Clark County, Indiana - Biographical sketches, 1909 (part 4 of 15)

On December 26, 1865, Mr. Dailey was married at Newport, Kentucky, to Anna Eliza Deviney, a native of Louisville, and the only surviving child of Captain Madison Deviney. There were five children by this union, as follows : Kate Middleton, Bird, Reuben Seymour, all deceased. Those surviving are a daughter by the name of Nahma, who married Nelson R, Bird, of the Art Engraving Company in London, England. She is quite accomplished as an artist and wood carver, having studied in Paris and also under Benjamin Pittman and Heniy L. Fi-y, of Cincinnati. The latter was one of the carvers for the houses of parliament and the throne of England. Mrs. Bird has three children. Clarence Irving Dailey, the only son, now thirty-four years old, succeeded his father as editor of the Evening News and publishes the paper in connection with his mother. Mr. Dailey's hrme life was ideal, his hospitality unstinted and his affection for his household strong and tender. \Ndiile stationed at Washington during the war, he professed religion in the Methodist church, and subsequenth^ was baptized into the Christian church at Fulton, Ohio, although early in life he never had any fixed denominational belief. He was a member of Tabor Lodge, No. 92, Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; Eureka Lmlge, No. 3, Knights nf Pythias : Falls City Lodge No. 8, Ancient Order I'nited Workmen; Rain Ccmmandery, No. iq, LT,-,ifed Order of the Golden Cross, Veteran Odd Fellows' Association and the Grand .^rmy of the Rqxiblic.

In a modest frame cottage on one of the residence streets of Jeffersonville may l>e found an interesting man to talk to in his leisure hours. Large and well built, six feet four inches tall, his personality is unusually impressive, of quiet demeanor and unassuming, it is necessary to "draw him out" to talk of himself, though few have more entertaining stories to tell of the heroic days when the Union forces were opening the Mississippi. James Mc- Gregor was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, September ii, 1840, and was a son of Matthew and Ellen ( Veasey) McGregor, the latter the daughter of an Irish mother and Vermont father. When four years old James was partly orphaned by the death of his father and being taken to Gallia county, Ohio, he spent the next eleven years in that locality. In 1855 the family removed to Henryville, Clark county, Indiana, and four years later he secured a job with the Jefifersonville & Madison Railroad Company as construction hand. He "stepped off" the distance for the setting of telegraph poles from Seymour to Columbus, walking all the way. He was thus employed when the Civil war broke out and in 1862 enlisted in the Forty-ninth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, with which he went to the front and saw arduous service. He participated in the bloody affair at Haines Bluff, when the unsuccessful attack was made to break the lines at Vicksburg. He was with his command in the boat trip up White river and overland to Arkansas Post when that place was captured with se\-en thousand prisoners. The next severe engagement was at Port Gibson, whose capture forced the Confederates to abandon Grand Gulf. Sixteen days later Mr. McGregor was taken prisoner at the battle of Champion's Hill, but was exchanged several months later and took part in a four months campaign in Texas. After a trip up Red river he was assigned to guard duty in New Orleans and Algiers for four months. Next he was on an ocean steamer for fifteen days, guarding Confederate officers who were being taken to New York. The vessel was loaded with powder captured in the forts at Mobile and it stopped two days at Key West on the voyage to the North. His next service was as train guard on the Kentucky Central Railroad, which lasted until his muster out in 1865. Among Mr. McGregor's reminscences is a story which establies his reputation as an excellent shot. A sharpshooter of the enemy, from a distant clump of brushes, was picking off men in the Union skirmish line, one at a time. Five had fallen, Mr. McGregor was the seventh in line and as his time was soon to come he determined to head off the dangerous "Johnny" if he could. Dropping to a knee he waited for the next puff of smoke and fired at this target in ambush. After the battle he found the dead sharpshooter at the place he had made so fatal to the Federals. On another occasion a group of rowdies tried to jostle him off the sidewalk, bu.t bringing to bear his massive frame, he shouldered them into the gutter in quick succession and asked ironically if they had any friends who wished to meet him. Shortly after the war ?ilr. McGregor resumed his old position with the Indiana Railroad Company and in two months was appointed brakernan, then foreman and on May 15, 1870, was promoted to the place of engineer. He has been with this same company since and is probably the oldest continuous employe as he is now in the fiftieth year of his service.

On July 7, 1870, Mr. McGregor married Rebecca J., daughter of Joshua and Matilda Bennett, residents of Scott county, one mile east of Vienna. They have had six children: William H., the eldest, married a Miss Deark and was killed while engineering on the Pennsylvania Railroad. May, 1908, leaving two children; Belle is the wife of W. A. Poole, a monument dealer; Frank is an extra conductor on the Henderson route; James Jr., died in childhood ; Nellie married Charles Young and resides west of New Albany ; Earl Bennett is with his brother-in-law in the monument business.

Mr. McGregor is a member of the Clark Lodge, No. 40, Free and Accepted Masons, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and the Christian church of Jeffersonville.

Maj. Benjamin Franklin Burlixgame

It has been nearly thirty years since he passed away, but hundreds still remember "Frank" Burlingame with feelings of regret. A brave, true man in all the relations of life he made and held friends as the result of his kindly accommodating disposition. He could fight when fighting was necessary, but preferred peace, and always dealt nobly with his fellow men. His children recall with delight the care and devotion he showed them and are justly proud of his memory. The flowers scattered on memorial day reach no mound that covers a braver soldier, a warmer friend or a more honest man than this dead comrade. Benjamin F. Burlingame was born in Syracuse, New York, in 1832, his parents being Benjamin F. and Adeline (Merrill) Burlingame. The latter located in Wilmington, Dearborn county, Indiana, when their son was a small boy and there he grew to man's estate. \\'hile a student at the Wilmington Seminary he was always a leader in the debates as well as the pranks so characteristic of abounding youth. He early developed a liking for the trades, was not afraid of work and before reaching his majority was able to secure good positions. One of these, which he filled acceptably, was as master mechanic of the Cochran shops, a large car manufacturing company in the suburbs of Aurora. At the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted as a private in a company commanded by Captain Patterson, of Aurora, and the first militaiy organizatifin formed in Dearborn county for tlie Union. He rose to the rank of sergeant din'ing the three months' sei-vice, re-enlisted as second lieutenant and was later promoted to the position of major. At the battle of Carrick's Ford Major Burlingame shot and killed General Garnett, the first Confederate officer of that rank who fell in the Civil war, the encounter taking place in a thicket. About the year after the close of the war Major Burlingame removed to Jeffersonville and took a position as foreman in the car works. He was later made superintendent and held this imp(irtant place until his death, in 1880.

On March 25, 1862, Major Burlingame married Elizabeth, daughter of John P. and Rachael (Peynton) Rogers. Three of their children died in infancy and Frank, a promising son, passed away at the threshold of life, when eighteen years old. The sur\-iving children are Paul, secretary to the Mayor of Louisville: Minnie, wife of Charles Rose, who resides in Jeffersonville, and Roger, a reporter for the Louisville Times. Elizabeth, who married Harry Bird, of the Jeffersonville News, died April 16, 1907, leaving one child, John Arthur. About 1890 Mrs. Burlingame removed to Greencastle in order to give her sons the advantage of an education at DePauw University. She engaged in business and through no fault of her own became involved in financial difficulties. Although in a position to refuse payment to creditors, like the high-minded woman she is, the opportunity was spurned, and she assumed bravely the entire obligation and by her own efforts earned the money to pay off every cent. Thus she preserved her financial honor unimpaired, besides proving herself a woman of excellent business qualities. This is precisely what her lamented husband would have desired her to do and in doing it she obtained the additional satisfaction of feeling that she had honored his hallowed memnry. by leaving a stainless record for their children.

Capt. Henry Dugan

Mark Twain should have known this veteran boatman before he wrote his celebrated account of learning to be a pilot on the Mississippi. Captain Dugan could have given him pointers and furnished him lots of humor equal to that of Clemens himself. He was born in Switzerland county. Indiana, in 1853, his parents being W'illiam Perry and Mary (Wiley) Dugan, the latter a daughter of a Virginia farmer and the former a son of George Dugan, a Baptist preacher in Kentucky. While Henry was a small boy his family removed to Madison, and in 1862 to Jeffersonville. While at school one day he and his fellow pupils saw a lot of Confederate prisoners marching from the steamboat landing. The little boys showed their patriotism by throwing gravel at the "Johnny Rebs," among whom happened to be Simon Bolivar Buckner, destined to become a candidate of the Gold Democrats for President in a later day. When a little older the future steamboatman "played hooky" and worked for twenty-five cents an hour helping roll flour onto freight vessels. He also worked in the big governnient baker3% where they made "hard tack" for the army. A druggist who went to the war turned his store over to young Henry and an elder brother and the boys ran it with a rush until their father stopped them for fear they would poison someone. Before being thus called down they had done a land office business with the soldiers and officers camped east of Jeffersonville and were making money. An unamiable school teacher who was too zealous with the rod caused Henry to run away from home at the age of thirteen and join a steamboat crew as roustabout, bound for New Orleans. He soon became homesick from the cursings and thumpings received from his rough associates, but the pilots learning that his father was the well known captain on the Louisville mail boats rescued him from his pursecutors and taught him to steer the craft. On that trip he began his experience as pilot and engineer, the passion for which calling has kept him on the river ever since. He has been on the Ohio, the Mississippi and its tributaries in every capacity connected with steamboat work. He taught the business to his brothers and probably fifty other boys acquired the same knowledge from Captain Dugan. He is employed by the Louisville and Jeffersonville Ferry Company and for the past twenty years has had charge of their excursion boat, handling crowds that average one hundred and twenty thousand each summer. He has never had an accident for which the management was liable, a record for prudence and skill of which any captain might be proud. Captain Dugan has seen Jefifersonville grow from a small town, where nearly all the business was on the square of Spring street, from Market to the river. When he came here the square on which the city hall now stands was a public park. Near the present location of the city hall was the primitive log jail, which was in use until a prisoner set it on fire and caused its destruction.

