Putnam County, Indiana - Biographical sketches, 1910 (part 15 of 16)

James B. Erumfield

The late James B. Brumfield. of Russellville. was known as a man of high ideals and unselfish aims, who, while laboring for his own advancement, did not for a moment lose sight of his duties to his neighbors and society at large; such principles could not help resulting in the gaining of material success and the winning of a vast host of warm personal friends. He was born in Kentucky June 9. 181 5, and there spent his childhood. His wife. Sophia Ann Rogers, was horn in Indiana, where she grew to maturity and was educated; her birth was on February- 12. 1822; they were married December 15, 1847. Mr. Brumfield came to Indiana when a young man and started a store at Russellville and married here. After selhng goods until 1858 he engaged in farming three miles east of Russellville. About 1862 or 1863 he bought one hundred and sixty acres of land just south of the old town and when the railroad built a station here in the eighties. Mr. Brumfield gave part of the land. He then laid out two rows of lots on Main street to the depot, one-fourth of a mile. He sold his lots and carried on general farming. As the business center of the town changed he moved one-half mile south of the old center and continued to live on his farm until his death on Tune i. 1891. at the age of seventy-six years: his widow survived until September 9. 1898, dying at about the same age.

While living on his farm Mr. Brumfield served as township trustee ; politicallv he was a stanch Republican, and was one of the pillars of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was a good and useful man. whom everybody admired and trusted.

Mr. and Mrs. James B. Brumfield were the parents of four children, tliree sons and one daughter, namely: Mary I., who remained single, was born September 30. 1848, died ?klarch 10, 1897; Robert H. was born September 30, 1850; William C, who was bom May 16. 1854, became a practicing physician of Tulare county, California, having graduated from DePauw University and also from the St. Louis Medical School, first practiced in Clinton, Missouri, from which city he went to California and died April 2, 1902. at the age of forty-eight years. Frank M.. a general merchant at Russellville. is represented on another page of this work.

Johx W. Blaydes

Like many of the enterprising and successful citizens of Putnam county, John W. Blavdes hails from the Blue Grass state, but he is loyal to his adopted community and has always done what he could in promoting its interests along material and social lines. His birth occurred in Hardin county.

death of his wife, he enhsted in Company G, Xinth Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, and was in the service one year, then re-enlisted in a company of mounted infantn,-, proving to be a good soldier, but he never applied for a pension. In later life he came to Indiana and lived with his sons, dying in February, 1905. He was a sterling character and a man whom all admired who knew him.

John W. Blaydes was reared on a farm in Kentucky, remaining at home until he was seventeen years of age, when he enlisted in the Ninth Cavalry (Company G), in i86j. and he was in the service one year, during which time he saw some real war, having been in the battle at Perryville and several other min(jr engagements. He was one of the pursuers of the intrepid Morgan in his northern raid. After being mustered out he returned to Ken lucky and went to school during the winter months. In the spring of 1864 he came to Putnam county, Indiana, his total capital upon landing here being seventy-tive dollars. He worked by the day for Jesse P. Hymer and lived on his place while working for him.

Mr. Blaydes married Mildred Radford and this union resulted in the birth of one child. Charles M.. who has remained single. Mrs. Blaydes was called to her rest in 1868, and Mr. Blaydes married Elizabeth Jeffries, who was born, reared and educated in Putnam county, where her family had long been verv favorably known. This union resulted in the birth of nine children, seven sons and two daughters, namely: Robert L., Xancy M., Oliver B., Jolm H., Dora E.. Edgar C, Grover C, Allen G. and Warren T.

Mr. Blavdes prospered from the first and today he is the owner of a fine farm consisting of one hundred and seventy-three acres, eighty in the home place and ninety-three in Jackson township, which is well impro\ed and on the first named tract there stands a substantial and comfortable dwelling and good outbuildings. He is a breeder of registered draft horses which are admired bv all who see them and no small part of his competency has been made by successful handling of shorthorn cattle. Mr. Blaydes was among the first to introduce draft horses in Putnam county.

Mr. and Mrs. Blaydes are members of the Church of Christ, he being an elder in the local congregation and a liberal supporter of the same. Politically he is a Democrat, but he does not find time to take much interest in politics, being deeply engrossed in his individual business affairs ; however, he is deeply interested in whatever tends to the betterment of Putnam countv. He was trustee of Franklin township for two years and he has held several other local offices to the satisfaction of all concerned.

Frank M. Brum Field

In compiling this volume of representative citizens of Putnam county occasion has been afforded to give the records of men in many walks of life; here will be found mention of worthy citizens of all vocations, and at this juncture we are permitted to offer a resume of the career of one of the substantial and highly esteemed, in fact, one of the industrial leaders of northwestern Putnam county, where he has long maintained his home and where he has attained a high degree of success in his chosen field of labor and enterprise, being a well known merchant at Russellville.

