Grant County, Indiana - The whole text, 1914 (part 8 of 32)

His first wife, who was born in Pennsylvania, February 29, 1808, died in Grant county in the prime of life. On November 9, 1837, Robert Marshall married in Monroe township, Rachael Bird, who was born either in Ohio or Pennsylvania, on June 20, 1814. She died August 22, 1839, leaving one son, James, who is married and lives in Oklahoma. Robert Marshall by his first marriage had the following children : Appleton, deceased; Clarissa, deceased; and Adeline, the widow of Riley Nunn, living in Iowa. On May 17, 1840, Robert Marshall married Jane Fanning, who was born in Clinton county, Ohio, and died in Monroe township, December 4, 1900. She became the mother of nine children, and seven are still living and all are married and have homes of their own, except one.

Milton Marshall grew up on the old homestead in Monroe township, had about the same education as was granted to most boys in that community and in that time, and was but a little over seventeen years of age when the great war between the states was begun after Fort Sumter was fired upon. On September 5, 1861, he enlisted in Com¬ pany F of the Thirty-fourth Indiana Regiment, under the command of Colonel Steele and Captain R. B. Jones and had an unusually long period of military service, continuing until his honorable discharge at Brownsville, Texas, on February 3, 1866. He was almost constantly on duty, whether in camp or on the march, participated in many of the campaigns in the Mississippi Valley and in the far south, and among the major engagements in which he fought were those at New Madrid, Mis¬ souri, at Magnolia Courthouse, at Champion Hill and in various battles about Vicksburg. He escaped without wounds, and the only time he was in the hospital was brought about by an attack of the measles. About six years after his return from the south, Mr. Marshall entered upon his independent career of farming by the purchase of forty acres of land in Monroe township. While he never became one of the very large land holders of Grant county, Mr. Marshall made a record of undeniable success, and conducted his various operations in such a way as to bring him steadily forward in prosperity. The original forty acres was increased until he owned sixty-four acres, and developed practically every acre and made it productive according to the highest standards of Grant county agriculture. His land was improved with a substantial barn, and with an excellent six-room dwelling.

In Monroe township in 1867, occurred the marriage of Milton Mar¬ shall and Mary J. Needham. Her birth occurred in Jefferson county, Indiana, January 2, 1841. Her parents were Lorenzo Dow and Mahala (Lishleiter) Needham, both of whom were born in Indiana, in 1800, were married in Jefferson county, and lived on a farm there the rest of their lives. Her father died in October 1841, only a few months after the birth of Mrs. Marshall. The mother died in 1851, so that Mrs. Marshall from the age of ten never knew the care and protection of parents. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall are the parents of seven children, namely : John, who lives in Upland, is married, but has no children ; Elizabeth is the wife of Alonzo Keen, of Monroe township, and has two children, Donna and Blanch ; Melissa is the wife of Ephraim Randolph, of Bakersfield, Cali¬ fornia; Minnie, now the wife of Samuel Seavers of Jefferson township, by her first marriage has one daughter May Thomason, and has two children by her present husband, Helen and Garland; Emma is the wife of Noah B. Pearson of Upland, and their children are Opal and Ruth ; Ida is the wife of Charles Hults, a'farmer of Monroe township, and they have two children, Letha and Berl ; Lona is the wife of Perry Seavers, who is now superintending the Marshall farm in Monroe township, and they have one son, Melvin. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall are both members of the Quaker church and in politics he is a Republican.

S. L. Stricler. A membership of twenty years in the Grant county bar, accompanied by successful practice and prominent in public affairs, has constituted Mr. Stricler one of the leaders among the present lawyers of Grant county. Mr. Stricler has well won all that fortune and success¬ ful positions have given him, since he began his career a poor man and used the resources of his individuality for every advancement to larger responsibility and success.

Samuel Stricler was a native of Grant county, where he was born February 26, 1863, a son of Jeremiah and Mary A. (Tanquary) Stricler The father was a native of Maryland and a farmer by occupation who settled in Grant county in 1847 and lived there sixty-five years until his death October 15, 1912. The mother passed away November 8, 1897. They were the parents of six children, four of whom are now living, namely: Mrs. Jennie Tucker, of Converse, Miami county; John W., of Oklahoma; and James Stricler, of Grant county.

Mr. S. L . Stricler was reared on a farm in this county and began his education by attending the district schools of his neighborhood. He had finally advanced to a point where he was given a teacher's certifi¬ cation and with that obtained a school and was to a large extent identified with teaching for seven years. During the summer for five years he was engaged in farming and for the other two years worked in a general store at Somerset, Indiana. With the resources acquired by this work he finally entered the law department of the University of Michigan, and was graduated in June 1893. He then opened his office at Converse in Miami county, and four years later moved to Marion. Mr. Stricler was for five years county attorney of this county and for the past four years has been a member of the local board of education, being treasurer of the board at the present time. In 1902 he was elected a member of the state senate for four years, and during his terms as senator was author of a bill to re-codify the state statutes. Mr. Stricler is affiliated with die Masonic Lodge and the Knights of Pythias and Elks and in politics

On August 8, 1889, Mr. Stricler married Miss Ina Comer, a daughter of L. H. and Eliza Comer of Grant county. The two children born of their marriage are Dahl, now twenty-two years of age, and engaged as a shipping clerk in the glass factory at Marion; and Mildred C., age fourteen.

John D. Ferree. The history of any community, especially as recorded for the benefit of future generations, is most effectively given through the offering of proper and specific definition of the careers of those who stand representative in the various lines of human activity in the locality treated. Thus it is signally pertinent that in this history of Grant county there be accorded definite representation to Mr. Ferree, who was formerly secretary of the Farmers' Trust and Savings Company, in the city of Marion, but now secretary and treasurer of Johnston Fur¬ niture Company, and who stands forth as one of the aggressive, liberal and valued business men and honored and influential citizens of his native county, where he is well known and commands unequivocal popular confidence.

Mr. Ferree was born on the homestead farm of the family, in Liberty township, this county, and the date of his nativity was August 25, 1872. He is a son of John and Rebecca (Harvey) Ferree, both of whom were bora in North Carolina, where they were reared and educated and where their marriage was solemnized. Soon after this important event in their lives they came to Indiana and first located in Morgan county, whence they came to Grant county nearly half a century ago, here passing the residue of their lives and commanding secure place in the confidence and esteem of all who knew them, Mr. Ferree having become the owner of an excellent farm and having become one of the representative agri¬ culturists and honored and influential citizens of Liberty township. They later moved to Fairmount for educational advantages offered by the Fairmount Academy for their children, where he and his wife died. Of their seven children five sons and one daughter are living. The parents were birthright members of the Society of Friends and they lived in gracious accord with the simple and noble faith of this sterling religious body.

Like many another who has entered business life and attained to definite success and prestige therein, John D. Ferree gained his early experiences in connection with the work of the farm, and after availing himself of the privileges afforded by Fairmount Academy at Fairmount, this county, it was his good fortune to be able to continue his studies in Earlham College, at Richmond, Wayne county, - an admirable insti¬ tution maintained under the auspices of the Society of Friends. In this college he was graduated as a member of the class of 1895 and he received therefrom the degree of Bachelor of Science. His intention had been to prepare himself for the medical profession, but he was deflected therefrom and his success in other fields of endeavor has been such that he has had no reason to regret that his youthful plans were thus changed. After leaving college Mr. Ferree turned his attention to pedagogic work, and in the same he proved both successful and popular. For two years he held the position of principal of the public schools of Fairmount, this county, and in 1897 he became deputy county clerk, under the administration of his elder brother, E. N. Ferree. He continued the valued incumbent of this important position for ten years, and incidentally became known to and honored by the residents of all parts of his native county. His long experience and sterling character marked him as a logical candidate for advancement to the office of county clerk, to which he was elected, on the Republican ticket, in 1907, and he gave a most effective and satisfactory administration, his tenure of office expiring in 1911. In January of that year he became one of the organizers and incorporators of the Farmers ' Trust and Savings Company and he has been a valued factor in the development and upbuilding of the large and substantial business of this important and well ordered company, of which he was secretary from the time of its incorporation until June, 1913, when he incorporated the Johnston Furniture Company, the same having been known for years as the H. 6. Johnston Furniture Store. He was also a director of the company. In all the relations of life he has fully upborne the high prestige of the honored name which he bears, and he stands as one of the popular and representative business men of the county that has ever been his home.

The stalwart allegiance which he has accorded to the Republican party vouches for the political faith of Mr. Ferree and he has been a zealous worker in the local camp of his party, in which he served at one time as chairman of the city central committee of Marion. He is affil¬ iated with the local organizations of the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias, the Loyal Order of Moose, and the Modem Woodmen of America. Mr. Ferree and his wife have an interest in all that tends to advance the civic welfare of the community and all things that make for high social and moral ideals. They have a good home in Marion and the same is known for its cordial and gracious hospitality.

On the 6th of July, 1898, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Ferree to Miss Adalene M. Heaston, of Huntington county, this state, and the two children of this ideal union are John Willard and Edwin H. Ferree.