December 24, 1876, Captain Dugan married Hanna, daughter of Charles and Adeline (Seibert) Deirflinger. Their six children are: Ida May, wife of Clarence E. Howard, a well known contractor and builder of Jeffersonville; Madison, who married Lina Schultz: Harry, who married Myrtle Stigwald; Georgia, wife of William Worral, of Jeffersonville; William Henry, assistant engineer of his father's boat; Raymond Scott, at home with his parents. Captain Dugan is a member of the Knights and Ladies of Honor, and the Odd Fellows. His wife is active in the Daughters of Reljekah, as well as in the Wall Street Methodist Episcopal church, of which both are members. Captain Dugan has represented the Fourth ward in the City Council and at present is a member of the County Council, which has the appropriation of

William Fletcher Hobsox

In the death of the subject of this sketch there was presented to the world the sad story of an act of heroism that was seldom, if ever, [jaralleled in the state of Indiana, and those who saw William Fletcher Hobson deliberately sacrifice his life that others might be saved, will never be able to efface that scene from their memories. Death in a terrible form came to this courageous man when he was in his prime and although he could have escaped it by deserting his post, this he refused to do, thinking only of die human freight for whose safety he felt himself responsible. When the soul took leave of the mangled body it marked the passing of one of the truest friends and most honorable citizens of Jeffersonville, a man with a record that was open to the inspection of the world.

No servant of the corporation, in the service of which he met his uritimely death, stood higher in the estimation of the officials than Mr. Hobson and none were more popular among the employes, for all of wlnim he ever had a cheery word and a hearty handclasp.

Mr. Hobson was born December 2;^. 1861, at Utica, Indiana. His parents were Manlus and Sarah (Snider) Hobson. Manlus was a school teacher and died when William was five years old. The little boy then went to live with his grandparents, with whom he remained until November 10. 1885, when he was united in marriage to Eva Graves, daughter of Alfred and Cynthia (Strutt) Graves, of Charlestown. Five children were the result of this marriage, Herbert. May, Otto, Roy and Leta. Herbert and Otto are both in the employ of the Louisville & Southern Traction Con:pany. Herbert is married, his wife's maiden name being Nellie Blyth. Thev have one son, Evan Fletcher Hobson.

When the first street cars were started in Jeft'ersonville ^Villiam F. Hobson was placed in charge of one of them as motorman. He operated the first Gars that were run on the Chestnut and the Court avenue lines, and it was his car that hauled the first trailer from New Albany to Jeft'ersonville, and also that which was pulled from Jeffersonville to Charlestown. For one year he served in the capacity of inspector for the local street railway system. Death came to him on July 20, 1907, while at his post of duty, in a collision between his car and a big work car near Watson. The work car, through a mistake of the motorman as to the time, was pushing along the rails of the main line at a great speed, when it should have been on the sidetrack, and the two cars met on a sharp curve. The subject had plenty of opportunity to jump and save his hfe, but instead of doing so he vainly endeavored to stop his car, but it had attained a rate of speed that made this impossible, and in the terrific crash that came his life went out.

Herbert Hobson, son of \\'illiam F., had an experience in igo8 that would indicate that the young man has inherited some of the nerve that was possessed by his father. At the risk of his own life he snatclied an elderly woman from in front of an approaching car when there seemed to be no chance, whatever, of saving her life.

Mr. Hobson was a lifelong and most earnest member of the Methodist church. He belonged to but one secret order, the Modern Woodmen. That he was a man of strong religious convictions was evidenced by the fact that a well worn Bible, in which many impressive passages were marked, was found on his mangled body. His record may prove a source of inspiration to others, and it is certainly a priceless heritage to his widow and children. His daily life was proof that he loved his fellnw men and his heroic death was the fruits of such a life.

George M. Rickard

The story of the career of the gentleman of this review is that of a young man. who though confronted at almost every turn in his life with discouragements and obstacles, never faltered in his determination to reach the goal upon which his vision had been focussed since early boyhood. His early struggles to secure an education that he might go forth well equipped to take up the battle of life were, in a way, a true index to his sturdy character.

George M. Rickard was born in Toronto, Kansas, October 25, 1881, the son of Louis and Sarah E. Rickard, the latter's maiden name being Snyder. The parents of George M. had moved from Washington county. Indiana, to Kansas in 1876. They remained in the Sttnflower state until George M. was seven years old, when they moved to Missouri. At the end of a period of three years they returned to Indiana, taking up their residence in Jefifersonville, where they have lived most of the time since. The paternal grandparents of George M. Rickard were George and Catherine (Motsinger) Rickard, and they at one time owned an entire section of land. The fomier helped build the Louisville and Portland canal. The great-grandfather of Mr. Rickard came to this country from Germany in 1777, settling in Pennsylvania. Later he made a trip to South America, where he remained for seven years, returning tn Pennsylvania at the end of that time. The grandfather of the subject came west in 1810 and settled in Washington county. Indiana.

George M. Rickard completed a course in the public schools and then entered Borden College, graduating therefrom in 1900. While attending this institution he worked during his spare time in order to obtain funds to pay his expenses. Immediately after leaving college he took up the profession of teacher. He first taught the school at Nabb, Indiana, and later spent two 3'ears as a teacher in the schools of Jeffersonville township. He then became principal of the Port Fulton schools, has occupied that position for five years.

]\Ir. Rickard was married to Myra M. Grant, June 10. 1906, at Louisville, Kentucky. She is the daughter of Charles and Matilda Grant. Mr. and Mrs. Rickard are regular attendants at the Baptist church, and the former is an active worker in the cause of Democracy, although he has never held nor asked for any political offices. Mr. Rickard is a member of the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias lodges.

The career of Mr. Cisco has been marked by more thrilling experiences and narrow escapes from death than are crowded into the life of the average man, and the reputation of being one of the most courageous citizens of Southern Indiana is deservedly his. His occupations have been \ar*ie(l, but he can look back upon the days when he was serving the people of his municipality as an officer of the law at the most strenuous period in his existence. When he assumed the duties devolving upon the head of the police department crime was rampant in this community, there being a perfect epidemic of burglaries and robberies. In fact the conditions existing at that time might well have been likened unto a veritable reign of terror, but the advent of the subject into the office of Superintendent of Police signalized the beginning of the end of the operations of one of the worst gang of marauders that ever plied their nefarious vocation in the southern part of the state.

William F. Cisco was born in Boone county, Kentucky, in i860, being the son of Francis and Elizabeth (Hedges) Cisco. Francis Cisco was the son of Hiram Cisco, who came from France to this country, and first settled in California, but later moved tO Ohio. The name of his family was originally Francisco. The father of William F. is dead, but his mother still lives in Jeffersonville, his parents having come to this place when he was six years of age. He attended the public schools and showing a great aptitude for the absorption of knowledge graduated at cjuite an early age. Immediately after leaving school he accepted employment in a clerical capacity in the general store of John Bentel. remaining here until he had attained Ids twenty-second year. In 1889 he accepted a municipal appointment, being superintendent of pumps and wells in Jefifersonville. He held this position until the year of 1893, when he was made Chief of Police by a board that had been appointed by Governor Matthews, and it was in this capacity that he made a most enviable record, very early in his tenure of office demonstrating that he was a man absolutely without fear. When the foul murder of Stephen Gehr shocked an outraged community Captain Cisco declared that he would apprehend the negro who committed the brutal crime, and that it was no idle boast was evidenced by after events. There were ominous threats of lynching, but in order to prevent this blot from falling upon the good name of the community the fearless official placed his prisoner behind the bars of the state prison, where the would-be avengers of the negro's victim could noL reach him. Among his other notable feats while directing the affairs of the pnlice department was the capture of Gray and Gaynor, who killed a druggist at Reelsville, Indiana, and as a token of tlieir appreciation of his success the authorities bestowed upon him a reward of goodly proportions. One of the many occasions when Captain Cisco showed his absolute fearlessness was when he pre\-ented a prospective prize fight despite the fact that a mob of eight hundred men were at the ring side, who threatened the lives of him and Sheriff Davis. Later on he completely broke up an organized gang of thieves who were looting stores throughout the city, their leader a man named Chapman, alias Blackburn, subsequently sawing his way out of the Clark county jail.

^^'illiam F. Cisco was married to Lena Friend, daughter of Leonard and Elizabeth Friend. Three children were the fruits of this union : William B., Walter L., and Lila Margaret, the latter being the wife of LeRoy J. Hanna, traffic agent of the Indianapolis and Louisville line. Captain Cisco has always been an admirer of blooded horses, and for a long time had a number of fine racing equines, but recently disposed of them.

He is vice-president oi the Knights and Ladies of Washington, in Kentucky, is a member in high standing of the Eagles, Red Men and Knights and Ladies of Honor. Captain Cisco has the respect and the confidence of the best people of Jefifersonville.

