enterprising, far-seeing business man and praiseworthy citizen.

A Democrat interested in the success of his party and in touch with the leading questions and issues of the times he has never entered the political arena as a partisan or office seeker. He is essentially a business man and

Mr. Bottorff on September 13, 1881, was united in marriage with Sallie S. Sandifer, a native of Kentnck)-. and a graduate nf the ^Midway Female School of that state.

Air. and Mrs. Bottorff have four children, the oldest of whom, Minnie, born July 5, 1882, is a graduate of the Charlestown high school and now chief operator in the telephone exchange of the same city. Garnett E., born May 16, 1884, married Bertha Dellinger and lives in Owen township. Mary K. is the wife of James H. Taggart, of Charlestown township, and Earyl is still a member of the familv circle.

The career of the present Clerk of Clark county's Circuit Court affords a practical illustration of the truth of the statement made by Shakespeare when he said "The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation, that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay." Through right living Mr. Ballard has gained the c(!nfidence of the people of his adopted county and a distinctive evidence of this popular esteem was given in igo6 in his election to the important office which he now so ably fills.

Curtis W. Ballard is a Kentuckian by birth and a worthy member of an old and highly respected family of Shelby county, that state. His father, William Jordon Ballard, also a native of Kentucky, and for a number of years an honored resident of the above county, served with a creditalile record in the Civil war as a private in Company A, Fifteenth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and shortly after retiring from the army entered the railway postal service, to which he gave about thirty of the best years of his life. When a young man he married Mary Moody, who was born and reared in the Blue Grass state, and in due time became the father of two sons ancl one daughter, the latter deceased, the older of the sons being the subject of this review. The younger, John Ballard, is a merchant of JefTfersonville, and one of the well known and successful business men of that city. After spending a number of years in the state of his birth William J. Ballard moved his family to Jeffersonville, Indiana, where he made his home until about 1875, when he returned to Kentucky, but about 1887 again changed his place of abode to Jefifersonville and since that time has been living in this city and taking an active interest in the public afifairs of the same.

Curtis W. Ballard was born in Shelby county, Kentucky, on the 13th day of October, 1868, and spent his childhood and youth under the grateful intiuences of rural scenes. As soon as old enough iVir liis services to be utilized to advantage he bore his full share in the cultivation of the family homestead and during the time spent on the farm received a good education in the schools of his native county, prosecuting his studies at intervals until a youth in his teens.

When twenty years of age Mr. Ballard severed home ties for the purpose of making his own way in the world, and for some time thereafter was employed in a foundry at Jefifersonville, where by diligent attention to duty he not only became familiar with the business in its every detail Init in due time rose to the responsible position of foreman. After spending ten years in that capacity and accjuiring a profound knowledge of the trade and great skill as a mechanic he resigned his position to make the canvass for the Legislature, having been duly nominated for the ofBce by the Democracy of Clark county and triumphantly elected on November 6, 1904.

l\Ir. Ballard proved an able and creditable representation and during his one term of service spared neither labor nor pains in looking after the interests of his constituents and the welfare of the state. He was placed on a number of important committees, where his judgment and counsel carried weight and commanded respect and in the general deliberations and debates on the floor of the chamber he bore an active and conspicuous part. At the close of his term he resumed his trade and continued the same until 1906. when he again entered the political arena as an important candidate for official honors, having been nominated in the spring of that year for the office of Clerk of the Clark County Circuit Court and defeating his opponent by a decisive majority at the ensuing election the following November.

I\Ir. Ballard entered upon the discharge' of his duties as Clerk in February. 1908, and thus far has fully realized the high expectations for his friends and the public and justified the Democracy in the wisdom of their choice, proving a capable and courteous official. When a young man Mr. Ballard laid a substantial foundation for a life of usefulness and the firmness of his purposes is carrying to conclusion all of his undertakings, has enabled him to achieve a larger measure of success than the majority attain.

Politically he yields allegiance to the Democratic party as before indicated, the success of which in his own county is partly due to his judicious counsel and able leadership. He keeps in touch with the leading questions and issues of the day. In the broadest sense of the term he is a self-made man and he occupies a place of influence.

