Delaware County, Indiana - The whole text, 1908 (part 4 of 15)

The marriage of Mr. Haimbaugh was celebrated in May, 1890, when Emma Elginfritz, of Warsaw, Indiana, became his wife. He possesses a cordial, genial manner, is uniformly courteous and inspires friendships of unusual strength.

Lewis Payton, M. D. In the early settlement and subsequent history of Delaware county the Payton family have been prominent, and during many years one of its representatives. Dr. Lewis Payton, has labored unceasingly in the medical pfrofession, striving to do all in his power toward the amelioration of the "ills to which flesh is heir," and succeeding to a gratifying degree in his noble endeavors. His birth occurred near Muncie, Delaware county, on the 7th of September, 185 1, his parents being Gabriel and Mary E. (Hedrick) Payton. The father, who was a native of Wayne county, Indiana, came to Delaware county in the early year of 1833, first taking up his abode in Liberty township, and some time in the '40s moved to the old homestead, which has ever since been his place of residence. Mrs. Payton was a native of the Old Dominion state of Virginia, but during her girlhood days she was brought by her parents to Delaware county. In their family were two sons and two daughters, all of whom are living in this county.

Dr. Payton received an excellent literary education in the public schools near his old home and in the National Normal School of Ohio, and with this valuable training to serve as the foundation for his future life work he began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. Schaub, by whom he was prepared to enter the Curtis Physio Medical Institute of Marion, Indiana, in which he was graduated in 1883. As he was then fully competent to enter the practice of his chosen profession he opened an office in Marion, but four years later, in 1885, came to Muncie, where he has since made his home and carried on a general practice. His membership in the District Physio Medical Society enables him to keep more fully abreast of the many new discoveries which are constantly being made in the profession, and in his fraternal relations he is a member of the Independent Order of Red Men.

birth occurred in West Virginia, but at the time of the close of the Civil war she came with her father, Samuel Beall, to Delaware county, Indiana. Dr. and Mrs. Payton have become the parents of three children: Laura, now Mrs. Bowen ; Volney W. ; and Mary Etta, now Mrs. Meeks.

Charles E. Lambert, the present trustee of Center township, has been a resident of Delaware county throughout his entire life, for his birth occurred near Daleville on the 20th of July, 1865, his parents being John N. and Nancy (Graham) Lambert, who in an early day in the history of the county took up their abode within its borders, and the name has henceforth been prominently identified with its annals. After obtaining his education in the public schools the son Charles entered the teacher's profession, continuing in the task of instructing the young for seventeen years, his broad intelligence, scholarly attainments and his full appreciation of the value of knowledge making him one of the most able educators of the county. While thus engaged he was also for five years connected with the mail service in Muncie, teaching school during the winter months and carrying the mail in the summer. Throughout his entire life he has been an efficient public worker and was made the township trustee, entering upon the duties of the office on the ist of January, 1905. In 1906 he became associated with T. G. Groman in the undertaking business under the firm name of the Lambert-Groman Company, and he is its secretary and treasurer.

In 1887 Mr. Lambert was united in marriage to Olga Noftsinger, also a native of Delaware county, but after a happy married life of eighteen years the loving wife was called to the home beyond, leaving four children: Opal, who was born March 26, 1888; Inez, born May 31, 1895; Nettie, bom September 15, 1897, 2i"d Mark Beveredge, born November 9, 1899. Mr. Lambert married, February 28, 1907, Lisette A. Smith, of Indianapolis, who was for some years principal of Riverside school in Muncie. He is a worthy member of the Masonic order, affiliating with Delaware lodge, also with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a member of the United Brethren church. He is deeply interested in the affairs of the county, which has been his home throughout his entire life, has always advocated the measures which have advanced its welfare and has labored for its improvement and progress.

Charles A. Van Matre. For many years the name of Charles A. Van Matre has been inseparably interwoven with the history of the educational interests of Muncie. His broad intelligence, scholarly attain»jents and his full appreciation of the value of knowledge as a preparation for life's responsibilities make him one of the ablest educators who have p/onioted the interests of the schools of Delaware county. Born in Harrison township, Delaware county, December 31, 1869, he is a son of Oliver Perry and Amelia (Brandon) Van Matre, both also natives of this countv. It was in the very earliest epoch in the history of the county that the Van Matre family was established within its borders, Grandfather Van Matre having moved hither from Ohio in the late '20s and settled in Mt. Pleasant township, where he became an extensive agriculturist. At the time of the organization of the county he was made its clerk and recorder, and his name was prominently associated with its early history. Oliver Perry spent his entire life in the county which his father had helped to organize and died in 1888.

After attending the public schools of his native locality Mr. Charles A. Van Matre entered the state university, but previously had taught school, and after his return from college again entered the profession. In 1897 he was elected the county superintendent of schools for Delaware county, where his ever broadening influence has been of incalculable value. lie has been prominent in the movement for the consolidation of schools, whereby small schools shall be abandoned and wagons provided to convey the children to centrally graded or high schools. His labors are permeated by broad humanitarian principles, which render them a source of assistance to his fellow men, whereby he advances the scheme of our human existence, - the constant uplifting and betterment of the race.

In 1904 Mr. Van Matre was married to Miss Wilmina Wallace, a native of Peru, Indiana, and their only child, a daughter, Amelia, was born on the 27th of February, 1906. Mr. Van Matre is a member of Delaware lodge of the Masonic order, and of the Knights of Pythias and the Odd Fellows fraternities. He is also a member of the Delaware county bar.

Ralph S. Gregory. Throughout his entire professional career, which covers an extended period, Mr. Ralph S. Gregory has practiced at the bar of Delaware county, and his high standing as a legal practitioner has been won through earnest labor. His reputation is a merited tribute to his ability. Delaware county is therefore proud to claim him among her native sons. His birth occurred on a farm February 28, 1846, his parents being Samuel and Mary (Braddock) Gregory. They were married in Pennsylvania and removed thence to Indiana, becoming pioneer settlers of Niles township, Delaware county, and the farm on which they located is yet owned by two of their sons, Ralph and Samuel. There the parents reared their children and lived for many years, the father dying when he had reached the sixty-ninth milestone on the journey of life, and the mother was sixty-five years of age when called to the home beyond. Their children were: William, of Kansas; Margaret, of Albany, Indiana; Samuel, a resident of Delaware county ; John ; Frank ; Ralph S. ; and Mary, who died in her youth. The father was a successful farmer, and in the early days voted with the Whigs, later transferring his relations to the Republican party, and both he and his wife were worthy members of the Methodist church.

Mr. Gregory of this review received his elementary education in the country schools and when fifteen years of age entered the high school of Muncie, where he completed the course and then became a student in Wabash College. In 1862, however, his studies were interrupted by his call to war, and he entered the army as a private in Company B, Eightyfourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. His enlistment took place on the 8th of August, 1862, and he remained in the service practically two years, when on account of failing health he was honorably discharged at Shellmond, Tennessee, having in the meantime attained to the rank of orderly sergeant. His health was regained soon after his return home and he re-entered Wabash College, remaining there through the junior year, when he matriculated in Asbury, now De Pauw, University, and graduated with honors in the class of 1867. The year following this event Mr. Gregory was made superintendent of the high school of Huntington, Indiana, and at the same time had charge of a classical school at Wabash, this state. While pursuing his profession of teaching, Mr. Gregory had determined on the practice of law as a life work and was admitted to the bar at Muncie in 1868. Locating here he began what has terminated in a successful career as a lawyer, so determined by his contemporaries and the general public. As a criminal lawyer he has won an enviable reputation.

In his political association Mr. Gregory was a Republican up to the year of 1892, when on account of the tariff issue, he believing the tariff laws should be revised, he withdrew his support therefrom. He has never advocated free trade, but "tariflf for revenue'' is a doctrine which has won his hearty approval. At one time he served as county superintendent of the Delaware schools, but beyond this he has never held an office of much importance. For many years he has been a prominent factor in the fraternal circles, being a Knight Templar Mason and a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Improved Order of Red Men and other societies. He was elected at Detroit, Michigan, Great Incohonee of the United States.

In 1880 Mr. Gregory married Miss Anna C. Madden, who was born in Piqua, Ohio, in 1863, receiving her educational training in the city of her nativity and becoming an accomplished musician. She is a daughter of Timothy C. Madden. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Gregory have been bom two children: Walter Leon, a graduate of the Chicago University, and Florence Madden, the wife of Attorney William Thompson, of Muncie.

Webster S. Richey. For over thirty-five years Webster S. Richey has resided within the borders of Delaware county, and in tltat time has won a place among its best and most favorably known citizens. He is also connected with one of the leading industrial concerns of the county, the Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company. Mr. Richey was born in Preble county, Ohio, March 11, 1848, a son of Samuel \\\ and Sarah C. (Fleming) Richey, natives of Ohio, of the counties of Butler and Preble respectively.