Ora E. Butz. With the exception of a comparatively brief time, when he was employed in a stenographic capacity just after emerging from the Indiana Business College at Logansport, Ora E. Butz has been engaged in teaching the business branches in Marion, and has for some time past been manager of the Marion Business College. He has proven his ability as an instructor and excellent success has attended his efforts from the start, and as one of the enterprising and ambitious young men of the city and one whose efforts have gained him a prominent place in the city, he is properly accorded some special mention in this historical work.

Born in Cass county, on the home farm of his parents on March 25, 1883, Ora E. Butz is the son of Charles H. and Jennie (Snider) Butz, natives of Allentown, Pennsylvania, and Cass county, respectively. The father made his home in Allentown until 1873, when he came to Indiana. He was identified with the manufacturing business, fairly successful in his way, but the panic of 1873 finished his prosperity and caused him to move from his old home to Indiana. Coming to Cass county, he identified himself with farming, and it was there that he met and married his wife. They still live on their Cass county farm, and are enjoying their well earned rest. They became the parents of seven children, five of whom are yet living. One of the number was Ora E., the subject of this review.

Mr. Butz attended the schools of Cass county in the vicinity of his home community, and on finishing the public schools, entered the Indiana Business College at Logansport, where he took up a thorough eourse of business study. His first work upon leaving school was in the office of the superintendent of the Michigan Division of the Penn- sylvania Railroad at Logansport, and he was employed in a stenographic capacity. Four months of service there was followed by a period of nine months in a Logansport hardware store, after which he was asked to return to the school he had previously quitted and take up the duties of a teacher of shorthand. He taught stenography and bookkeeping in the Kokomo Business College for a year, and in 1907 was given the management of Marion Business College, in addition to the manager¬ ship of the Kokomo school. In 1910, so well had he succeeded in the duties of manager, that the proprietor of the chain of schools appointed him to the post of manager of the Logansport Business College as well, which position he is now holding. His success in the field of business education is one of which he might well be proud, and he has done much to bring these schools up to a high standard of commercial excellence, resulting in a corresponding increase in attendance and popularity of the schools.

On December 26, 1906, Mr. Butz was married to Miss Edith M. Fouts, daughter of Jasper and Alice Ann Fouts, both of Cass county, and occupants of the farm adjoining that on which Mr. Butz was reared. He and his wife were childhood play fellows and school mates, and their union came after a lifelong acquaintance. Three children have been born to them, - Dortha Vernon, Tom Ellis and Catherine Alice.

Mr. Butz is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and with his wife has membership in the Church of the United Brethren in Marion. He is a clean-cut, fine-spirited and wholesome young man who bears the confidence and esteem of all who share in his acquaintance, and his citizenship is of an order such as to place him among the Marion men who must be reckoned with when matters of import to the best interest of the city are up for discussion.

Marion Business College. Organized in the Columbian Block, No. 211 South Washington street, Marion, the Marion Business College began its operations in this building immediately upon the completion of the structure. Mr. J. D. Brunner, of Lincoln, Nebraska, became financially interested in the school in the year 1895, and became its sole proprietor in 1896, from which year until 1902 he and Mrs. Brunner (also an experienced instructor) conducted the institution, offering the business subjects in both the day and night sessions. A great many of the prominent business men of Marion received their business training under the capable instruction of Mr. and Mrs. Brunner.

In 1902, Mr. Charles C. Cring, of South Bend, Indiana, conceived the idea of a chain of schools, and being successful in interesting 'Mr. Brunner in the project, they incorporated under the name Indiana Busi¬ ness College. That same year they purchased the Logansport Business College and organized the Kokomo Business College. Their business prospered, and from time to time they purchased additional schools, so that now the Indiana Business College comprises thirteen well-estab¬ lished, well-conducted, well-attended business schools within the limits of the Hoosier State. The schools are known by either the title of Indiana Business College, or as follows : Marion Business College, Marion ; Ko¬ komo Business College, Kokomo; Logansport Business College, Logans¬ port; Muncie Business College, Muncie; Anderson Business College, Anderson; Columbus Business College, Columbus; Richmond Business College, at Richmond ; Lafayette Business College, Lafayette ; Crawfordsville Business College, at Crawfordsville ; Washington Business College, at Washington; Newcastle Business College, at Newcastle; Vincennes Business College, at Vincennes ; and Central Business College, at Indian¬ apolis, Indiana.

Walter W. Slain And Family

The Marion Business College has always employed high-class instructors, and maintains an up-to-date equipment. It has for years taught most of the bookkeepers and stenographers who have accepted and held positions in the city of Marion, and its standing among business men assures a competent graduate every chance for employment.

The curriculum of this institution includes a careful training in the following subjects : Bookkeeping, Business Arithmetic, Commercial Law, Salesmanship, Penmanship, Spelling, Rapid Calculation, Business Cor¬ respondence, Business English, Shorthand, Typewriting, Commission, Manufacturing, Banking Office Practice and Stenotypy. The school continues to operate in the old quarters at No. 211 South Washington street, and is now recognized as one of the best institutions of its kind in the State.

Mr. 0. E. Butz at this time is manager of the Marion Business Col¬ lege, personal mention of his career and work being given in the sketch preceding this. Under his management the college has met with its greatest success, due in no small way to his efficient methods and fine executive ability.

Walter W. Slain. Not all the farms in Grant county are owned by members of the old families. Among the progressive younger agricul¬ turists who have come to the county from other sections, and by their enterprise and thrift have laid substantial foundations for large pros¬ perity, Walter W. Slain, a hustling young farmer, with a fine reputation as a man and citizen, has a prominent place. Mr. Slain operates a fine farm of eighty acres in section twenty-five of Jefferson township. Prac¬ tically all his land is improved, he is the type of man who allows little waste ground about his farm, he is rapidly transforming his acres into one of the most valuable and productive estates in his part of the county. A substantial red barn and a comfortable white house are the more im¬ portant of the building improvements. Mr. Slain bought his present farm in January, 1912, and has it well stocked with hogs and sheep. He also cultivates sixty acres of farm land in the same vicinity. Mr. Slain has come into his present prosperity after a number of years as a renter and tenant, and has earned all he possesses. He has operated farms in this part of Grant county for some years, and has a reputation for pro¬ gressive and reliable methods of land management and is regarded as an upright citizen and thoroughly capable business man.

Walter W. Slain was bom in Boone county, Indiana, May l4, 1875, was reared and educated in Delaware county, and since 1898 has had his home in Grant county. His parents are John William and Elizabeth (Higden) Slain. His father, a native of Rush county; Indiana, was mar¬ ried in Boone county to Miss Higden, who was bom there, and a few years later they went to Madison county, bought and operated a farm of eighty acres, and later moved to Delaware county, where the father farmed until his retirement. He now lives in Gaston, and is a vigorous man bearing easily the weight of almost seventy years. He and his wife are active in the Methodist Episcopal church, and he is an official and served for some years as superintendent of the Sunday school. Of the eight children, six are living, and the family record is as follows : Etta, who died a young woman ; Millie, who died after her marriage, leaving no children ; Albert, who is a farmer in Madison county, and has seven living children ; Walter W. ; Thomas, a mechanic, living in El wood, and has two sons; Ethel, wife of Glenn Wood, now living on a farm in Madi¬ son county, and they have three daughters; and Ira, who occupies his father's Madison county farm, and has one son; and one child, Leonard, who is a nephew adopted into the family, and has always had the posi-

Walter W. Slain was married in Delaware county, to Miss Florence Nottingham, whose father, Rufus C. Nottingham, is a well known and prosperous citizen of Grant county, and his career and family are sketched on other pages of this Centennial history. Mr. and Mrs. Slain are the parents of the following children: Charles and Clifford, who both died in infancy; Virgil A., born March 11, 1898, and now attending the public schools; Roy Ormal, born January 6, 1903, and in school. Mr. and Mrs. Slain are Methodists belonging to the Pleasant Grove church, and in politics he is a Republican voter.

Edwin Caldwell. When Train and Eliza (Wells) Caldwell came with their family from Fayette county, arriving in Grant county November 20, 1856, they had two children, Edwin and Fanny Caldwell, and they had buried two in Fayette county, - Amanda and an infant that had not been christened. Another son, John W. Caldwell, was born in Grant county. Fanny Caldwell and the parents are buried in this county. The father died July 27, 1881, and the mother lived several years, passing away April 14, 1897. Only two sons remain of the family.