Mr. Ballard takes much interest in secret fraternal work and belongs to a number of organizations and societies, in all of which he has been honored with positions of trust and importance besides taking an active interest in the wider field of general state and national work. He is a charter member of the lodge of Red Men in Jefifersonville. and a past official in the same : he be- longs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Although reared under the influence and teachings of the Christian church, with which his family were identified, he is a member of the ^Methodist church.

Rev. John Simonson Howk. D. D.

Pastor of the First Presbterian church of Jeft'ersonville, and one of the most learned and popular divines of his church in Indiana, is he whose name appears above, who is a native of Floyd county, this state, and a son of the late Hon. George Vail Howk, of New Albany, formerly a Judge of the Supreme Court and a jurist of national repute. The Howk family is of German origin, but settled in Massachusetts early in the eighteenth century and engaged in agricultural pursuits. Isaac Howk, the subject's grandfather, was born in that state, received a liberal education in Williams College and in 1817 located at Charlestown, Indiana, where he engaged in the practice of law. His wife, Elvira Vail, was a daughter of Dr. Gamaliel Vail, who moved from New England to Indiana Territory in 1806, and settled in Clark county.

Hon. George V. Howk was reared in Charlestown, graduated from x\sbury University in 1846, studied law with Hon. Charles Dewey, a Judge of the Indiana Supreme Court, and was admitted to the bar in 1847, beginning the practice of his profession in New Albany, where he soon arose to eminence in his chosen calling. He filled various official positions and was long prominently before the public, sen-ing as City Judge of New Albany, Common Pleas Judge, Circuit Judge and Representative to the General Assembly. In 1876 he was chosen one of the Judges of Indiana Supreme Court, which distinguished position he held twelve years with credit to himself and to the honor of the state, and in which he achieved national repute as a learned and profound jurist. Judge Howk was twice married, the first time in 1848 to Eleanor, daughter of Judge Charles Dewey, of Charlestown, and in 1854 to Jane Simonson, daughter of Gen. John S. Simonson, of the United States army. The subject of this sketch is the only survivor of the family of eight children, born of these marriages. Charles D. and George V. Howk, Jr., brothers of the subject, were lawyers at New Albany, both dying in early manhood, and a sister, Jennie, also grew to years of maturity, the others dying in infancy and childhood. Judge Howk was one of the leading Democrats of Indiana, and for many j-ears filled a large place in public view. His professional and judicial careers were eminently honorable and distinguished and his life for many years closely identified with the history of his native state, made him distinctively one of the noted men of his day. He died at his home in New Albany January 13, 1892.

Rev. John Simonson Howk was bom May 28, 1863, and spent his early life in New Albany, receiving his elementary education in the public schools of the city. Manifesting an ardent desire for more thorough intellectual training, he was prepared for college under the tutorship of Miss Suda ^lay, and in due time entered DePauw University, where he prosecuted his studies until 1883, when he was graduated with the Degree of Bachelor of Arts. Subseqtiently in 1886 he received from the same institution the Degree of blaster of Arts, and having taken up the study of theology in the meantime, and achieved high standing as a scholar and much more than ordinary success in the ministry, he was granted in the year 1896 the Degree of Doctor of Divinity, by his alma mater. Animated by a laudable ambition to attain the highest possible efficiency in his holy calling, he afterwards took a two years' post-graduate course in philosophy and ethics under Rev. Dr. McCosh, at Princeton University, and in 1888 he was graduated with an honorable record from the Princeton Theological Seminar}-, thus laying broad and deep a substantial f(5undation for his subsequent career in one of the noblest and most responsible fields of endeavor.