Webster S, Richey, the youngest of his eight children, and with his sister the only surviving members of the family, was reared in the village of New Paris, Ohio, there receiving a fair common-school education. When but sixteen years of age, on the ist of April, 1864, he enlisted for service in the Civil war, entering the Eighth Ohio Battery, Light Artillery, and at the close of his fifteen months' service he received a serious injury while mounting a cannon. This was about the time of the close of the conflict, and receiving his honorable discharge he returned home and for some time thereafter was engaged in the drug business in New Paris. In 1867 he accepted a position as bookkeeper with a wholesale grocery house in Richmond, Indiana, there remaining for three years or until 1870, when he came to Muncie and again entered the drug business, in which he formed a partnership with his cousin, W. E. Richey, the firm name becoming Richey & Richey. From 1871 to 1876 he was agent for the American Express Company at Muncie, also joint agent for the same company and the United States Express Company from 1876 to 1880, from 1880 to 1881 served as freight agent for what is now the Big Four Railroad Company, for one year thereafter was bookkeeper for Mr. James Boyce, from 1882 to 1887 was route agent for the United States Express Company through Indiana and Ohio and from 1887 to 1889 was again the bookkeeper for Mr. Boyce.

In 1890 Mr. Richey was chosen the Republican candidate for auditor of Delaware county, and elected to the office served satisfactorily for four years, but having made the race for the office on the one term promise did not become a candidate for re-election. In 1894 he was a prominent candidate for the Republican nomination for state auditor, and although he received votes from as many as fifty-one of the ninety-two counties in the delegate convention of his party he failed of nomination after a creditable race. For some five years thereafter he was. an accountant for the Chosen Friends, a fraternal insurance order with headquarters at Indianapolis. In 1900 he accepted a position with the Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company at Mtmcie as an accountant, of which he is the present incumbent.

Mr. Richey married, October 15, 1872, Miss JuHa Thomas, a daughter of Mr. J. Harvey and Jerusha Thomas, of Dayton, Ohio. Their three children are Albert S., Reba and Paul, the eldest being a g^duate of Purdue University and now professor of electric railroad engineering in the Worcester (Massachusetts) Polytechnic Institute. Both Mr. and Mrs. Richey are members of the Presbyterian church. He also has membership relations with Williams Post, No. 78, Department of Indiana, G. A. R., and with the Masonic fraternity, in which he has reached the Thirty-second degree, and affiliates with the Knights Templar, the Scottish Rite and the Mystic Shrine, Murat Temple, Indianapolis. His fraternal relations also connect him with the order of Odd Fellows, Lodge No. 74, and with the Independent Order ^ Red Men, No. 30, and he is a member of the Commercial Club of Muncie.

Anton C. Hefel, perhaps best known as "Tony Hefel," is a civil engineer of wide and favorable reputation. He is a native son of Austria, bom in the town of Feldkirk, province of Voralberg, April 8, 1844. After attending thQ common schools of his native town and also pursuing a four years' course in a normal school, he entered the well known university of Munich, Bavaria, from which he graduated in 1864. Very early in life Mr. Hefel turned his attention to mechanics and for some time after leaving the university he was employed as a builder of water works in Bavaria, while for two years he also acted as superintendent of construction at Augsberg. In 1866, when he had reached the age of twenty-three years, he came to the United States, first locating in Cincinnati, Ohio, where for six years he was employed as draughtsman for the city water works, and during a similar period he served as engineer and assistant superintendent for the same. In 1877 he transferred his residence to Vandalia, Illinois, where he was engaged as engineer in chief for the Kaskaskia bottom drainage district, his duties being to make surveys and estimates for dredging, draining and reclaiming a large tract of land. During the time he was thus employed, continuing until the year 1886, he was twice elected surveyor of Fayette county, Illinois.

It was at the close of this period, in 1886, that Mr. Hefel came to Muncie, at once accepting a position with the American Water Works & Guarantee Company, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, as superintendent of construction and engineer in building water works and plants at New Philadelphia, Ohio; Huntington, West Virginia; Sheboygan, Wisconsin; Meridian, Mississippi ; and Wichita, Kansas. Thus in various cities of the country he has constructed water works, built race tracks and sewers, so much so that perhaps no other civil engineer in the entire country is wider or better known than he. He drafted the first map of the city of Muncie and vicinity in 1888, showing the location of oil wells, gas wells and other valuable points. In 1891 he entered the employ of the Western Improvement Company, of Rochester, New York, and for this company laid out and drew a map for West Muncie. In 1895 he built the Cambridge City, Indiana, Water Works, in 1896 the Middletown, Indiana, Water Works and in 1902 he built the one-half mile race track at the State Fair Grounds, in 1903 the track at Montpelier and in 1905 the Arranum, Ohio, Water Works and Electric Light Plant.

In 1868, in Cincinnati, Mr. Hefel married Miss Magdalena Good, who bore him two children, Carrie and Ermine. Carrie married Claude Beaton, of Nome, Alaska, and Ermine married George Whitehead, of Matthews, Indiana. The wife and mother died in 1881, and in the same year he married Miss Kate Boekley, one child, Hattie, being born of the second union. She married Albert Gough, of Muncie.

been a careful member of the legal profession. Delaware county claims him among her native sons, his birth occurring in Smithfield on the 31st of July, 1852. His father, Zerah M. Lewellen, was bom in West Virginia, but when a lad came with his parents to Delaware county, the family home being established on Campbell's creek, that location having been chosen on account of the. richness of the land. After his marriage he removed to Smithfield, where for several years he followed the wagon maker's trade, after which he was engaged in farming in Liberty and Harrison townships some years and then retired from agricultural pursuits. He spent his last years at Shideler, where he died at the age of seventy-two years. The mother of our subject was known in maidenhood as Sarah A. Truitt, and was a native of Delaware county.

John O. Lewellen received an excellent literary education in the public schools of his native locality, which he attended until his twentieth year. After teaching one term of school he then entered the Methodist College at Xenia, Ohio, being subsequently a student in the Holbrook school at Lebanon, that state, and in 1877 a graduate from the scientific department of the Northern Indiana Normal College at Valparaiso, Indiana, from which he received the degree of B. S. He added to the thoroughness of his pedagogical education by taking a four years' course at the famous Chautauqua school. For a decade thereafter Mr. Lewellen taught in Delaware county and for fourteen years was its superintendent of schools, finally resigning the position named to enter the legal profession. His broad intelligence, scholarly attainments and thorough preparation for every duty which fell to him made him a most able educator and honored citizen. Although he attained a brilliant and substantial position in the field of education, Mr. Lewellen finally chose the law as his life profession, pursuing his studies in the Indiana Law School of Indianapolis and being admitted to the bar in 1900. He is an earnest and tireless worker, and has applied the strength of an already mature and trained mind to the mastery of the various departments of the law, by which he has acquired high standing as a g^eral practitioner.

The marriage of Mr. Lewellen was celebrated on the 25th of December, 1877, to Miss Huldah Eleanor Crampton, and the three children born to them have been Albert Ross, Harry Crampton and Wendell Gladstone. Mrs. Lewellen is a native of Harrison township, Delaware county, daughter of Mahlon and Ruth Jane (Crane) Crampton, who were born in Ohio and became early settlers of this county. Here, as well as in the schools of Franklin, Ohio, she received her education and also toc^ a four years' Chautauqua course, and before marriage taught several years in the public schools. Mr. and Mrs. Lewellen are both members of the High Street Methodist Episcopal church, the latter being a teacher in the Sunday school and also, for many years, an earnest and effective worker in the field of home and foreign missions. Mrs. Lewellen is, further, an influential member of the McRea Club, of which she has served as president.

Mr. Levvellen*s political affiliations are with the Republican party, while fraternally he is a member of Delaware Lodge, A. F. & A. M., the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Red Men. He has long served as a class leader in the Methodist church, and is widely popular and highly honored in the county which has so long been his home, and of which he is so worthy a representative of the pioneer element.

Charles Willard Neiswanger. The gentleman whose name introduces this review and the leading artist of Muncie, possesses talent which places his name high on the roll of the foremost photographers of Delaware county. His birth occurred in Cambridge City, Indiana, September 3, 1865, his father, George Neiswanger, having removed hither with his father, Winson T. Neiswanger, from his native state of Maryland. He established his home on a farm near Cambridge City, and was there engaged in agricultural pursuits until his removal to Delaware county in 1873, settling two and a half miles northeast from Muncie. There he was engaged in the tilling of the soil until an advanced age, and he now resides in this city. His wife bore the maiden name of Mary A. Gebhart, and was a native daughter of Pennsylvania, from whence she removed to Wayne county, Indiana, with her father, John Gebhart.

Charles W. Neiswanger, a son of these honored Indiana pioneers, entered the teacher's profession after completing his education in the county schools, thus continuing for three terms. But that genius as an artist which he has displayed in later life to such a marked degree was early expressed, and learning the photographic art, opened a studio in 1889, where he has been very eflfective in placing the art on a higher plane. He is a member and trustee of the Daguerre Memorial Institute, at Winona Lake, Indiana, formed for the purpose of promoting the highest interest in photography, and in many ways he has proved a valued member of his profession. He is also president of the State Photographic Association.

The marriage of Mr. Neiswanger was celebrated in 1896, Miss Jennie F., a daughter of James McCormick, one of the early picmeers of Delaware county, then becoming his wife. Their- only child is a son Robert, bom November 8, 1897. Mr. Neiswanger has fraternal relations with the Knights of Pythias, of which he is the present chancellor commander, and is also a worthy member of the Methodist church.