Peter Campbell Doxaldsox

Although a young man, heavy responsibilities rest upon the shoulders of Peter C. Donaldson, but that he is eminently able to discharge them to the entire satisfaction of his superiors is attested by the great length of his service with tlie ci3rporation which lie represents. He is con\ersant witii tlie minute details of the transportation business, possesses an active mind, rare good judgment, and the ability to solve any intricate problem that may arise in connection with the affairs of which he has charge. He embarked upon a business career before he had crossed the threshold of manhood, and his excellent qualifications for the position that he now occupies soon manifested themselves.

Peter C. Donaldson was born at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, June 15, 1879, his parents being Peter and Eliza Ford (Campbell) Donaldson. He was educated in the public schools of the place of his birth, and graduated with honor. At the age of twenty he went to Pittsburg and secured a position with a coal company, being connected with the transportation department. He came to Jeft'ersonville January i, 1904. as the representative of the People's Coal Company, one of the largest concerns of the kind in Pittsburg. He has charge of what is known as the coal fleet, composed of a large number of great barges, on which cnal is conveyed from Pittsburg into the Jeffersonville district. At the last named point the cargo of these barges is held for distribution to the dealers of the Falls cities. They have an average capacity of about eighteen car loads.

Mr. Donaldson is in close touch with the business community of Jeffersonville, and is regarded as a man of ability beyond his vears. He takes a deep interest in both the business and social affairs of Jeffersonville, and has the happy faculty of making friends very readily, which largely accounts for his great popularity. He is a member of the Elks lodge. He lives in a commodious brick residence overlooking the Ohio river.

William A. Davis

Bereft of a father, who sacrificed his life in the service of his country in the Civil war, Mr. Davis, when he had barely entered his teens, practically began the struggle of life, being compelled to contribute to the support of his widowed mother, and the three other children, younger than himself. Working hard by day he attended school at night, pursuing a course in bookkeeping, paying his tuition from his pitifully small earnings. He was ambitious to rise from the depths, and this spurred him on to his best efforts. Despite the handicap of poverty and its attendant hardships and privations, he pushed bravely on, and the end of his course of study found him as weill ec^uipped from an educational standpoint as the average lad of that day.

Eleventh Cavaliy. Seventy-seventh Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, commissioned by Goxernor Alorton. In 1863, while in the service he died of typhoid fever, leaving a wife and four children, three boys and a girl. Since attaining his majoritv the subject has been an active worker in the interest of the Democratic party, and that political organization has honored him with several offices. He is at the present time vice-chairman of the County Central Committee. He was a member of the Jeffersnnville City Council for four years, representing the Fifth ward, and after that he served as trustee of Jeffersonville township. In the year of 1892 he was nominated for Sherifif of Clark county by the Democrats, and elected the following fall by over six hundred plurality. An event followed his induction into office which demonstrated beyond all question that he was a courageous official, with a determination to earn,- out the obligations of his oath, and enforce the statutes of Indiana without fear or favor. The information came to him that a prize fight, arranged by New Albany men, was to occur on the county line, and accompanied bv Captain Cisco, then Chief of Police, he went to the place where the fight was to take place. This was on August 29, 1893, and when the two officers reached their destination they found a gathering of about eight hundred men, who declared that they would not permit of any official interference with the principals. Although they were surrounded by a threatening mob, some of whom were desperadoes, many of them under the influence of liquor, the officers showed not the slightest fear. They were the objects of curses and threats, but with revolvers in their hands they stood their ground, and when the members of the crowd saw that they were determined to uphold the law at any cost they changed their methods and held out inducements in the shape of bribes. These offers not having the desired effect they again resorted to abuse and threats, but finally the determined attitude of Sheriff Davis and his companion caused them to depart. ^Ir. Davis was also largely instrumental in ferreting out the slayers of Stephen Gier. and received much praise for his work on that celebrated murder case. After his term as Sheriff had e.vpired ]\I''. Davis was named as the president of the Jeffersonville school board, serving in that capacity for nine ytars.

^^'hat is known as the Spring Hill school stands as a monument to the efforts of Air. Davis. It was through his urgency and persistency mainly that this school was built. It is a modern structure, and considered one of the finest educational institutions in the southern part of the state.

In 1889 William Davis and Florence Dunn were united in marriage. Mrs. Davis was the daughter of Jonathan Dunn, of Utica township. Four children were bom to them, two girls and two boys, namely: Alta, Lucy, Elmer and Edmund. The subject is a member and trustee of the First Christian church, and belongs to the Elks, Knights of Pythias, and the Modern Woodmen of America. At the present time he is engaged in the business of a contracting painter. When in the City Council he was always to be found on the side of any enterprise that had for its object the benefit of the interests of the people whom he represented. It was while he was in this body that the water works was built, and the electric light plant installed.

Tohx C. Leppert

An adept at the trade that his father followed before him. John C. Leppert has, despite the sharp competition in his particular line in Jeffersonville, built up a patronage that brings in no mean financial returns, and it may be truthfully said of him that he is on the high road to prosperity. Mr. Leppert is a quiet, unassuming man of frugal habits, with a great love and devotion for his home and family. Although not a native of Jeffersonville, he has been engaged in the barber business in this city for a number of years. His establishment is modern in ever}' respect, and this fact in connection with the surety of first class workmanship has been the means of insuring to him a liberal patronage from the best class of citizens.

^Ir. Leppert first saw the light in Perry county, Indiana. October 31, 1865. His parents were John and Maria (Gartner) Leppert. and both of them were natives of Germany. When John C. was but nine years of age his parents removed from Perry county to Louisville, Kentucky, where his father engaged in the business of a barber. Very early in life the son went to work in the shop, and before he had reached his majority was complete master of the trade. On October 13. 1891, he married Clara L. Yester, of Claysburg. The father of Mrs. Leppert was born in Baden, Germany, in 1840, and came to this country in 1852, settling in Xew Albany, Indiana. Ten years later he married \\'ilhelmina Oehms, and they removed to Claysburg. There were born to them nine children, as follows : Mrs. Anna Morgan, William Yester, JNIrs. Emma Bellis, ^Irs. Minnie Robbins, George Yester, Mrs. Olive Whitlow, ]\Irs. Augusta Carr, Charles Yester, and Mrs. John C. Leppert.

Mr. Leppert is looked upon as a fixture in Jeffersonville, his shop being one of the oldest in the city and situated in the very heart of the business district. Being within easy access of their establishments it is patronized very liberally by men engaged in mercantile pursuits. Mr. and Mrs. Leppert and two sons, Carl and Clarence, live at the modest, but pretty residence of his father-in-law, Mr. Yester, in Claysburg, which is a suburb of Jeffersonville. He is a member of but one secret order, Myrtle Lodge, No. 9, Knights of Pythias. Mr. Leppert does not take part in affairs of a political nature, but is public-spirited and has the best interests of Jeffersonville at heart.

James Marra

\\'itli a reputation for fair dealing in all of his business transactions James Marra naturally occupies a high place in the mercantile circles of Jeffersonville, and the history of his career is illustrative of the fact that an honorable life is not without its reward. Behind these attributes coupled with a keen knowledge of human nature, and the ability to read it in all its varied forms and phases, lies the secret of his succcess. Few men have applied mor^ closely to their business the injunctions of the Golden Rule, and that their application thereto has been a source of benefit to Mr. Marra is shown by the liberal patronage that is accored him. He began the business of a grocer in an unostentatious manner, and from a small store it has developed into one of the largest establishments of the kind in the city, counting among its patrons some of the best people in Jeffersonville.

James Marra, the son of Michael and Mary B. Marra, was born in Jeffersonville, Indiana, in 1875. His parents were both natives of Tipperary, Ireland. He spent his boyhood in the public schools of Jeffersonville, and after completing his education secured employment in a grocery, where he clerked for nine years, mastering every detail of the business. Being of a frugal disposition he saved his money, and in 1896 opened a store for himself at Watts and Crut avenue. His patronage grew beyound his fondest hopes, and he was soon able to greatly increase his stock. He kept in close touch with the market, and regulated his prices accordingly. He is a careful buyer, and refuses to handle any but first class goods, hence at the end of a dozen years as a purveyor to the wants of the public he finds himself on the high wave of prosperity with bright promises for the future.

Mr. Marra is a devout Catholic, and interests himself greatly in the affairs of the church, being one of the trustees of St. Augtistine, and is a member of the Jeffersonville Council of the Knights of Columbus. He is an unmarried man.

Clark county boasts of no finer family than the Stalkers, who have been identified with its interests for over thirty-five years. George Stalker, the emigrant ancestor, came from Scotland as far back as the middle of the eighteenth centun,^ and settled in North Carolina, when that state was still a colony of Great Britain. He left a son named Eli, who removed from the old North state and became a pioneer of Southern Indiana Territory about 1808. He first located in Clark county, but two years later went to Washington county, where he entered government land. He married Parthenia, daughter of Simon and Elizabeth Carress, reared a family while going through the hardships incident to life in the wilderness and in the course of nature was gathered to his fathers at a ripe old age. His son. Benjamin F. Stalker, was born on the farm near Salem, \\'ashington county, Indiana, December 16, 1845. His experience was that of all boys whose lot was cast in the agricultural regions of the \\'est during the pioneer period. Hard work on the farm as long as daylight lasted in the summer and fall, endless chores around the house and barn evenings and mornings, with brief terms of school attendance in winter, when the weather was bad - such was the e.xperience of millions of western boys, including the one who was destined in later life to become Doctor Stalker. He had entered his seventeenth year in 1863, and being full of patriotic ardor, determined to join the great army at the front that was fighting the battle of freedom. His first enlistment was with the One Hundred Seventeenth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and the second in the Fifth Indiana Cavalry. He saw service during the fall and winter campaigns in Tennessee during the years of 1863-4 and participated in the sharp engagements at Bean Station, \Valker's Ford, Strawberry Plains, and other conflicts that occurred between the contending forces for supremacy in East Tennessee. After the war he attended school at Salem, under Professor James G. May. and the high school at Bedford, of which his brother, John M. Stalker, was a professor. After teaching school for five years he entered the medical department of the Louisville University in 1871, and two years later obtained his degree. Doctor Stalker, armed with his "sheep skin" and full of hope and ambition determined to try his fortunes in the promising town of Borden and during the summer of 1873 hung out his shingle at that place. He prospered from the beginning and soon became one of the prominent men of his community. From 1900 to 1904 he ser\-ed as Trustee of the township and in the latter year was a candidate for the Legislature on the Republican ticket, but was defeated. Doctor Stalker is a member of the New Providence Lodge, 237, Free and Accepted Masons, and his religious affiliations are with the Baptist church. He is one of the best known and most popular of the county's physicians.