Edwin Caldwell married Miss Nancy J. Carmichael, of Hope, Bar¬ tholomew county, August 19, 1877. In the spring of 1878 Mr. Edwin Caldwell and wife moved from the Caldwell family home in Liberty township to Marion, where they have lived continuously except while he was employed as a clerk in the war department, in Washington City, and also for a short time spent on the Pacific Coast. Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell have one son, Frank Caldwell, a student in the Marion high school. There were a number of prominent Southern Grant county families who, like the Caldwells, came from Fayette county in an early day, and all of them are good citizens. Mr. Caldwell went to the district schools near his home in Liberty township, and later to the Fairmount high school, and to the Summer Normal Schools in Marion. For years he was among the progressive teachers of Grant County, where he both ''taught*' and 4 4 kept' ' school for fourteen years, spending four years of that time at 4 4 College Corner/ ' where the Marion Normal College finally located when the city was extended out South Washington street

Mr. Caldwell is of a mathematical turn of mind, and even while teach¬ ing, he used to do a great deal of work as a bookkeeper. Now for several years he has been recognized as an expert accountant. He is one of the state field examiners, and does accounting all over Indiana as he finds time to leave the city, local manufacturers and business corpora¬ tions employing him most of the time in auditing accounts for them. He has all the modern appliances, typewriting, tabulating machine, etc., and frequently does his work at home. Mr. Caldwell has reduced the business to system, and in his 4 4 pigeon holes' ' are kept the previous year's records, so that when a call comes to audit a set of books he simply takes down his file, and knows just where he stands - an easy matter.

Mr. Caldwell is frequently called upon to install the books for new firms and corporations, and being an excellent penman it is always a satisfactory service. Commercial auditing is congenial employment and remunerative, and while he enjoyed teaching he would not want to teach again. Mr. Caldwell is a licensed embalmer, having worked with the different Marion undertakers, but the work of an accountant is more congenial to him and all his time is taken at present. The Caldwell family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and Mrs. Caldwell has occupied much of her spare time with fancy lace patterns, having many scarfs and table covers as a result, and she dares not place a price on her designs - has done so frequently, and had to make others. Knitting is a profitable pastime.

Col. George W. Steele. In the present Governor of the National Military Home, Indiana, Grant county has one of its most distinguished characters, and one whose citizenship is not merely local, but national. Col. Steele is one of those figures who stands forth as a representative not of a city or state, but of a nation. However, during the greater portion of his long life, Grant county has been his home. He made splendid record as a soldier and officer in the Civil War; spent several years following the war in the regular army on the frontier. Became identified with the old pork packing industry in Marion, and was one of the principal organizers of the First National Bank of Marion ; in 1880 began a career as congressman which continued through many years, during which he performed distinguished service for his constit¬ uency and for the nation; and had the honor of serving as the first governor of Oklahoma Territory. This brief outline indicates the diver¬ sity and importance of his career, and the many reasons why Grant county esteems him as among its foremost public characters.

George W. Steele is a native of this state, born in Fayette county December 13, 1839. When he was a little more than three years of age his parents moved to Grant county, settling here on February 3, 1843, so that for more than seventy years this county has been his home. His parents were Asbury and Mary Louisa (Waddom) Steele, the former a native of Kentucky, and the latter of Indiana. Asbury Steele was a lawyer by profession, and was for many years a successful member of the Marion bar. Soon after he had taken up his residence in this county, he was elected to the office of county clerk, and re-elected, resigning, however, to resume the law early in his second term. He was the colonel of the 34th Indiana Volunteers from August 2, 1861, to January 14, 1862, when he.,resigned. Was a state senator. His death occurred in 1886; that of nis wife in 1870. Of their six children only two are now living: Colonel George W. Steele and Asbury E. Steele, an attorney of Marion.

Col. George W. Steele received his education in the common schools of Marion and had collegiate advantages in the Ohio Wesleyan University. At an early date he took up the study of law and after being admitted to practice, opened an office in Hartford City, this state, on April 11, 1861. Two days later Fort Sumter was fired upon and after eight days in his new office he closed it and rode horse-back across country to Marion and enlisted in a company which was organized in this city for the Eighth Indiana Regiment of Infantry. He was not mustered into that company, however, having gotten his name upon the roll too late, but with others formed a nucleus for a company which was mustered into the Twelfth Indiana Infantry on May 2, 1861, he being commissioned a First Lieutenant. This regiment was stationed at Evansville until July 18, 1861, at which date it was ordered to Wash¬ ington in order to take part in the campaign which terminated in the battle of Bull Run. The regiment failed to reach the field in time to participate in that first great disastrous battle to the Federal army, and during the following winter of 1861-62 it was engaged in picket duty, the camp of his company being near Antietam Aqueduct, Maryland. In March, 1862, the Twelfth Indiana was among the advanced troops in the forces that drove the Rebels out of Winchester, Virginia.

and arrived in Washingtoji the night after the first day's battle at Fair Oaks, Virginia, in May, 1862. The following morning's paper gave vivid account of the severe reverses suffered by General McClellan and his troops, and this news produced such an impression upon the regiment that it at once marched to the White House and offered its services without compensation, to President Lincoln. This prompt action in the face of great national danger was greeted with many com¬ pliments by the President, who said he believed the battle would be over before the regiment could reach the field, and advised the officers and men to return to their homes and resume their respective avoca¬ tions in life.

In August, 1862, Col. Steele organized a company for the One Hun¬ dred and First Indiana Infantry, was elected captain, and at once with the regiment was transported to Newport, Kentucky, to meet the forces of Bragg which were then threatening to cross the Ohio River. The Company took active part in the campaign which forced Generals Bragg and Early to countermarch. The Union Army under General Buell overtook the Confederate Army at Perryville in October, 1862, where a fierce battle, in which the One Hundred and First Indiana partici¬ pated, ended in favor of the Union cause, the Confederates under Gen¬ eral Bragg retreating. There were many other engagements, especially skirmishes in which the One Hundred and First Indiana actively par¬ ticipated, until Murfreesboro was reached, when another great battle, one of the greatest of the war, was fought. The Union Army, being victorious, remained in and near to Murfreesboro until in June, 1863. On February 8, 1863, the major of the regiment having resigned, although there were eight captains who ranked Captain Steele, he was commis¬ sioned major, on account of a petition signed by every officer of the regiment present, save one captain who ranked him. He has a copy of this petition, prizing it very highly. Commissary supplies having to be brought over a long single line of railroad, harassed by the enemy, made foraging necessary. On one of these foraging expeditions a division of General Morgan's Cavalry followed a brigade commanded by General Hall, to which the One Hundred and First Indiana belonged. This regiment was thrown* out to offer as much resistance as possible to Morgan's command, while three regiments and a battery of artillery, the Nineteenth Indiana, parked the loaded train they had, and took position. This the regiment did successfully, two companies of skir¬ mishers under the command of Major Steele performing especially active and efficient service, and as evidence that the regiment was where the most severe fighting occurred, is the fact that seven-eighths of the men killed and wounded belonged to the One Hundred and First Indiana. The enemy tried for six or seven hours to drive the brigade from its position, but finally withdrew, leaving a hundred and eighty dead and wounded on the field.

On May 31, 1863, the Colonel of the regiment having resigned, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Doan was commissioned Colonel and Major Steele Lieutenant Colonel, but on account of active service and inacces¬ sibility to mails and mustering officers, they served without mustering until the close of the war.

The regiment was in all of the campaigns and battles in which the troops of its brigade were engaged to Chattanooga, including the battle of Chickamauga ; at Missionary Ridge ; the ninety days ' campaign includ¬ ing the fall of Atlanta, all the time under fire or within hearing of fire, the march after Hood into Alabama; then back to Atlanta, and to the Sea, through the Carolinas, the battles of Smithfield and Bentonville ; after the surrender of Lee 's army, marching to Richmond and to

Washington; thence by railroad and steamboats to Louisville, arriving the latter part of June, 1865, whence they had started the latter part of September, 1862. On the Campaign to the Sea, Colonel Steele was in charge of a battalion of foragers that for efficiency and good luck was not excelled by any other organized body of nearly the same strength.

After the war he tried the grocery business, it only taking him a very few days to ascertain that the business was too large for him. On account of which he sold out and started as a ' * boomer' 9 in Kansas City, Missouri. Was surprised at the limited success he had. Returning to Marion, he married Marietta E. Swayzee, a daughter of one of the oldest and most respected families of Grant county. Shortly after¬ wards he accepted a commission as First Lieutenant in the Fourteenth United States Infantry and was ordered to California, going to New York, thence to Aspinwall, now Colon, crossing the Isthmus of Panama, thence to San Francisco by Pacific liner, and to San Pedro, and by ambulance to their new home at Camp Grant, arriving within two days of a year after the date of their marriage, where they lived for several months in an adobe house with two small rooms, dirt floor, dirt roof, and canvas windows; the Apaches being so hostile it was entirely unsafe to go out of the camp without an escort. Colonel Steele was later made regimental quartermaster; then depot quartermaster. The regiment was ordered East, with headquarters at Nashville, Tennessee, where a daughter, Marietta V., was born. The Indians on the Upper Missouri becoming troublesome, the regiment was ordered to Fort Randall, and thence to Fort Thompson, and after securing tranquility, to Fort Sedgwick as headquarters, the regiment scattering, some of the companies remaining at this post, others going to Sidney, Fort D. A. Russell, Fort Fetterman, and to Laramie, where the headquarters of the regiment moved on account of trouble with the Sioux Indians. Colonel Steele was not only quartermaster of the regiment and depot quartermaster, but was made commissary, looking after not only the supplying and distribution of supplies for the troops at Laramie and Fetterman, but supplying nine thousand five hundred Indians with rations for several months.

