Montgomery County, Indiana - Biographical sketches, 1911 (part 2 of 14)

F. F. Cummings was a child when his parents removed from Champaign county, Illinois, in 1887, and he grew to manhood in the metropolis and there received his education, which included a course in a business college, after which he went to work in his father's planing mill where he remained until he was nineteen years old, during which time he mastered the various details of that line of work. He then took up railroading, securing a position as brakeman on the Pennsylvania road, but after a year of that dangerous and arduous work he returned to the planing mill where he remained until four years ago when he and his brother, H. S. Cummings bought out the Alfrey Auto Company at Crawfordsville, and they have built up a large and rapidly growing business. They handle the Ford and Hudson cars and conduct a general repair house, also storage for autos, handling supplies of all kinds, gasoline, oil, etc. Their patrons come from all over this locality, anfl an evidence of their success as salesmen is seen from the fact that most of the cars in Montgomery and adjoining counties seem to be the makes which they handle. They under.stand every phase of their business and are prepared to do promptly high grade work.

H. S. Cummings was born on August 13, 1885, and was educated in Indianapolis. Like his brother he learned the planing mill business under his father and followed the same until he came to Crawfordsville a few years ago. He is a member of the Masonic Order, and he and his brother are both standpatters in politics, voting the Republican ticket. These young men have made a iine start in the business world and the future promises much for them.

F. F. Cummings was married on February 20, 1905, to Lillian E. Robinson, daughter of C. M. Robinson, a plumber of Indianapolis. To this union two children have been born, namely: Marshall F., and Marion N.

On October 2, 1910, H. S. Cimimings married Delia Bruner, the daughter of Joseph Bruner, of Hillsboro, Indiana, a carpenter by trade. Mr. Cummings belongs to the Masonic lodge, and politically is a Republican.

There are several business houses in the city of Crawfordsville that are not only thorughly typical of the comprehensive growth and increasing importance of the place, but also distinctly a source of public pride, delineating as they do the general business enterprise and commercial sagacity of some of our leading citizens. Such an establishment is the McWilliams Furniture Company, of which W. E. McWilliams, one of the most thorough going, enterprising business men of Montgomery county is the head. He is widely known throughout this locality, having spent the major portion of his life in this section of the Wabash Valley country, although a native of the land of the "big muddy water," but he was brought to an adjoining county when a child and his manhood years have been passed in this part of Hoosierdom. He has displayed excellent judgment and more than ordinary business acumen. He gives almost his entire attention and thought to his business enterprise, is careful and exact in his transactions and has the pleasantest relations with his patrons and the general public.

W. E. McWilliams was born in Clinton county, Missouri, August 8, 1868. He is a son of Dudley and Dora (Elder) McWilliams, who removed to Parke county, Indiana, when our subject was twelve years old, in the year 1870, and there the family continued to reside until 1908 when the father removed to Center Point, Texas, where he still resides. He has devoted his life successfully to agricultural pursuits and is known as a man of industry and honesty wherever he has lived. Politically, he is a Democrat, and in fraternal affairs belongs to the Masonic Order.

W. E. McWilliams grew to manhood on the home farm in Parke county and there assisted with the general work during the crop seasons and in the winter time he attended the common schools. He began life for himself by farming and raising stock, handling mules, horses and other stock of a good grade, and was successful from the start, carrying on general farming in connection with handling live stock. His place was located near Marshall, and there he continued operations until 1908 when he came to Crawfordsville and bought out G. W. Newlin's furniture store, and he has since been engaged in this line of business with ever increasing success. He carries one of the finest lines of complete furnishings, carpets, rugs, stoves, etc., to be found in western Indiana, showing at all seasons an up-to-date and carefully selected stock, and he draws his hundreds of patrons from all over the county, for here they know they will receive uniform, counteous and honest treatment.

His place of business is located on Washington street, and is known as the McWilliams Furniture Company. He carries a stock that would invoice between ten thousand and fifteen thousand dollars at all times, and he has been very successful in a financial way.

Mr. McWilliams is a public-spirited man and always aids any movement which has for its object the betterment of his city or county. Fraternally, he belongs to the Tribe of Ben-Hur, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and until recentlv was a member of the Knights of Pvthias.

One of the most promising and best known of the younger physicians and surgeons of Montgomery county and vicinity is Dr. George P. Ramsey, who, while yet young in years has shown himself to be the possessor of all the varied attributes necessary in the makeup of the successful minister to human ills, having a decided natural talent in this science and also an engaging personality, being a man who commands the respect and confidence of his patients and consequently gets speedy results. He has made a host of friends since establishing himself in his profession here, and is one of our worthiest home boys and in even,- respect a most creditable representative of the medical profession in a community long noted for the high order of its talent.

Dr. Ramsey was born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, February, i8, 1876, and he is a son of William T. and Tabitha J. ( Hightower) Ramsey, the former born in Lexington, Kentucky, finalh- coming to Montgomery county, Indiana, where he established the permanent home of the family. Here he and Tabitha J. Hightower were married, she ha\'ing come with her parents to Montgomery county when young.

Dr. Ramsey grew to manhood in his native city and here he attended the common schools, and was graduated from the local high school with the class of 1896. Early in life he determined upon a career as a physician and with this end in view he entered Central College of Physicians and Surgeons at Indianapolis (now known as the Indiana Medical College). Here he made an excellent record and was graduated with the class of 1900. While in that institution he became a member of the Galenien society, a student literary body and was quite influential in the same.

where he remained six years, building up a satisfactory practice. He then removed to Whitesville, where he remained three years with Hke success. Seeking a larger field for the exercise of his talents he came to Crawfordsville in 1909, and opened an office which he has since maintained, ever enjoying a large, growing and lucrative patronage. He has kept well up-to-date in his profession by close study as well as practical experience.

Fraternally, the Doctor is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, the Knights of the Maccabees, Fraternal Order of Eagles, and Owls, in all of which he is deservedly popular, being nest physician of the last named order. Politically, he is a Republican. For two years he very ably and acceptably discharged the duties of county coroner. Religiously, he is a Baptist.

Louis Bischof

An enumeration of the enterprising men of the Wabash Valley country and especially of Montgomery county who have won recognition and success for themselves and at the same time have conferred honor upon the locality where they reside would be incomplete were there failure to make mention of Louis Bischof , who, while yet young in years, became one of the substantial and most representative business men and influential citizens of the city of Crawfordsville, which position he has continued to maintain, conducting an extensive mercantile establishment. He has ever held worthy prestige in mercantile circles and was always regarded as distinctively a man of affairs and has wielded a potent influence among those with whom his lot has been cast, having won definite success and shown what a man of lofty principles, honesty of purpose and determination can win by proper efifort. He stands in the front rank of the men who honor his calling and because of his industry, integrity and courtesy he enjoys the good will and respect of all classes.

Louis Bischof was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, February 19, i860. He is a son of Jacob and Minnie Bischof, both natives of Germany, where they grew to maturity, were educated and married and there spent their earlier years, emigrating from the famous city of Heidelberg to the United States in 1856, and locating at Terre Haute, Indiana, where they became well established and to tliem were born the following children: Louis, subject of this review; :\Irs. Fannie Kalin, of Crawfordsville; Morris Bischof, who lives in Chicago; Mrs. Dora Bernheimer, of Terre Haute: John Bischof, who lives in Crawfordsville: Mrs. Carrie Levi, wlio resided in Cincinnati, and Abe Bischof, both deceased.

Louis Bischof was only eleven months old when his father died. His mother survived many years, reaching an advanced age, and died some twelve years ago.

Louis Bischof grew to manhood in the city of Terre Haute and there he received his education in the public schools. When seventeen years of age he came to Crawfordsville and began his business career in 1877, and has always been a merchant, ha\ing had a decided natural bent for that line of endeavor, and his rise has been gradual and certain, each year finding him further advanced than the preceding. His first store was a one-story room in Washington street. By his courtesy, thrift and splendid business judgment, his store soon outgrew his limited quarters there, so larger accommodations were secured by the purchase of a story and a half building on Main street. Within a short time this, too. proved inadequate to the fast-growing business, when an adjoining room of equal proportions was added. With the growth of Crawfordsville and the constant increase of activity in its commercial life this building soon proved too small to meet the demands of the business. Mr. Bischof then built iiis present substantial and commodious structure, with a forty-three foot front and one hundred and sixty-five feet in depth, with basement and four floors. The building is modern in all its appointments, with electric passenger and freight elevators, its own electric lighting plant, pneumatic cash system and every feature of up-to-date store service.

When Mr. Bischof began business he enipl(i}ed only five people. One hundred employes are now on the pay roll of the Louis Bischof Big Store. A very large and carefully selected stock of general merchandise is carried, a new stock purchased each season, and the thousands of satisfied and regular customers of this mammoth enterprise know tliat here they always receive honest and courteous treatment, which is uniform to all classes. One reason Mr. Bischof is enabled to sell his goods at a much lower figure than other merchants is because he buys his goods in enormous quantities, hence purchases them lower than if bought in small lots here and there. Thus he gives his customers the benefit of this reduction. His fine store is neatly arranged, tastily kept and is a comfortable place both winter and summer, everything being provided for the comfort of customers, and it is the favorite gathering place for farmers' families from all over Montgomery and adjoining counties when in Crawfordsville. Everything is managed under a superb system.