Walter F. Pierce, One of the leading and influential citizens of Muncie is Walter F. Pierce, whose birth occurred in Tipton county, Indiana, May 5, 1854. The Pierces are an old and honored family of English descent, the great-grandfather of Walter F. having been its founder in this country, and his son Thomas was a full cousin of President Franklin Pierce. Calloway Pierce, a son of the latter and the father of Walter F., was a native of Pennsylvania, from whence he removed to Virginia and in 1832 to Delaware county, Indiana, where his father entered land from the gov- ernment in Salem township. In 1850 Calloway Pierce removed to Tipton county, Indiana, where he was engaged in carpentering and contracting in partnership with E. M. Sharp, and to these gentlemen belong the honor of having built most of the town of Sharpsville. Returning to Delaware county in 1859 Mr. Pierce resumed his farming operations in Salem township, and is now living there at the good old age of eighty-five years. In his early manhood he had married Ruanna Goodpasture, a native of Ohio, and they occupy a prominent place among the early and honored pioneer citizens of Delaware county.

After completing his education in the public schools of this county Walter F. Pierce turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, and was numbered among the leading farmers of Center township until 1900, in that year coming to Muncie and embarking in the real-estate business, in which his undertakings have been fortunate for the most part, and in 1906 he was elected a justice of the peace. He votes with the Republican party, and is an active worker in its ranks.

On the nth of January, 1880, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Pierce and Miss Sarah Icenogle. She was born in Ohio, the daughter of John Icenogle, and has become the mother of five children: Donata, now Mrs. Kierstead, of St. Paul, Minnesota; Lena E., now Mrs. Keltner and a resident of Muncie; J. Otis, also a resident of St. Paul; Mattie F. ; and Walter Stuart. In his fraternal relations Mr. Pierce is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias fraternities.

F. L. Wachtell. Occupying an enviable position in the business circles of Muncie, F. L. Wachtell is honored and respected by all, not alone on account of the success he has achieved, but also by reason of the honorable, straightforward business policy he has ever followed. His birth occurred in Winchester, Indiana, July 5, 1863, but during his early boyhood days he was brought by his father, Calvin S. Wachtell, whose sketch also appears in this work, to Muncie, where he obtained his education in the city public schools. After the completion of the training which was to fit him for life's activities, he engaged in business with his father, this being in 1882, and he now has practically the entire charge of the large concern, for the senior Mr. Wachtell has in the main retired from an active business life. Although he entered upon a business already established, in conducting this and enlarging its scope Mr. F. L. Wachtell has so directed his efforts that its interests have grown apace with the progress which dominates the central states, and he is numbered among the leading business men and public spirited citizens of Delaware county.

In 1889 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Wachtell and Miss Leonora Deitsch. She is a daughter of Philip Deitsch, of Cincinnati, Ohio, where he served as superintendent of the police for eighteen years. Mr. Wachtell is a member of the order of Elks, the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias.

Charles L. Nihart. When professional success is attained in any instance it may be taken as certain that such measure of success has been thoroughly merited. Dr. Charles L. Nihart, although one of the younger members of the profession, has gained distinction in the line of his special calling, that of an optician, has been an earnest and discriminating student, and holds a position of due relative precedence among the ophthalmic practitioners of Delaware county. The Doctor was born in Jay county, Indiana, July 15, 1872, a son of David H. and Diantha E. (Stansbury) Nihart, the former a native of Delaware county, bom in 1840, and the latter of Jay county, Indiana. The paternal grandfather, Philip Nihart, was a native son of the fatherland, but in early life he left his German home and came to the United States, and for many years was engaged in agricultural pursuits four miles southeast of Muncie. There his son David also followed the tilling of the soil for a time, but later turned his attention to the drug business, and is now one of the leading druggists of Albany, Indiana. During the Civil war he offered his services to his country's cause and served as a soldier in the Ninth Indiana Cavalry.

After completing his education in the schools of Delaware county, Indiana, and Lima, Ohio, Dr. Charles L. Nihart entered upon the study of medicine, but a short time afterward decided to devote his entire attention to the diseases of the eye and accordingly entered the Indiana Ophthalmic School, in which he graduated in September, 1895. Coming thence to Muncie, he entered the professional circles of this city, where he has gradually worked his way into the front ranks. He has also found time to devote to the public life of his adopted city, and for four years served as a member of the city council.

In 1895 occurred the marriage of Dr. Nihart and Dora A. Lykens, she having been born in Randolph, Indiana. Their only child, Bessie May, was born on the 4th of June, 1906. The Masonic fraternity finds in Dr. Nihart a valued and worthy member, his relations being with Delaware lodge, and he is also a member of Welcome lodge of the Knights of Pythias. His religious affiliations are with the High Street Methodist Episcopal church. The Doctor is a young man of exceptional attainments, and all who know him have the highest admiration for his many excellent characteristics.

November, 1876. In his early manhood he had married Sarah Hayden, who was bom in Pennsylvania March i, 1812, and her death occurred on the 19th of January, 1890. In their family were seven children, four sons and three daughters, of whom one is deceased, and the remainder all reside in Delaware county. One son, John H., laid down his life on the altar of his country during the Civil war. He served as a member of Company B, Thirty-sixth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, his military career covering a period of four years. At the battle of Atlanta he was wounded and taken prisoner, suffering all the horrors of a seven months' confinement in Andersonville prison, and after his release was sent to Vicksburg, where he was a passenger on the fatal ship Sultana at the time of its terrible destruction. He was a brave and loyal soldier and bravely met his death at the post of duty.

W. T. Janney, whose name introduces this review, is indebted to the public schools of Washington township and the Muncie high school for his educational training. With his education completed, he followed agricultural pursuits until 1893, when he came to Muncie and embarked in the mercantile business, in the sale of implements and buggies. He has built up a large and lucrative business, which places him in the front rank in the industrial circle of Muncie, and in addition he yet owns his farms in Washington and Harrison townships.

On the 19th of June, 1873, Mr. Janney was united in marriage to Hannah E. McCreery, a member of one of the oldest families of Delaware county, both her father, Thomas, and her grandfather, Samuel McCreery, having been numbered among its honored residents. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Janney, three sons and three daughters, Carlton R., Stanton E., Florence E., Lester H., Beulah M. and Ada. Mr. Janney is a member of the order of Ben Hur, and both he and his wife are valued and -consistent members of the High Street Methodist Episcopal church, as are also all of their children, with the exception of Stanton, who is a Baptist.

James Emmett Eber was bom on his father's farm in Center township, Delaware county, April 24, 1850. His father, Hener Eber, was a native son of the fatherland of Germany, but when twenty-eight years of age he came to America and took up his abode in Muncie, where for a short time he was interested in a distillery. He then purchased a tract of land on what is now known as the Hathaway pike, in the northwest corner of center township, and, moving to this place, turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, and ever afterward to the day of his death he was practically and successfully engaged in farming. He accumulated a good estate, and was numbered among the most prominent farmers and business men of Delaware county. It was his good fortune to be able to provide well for his children, whom at his death he left in very comfortable circumstances, for during his busy and useful life he had accumulated a valuable estate of upward of three hundred acres.

During his residence in Muncie Mr. Eber married Miss Susannah Clark, and they became the parents of the following children: Jane, deceased; William H., who died during his service in the Civil war; Mary, the wife of Mr. A. Drumm, of California; John, deceased; James Emmett, the subject of this review ; George ; and Catherine. Mrs. Eber was called to the home beyond on the 20th of May, 1862, a communicant of the Catholic church and a lady of many estimable qualities of heart and mind. For a second wife Mr. Eber chose Nancy Leland, who died in 1879, without issue. Mr. Eber had preceded her in death about three years, dying on the 26th of January, 1876. His religious affiliations were with the Presbyterian church, and in politics he endorsed the principles of the Democratic party.

James E. Eber, who has won a foremost place among the prominent agriculturists and best-known citizens of Delaware county, has followed farming as a life occupation, and has resided in this county since the day of his birth. He grew to manhood on the parental homestead, and in the meantime gained a limited educational training in the country schools. His boyhood days were spent in assisting his father in the work of the farm, and he remained in the parental home until his father's death.. He married Tabitha Scott on the 22d of June, 1872, and the lady of his choice was bom in Adams county, Ohio, August 8, 1852, a daughter of David and Sarah (Ham) Scott, natives also of that commonwealth and respectively of Scotch and Irish descent. This union was blessed by the birth of the following children. Emma, who died in 1890; Ida, a bright young lady, who died July 7, 1907, while seeking renewed health in California; Lee, a resident of Bridgeport, Illinois; Stella, Catherine, Pearl and Earl. The wife and mother was called to her final reward on the 14th of December, 1896. She was a faithful wife and a devoted mother and was loved by all who knew her. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, as is also Mr. Eber. He has membership relations with the Improved Order of Red Men, and in politics is a Democrat, but has paid little attention to party affairs. He has always been a diligent worker and has devoted his time and efforts to farming. His estate comprises one hundred and ninety acres of fine farming land, and the family residence is a modern and attractive home.