He resigned from the Army after ten years' service, becoming a successful pork packer in Marion, and he yet wonders how it happened that he was able to borrow all of the great amount of money that was necessary to run such an establishment, without being able to pay for the completion of the building or having a dollar of capital, obtaining all he needed on his checks alone.

In 1878, having political aspirations, he made the race for nomination to Congress on the Republican ticket. The congressional district, composed of Grant, Madison, Delaware, Henry, Hancock, Shelby and Johnson counties, was strongly Democratic, which, the Colonel states, probably made it easy for him to get the endorsement of Grant county. The convention was held in Shelby county. Colonel Steele having gone to the army as a boy and only having returned a comparatively short time, all of which was occupied in business, he had few acquaintances throughout the district. Nevertheless his Grant county friends nearly secured his nomination ; he only losing by a vote and a half, Colonel Gross defeating him. In 1879 George W. Steele, Jr., was born. In 1880, the district being changed to take in Grant, Howard, Miami, Wabash, Wells, Adams, Jay and Blackford counties, Colonel Steele was nominated and elected to the Forty-seventh Congress by a plurality of 533. Was reelected in 1882 by a plurality of 333; again in 1884, by a plurality of 54, and again in 1886 by a plurality of 408. Howard county being taken out of the district and giving twice the plurality he had had at any time, caused his defeat by 400 in 1888. He was out of Congress for six years. He helped to organize the First National Bank of Marion and became its president in 1890. During the same year, on account of the insistence of President Harrison, and because he did not think he was much of a banker, he accepted the governorship of Oklahoma Territory, with the distinct understanding that it was only to be a temporary appointment, on account of desiring to go into business. He found the Territory with county seats without county boundaries; the authority of the military removed on account of the civil act organizing the territory. There were no other officers in the territory save the commissioner, and receiver of the land office and the United States marshal; the United States district judges and the secretary of state arrived shortly afterwards. County boundaries were made by the Governor and the only change asked was by one county, that two town¬ ships that had been given to it be added to another, hoping and expect¬ ing that the Cherokee Strip between Oklahoma and Kansas would be opened, when additional territory might be added to this (Stillwater) county. In this they were right. Enumeration of the population was provided for, and officers appointed, from treasurer of state to road supervisors and constables, the applicants for office or their friends or both being asked to meet the Governor at the county seats and make application in person. The appointment of all these officers was made inside of ten days, and so far as he is aware no complaint was made that any of them were not honest and efficient. Apportionment of the population was made for legislative purposes; elections held, and the legislature assembled to enact or adopt laws for the government of the territory, the apportionment being entirely satisfactory to aU political parties and so fair that it resulted^in a majority of only two in favor of the Republicaps. The question of the location of the capital of the territory was one of the first that came up for consideration, and two Republicans from Oklahoma county agreed to give the organization to their rivals in consideration of their votes for the removal of the capital from Guthrie, the temporary seat of government, to Oklahoma City. This with other considerations entering into the matter before the vote was taken made the Governor feel it incumbent upon him to veto the bill, which he did, very much of course to the disappointment of not only the senators and members of Oklahoma County engineering the scheme, but to many of the good citizens of that county. Afterwards on account of prearrangement, the capital was voted for another county, and the bill again vetoed, the reasons for which being stated opening in the legislature by the Governor. The Capital question, however, was so disposed of during the incumbency of Governor Steele that it never gave any further trouble to the people of the territory, nor was it changed until after the territory became a state, when it was finally fixed at Oklahoma City. He found the people of the territory very poor on his arrival, and was able to secure from the National Treasury $44,000.00 in money with which to buy rations ; secured competent men of unques¬ tioned integrity to expend the money, and arranged for the transporta¬ tion of the supplies to the points for distribution in the territory, without cost or loss to the poor people. In the fall of that year, on his assurance that he would do the best he could to see that wheat in kind was returned, if the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and Rock Island Railroads would deliver it to their agents and loan it to the farmers for seed, twenty thousand bushels were secured, and it was returned bushel for bushel. Thousands of people more than there were quarter-sections of land camped on government reservations, especially on the school lands, and arrangements were made by the Governor, through the Secretary of the Interior, for leasing these lands annually at the best price, payable in cash; giving preference to the lessee when future leases were to be made. This was the first arrangement of its kind, and resulted not only in giving homes to the people occupying these lands and improv¬ ing them for the use of the territory, but many thousand dollars were added to the school fund.

After remaining nineteen months as Governor, instead of five or six as he first expected, he resigned, coming back to Marion, in the mean¬ time being offered an important position: that of Government Director of the Union Pacific Railroad. Notwithstanding its good salary he felt like returning home. Shortly thereafter he with others purchased a large tract of land near Marion, and became a director in what was known as the Wanamaker Land Company, which did not disappear from the map, but only because it was all paid for. It is just now worth as much as it cost in 1892.

In 1894 he was elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress and reelected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses. During his first term of eight years he served on the committees on military affairs, on pensions, and on expenditures in the War Department. During his last eight years he served on the committee on ways and means. Dur¬ ing this service President McKinley offered him an appointment as brigadier general in the Spanish- American War, which he had to decline because he had gone to the President in the interest of another gentle¬ man, whom the President could not favor.

In 1888 while a member of the Fifty-seventh Congress, notwithstand¬ ing it was Democratic, he introduced and secured the passage of a bill establishing a National Soldiers Home in Grant county, Indiana, the smallest limit of territory that, up to that time, had been thought of in the establishment of such great institutions. The bill was approved by President Cleveland. For fourteen years while Governor of Okla¬ homa and while Member of Congress, and subsequent to that time, he was a member of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and for the last nine years has been Governo'r of the Marion Branch.

There are two children: the daughter, Marietta V., is married and now living in Indianapolis; and a son, George W. Steele, Jr., a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy, who has recently performed such service as to prompt the Admiral of the Pacific Squadron and the Secre¬ tary of the Navy to have recorded official mention and commendation of it.

Ellsworth Harvey. The son of an honored pioneer family of Indiana, Ellsworth Harvey is recognized among the representative busi¬ ness men of his native county and he has long been a resident of Marion, where he holds the position of cashier of the Marion National Bank, one of the- most solidly established financial institutions of the county. Mr. Harvey has made his way in the world unaided by outside influences, but rather through the application of his native ability and inherent character, so that he today enjoys a pleasing place in the city of his residence.

Bom on a farm in Franklin .township, six miles southwest of the city of Marion, in Grant county, Ellsworth Harvey claims November 22, 1863, as his natal day, and he is a son of Sidney and Jane L. (Thomas) Harvey. The father was bom in Morgan county, Indiana, and the mother in Grant county, where her parents were early settlers in the pioneer days, the family having been conspicuously identified with the growth and development of the county. The father, Sidney Harvey, devoted himself to the farming industry, and he was successful and prosperous in his chosen work. Today he is reckoned among the most venerable and honored pioneer citizens of the county, where he is living practically retired from active business, enjoying a well earned rest after long years of strenuous life on the farm.

He was a boy of about nine years when his father, William Harvey, came to Grant county and settled upon a tract of wild land some three miles west of the present village of Fairmount, and there he finally evolved a productive farm from his wilderness land. He was of English ancestry, and the family is one that had its foundation in America in early colonial days. Bom in North Carolina and there reared, William Harvey came as a young man to Clinton county, Ohio, removing to Indiana in an early day. He passed the last years of his life in Grant county, and was known and esteemed as one of the solid men of the agricultural industry in the county. It was on his place that Sidney Harvey, his son, was reared to maturity, but for more than forty years past he has maintained his home on his own place of one hundred acres, six and a half miles from Marion. Mr. Harvey is a man of considerable influence in his community, taking a genuine interest in the political and civic activities of the township and county, and he at one time served as county assessor. A Republican in his politics, he gives his support to that party, and with his wife has membership in the Methodist Episcopal church. Of their children, Alvin and Minerva are deceased; Ellsworth, of this review, was the third bom ; Roscoe C. is a farmer in Franklin township ; and Gulie Elma is the wife of H. P. Cline, a farmer residing in the vicinity of Junesboro, Grant county.

Ellsworth Harvey was reared to farm life and in the home of his parents he early learned lessons of practical import that have stood him in excellent stead in the more mature years of his life. He attended the district schools, continuing his studies there for eight years. There¬ after he was a teacher in Fairmount Academy for one year.

In August, 1893, Mr. Harvey was appointed to the post of deputy county treasurer, and the long period in which he held this office indi¬ cates something of the character of his services. He continued to serve in his capacity as deputy until January 1, 1901, when he assumed the duties of county treasurer, to which office he had been elected on the Republican ticket in the preceding autumn. His service here was like¬ wise a praiseworthy one, sufficiently so as to gain to him his re-election in 1902, so that he served two full terms as county treasurer, administer¬ ing the fiscal affairs of the county in a highly creditable matrner.

Soon after his retirement from the office of county treasurer Mr. Harvey was chosen assistant cashier of the Marion National Bank, and here again the character of his services was such as to merit recognition, which came in the form of his advancement to the post of cashier, in February, 1911. He has since that time continued in the office, with all of satisfaction to the directors of the institution and with credit to himself.