Frank 'SI. Brumfield was born on the old family homestead in Russell township, July 27, 1866, and he remained with his father until he was sixteen vears of age. or until the latter's death, when he began clerking, having decided to devote his life to merchandising. His first employer \vas T. L. Grider, in 1SS4, at Fincastle. and he has been in this line of work constantly ever since. He was in partnership with Henry Grimes for a period of two years. He came to Russellville in 1888 and purchased the store of an old firm. Moreland & Ross, the firm becoming Grimes, Ross & Company, which conducted a general merchanti.le business. Mart Inge succeeded Grimes and the firm was changed to Inge, Ross & Company, which remained for ten years, when the stock was divided. Inge took the groceries and shoes and started alone, and the firm of Ross & Brumfield was started, these gentlemen dividing their goods on January 15, 1908, after a number of years of very successful partnership.

Mr. Brumfield then opened a general store alone with a fine and carefullv selected stock of goods and soon enjoyed an excellent trade, for he had been known to the vicinity for many j'ears as a merchant of thrift and reliability, and he has remained in his splendid quarters in the I. O. O. F. buildino-, which is one of the substantial cement block structures of the town and admirablv located and which place is the headquarters for farmers and their families when in town. The Ross store was continued until the death of Mr. Ross and is now owned bv a Mr. Smith. Mr. Brumfield has greatly increased his stock of o-oods to double what it was formerly. He has a well-kept and well-arranged store, twenty-six by eighty-five feet, and his neat stock of o-oods is tastilv displayed. He carries stock aggregating in value about seven thousand dollars, and he is doing a very satisfactory cash business, for he keeps nothing that it not up-to-date and of excellent quality and his prices are aUvavs right. He buys eggs extensively and has a large country trade.

Mr. Brumheld lives on the old homestead which he owns, and which consists of one hundred and five acres. He has platted and added thirty acres to the town, known as Brumfield's Addition to Russellville ; this is becoming a very popular section of the thriving town and he is selling lots constantly. He is very successful in overseeing his farm where general crops are raised and which has been very skillfully managed.

Fraternally ^Ir. Brumfield is a Mason and he seems to live up to its sublime ritual in all the relations he has with his fellow men. He is a man who attends strictly to his individual affairs and has never aspired to public offices.

Lewis A. Zaring

The above-named gentleman was the oldest of the four children of Daniel and Lucinda (Lewis) Zaring, and was born in Putnam county. Indiana, September 19, 1861. Reared under the wholesome influence of life in the country, he early became familiar with the active duties of the farm and in the district schools which he attended of winter season during his minority he received a fair education, his mental discipline, however, being much more practical than scholastic. As soon as his services could be utilized to advantage he bore his part in the cultivation of the farm, and until his twenty-first year he remained at home laboring for his father's interests. On March 13, 1883, he was united in marriage with Lucretia Huffman, daughter of Edmund Huffman (see sketch of Douglas Huffman), and durin-r'the two years ensuing managed the home farm and succeeded well in hiJ labors. After his father's death he began purchasing the shares of different heirs and in due time became sole owner of the estate, which he has since cultivated with gratifying success, in addition to which he also owns a beautiful and attractive home in the village of Manhattan, where he lives. Mr. Zaring has prospered in all of his undertakings, and at this time ranks amon" the leading farmers and stock raisers of Putnam county, also standing high as a citizen and man of affairs.

y[r. Zarino- has never sought official distinction, but always manifests an active interest in public matters, being a Democrat in politics and an influential member of the party in his township. Fraternally he is a member n\ the Masonic brotherhood, belonging to the blue lodge, chapter, com-

Mr. and Mrs. Zaring have three children, namely: Stella Ann, wife ot Professor Philip Hutchison, principal of the Roachdale schools; Lola May, teacher of the primary department of the Pleasant Garden high school, and Edith, who is pursuing her studies in the high school at Roachdale, the two younger being still members of the home circle.

Hon. David B. Hostetter

The student interested in the history of Putnam county does not have to carry his investigations far into its annals before learning that David B. Hostetter has long been one of its most active and leading citizens in its ao-ricultural and stock-raising interests and that his labors have been a potent force in making this a rich agricultural region, for through, several decades he has carried on general fanning, gradually improving his valuable place, and while he has prospered in this he has also found time and ample opportunity to assist in material and civic development of the county, and his cooperation has been of value for the general good, especially in political and church affairs. -being the present efficient and popular representative of his locality in the state Legislature.