In 1907 Mr. Bischof incorporated the business under the name of the Louis Bischof Big Store, a unique feature of the incorporation being that it is organized on the co-operative plan. At the present time there are over three thousand stockholders of this great store living in Crawfordsville and Montgomery county, who, impelled by a common interest, take a personal pride in the success of the enterprise, and are making it one of the best and largest stores in the state.

In addition to being the president of the corporation mentioned above, Mr. Bischof has always given liberally of his time and money to the betterment and advancement of the city of Crawfordsville, whose interests he has ever had at heart, having great faith in its future and favorable location as a commercial center.

Mr. Bischof is a member of DeBayard Lodge, Knights of Pythias; the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Crawfordsville Lodge No. 483. He is also a member of the B'nai Brith.

Mr. Bischof is a member of the Crawfordsville Commercial Club and a director in the same. He is a stockholder in the Farmers and Merchants Trust Company. He is also president of the Louis Bischof Big Store of Ladoga, Indiana, where a large business is carried on with the surrounding country, this being one of the largest and most complete department stores in the Wabash country, and, like its sister establishment in the county-seat, would be a credit to a town much larger than Ladoga.

Marion E. Clodfelter

No more popular or able exponent of the legal profession is to be found in Montgomery and surrounding counties than Marion E. Clodfelter, of Crawfordsville, a man who seems to combine, by both nature and training, all the elements essential in the makeup of a first-class lawyer. He is a man of broad mind, alert, energetic, and always has the interests of his clients at heart, sparing no pains in their behalf, and, being a man of exemplary character he has the confidence and good will of the people of this locality. He is the scion of a worthy old pioneer family and the name Clodfelter has been a well known one in the annals of the Wabash country for many decades.

Mr. Clodfelter was horn in I'utnam he is a son of Alathias and Mar\' M. (; born in Xorth Carolina in iSid, and the in 1819. They lioth were hroui;ht to 1' children, by their parents. The father, and miller and well known here in the Mathias Clodfelter and Mary M. Sayler grew to maturity and were married in 1838, mo\-ing from Putnam to Montgomeiy county in December, 181 4, and locating on forty acres of land in Ripley township. This ground was cleared by Mr. Clodfelter and, being a hard w'orkerand a good manager he prospered and added to his original holdings until he owned an excellent farm of one hundred and forty acres, and this he continued to farm successfully until his health failed, when he removed to .\lamo and o])enc(l a grocery store which he conducted for si.x or eight years, building u|) a large trade with the surrounding country. He tlien retired from the acli\e duties of life and moved to New Ross where his death occurred. He was one of the first tow-nship trustees of Ripley township, and was for some time justice of the peace. Politically, he was a Democrat, and in religion a Universalist. The death of his wife occurred in Crawfordsxille. She was a woman of rare attributes, being a natural botanist and she knew medical varieties of plants and herbs, and she doctored her own family \-ery successfully. Thirteen children were born to Mathias Clodfelter and wife, four of whom are living at this writing, namely: Evelyne is the wife of Rev. T. E. Ballard; Ellie is the wife of E. E. Ballard: Minnie married J. R. Etter: and Marion E., of this review.

Marion E. Clodfelter grew to manhood in this native count\- and here received a common school education, later entering Waveland Academy, from which he was graduated with the class of 1872, with the degree of B. C. He began life for himself as a teacher, in which field of enedavor his rise was rapid and he had the honor of serving Montgomery county as its first superintendent of schools, and he deser\es much credit for the successful manner in which he disi^osed of the huge task of organizing the schools of the county. He has always been in sympathy with the local educational work and has done much in furthering the same. Finally tiring of the school room and deciding that his true bent was toward legal circles he took up the study of law with Koons & E\'ans, of Crawfordsville, studying part of the five years that he was engaged in teaching. He began the practice of his profession at the town of New Ross in 1878, remaining there two years and, then, seeking a larger field for the exercise of his talents, he removed to Crawfordsville in 1880, and he has been continuously and successfully engaged in the practice here ever since, or for a period of thirty-two years, during which time he has figured prominently in the important cases in the local courts and has attained a position in the front rank of attorneys of western Indiana. He is ever a profound studeent, and has kept fully abreast of the times in all that pertains to his vocation. He is a careful, painstaking and energetic advocate, and as a speaker has great weight with a jury, being a logical, forceful and not infrequently truly eloquent speaker. He is always busy and has built up a large and lucrative practice.

Politically, Mr. Clodfelter is a Progressive, and is much enthused in the work of the new party. He belongs to the Masonic Order and to the Patriotic Order of the Sons of America.

Mr. Clodfelter was married in 1873 to Lucinda C. Myers, a lady of refinement and education, and a daughter of William Myers, a worthy early settler of Fountain county. To this union two children have been born, namely: Stella I., who is the present court reporter of the local courts; and Cora Donna, wife of Ward Williams. Mrs. Clodfelter was born in Fountain county on October 4, 1854.

Luther R. Long

It is, or at least should be, the pride of every American that there are no bounds set on the limits to which legitimate ambition, perseverance and right ideals may not aspire. Although one may be born and reared under the most discouraging environment, he is, notwithstanding, able to break such bonds and rise to any and every station of honor and usefulness in the land. The attributes do not necessarily have to be of a transcendent nature to enable him to accomplish this result. It is more the way the individual does it and his skill in seizing opportunities presented than to any extraordinaiy qualities innate in him. Accordingly it is very often found in the United States that the men in exalted positions in both the civic and business world possess no higher ability than thousands of other citizens. They have simply taken bet- ter advantage of their circumstances than their fellows. And this trutli runs through every occupation. The tiller of the soil who makes a greater success than his neighbors does so because he has found the secret of rising above the surroundings which hold others down.

One of this type of men in Montgomery county is Luther R. Long, the present county commissioner, and for many years one of our leading farmers and stock men. now living in retirement in his pleasant home north of Crawfordsville.

Mr. Long was born on .\ugust 7. 1847 in Brown county, Ohio, where he spent his earlier life and received his education, and from there he came to Montgomery county, Indiana, in 1874 where he has since resided. He is a son of William and Anna (Davis) Long. The father was liorn on September 6, 1810 in Brown county, Ohio, and tliere the mother was also born on March 6, 1812. There they grew to maturity, were educated and married, and spent their lives engaged in general farming, and to them four children were born. They are now deceased, the father's death having occurred on .'\ugust 14, 1889, ^""^1 the mother passed away at a very ailvanced age in September, 1906.

Luther R. Long was married on October 28, 1874, to Caroline Purdum, who was born August 19, 1854, in Brown county, Ohio, and there she grew to womanhood and received, a common school education. She was a daughter of Aaron and Margaret Ellen (Colgin) Purdum. the mother having been born in Delaware, and the father in Ohio.

Four children have been born to our subject and wife, namely: Lawrence R., born September 17, 1875, married Helen \\'el)ster. and they Ii\e in Fort Worth, Texas; Pearl, born January 17, 1878, married in igii to Frank D. Noland, and they live in Montgomery county: Ann, born April 29. 1881. married Mahlon D. Manson, and they live in Terre Haute, Indiana: and Luther L., born July 17, 1885, married Zula Russell, and they live in Crawfordsville.

Mr. Long has always engaged in general farming and stock raising and has met with pronounced success all along the line. He owns a finely improved and productive farm of one hundred and seven acres, all tillable and well tiled. In connection with general farming he has raised fine live stock, handling a superior grade of trotting horses, which have been greatly admired by all who have seen them. He has a commudious and well furnished home and substantial outbuildings.

Politically, Mr. Long is a Democrat, and he has l^een county commissioner of Montgomery county since 1906, filling the office in a manner that has reflected much credit upon himself and to the satisfaction of all concerned. He belongs to the Horse Thief Detective Association.

John Franklin Warbritton

If there is one thing which distinguishes the American business man over those of any> other country it is the faculty with which any and all occupations are readily taken up by him and made successful. In the older countries it was customary for the son to follow the father's pursuit. "Follow your father, my son, and do as your father has done," was a maxim which all sons were expected to adopt. It was jn such countries as the United States that full swing can be given to the energies of the individual. A man may choose any business or profession he desires, and he is limited only by competition. He must meet the skill of others and give as good service as they, or he will not get the positions, the prestige, or business. Such adaptation to any work or business is well shown in the career of John Franklin Warbritton, well known real estate dealer of Crawfordsville, and formerly a popular recorder of Montgomery county.

Mr. Warbritton was born in Rockville. Parke county, Indiana, on March 6, 1865. He is a son of Samuel N. and Amelia A. (Seaman) Warbritton. The father was born in Scott township, Montgomery county, Indiana, December 5, 183 1. He was a son of Peter and Phoebe Warbritton, early settlers of this county, and well known to the pioneers of this vicinity.

Samuel N. Warbritton devoted all his active life to agricultural pursuits, with the exception of two years, which were spent at Rockville, where he was engaged in buying horses for the Union army, during the latter part of the Civil war. He and his wife are still living near the place where he was born, living now in retirement, after years of successful endeavor.

John F. Warbritton was educated in the country schools, and was graduated from the Ladoga Normal in 1885, then began life for himself by farming, which he followed two years, then clerked at New Market for a period of twelve years, satisfaction to his employers. He then came to Crawfordsville and engaged in the clothing luisiness, and was getting a good start in this line when the Republicans elected him county recorder, which office he held for a period of eight years, in a manner which reflected much credit upon his ability and to the eminent satisfaction of all concerned, irrespective of party alignment, giving his best efforts to the work and proving to be one of the most faithful and praiseworthy officials the county has ever had. After his term of office had expired he engaged in the real estate business, which he still continues on an extensive scale, having built

Fraternally, Mr. Warhritton is a memlier of the Benevolent and I'rotective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias, and the Modern Woodmen of America.