Mr. Harvey has, like his father, been a stanch Republican since he came to years of maturity, and with his wife he is a member of the Society of Friends. His fraternal connections are with the Enights of Pythias, the Modem Woodmen of America and the Tribe of Ben Hur. He is the owner of a small but well improved farm in Franklin town¬ ship, which claims a share in his attention.

On September 6, 1899, Mr. Harvey was married to Miss Susan Emma Higgs, of Richmond, Wayne county, this state, where she was bom and reared, and where her family has been long and favorably known to the public. Her parents are Robert and Eliza Higgs, both of whom were bom in England. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey have two children - Robert Sidney, born on November 8, 1902, and Mildred Elizabeth, bom May 25, 1906.

John W. Williams. The history of the village of Upland will always commemorate the Williams family, since it was a man of that name who owned much of the land where the village now stands who laid out the plat on some of his acreage, donated ground for the railroad station, and in many other ways took the part of a leader in establishing and develop¬ ing that center of trade and population. Mr. John W. Williams, a son of the pioneer at Upland, has for many years devoted himself to farming and stock raising, and his home place in section eight of Jefferson town¬ ship probably has no superior in its facilities, not only as a home, but as a place of business, his business being the raising of high-grade live stock, at which he has made a big reputation, not only in his community, but in this and adjoining counties.

Mr. Williams comes of Scotch ancestry, and his grandfather Isaac Williams was of an early settled family in central Ohio. He married a Miss Pierce, and they lived in Greene county, Ohio, where James L. Williams was bom November 23, 1826. James L. Williams in 1829 lost his father by death, and his mother subsequently married Samuel Staf¬ ford. During the forties all the families came to Grant county, settling on Walnut Creek in Center township, where Mrs. Stafford died when eighty years of age. Mr. Stafford married again and died in Center township, at the advanced age of ninety. By his first wife he had a son and daughter. James L. Williams was the oldest of his mother's chil¬ dren, and the others in the Williams family were: Thomas, who lives with his children at Marion ; Mary, widow of Israel Lucas, and she lives two miles east of the Soldiers' Home at Marion; Ortha, died after her marriage to Samuel Adamson, and left two sons and four daughters.

James L. Williams was reared after the death of his father by his mother and also in the home of an uncle, and on becoming of age was married in Green county, Ohio, to Miss Nancy Chance. She was born in North Carolina in January, 1831, and when fifteen years old left her home and people, joined a family making the journey to Ohio, and walked practically all the way to Green county, where soon afterwards she met and married James L. Williams. In 1850 they came to Indiana, where Mr. Williams bought one hundred and sixty acres of land in sec¬ tion three of Jefferson township. A portion of the village of Upland now stands on that land. When the Pennsylvania Railroad was built through this part of the county, Mr. Williams gave six acres for the vil¬ lage site, and three other parties gave enough to make twenty-one acres altogether. It was on that home that James L. Williams and wife lived for many years, but finally sold and bought a farm near Bluffton in Wells county, and his death occurred at Rockford, in that county, July 12, 1910. His widow passed away August 13, 1913. Both were birth¬ right members of the Friends church. James L. Wilson did a great deal of building at Upland, and by his own effort gave that community a start which has continued until the present time. He was a strong Republican in politics. The family of children were as follows : Isaac, who died when eight years old ; Rev. Thomas lived in California, and his children are Alvin, Iva, and Rev. Charles, the church affiliations of this family being the United Brethren ; John W. comes next ; Cyrus lives in Huntington county, Indiana, on a farm, has been twice married, and has a daughter by his last union ; Anna is the wife of Marion Bedwell, and they live on a part of the old homestead at Upland.

cabin, at the site of Upland, on November 28, 1857. At that time a log cabin home did not indicate poverty of resources, and many of the best families of Indiana were still living in houses no better than the one in which Mr. Williams was born. He lived at home until of age, was edu¬ cated in the local schools, and from youth up has made farming liis regular vocation. For the past twenty years he has been identified with the vicinity of Jefferson township on the west bank of the Mississinewa River, where on April 28, 1893, he bought eighty acres of land in section eight. In 1908 Mr. Williams, put a fine bank barn, 'with ground dimen¬ sions of fifty by ninety-seven feet, with a concrete basement, and the entire building is light, sanitary, and with facilities that afford conven¬ ience to the farmer, and tend to increase the general value of the farm output. Close to the barn is a concrete silo of eighty-ton capacity, and there are facilities for the storing of one hundred tons of hay, many tons of straw, and thousands of bushels of grain. The barn is one of the best in this entire section. It is painted a drab color, with red trimmings. Adjoining his main farm, Mr. Williams has one hundred and four acres, purchased about the same time he bought the eighty acres, and that land is improved with a full set of farm buildings. On another section he has forty acres. The homestead is improved with a substantial white frame house. Mr. Williams has made his reputation as a farmer, largely through the raising of fine short horn cattle, Poland china hogs, and Norman horses

Mr. Williams by his first marriage became the husband of Martha B. Brumfield, a daughter of Jacob Brumfield. She was born in Miami county, Indiana, December 9, 1858, and died at her home in Jefferson township, April 24, 1902. She came to Grant county when a child, and was reared in the township where the rest of her life was spent. Her children were Carlos A., who lives in Matthews, and has one son, Ken¬ neth ; Goldy is the wife of Arthur Lunsford, and they have a daughter Elma. Olive is the wife of Ernest Haynes, of Muncie, and they have two children, Virgil and Daniel C; Myrtle is the wife of Emory C. Tripp, of Greentown, Howard county, Indiana, and they have no chil¬ dren. For his second wife Mr. Williams was married in Blackford county to Nenah Baker, who was born in that county, and reared and educated there, a daughter of William and Sarah (Blankenbaker) Baker, who live on a farm east of Hartford City, her father being sixty-two and her mother fifty-six years of age. The Bakers are active members of the Friends church. Mr. and Mrs. Williams have three children; Oris, aged six years, and in the public schools ; Leora, aged four years ; and Donald, aged two. Mr. and Mrs. Williams are members of the Quaker church, and in politics he is a Prohibitionist.

Lewis P. Cubberley. Among the business citizens of Marion whose connection with live, growing enterprises has given them deservedly high positions in their communities, Lewis P. Cubberley is worthy of more than passing mention in a work of this nature. A native son of this prosperous city, he has traveled extensively in various parts of the country during his career, and although he has been engaged in business in Marion since 1901, is still a representative of outside con¬ cerns, in the interests of which he makes a trip through the West twice a year. Mr. Cubberley was born in Marion, Indiana, February 3, 1852, and is a son of Dr. David P. and Charlotte M. (Frazier) Cubberley.

David P. Cubberley was born in Licking county, Ohio, and came to Grant county during the early forties, here becoming the first dental practitioner in the city of Marion, where he was engaged in an exten¬ sive and representative practice up to his death in 1884, when he was the oldest dentist in Grant county. During the Civil War he enlisted for service in the Union army as captain of a company in the Twelfth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and spent three years on southern battle¬ fields. For years he was connected with the Masonic fraternity, and for a long period was secretary of his Blue Lodge at Marion. Dr. Cubberley married Charlotte M. Frazier, daughter of Nathan W. Frazier, a pioneer and influential citizen of Grant county, and she survived him until 1888, having been the mother of four children : Lewis P. ; Nathan S., who is deceased; and Mrs. Emma C. Hutchinson and Mrs. Belle C. Tukey, both of whom reside in Marion.

Lewis P. Cubberley received his early education in the public schools of Marion. When eighteen years of age he entered the railroad mail service, in which he continued to be employed until 1880, and during this time operated between Toledo and St. Louis, on the Toledo, St. Louis & Western Railroad, and the Wabash and Pennsylvania fast mails. On leaving the mail service, Mr. Cubberley accepted a position with Huestes & Hamilton, wholesale grocers of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and remained with this concern until 1888, when he entered the employ of the Wilson & McCally Tobacco Company, of Middletown, Ohio, con¬ tinuing with that firm for ten years and then accepting a position as traveling representative for the H. W. Spurr Coffee Company, of Boston and Kansas City, a company with which he has since been identified. In 1900 he returned to Marion and established himself in a wholesale and retail cigar business, a venture which has proved a decidede success and has enjoyed a healthy and continued growth. The various brands handled by Mr. Cubberley have attained a high degree of popularity and now meet with a steady demand in every place in this section of the State where cigars are sold. From modest beginnings, Mr. Cub¬ berley has built up a flourishing enterprise, and his success may be accredited solely to his own efforts, his strict attention to business and the honorable manner in which he has carried on his transactions.

On September 6, 1905, Mr. Cubberley was united in marriage with Miss Nellie Cook of Toledo, Ohio, daughter of J. D. and Eliza (McClure) Cook, pioneer residents of Grant Qounty. Mr. Cook, a contractor in construction work, was widely known in his field of endeavor, being the builder of the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad, and attained dis¬ tinction as the constructor of the only large work in the city of Gal¬ veston, Texas, which withstood the ravages of the devastating flood of 1900. Mr. and Mrs. Cubberley have had no children. He is a Republi¬ can in his political views, but has taken only a good citizen's interest in public affairs. Like his father, he has become prominent in fra¬ ternal circles, being a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the Elks, in both of which orders he has numerous friends.