Mr. Hostetter is the scion of an excellent and highly honored old family of Montgomery county, Lidiana, where he was born on December 7, 1862. He is the son of Beniah and Lou A. (^Lihoney) Hostetter, the father a native of Ohio and the mother of Kentucky, each representing pioneer families of sterling worth. The father came to Lidiana in 1831, the mother at a later date, the father having accompanied his parents to Montgomery county, the mother coming to the same county with her brother and sister. There the parents of David B. Ho'stetter grew to maturity and married in i860, remaining in that county until Beniah Hostetter's death in 1870. when his wife went to live with her children, her death occurring in South Bend, Indiana, in March. 1909, at an advanced age. They were the parents of the following children: Mary, wife of S. D. Irvine, of Lebanon, Indiana; David B., of this review; William lives in Denver, Colorado: Rev. Henry B. is pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian church at South Bend. Indiana; }.Lirtha J. has remained single : B. S. lives in Denver. Colorado.

David B. Hostetter was reared on the home farm where he began working when of proper age. attending the district schools during the winter months.

David B. Hostetter

later becoming a student of the Ladoga Xormal School. He applied himself verv^ assiduously to his te.xt books and received a ver>' serviceable education, which has since been greatly augmented by miscellaneous home reading and study and by general contact with the world. He then took charge of the home farm which he successfully conducted for a period of five years.

The domestic chapter of Mr. Hostetter"s life history began on October 17, 1888. when he married Hettie A. Harshbarger, a native of Montgomery county. Indiana, where her birth occurred on May 29, 1865. She is the daughter of Samuel Harshbarger, long a prominent citizen of that county where 'Sirs. Hostetter grew to maturity and was educated in the district schools, later attending the Western Seminary at O.xford. Ohio.

Mr. and Mrs. Hostetter moved to Franklin township early in their career and they have resided here ever since. They are the parents of sixchildren living, named as follows: Howard H., born September 17. 1889, is a graduate of the Roachdale high school and is now a student in Wabash College: Stuart S., born December 31. 1890, is a sophomore at Wabash College: Sherman Ralph was bom November 13, 1895: David H. was born October 16, 1898: Mary's birth occurred .April 18, 1900; Curtis was born June 27, 1904.

Mr. Hostetter is the owner of one of the model farms of Franklin township, consisting of tw(.) hundred and forty acres, which is well improved and well kept and which vields abundant crops under his efficient management. Some good livestock is also raised from year to year. He has a beautiful and cozy home, substantial outbuildings and everything alxiut the place shows thrift and prosperity and indicates that a gentleman of excellent taste and good judgment has its management in hand.

INlr. and Mrs. Hostetter are members of the Presbyterian church at Roachdale, Mr. Hostetter being one of the ruling elders and a liberal supporter of the .same. Pohtically he is a loyal Democrat and he has long been active in party affairs and as a result of his services and his ability he has been called upon to serve in positions of public trust. For a perio<l of over fi\e vears he was trustee of Franklin township and he was elected representative in the state Legislature in 1906. He made such a splendid record and was so conscientious and faithful in the discharge of his duties while an incumbent of that important office that he was re-elected to the same in 1908, being one of the "temperance Democrats" of the notable session of 1909. He has made his influence for good felt in that body and he has looked as carefullv after the interests of the people whom he represents as if he was manag- (-4S) ing- his individual affairs, CDnsequently he has won and retained the confidence and esteem of all classes. He has also taken a great interest in Presbyterian church work, and in 1907 he was one of the commissioners of the Indianapolis presbytery selected to represent the church in the general assembly. There are two elders and two members elected from each presbytery. Thus the honor conferred upon Mr. Hostetter was one greatly to be prized.

Mr. Hostetter served as grand secretary of the National Horse Thief Association for a period of eight years and he very ably discharged the duties of the same, arousing much interest in the same, especially in the Central states.

Mr. Hostetter occupies a conspicuou3 place among the leading men of Putnam county and enjoys the respect of all who know him. His record demonstrates that where there is an ambition to succeed and to be of service to one's fellow men. all obstacles may be overcome and much good eventually accomplished by courage and self-reliance, and his career, which has been somewhat strenuous, has been fraught with much good to his neighbors and constituents and his life work and his examples are cordially commended to the vouth of the land whose destinies are yet matters for the future to determine.