In February. iS86. Mr. Warhritton was married to Laura A. Rush, daughter of V. J. and Jennie Rush. She was 1)orn in Xew Market. Montgomery county, Indiana, in iS^jS, and here she grew to womanhood and received her education.

Two children have been liorn to Mr. and Mrs. Warliritton. nanielv : Ernest R.. who is in business with his father: and Blanche, who is at home.

Elmer W. Ream. D. D. S.

The dental profession of Montgomery county has an able and iwpular exponent in the person of Dr. Elmer W. Ream, of Crawfordsville. who has acquired a very high order of ability, believing in the most progressi\-e methods, and he has left nothing undone nor spared any expense in preparing himself for this important field of endeavor or to equip his office properly in order to insure the highest grade of work possible in the briefest time. Me is evidently of a decided mechanical turn of mind and more or less of the artistic temperament, so it is not to be wondered at that he has met w ith unusual success in his chosen life work. Added to tliis natural l)ent is liis industry and perseverance, being willing to put forth any eft'ort in order to learn a little more of this, one of the world's most imi)Mrtant and useful i)rofessions. Then, too, he is a gentleman of integrity and a uniform courtesy which have won for him a wide circle of warm friends since casting his lot with the jjcople of Montgomery county some years ago.

Dr. Ream was born in Huntington couutw Indiana, on the old home fami, October 31, 1862, being the scion of an excellent and well established family in that section of the Hoosier state. His parents were David and Delilah Ream, who spent their lives successfully engaged in general agricultural pursuits in the abo\e named county and there they passed to their eternal rest many \ears ago. They w ere honest, hard-w nrking people who were liked in- all their neighbors.

It was on the old homestead in Huntinglon county that Dr. Ream s])cnt his boyhood days and grew to manhood, and there he made himself generally useful during" the crop seasons when he became of proper age, and during the winter months he attended the district schools. After a good general education he, having long fostered the ambition to be a dentist, entered the Ohio College of Dental Surger}-, at Cincinnati, where he made an excellent record and from which institution he was graduated with the class of 1890.

Thus well qualified for the vocation which he early decided to give his life forces to. Dr. Ream at once came to Crawfordsville, Indiana, and bought out the ofifice of Dr. G. S. Qements at 231I/2 East Main street, and here he has since been successfully engaged in the practice, building up a large and lucrative patronage.

Dr. Ream was married in February, 1892, to Lulu Brewer, a daughter of Squire Brewer and wife, a highly respected Crawfordsville family, and to this union five children have been born, namely : Lulu Fern is teaching in the Wilson building in her home city: Vincent B., Mora Bell, Martha, are all attending high school, and Paul is in the graded school.

Capt. Thomas Theodore Munhall

It will always be a mark of distinction to have served the Lmion during the great war of the Rebellion. The old soldier will receive attention no matter where he goes if he will but make himself known. And when he passes away, as so many of them are now doing, most of them attaining their allotted "three score and ten years," mentioned by the divinely inspired Psalmist of old, friends will pay him suitable eulogy for the sacrifices he made a half century ago on the sanguinary fields of battle in the southland or in the no less dreaded prison, fever camp or hospital. And ever afterward his descendants will revere his memory and take pride in recounting his services for his country in its hour of peril. One of the most eligible citizens for specific mention in a history of Montgomery county is Capt. Thomas Theodore Munhall, for many years a well known business man, and who is now living practically retired from the active duties of life in his pleasant home in Crawfordsville. He is worthy of our attention partly because of the fact that he is one of the old soldiers who went forth in that great crisis in the sixties to assist in saving the union of states, and partly because he has been one of our honorable- and public-spirited citizens for a number of decades. He is a plain, straightforward, unassuming gentleman who has souglit to do his duty in all the relations of life as he has seen and understood the right.

Captain Munhall was born on June 5, 1841. in Zanesville, Ohio. He is a son of Samuel and Sarah Hurd (Wiggins) Muniiall. The fatlier was born near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, July 30, 181 1, and in an early day went to Zanesville, Ohio, where he engaged in the mercantile business, and owing to the dishonesty of his partner, failed. He then took up farming which he continued a few years, then in 1858 went to Illinois and located near Farmington, where he continued general agricultural pursuits until his death, June 27, 1893, at Forrest, Illinois. He was a Republican, and religiously, a Methodist. He was an industrious, hard working man and known for his uprightness and neighborliness.

Sarah \\'iggins, who became the wife of Samuel Munhall. was born in Morris county. New Jersey, January 30, 1816, and her death occurred in Chicago.

Capt. Thomas T. Munhall was educated at the Mclntire Academy at Zanesville, Ohio, and in the Putnam high school academy, at Putnam, Ohio, later attending the country schools in Illinois, after which he taught one term.

^^'hen the Civil war came on he proved his patriotism and courage by being one of the first to enlist in defense of the Union, becoming a member of Company B, Eleventh Illinois Cavalry, under Col. "Bob" Ingersoll. who later became one of America's greatest orators. Our subject was made second sergeant in 1861, later first sergeant, in the fall of 1862. later second lieutenant, earning these promotions by gallant conduct on the field of battle. In 1864 he was promoted to the rank of captain and was transferred to Company D of the same regiment. The memljers of Company B, presented him with a sword, sash, belt and gold plated spurs. Company D asked to a man to have him commissioned their captain. He accepted this promotion, and filled the same in a most faithful and gallant manner, taking part in the Meridian campaign under General Sherman. His company was later regarded as one of the best drilled as well as best disciplined companies in the cavalry service, at the close of the war.

Captain Munhall was in all of the engagements in which the Eleventh Cavalry participated, and was in Gen. Lew Wallace's division at the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Farmington, Parker's Cross Roads, Jackson, Tennessee; Holly Springs, Union City, Bolivar, Black River, Qbeen's Hill and Jackson,

Mississippi ; Champion's Hills and many others of lesser note, in all of which he never shirked his dutj^ no matter how arduous or dangerous, according to his comrades. He took part in forty-two engagements in all, and, having a robust constitution and being a young man of good habits he was never sick or off duty during the entire war. On June 10, 1865 he was in charge of the last flag of truce ever taken into the Confederate lines. This was at Jackson, Tennessee. On October nth of that year he was honorably discharged, after a most commendable and envied record as a soldier for the defense and perpetuity of the nation.

After his career in the army Captain Munhall returned to the farm in Illinois. In his earlier youth he had intended studying law, but the idea of a legal career was abandoned, and, after farming until 1876 he went to Indianapolis and took charge of A. C. May's heading and cooper shops, remaining there two years, then went to New Ross, where he was engaged in the shops also a store, then opened a store of his own. He was appointed postmaster at New Ross, which position he held for a period of five years, with equal satisfaction to the people and the department; he was then nominated and elected county recorder and served two terms in a most creditable manner. He also served six years as trustee of Crawfordsville schools. He then engaged in the real estate, abstract and loan business with much success until 1906, when he went to Custer county, Montana, and homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres and bought one hundred and sixty acres adjoining. He has placed it all under a high state of improvement and cultivation. He has been very successful in a business way and is now in his declining years well fixed in a financial way.

Politically, he is a Republican, but he has never been especially active as a public man. He belongs to McPherson Post, Grand Army of the Republic. Fraternally, he is a Mason, belonging to the Chapter. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias.

Captain Munhall was married on February 7, 1871 to Mary E. Makinson, of Illinois. She was born on March 2, 1845. ^nd died on December 16, 1905. She was a daughter of Judge Makinson of Ottawa, Illinois, and she was a woman of many commendable traits of character and proved to be a worthy helpmeet in every respect.

To the Captain and wife one child was born, a daughter, Gertrude Munhall, who is now assistant librarian at the Crawfordsville public library.

James S. Hitchcock

The career of James S. Hitchcock, editor of The CrawfordsvUlc Review, has been strenuous, like that of all wlio select the newspaper field for their arena of action, and there is nothing in his record savorintj in the slightest degree of disrepute, his relations with his fellow men having lieen ever abo\e reproach and his good name beyond criticism. He wears the proud American title of self-made man, and being in the most lilieral sense of the term the architect of his own fortune he may well feel a sense of ])ride in his achievements and the honora1)le position U> which he lias attained among the enterprising young men of the county and city of iiis adoption.

Mr. Hitchcock was born on July 24. 1885 in Jackson, Michigan. He is a son of Charles and Mary ( Smiley) Hitchcock. The father was born in 1851, also in Jackson, Michigan, and his death occurred on March 17, 1908. The mother of our subject was born on May _', 1863 in Lansing, Michigan, and her death occurred on December 26. 1911. These parents grew to maturity, received common school educations and were married in their native state. Also the father was graduated from the Michigan Agricultural College and from a musical college. He spent the major portion of his active life as a commercial traveler. Politically, he was a Republican. Fraternally, he beonged to the Masonic Order and the Kniglits of the Grip. He was also a member of the Presbyterian church. Louring the Spanish-American war he enlisted in Companv K, Tliirtx-third X'olunteer Infantry, under Captain Allen, and after a \-ery faithful ser\ice he was honorabl)- discharged, mustered out a lieutenant.