HoRTENCE L. Oliver, superintendent of the Muncie Belt railroad, general yardmaster of the Lake Erie & Western and in charge of the operations of the Muncie & Western railroad, has made his home in this city since 1896. No railroad man in this community is more generally known, and his relations with these large corporations have won him a high posi- had reached the age of eighteen years he started out in life for himself, going from his home to Texas, where for four years he was engaged in farming and stock-raising. At the close of that period he returned to Ohio and entered upon what has since terminated in a successful railroad career, this being in the year 1878, and his first employment was as a freight brakeman on the Hocking Valley railroad. After eighteen months in that capacity he was promoted to the position of a freight conductor, and for eight years he continued his relations with that company. He then entered the employ of the Columbus & Eastern, now the Zanesville & Western railroad, with which he remained for about eight years, first as a freight and later as a passenger conductor and trainmaster, during all this time living in Columbus, Ohio. At the close of this period Mr. Oliver entered the employ of the Lake Erie & Western railroad in the capacity of general yardmaster at Tipton, Indiana, but shortly afterward, in October, 1896, he was transferred to Muncie, which has ever since continued as the scene of his operations, and where he is numbered among the best citizens, esteemed alike for his sterling worth of character and his activity in the business world.

Mr. Oliver married, in 1886, Fannie Howell, of Fostoria, Ohio. He is a member of the Railroad Conductors' Fraternity and is an active factor in the social as well as the business life of Muncie.

J. Monroe Fitch. In an enumeration of those men of Delaware county who have won honor and public recognition for themselves the name of J. Monroe Fitch takes precedence. As the record of a young man it is one of which he may be justly proud, for he has successfully surmounted obstacles and has gained recognition through intrinsic worth of character. He is a native son of the Southland, born in the Bluegrass state of Kentucky on the I2th of July, 1872, a son of Sampson and Dorcas (Daniels) Fitch, also natives of that commonwealth. When fourteen years of age J. Monroe left home, and before he had reached his twenty-first year had worked in eighteen states at various employments. Up to that time he had received but ten months of schooling, and thus he may be truly classed among the self-educated as well as self-made men. Realizing, however, the value of an education as the foundation for life's activities, he then went to Valparaiso, Indiana, where he worked his way through the university, spending five years in school there, and during that time began the study of law. His legal studies were completed in the Chicago Law School, where he received his diploma, and in 1898 came to Muncie to actively engage in the practice of his chosen profession. He associated himself in practice with C. A. McGonagle, and the firm of McGonagle & Fitch has become well known in legal circles throughout this section of the state. From his early youth Mr. Fitch has been a politician, and in November, 1906, he was elected to represent his district in the state legislature, and although his legislative career has been brief, it has been marked with distinction, and higher political honors undoubtedly await him.

On leaving the Chicago Law School Mr. Fitch joined the First Illinois Cavalry for service in the Spanish-American war. He was sent to Chickamauga, and was discharged on the 3d of November, 1898, with the rank of corporal. He is a member of Delaware Lodge No. 46, F. & A. M., of which he is a past master, and also of the Independent Order of Red Men.

George L. Haymond^ assistant postmaster at Muncie, was bom in Delaware county, Indiana, November 16, 1868, on his father's farm just south of Muncie. His parents were William A. and Mary (Louthain) Haymond, the former of whom was born near Palatine, West Virginia, in 1840. He was a brother of Mr. H. C. Haymond, whose biography is referred to for further family history. During his early manhood William A. Haymond came to Delaware county, arriving here only a short time before the outbreak of the Civil war. In the first year of that dreadful conflict he tendered his services in defense of the Union, enlisting in the Second Indiana Cavalry, and served to the close of the war. During much of his army career he held the rank of orderly, and was present at all the engagements of his command. Returning from the war at its close, he settled on a farm just south of Muncie, where he carried on agricultural pursuits with success up to the time of his death in 1880. His wife survives him and now resides in Muncie, where she removed soon after his death. Their marriage was solemnized in the year 1864, and they became the parents of the following named children : Warren G., who died at the age of twentythree years ; George L., the subject of this personal mention ; and Elizabeth, the wife of George R. Andrews, M.D., also mentioned in this work. The father was well and favorably known as a practical farmer and publicspirited citizen, and in politics he was a Republican.

George L. Haymond spent his early youth on a farm, and coming to Muncie with his mother soon after his father's death, he attended the Muncie schools and graduated from its high school. After spending a short time as a clerk in a hardware store he became a substitute letter carrier, and then for ten years was a regular letter carrier in Muncie. In 1899 he was appointed assistant postmaster, a position he held up to April, 1903. During a short time thereafter Mr. Haymond was in ill health and visited Colorado, from whence he returned to this city and became the deputy county treasurer. In April, 1907, he was again appointed assistant postmaster, his oresent oosition. He is a Renublican in oolitics. a Knie^ht Temolar Mason of Center township December 14, 1905. He was a son of Henry and Abigail (Gibson) Taylor, natives respectively of Maryland and Tennessee, and the paternal family is of English origin. Henry Taylor is numbered among the earliest of the Delaware county pioneers, establishing his home in Monroe township, and it was on his farm there that his son Valentine grew to manhood's estate and laid the foundation for his subsequent useful career. He enjoyed but poor educational advantages in the old-time schools of Delaware county, and his boyhood days were spent at farm labor on the old homestead. He was married in 1857, when twenty-one years of age, to Miss Jane Sunderland, who was born in Salem township, Delaware county, Indiana, October 8, 1836, and died on the homestead in Center township January 6, 1907. She was a daughter of Samuel and Lavina (Kepper) Sunderland, who came from Ohio to cast in their lot with the early pioneers of Delaware county.

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Taylor located on Belle creek, Salem township, where they maintained their residence for about five years, and then in about 1863 removed to a farm in section 31, Center township, where the remainder of their useful lives were spent. Farming continued as Mr. Taylor's life occupation, and at the time of his death his estate consisted of one hiuidred and twenty acres of fine farming land. He was a Republican in his political affiliations, but never cared for the honors of public office, for he was a quiet, unassuming man and was honored and revered by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. Both he and his faithful and loving wife were numbered among the county's most valued citizens. They had but two children, Henry, a prosperous farmer of Salem township, and Samuel K., who resides on the old homestead farm in Center township.

Samuel K. Taylor was bom in Salem township, Delaware county, Januar>' 8, i860, and farming has been his life occupation. After the completion of his common-school education he began farming his father's land, and the old homestead farm has ever since continued as the scene of his activities. He married, in 1882, Miss Ella Hanshew, who was born December 7, 1864, in Madison county, Indiana, a daughter of James R. and Martha (Clymer) Hanshew, of Madison county, where they have resided for many years. They were natives, however, of Rush county, Indiana, and of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor have but one child, Celestia Lafern, born September 16, 1894. Mr. Taylor exercises his right of franchise in support of the principles of the Republican party.

Robert W. Monroe. The profession of the law, when clothed with its true dignity and purity and strength, must rank first among the callings of men, and one of its representatives in Delaware county is Robert W. Monroe, one of the practitioners of Muncie. His birth occurred at Xenia, Ohio, March 3, 185 1. His father, Hugh Monroe, a Scotch Highlander of the Munro clan, came to the United States when a young man, locating in Xenia, Ohio, where he was married to one of Ohio's native daughters, Je- niima Steele. They afterward moved to Kansas, where the father's death occurred in 1884, when he had reached the age of seventy-one years, but the mother survived until 1901, her death occurring when seventy-eight years of age.

In the schools of Lebanon, Ohio, and Valparaiso, Indiana, their son, Robert W. Monroe, received his literary education, and after graduating in the training class of the latter institution he taught school for seven years. In the meantime he had decided on the practice of law as his life's work, and was admitted to the bar in 1877 and immediately entered upon his practice in Muncie. In 1882 he was appointed a deputy in the county auditor's office, and after a deputyship of twelve years he was made the county auditor of Delaware county, being retained in that office for two terms. On the expiration of that time he resumed the practice of law in Muncie, his ability soon winning him a distinctively representative clientage. In November, 1906, he was elected the prosecuting attorney, being the present incumbent. He has always been an active and ardent Republican, and as the representative of that party has been the recipient of many public honors.

In August, 1882, Mr. Monroe was married to J. Alice, a daughter of John P. Reid, a plow manufacturer and one of the leading citizens of Muncie. Five children have been born to them - Hugh Reid, Agnes, Paul C, Donald G. and Bruce E. Mr. Monroe has membership relations with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Independent Order of Red Men. He stands for principle in political circles, and Muncie numbers him among her leading and influential citizens.

John C. Ross, M.D. During thirty-two successive years Dr. John C. Ross has been engaged in the practice of medicine in Muncie, and is thus one of the oldest representatives of the profession in Delaware county. During the time he has not only maintained his position among the leaders of the medical fraternity but has taken part in much of the public and social life of Muncie, so that he is accounted one of her honored citizens. His birth occurred in Randolph county, Indiana, May 10, 1845, whither his father, John Ross, had removed from his native state of Kentucky in 1838. He was a millwright and carpenter, and also followed agricultural pursuits until the inauguration of the Civil war, when he became captain of Company D, Sixty-ninth Indiana Infantry, serving throughout the entire period of the conflict, and was wounded at the battle of Richmond, Kentucky. He continued his residence in Randolph county for a short time after the close of the war. and in 1876 came to Delaware countv and entered the ministry and was born in England in 1789. Emigrating with his father from his native land to Virginia, he was ordained as a minister of the Methodist church and sent as a missionary to Indiana, having been the first Methodist divine to preach in this commonwealth. Mrs. Ross passed away in death in 1898 at the age of seventy-six years.