Mark L. Swayzee. One of the most progressive men of affairs in the city of Marion, Indiana, is Mark L. Swayzee. He has handled all of his business affairs along the most modern and up-to-date lines and his success is due largely to the methods he has employed in building np his business. He is the founder and proprietor of one of the largest retail groceries in the northern part of the state, and is also connected with other business ventures. He comes of a family for many years honored in the business and industrial world of this community and in his success he is only carrying forward the traditions of the family.

Mark L. Swayzee is the son of Aaron C. and Minerva A. (Hodge) Swayzee, both of whom are now dead. Aaron C. Swayzee was born in the state of New Jersey, but migrated from there to Lancaster, Fairfield county, Ohio, and after living there for a time came to Grant county,

Indiana. He located here in 1836 and was consequently one of the pioneers of this section. By trade he was a shoemaker and shortly after coming to Grant county he entered the manufacturing business as & manufacturer of boots and shoes. For many years thereafter he con¬ ducted a retail store in the city of Marion and became actively identified with the growth and development of the city. He was recognized as a leader, not only in the business world, but also in the political and civic life of the city. In 1874 he was elected a representative to the state legislature from Grant and Blackford counties, and proved an able spokesman for his people. He was always active in church affairs, being a member of the Methodist church and for many years a member of the official board of this church. He died in 1878 and his widow died in 1890. They were the parents of seven children, two of whom died in infancy. The other children are James W. Swayzee, of Padagonia, Arizona; Mrs. W. C. Harrington, of St. Helena, California; Frank C. Swayzee, of Washington, D. C.; and Mrs. George W. Steele, of Marion.

Mark L. Swayzee was born in the city of Marion on the 5th of Sep¬ tember, 1864. He received his education in the public schools of his native town and in the Miami Commercial College at Dayton, Ohio. It was in 1883 that he began his business career as an employee in Sweetser's Bank, which has since become the First National Bank, of Marion. He was thus employed for seven years, gaining a valuable knowledge of financial affairs and of the ways of the business world. He then went into business for himself, being engaged in specialty milling for five years. He then established Swayzee 's Market, which has been mentioned as being one of the largest retail grocery and market houses in the northern part of the state. He is also engaged in the feed and milling business on Second street and has made a success of this enterprise also.

In fraternal affairs Mr. Swayzee has always been deeply interested and holds a membership in many societies among them being the Masons, Elks and Knights of Pythias. He is also a member of the Country Club. In politics he is a member of the Republican party and has taken quite a prominent part in political affairs. He was the last town clerk and treasurer and the first city treasurer after the incorporation of the city, and he is always ready to give his time and service to any movement that may be conducive to the welfare of the city of Marion.

Mr. Swayzee was married on the 25th of May, 1889, to Eugenia Richards, a daughter of L. Y. Richards of Napoleon, Ohio, and they have become the parents of two children, Mark Richard Swayzee and Mary Louise Swayzee.

John A. Rhue. There is special reason for congratulations upon a career like that of Mr. Rhue, the vice president of the Marion National Bank. Beginning his career in service with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, as assistant agent, some fifteen years ago he went into a bank in Greenfield, this state, as a messenger and general utility man. He had only his own record to recommend him for advancement, and yet he displayed such ability that in a few years he became cashier of the institution which he had entered as messenger. He received what might be regarded as a distinct promotion when he was appointed state bank examiner, and from that position became vice president of the Marion National Bank. Mr. Rhue is still a young man, in his thirties, and yet has achieved a position which would be creditable to a man older in years and experience.

Me. And Mrs. Allen C. Tudor

natives of Hancock county, and now living near Greenfield, that county. The father was for some twenty years a successful school-teacher, and is now engaged in the grain business. Of the three children, John A. is the only one now living.

Bom on a farm in Hancock county, and educated in the district schools and in the Greenfield high school, John A. Rhue began his career as above stated with the Pennsylvania Railroad, and spent two years in the service of the same. He then received appointment as a cadet in the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, where he remained for two years. On returning from Annapolis, he took the temporary management of the Western Union town office at Greenfield, having incidentally picked up telegraphy while with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Then in 1897 he entered the employ of the Greenfield Bank¬ ing Company, and ran errands, made collections and assorted checks and all other duties that were required of him. Mr. Rhue remained with that banking institution for twelve years, and enjoyed many promotions up to the responsible post of cashier. As a skillful manager of banking busi¬ ness, his reputation had extended beyond the confines of his home com¬ munity, and in 1909, without any solicitation on his part he was invited to become a state bank examiner, and was assigned to the Northern Indiana Territory. His work in this connection brought him into association with all the state bank association officers in Northern Indiana, and as result of this acquaintance and high regard he received another invitation in April, 1911, this time to become vice president of the Marion National Bank, a post which he accepted and which he has since filled. In one phase his experience as a banker is probably unique. He still held his place of cashier in the Greenfield bank, during his term as state bank examiner, and had already accepted and been formally installed as vice president of the Marion National Bank before severing his relations with the Greenfield Banking Company and with the State Banking Department, so that for a short time he held all three posts. Mr. Rhue has been a resident of Marion since July, 1911. He owns a fine farm of one hundred acres situated a mile from Green¬ field in Hancock county, and the management of this estate is his chief recreation and pleasure aside from business. He is also interested as an investor in various other undertakings.

Mr. Rhue is a lover of music, and during his residence at Greenfield was for twelve years connected with the Home Orchestra at that place. On September 22, 1908, he married Miss Mary Todd, of Bluffton, a daughter of Hon. J. J. and Mary (Studebaker) Todd, one of the best known families of the state. J. J. Todd, her father, was formerly grand master of the Masonic order in Indiana. The two children of Mr. Rhue and wife are Mary, born August 13, 1909, and Jane, born August 9, 1910.

Mr. Rhue is himself prominent in Indiana Masonry, having passed through all the degrees of the York Rite at Greenfield, including the Lodge, Chapter and Commandery, and having attained thirty-two degrees of the Scottish Rite and being affiliated with the Mystic Shrine at Indianapolis. He has served as Master of his Lodge, high-priest of the Chapter and eminent commander of the Commandery, besides having been worthy patron of the Eastern Star. Mr. Rhue is a member of the Marion Golf Club, is a Republican in politics, and he and his family belong to the Methodist church in Marion.

Allen C. Tudor. The breeding of thoroughbred Belgian and Percheron horses has been developed to an important industry by Mr. Tudor at Upland, where he has his farm and stables, and all the facilities for successful management of this interesting and profitable branch of the live stock industry. At the head of his stables, is the Belgian stallion Noirhat Damier now seven years old and imported from abroad in 1908. This horse took the second premium at the International Stock Show in Chicago. He weighs 2,060 pounds. Mr. Tudor also owns Jaddus, a Norman stallion imported in 1912, and which has already made a fine record as a breeder. Jaddus is a four-year old, and weighs 1,800 pounds. Another imported horse found at the Tudor place is Taupin, which has been in service several years, is favored by a large number of farmers in this section of the state, and the general average of his colts is perhaps as high as can be credited to any other breeding stallion in this country. As a background to his breeding stables, Mr. Tudor owns a fine little farm of forty acres, adjoining the village of Upland. He purchased and located there in 1912, moving from Monroe township, where for a number of years he had been engaged in the same line of business.

Allen C. Tudor w as born in Fayette county, Ohio, November 6, 1868. His father was William Tudor and his grandfather Stephen Tudor, the latter a native of Pennsylvania and the former of Ohio. The grand¬ father died in Ohio, and William Tudor died in Grant county in Decem¬ ber 1910, at the age of seventy-one years. William married Margaret Pierce, who died aged thirty- two in 1874 in Grant county. They settled in Grant county not long after the birth of their son Allen who was reared and educated here. He was the second in a family of four sons, and two daughters, all of w?hom are living and are married. After leaving school he identified himself with agriculture, and his influence soon led him to specialize in live stock, and for a number of years he has had a successful experience in the breeding of horses.

In 1900 at Upland, Mr. Tudor married Miss Mary Mariah Thomas, who was born and reared in Decatur county, Indiana, a daughter of Edward Thomas, who died in Ohio, but whose widow now lives in Boone county, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Tudor have the following children: Pearl, Lucy, William, Opal and Orris.

Thomas Diggs Thorp is a native son of Grant county and a citizen of excellent standing in this part of the state. His life in this county has been a widely useful one, and he has filled prominent places in public life during the years of his active career. In educational matters he was ever foremost, and he practiced law for some years in this county, but the great work of his life has been in the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he was prominent for many years.

The parents of Thomas D. Thorp were Rev. Alfred and Becca (Moor¬ man) Thorp, both natives of North Carolina. The father and mother came to Indiana when children, locating first in Wayne county and coming on to Grant county in about 1832, when he settled on the farm which became the family homestead, and which is still in possession of the family, or rather is now owned by the youngest sister of Mr. Thorp of this review.