Our subject received a common and high school education, later taking special work at the Michigan Agricultural College, and also attended Michigan I'niversity.

He learned the printer's trade in the office of The Micliic/an Statesma)i, at Marshall, Michigan. In a short time he had mastered the ins and outs of the mechanical department of that ])a])er and two years after he began his apprenticeship there he was editor of the same, although a mere boy, and when onlv sixteen years old he was editor of The Index at Homer, Michigan, being one of the youngest, if not the youngest editor in the state; but he made a success of this responsible work, and from Homer he went to Lansing, where he joined the staff of Tlic Journal as city editor, and he was also connected with The Lansing Republican for about a year, giving his employers entire satisfaction in every respect. Still seeking larger fields for the exercise of his talent, he went to Detroit where he secured employment on The Times. Subsequently he became city editor of the Marquette Mining Journal in 1905, later working a year on the Kalamazoo Gazette, then he returned to Lansing, and in March, 1910, he came to Craw fords ville, Indiana, and since then has been editor of The Crawfordsville Review, a corporation, and he has brought this paper up to a high rank among the papers of western Indiana, greatly increasing its circulation and rendering it a valuable advertising medium.

Mr. Hitchcock is a Democrat. He belongs to the Presbyterian church, and fraternally is a member of the Masonic Order, No. ;^Ti. at Lansing, Michigan; also belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, at Crawfordsville. Mr. Hitchcock has remained unmarried.

Charles William Ross

It is the pride of the citizens of this country that there is no limit to which natural ability, industry and honesty may not aspire. A boy born in ignorance and poverty and reared under the most adverse surroundings may nevertheless break from his fetters and rise to the highest station in the land ; and the qualities do not have to be of transcendant character to enable him to accomplish this result. It is more the way he does it and the skill in grasping the opportunities presented than to any remarkable qualities possessed by him. Accordingly it is found that very often in this country the President, governor and other high public officials possess no greater ability than thousands of other citizens. They have simply taken better advantage of their circumstances than their fellows, and this truth runs through every occupation or vocation. The business man who rises above his fellows does so by taking advantage of conditions which others overlook or fail to grasp. This seems to be the case with Charles William Ross, for many years regarded as one of the foremost business men of Crawfordsville and Montgomery county, being very extensively engaged in the real estate and loan business. In all walks of life he has so conducted himself as to gain and retain the good will and confidence of all classes, and in every movement looking to the improvement of his locality in any way his support may always be depended upon.

Mr. Ross was born in Iroquois county, Illinois, May 4, 1864. on a fann. He is the scion of an excellent Irish ancestry, many of whose winning characteristics he seems to have inherited. He is a son of .Alexander and Mary (Johnson) Ross. The father was Ixirn in Ireland. June 18, 1832. His father died when he was about fi\e years of age and when sixteen years old he accompanied his mother to America. The father and liusl>and was a minister in the Methodist church and spent his life in Ireland. Upon coming to the United States Alexander and his mother located in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, on a farm, and the son continued to follow agricultural pursuits. He hired out until i860 then bought a farm for himself and moved on it, operating the same until 1863 when he mo\-ed to Ircxpiois county, Illinois, and he remained there until 1867 when he removed to Lafayette, Indiana, where he spent the rest of his life, his death occurring in 1905. Upon the commencement of the gold fever period in 1849 '""^ ^^'^s one of the brave band to make the tedious and hazardous journey across the plains of California. Politically, he was a Republican, belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and was a memlser of the Methodist Episcopal church. In i860 he married Mary Johnson, who was born on Decemljer 18, 1832, in Sweden, from which country she came to the L'nited States when fourteen years of age, locating in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, with her l)rother. Her death occurred in 1886. To this union eight children were born.

Charles W. Ross received a public school education, and he was graduated from Purdue University at Lafayette, Indiana, with the class of 1889, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. While in school he spent his summers engaged in the general contracting business - road and bridge building Soon after leaving college he came to Crawfordsville and engaged in the general mercantile business with ever increasing success until 1898, when he launched out in the real estate, loan and insurance business, and this he has continued to the present time on a veiy extensi\-e scale, maintaining the largest office of its kind in this section of the state, employing an office force of six people and thirty men in the tield. His operations extend over a large territory and he is widely known as one of Crawfordsville's most substantial and enterprising citizens. He had the di.stinction of being the originator of the five per cent, farm loans. During the year 1912 he placed over one million dollars in loans. His insurance runs larger every year, representing a number of the leading companies of the world. He buys and sells farms, in fact all kinds of rural and city property, and this is also a large part of his work. At this writing he owns over one thousand acres of land and fifty pieces of city property, all valuable and well kept. No man in Montgomery county is better informed on the value of property, country or city.

Politically, Mr. Ross is a Republican, and in religious matters he is a Methodist, and one of the pillars in the local congregation, being a steward, and has been a member of the official board for the past twenty-five years.

Mr. Ross was married on June 23, 1891 to Alice Dee Green, who was born near Waynetown, Montgomery county, Indiana, June 23, 1870. She is a daughter of George and Mary E. (Holloway) Green, who were early settlers of Wayne township and a well known family there. Mr. Green was born at Cambridge, New York. He devoted his life successfully to agricultural pursuits, and his death occurred in January, 1903 at the age of eightythree years. Mrs. Green lives in Crawfordsville, being now advanced in years.

Success is achieved only by the exercise of certain distinguishing qualities and it cannot be retained without effort. Those by whom great epoch changes have been made in the political and industrial world began early in life to prepare themselves for their peculiar duties and responsibilities and it was only by the most persevering and continuous endeavor that they succeeded in rising superior to the obstacles in their way and reaching the goal of their ambition. Such lives are an inspiration to others who are less courageous and more prone to give up the fight before their ideal is reached or definite success in any chosen field has been attained. In the life history of the honorable gentleman whose name forms the caption of this article we find evidence of a peculiar characteristic that always makes for achievement - persistency, coupled with fortitude and lofty traits', and as a result of such a life, Mr. Ballard stands today one of the representative citizens and leading attorneys at law of Montgomery county, and an author of repute.

Emerson Etheridge Ballard, who maintains his office and residence in Crawfordsville, was born near Wheaton, Putnam county, Indiana, February 27, 1865. He is a son of William Sanford Ballard and Patience Ann (Brown) Ballard, both natives of Kentucky, the father's birth having occurred in Shelby county. These parents grew up, were educated and married in Putnam county, Indiana, where they were brought by their parents in childhood, and they spent their lives engaged in agricultural pursuits. They are both deceased. The paternal grandfather, Jesse Ballard, was born in Virginia. The maternal grandfather, Samuel Brown, son of Ezekicl I'.rown, was born March 19, 1803. Ann C. Glenn, our subject's maternal grandmother, was born May 13. 1802.

Emerson E. Ballard grew to manhood on the home farm in Putnam county and he received his primary education in the district schools there, until he was fourteen years old, then attended the hig'h school in Greencastle, from which he was graduated in May, 1881, and in thai city he tonk the four years' course in DePauw University, making an excellent record and graduating with the class of 1885.

Early in life he determined upon a legal career am! bent e\ery effort to thoroughly prepare himself, and he was accordingly admitted to the bar at Greencastle on March i, 1886. Two days later we find him in Crawfordsville, entering the practice of his profession in partnership with his brother, Tilghman E. Ballard, which continued until November, 189S, and met with pronounced success. Beginning with the year 1888 the firm, in connection with its law practice, engaged in the work of editing and publishing law books, which was continued until the dissolution of the firm. Since that time our subject has been engaged as a law book editor, meeting with e\'er increasing success until today he is recognized as an authority in this line throughout the country. Ballard's law of Real Property, a national serial publication, now consisting of fourteen volumes, was founded by Mr. Ballard and his brother, Tilghman E., in 1892. The first five volumes were jointly edited and published by them; but beginning with the sixth volume Emerson E. has been the editor of this popular and meritorious publication, with the exception of two volumes, which is now published by T. H. Flood & Company, law book publishers of Chicago. During the past si.x years our subject has done considerable work on the lecture platform, giving special emphasis to the temperance work, and he is regarded wherever he has appeared as an earnest, forceful, entertaining and elocjuent speaker.

Emerson E. Ballard was married on December 19, 1888 to Ella F. Clodfelter, a lady of many estimable attributes, who was a daughter of Mathias Clodfelter and Mary Magdelen (Saylor) Clodfelter.

To our subject and wife two children have been born, namely: Ella Maurine Ballard, born on August 7, 1891 ; and Cecil May Ballard, born on August 20, 1895, and her death occurred on October 24, 1899.

Politically, Mr. Ballard is a Democrat and has ever been loyal in his support of the fundamental principles of Democracy. Fraternally, he is a mem- ber of Montgomery Lodge, No. 50, Free and Accepted Masons ; Crawfordsville Chapter No. 40, Royal Arch Masons; Montgomery Council No. 34, Royal and Select Masons; Crawfordsville Commandery, No. 25 Knights Templar, and Athens Chapter No. 97, Order Eastern Star.

The Griffith Family

The following history of the Griffith family, of which Dr. Thomas J. Grififith, of Crawfordsville, is a member, was written by the Doctor especially for this work in Montgomery county, in the spring of 1913 :

My father gave me the legendary fragments known to him of the Griffith family. It is a Welch name and was originally spelled Gryfyth. Three brothers came to America some time in 1600, landing at Philadelphia, and settled on the Brandywine river and became opulant, but during the Revolutionary war sold their possessions for Continental money and were made poor.