The early boyhood days of John C. Ross were spent on his father's farm in Randolph county, attending the district schools during the winter months, and later, completing the engineering course, continued in the profession for eight years. While thus engaged he also studied medicine, and in 1876 graduated from the Indianapolis Medical College and began the practice of his chosen profession in Bethel, Delaware county. It was in 1877 that he came to Muncie, and he has remained here ever since engaged in the practice of medicine. His long professional career has been attended with marked success. His promptness, his sympathetic nature and his generosity are among his chief characteristics, and those who have known him longest esteem him most highly.

In 1872 Dr. Ross married Lucinda Stump, a native daughter of Delaware county, and they have five children living. The doctor has fraternal relations with the order of Odd Fellows, with which he has affiliated for forty-two years, and also with the Independent Order of Red Men. He is a consistent member of the church in which he was reared, the Methodist, taking an active part in its work, and in private life he has gained that warm personal regard which arises from true nobility of character.

Charles Gwinnup. During a number of years past Charles Gwinnup has been a resident of Muncie, and has been identified with many of the interests that have contributed to its substantial development and improvement. He was born in Craw fords ville, Indiana, May 27, 1857, his parents being Samuel Gwinnup and Margaret (Kinney) Gwinnup. Their son was left an orphan at an early age and was reared by his grandfather, attending school until he was fourteen years of age, when he started out to battle with the world for himself. Continuing agricultural labors until twentyone years of age, he then began railroading, this being in the year 1879, and he was thereafter connected with several of the leading lines in various capacities, such as construction work, on the engineer's corps, as a brakeman and finally as conductor. During this time he was connected with the Monon, the Wabash, the Panhandle and the Louisville and Northern railroads, always changing of his own accord, and was at all times a careful, painstaking and faithful employe. Finally on account of ill health Mr. Gwinnup severed his connections with railroad interests, and in 1894 came to Muncie, where he has ever since been numbered among its leading men of affairs. In 1901 he opened the Delaware Cafe and Restaurant, which under his competent management have become well known to the public, but he has not confined his attention to one line of trade, and in 1903 engaged in the oil business, assisting in the formation of the present Daniel Boone Gas

& Oil Company, which owns eighty-two acres of land. They were the first company to strike deep-pay oil, having gone two hundred and ninety-four feet through rock, the company paying thirty thousand dollars dividends during the first year, and they now operate eighteen wells and are constantly making substantial improvements in the way of putting in new power, etc. Mr. Gwinnup is the treasurer of the company, and his excellent business ability has contributed not a little to the success of the company. He has also purchased the Record Oil Company, which he soon expects to place in successful operation, while in addition to these large interests he has also introduced a new electric sign, which promises to be a profitable investment. Thus in many fields of endeavor he has directed his energies, and his counsel and sound judgment have contributed to the success of many business interests of Muncie and Delaware county.

The marriage of Mr. Gwinnup was celebrated in 1901, Miss Violetta Spangler, of Texas, becoming his wife. His fraternal relations connect him with the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and to him belongs the honor of being the first Eagle in the state of Indiana. He also got up the charter list for Muncie Lodge No. 231. He is a worthy past president and is now serving his third term as its treasurer.

James Warren Brissey. For a number of years past James W. Brissey has practiced at the bar of Delaware county, and during that time his rise has been gradual, but he today occupies a leading position among the representatives of the legal profession in Muncie. His reputation has been won through earnest, honest labor, and his high standing is a merited tribute to his ability. Born in Owen county, Kentucky, October 7, 1864, he is a son of James Milton and Sarah (Osborn) Brissey, both also natives of the Blue Grass state of Kentucky. They w^ere farming people, and in 1865 they removed to Fountain county, Indiana, where the father departed this life in 1904, when he had reached the eighty-ninth milestone on the journey of life.

After completing his education in the public schools of Fountain county, Indiana, James W. Brissey spent two years in the Ladoga Normal School, and while there David Starr Jordan became interested in the young lad and urged him to go through the state university, making arrangements whereby he was enabled to work his way through the institution. Mr. Brissey had but few opportunities during his early life, but was determined to obtain an education, and has resolutely overcome the obstacles which barred his path to success and today can look back with satisfaction on his struggles and west. On returning to Indiana he entered the state university, where he worked his way through and obtained his heart's desire, a university education. For a time thereafter he taught in the schools of Fountain county, and was later elected to the position of county superintendent, the duties of which he discharged with his usual promptness and fidelity. He was admitted to the bar in Foimtain county, and shortly afterward was elected prosecuting attorney for the twenty-first judicial district, containing the counties of Fountain, Warren and Benton, continuing as its incumbent for two terms. It was in the year 1901 that he came to Muncie, where for a time he practiced in partnership with Thomas E. Bracken, the firm name being Brissey & Bracken, while later he was a member of the firm of Brissey & Ethell, but is now alone in his practice. He is well informed on the subject of jurisprudence in its various departments and he has won many notable forensic triumphs. In his political connections he is a Republican and takes a deep interest in the questions which aflfect the welfare of the state and nation and mold the public policy, while since attaining to mature age he has been an active factor in the local campaigns of his party.

In 1889 Mr. Brissey was united in marriage to Anna Martin, a native of Warren county, Indiana, and a daughter of Jesse Martin. They have one daughter, Margaret, who was born on the 3d of February, 1897, and their daughter Ruth died in 1891, when a babe of six months old. Mr. Brissey has fraternal relations with the Knights of Pythias, and is also a member of the Presbyterian church. He is a broad-minded, progressive man and a public spirited citizen, and in all life's relations he is found true to the duties of professional and social life.

Henry J. Keller belongs to the group of influential and enterprising merchants who during the last twenty years have made Muncie one of the principal retail centers of eastern Indiana. Especially in the line of dry goods and clothing, the business district of Muncie contains some of the finest establishments to be found in the state and patronized by increasing thousands both in the city and in the surrounding country, the importance of Muncie as a distributing center having been wonderfully increased during recent years by the interurban lines. One of the first of the large establishments that would be mentioned in a list of Muncie's retail firms is The Keller-Bryce Company, clothing merchants, who occupy the comer room of the Johnson block at Walnut and Charles.

The history of the firm is part of the history of Muncie since the gas boom. On January 15, 1888, Henry J. Keller, who is now president and general manager of the firm, came to Muncie and formed a partnership in the retail clothing business with G. W. Bliss. During the preceding eight years he had been employed as salesman in various dry goods and mercantile establishments and was well equipped by experience and business gfifts for the mercantile career upon which he entered. With the growth of Muncie in population and wealth the firm of Bliss and Keller had corresponding success, and continued in that style until November, 1895, when a reorganization was effected under the name of Keller, Bryce and Company. In March, 1905, the business was incorporated ,under the name The Keller- Bryce Company, and Mr. Keller has been president and general manager since that date.

The president of the firm, who is now one of the oldest business men in the city, was born in Winchester, Randolph county, where his father was long identified with farming and merchandising, and where the son also gained his first experience in business life. His father was George Godfred Keller, and he and his wife, Katharine Elizabeth (Kayser) Keller, were both natives of Germany and came to the United States in 1852, being married in the same year at Bucyrus, Ohio. In 1855 ^^y nioved to Winchester, Indiana, and there the father followed farming and mercantile pursuits until 1881, since which year he has lived retired, being now eighty-one years of age. For many years he took an active part in church aflfairs. The mother passed away in December, 1905.

Henry J. Keller was educated in the common schools at Winchester, and after leaving them at once began earning his own living and as a clerk began the career which has been so successful. In politics Mr. Keller is identified with the Republican party. A prominent Mason, he is a member of Muncie Lodge No. 433, F. & A. M., Muncie Chapter No. 30, Muncie Commandery No. 18, the Indiana Consistory, and Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of Muncie Lodge No. 245 of the Elks, and Silver Shield Lodge No. 403, K. of P. April 2, 1885, he was married to Edna L. Haynes, youngest daughter of Jesse G. and Matilda (Cropper) Haynes, the former, deceased, of Randolph county, Indiana. They have three children, Esther, Nellie and Paul G. Mr. Keller and family are identified with the First Presbyterian church.

Alfred Grindle, one of Muncie's foremost citizens, possesses the talent which has placed his name high among the architects of this state. Perseveringly he has pursued his way with one fixed ambition and goal ever before him, undaunted by the obstacles which he encountered, and now he has won for himself a name and place among the leaders of the profession.

His birth occurred at Manchester, England, July 23, 1863, his parents being George and Elizabeth (Holmes) Grindle, both also natives of the mother country, the father born in Yorkshire and the mother in Manchester. They gave to their son an excellent literary and professional training, he having studied in the King Charles Public School, of Tuxford, in Nottinghamshire, also Owen's University in Manchester, in addition to architectural training in the Manchester School of Art, where he received a careful

With his education completed he served for five years as articled pupil in the offices of Bell & Roper, the famous architects of Manchester and London, while in 1886 he received the full certificate with honors at the Manchester School of Art. As a result of overstudy his health became impaired and he removed to Birmingham to recuperate, while in 1888 he sailed for the United States and spent the first two years in this country in the East At the close of the period, in 1890, Mr. Grindle became a resident of Indiana, where for three or four years he held senior positions as chief draughtsman, commencing architectural practice in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1894.