At one time Doctor Howk seriously contemplated entering the lagal profession and to this end studied law under his father, and in due time was admitted to the bar. but after a year's practice he abandoned the business to devote his life to the Christian ministn,'. On !May 17. 1887. he was licensed by the Xew Albany Presbytery, and on June 19th of the year following, was ordained by the Presbytery of Xew Castle, since which time he has given himself unreservedly to his chosen calling, his first charges being the churches at Rehoboth and Pitts Creek, Marsdand, where he labored with great acceptance from 1888 to 1898 inclusive. In the latter year he was chosen minister of the church at East Palestine. Ohio, but after a residence of a little more than a year at that place he resigned the pastorate to take charge of the First Presbyterian church of Jefifersonville, of which he was duly installed pastor on the 19th day of October. 1899, and to which he has since ministered with marked ability and happy results as the growth of the congregation in all lines of activity abundantly attests. Doctor Howk's labors in Jeffersonville have been highly creditable to himself and satisfactory to his congregation, presenting a series of successes which have tended greatly to the strengthening of the church temporally and spiritualh', and making it one of the most prosperous Presbyterian organizations in the sotithern part of the state. Fruitful in expedients, he has introduced a number of reforms calculated to arouse the latent energies of the members and develop their usefulness along practical lines, not the least of which was a Presbyterian Brotherhood he established five years before the national organization of the same name went into effect. This society, which has fully realized the object for which intended, has been of almost inestimable value by keeping alive an interest in religious and benevolent work, while at its sessions many subjects of vital importance to the church as well as ways and means for the general dissemination of the cause of Christ, are considered and discussed. He was also instrumental in organizing the Thomas Posey Post, Presbyterian Brotherhood Cadets, for the purpose of enlisting the interest of the boys of his cong-regation lay means of Bible study, athletics, physical training, healthful annisements. etc.. the success of the enterprise more than meeting his expectations and proving a sure safeguard against the many alluring temptations and evils to which the youth and young men of cities are subjected.

During the past nine years Doctor Howk has been secretary of the home missionary work of the New Albany Presbytery, and as such has been untiring in his efforts to advance its interest and plant churches and Sunday schools in destitute fields. He was a commissioner of the General Assembly in 1893 ^^^^ 1903 respectively, and for several years served as chairman of the Sunday school work of the Baltimore Synod, comprising the states of Delaware, Maryland and the District of Columbia. He keeps in close touch with his denomination and everything relating thereto, is influential in its public assemblages and stands high in the esteem of his fellow ministers and coworkers, besides enjoying the confidence of the public irrespective of faith or creed. While loyal to the church of his choice, the faith and practice of which he justifies by reason and history, showing that its object and aim both appeal to and receive the sanction of all fair-minded persons, he is by no means narrow in his views, perceiving good in all religious organizations and being ready at all times to co-operate with his brother ministers of other bodies in the laudable work of the world's evangelization.

Doctor Howk is not unknown in the domain of literature, having contributed a number of articles, chiefly of a religious and historical character, to the different magazines and periodicals. While pastor of the old church at Rehoboth, Mantdand, he discovered and secured the liistory of the first Presbyterian organization on the American continent, which appears to have been established as early as 1683, by Rev. Francis Makenzie, who ministered to the little band of worshipers for many years. Collecting all available data bearing on this church, the doctor wrote a very interesting history of the birthplace of Presbyterianism in the United States, the sketch proving one of the most valuable additions to church literature in recent years. He has also written not a few poems of decided merit and a number of hymns which have appeared from time to time in various religious and secular journals, all of his literary productions finding ready publishers and ap])reciative readers.

The doctor's fraternal relations include the Phi Gamma Delta college fraternitv, Jeffersonville Lodge, No. 240, Free and Accepted Masons ; R. S. Taggart Camp, Sons of Veterans of East Palestine. Ohio, and the Indiana Society, Sons of the American Revolution, being eligible to membership in the last named organization through liis great-great-grandfather. Colonel William Edmonson, who was second in command at King's Mountain and distinguished himself by bravery and gallantry in that and other battles. His maternal grandfather. Gen. John S. Simonson, was a soldier in the War of 1812 and the war with Mexico, and bore a distinguished part in the Civil war frnm 1861 to 1866, besides serving a number of years in the frcnitier against various hostile Indian tribes. He was a soldier by profession, rose by successive promotions from private to the rank of general and was noted for fearlessness and l)ra\-ery in action as well as for strict discipline as a commander.

Doctor Howk was married at Xew Albany to May Lorraine Collins, daughter of Heniy H. and Mary (Scribner) Collins, both residents of New Albany, and representatives of the early pioneer families of that city and well and favorably known in social and religious circles. Mrs. Howk was reared and educated in her native city, graduating from the high school with the class of 1886. Doctor and Mrs. Howk have two daughters, Margaret, born March 12, 1890, at Pocomoke, Maryland, and Mary Simonson, whose birth occurred at the same place on March 31st of the year 1895, '^oth being students at Hanover College. Doctor Howk has been a trustee of Hanover College since 1905. and his interest and activity in educational work is secondary only to his ministerial and religious duties.