My great-grandfather, Joseph Griffith, was a soldier of the Revolutionary war and was the first Revolutionary soldier buried at Indianapolis, in 1823. There is eleven pounds, English money due his heirs, on statement to me from the War Department. My great-grandfather, Joseph Griffith was married to Mary Thornton, an English woman, and to them were born Abraham, in 1774; Sarah, in 1777; John, in 1778; Joseph, in 1780; Elizabeth, in 1783, and Amos in 1786. My great-grandmother was lost in making a visit across the Allegheny mountains and no trace of her could be found. Abraham Griffith, my grandfather, was bom in Chester county, Pennsylvania, November 31, 1774, and was married to Joanna John, a grand aunt of Dr. D. P. John, of DePauw University, October 12, 1798. Joanna died August 12, 1815, at one o'clock in the morning in Frederick county, Maryland.

To Abraham and Joanna Griffith was born Lydia T., Hannah, Thornton, (my father), Townsend, Barton and Clifford. Grandfather, with his brother, Amos, and sons Townsend and Barton, came west after the death of his wife, and two grown daughters, Lydia and Hannah, about 1822 or 1823, and settled in Covington, Indiana. In 1824 Abraham Griffith, paternal grandfather, took the contract to build the first jail in Crawfordsville for the princely sum of two hundred and forty-three dollars. It stood in the rear of Albert Miller's theatorium, and its dimensions were as follows: "To be twenty-four by twenty feet from out to out. the foundation to be laid with stone sunk eighteen inches under ground and to be twelve inches above the ground and to be three feet wide on which there is to be built with logs, hewed twelve inches square, double walls with a vacancy of one foot between the walls ; the vacancy between the walls to be filled with peeled poles, not more than six inches thick."

Grandfather died here June 19, 1829, in a double log house tiiat stood on the southwest corner of Green and Market streets, and together with his son. Barton, a capable young business man of Covington, and contracted a malignant fever on a business trip to New Orleans, and died soon after reaching home; this was in 1834, and he was brought here and buried beside his father, in the old town cemeter)% and I am very sorry indeed to say that their graves are forever lost to the knowledge of the Griffith family. Barton was unmarried.

Thornton Griffith, my father, came west later than his father and brothers. He was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, July 8, 1799. He was in the Island of Porto Rico in the summer of 1825. superintending the building of a wharf for a Philadelphian sugar company, when a three-mast schooner came into San Juan, with a double-decked cargo of five hundred negroes from Africa, all in mother nature's costume and unloaded them on the beach to clean up, and the third day they were gone for some American port. This exhibition of man's inhumanity to man, made an abolitionist of my father. In the campaign of Gen. William Henry Harrison here in 1834 he was honored by a committee of Crawfordsville citizens to deliver the address of welcome, which was made at the southeast corner of Main and Washington streets.

February 4, 1836, he was married to I\iary A. Hall, daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Herron) Hall, who was l)orn in New Berry county. South Carolina, June 18, 1807. Her mother died in South Carolina, December 10, 1821, leaving several children. James F. Hall, iier brother, was one of the county commissioners that built our court liouse. Her father and mother were born in Moneheim county, Ireland, and landed at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1765. Two of Grandfather Hall's brothers were soldiers in the Revolutionary war, in Gen. Francis Marion's army, one being an officer.

Mv parents were married at "Fruit's Corner." in Ripley township, Montgomer}- county, and moved in the spring of 1836 to the wilds of Clinton county, on Wild Cat creek, four miles northeast of Frankfort, on a hundred and sixty acre tract that had been entered from the government. (53)

Here, in a twelve by twelve log cabin they began the battle of life, with wolves and wild-cats for nocturnal serenaders. Father taught school one or more winters in a log school house, with greased paper for window lights, and slabs with wooden legs for seats and slabs for flooring. About that time he was a candidate for the Legislature, on the Whig ticket, from the counties of Clinton and Montgomery, which counties were largely Democratic. He said that it became apparent that he would be elected, when the "Demos" started a falsehood and defeated him. This so disgusted him he would never again be a candidate for office. He was a man of pleasing address, an easy and fluent speaker, invincible in argument, a great reader and of good memory. An honest man, detesting hypocrisy. He was a member of the Friends church, but having that broad catholicity, characteristic of his benevolent spirit. In his latter years, when "moved'" he frequently preached to the Friends. He passed to the spirit life from his home in Darlington, June 2^, 1869, when nearly seventy years of age; his ashes repose in Odd Fellows beautiful cemetery. Three children made glad my father's Clinton county home: Thomas ].. born April 2, 1837; Joanna M., born November 25, 1839; Nancy E., born August i, 1842. Joanna departed this life February 13, 1865. in her twenty-sixth year, from cerebro-spinal meningitis, the result of exposure while teaching school. Nancy E. was married to Joseph Binford, December 19, 1861, and resides in Crawfordsville.

My mother was a noble, thoughtful woman, devoted to her home and family. A devout Presbyterian and she passed to spirit life November 3, 1886, and her dust rests beside father's in lovely Odd Fellows cemetery. Her father deserves mention in this connection. He had convictions that slavery was wrong, but he could not free^them in South Carolina, as it was against the law, so he told them to look around and choose their masters without breaking families. This they did. Then he removed to Butler county, Ohio, and remained there about two years, when, with his children, Thomas, John A., James F., Mary A., Elizabeth. Nancy and Henry L., he came to Ripley township, this county, the now "Fruit's Corner," in 1829, and purchased a large farm and died there in 1848, and is buried in the old cemetery, onehalf mile west of Yountsville. For fifty years he was a ruling elder in the Associate ^feeformed Presbyterian church. He was a very conscientious man.

We now return to the Griffith history. Townsend Griffith, a brother of my father, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, April 4, 1801, and came to Crawfordsville in 1822 and was married to Mahala Catterlin, November I, 1827; she was the daughter of Ephriam Catterlin, a pioneer settler near the town. Townsend was prominent in the early development of the county, both in politics and civic offices. He was an whole-souled man, hospitable,genial and jolly, with the proverbial latch-string always on the outside. In the summer of 1852 he made a business trip to Minnesota and died of cholera June 2, 1852, at Galena, Illinois, on his return trip. After a time his remains were brought home and rest in the Masonic cemetery. To them were born - Matilda, one of the first children born in Crawfordsville, and who married Benjamin F. Galey. Mr. Galey died many years ago, and Mrs. Galey passed away only recently, in her eighty-fifth year. Sarah A. married George Worbington, of a prominent family here, and who died many years ago. She is living, and is the mother of Benjamin and Charley Worbington; Ephraim C. and Amanda (twins), born January 5,. 1833. Amanda married Morgan Snook, a son of Dr. Henry Snook, who was one of the pioneer physicians here and a brother-in-law of Dr. Samuel B. Morgan, a leading physician here in the early days. 24mQ'^*?

Ephraim married Mary J. Brassfield, February 14, 1855": ^s wife was born August 5, 1837. He died February n, 1901. and was noted for his hustling business abilities and did an extensive mechanical contracting business. Mrs. Griffith is living with her son, Howard, in the enjoyment of good health. To them were born: Cieorge, the architect: Frank E., who died young; William Douglass married Agnes A. Walsh, December 14. 19 10: Howard E. and Birdie, all of Crawfordsville

Ephriam Griffith was full of civic pride, and the citizens appreciated his efiforts bv electing him councilman and again a member of the school board, which positions he worthily filled.

Now back to the family of Townsend: Mary, who married Charles Bowen, for many years editor of the Craicfordsz'ille Re7'icu'. both have passed to future life, leaving two children - Arthur and Clara ; she is married and resides in Kansas. Rebecca, who died in infancy. Abraham, who lived to manhood and was thrown from a horse and killed. John Warner, who was an express messenger from Indianapolis to St. Louis, and was killed in a railroad wreck. He was married and his widow lives in Indianapolis. Samuel Morgan (named for their Doctor), who died in infancy. George, son of Ephriam and Mary Griffith, was married to Ida M. Caster, March 10, 1880. He was born in Crawfordsville, March 12, 1856. William Douglass, born June 22, 1861 : Frank E.. born June 9. 1858; Howard E., born December 30, 1876.

Rev. Thomas Griffith, a cousin of my father, was the first Methodist minister in Craw^fordsville. He preached in a small frame church, where the present Methodist Episcopal church stands. He married Lucy Daniels, and was a brother-in-law of John Crawford, a pioneer merchant here. He was acting postmaster during Major Elston's term of office. Their sons were John and Thomas B. John was a druggist and died many years ago. Thomas was a brave soldier in the famous Eighty-sixth Indiana Infantry in the war of the Rebellion. After the war he married Amanda Wilhite, October 15, 1864, by whom was born William Griffith. Thomas B. died thirty years ago, and his remains lie in Masonic cemetery.

Amos Griffith, my grandfather's brother, went to Warren county in 1830 and married an Indian woman with a large land inheritance. My father visited them about 1832, and their home was a model of cleanliness. No children were bom to them. Further of his history, I know nothing.

I have now given a brief and truthful history of the Griffith family, of which I am a descendant, which will connect the past with the future, and which I hope may be maintained by some future historian.