His residence in that city continued from 1894 to 1904, when he came to Muncie, and has ever since been numbered among the city's most prominent residents. Among the most prominent buildings which he has designed since his removal from the East may be mentioned the Public Library at Fort Wayne, erected at a cost of one hundred thousand dollars ; the Jasper county court house, costing one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; the Root Memorial building, of Fort Wayne ; also the J. B. Barnes building of Fort Wayne ; the McKinley school house, of Muncie ; the Terminal depot, of Muncie, and many others. During this time buildings amounting to over three million dollars have been erected under his supervision, including schools, churches, residences and public buildings.

In 1886 Mr. Grindle was united in marriage to Miss Frances Alice Jones ; five children have been born to them, two only remaining with them, Alfred Vernon Holmes, bom August 13, 1894, and Henry George Westbrook, born July 6, 1900. Mr. Grindle's fraternal relations connect him with the Masonic order. In connection with his profession he has also a love for music, pursuing his studies on the organ during his leisure time, with the result that he is now a proficient musician, and during many years has been identified with the choirs of the Episcopal church, of which he is a member.

Joseph A. Nelson. Among the men of affairs who have been distinctively the architects of their own fortunes is numbered Joseph A. Nelson, who without advantages at the commencement of life has battled earnestly and energetically and is now numbered among the leading business men of Muncie. His birth occurred in Cumberland county, Kentucky, April 4, 1863, his parents being Nicholas C. and Amanda A. (Ferquin) Nelson. The father, a native son of Kentucky, followed the millwright's trade, and while pursuing this occupation was severely injured, dying from the effects of his injury when his son Joseph was but fourteen years of age. Five years later the mother was also called from this life to the home beyond, their large family of children then being left to battle for themselves.

At the time of his mother's death Joseph A. Nelson was but nineteen years of age, and at that early age, with practically no educational advantages, he was left to make his own way in the world, and not only was he obliged to care for himself but also for eight other children younger than himself. He farmed until his twenty-fifth year, and during the following five years was a resident of Indianapolis, Indiana, four years of the time being spent as a street car conductor and the remaining year in the ice business. It was in the year of 1893 that he came to Muncie, and from that time to the present he has been prominently identified with the ice business. During the first three years he served as manager of the Muncie Lake Ice Company, at the close of which period he organized the Crystal Ice Company, his associate being Mr. Thornburg, but at the expiration of seven years Mr. Nelson sold his interest, and during the following two years harvested and shipped ice from Dawson, Ohio. During the following fourteen months he had charge of the Muncie Ice & Coal Company, and he has ever since remained a stockholder in this large and important industry.

. At the age of twenty years Mr. Nelson was united in marriage to Lillian Pace, whose death occurred about ten years later, and he subsequently wedded Mrs. Emma Kerr, nee Thornburg. He has one son by his first marriage, Walter L. Mr. Nelson holds membership relations with the Knights of Pythias fraternity, and although he is identified with the Democracy he votes for the man regardless of party affiliations.

Francis A. Shaw, son of Obed A. and Mary E. Shaw, was bom on the sixth day of July, 1879, at Luray, Henry county, Indiana, where for more than twenty years his father was engaged in the merchandise business and operated a harness shop. The grandfather, Nicholas Shaw, was one of the early settlers of Wayne county, emigrating to that county from North Carolina with his family in September, 1826, where he resided on a farm near what is now Economy, and it was on this farm on the twelfth day of April, 1840, that the father of Francis A. was bom.

When Francis A. was six years old the father sold his store and harness shop to his eldest son, William R., and moved with his family upon a small farm west of Cowan, in Monroe township, Delaware county, Indiana, where he has ever since and does now reside.

The family of Obed A. has consisted of ten children, of whom there is now living, William R., who is a farmer and lives upon the site of the old family homestead at Luray; Enos L., who is a graduate of Purdue University, a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and is a consulting engineer in Chicago, having an office at 1105 Monadnock building, Chicago; Francis A., the subject of this sketch; Orian L. and Orpha E. Shaw, a twin brother and sister, who reside at home with the parents.

position among the representatives of the bar in Delaware county. He is in every sense of the word a self-made man, and is winning a reputation through earnest, honest labor, and his present standing is but the merited tribute to his ability. He has demonstrated his ability to successfully handle the intricate problems of jurisprudence and now has one of the largest and best clientages in his county. Mr. Shaw is a general practitioner, but is considered a specialist on insurance and municipal matters, and is admitted to practice in all of the state and Federal courts.

Before his admission to the bar, Mr. Shaw took up the study of stenography and mastered its principles without the aid of a teacher and became so proficient that he has held the position for short periods of both the Delaware and Randolph Circuit courts.

Mr. Shaw, while an active, energetic Republican, has always stood for the rights of the people of his county first, and has refused to support nominees of his party on the county ticket when he considered them unworthy of his support. He has always refused to be controlled by political bosses and has always stood for good citizenship rather than partyism in local affairs. He has for a number of years been identified with local Good Citizenship Leagues.

Just a few days after his admission to the bar and on the i8th day of July, 1900, Mr. Shaw was married to Miss Virgie E. Wright, only child of Charles F. arid Mary J. Wright, of Richmond, Indiana. This union has been blessed by one daughter, Helen M., who was bom on the 7th day of August, 1902.

Mr. Shaw holds membership relations with the Delaware Lodge, F. & A. M., with the B. P. O. E., Knights of Pythias, and is a member of the Jackson Street Christian church of the city of Muncie.

JosiAH Huffman. In reviewing the early and much of the subsequent history ot Delaware county the name of Josiah Huffman will be found prominently recorded on its pages. He was bom in Greene county, Ohio, in 1822, and his death occurred in Delaware county, Indiana, on the 7th of September, 1897. He was a son of Aaron Huffman, who came to the United States from his native land of Germany and established his home first in Virginia, from whence he later removed to Greene county, Ohio, and there his death occurred.

When a mere child Josiah Huffman was bound out, and thus his chances for gaining an education in his youth were extremely limited. He made his own way in the world from an early period in life, and was reared to manhood's estate in Ohio, there also marrying Lettishia Bryan, who was born in Virginia. Mr. Huffman continued to follow his trade of wagon and carriage maker in Cedarville, Ohio, until the fall of 1880, when he came to Delaware county, Indiana, and located on a farm in Center township. Previous to leaving his Ohio home he had purchased the shop in which he learned his trade, but after coming to this county he became identified with its agricultural interests, and for seventeen years he continued as one of the county's prominent business men and citizens. He was a Republican in his political affiliations, and both he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. She was called to the home beyond in 1885. In their family were five children, Ferdinand Jasper, Calaway F. (deceased), Wilmuth A., Josiah N. and one who died in infancy.

Wilmuth A. HuflFman was bom in Cedarville, Ohio, July 24, 1857, and in that city he was also reared to mature years and received his educational training. It was there, too, that he learned his trade of carriage trimming in his father's shop, but after coming to Indiana with his parents he turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, and save for a period of nine years spent as a merchant he has since been prominently identified with the tilling of the soil. His nine years as a merchant were spent at Royerton. He is the owner of an estate of one hundred and sixty acres of excellent farming land, and Center township numbers him among her leading agriculturists and business men. His political support is given to the Republican party.

Mr. Huffman married in 1884 Estella I. Clark, a daughter of Robert and Fannie (Kemper) Oark, and they have one child. Lulu May. Robert Kemper was a son of Arthur Smith Kemper, whose histc«*y will be found in that of Dr. Kemper. Woodson Clark was the grandfather of Mrs. Huffman. Robert Clark is engaged in general farming and stock raising, making a specialty of Poland China hogs, and he also has both full blood and high grade Jerseys. Mr. Huffman is a member of the fraternal order of the Knights of the Maccabees.

H. R. Gallivan, chief of the fire department of Muncie and one of the city's most popular and trustworthy officials, is a native son of the Buckeye state, bom in Bellefontaine on the 6th of March, 1877, but his parents, Maurice and Mary (Kirby) Gallivan, were both natives of Ireland. The father came to the United States at the age of twenty-nine years, and twice he toc4c up his abode in Delaware county, first in 1874 and again in 1892.

After completing his education in the schools of Ohio H. R. Gallivan leamed the plumbing business, and continued in that occupation for several years after his removal to Muncie. In 1900 he joined the fire department, and two years later became assistant chief, while in 1906 he was promoted to the high office of chief. When he assumed charge there were thirteen men in the department, while under his able administration the membership has been advanced to twenty and two new fire houses have been erected, furnished with all the modern appliances and they are thoroughly up to date

Harold C. R. Wall. The subject of this review, Harold C. R. Wall, has attained a marked success in business affairs, has gained the respect and confidence of his fellows, and is recognized as one of the distinctively representative citizens of Mun/^ie. As a leading real estate dealer he has been energetic, keenly discriminating and sagacious, qualities which win success wherever applied to the practical affairs of life.