Since October, igo8. Doctor and Mrs. Howk have moved to Hanover to be with their children, and Doctor Howk has engaged in general evangelistic work.

John C. Zulauf

The fact that this name appears in the cit_\- tlirectory of Jeffersonville is due to a somewhat romantic episode, involving a rather interesting chapter in the history of Southern Indiana. IMany years before the Civil war a wealthy citizen of Switzerland, by the name of Fischli. pre-empted a large amount of land near Seymour, and owned other extensive tracts near Jeffersonville. At that time the law of Indiana prohibited the inheritance of land by foreign heirs, and at the death of the original owner the estate escheated to the school fund of the commonwealth by provision of the statute. To recover lands John Zulauf, a distant relati\'e of Fischli. was emploved to come to America. He was born in Switzerland, in 1818, and obtained a collegiate education, spoke six languages and altogether was an unusually well informed man. He spent se\-eral years in clerical occupations in some of the factories and banks in different parts of Europe, including one year in the bank at Marseilles, France, and several years in the large manufactories at Birmingham,

England. His emplojment as attorney for the Fischli heirs brought him to Clark county, in 1846, and the extent and complications of the business necessitated his remaining in this country for many years. Realizing that he had become a fixture he opened a lace and silk importing store on Fourth street, Louisville, in 1848, and was appointed Swiss consul to the western states. By the exercise of much diplomacy as well as skill and legal ability, he managed after a protracted struggle against powerful and influential opposition to save the Fischli estate for the heirs. During these complicated transactions and delays he often returned to his native land and while there, in 1857, was married to W'ilhelmina Schoch, daughter of a prominent government official of Bavaria. In 1861 he brought his wife and eldest daughter to Jeffersonville, but a 3'ear or two later, when the Northern and Southern armies were closing on Louisville, he sent his family back to Switzerland. The entire family returned from Europe in 1865 and settled peiTnanently in Jeffersonville, where the father died in 1873.

John C. Zulauf, one of his father's four children, was born in Switzerland, October 26, 1864, soon after his mother's return from the United States. His father did not see him until he was about a year old, when he was brought back to Jeffersonville with the rest of the family, of which he was the first son. He grew up in Jeffersonville and in 1885 was graduated from DePauw University, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1886 he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws from the Louisville Law School and subsecjuently took a special course in the law department of Harvard University. Admitted to the bar in 1887 he entered actively into the practice of his profession at Jeffersonville, continuing alone until 1888, when he formed a partnership with Judge George W, Howk, of the Supreme Court of Indiana, with offices in New Albany and Jeffersonville. In 1894 he became vice-president of the Citizens' National Bank, was elected president of that institution in 1904 and three years later was made president of the Citizens' Trust Company. In many ways he has been prominent in the business affairs of Clark and Floyd counties, being recognized as a public-spirited citizen of great energy and enterprise and excellent judgment. He was a director of the Louisville and Jeffersonville Bridge Company, and made several trips to Washington to obtain rights of way for the bridge across the river at the most suitable landing place on the Jeffersonville side. He was president and business manager of the Ohio Falls Street Car Company, organized to construct and run a line in Jeffersonville and composed of Louisville and Jeffersonville capitalists. Mr. Zulauf has also been quite prominent in politics, as a Republican. In 1892 he was candidate for Joint Senator from Clark, Scott and Jennings county, but owing to the great preponderance in the opposition majority was defeated. In 1904 he was chairman of the Republican District Committee, and in 1906 was a member of the Republican State Central

In 1896 Mr. Zulauf married Agnes, daughter of Dr. W. D. and Matilda (Koehler) Hutchings, of Madison, Indiana. They have two daughters, Agnes and Elizabeth. The family's religious affiliations are with the St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal church, of which Air. Zulauf has been vestryman since 1888.

Of sterling New England ancestry and inheriting many of the sturdy qualities for which the people of that historic section of the country have been distinguished, the subject of this sketch although young in years has achieved success in the dual capacity of professional and business life. William A. Rubey, attorney at law and secretary of the Denhard, Rubey Company, dealers in furniture and a kindred line of goods, is a native of the old and time-honored town of Bridgeport, Connecticut, where his birth occurred on the 23d of September, 1872, being the third of a family of seven children whose parents, Albert B. and Fannie E. (Hoyt) Rubey, were also born and reared in the Nutmeg state.