William R. Coleman

The business man who rises abo\'e his fellows does so by taking advantage of conditions which others overlook or fail to grasp. This has been very largely the case with William R. Coleman. In all that constitutes true manhood and good citizenship he is a worthy example and none stands higher than he in the esteem and confidence in the circles in which he moves. His career has been characterized by duty well perfonned, by faithfulness to every trust reposed in him, by industry, thrift, and wisely directed efforts, which has resulted in the accumulation of a comfortable share of this world's goods, besides earning a reputation which has never been clouded by the commission of unworthy acts.

Coleman. The father was born in Scott county, Indiana. January 14. 1S29. a son of John and Mary (Jacobs) Coleman. Mis parents came to Scott county from Franklin county. Indiana, and lived there until 1833 wht-n they came to Montgomery county, Incatin.i.;- in L'nion township, where they spent the rest of their lives on a farm, the father dyini;- in April, 1.S74 at the ai^e of eighty-four years and the mother's death occurred in 1804 at the age of sixtyeight years. Henderson J. Coleman received a good common school education, and he began life for himself by teaching school. He enjoyed the distinction of being the champion penman of his county. Later he turned his attention to farming which he continued through life with success, also studied to be a veterinary physician, and he practiced for a period of twenty-five years, becoming one of the best known veterinaries in this section of the state. It was his custom to buy diseased and disabled horses and cure them, selling them for handsome profits. In 1880 he gave up his farm of one hundred and sixty-eight acres and devoted all his time and attention to veterinary work. He had the confidence of all the farmers for he did his work well and conscientiously. He was a Republican, and fraternally was a Mason. His death occurred in 1905. He and Deborah Edwards were married in Montgomery county on September 16, 1836. She was born on March 6, 1833 and is still living, making her home with the subject of this sketch.

William R. Coleman, well known druggist of Craw fords ville, was educated in the common schools of his native county and he spent two years in Wabash College. He finished his education as a pharmacist in Chicago, graduating there in 1891. He returned to Crawfordsville and worked for Smith & Myers, later worked as clerk in drug stores in Cincinnati and Indianapolis, for a few years, then returned to Crawfordsville, and worked for R. C. Smith, later for J. H. Whitneck. In 1898 he began the drug business in Crawfordsville for himself on North Green street, remaining there three years, then purchased his present place in the Crawford Hotel block, in 190T. and has since successfully conducted the same, enjoying a large and ever growing trade with the city and surrounding country, always keeping a large and carefully selected stock of modern drugs and drug sundries, his store being a neat, attractive and well kept one. In 1904 he associated with the United Drug Company, manufacturers of the Rexall remedies. He carries a large line of the same, in connection with a full stock of prescription drugs and patent medicines.

Fraternally, Mr. Coleman is a member of the Masonic Order, including the Council, also the Improved Order of Red Men, the Patriotic Order Sons

Mr. Coleman was married in November, 1893 to Mabel Smith, a native of Kentucky, and after a brief and happy married life, she was called to her rest in the spring of 1904.

Charles E. Butler

Under a popular form of government like that of the United States, where the democratic idea of equality is as fully developed as the present imperfect condition of mankind will permit, we expect as its legitimate result the triumph of individual worth and energy over all the competition that wealth and class may array against them. Here the avenues of wealth and distinction are fully opened to all, which fact enhances rather than detracts from the merits of those whose energy and integrity have triumphed over all obstacles intervening between humble position and the attainment of those ends. Obscurity and labor, at no time dishonorable, never assume more attractive features than when the former appears as the nurse of those virtues which the latter, by years of honest and persevering effort, transplants to a higher and richer soil ; hence the biographer of those men of sterling worth whose active enterprise has won for them the distinction, pre-eminence and commanding influence in the society in which they move must be replete with facts which should encourage and instruct the young. Such a man is Charles E. Butler, well known citizen of Crawfordsville, who has done as much, if not more, than any other man to encourage better methods of farming in Montgomery county, and by the exercise of those talents and characteristics which were cultivated from his youth, has reached an honorable position in the public mind and earned the respect and high esteem of his fellow citizens.

Mr. Butler was born March 7, 1866, in Franklin township, Montgomery county. He is a son of Mahlon and Eunice (Lacy) Butler. The father was born on January 27, 1821, in Virginia, coming to Indiana at the early age of six months, and in 1834 he came with the rest, of the family to Montgomery county. They settled in Franklin township, in a Qfuaker cominunity, and among them was organized the Friends church in that township. The father of the subject spent the rest of his life in that township and there followed general farming. There he built a house ready for his bride, a gentle, kind and true Christian woman, whom he brought from Rush county, Indiana, and in that same house the father and mother of the subject always lived after coming to this county, until her death, on June 27, 1902. Mahlon Butler owned a good farm of one hundred and sixty acres, on which he carried on general farming and stock raising. Politically, he was a Reublican, but he never held office, being a dignified, quiet home man and a steady-going Quaker. His death occurred on March 5, 1904. His family consisted of five children, of whom Charles E., of this sketch, is the only one living, he having been the youngest of the family: the others were Emiline, Emily, Jennie and Lindley M., all deceased.

Charles E. Butler grew to manhood on the home farm and there he assisted with the general work of the farm. He received his early education in the common schools and tiie high school, and later was a student in Wabash College.

On October 10, 1888, he married Hallie L. Mount, who was born in Montgomery county, Franklin township, on August 18, 1868. She is a daughter of James A. and Catherine (Boyd) Mount. He was born March 23, 1843, ^"d his death occurred on January 16, 1901. His wife was born in 1849, ^n*^! her death occurred on July 6, 1905. James A. Mount became governor of Indiana, and was one of the most popular and efficient executives the state has ever had. A complete sketch of this distinguished man appears on other pages of this work. Mrs. Butler received a good education in the common schools here, later attended a college m Kentucky, from which she was graduated. She is a lady of culture and refinement and has always Ijeen popular with a wide circle of friends.

To Mr. and Mrs. Butler three children have been born, namely : Everett, born on August 18, 1891, graduated from Crawfordsville high school, and is at present farming: Lois, born July 6, 1897, is attending high school: Gladys, born September 4, 1900, is also in school at Crawfordsville.

Mr. Butler has spent nearly all his life on the farm in P>anklin township. He has made general farming and stock raising his chief life work and he has succeeded beyond the average agriculturalist, partly because he has made a more careful study of modern methods of tilling the soil, and partly because he has applied himself persistently and assiduously to whatever task he has had in hand. Mr. and Mrs. Butler's farm includes the two original Mount and Butler homesteads. It is deemed by them a privilege and responsibility to have in their possession these sacred spots, wrought into them, as there is, so much of the life of their loved ones. The scenes of their happy childhood days filled with memories of self-sacrificing, devoted parents, where the bravest struggles of hardships were met and conquered and the days of beautiful home life and happiness were ])assed. They are the owners of one of the finest, best-improved and most productive farms in Montgomery county, consisting of four hundred and fifty-five acres in Franklin township, all being cultivated or consisting of the best blue grass pastures. Here is carried on a general line of farming and stock raising, some excellent grades of live stock being found about his place at all seasons. He raises and feeds stock of all kinds for the market, shipping large numbers of fat cattle, hogs and sheep each year. He has a commodious and comfortable dwelling of modern style on his farm, where they spend their summers, also an excellent group of outbuildings. But they spend their winters in Crawfordsville, on account of school facilities, owning a beautiful home at 708 East Main street.

Politically, Mr. Butler is a Republican, and while he has always been loyal in his support of the party and been actively engaged in politics, he has never sought or held office, preferring to devote his attention exclusively to his large farming and stock raising industries. For years he has been officially identified with the Farmers' Institute work of the county. He is president of the Better Farming Association of Montgomery county, and for two years has been president of the Agricultural Society of Montgomery County. He is at present secretary of the State Farmers' Congress of Indiana. He has filled these important positions in a manner that has reflected much credit upon himself and to the eminent satisfaction of all concerned. He has done a great work in encouraging better and more scientific methods in general farming and stock raising and is regarded as an authority on modern twentieth century methods, and his advice is frequently sought along these lines and is invariably followed with gratifying results.

Mr. Butler is a member of the Knights of Pythias of Crawfordsville, and religiouslv holds membership with tlie Center Presbyterian church here.

One of the leading citizens of Montgomery county is Forgison Graham Mclntire, for a long lapse of years one of our most enterprising agriculturists, manufacturers and business men. Mr. Mclntire is a public-spirited man in all that the term implies, being e\-er interested in enterprises tending to promote the general welfare and has withheld his support from no mo\'ement for the good of the locality so long honored by his residence. His personal relations with his fellow men have ever been mutually pleasant and

Montgomery Col'Xtv, Indiana. 84I

Mr. Mclntire, who is the scion of one of the worthy old pioneer families of Montgomery county, members of which have figured prominently in the upbuilding of the same for more than three-quarters of a century, was born in Wayne township, this county, January 21, 1841. He is a son of John and Eliza (Burbridge) Mclntire. The father was born on January 20, 1807, near Harper's Ferry, Virginia. The family later moved to Kentuck\-, and in the early twenties came on to Montgomery county, Indiana, settling in Wayne township, when tliis country was a wilderness and settlers were few. Here John Mclntire entered one hundred and sixty acres from the government, in 1829, and up to 1910 the same was kept in the family. His father, Jacob Mclntire, bought one hundred and sixty acres in the same township. John cleared his farm and worked it with gratifying results until 1850, when his death occurred. Politically, he was a Whig and was a deacon in the Baptist church. In 1830 he married Eliza Burbridge. She was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, February 2, 181 5, and when a child accompanied her family, in 1823, to Montgomery county, Indiana, her parents settling near the farm of Henry Oldfield, who was the first settler of Montgomery county. The father, William Burbridge, entered three hundred and twenty acres of land there wliich he developed into a good farm, and thereon he liuilt, in 1827, the first brick house ever erected in this county. The same is still .standing and is in use. The late Mrs. Mclntire carried the brick with which to build the same. Wm. Burbridge was elected to the ofifice of associate judge of the c<)unt>-, and he served the people most faithfully and acceptably. He was \-er}- influential in public affairs and was one, of the substantial and leading men of the county. At one time he owned a large extent of \-aluable property on West Market street, Crawfordsville. His death occurred in 1868.