Rev. Alfred Thorp was a minister of the Wesleyan church and he organized the first Methodist Episcopal church in this vicinity, in which he was a preacher at the time of his death. He lived on his farm all his life, and to him and his wife were born ten children, four of whom are living today. They are briefly mentioned as follows: Mrs. Julia Ann Brookshire, now a resident of Pasadena, California ; Mrs. Ursula Double Tuttle, of Fairmount, Indiana ; Mrs. Mary P. Burnier, of Grant county ; and Thomas D. Thorp, of this review. The mother of these was a daughter of the Moorman family, as has already been mentioned, but she was closely connected with the Diggs family, famous in English history, representatives of which came to the colonies and came to be known among the First Families of Virginia. The family was prominent in the history of the Old Dominion for more than a century. Rev. Thorp died in 1848, his widow surviving him until 1891.

Thomas D. Thorp received his education in the old Grant County Seminary and at Asbury (now DePauw) University, at Greencastle, Indiana, until his sophomore year, when he went to the Indiana State University at Bloomington, from which institution he was graduated. He taught school in Grant county for a number of years and for a brief time was engaged in the practice of law, after which he was for nine years county superintendent of schools. He is credited with the work of grading the country schools in the state of Indiana, a most advantageous step in rural education, as has been well proven since the work went into effect. Mr. Thorp then entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, and in the business of the church he was engaged for many years thereafter. He is now retired, however, and gives his entire attention to the care of his large property interests.

Mr. Thorp is a veteran of the Civil war, in which he served under General George Wagner, with the rank of Second Lieutenant, in the Army of the Cumberland. He saw a deal of active service during the term of his service, participating in the battle of Pittsburg, at Perrysville, and other equally important engagements. For fourteen years after the wrar his church work was confined to his superintendency of the Methodist Episcopal Sunday school, but he then went into the ministry as a graduate of a theological school, continuing for many , years, as has already been outlined.

Mr. Thorp married Miss Alice Shattuck, of Delaware, Ohio, a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University, and to them has been bom one son, Paul D. Thorp, who was recently graduated as a member of the class of 1913 in the Ohio Wesleyan University. He is a baritone singer of ability and promise, and has been manager of the Varsity Quartette for two years, and now goes to Ohio State University to continue his law and study journalism. He is now reading law, pre¬ paratory to a career in the legal profession. He is a member of the Phi Delta Theta, of which fraternity his father, Thomas D. Thorp, was also a member in his college days, and still is.

Mr. Thorp, it is safe to say, is one of the halest men in these parts. He comes of a family that is especially long-lived, his mother's family being one noted for its longevity, while his father had an uncle who lived to the patriarchial age of one hundred and seven years, and at the time of his death was seemingly hale and hearty, being engaged in hoeing in his garden but a short time before he passed away. On his mother's side, the Diggs family is one of the oldest in America today, her ancestry being traced directly down from 1583 in England, to their settlement in Virginia in about 1615, and the later settlement of the family in its various branches in North Carolina. The history of the family is an interesting one, but lack of space makes further mention thereof impracticable at this point.

Alva Johnson. Among the younger of the business men of Marion, Indiana, none is better known for his energy and progressive ideas, as well as the practical ability to carry them out, than Alva Johnson. Not yet turned thirty, Mr. Johnson is a member of the well known firm of J. Winters and Company, and is rapidly forging to the front as a real estate man. Although he has resided in Marion only a short time he has won a large measure of popularity and has taken an active part in the varied interests of the city.

Alva Johnson was born in Jefferson township, near Upland, Grant county, Indiana, on the 30th of April, 1885. He is a son of Janies Noah Johnson and Bell (Connelly) Johnson. The father was bom in Jefferson parish, Grant county, and the mother in Wayne county, Indiana. The father was a son of James and Elizabeth Johnson who came into Indiana from Guernsey county, Ohio, and settled on the place that has since become known as the Johnson homestead in Jefferson township. This was in 1843 and here James Johnson lived until his death on December 1, 1910. James and Elizabeth Johnson had eight children, only four of whom grew to maturity, as follows: John, who died at thirty-five; Solomon, of Jonesboro, Indiana; James Noah, who died in 1893, and Emma, who lives in Jefferson township, Grant county. James Noah Johnson lived on his father's farm until about the time of his wife's death in 1890. He then engaged in the banking business, first working in a bank in Fairmount for a year and then he organized the Upland Bank, his father, James Johnson, being president, and he him¬ self, cashier. James Noah Johnson and his wife had three children, Bertha, who is the wife of Charles H. Snyder, of Upland; Alva Johnson* and his twin sister, Elva, who married Charles F. Marley, of Upland.

The father died in 1893 and the three children went to live with their grandfather, making their home with him until his death at the age of eighty-nine. At his death these three children each inherited 560 acres of valuable land. For six months previous to his death the venerable old man had been blind, and his two granddaughters took the tenderest of care of him.

Alva Johnson was educated in Grant county, first attending the township school in Jefferson township, from which he was graduated in 1900, and then becoming a student in the Upland high school. He was graduated from the latter in 1904, and until 1911 he lived on the farm. During that year he removed to Fairmount, and on December 27, 1912, his home and entire property there was destroyed by fire, in consequence of which he determined to move to Marion. He came to Marion on March 4, 1913, and bought a half interest in the firm of J. Winters and Company, thus becoming the company part of this firm. J*. Winters, "the land man," is one of the most successful business men of Marion, and the two form a strong partnership, destined to become one of the best known real estate firms in Indiana. Mr. Johnson has considerable landed interests, being the owner of 360 acres in Liberty township and also having interests in Upland.

Mr. Johnson is a member of the Methodist church, and in political matters he is a Republican. In the fraternal world he holds allegiance with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Johnson was married on July 23, 1906, to Miss Gertrude Burnside, a daughter of George W. and Elizabeth (Seybold) Burnside, of Marion. They have two children; James Noah, Jr., aged six years and Elizabeth Rebecca, better known as Betty, a lively tot of three.

Josiah Winters. The story of the life of Josiah Winters, of Marion, Indiana, or as he is known in this section, J. Winters, "the land man," is a good example of American energy and determination. Mr. Winters is one of the most successful real estate men in this section of the state and his success is entirely due to his own efforts. He has worked tire¬ lessly, early and late, and that he has taken advantage of no man, his popularity throughout the section proves.

Josiah Winters is a native of Grant county, having been bom on the 29th of February, 1868, in Fairmount township. His father was Thomas D. Winters and his mother was Christiana (Baker) Winters, both of them being natives of the state of Pennsylvania. The father of Thomas D. Winters came to Grant county at an early date in its history. He settled on a farm South of Marion, and he improved this property, building upon it one of the finest homes in the county. He later sold this place and bought another three and a half miles southeast of Jones¬ boro. He eventually became the owner of about six hundred acres of land in that section and he lived there until his death in 1880. Thomas D. Winters, his son, followed in his father's steps and became a farmer. He spent his life in this occupation and died about 1896. His widow is still living and makes her home with her children. There were twelve children bom to Mr. and Mrs. Winters, six of whom are living. These are as follows: W. M. Winters, foreman at the Thompson Bottle Works, in Gas City, Indiana; Mrs. Mary A. Baldwin, of Fairmount, Indiana; Mrs. Sarah A. Love, of Marion; Mrs. Christina Kelsey, of Toledo, Ohio; Mrs. Ollie Lancaster, of Marion, and J. Winters.

Beginning life with only a common school education, farming seemed to be the only vocation open to young Josiah Winters. For thirteen years, therefore he farmed in various parts of Grant county, and during these years he lived carefully and put aside as much money as was possible for he was ambitious to be something more than a small farmer. He found himself, at the end of these years with enough money to purchase seventy-two acres of land in Washington township, for which he paid $1,375 in cash and gave a mortgage for the balance of $2,125. By hard work and good management he was able to pay off his indebted¬ ness in eighteen months. And it was not long after he had begun to feel that he was on the road to success, that his wife's health began to fail and he found it necessary to move into Marion. He therefore sold his stock and farm machinery and with the proceeds purchased two lots on Spence street for $1,200. On these lots he built a modern ten-room house at a cost of $6,000, this being the first home which he owned. After his removal to Marion he traveled for a year as salesman for L. K. Price and Company. Hardware was his line, and his territory was Grant county. During the following year he sold windmills and cream separators in Grant and the adjoining counties. He then purchased a forty-six acre farm east of Gas City and there remained six months, when he sold and returned to Marion where he had built on Spencer avenue, and where there were better openings for him.

On the 1st of December, 1906, Mr. Winters engaged in the real estate business in Marion and he has been phenominally successful. During his first year in this business he did $150,000 worth of business. It was evident that he was going to have an increasing amount of business to handle and so the next year he took a partner, Leo Lyons. The business the second year was estimated at $200,000. After the death of Mr. Lyons, Mr. Winters continued alone, employing his son to assist him, until the latter went to Davenport, Iowa, to enter a medical school. Since opening his real estate office six years ago Mr. Winters has done business to the amount of $1,589,802.80, this being exclusive of his loan business. In 1912 the increase of his business over that of the previous year was $83,445.50. In 1913 he became associated with a company in New Mexico, and has purchased 680 acres of land for his own special benefit. Since his business is too large to be managed by one man he took as a partner, on March 1, 1913, Alva Johnson, of Fairmount township, who is mentioned elsewhere in this volume.