Mr. Wall is a native of Wads worth, Medina county, Ohio, born on the 26th of December, 1865, his parents being Paul and Isabella (Rothacker) Wall, both Ohioans and of German descent. The paternal family of Walls, or Wahls, was established in the United States in 1771 by the great-greatgreat-grandfather of Harold C. R. Wall, who was one of seven brothers and settled in northeastern Pennsylvania. In 1819 the great-grandfather migrated to Ohio, while the father, Paul Wall, became a farmer in that state. As a grain dealer and manufacturer he was afterward identified with the commercial and industrial interests of that section of the state, and thus continued until his retirement from active business in the early '80s. His death occurred on the 23rd of November, 1906, and he is still survived by his widow. Her family, the Geigers, were for two centuries apothecaries in Germany, and Harold seems to have inherited a taste for the profession.

Completing his educational training in Oberlin College, from which he graduated in 1887, Mr. Wall engaged in the drug business at Akron, Ohio, where he remained for seven years. Going thence to Seattle, Washington, he again entered the drug business, being thus employed during the disastrous fire which swept through the city. In this fiery casualty he had many exciting experiences, and he had the satisfaction of saving his employer's stock from destruction. Soon after returning to the East he resumed the drug business at Akron, advancing to the front ranks in this line before his retirement from the field in 1893. He then entered real estate, purchasing and reorganizing the Abstract Title-Guarantee & Trust Company, which is the only recognized authority on titles in the city. He also organized and became manager of the Permanent Savings & Loan Company, which is now one of the leading institutions of the city. Selling his interest in both of these companies Mr. Wall came to Muncie in 1900 and purchased the property of the Muncie Land Company, which was in the hands of a receiver at that time. In order to handle the property the Citizens Land Company, controlled by himself and family, was organized, and under his skillful management that organization has been largely instrumental in the improvement and upbuilding of the city.

On coming to Muncie Mr. Wall identified himself with the progressive business element of the city, and became a member of the old Commercial Qub, serving as vice president thereof for one year. He was one of the organizers of the new Commercial Club, of which he was vice president for three years and president for one year, while for two years he was also chairman of the manufacturing committee. He is a man of keen foresight and sagacity, is energetic, enterprising and reliable, and therefore during the comparatively few years of his residence in Muncie has made many judicious and profitable investments, as well as earned the confidence of the public and a liberal share of its real estate patronage.

In March, 1889, Mr. Wall was married to Miss Minnie S. Gilbert, of Cleveland, Ohio. Although, as stated, he has spent but comparatively few years in Muncie, he has made his mark in the city, and is widely known and held in uniform regard by its residents.

Duncan Wiluams, whose death occurred January 3, 1892, had spent almost his entire life in Hamilton township, where he was known as a successful farmer, a man of integrity and trustworthiness in pubUc and private life. His name has a place in the official affairs of his township, which he served as trustee.

His active life was spent on a farm which his father had entered during the pioneer days of Hamilton township. Josiah D. Williams, the father, was bom in Adams county, Ohio, October 21, 1800, and the same county was the birthplace of the son Duncan on November 9, 1832. Josiah D. Williams came to Delaware county in the fall of 1835, entering one hundred and sixty acres in Hamilton township, and a year later he brought his family to this new home, and both parents and children began the work of clearing the wilderness and making a home. Among the early settlers Josiah D. Williams was a prominent character, a man of uprightness and industry, serving his township in various offices, and his death in 1855 was a loss to the citizenship of the commimity. He had married, in 1821, Emily McCall, daughter of a Scotch settler of the Ohio valley, and of their union were seven children, namely : Maria, William McC, John W., Mary, Duncan, Martha and Sarah J. Of these Martha, wife of Amos Shafer, of this county, is the only one still living.

Duncan Williams came to this county at such an early age that he may be considered to have passed his entire lifetime in the county. An education in such early schools as the country districts afforded was followed, in 1850, by his entrance in the Delaware County Seminary at Muncie, where he was a pupil during two years in what was then the highest educational institution of the county. When his father died he bought the interest of the other heirs in the old homestead, and as a farmer and stock-raiser he was one of the men who contributed substantial results to the rural development of this county. His name and influence were connected with various enterprises and movements, and as trustee he assisted the progress of education and the public schools. He was a Democrat in politics, and, with his family, was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.

Mrs. Duncan Williams, the widow of this well known old citizen, who now makes her home in Muncie, was a daughter of Robert Clark, one of the earliest settlers of Delaware county. Robert Clark, son of Woodson Clark, was born in Madison county, Kentucky, January 27, 1816, and came to this county at the age of sixteen, where he died April 22, 1895. By his marriage to Frances Kemper he had the following children: Sarah J., William G., Mary A., Lucy B., John W., Margaret F., Carrie G., Thomas J., Stella J., Ralph H. Sarah J. Clark married Duncan Williams September 23, 1858. Mrs. Williams has four living children, namely : Lucy, Emma, Gertrude and Robert J., while one, William K., is deceased,

Hugh Alvin Cowing, physician and surgeon, was bom near the city of Muncie July 28, i860, a son of Granville and Lucy (Moran) Cowing and a grandson of Joseph Cowing. After completing his education in the common schools of Delaware county and graduating from the Muncie high school with the class of 1882, Hugh A. Cowing taught school in this county for eight years, from 1879 until 1887. It was in 1886 that he began the study of medicine, first under the supervision of Dr. G. W. H. Kemper, of Muncie, and later attended three courses of lectures at the Miami Medical College in Cincinnati, Ohio. He received his degree of M. D. from that institution March 11, 1890, and on the 24th of the same month entered into a partnership with his former preceptor. Dr. G. W. H. Kemper, at Muncie. This relationship continued until 1897, *and since then he has continued alone in this city.

Dr. Cowing is a member of the Delaware County (Indiana) Medical Society, of which he was the secretary in 1893 and the president in 1906; a member of the Indiana State Medical Society, of the American Medical Association, of the American Public Health Association; was a member of the Indiana State Committee of the International Congress on Tuberculosis, 1908; has been secretary of the Delaware County Board of Health since 1890; and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Dr. Cowing is also the president of the Delaware County Children's Home Association and president of the Delaware County Board of Children's Guardians. His contributions to medical literature are: "Tobacco; its Effect Upon the Health and Morals of a Community"; "Diseases of the Cornea"; "Paracentesis Thoracis," Indiana Medical Journal, May, 1892; "A Case of Tetanus; Recovery," Ibid,, January, 1893; "Fracture of the Skull ; Report of Two Cases, with Operation and Recovery," June, 1894; "Report of a Case of Purpura," Cincinnati Lancet Clinic, January 27, 1894; History of the Small Pox Epidemic at Muncie, Indiana, in 1893, and "Management of an Outbreak of Small Pox," Twelfth Annual Report of the Indiana State Board of Health, 1893 ; "How Shall We Solve the Tuberculosis Problem?" 1905; "The Adulteration of Food and Drugs," Delaware County Medical Society; "Twins and their Relation to Obstetric Procedures," 1901 ; "The Modem Sanatorium Treatment of Tuberculosis," 1906, Indiana State Medical Society ; "Shall Indiana Improve Her Laws which Regulate the Practice of Medicine?" 1896; "The Tuberculosis Sanatorium," 1905, Health Officers' School, Indianapolis ; "The Relation of the Physician to the Tuberculosis Problem" ; 1906, American Public Health Association, Mexico City, Mexico ; "The Hospital and the Sanatorium a Ne- cessity in the Combat Against Tuberculosis," 1906; Tuberculosis Exhibit, Indianapolis ; and "Six Hundred Cases of Labor in Private Practice," 1907, Delaware County Medical Society.

Edward Tuhey. The subject of this review, Edward Tuhey, is a worthy representative of that type of American character and of that progressive spirit which promote public good in advancing individual prosperity and conserving popular interests. He has long been prominently identified with the business interests of Muncie, and while his varied affairs have brought him success they have also advanced the general welfare by accelerating commercial activity. Mr. Tuhey is of Irish ancestry, his father, Edward Tuhey, having been born in county Cork, Ireland, but when twenty years of age he came to the United States, and like many of his countrymen from the Emerald Isle, engaged in railroad work. He came to Indiana at the time of the construction of the Big Four Railroad, locating in Muncie, where his lifers labors were ended in death on the ist of July, 1895. He became a loyal and patriotic American citizen, and during the Civil war served as a soldier in the Thirty-fifth Indiana Infantry.

Jn Muncie, on the 14th of January, 1856, occurred the birth of Edward Tuhey, and after completing his education in its public schools he was engaged in teaching for twelve years in Delaware county. Leaving the professional for a business career, he engaged in contracting and building in Muncie, and to him belongs the credit of having built the larger part of the drainage system of this city. Pour years later he erected the rolling mills and engaged in the manufacture of iron, as a member of the Muncie Iron & Steel Company, and thu^ he continued for about ten years. On the expiration of that period he organized the Tuhey Canning Company, this being in 1900, and since the time of its organization the enterprise has grown in volume and importance until it is now classed among the leading industrial institutions of Delaware county. They can only tomatoes, of which they ship from one hundred to one hundred and twenty-five carloads annually. In addition to his extensive business interests Mr. Tuhey has also taken an active part in the public aflfairs of his native city, and for four years during Cleveland's administration, he served as its postmaster, while from 1898 until 1902 he served in the highest office within the gift of his fellow citizens, that of mayor, wherein he was active and earnest in his advocacy of all measures for the public good.