Ten children were born to John Mclntire and wife, three of whom are living, namelv: Forgison G., of this review; Rachael, wife of C. D. Cruse, of Crawfordsville; and Emma, of Crawfordsville.

Forgison G. Mclntire received what education he could in the common schools of his native vicinity in those early days, and at the age of fourteen years he took charge of the home farm, and continued to operate the same with skill and gratifying results until 1864. when he proved In's patriotism, by enlisting in Company H, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Indiana \'olunteer

Returning to the farm he continued to operate the same with his usual success until 1872. He prospered and purchased various farms in different parts of the county, which he operated on an extensive scale until 1885 when he moved to Crawfordsville, where he went into the fence manufacturing business, which he continued for a period of fifteen years, building up an extensive and lucrative business and enjoying an excellent trade all over the country. While on the farm he engaged in the threshing business and he still is interested in that line of work. He has shown himself to be a capable business man and has carried to successful completion whatever he has attempted. He is today one of the solid financial men of Crawfordsville.

Mr. Mclntire has always taken an abiding interest in public matters, especially as affecting Montgomery county. He was twice elected assessor of Union township, serving from 1900 to 1908, in a manner that reflected much credit upon himself and to the eminent satisfaction of all concerned. In 1909 he was elected to the city council of Crawfordsville, and is now president of the improvement board of that body, which is quite an important office, and he is filling the same in a commendable manner. He is also chairman of the board of public schools and buildings. He is a member of the counts and claims commission. He belongs to McPherson Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and has been a member of the Masonic Order for the past fifty-two years. Politically he is a Republican, and in religious matters is a Baptist.

Mr. Mclntire was married on March 28. 1872 to Rhoda May Utterback, who was born in Wayne township, this county, on adjoining farm from that of the Mclntires, the date of her birth being z^ugust i, 1840. She was a daughter of Harmon and Eliza (Wilson) Utterback, a well known and highly respected family, early settlers here. The father was a native of Ohio, born there in 1811.

To Forgison G. Mclntire and wife were born four children, namely: Georgia, wife of W. A. Whittington, of Crawfordsville; Verna Laura, who is the wife of W. H. Schleppy, of Los Angeles, California; Selma May, wife of William Saunders, of Tacoma, Washington; Harmon A., a printer of Crawfordsville.

Who will gainsay that a citizen i)f this country ever wore a greater badge of honor than the distinction of having suffered and bled in the service of the Union, for its preservation, during the great conflict between the states. It is a worthy inheritance that ought to be highly esteemed by all succeeding generations. But the ranks of the old phalanx, as heroic as those which followed the vaunted plume of Caesar, Hannibal or Alexander, are fast falling before the only I'oe they cannot meet, the King of Terrors, and ere long none will be left to recount the thrilling experiences of that sanguinary time. In the meantime, while they are still with us, let us pay them suitable honor for tlieir sacrifices, sufferings and patriotism. One of this number is Capt. W. B. Carr, one of Montgomery county's well known men and public-spirited citizens, who, for many years, ranked among our progressive general farmers, but who is now li\-ing in honoraljle retirement, spending his declining years in quiet.

Captain Carr. was born in Union count)". Indiana, on Jul\- 8. 1841. He is a son of Thomas and Elizabeth Carr. The father came to Montgomery county in 1855 and here spent the rest of his life, his death occurring in 1876, in his seventy-ninth year. He was a minister in the Christian church for o\er sixty years, during which time he did an incalculable amount of good among the pioneers, among whom he was well known and held in the highest esteem, being a man of fine mind, charitable, helpful iinpulses and exemplary character, always ready to assist those in need. He was the old-time type of preacher, the kind not frequently met with nowadays, that delighted in spreading the Gospel because he felt impressed to do so and not with a view of financial remuneration. Indeed, he never depended upon his work in the pulpit for support, during all his years in the work of the work, but followed all week long his trade of blacksmith and tool maker, jireaching on Sundays. He was an ardent Republican.

Captain Carr was fourteen years of age when he renio\ed with his parents from Union to Montgomery county and here he has since made his home. He received a fairly good education in the common schools, and spent two years in Wabash College.When only fourteen years of age he went to California, during the gold fever days, and there he spent four years, after which he returned to Crawfordsville. He talks most interestingly of his experiences in the Far West as well as of the great Civil war in which he has an envial)Ie record, having enlisted in Xovember, 1861 in Company K, Fifty-eighth Indi- ana Volunteer Infantiy. For meritorious conduct and faithful service he was promoted from a private to orderly sergeant and finally to captain of his company, under General Buell, in Kentucky, and he served in this capacity during a number of important campaigns and battles, in a manner that reflected much credit upon himself and to the praise of his superior officers and his men. In 1863 the regiment veteranized and Captain Carr returned to Crawrfordsville and raised men for a one hundred day service, as Company D, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He was honorably discharged and mustered out in September, 1864.

After his career in the army Captain Carr returned to Montgomery county where he turned his attention to general farming which he followed with continuous success until a few years ago when, having accumulated a competency for his old age, he retired from the active duties of life.

Captain Carr married Emma Jeanetta Baker, a native of Montgomery county, in 1866, and here she grew to womanhood and was educated. She was the daughter of J. G. and Eliza (Whetstine) Baker. He was a native of Ohio; his people lived in Illinois in early life and later came to this county, where they farmed for many years, mo\'ing to Wyoming in March, 1909. Both the father and mother of Mrs. Carr are living. He was always a farmer. He was a Republican, but not active in public affairs. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and acti\-e in work of same. He held many important offices in the church.

James Noleman Sanders

The Union soldier during the great war between the states builded wiser than he knew. Through four years of suffering and wasting hardships, through the horrors of prison pens and amid the shadows of death, he laid the superstructure of the greatest temple ever erected and dedicated to human freedom. The world looked on and called those soldiers sublime, for it was theirs to reach out the mighty arm of power and strike the chains from off the slave, preserve the country from dissolution, and to keep furled to the breeze the only flag that ever made tyrants tremble and whose majestic stripes and scintillating stars are still waving universal liberty to all the earth. For all these unmeasured deeds the living present will never repay them. One of this mighty host of heroes is James Noleman Sanders, who for many years was one of the leading farmers and stock men of Montgomery county and who is now living in honorable retirement in his ])leasant home in the city of Crawfordsville, enjoying the Irnits of his former years of toil and endeavor, and also enjoying the friendship and esteem of all whd know him and who wish him many years yet of happy life.

Mr. Sanders was born on a farm in Adams county, Ohin, March 17, 1838, and is a son of John \V. and Mariah (Winters) Sanders. The father was born in the District of Columbia, July 4, 1792. His father was captain of a ship, and was lost at sea, thus leasing John W. Sanders, his son, an orphan. The latter remained in the h^ast until 1818 when he came among the early pioneers to Adams county, Ohio. He was by trade a house joiner, making doors, sashes, etc. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and fought at the battle of Lundy's Lane. His death occurred in Adams county, Ohio in 1877. Politically, he was a Democrat. His wife had died of the cholera in 1851, when that dread scourge swept the country. They were the parents of nine children, four of whom are still living.

James N. Sanders quit school when thirteen years of age, and l)egan working on a farm, also in a saw nnil, following these lines of endeaxnr until he was eighteen years old, when he went to Illinois and worked on a farm four years, then came to Montgomery county and worked on a farm f(jr three years, after which he went back to Adams county, Ohio, and while there enlisted for service in the Federal army in Company A, Seventieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, on February 28, 1864. He saw service in the Atlanta campaign, and was with Sherman on his march to the sea, and through the Carolinas, to Washington City. Although in many hotly contested engagements the nearest he came to being wounded was when a bullet was stopped by the folds of the blanket he carried on his hack. He was honorably discharged from the service and mustered out on .\ugust 2S. 1863. He returned to Ohio. Having in the meantime learned the carpenter's trade he worked at that for awhile. He later turned his attention to farming and handling stock for the market, and met with much success all along the line. He came to Montgomery county in the winter of 1869 and up to eight years ago continued farming and stock raising on an extensive scale, with his usual success in Union township. Having accumulated a competency he retired from the active duties of the farm and moved to his pleasant and attractive home in Crawfordsville in 1904 where he is still residing.

To our subject and wife four children have been born, namely: Etta May, wife of Frank Bennett, lives in Union township, this county; Ida, is the wife of E. Cowan; Elva, is the wife of A. Pruett; and Charles, who lives on a farm in this county.

Henry J. Roach

The progenitors of Henry J. Roach, the efficient and trustworthy manager of the Crawfordsville Water & Gas Company, were, on the paternal side, natives of Ireland, in fact, no further back than the father, however, the major portion of his life was spent in the United States. However, our subject seems to have inherited many of the winning and commendable traits of the Celtic race.