Mr. Winters is a strong member of the Prohibition party, and eight years ago was that party's candidate for sheriff of Grant county. He is a member of the Christian church and is a deacon in the First Christian church being one of the executive committee that had the building of

Mr. Winters was married on the 18th of July, 1885, to Miss Mary J. Marine, who was born in Mill township, Grant county, Indiana, and tvas a daughter of Nathan Marine. Four children were born of this marriage. Of these, Pearly B. Winters and Elsie L. Winters are living, and Onda E. and Eita M. are dead. After the death of his first wife Mr. Winters married a second time. Miss Jessie J. Broadt, of Huntington county, Indiana, became his wife on March 30, 1912.

Howard Lyon. Grant county has received some of its finest family stocks from Virginia, transplanted first to Guernsey county, Ohio, and thence to this section of Indiana. Several branches of the Lyon family, who early manifested a disinclination to live in slave territory, thus settled in Grant county not long after the establishment of civil gov¬ ernment here in 1831. The following article describes the more impor¬ tant incidents in this family migration with special reference to the immediate family of the above well known Jefferson township citizen, whose old home place on sections 20 and 21 has many associations with the Lyon name.

They came originally from Sweden, migrating to England during the reign of Peter the Great and thence to America in the colonial epoch. The first definite information of the family in this country is in Virginia, and before the Revolutionary war. It is not known whether any of the family participated as soldiers in that war. The grandfather of Howard Lyon was Richard Lyon, born in the Old Dominion about 1775. On March 7, 1795, he married Elenor McBride, a Virginia girl of Scotch-Irish ancestry. They lived in Virginia until 1814. Richard Lyon was strongly opposed to slavery, and for that reason determined to move his family to the free states of the north and west. Thus he settled in Guernsey county, Ohio, about the close of the War of 1812, and he and his children were pioneers in that section, making a home in the wilderness and rearing his family under primitive conditions. His children were as follows: 1. Mary, born May 21, 1797, married John Grayham, and came to Indiana, both dying in this state when old' people. They left two children, Ellen and Rachael. 2. Sarah, born February 24, 1799, married Thomas Deeren, lived in Guernsey county, Ohio, until after the death of Mr. Deeren, and his widow died in Grant county, Indiana, but her body was taken back and laid by the side of her husband in Guernsey county, 0. They left a large family of chil¬ dren, who were remarkable for their length of life, several living to be more than eighty years of age, five living at one time, and all past fourscore, and three are still surviving and about ninety years of age. 3. Michael, born April 15, 1801, lived the life of a farmer in Guernsey county, O., and married Mary Slater, both passing away when old people. Their children scattered to various parts of the country. 4. Elizabeth, born May 20, 1803, married John Reasoner, were early set¬ tlers in Indiana, where they spent their active lives in Delaware county, and died when old and left children. 5. James, born August 20, 1805, married Nancy Slater, came to Grant county, and died on the home farm in Jefferson township, when in the neighborhood of seventy years of age. They had several children. 6. John, who was the father of Howard Lyon, was born September 14, 1807, and more particular mention of him follows this paragraph. 7 and 8. Elias and Elijah, twins, born December 20, 1809, the former married Mahala Pearl for his first wife, and Mrs. Rachael Coats for his second, and there were children by both wives, and they all spent the greater portion of their active careers in Grant county. Elijah married Hannah Anderson, and they lived out their lives in Van Buren township of Grant county and left children. 9 and 10. The next two children were twins, and died in infancy unnamed. 11. William, born October 2, 1818, was mar¬ ried and died in Grant county in middle life, leaving a son and a daugh¬ ter. He was a cabinet maker by trade. 12. Richard, Jr., bom May 20, 1815, married a Miss Funk, and they had three children; he died in Henry county, Indiana, where he was knowm as a manufacturer of medicine. 13. Samuel, bom March 8, 1820, spent many years of his life in Missouri, and by his marriage to Mary Stephens, had several daughters.

John Lyon, who was born in Virginia, September 14, 1807, was seven years old when the family migrated to Ohio, where he arrived at his majority in Guernsey county. He followed various occupations, chiefly on a farm, but also was employed on the old national pike in Ohio, and also engaged in the tobacco business, from which he made some profit. In 1837, he walked all the way from Ohio to Indiana in order to look over the land and select the site of a future home. He found one hundred and sixty acres to his liking, on the Mississinewa River, being the northeast quarter of section twenty-one of Jefferson township. Having investigated and decided upon this tract he con¬ tinued his journey on foot to the Fort Wayne land office, where he formally entered a quarter section and then continued on in the same manner to his Ohio home. There he met his sweetheart, who soon after¬ wards went on with her mother to Blackford county, Indiana, and he followed as soon as he could dispose of his interests in Ohio and make ready for a permanent establishment in Indiana. At that time Black¬ ford county had not been organized and its territory was a part of Delaware county, so that the young woman who was to become his wife took up her residence temporarily in the latter county so that she would be convenient to the county seat in readiness for marriage. This young woman was Nancy McVicker. She was bom in Guernsey county, Ohio, December 11, 1815. Her grandfather Dennis McVicker, was a native of Virginia, and the son of a Scotchman who came to the United States an%d died in Virginia. Miss McVicker 's father was Archibald McVicker, a native of Virginia, but who died in Guernsey county, Ohio, and his widow Elizabeth survived him and brought her children to Indiana, even¬ tually settling in Jefferson township of Grant county, where she died when an old woman.

After they were happily married John Lyon and wife came to their new home in Jefferson township. On the tract of land which he had previously selected the only evidence of the presence of civilized man was one coon tree which had been cut down by some hunters, and other¬ wise it was a perfect wilderness. A log cabin was hastily erected in the midst of the timber, and there they began housekeeping. John Lyon was a man of exceptional industry, and had the faculty of accumula¬ tion. His land in a few years was increased to two hundred and forty acres, and his labors gradually brought about substantial prosperity for all his household. In 1859, was erected a comfortable old residence which is now occupied by his son Howard. There both parents spent many years, and the mother died April 23, 1876, and the father on No¬ vember 2, 1888. In community affairs they were both active, and were especially prominent as early Methodists in that vicinity. They took part in the organization of the first Shiloh Methodist church, in which John Lyon and wife were charter members, and he served as a trustee And steward until his death. During his career he voted the Demo- *** ticket , but in later times was a Prohibitionist. The children of

John Lyon and wife are mentioned as follows: 1 and 2. Lamech and Lemuel, born in Ohio in February, 1838, died in infancy. 3. Aaron, born May 9, 1840, died in Grant county, June 10, 1910; he was twice married, but left no living children. 4. James, born August 20, 1842, died March 6, 1899, at Upland, where he was a merchant. Though twice married he had no children. 5. David, born December 12, 1844, died August 13, 1896, after a career as a merchant at Upland and he was also well known as an Odd Fellow ; his wife preceded him in death two months, and left two daughters. 6. Sarah E., born May 20, 1848, died at the age of one year. 7. Mary Eleanor, born February 9, 1850, was also one year of age at the time of her death. 8. Thomas Benton, born May 9, 1852, died February 8, 1906 ; he was a physician, but in later years was a successful druggist in Upland, and also prominent in Masonic circles. 9. John R., born February 23, 1855, is a farmer at Dodson, Montana, and has one daughter living.

Howard Lyon, who was the youngest of the children of John Lyon, was bora in Jefferson township, November 13, 1858. Reared on his father's farm he has lived there the greater part of his career, and while a boy he had the advantages of the common schools. He now is pro¬ prietor of one hundred and twenty acres of his father's two hundred and forty acre estate, and has made of farming a very profitable busi¬ ness. For ten years, he had a dairy farm, and on the whole has fol¬ lowed what is called mixed farming.

In the residence which he now occupies on February 9, 1882, he was married by Rev. O. C. Garretson to Miss Catherin Ginn, a twin sister of William Ginn, a Jefferson township citizen whose career is briefly sketched elsewhere in this volume. Mrs. Lyon was born in Henry county, Indiana, December 14, 1856, was reared and educated there and in Grant county, and has become the mother of three children: Jas¬ per, born August 6, 1882, graduated from the grade schools in 1899, and from the Upland high school in 1902, spent three years in technical studies at Purdue University, and is an electrical engineer by profession. During the past four years with the backing of his father, he has built up the Citizens Telephone Company of Upland, and recently they sold their stock in that institution. Jasper Lyon inarried Myrtle A. Boyd, and their children are : Florence L., born October 3, 1909 ; Donald How¬ ard, born February 15, 1911; and Eugene Willard, born May 4, 1912. 2. Nancy, born March 21, 1884, graduated from the Upland high school in the class of 1905, was a successful teacher in the county five years, and by her marriage to Walter Penrod has one daughter, Esther. 3. Jason died at the age of nine months, on September 26, 1886.