On December 25. 1872. he married Frances C. Xorris. daughter of Thomas B. and Hannah (Peoples) Norris. The former was for many years a prosperous farmer near Salem, and long held the office of Justice of the Peace. He was of an old pioneer family in that locality. To the doctor and wife these children have been born: the oldest daughter. Isadene. died in 1907: the others are James B.. Charles H. and John 'M., all members of the medical profession. James Bodine Stalker graduated in the medical department of the University of Louisville : Charles Homer and John ]\Iorton Stalker both graduated from the Hospital j\Iedical College at Louisville. Dr. J. B. and Dr. Charles H. are practicing with their father at Borden,

Indiana, and in the surrounding countiy, while John M. is engaged in practice at the Pope Sanitorium in Louisville. All these are young men of good professional attainments and of the highest character as citizens.

Lewis E. Richards

Among the younger generation in Indiana educational circles few give brighter promise of future usefulness than the modest and studious Professor Richards, who is descended from a remarkably virile ancestry, whose line is seldom ecjualled for longevity, strength of constitution and vigor to meet all the duties of life. His grandfather was Henry Richards, a pioneer "circuit riding" Baptist preacher, widely known in Southern Indiana and Northern Kentucky, as Elder Richards. He left eight sons and a daughter, all of whom are still living, the youngest being sixty-five, and the oldest ninetyfive years of age, which is a circumstance perhaps unparalleled in any family of equal numbers. Three of these brothers served as oldiers during the Civil war and came through the ordeal entirely unscathed. Isaac Richards, the youngest of this interesting family, married Rebecca A., daughter of Jonathan Lyons, who came from Marietta, Ohio, in 1837 and settled in Grant county, Indiana, and there carried on his trade as a miller.

Lewis E. Richards, a son by this union, was born at [Matthews, Grant county, Indiana, Alarch 9, 1874. He grew up on his father's farm, went at an early age as a student in Fairmount Academy and completed his education at DePauw University. He was graduated there in the spring of 1902 and in the fall of the same year he took charge of the science department in Fairmount Academy. During the summer he had done post-graduate work at the university and when he finished was well e(|uipped for his future educational career. He remained at Fainnount until ]\Iarch, 1904, when he resigned to take charge as professor of chemistry and physics in the high school at Jeffersonville. He has since retained this position and given entire satisfaction to his class, his patrons and the higher officials of the city's educational department.

On December 24, 1904. Professor Richards was married to Rose May, daughter of Rev. Henry and Caroline Watson. Mrs. Richard's father was long a Methodist minister, serving at various places, according to the itinerant system of that denomination and was well known in Northern Indiana. At the time of his death, in 1889, he was pastor in charge of the Methodist Episcopal church at Wabash, Indiana. The maiden name of his wife was Caroline Crow, and she was connected with one of the old time families who took part in rescuing Indiana from the primeval wilderness. Mr. and Mrs.

Richards have three chikh-en, Blyth \\'.. Celestine Hope and Lduverne Caroline. The family are members of the Wall Street jNIethodist church, are quite popular in their social circles and are welcome guests at the houses of the best people in the city. Personally Professor Richards easily makes friends, either professionally or socially. Studious by nature he is very fond of his books, especially those having a bearing on the department of education in which he is engaged. He has all the cjualifications of a natural Ijorn educator and an ambition for success in tlie educational world, which his friends predict is sure to follow his studious haliits and steady ajjplicaticn to his duties.

The name of ]\IcKinley has of late years assumed something of a historic significance in this land of ours for it is linked in the public memory with the remembrance of a martyred President. It is but titting that this should be so. And yet the family name and traditions go back beyond that towering figure of recent years, across the Atlantic and across the centuries, to find an ancestor of distinction and merit. The first to emerge out of the twilight of tradition with a definite record is the figure of a Scotch Covenanter, who, when the vicissitudes of the times made it necessary for him, went from his native land across to Ireland ; thence in after years to the United States. Two of his sons, David and James IMcKinley, settled in .Shelby county. Kentucky, and came in after years to the spot in Clark county, Indiana, where Borden now stands. David shortly after went northward to South Bend, and thence to Canton, Ohio, while James remained and made Wood township his future home. David McKinlev, as mav be surmised, was the g-reat-o-randfather of President ]\IcKinley. James ]\IcKinley reared six sons : James, John, Thomas, ^^'iIliam, Jeremiah and Alexander. The first named son, James, was the father of the subject of our sketch. James married Jincy Packwood, a native of Virginia, the daughter of Samuel Packwood. Samuel McKinley had eleven children, of whom nine are yet living. They are : Edward, Fred, Charles, and Albert ]\IcKinley, and ^Irs. Kate Minton. IMrs. Blanch Bell, Mrs. Lillie Bere, Mrs. Nettie Byerly, and Julia McKinley, all living in Borden with the exception of the three married sisters. Mrs. Kate Minton lives in Georgetown, Floyd county: Mrs. Blanche Bell lives in Jeffersonville, and the other married sisters in Louis\-ille.

Samuel McKinley was born in Borden in 1836 and still resides at the family homestead. The tanyard, where he worked at his trade as a tanner, was first the property of his father. At a later period it belonged to an elder brother, and in 1866 our subject bought it and conducted a steady business there until 1907, when ill health caused him to retire from the tanning business. Though advanced in years he is still active and deals very profitably in hides and furs. He is a prominent member of the Christian church and a man of importance in local affairs.

Samuel AIcKinley married Louise Scheicher. who was born of French parentage in Louisiana. Her father was Louis Scheicher, a nati\e of the old province of France - Alsace-l^orraine : her mother, Catherine Scheicher, was also born in France.

On June 9, 1870, a son. Albert, was lx)rn to Samuel [McKinley and wife. He is the popular postmaster of Borden. Albert McKinley was educated at the public schools and at Borden College and had a good college record. He was a precocious youth and at the age of fifteen started a small store, which developed into a large general store, which he sold at a good figure in May, 1906. At the age of twenty-one he was appointed postmaster of Borden, or New Providence, as it was then known, the appointment coming from President Harrison. He completed his term of office of four years ' in an admirable manner and was classed among those whose offices were excellently conducted. On July 2-j. 1897, he was re-a]ipointed postmaster, a position which he has held ever since. In January of the year 1896 he married Eva M. Johnson, an event which marked the commencement of a happy married life. Four children have been born to them. They are : Carl, Ray, Robert and Alary Louise.

Albert McKinley is a prominent member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In 1902 he was the Republican candidate for Representative but the county went, as it usually did. Democratic, and Albert McKinley accompanied his state ticket in the landslide. In 1904 he was elected chairman of the County Committee (Republican), and on going for\\?ard as a candidate for the Legislature he carried his own township and had the pleasure to be the first Republican on the county ticket to carry Wood township. For sixteen consecutive years ending in 1906 he has been a delegate to the state convention of his party, and has always found himself on the County Committee. During his County Chainnanship the county, usually six to eight hundretl Democratic, went Republican.

Outside of politics Albert AIcKinley is quite as popular and successful. He has two fine farms and a beautiful home in Borden. He may be safely slated as a self-made man as he has lieen making his own way and making his presence felt in the community since his life reached the fifteenth and a half year mark.

His father, Samuel McKinley, is also extensi\"ely known and respected. Since his lapse into the less strenuous life of his present occupation he spends more time in the association (jf old acquaintances, which is one of his chief delights.

Charles W. Dean

Bartholomew Dean, familiarly known to his friends as "Bart," is a native of Ireland and a good representative of the genial, rollicking sons of the famous little country beyond the sea. He is sociable, always ready for a hannless joke, and knows how to make as Well as hold friends. His parents brought him to America in 1840, when he was quite young and he had to shift for himself from an early oeriod, but always managed to "get there" in whatever he undertook. After his father's death in New York, he came West and found himself in Illinois at the opening of the Civil war. Like most of the first immigrants he was patriotic and determined to offer his life in defense of the Union. Shortly after the first call for troops he enlisted in Company H, Thirteenth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantn,-. and with his command was soon hurried to the front. He served four years, made a good soldier and after being honorably discharged came to Jeflfersonville. where he has since made his home. He married ^lar}-. daughter of Michael Halpin, who was born near Windsor. Canada.