Mr. Roach was born in Chicago, May 4, 1866, and he is a son of Henry J. and Sarah (Watt) Roach. Henry J. Roach was born in Cork, Ireland, and he was three years old when his parents brought him to America and here he grew to manhood and was educated. When a young man he took up railroading and, being alert and industrious as well as trustworthy, his rise was rapid and he followed this vocation all his active life, reaching responsible positions and becoming widely known as a railroad man in the Middle West. His last official position was that of di\-ision superintendent of the Logansport, Detroit & Wabash Railroad, which responsible post he held for a long period with the usual satisfactory and laudable results. He is now living in retirement with his son, Henry J., in Crawfordsville. His wife passed to her eternal rest in 1891.

Henry J. Roach received a good common school education, and he began life for himself not by following in the footsteps of his father in a business way and entering the railroad field, but by taking up the water works cpiestion which he has continued to the present time, having mastered the various ins and outs of this line. For a number of years he had charge of gangs building water works plants at different places, such as Danville, Champaign, Aurora, and other places in Illinois and Indiana, and later he had' charge of plants in these two states, also Ohio, giving eminent satisfaction in all of them. In 1912 he came to Crawfordsville as manager of the Crawfordsville Water & Gas Company, which position he is holding at this writing and he is doing much to improve the local plant and the service.

Politically, he is a Democrat, hut he has never been especially active in public matters. Relii^iously, he belongs to the Presbyterian church, and fraternally he is a memlier of tiie Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

Mr. Roach was married on Decemlier 2^, 1893 ^o Dolly Campbell, of Logansport, Indiana, the daughter of Maurice and Mary Cam])l)ell, an excellent family of that city, where they have long resided.

Dr. P. M. Payne's name will be held in lasting honor as long as the history of Montgomery county endures as erne of the ablest phxsicians that ever gave loyal service in behalf of suffering humanity, for his long life has been characterized not only by the most adroit professional ability, but also by the most profound human sympathy which o\'erleaps mere sentiment to become an actuating motive, for when a youth he realized that there is no honor not founded on genuine worth, that there is a \ital purpose in life and that the best and highest accomplishments must come from a well trained mind and altruistic heart. Those who know him well are unstinted in their jtraise of his genial disposition and his superior ability, his kind nature and his broadmindedness. Older men in the profession here relied upon his judgment and younger ones frequently sought his counsel, all admitting his eminence. He is now living retired, after a praiseworthy career, and is enjoying the fruits of his former years of service to suffering humanity, being one of the \enerable citizens of this locality. He is now eighty-six years old, and his long life has been due, no doubt, in large part, to his clean living and right thinking, and the voung man might well pattern his life after him. certainly making thereby no mistake.

Dr. Lavne was born in Kentucky in 1827. and is a son of Elisha Layne and wife, and he came to Indiana with his father, locating in Montgomery county as early as 1830, when the country was wild and inhabitants were few, and of those strange times he now tells many cpiaint and interesting stories. The Doctor's father was a farmer and school teacher. He was a native of Virginia where he was born Xoveml^er 10, 1777. He was a man of rugged honestv and courage. Jacob Layne, his grandfather, was a native of England and came to America in an early day. He also taught school.

Dr. Layne obtained his early education in the woods, according to his statement, and this constant contact with nature, was good, for it taught him lessons first handed. Those who live much with Mother Nature act naturally and gain much that those who shut themselves up in cities do not. When only thirteen years of age he began the study of medicine, and two years later began reading under Dr. S. W. Bennage, who began practice in Crawfordsville in 1847. I" ^^SS o^^'' subject bought out the practice of his tutor, and he remained in active practice here up to a few years ago, being for many decades one of the best known medical men in this section of the state, always enjoying a very wide practice. He is a doctor of the old school, and most of his practice was made on horseback in the early days. He had great success.

Dr. Layne was married in 1856 to Minerva J. Hughes, whose parents were among the early settlers in Montgomery county. To this union three children were born, namely: Elisha William, born 1863: Elizabeth Julian, bom December 18, 1857: John Franklin, born 1869.

The Doctor's first wife dying in 1875, he married, two years later, Louisa Downing, a native of Michigan. They had one child, Minter DeWitt, born 1880.

Dr. Layne belongs to the Masons, including the Knights Templar. The large success which crowned his life work, coupled with his ripe experience and kind heart, enabled him to bring comfort, hope and confidence to the sick room and he brought sunshine into many a home through his long years of practice.

Edmund Otis Hovey, son of Roger and Martha Hovey, was born on July 15, 1801, and died March 10, 1877. His immigrant ancestor, Daniel Hovey, was a native of Essex county, England, being the son of Richard Hovey, and was baptized, August 9, 16 18, in the Waltham Abbey, a church dating from Saxon times. He was the youngest of nine children, and the only one of them that came to America. On his departure, the rector gave him a bulky volume of poems by Du Bartas, to be seen in the Boston Public Library, with a record of the above statement. Daniel Hovey, at the age of seventeen years, settled in Ipswich, Mass., in 1635; where he had a land grant, built a dwelling-house and an adjacent wharf, still known as Hovey's Wharf, and his name is given to a street in the town, and to an island near by. For a time he lived at Brookfield and later at Hadley ; but finally ended his days at Ipswich, where a bronze tablet is erected to his memory. He married Abigail Andrews, a daughter of Captain Robert Andrews, who commanded the ill-fated ship, "The Angel Gabriel," that was wrecked off Pemaquid, Maine. Her oldest brother was Lieut. John Andrews, who presided at the meeting that resisted the tyranny of Sir Edmund Andros, in memory of which the Ipswich seal bears the motto: "The Birthplace of American Independence, 1687." Another hrDtlier. Thomas Andrews, was the first schoolmaster of the colony.

On his maternal side, Edmund Otis Hovey sprang from the families of Freeman, Otis, Moody and Russell - names famous in early annals. Rev. John Russell harbored the Regicides for ten years; in the study of his son, Rev. Samuel Russell, Yale College was founded ; and Rev. Joshua Moody, another ancestor, declined the presidency of Harvard College, preferring to be pastor of the first church in Boston.

James Hovey, son of Daniel, was killed in King Phillip's War. His family then moved, first to Maiden, Mass., and later to Mansfield, Connecticut. Edmund, the son of James, married Margaret Knowlton. Their son, Roger Hovey (so named for Roger Williams), after serving twice as a soldier in the Army of the Revolution, married Martha, the daughter of Hon. Edmund Freeman, a Harvard graduate, who owned one thousand acres in Mansfield. Mr. Freeman also received, in recognition of his public services, a noble land grant from George III. including in all twenty-four thousand four hundred acres, on both sides of the Connecticut river, which was later subdivided into the four towns of Norwich and Hartford (in Vermont) and Lebanon and Hanover (in New Hampshire). A singular stipulation in this land grant was that there should be paid to the Crown, "one ear of Indian corn only, on December 25th of each year, if demanded." Edmund Freeman's name, and those of his five sons, head the list of names on the original charter of the Hanover colony, dated July 4, 1761. There were fourteen heads of families named Freeman in 1770 when Dartmouth College was located at Hanover, with a royal grant of five hundred acres ; all white pine trees being reserved "for His Majesty's Navy." Forty years after Hanover was settled there were only twenty families there, all living in log cabins, with a log meeting house, whose pulpit was a segment of a hollow basswood tree. The first college buildings were also of logs.

Dartmouth Hall was begun in 1786, a brick edifice, one hundred and fifty by fifty feet in its dimensions, and three stories high. The historian of the college records the fact that "The handles on the doors, with all the ironwork, (54) were made by Roger Hovey, a blacksmith, who had a shop on the Parade at the Centre." We do not exactly know when he joined the colony, but it is recorded that he married Martha (Otis) Freeman, daughter of Edmund Freeman, in Hanover, February 6, 1783; and it is the legend that he bought his first stock of iron with the wages paid for his services in the Revolutionary Army. He not only shod horses and oxen, but made the hinges, andirons, and indeed all the ironwork of the colony. His smithy "on the Parade" was a rendezvous for the villagers, whose farm-talk and doctrinal discussions chimed in with the blows on the anvil. Dartmouth had a stormy infancy, and we may gladly pass in silence its voluminous controversies; but we rejoice that the principles for which it stood were so firmly planted in the community, and so nobly transplanted at a later day to take root in Montgomery County and the broad Wabash valley. Roger Hovey was the father of ten children, all baptized by Dr. Eden Burroughs, pastor of the Presbyterian church in Hanover. Five of them died before the year 1800, victims of an epidemic; and the remaining five all lived to be more than seventy years of age. In 1813 Roger Hovey and his family removed to Thetford, Vermont, where he bought a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, and built a house and blacksmith-shop. He spent his old age with his eldest son, Frederick Hovey, at Berlin, Vermont, enjoying a moderate pension from the United States government as a Revolutionary soldier. He died, May 19, 1839. at the age of eighty years. His wife, who survi\-ed him, died at Berlin, April 6, 1841, aged eighty-two years.

In company with Colonel Israel O. Dewey, U. S. A., the writer visited old Hanover in 1877. We were the guests of Deacon Isaac Fellows, a vigorous octogenarian who had known Edmund Otis Hovey from boyhood, and promptly answered our inquiries, always speaking of him as "Otis." He said : "Otis was active, of good habits and a diligent scholar, very manly, and highly courteous." "Had he no faults?" asked Col. Dewey. The Deacon's eyes twinkled as if at some droll recollection.