George W. Ames

The family of this name is of an ancient English stock whose representatives became identified with the development of New England at a very earlv day. William Ames, founder of the American branch, was born at Briton. Somersetshire, England, October 6, 1605, and in early manhood came to the colony of New Plymouth, now Duxbury, Massachusetts. Rev. Syl- A-anus Ames, one of his descendants, was graduated from Harvard College in 1767 and occupied the pulpit of Trinity church in Taunton. Massachusetts. He was a chaplain in the army of the Revolution and died at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-78. His son, Sylvanus, was born ]\Iarch 26, 1771. and died September 2T,, 1S23. His son, George W. Ames, was born at Athens, Ohio. January 14, 1S14. He came with his father to Ohio, with the early pioneers, who crossed the Alleghanies to settle in the fertile bottoms of the [Muskingum, the Scioto and the Miamis. He w^as the youngest of twelve children and when a boy attended the common schools of Athens, besides the non-sectarian college situated in that place. When about twenty-five vears nld he situated in Salem, Indiana, where he followed the pro- fession of a gospel minister and was one of tlie pioneer preachers whose assiduous work and privations were so instrumental in helping the cause of progress. In the fall of 1S55 he removed to Greencastle and engaged in the hardware business and became a man of varied activities and influence. He was financial agent for DePauw University and superintendent of the asylum for the blind at Indianapolis. He was a great reader and student and a man of wide information and unusual abilities. He was a brother of Eishop Ames, one of the pioneers and founders of Indiana Methodism. During the Civil war he was chaplain of Colonel Black's regiment. He died June 3. iSSr_, at his old homestead which still stands on Washington street as one of the landmarks of the city. While living in Salem he met Alary Booth, who was born in that place September 11, 1819. To this lady he was married September 20. 1843, '^"'J ^''"'^ proved a faithful wife, an intelligent companion and an affectionate mother. Her parents were Beebee and Hannah (Pitts) Booth, the mother of North Carolina birth and the father from Connecticut. The Litter's forefathers came originally from England and settled in New England in 1843. Beebee Booth located in Salem, Indiana, in the early day of the state and engaged in the publishing business under the firm name of Patrick & Booth. They published the first book ever issued in Indiana, the title of which was "The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte". 'Sir. and Mrs. George W. Ames had eight children : Hannah, Emma, Elizabeth, Hilary, Alice, Genevieve, George Booth and Newton Sylvanus. Five of the daugliters are living, Misses Elizabeth and Genevieve occupying the old homestead in Greencastle. The mother died February 24, 1909. She was an aunt of Booth Tarkington. the noted author.

Elder Oliver P. B.Vdger

One of the useful and influential pioneer ministers of Putnam county, a man of unquestioned ability and Christian courage, who has now passed to his reward in the kingdom of the Divine Creator v.hom he tried faithfully to ser\e for many decades, was Oliver P. Badger, who was born near Mt. Sterling, Montgomery county, Kentucky, Januan,- 9, 1819, the son of David and Elizabeth (Aliller) Badger, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter nf Culpeper Court House, Virginia. His parents removed to Putnam county, Indiana, as early as 1833, and here in the dense woods began life as fanners. Their son. Oliver P., although devoting his early life to farming, also began preaching quite young, and at the age of nineteen

Elder Badger was married on November jg. 183S. to Martha Ann Yeates. which union resulted in the birth of five children, named as follows : Ann Eliza married A. L. Goodbar. of Montgomery county, Indiana; Carrie married Hon. D. E. Williamson, late of Greencastle ; Queen married Otho -Mien, also <>i Greencastle, and died August i. 1SS4; Mr. Allen died December 31. 1885; David E.. a well know 11 druggist of Greencastle. and H. Clay Badger, who died .\ugust 13. lyoi. ]\lartha Ann (Yeates) Badger died March I. 1900.

Elder Batlger was interested in p(jlitical matters for many years. He was a member of the constitutional convention in 1S50. and the following vear he was defeated for the state senate. After that he devoted practically his entire time to the ministry, belonging to the church popularly known as the Christian church, in which he won more than a local reputation, standing high in the circles of the same throughout the state, most of his public labors having been confined to Indiana, yet he was often called to other localities for short periods. In April. 1874. he preached at Winterset, Iowa, for a little more than a vear. though still retaining his residence in Putnam countv. He also preached in his regular work in Illinois, Tennessee, Kentucky, and filled pulpits in Philadelphia. Chicago and other places, always delighting his audiences with an earnestness and an eloquence that bespoke a man of genuine ability and sincerity. Towards the close of his life he moved to Greencastle, and, in a beautiful cottage home, in the suburbs of this citv. surrounded by his books, he quietly passed the serene evening of his vears. dving on Tnne 7, 1891. Mr. Badger was one of the first three students of Asburv (now DePauw) University.