Albert B. Rubey is a merchant and manufacturer at Bridgeport, Connecticut, and one of the leading business men and representative citizens of that city. Of his family of two sons and five daughters, all but one of the latter are living, their names being as follows : Georgie, wife of O. V. Smith, of Milford, Connecticut; \\'illiam A., of this review; Lena M. died in her twenty-second year; Sarah, now IMrs. Edwin R. Hampton, lives at New Haven, Connecticut, where her husband is practicing law ; Elizabeth married Harry C. Gates and resides at Bridgeport; Albert B. is engaged in the automobile business at Springfield, Massachusetts, and Ethel, now Mrs. Walter Griffith, is still under the parental roof.

The early life of William A. Rubey was cast in pleasant places. As soon as old enough he entered the schools of his native city, where under the direction of capable teachers, he made commendable progress and attained high standing as a close and diligent student. He remained in the state of his birth until eighteen years of age, at which time (1891) he came to Louisville, Kentucky, moving to Jeffersonville, Indiana, in 1900, to prosecute his legal studies in the Jefferson School of Law, Louisville, which institution he att^ded until completing the prescribed course and receiving his degree. \\"ith a mind well disciplined by intellectual and professional training he was admitted in 1907, to the Clark county bar, and soon won recognition as one of the enterprising and capable young lawyers in a city noted for the high order of its professional talent. Two years before engaging in the practice of law, however, he became interested in a mercantile enterprise which, under the firm name of the Denhard & Rubey Company, was incorporated in 1905, and which jointly managed by the original proprietors is still carried on, being at this time the largest and most successful furniture house in Jef^ersonville, as well as one of the leading commercial concerns in the southern part of the state. It is ably conducted by the solid business men whose names the company bears, the stock which represents a heavy investment of capital, consisting of a large and complete line of furniture from the simplest and cheapest to the most ornate and expensive, also full lines of all kinds of house furnishing materials, no pains nor expense being spared to satisfy the most critical demand on the part of customers. By honorable dealing and a sincere desire to please the proprietors have gained the confidence of the public and the business has grown steadily in magnitude: is now widely and favorably known in commercial circles and its reputation is second to that of no other enterprise of the kind in the country.

Aside from his professional and commercial interests ^Ir. Rubey is connected with the Casino Amusement Company, of which he is now secretary and treasurer and in the management of which he takes an active and influential part. In this as in other enterprises he has met with well earned success, by the people appreciating his efiforts to provide them a commodious and pleasant place in which to meet, and a series of high class amusements for their entertainment.

In his political affiliations Mr. Rubey is a Democrat and an influential worker in his party, while the Episcopal church represents his religious creed. He is a leading member of Lodge, No. 362. Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, in which he holds the title of past exalted ruler, and his name also adoms the records of other local lodges, including the Improved Order of Red Men, Knights of Pythias, K. of T. M., of the World, in which he fills the office of record-keeper. In addition to the organizations mentioned he belongs to the Century Road Club of America, and to the National Automobile Association, besides being identified with various other enterprises of a social, literary and benevolent nature in all of which he has been honored from time to time with important official positions, to say nothing of his liberal contributions for their maintenance.

Mr. Rubey was happily married on September 6, 1894, to Ida J\I. Denhard, of Jefifersonville, daughter of Edwin L. Denhard, his business partner, and proprietor of one of the largest furniture establishments in the city of Louisville, Kentucky. Mrs. Rubey is a native of Louisville, received a liberal education in the city schools of the same and made her home in that city until her marriage. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Rubey, namely: Florence, Ruth, Wallace, Edward and Elmore, the last two. EdwartI and

Frank Spear Armstrong

The subject of this sketch was born in JetTersonville, N(jvember i8, 1868. Captain Armstrong's family is among the oldest, if not the oldest family in Clark county, and from the earliest time has held a very prominent position in the history of the county. His great-grandfather. Col. John Armstrong, was the last commandent at Fort Steuben, long before Jefifersonville existed. He was a captain in the First United States Regiment. Colonel Harmar, at the close of the Revolution and had seen extended and meritorious service during that conflict, being in four general engagements, including the battle of Monmouth and the siege of Yorktown. After leaving the service of the United States he returned to Clark county and was one of the most prominent men in our early history. He settled on a tract of land opposite the Grassy Flats, where his remains now lie buried and where his monument still stands.