Charles W. Dean, son of Bartholomew and Mary (Halpin) Dean, was born at Jeffersonville, in 1866. and as he grew up attended both the Catholic and public schools in his native city. After finishing his studies he learned the blacksmith's trade and worked at it until he was twenty-five years old. He then went into business for himself and has continued the same up to the present time. He is a member of the Eagles and of the St. Augustine's Catholic church. In personal appearance Mr. Dean is a tall, well built man, who looks younger than his years. His residence is in the same building where he carries on his business and as his disposition is social he has many friends. In i8go he was married to Rosa Shane, of Madison, Indiana. Her father was Alichael Shane and her mother before her marriage was Amelia Lichtenthaler. Mr. and Mrs. Dean have three children. Mar)-, Dora and Charles.

Joseph E. Haddox

When Longfellow wrote his famous poem on "The X^illage Blacksmith," which was read with delight by so many boys in the old McGuffey readers, he must have had in view men of the type of Mr. Haddox. This gentleman, long and favorablv known in and around Borden, fills the bill exactly. He has the brawney amis like those of which Longfellow wrote, the kindly disposition, and the unpretentious industn,- which was so warmly praised by the poet as characteristic of the typical blacksmith. Perhaps the oldest of all the trades, it is also one of the most useful and it is well that all should be taught to respect those who pound out their hving on the resounding anvil, to the harsh roar of the busy behows. It is pleasing to speak a good word for men of this kind, and none deserve it more than Joseph E. Haddox. whose family sprang from what is now West Virginia, in the neighborhood of Wheeling.

Many years before the Civil war Elijah and Elizabeth (Smith) Haddox joined the tide of emigration that was setting in for the West, and after journeying down the Ohio for many miles concluded to land at Jeffersonville and locate in Clark county. With them came their son, John W. Haddox. who married Paulina, daughter of Southman Dietz, who lived at Blue Lick, near Memphis, since the early days. Joseph E. Haddox, who was one of the children by this marriage, was born near Memphis, Clark county, in i860. School facilities were not of the best in those days but he managed to pick up some "book learning" during brief terms in the district school-house, mostly in winter time and then rather irregularly.

His father had been a blacksmith and accordingly he learned the trade under him and concluded to make it the business of his life. He opened a shop at New Providence in 1890 and now has the largest and best smithy at that point. He has prospered, owns his own home, is a good, ciuiet citizen, devoted to his family and daily duties and lives a happy life. He belongs to New Providence Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and the Modern Woodmen.

In 1878 Mr. Haddox and Barbara A., daughter of Christopher and Barbara A. (Frailey) Young, were married. The latter's father was Henry Frailey, one of the first settlers in Rockford, Indiana. Christopher Young was the son of Christopher C. Young, who came from Pennsylvania, settled in Ohio and later came to Clark county, arriving about 1840. Mr. and Mrs. Haddox have four children: Annetta, Ivareena, Lelia Belle and Nina Barbara. The parents belong to the Christian Advent church and are highly respected by all who know them.

Edward Arthur Ryans

Many years ago three boys played together in Ireland. They attended school at Belfast and often talked of what they would do when grown to be men. Even then their eyes were turned westward toward the great Republic, the Eldorado and land of promise of all the oppressed people of the unhappy Emerald Isle. The names of these boys were Alexander Stuart, John Shillito and Lewis Ryans. They came over together in the same ship and the very mention of the first two recalls the two most celebrated merchant princes this county ever produced. Stuart established himself in the dry goods trade in New York, accumulated an immense fortune, and became world famous. Shillito was but little less successful in Cincinnati, where his name was long a household word. The third boy did not get so rich or famous, but he proved himself a man of talent with a decided aptitude in business lines. Lewis Ryans found his way to Indiana and became a contracting painter on a large scale at Jeffersonville. He manufactured his own paints and did work all over the Central West. He also had considerable talent as an artist and used to paint boats by contract at the ship yards. For a while he was in the wholesale paint business at Louisville, in a partnership under the firm name of Johnson & Ryans. He married Clara Bell Swoke, a native of Vienna. Scott county, Indiana, by whom he had the following children: John B., now employed as foreman painter for his uncle, John Ryans, a contracting painter in Louisville, was elected City Alderman in 1898: Charles L., a resident of Covington, Kentucky, is baggage master on the Baltimore & Southwestern Railroad and well known as a writer of several popular songs; Ada, the oldest daughter, is still under the parental roof; Emma, a young daughter, is assistant librarian at the Carnegie Librarv in Jeffersonville.''

Edward Arthur Ryans, the other son, was born at Jeffersonville, September 8. 1874, and received the usual education in the city schools Shortly after laying down his books he entered the employment of the Adams Express Company, with which he remained only a short while, but long enough to master the details of the business. In 1902 he was placed in charge of the Jeffersonville office of the United States Express Company and has remained with this corporation ever since.

Mr. Ryans was married June 21, 1900, to ]\Iabel, daughter of Henry and Mary Elizabeth (W'acker) Helt. The former was descended from one of the prominent pioneers of Harrison county and the latter's father was a well known Methodist minister. Mr. Ryans is a member of the Jeffersonville Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons and of the Maccabees. He is a young man of popularity and promise, being ambitious, sociable and industrious. The Ryans family, of which he is an honored member, has long been prominent in the business and social circles of the Falls cities and have contributed their full share to the development of the community in their various callings.

James J. Kendall

Sergeant James J. Kendall, interurban line ticket agent at Jeft'ersonville, Clark county, now in his sixty-sixth year, is a man who by his steadiness, reliability and attention, achieved success and distinction during his services in the local police force. In his present sphere, since his retirement from active police work, he has been none the less popular and successful. He was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, on the 28th of July, 1842, and was the son of Thomas Kendall and his wife, whose maiden name was Isabelle Campbell. Both Thomas Kendall and his wife came of respectable families living in Ohio. When James J. had arrived at the age of twelve years his parents moved to near Charlestown, Clark county, and afterwards located permanently on Silver creek, in Monroe township. James J. remained on the farm until about thirty years of age. About the year 1865 he married Margaret E. St. Clair, who came from Washington, Pennsylvania, and whose father was Jesse St. Clair.

James J. Kendall moved to Jeffersonville about the year 1872 and there he followed the carpenter trade for several years. He then became connected with the police force and was for about ten years a sergeant. On his retirement, on December i, 1907, he was appointed ticket agent for the Interurban lines at Jeffersonville, a position which he still holds.

Sergeant James J. Kendall and his wife have led a happy and peaceable married life, clouded only by the demise of three out of the four children born to them, three daughters having died before reaching the age of maturity. Their son, James Thomas Kendall, is now married. He has one son, Lee, who is the pride of both parents and grandparents. James T. Kendall's family live in Jeffersonville though he is, himself, engaged in the painting trade in Louisville, Kentucky.

Sergeant James J. Kendall is well known in ]\Iasonic circles. He is a member of the Jefifersonville Lodge, No. 340, Free and Accepted IMasons. As a citizen of Jeffersonville he has attained an enviable standing, being popular and respected by all the people, young and old. irrespective of creed or class. This, no doubt, has been due to his cheerful and kindly nature and the pains he has ever taken to guard and direct the rights of his friends and neighbors. As a sergeant of police he did much to uphold and maintain the dignity of the local force ; and as a public sen-ant, constancy and faithfulness to duty have been his twin virtues. He is yet hale and hearty and it is the heartfelt wish of the vast majority of his fellow citizens that he may be spared to public life for many years to come.

Mitchell Peter Smith

Our subject, who is part proprietor of the Eagle Laundiy, Jeffersonville, Clark county, is a man of large and extensive acquaintance, not alone in his township and county, but at the different points along the river touched upon during his career as a pilot, and in the northern part of Kentucky, where members of the Smith family have been known for many generations.

Mitchell Peter Smith was born in L'tica. Clark county, in 1874, the son of George Dallas Smith and Alary Esther Howes, his wife. Both parents were born in Jefferson county, Kentucky. Mrs. Smith was the daughter of Mitchell P. Howes, who, (hiring his lifetime, owned the well known L'tica Limestone quarries from the kilns of which the famous Utica lime is manufactured. ^Mitchell Howes was a man widely known in his section of the county and was the possessor of a large fruit farm in addition to his limestone interests.

George Dallas Smith was the son of Peter Smith, proprietor of large milling interests in Kentucky. One of his mills was located just above where the Gait House now stands in Louisville, tie Iiad another at Harrod's creek, and one at L'tica. He used to consign and ship flour b_\' flat-liottom boats to New Orleans. It was his custom to perst:)nally superintend the shipping of his produce and he imce suffered the experience of being blown into the river (jn tiie explosion of an old steamboat boiler.

George D. Smith and his father, Peter Smith, were, as we have before stated, widely known in Kentucky. Both were strong men in every sense of the world, of dominant will power and stern self-control. Previous to the Civil war they were also slave owners: Peter Smith having at one time had a thousand slaves. The Smiths, though men of large responsibility, were of a disposition kind and warm-hearted ; and many stories of their generous traits are not yet forgotten.

Alitchell P. Smith was brought by his parents to Fort Fulton about 1878. Here his father, who kept a toll-gate, from that time until 1906, became widely known all through the county. Mitchell P. received an education suitable to meet the requirements of our day. He attended tlie public schools of Jefferson and of Port Fulton and also at the Xew Albany Business College. He then went on the river and learned the pilot's profession in all its phases. He piloted tow boats from Madison, Indiana, to Xew Orleans. His career on the river extended over many years and, as may be imagined, was not without many events and incidents of an exciting nature.

On November 6, 1908, Alitchell P. Smith and Dale Talkington started a laundry on East Chestnut street, Jeff'ersonville. It is equipped with the most up-to-date appliances to do laundry work of all kinds. It is known as the "Eagle Laundr}%" and has been a success both in the volume of its business and the quality of the work turned out. It is located on the old site of what is probably the only whetstone factory in the Lnited States ; the factory itself having been moved to Ohio.