The writer here offers in brief outline a biographical memoir dealing with a character of rare strength and beauty, one who possessed a mind of unusual breadth and qualities that would have placed him high in any position to which he might have aspired, a man in whom the utmost confidence was reposed bv all who were fortunate enough to share his genial friendship, a man who left behind him the perpetual remembrance of good deeds that shine with an effulgence like the phosphorescent waves that sparkle in the wake

Frank Henrv Lammers. for many years one of the prominent physicians of Putnam county, was torn in Beardstown. Illinois. September 21, 1864. and was the youngest of six children. Alex, a brother, and a sister. Marie Listmann. sut-\-iving him. After graduating at the high school of his native town, he spent one year at the Wesleyan University. Bloomington, Illinois. Being actuated by an ambition to gain a high literar\- and classical education, he then entered Asbury (now DePauw) University, at Greencastle, Indiana, where, as in the former institutions, he made an excellent record for scholarship and fn^m which he graduated in 18S7. receiving the degree of Bachelor of Liberal Arts. In the fall of the same year he began the study of medicine in Xew York City, the first year being a student in the University ^Medical School and the next two years in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was graduated from the latter with honors in June, 1890. receiving from his alma mater the degree of Master of Arts the same year. His college record entitled him to a position as assistant in the hospital, and he accordingly spent the next year in that capacity, at the same time pursuing graduate studies. Thus unusually well equipped for his life work, in Mav. 1891. he removed to Greencastle. Indiana, and entered upon the practice of his chosen profession, for which he possessed pre-eminent ability, as was shown from the first, and in which he proved himself remarkably faithful, painstaking and loyal up to the very hour of his summons to another world.

Endowed with more than ordinar\- talent and of an energetic nature, it is not surprising that he was eminently successful in the practice of medicine. and that those with whom he came in closest contact soon learned to depend upon him. Although deprived of the tender guidance of a mother when only twelve vears of age, he was not given to frivolity in any of its phases in his bovhood, but seemed to have an innate thirst for knowledge and to lead his life along high ethical and moral plains, his taste of the esthetics and higher intellectual culture early manifesting themselves, causing him invariably to take the initiative, and ever to be on the alert for still higher and broader fields of investigation, and this with the view of continually enlarging his scope for usefulness. He \\as always, in the strictest sense of the term, a student: a man who grew; progressive, twentieth century, alert and conscientious physician, and at the time of his departure he was planning to secure the latest improvement and the very best equipment for his new office. His patients never failed to he his friends and his name had gone to all parts

The subject's parents, Alex and Anna }tlarie E. Lehnore Lammers, were German Lutherans and in that faith the Doctor was reared. One of the sacred remembrances of his wife today is the confirmation services in the Episcopal church by Bishop Henry Potter, on Good Friday, 1891, when he and his wife were both confirmed, and their first communion together on the following Easter Sabbath in St. Andrew's Episcopal church of New York. He always entered heartily into the spirit of church services and was a liberal supporter of the local congregation. His piety was deep, sincere, cheerful and earnest and. like his charity, without ostentation, for he always delighted in charitable acts and deeds of kindness, but avoided publicity and display.

Fraternally Dr. Lammers was a Mason, having attained the Knight Templar degree, also belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He also belonged to the Gentlemen's Literary Club, having literary tastes of a high order, and his library contained many choice volumes of the world's best literature. Thus he kept well informed on all topics and was an accomplished conversationalist and entertainer ; however, his professional demands grew so rapidly that he had little time for social pleasures toward the close of his useful career. In college he was identified with the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. In this connection it would almost seem as though he had some premonition of his approaching entr}' into the silent land. During his residence in Greencastle of eighteen years he won an enduring place in the hearts of all who knew him, having come here in 1882 and remained here with the e.xception of the time he spent in the medical school in New York.

Dr. Lammers' ideal domestic life began on June 25, 1890, when he espiiused Clara Collett Florer, a lady of talent, culture and refinement, daughter of \\'illiam J. and Mary Ann Louise (Washburn) Florer, a complete sketch of whom appears on another page of this work.

Mrs. Lammers received her elementary education in the public schools of Wabasha, Minnesota, later becoming a student in the State University at Minneapolis, and still later in the noted woman's college at Wellesley, Massachusetts. To Doctor and Mrs. Lammers was born a daughter, Leila Claire, on June 17, 1894. who is now a student in the Greencastle high school. In 1903. with the assistance of her sister. Laura Lelia Fl(5rer, !Mrs. Lammers organized Washburn Chapter. Daughters of the American Revolution, and she liecame the first regent, which office she held for three years, l^eing the

Few residents of Oeencastle liave occupied as large a place in the public eye and no one more worthily dischargeil his manifold duties or showed himself more worthy of the high esteem in which he was held than Doctor Lammers. His life was filled with activity and usefulness, while his untirinoenerg)- and eminent ability gained for him a conspicuous and honorable place among the distinguished medical men of his day and generation. In everv sphere of endeavor in which he took part, socially, religiouslv. fraternally or pnifessionally. his unpretentious bearing and strict integrity elevated him in the confidence of his fellow citizens, and his influence was always powerful and salutary - a trulv good and useful man - one of nature's noblemen.