Col. John Armstrong's son. William Goforth Armstrong, made Bethlehem his home until 1841. He served eleven years in the Indiana House of Representatives and two years in the Senate, and was receiver of public moneys in the land office at Jeffersonville under William Henry Harrison. He was one of the principal promoters of the Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis Railroad and it was due greatly to his energy that the road was finished, in 1852, and trains run through to Indianapolis. He was the first president of this road, retiring in 1853. His son, John R. Armstrong, Capt. Frank S. Armstrong's father, was closely connected with the business an4 commercial life of Jeffersonville until ill health compelled him to go to the West. He died in Jeffersonville, in June, 1878. at the age of thirty- four. Of unsullied character and possessing ability of a high order, he filled a large place in the business circles of his community and elsewhere, and in his untimely death the city of Jeffersonville lost a leading citizen who promised to rise to still higher positions of honor and trust.

Lucy M. Howard, daughter of James Howard, the boat builder, who became the wife of John R. Armstrong, was reared in Clark county, and like her husband possessed many amiable qualities of head and heart as well as a strong and beautiful character, which endeared her to the large circle of friends with whom she was wont to associate. She measured up to the highest standard of intelligent and cultured womanhood and exerted a refining and elevating influence upon all with whom she came in contact ; she departed this life in Jeffersonville, in the year 1900, being the mother of three children:

Frank Spear Armstrong was educated in the pubHc schools of Jeffersonville and at old Rugby, in Louisville. He graduated from the West Point Military Acadeiny in the class of 1891, and was assigned to the Ninth Cavalry at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. This regiment was transferred to Fort Grant, Arizona, in October, 1898. Lieutenant Armstrong served on recruiting service in the South during the war with Spain, but returned to his regiment when it was ordered to China, in 1900. He sailed for the Taku Forts at the mouth of the Pei Ho river, August 16, 1900, but the Chinese troubles becoming of less importance, the regiment was ordered to Neuva Caeceres. Southern Luzon, Philippine Islands, where it served for two years, returning to the L'^nited States in 1902 to garrison Fort Walla ^^'alla, \\'ashington. Two years later the regiment was ordered to Fort Rile}^, Kansas. Lieutenant Armstrong was commissioned first lieutenant July i. 1898, and captain February 2, 1901. August 30, 1904. he married Jennie Dimmick. the daughter of Major Dinimick, of the Fifth L'nited States Cavalry, and has two sons. Frank and John.

At present Captain Armstrong is serving his second tour of duty in the Philippines, at Camp McGrath, but the regiment is soon to return to this country and will be stationed at Fort Russell, \\'yoming. Since his connection with the service he has written several text books on different phases of army life.

James Howard Armstrong

James Howard Armstrong, the youngest of three sons of John R. and Lucy M. (Howard) Armstrong, and brother of Frank S. Armstrong, whose sketch appears in another part of this volume, was born September 6, 1870, in Jeffersonville. Lidiana, and received his early education in the city schools, the discipline thus acquired being afterwards supplemented by a more advanced and thorough training at Wabash College at Crawfordsville,. Indiana, graduating in June, 1893. Impressed with a desire to enter the legal profession he subsec|uently commenced the study of law and in due time became a student in the law department of the University of Louisville, where he graduated in 1899.

His habits of industry and other qualities which guarantee advancement early brought him to the favorable consideration of his fellow citizens and while still a young man he rose to a prominent place in the confidence of the public and made his influence felt in the affairs of the cit}' and county. From 1 90 1 to 1903 inclusive, he ser\-ed as Deputy Treasurer of Clark county and discharged the duties of the position in an able and satisfactory manner, but before the expiration of his time he was induced to accept a position with the historic Howard Ship Yards, of Jefifersonville, which were estabHshed in 1835, by his grandfather, James Howard, and which have been continued in the family name ever since that time, being one of the leading enterprises of the kind on the Oliio and Mississippi rivers and contributing much to the industrial advancement of the city.