Alitchell P. Smith is but thirty-four years old and is as yet unmarried. He has been industrious and active and as a pilot was well liked and respected. The tow boats which he piloted used to tow from six hundred thousand to one million bushels of coal at one trip on the river. He still lives

Theodore S. Long

Undoubtedly one of the best known restaurant proprietors in Clark county is Theodore S. Long, of Jeffersonville, the excellence of whose table has been voiced by many a bonvivant of the vicinity. Li his present sphere he has studied all phases of the catering business in a desire to bring it to a high state of perfection. A man of varied experience, he brings to his present undertaking all the enthusiasm of former business conquests. He engaged for an extended period in the saw-mill industry and is conversant with its eveiy detail. Previous to his engaging in his present occupation, ten years spent in the huckster trade gave him a readiness and a facility in meeting exacting business conditions which has been of the utmost importance to him. Mr. Long comes of good stock and inherits many of the dominant characteristics of his family. On the mother's side he is a descendant of the McCormicks, whose exploits in the pioneer days are well known in this section of the state. Charles McCormick, one of the prominent members of the family and an early settler, was grandfather of Theodore S. Further data of interest regarding the ^IcCormick ancestn- may be found by turning to another portion of this volume.

Theodore S. Long was born near Charlestown. Clark county, in October. 1855. He was the son of Benjamin F. Long and wife, whose maiden name was Jemima McCormick. Benjamin F. was born on the same farm as was his son and lived there practically all his life. His wife was likewise a native of the county and was born on the adjoining ^McCormick farmstead. Charles McCormick, the grandfather above referred to, was also born in the neighborhood. That family originally came from \\'est Virginia some time in the earliest part of the last century and became important factors in the winning and progress of Indiana.

Theodore S. Long remained on the home place until liis twent}--first year, his education having been received in the neighboring public schools. From the year 1879 till 1892 he engaged in the saw-mill business, owning and operating his plant himself. The period with the exception of two years in Western Kentucky and two years in Arkansas was spent in Clark county. Returning to Charlestown in 1892 he ran a huckster wagon for ten years. In 1905 he moved to Jeffersonville and bought a restaurant on Spring street in the heart of the business district of that thriving community. His huckstering experiences enabled him to buy wisely and of the best quality and consequently give good value to his patrons.

In November of the year 1879 ^Ir. Long married ]\Iattie Hickman, daughter of Benjamin and JuHa (Eastes) Hickman. Both parents were natives of Kentuck}-. tliough Mrs. Long herself was born in Lidianapolis. Four daugiiters have been born to them, viz : Frankie, Nina, Juha and Clara. The Long family live a happy home life arid all its members belong to the Wall Street Methodist Episcopal church. Theodore S. Long is now in his fiftyfourth year and has yet the promise of a long life before him. He is a cjuiet and unassuming man and though his father, Benjamin F. Long, was at one time a County Commissioner of Clark county, his own ambitions ha^-e never verged towards political preferment.

Charles Robert Rigsby

Young, energetic and ambitious, with an unlimited capacity iov work, and with a determination to perform any task he may undertake in a thorough manner, Charles R. Rigsby advanced rapidly in his chosen avocation. Since he began carving his own way in the world he has neglected no opportunity to better his condition, and his efforts have not been without results. He is known in railroad and business circles as a rising young man. Owing to the active interest that he takes in the affairs of the several secret organizations, of which he is a member, he has a very extensive acquaintance among men in various walks of life, and his social disposition has made him scores of warm friends.

Charles Robert Rigsby is the son of Thomas D. and Lida (Latta) Rigsby, and was bom in Jefferson county, June 8, 1880. He was about five years of age when his parents moved to Jeffersonville, and shortly thereafter began his education in the public schools of this city, also receiving instructions in connection therewith by private tutors. After completing his regular school term he attended business college at New Albany, thereby procuring a good commercial education. He studied shorthand, and became an expert stenographer, securing employment in the offices of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad at Louisville. Later he became a bookkeeper and then took up the vocation of a traveling salesman. He is at ^he present time serving in the capacity of cashier.

Mr. Rigsby was married to Daisy Catherine Davis, February 26, 1902. She was the daughter of Jacob' Truman Davis and wife, of Jeffersonville. The maiden name of Mrs. Davis was Sarah Catherine Earhart. INIr. and Mrs. Rigsby have one son, Kenneth Hardin Rigsby.

T. A. He is the popular past chancellor ut the first named, and also past grand representative. He was named as a member of the building committee, which has in charge the erection of the new Pythian hall and armory in Jeff ersonvi lie. He and his wife are members of the Methodist church at Port Fulton.

'Mr. Rigsby is public-spirited and of a charitable disposition, as many unfortunates in Jefifersonville can testify. Plis home life is all that cnuld be desired.

Railroad companies entrust the control of their engines only to men of nerve and intrepidity on whom they have a well founded reason for the confidence imposed. Such a man is Francis Eugene Payne. Jr., who began when about twenty years of age as fireman on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and wIki, some eight years after, was promoted to the position of engineer which he held until he relinquished the same in February, 1908. He now resides with his wife and family in Jetf'ersonville, his native town, where his domestic life is serene and ideal.

Air. Payne was born in 1875, and was the son of Francis Eugene Payne, Sr., and his wife, whose maiden :iame was Kate R. Lewis. Both were born in Clark county about the middle of the past century. ]\Irs. Payne was the daughter of Felix R. Lewis, whose father. Major Lewis, had charge of the land ofifice under President Jackson. The Lewis family were originally from Ohio. Our subject's father was the son of Francis Marion Payne, whose father, William Payne, came from Virginia to JefYersonville, Clark county, Indiana, in the early part of the nineteenth century. Francis Eugene Payne, Sr., was a soldier in the Civil war, serving in the One Hundred Ninety-first Ohio Volunteers. His father, Francis ]\Iariou Payne, was one of the pioneer steamboat engineers on the Ohio river. Our subject's father also followed that occupation.

Francis Eugene Payne. Jr., grew up in Jeffersonville and attended the public schools there. He began active business life as a clerk in a Louisville wholesale drug store and later in a retail drug store owned by Doctor Fields in Jefifersonville. When about twenty years of age railroad life seemed alluring to him and he became a fireman on the Pennsylvania line, promotion coming to him in March, 1903, as we have already stated. December 21, 1898. was the occasion of his marriage to Edith L. Smith, daughter of George and Kate (Jordan) Smith. The Smiths moved to Jeffersonville when Mrs. Payne was but ten years old. Four children have been born to Mrs. Payne and her husband. Tliey were named consecutively : Catherine, Perry, Francis E. and Lewis Gordon. Mrs. Payne is an accomplished lady of domestic tastes who is constantly occupied with the affairs of her household and her four children. She is, however, a pianist of more than average ability and plays with something of the brilliancy and technique of the skilled artist. She is also the possessor of a cultivated voice which is the delight of her friends. yir. Payne is well known as a Mason and is a member of the Clark Lodge, No. 40, Free and Accepted Masons. He is also a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and numbers a majority of the citizens of his native town among his friends.

Henry J. Volmer

Henry J. Volmer, of Jeffersonville, Clark county, is one of the younger generation of business men, the product of our modern educational system - equipped in every way to grapple with the conditions of the present day - who of later years have been steadily obtaining a firm foothold in the business life of our towns and cities. Coming as he does of sturdy German ancestry, with racial and inherent talents developed and sharpened by a suitable course of study, he has made the most of his advantages, and so stands today well to the forefront in the business life of the community. He has shown himself already to be a citizen with a high conception of conduct : and, as freight agent for the large interurban traction interests he has proven exceptionally obliging and courteous.

Mr. Volmer was bom in Evansville, Lidiana, on the i6th of February, 1884, and was the son of Henry F. Volmer and his wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Blaser. Henry F. Volmer came from Evansville while his wife hailed from Springfield, Illinois, and both were of German extraction. Henry J. Volmer attended the public schools of Evansville and of Jeffersonville and passed through the Bryant and Stratton Business College in Louisville. In April, 1896, when in his twelfth year, his family moved to Jeffersonville. Here Henry F. Volmer, who was a printer, held a position for many years on the Jeffersonville Journal.

At the close of his business college course Henry J. Volmer entered the employ of Louis Zapp & Company, of Louisville, as bookkeeper, where he remained four and a half years. He then became tax clerk with the Allen- Bradley Distillery Company, a position of considerable responsibility. His early business experience was further supplemented in such large concerns as the Belknap Hardware & Manufacturing Company and the American Car & Foundn,' Company.

On June i. 1906, Mr. Volmer became freight agent for the Louisville & Northern Railway and Lighting Company and the Louisville & Southern Indiana Traction companies, and also the Indianapolis & Louisville Traction Company. He was the first to hold this position in Jeffersonville. \\'hen he took hold there was but one traction line in operation in Jeffersonville, namely: the Louisville & Southern Indiana, the freight business of which was operated as an express company. A year later the Louisville & Northern entered the field. They were followed by the Indianapolis & Louisville. Mr. Volmer accordingly became freight agent for all three of them with headquarters for all combined and. as the express feature was not allowed by their charters, it was eliminated and the regular freight business carried on.