Edward Allen

Few families in Putnam county can trace back farther into pioneer days than that of the .Aliens. WTiile not the first, the founder was among the first arrivals, coming here when the primeval forest covered all the land and Indiana was practically an unbroken wilderness from the Ohio to the northern part of the state. Russell G. Allen, who was a native of Vermont, came to Greencastle in 1823. or only seven years after Indiana had been admitted as a state. At that time Greencastle was a straggling village, giving little promise of ever becoming the thriving city that now constitutes the pride and glory of Putnam county. But few white people were to be found in the borders of the county and these were living in log cabins widely separated from each ijtlier. Ru-ssell G. Allen was one of the sturdiest of the sturdy men who began at the beginning to convert this howling wilderness into an agricultural ])aradise. whose lands were destined to become as productive as the fields of Goshen and raise crops of corn that would astonish the world. These lands, then easily obtainable for a dollar or two an acre, are now selling all the uay from one hundred to two hundred dollars per acre, with a tendency to still go up. The sloughs and marshes have been replaced by fine pike roads, the formerly impassable streams are now spannetl by fine bridges of steel and concrete and every comf(^rt of civilization is found on everv hand. The old pioneers never dreamed of this outcome and nearly all of them had passed awav before Putnam ounty showed signs of the marvelous transformation.

Edward Allen, son of Russell G., was only seven years old when his father made the long and dangerous journey to the west. He was bom at Cazenovia. New York, August 7, 1830, and such primary training as he received was obtained in the poor subscription schools then the only avenues to education in the Hoosier state. Later, however, he was able to attend old Asl)ury University, where he laid the foundations on which he afterwards built as a reader and student of affairs. In early manhood he went into the marble business with his brothers and followed this occupation until his retirement, five years before his death, which occurred December 9, 1899. For forty years he represented the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company and was regarded as an unusually good business man. safe, conservative and square in his dealings. He was a member of the College Avenue Methodist Episcopal cliurch. took great interest in its affairs and served as trustee for many years. He belonged to the Odd Fellows and served two terms in council as a Republican. On December 23, 1854, Mr. Allen was married at Cazenovia, Xew York, to Mary E.. daughter of George E. and Melinda (Wilcox) Roberts, descendants of an old Welsh family, whose representatives settled in Massachusetts at an early day. Her father's grandmother came to Albany, Xew York, when the present capital of the Empire state was but a collection of huts. She was later scalped by the Indians, while her husband was taken aboard a British vessel and starved to death. ^Ir. and Mrs. Edward Allen had five children : Ida Olivia, born September 27, i860, married William Overstreet and died September 26, 1885, leaving two children; Ida Allen Overstreet is living with her grandmother: Edward R. Overstreet died in Terre Haute. February 23, 1898: Emma H.. born September 16. 1862, married Edwin E. Black, and died in Greencastle. January 15, 1886, leaving one child, Susanna, who lives in Greencastle : Charles Edward, born October 10, 1857, is a resident of Paris, Illinois.

Hexry Clay Lewis

.Among the earnest men whose depth of character and strict adherence to principle called forth the admiration of his contemporaries, Henry Clay Lewis, late a \\ ell known attorney of Greencastle. Indiana, was numbered. He stood among the representative men of Putnam county who overcame difficulties and obstacles that barred the path to success and steadily advanced until before his death he left behind the manv and stood among the few who accom- plisii things worth while. Yet he was ever ready to reach down helping hands to assist others in the long and tiresome struggle of life. He met and triumphed over obstacles that would have discouraged many men of less determination and won for himself, not only a comfortable competency, but also a prominent place among the enterprising men of this section of the state.