On the i8th of October, 1876, Mr. Tuhey was united in marriage to Mary Edna McKinley, a daughter of Alexander McKinley, one of the honored pioneer residents of Delaware county. Of the ten children bom to Mr. and Mrs, Tuhey all are living, and three are associated with their father in business. He has been an influential factor in the progress of Muncie, and, alone and unaided, he has carved his way to the high position he now occupies.

David A. Lambert. One of the best known among men who have held public office in Delaware county is David A. Lambert. His first public position was that of deputy county treasurer, to which place he was appointed in i8qi bv Mark Powers, who at the election in 1800 was made countv from April i, 1903, to April i, 1907. On the i8th of February, 1908, he was nominated by the Republicans of Delaware county as their candidate for state senator. For many years Mr. Lambert has been very much interested in agricultural pursuits, and takes much interest in the management of a fertile and well kept farm which he owns in Hamilton township. He has never been too busy in public life to neglect the affairs of the farm, and his success in agriculture has been fully demonstrated.

Mr. Lambert was one of a family of nine children, having been born in Salem township, Delaware county, Indiana, on the 29th of June, 1861. His father was John N. Lambert, one of the pioneers in the settlement of Salem township. He was bom in Ohio, near Cincinnati, December 26, 1829, and, after a few years spent in southern Indiana, came to Delaware county about the year 1852. Here, for almost a quarter of a century, he lived on rented land, enduring all of the hardships incident to those times in Indiana. Industrious, honest, of good habits, upright and kind-hearted, John N. Lambert was a noble example for his children, and all who came in contact with him. After a long period of renting, he purchased the farm which he had tilled so long, and began to work out his ideas of a home. At the time the farm was purchased, much of it was in woods. With his proverbial pluck and perseverance he went about clearing it for the plow, draining the soil and making such other improvement as his financial circumstances would permit. On the first day of June, 1907, he passed away, after a lingering and painful illness, at the age of seventy-seven years. The mother of David A. Lambert was Nancy J. (Graham) Lambert, who was the daughter of Joseph Graham and was bom in 1830. She was a woman of rare virtue, intelligence and good sense, and, by reason of her teaching and righteous living, instilled into the minds of her children a desire not only to live pure and cleanly lives but to do something and to be somebody in the world. She died in 1879 at the age of forty-nine years.

David A. Lambert attended the schools of Salem township during his boyhood days, and later became a student in the Central Indiana Normal College, located at Danville, Indiana. When eighteen years of age he began teaching and continued to teach for twelve years, and it was at the close of that period that he entered upon his long and successful career as a public official.

On September 3, 1889, Mr. Lambert was married to Elizabeth Kirklin, who was bora in Delaware county on March 26, 1867. To this union were born two children - Marian, October 2, 1890, and Mildred, November 25, 1891. The loving and faithful wife and mother died July 13, 1893, only living long enough to prove her worth to husband and daughters and leaving them a legacy of undying and unending love, and the influence of a courageous and devoted womanhood. Her life was pure and spotless, and her life, though short, a blessing to all who knew her. On July 29, 1896, Mr. Lambert was married to Miss Anna M. Meeker, who was the daughter of Chester C. Meeker and Ann (Johnston) Meeker, who were natives of the state of New York. Miss Meeker was born July 29, 1870. To this union were born three sons - ^Jean, bom August 30, 1900; George, bom February 22^ 1904, and David, born July 14, 1906.

Mr. Lambert is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of the Knights of Pythias, and of the Red Men. As stated before, he is a Republican and active in all movements having a tendency to better the conditions of his city or county.

Frank L. Gass, judge of the city court of Muncie was bom in that place on the 22d of March, 1872, and, with the exception of two years spent in Missouri, has resided therein all his life. He spent twelve years in the acquiring of an education, which was preparatory to his collegiate courses, entering one of the city schools at the age of six years and graduating from the high school when eighteen years old. In the fall of 1890 he became a student in the Indiana State University, and after completing a scientific course commenced the study of law, graduating from the latter department in 1895, with the degree of Bachelor of Law,

Immediately after his admission to the bar Judge Gass commenced the practice of his profession in Muncie, but after five years of substantial success was induced to test the stories which came to him of the wealth being made in the lead and zinc mines of Missouri. In 1899-1900 he therefore resided in Webb City, that state, and profitably conducted various interests in the field mentioned; but on account of the failing health of his father he returned to Muncie to assist him in the buggy business. His professional standing and his upright and able character as a man were about to be recognized by the community at large in his decisive election as judge of the city court in 1905. Although Judge Gass is a Democrat and Muncie is normally a Republican city by about two thousand majority, he was honored by a majority of five hundred and sixty-five. His term of service does not expire until January i, 1910, and as his record has already materially advanced his legal and judicious name it is probable that greater public preferments are in store for him. The Judge is also one of the most prominent members of the Knights of Pythias in the state, and in October, 1907, was elected Grand Chancellor of the order for Indiana.

Judge Gass is of German parentage and ancestry, his father, Charles Gass, having emigrated from the fatherland to the United States in 1865, being then a youth of eighteen. The mother is of German extraction, but was bom and raised in Hancock county, her maiden name being Schrieber.

L. T. LoAR, M. D. In the practice of medicine, in Muncie, Dr. Loar has demonstrated the fact that he is well informed concerning the principles of the medical science and their correct application to the needs of suflFering humanity, and has therefore been accorded a liberal patronage. His birth occurred in West Virginia on the 12th of October, i860, a son of Harmon and Elizabeth (Workman) Loar, both also natives of that commonwealth and descendants of prominent old southern families. They were married September 15, 1846. The father spent his entire life in the Panhandle state, prominently identified with its agricultural interests, and he died at the old home place there September 27, 1892. His widow still resides there.

In the public schools of his native commonwealth of West Virginia Dr. Loar received his early literary training, and he was early inured to the duties of the fields. In 1878 he began farming for himself, and continued until 1884, when he engaged in the lumber business in Wayne county. West

Virginia. Choosing the practice of medicine as his life occupation, in 1889 he entered upon a course of study in the I-ouisville Medical College, graduating therein in 1891, and immediately afterward he began practice in West Virginia. After four years of practice in his native commonwealth Dr. Loar located in Pickaway county, Ohio, where for two years he was actively engaged in the practice of medicine, and in 1898 he came to Muncie, Indiana, and opened an office. His professional career here has been attended with marked success, and his name is fast becoming a household word in the homes of the community. He has always taken a deep interest in, the political and public affairs of his locality, and votes with the Democratic party.

On November, 28, 1895, Dr. Loar was united in marriage to Qara B. Dickason, a native of Jackson, Ohio, bom July 18, 1869, a daughter of Charles Dickason, also of the Buckeye state. They have become the parents of two children, Ruth H., born on the 20th of January, 1897, in Pickaway county, Ohio, and Laban Theodore, bom Febmary 27, 1903, in Muncie, Indiana. In his fraternal relations the Doctor is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Order of Red Men, and is also a consistent member of the Presbyterian church and of the Delaware Medical Society.

Sidney A. Jewett, deceased, was bom in the state of New York June 16, 1833. His father, Jeremiah Jewett, was also a native of the Empire State, but he came to Muncie when his son Sidney was a little lad of five years, or in 1838. He was a burner of lime, and followed that occupation for many years, being a pioneer of that once important industry in Muncie. His death occurred in this city at the advanced age of eighty-four years.

Sidney A. Jewett was reared and received his educational training in Muncie, and this city wa^ the place of his residence during the remainder of his life. During the early years of his life he burned lime with his father, and when the Civil war was inaugurated he tendered his services in defense of the Union by enlisting in Company B, Sixty-ninth Indiana Infantry. He served three years in the army and took part in every battle and engagement in which his regiment was engaged. Retuming home after the close of hostilities, he was for several years thereafter variously employed, and during the fifteen years preceding his death was the proficient superintendent of the. Beech Grove Cemetery, of Muncie. His death occurred on the 3d of Febmary, 1904,

In the year of 1857 Mr. Jewett married Miss Sarah Conn, who survives him and yet resides in Muncie. She was born in Delaware county, Indiana, October 30, 1840, and her father, Mr. Simon Conn, was one of the early pioneers of the county, not only as a settler but also as the operator of a wagon freight line between Muncie and Cincinnati. Unto the union of Sidney A. and Sarah Jewett were bom the following children : Ida, now Mrs. Fred Watson; Charles E., deceased; William M., deceased; Fred K, of whom further mention will be found below; and Nellie, unmarried and living with her mother. Mrs. Jewett is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and is a highly esteemed lady. Her life has been one of kindness and fidelity to home, church and neighbor, and she is loved and honored by all who have the pleasure of her acquaintance. Her husband was a member of the Universalist church, was possessed of moral and praiseworthy habits, and many were his warm and faithful friends. He was a kind and loving husband and father, always ready to do all within his power to add to the comfort and happiness of his family. He was a member of Williams Post No. 78, Department of Indiana, G. A. R., and also of the Senior Order of United American Mechanics.

Fred E. Jewett is the efficient superintendent of the Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company, a position he has held for more than fifteen years, or since his graduation from the Muncie High school. He is the only son of the lately deceased Sidney Jewett, and is also a native son of Muncie, born July 15, 1874, and was reared in the city of his birth. In 1901 he married Miss LaRhue Dungan. Mr. Jewett is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, of the Odd Fellows fraternity and is a Master Mason. In politics he supports the men and measures of the Republican party.