Henry J. Volmer is unmarried and lives in the family residence with his parents. In religion he is a member of the local Presbyterian church. He has always evinced much interest in fraternal affairs and is foremost in many societies. He is a member of the Jeffersonville Lodge, No. 340, Free and Accepted Masons; of the Hope Lodge, No. 13. Knights of Pythias; of the Knights and Ladies of Honor. Mystic Tie. No. 7. and of the Apollo Athletic Association, of which he is a charter member. In the Knights and Ladies of Honor he is now ending his second tenn as presiding oilficer. In October, 1908, he was one of their representatives at the Grand Lodge celebration in Indianapolis.

The family of this name, long well known in Clark county, came from a sturdy ancestry of Kentuckians and Ohioians. James H. Lemmon. who was a native of Frankfort, Kentucky, located in Jeffersonville about 1859. When the Civil war broke out he enlisted in the Twenty-first Indiana Artillery, with which he served two years and nine months. Being attacked by typhoid fever he was removed to a hospital in \\'ashington City and after his recovery was mustered out of service. Returning to Jeffersonville he learned the bricklayer's trade, at which he worked most of the time during the remainder of his life. That he was a man of some prominence and popularity is known by the fact that he served from 1871 to 1875 as City Marshal. On November 26, 1867, he was married to Georgiana Lewis, in the Wall Street Methodist church at Jeffersonville. She was the daughter of Felix R. and Patience (\^^ood) Robinson Lewis, the latter a native of St. Clairsville, Ohio. Feli.x Lewis became prominent as a farmer and in later life resided at Jeffersonville. His father, Myron William Lewis, was a veteran of the War of 181 2. and is buried in the old graveyard on ^Mulberry street, in Jeffer.sonville. His wife's maiden name was Sarah Antrim. James H. and Georgiana (Lewis)

Lemmon had three children: W'aUer L.. James Harry and Elizabeth W. Elizabeth is now the wife of L. S. Wilbur: James H.. ommonly called Harry, is superintendent of J. B. Speed & Company's cement mills at r^lilltown, Indiana. He married Virginia Trotter, of Crawford county, and they have one son, Nicholas R.

Walter Lewis Lemmon, eldest of the family, was born at Jeffersonville, Lidiana, May 29, 1871. He grew up and attended the public schools of his native town and his first job of work was on ihe folding machine in the mailing rooms of the Louisville Post. Subsequently he obtained a position in the press room of the Louisville Courier Journal. About 1889 he became a fireman on the Pennsyh'ania Railroad and retained this place for some seven years, changing in January, 1896, to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Li 1900 he was promoted to the position of engineer and has a run on the branch line between JeiTersonville and Watson. He is a good workman and has the confidence of his employers, as his long continued service with the same company amply proves.

On September 26, 1894, Mr. Lemmon married Mamie E.. daughter of Fred and Anna B. (Pfeffer) Graham, both of Kentucky. Mrs. Lemmon is a native of Louisville. They have two children, George Henry and Anna Eugenia. ^Ir. Lemmon belongs to Jackson Lodge, No. 146, Free and Accepted ^lasons, of Seymour, and Division, No. 39, Brotherlnxjd of Locomotive Engineers. He has a happy home circle and derives his chief pleasure from their company, his run being so arranged as to enable him to spend his nights at home.

Jonas David Bigelow

In the older days the Bigelows were one of the substantial and well known families of New England. As in the case of many other families of that section they sent representatives to the West when the tide of emigration was settling in that section and in time the name became identified with states in the central Ohio valley. Jonas Dexter Bigelow. when a young man. decided to leave his home in Boston and seek fortune in the growing state of Indiana. He settled in Lafayette, married Sarah Smith, who was born in Ohio, but reared in the vicinity of Logansport, and engaged in business, but died early in the year 1854, before he had reached middle age. After his death his wife gave birth to a child, who was christened Jonas David Bigelow and who was born at Lafayette. Indiana, November 16, 1854. His mother remarried and brought him to Jefifersonville, during his boyhood. After leaving school he obtained a position at the car works, but after working there for a few years entered the sendee of the Pennsylvania Railroad

Company as a fireman. Later as the result of industry and attention to duty he was promoted to the other side of the cab and made an e.xcehent record as a reliable engineer. Mr. Bigelow \vas an attentive reader of the press, and fond of good literature, with the result that his friends always found him well posted on current events and able to talk intelligently on many subjects. He held the honorable position of treasurer in the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and enjoyed high standing among his brethren of the railway world. He also held membership in the Knights of Pythias and the Knights and Ladies of Security. Religious in his opinions, correct and moral in his liabits, he was a devout mem1>er of the Presbyterian church. Fond of his home and much attached to his wife and children he was never so happy as when with his family and to them he gave all of his spare time.

On April 12, 1883, Mr. Bigelow married Elizabeth Jane Holden, a most excellent woman of a highly respectable family. She was the daughter of Thomas and Henrietta (Sherman) Holden, the latter a cousin of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, her birthplace being Coohille. Athens county, Ohio. Thomas Holden was a native of Baltimore, Maryland, but came to Ohio about 185 1. In 1856 he brought his family to Louisville, Kentucky, and soon after removed to Jeffersonville. He obtained employment in the river part of the town and was working there when the call to arms was sounded in the fateful spring of 1861. At this time he was serving as mate on a boat which took part in the operations that led to the capture of Island No. 10, during which he had a taste of fighting on the Mississippi river. In 1864 he enlisted as a private in Company B, One Hundred and Forty-fourth Indiana \''olunteer Infantry, with which he went to the front and served until the close of the war. A shoemaker by trade he had laid up a competence sufficient to provide for his family during his absence. In fact it was love for his family and desire that they would be above want that prevented him from entering the service at an earlier date. For sixteen years after the war he held a position at the government depot in Jefifersonville and was highly esteemed b}' his employers and those with whom he served. His daughter, Elizabeth, who afterward married Mr. Bigelow, was born on a farm in Ohio previous to the coming of her parents to Jeffersonville. By her marriage she became the mother of five children, in whom she took great pride, the chief desire of her life being to give them a good education. They proved unusually quick to learn and have fulfilled all expectations by the success with which they have met. Ella Jane, the eldest, is teaching in the Jeffersonville high school : Julia Alice, after studying physical culture and gymnastics at the Normal school of the North American Gymnastic Union in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, obtained a position at Menominee, Wisconsin, where she is now teaching these branches in the Stout Training School ; Adeline is a graduate from the Jefifersonville high school, and Jonas David and Marguerite are pupils in the

Jeffersonville public schools. Mr. Bigelow died February 6, 1904, since which time his widow has looked after the children and her property interests in a way to show that she is not only a good mother, but a good business woman. She owns several pieces of real estate and is highh' regarded by all who come in contact with her in a social way.

Louis Saunders

The founder of the Saunders family was an Irishman who came from Dublin early in the nineteenth certury and lived to the phenomenal age of one hundred and fourteen years. He left a son who lived to complete his ninety-eighth year and in turn this octogenarian had a son who almost equalled his father's age. Thus it will be seen that the family is remarkably longlived. The last mentioned was Charles Saunders, who established himself in the county in Kentucky of which Lexington is the county seat, and grew wealthy as a farmer and stock raiser. He married Zelphy Duncan, reared a family of robust children and passed to his reward in 1908. at the advanced age of eighty-seven years. Louis Saunders, the well known and popular hotel-keeper of Jeffersonville. was one of the children of this venerated Kentucky farmer and keeps up the reputation of the family for industry, geniality of temperament and faculty for getting along in the world. He was born at Lexington, Kentucky, July 31, 1859, and grew up on a farm in Jessamine county, Kentucky. Schools were poor in those days and Mr. Saunders had but limited opportunities for securing an education. It cost seven dollars a month and the chances for attendance seldom reached beyond three months of the year. There were academies in the county seats, but few of the countr}' boys could take advantage of them, owing to expense and distance from their homes. \Mien twenty-one years old Mr. Saunders went to Lexington and worked a year in the business of stair building. Not finding this ven,'- remunerative he established a saloon in Lexington and continued in this business for eight years.

In 1889 he disposed of his plant and went to Cincinnati, v.-here he opened a saloon and restaurant and conducted them with fair success for six years. In September, 1895, he removed to Jeffersonville, where he was employed with the Prudential Life Insurance Company for nine months and then embarked in the installment plan furniture business, which occupied his attention for eight years. Rather accidentally he opened the Cottage Hotel in 1904, the beginning of it being the taking in of boarders during the National G. A. R. encampment- at Louisville. This paid him so well that he decided to go into the business regnlarlv and he has made a success of it.

Today he has one of the cleanest, most inviting and home-hke liotels in Jeffersonville. His place was originally a large dwelling house, which he has thoroughly fitted up and adapted to hotel purjxises. In good times he had two adjoining houses annexed to his main establishment and spent one thousand nine hundred dollars for furniture and fixtures for the extra rooms and equipment. Like all hotel-keepers he has had his ups and downs with periods of hard and flush times, but on the whole has prospered and established his reputation as a popular caterer.

In March, 1885, Mr. Saunders married Mary, daughter of Philip and Mary Koch, of Lexington, Kentucky. They have four children, Ora, Bloomfield, Emanuel and Letcher. Mr. Saunders is a member of the Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows, Elks and the Christian church.