Mr. Lewis was born July 7, 1857. in Putnam county. Indiana, the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Goodwin Lewis, the father a native of Kentucky, where his family were prominent during several generations. Henry C. Lewis attended the common schools of Greencastle when a boy, and. being ambitious to become a highly educated man, he entered DePauw University, where he made an excellent record and from which institution he was graduated. Turning his attention to the law. he began reading under Judge Donnohue and was admitted to the bar in due course of time. He then formed a partnership with B. F. Corwin, which continued with interrupted success until the death of Mr. Lewis, on February 24, 1901. As an attorney he ranked high among the successful members of the local bar, being painstaking, profoundly versed in all phases of jurisprudence, indefatigable in his efforts to get at the bottom of whatever case was before him. and he was known to be ever vigilant in defending his clients, always looking to their best interests, often without proper regard for his own. As a speaker he was con\-incing and at times truly eloquent, courteous to the court and lenient with his colleagues. His untimely taking off cast a shadow over the local bar that will be hard for even time to disperse. He was always busy, his practice increasing with the years and even,' term of court found him on one side or the other of most all important cases.

^[r. Lewis was married on August 17. 1S81. to Josephine Barnell Constable, a lady of affable and pleasing personality who is a favorite with a wide circle of friends in this city and county. She was born in Ellettsville, Monroe county, Indiana, the representative of an excellent and well established family there, her parents being Harrison Hugh and .\nne fCopenhauer) Constable. The father, a sterling Scotchman, born in the land of blue-bell and heather, came to America when a young man and for many years successfully conducted a general store in Ellettsville. Indiana, where he was ver\' prominent and influential, indeed a grand old man, whom to know was to respect and admire. He was benevolent and a philanthropist, never refusing to assist and indorse a worthy cause, and the many little charitable deeds to his credit won the hearts of scores who stood in need of help. He was a great church worker and did much good in that cause.

Mary Henry Lewis, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Henry Clay Lewis, was born August 26. 188 J. received a good education and became a ladv of culr-62 WEIK S HISTORY OF tiire and excellent characteristics. She married Floyd Newby, of Knightstown, Indiana, where he is at present successfully engaged in practicing the law. He was graduated from the Indiana State University law school, while Mrs. Newby holds a certificate of graduation from DePauw University. Two interesting children have added sunshine to their home, Lewis Perry, born Mav 4. 1908, and Robert Clay, born August 10, 1909.

Henry Clav Lewis was a great worker in the Republican party, being one of the most prominent advocates of that political faith in this section of the state and his efforts were attracting state-wide attention and no doubt had he been spared he would have been called to high and worthy positions as a public servant as a result of his public spirit, his genuine worth and integrity. Fraternally he was a member of the Knights of Pythias. His memory is cherished by all classes in Putnam county, for he was truly a good and useful man.

B.Ksco.M O'Hair

No family in Putnam county is so closely interwoven with the history of the county as the O'Hair family, consequently none more deserving of conspicuous representation in a work of the province of the one at hand. Amono- the first settlers, they have been continuously identified with its progress and development, and are conspicuous examples of the best citizenship, alwavs ready to lend a helping hand in furthering the county's interests in anv way and leading such lives of probity and uprightness as to win and retain the confidence and esteem of all classes. From the early pioneer davs they have been active in the life of the county, witnessing its wondrous development from the primeval forests to the opulent present, from the day of the blazed trail and the ox cart to the present fine turnpike highways and the automobile.

One of the best known members of this well-established old family is Bascom O'Hair, who was born on a farm six miles north of Greencastle. on June 18. 1837, and he has found it to his interests to spend most of his long and eminently useful life in his native locality. His father. J. E. M. O'Hair. was a native of Kentucky, born in 1804. and he was one of that small band of pioneers who emigrated to this section of the Hoosier state in the epoch to which historians alude to as "early days." He settled six miles north of the present citv of Greencastle. penetrating the virgin forest, clearing a place for his cabin, and later developing a fine farm on which he lived the remainder of his life, becoming well-to-do for those days, and he was influential and highly honored among his neighbors for his many admirable traits of character. He married Elizabeth Montgomery, who was also a native of Kentucky, and this union resulted in the birth of eleven children, named as follows; Asbury is living in Monroe township; J. E. Elsberry and Greenberry also live in Monroe township ; J. T. and Eliza J. are deceased ; Bascom. of this review; Sarah E. is living in Greencastle; Robert A. lives in Monroe township ; Ceylina lives in Putnamville ; Sylvester lives in Monroe township; Leroy died in infancy. After the death of his first wife, the father of these children married Parmelia Lockridge, by whom he became the father of two children, Robert L.. the well known president of the Central National Bank of Greencastle, and Afrs. Maggie Black, of Wellington, Kansas.

J. E. ?il. O'Hair, after a long, honorable and useful career, was called to his reward in 1890, having reached the remarkable age of ninety-five years.