John Rauschenberger

Germany, celebrated for its manual training and industrial schools, has not only benefited greatly herself in all branches of manufacture and mechanical arts, but has sent her children to every country of the world as a precious contribution to that department of skilled labor most potential in adding to the wealth of nations. The United States has benefited greatly in this way and much of her commercial supremacy is due to the infusion of German blood. A fine sample is John Rauschenberger, whose life is now to be sketched in a manner all too brief for the merits of the subject. He was born in Unterwaldach, Wurtemburg, August 2, 1S33, his parents being Michael and Eva (Broesamle) Rauschenberger. When nineteen years of age he came to Detroit, accompanied by his sister, Margaret, who married at Michigan City, Indiana, Andrew Kalmbach, also a native of Germany, subsequently coming to Jefi^ersonville, where her husband died in 1907 Mr. Rauschenberger was a proficient blacksmith and worked in a car and locomotive shop at Eslingen in Wurtemburg, while still a boy. After reaching Detroit he worked for a short time at his trade, but soon went to Michigan City because of the opportunities for better employment. Securing a position in the car works at that place he remained there twelve years and enjoyed that prosperity which always comes to the frugal and saving. In March, 1865, he came to Jefifersonville at the earnest solicitation of the founders of the car works and was placed in charge of the blacksmithing department. He had already established a home in Michigan City, and his former employers were loath to lose him, but after investigating the prospects he concluded to cast his fortunes with the city by the Falls of the Ohio. He remained with the car works until the plant was sold to the American Car & Foundry Company, when he resigned his position and retired in 1899. For a. long time lie had managed his department by contract, hiring his own men and having absohite control. In 1872 Mr. Rauschenberger had a very pleasant visit to his old home in the Fatherland. It was the first time he had been over in twenty years and many changes were noted since he, a poor and friendless boy. left home for the distant land of America. Although he had sent his relatives a pictilire of himself, surrounded by two huntlred employes, here in the United States, they failed to recognize him, and for a pleasantry he pretended to be a lumljer-buyer, in which role he transacted some business with them before making himself knriwn.

He is a genial, kindly dispositioned man. and lives comf(_irtably but unostentatiously in a cozy home facing the Ohio river, opposite Louis\-ilIe.

In 1857 l\Ir. Rauschenberger married Mary, daughter of Bernhardt and Geneva Kastner, and born at Baden, Germany. They have had six children, of whom the survivors are: John. George. Maggie and ]\Iary. The latter married \\'. W. Schwaninger. of Jeffersonville. and resides in ^lilwaukee. The other daughter lives with her parents and the two sons are also residents of Jeffersonville. Mr. Rauschenberger is a member of Jeffersonville Lodge. No. 340. Free and Accepted Masons, Horeb Chapter, Xo. 66, Royal Arch Masons, Jeffersonville Council, No. 31, Royal and Select Masters, and Jeffersonville Commandery, No. 27. Knights Templar. He is also a memljer of the German Lodge of Odd Fellows and St. Lucas German Reformed church.

Few men in Floyd county are belter known than the old soldier who bears the above name. Born at Galena, in Floyd county. Indiana, in 1847. Tames L. Miller's whole life has been identified with the place of his nativity. His parents were Jacob B. and Lsabelle (Smith) INIiller. the latter being a descendant of Commodore Garrison, a Revolutionan' soldier. Her mother. Experience Smith, had reached the advanced age of ninety-seven years at the time of her death. Jacob Aliller and Vv ife have several sons living. Charles \\'. Miller, the youngest, was Attorney-General of Indiana for several years and was recently appointed United States District Attorney for Indiana. Elmore S. Miller, another son. is living on a farm in Floyd county. When the Civil war broke out. in 1861. James L. ^Sliller was only fourteen years old. but the boy as he was he burned to become a soldier and serve his country as best he could. Not being allowed to enlist he organized a company of boys, of which he was elected captain, but he was also the proud owner of a drum and beat it bravely when it was desired to get his command together. This juvenile organization was the first militarv company got together in Floyd county, and though not accepted as such, many of the members managed at a later period to enlist as real soldiers. Captain Miller made several unsuccessful attempts to go to war without his fatb.er's consent and was so persistent that finally the latter helped him to become a member of Company A, One Hundred and Forty-fourth Regiment. Indiana Volunteer Infantn', which was- part of the Army of the Potomac. Despite b.is youth Mr. Miller was appointed corporal and afterward was promoted to a sergeancy. He was present with his regiment when Lee surrendered. He was assistant Provost Marshal under Cajitain Hnpper and later a member of Colonel Hancock's body-guard at ^^"hite Sulphur Springs. He still cherishes as a precious heirloom the crape he wore for thirty days after Lincoln's assassination. In August. 1865, he received an honorable discharge and since has been justly proud of the record he matle as a soldier of the L'nion. After the close of hostilities Mr. Miller returned to the old home farm in Floyd county and remained there until he was twenty -five years old. Removing to Jeffersonville he secured a position as carpenter in building cars at the local car works and continued in this employment until October 2, 1902. Securing a position two months later under the postmaster he delivered the first letter that was sent out by a mail carrier in Jeffersonville. He served as carrier under four different postmasters in the city, which shows that he was a diligent and reliable servant of L'ncle Sam.

It is, however, as a member of the Grand Army of the Republic that Mr. Miller is best known. Twenty years ago he joined the Jeffersonville Post, No. 86, is past commander and ex-officio delegate to all state encampments. He was delegate to the Third (Indiana) Congressional District to the National Encampment at Denver, which elected Corporal Tanner commander-in-chief, and was honored by the appointment of aid on the commander's staff with the rank of colonel. He has been five times an aid. first on the staff of state Commander Lucas, and three times since has held similar positions. As in each case, he held the rank of colonel, he enjoys the unusual distinction of having enjoyed this rank five times, not counting the same title due him as past commander of the post. Before being elected commander Mr. Miller represented his post at state conventions at Louisville. Lafayette, Madison and twice at Indianapolis. When a delegate at Denver he was presented a beautiful badge, a combination of bronze silver and gold, that cost seventv-five dollars. Only one other man in Clark county has had the honor of being a delegate to the National Encampment. Though of limited means he spent two hundred dollars in order to go in proper style to the great national meeting of the organization he loves so well. In addition to his other honors he is a member of the Council of Administration for Indiana. As a citizen he does his duty with the same patriotism and conscientiousness that he manifested as a soldier in war.

On December 5, 1870, Mr. Miller married Clara E. Thurman, at Galena. Their only son. Homer L., is chief ganger under Elam B Neal, Internal Revenue Collecter at Indianapolis. He has proven a competent official and is a worthy son of a worthy sire.

Mrs. Nettie M. Hazzard is Mr. Miller's only daughter and the whole family enjoy the esteem which is well deserved by the manner in which they fulfill their respective duties in life.

Frank H. Same

The family of this name is of German origin but has been identified with America for more than sixty years. William and Henry, sons of Franz Heinrich and Elizabeth (Scherer) Same, emigrated from Bielefeldt, Prussia, in 1847, spent eleven years at Cincinnati and in 1858 came to Tefifersonville. William Same married Elizabeth Gruber, a native of Baltimore, Marjdand, who was brought to Jeffersonville. John A. Same, brother of Frank H., married Rose Pennington, who died in 1903. leaving four children.

Frank H. Same, the other son. was born at Jeffersonville, Clark county, Indiana, in 1866. After the usual course in the public schools he engaged in the grocery business as a clerk and subsequently became a proprietor for a time, being in partnership with H. L. Brendell at ^^'alnut and Chestnut streets, Jeffersonville, but most of his life has been spent in carrying on a transfer business. He now owns and operates the Louisville and Jeffersonville Transfer Company, wdiich keeps over thirty wagons in stock, some five of which are actively employed all of the time. About 1880 and for several years afterward his father and all the sons were public contractors engaged in building streets in Jeffersonville. Previous to this his father owned and operated a grist mill on \\"alnut street in Jeffersonville, but eventually sold it to his brother, Henry, who conducted it until its destruction by fire. There is a tragedy connected with the life of this family, involving one of those mysterious disappearances, which no detective work is able to explain. Franz Heinrich Same, who started to America to join his two sons, got as far as New "York, where all trace of him was lost and he was never afterward heard of.

October 14, 1891, Mr. Same was married to Hattie "M., daughter of W^illiam and Mary (Scammahorn) Hydron, by whom he has had two children, Monetta being the only onf; living. His father and Ethel, daughter of his brother John, are members of his household. His grandmother never left the old country. Mr. Same is a member of the Hope Lodge. Knights of Pythias, and of Eden Lodge, Knights and Ladies of Honor. The family occupy a modest home, comfortably but unostentatiously furnished, and Mrs. Same is regarded as a substantial and reliable business man.

Gustave Adolph Dexzler

Gustave Adolph Denzler is a native-born citizen of Jeffersonville, Clark county, who has all the recfuisite cjualifications to enable him to maintain his present high standing in the community. His life record has marked him as one in whom uprightness and conscientious adherence to dutv have ever been dominant traits : and his career of nearly twenty years as an employe of the Pennsyh-ania Railroad has been L-ingularly free from unpleasant occurrences which occasionally cross the path of the locoi7iotive engineer.

^Ir. Denzler was born on the 22d day of May. i86g, and was the son of Casper and Verena ( Bucher) Denzler. Both parents came from Switzerland. Casper Denzler was born in Diebendorf in the Swiss Canton of Zurich; while Ruhr in the Canton of Aargau was the birthplace of his wife. Casper Denzler was born November 7, 1829. and his wife on December 12, 1832. Their marriage took place in 1854 in Louisville, Kentucky. Thirteen children were bom of the union, of whom four survive. They are: Herman Denzler, who lives in Indianapolis, he is married and has a family of two boys and two girls; Caroline (Denzler) Wuerfel, wife of Martin Wuerfel, of Jefifersonville, who has two children ; Emma, who married \\'illiam Bastian, also lives in Jeffersonville and has one child.