Bascom O'Hair spent his boyhood days on the home farm, where he assisted with the general work about the place until he was twenty-one years of age. attending the district schools in meantime. He then bought a fami in ^Nfonroe township and soon began dealing in real estate, for which he seemed to have a natural likeness and ability. In i88j he went to Oklahoma where he resided for a period of twenty years. He bought land in the Cherokee strip and from time to time purchased large tracts of land in other parts of that country, then new and abounding in all kinds of opportunities, all of which proved to be profitable investments. ?Ie was very successful in the southwest. But eight years ago he returned to Greencastle. where he has since resided. He has large property interests and is one of the financially solid and substantial men of Putnam county, and one of the most influential in business circles. He is a director of the Central National Bank and the Central Trust Company of Greencastle. He has a modern, attractive and costly home, elegantly furnished, which is known to the many friends of the family as a place of hospitality and good cheer. 'Sir. O'Hair also has extensive interests in Elorida. owning a pretty winter bungalow in Tampa and an orange grove on the Alafia river, twelve miles east Tampa. Mr. and Mrs. O'Hair spend their winters in the south.

Mr. O'Hair was married on August u. 1903. to Mrs. Blanche Goodwine, daughter ci Harr\- and Hester Brandt. Her parents were natives of Ohio and known as people of integrity and sterling worth. Mrs. O'Hair was born and reared in Attica. Indiana, receiving a good education, and her genial, solicitous, affable and courteous demeanor indicates that she was reared in the midst of wholesome environments. Tliis union has been without issue. Mrs. O'Hair is an accomplished, talented and cultured woman. She is a skilled wood carver, and many beautiful specimens of her handicraft adorns the walls of their spacious home on East Washington street. Painting- is another of her accomplishments, and her china and art draperies and stencil work are rare specimens of art and are greatly admired by all who are fortunate enough to see them. She also has literary ability and is interested in church and club work.

Both Mr. and Mrs. O'Hair are members of the College Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, and fraternally, Mr. O'Hair is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Politically he is a Republican.

Personally Mr. O'Hair is a wide-awake, enterprising man of the times, fully alive to the dignities and responsibilities of citizenship, and, to the extent of his ability, contributes to the material prosperity of the community and to the social, intellectual and mora! advancement of the populace. Good naturefl, easilv approached, straightforward and unassuming, he commands the respect of all with whom he comes into contact, and his friends are as great as the number of his acquaintances. While a power in the industrial circles of Greencastle, he is universally esteemed in all the relations of life, and his career has been creditable to himself and an honor to Putnam county, so long the abode of this excellent family, the untarnished escutcheon of whose he has ever sought to bear aloft.

Few men of Putnam county and this section of Indiana enjoyed greater prestige than the late Hon. Delano Williamson, of Greencastle, as a leading citizen, able attorney and as a public official against whose record no word of suspicion was ever uttered - who, for many years, was an important factor in the histon,' of this locality. His prominence in the community was the direct result of genuine merit, industry and integrity. In every relation of life, whether in the humble sphere of private citizenship or as a trusted leader of his fellow men, his many excellences of character and the able and impartial manner in which he discharged his every duty won for him an enviable reputation as an enterprising and representative self-made man, - brilliant attornev and far-seeing statesman, whose career is eminently worthy of emulation by the youth hesitating at the parting of the ways and whose destinies are vet matters for future vears to determine.

Mr. Williamson was born in Florence. Boone county, Kentucky, August 19. 1822, the son of Robert and Lydia (Madden) Williamson. The father was a descendant of Elliott Williamson, a native of Ireland, who emigrated to America in time to participate in the struggle of the colonies for independence and fought in the Continental army under Washington, and thus conferred upon his descendants the title of "Sons and Daughters of the Revolution." which is one of the ver\' highest titles, if not the highest, that can be bestowed upon an American. On his mother's side his ancestrj' dates back to the time when \\"illiam Penn came to America - to the family of Hollingsworth. who accompanied that illustrious Quaker to the New \\'orld.

When Delano E. Williamson was eight years of age his parents moved to Co-.-ingtun. Kentucky, and in 1833 they followed the tide of emigration westward and settled in Vermilion county, Illinois, and began life there amid primiti\e conditions. When Delano E. was nineteen years of age. in 1841, he came to Putnam county, Indiana, with the intention of entering Asbury (now DePauw) University, but after remaining in Greencastle about two weeks he abandoned the idea and went to Bowling Green, Clay county, where he accepted a position as deputy county clerk, and there found the first incentive to follow the legal profession. His education up to this time had been such only as he had obtained in the common schools of Illinois. In March, 1842, he married Elizabeth Elliott, a sister of the county clerk, in whose office he was emplo}-ed. Four children were born to them, viz : Robert E., of Cloverdale, Indiana; Mrs. Fl(irence L. Ricketts. of Springfield. Illinois; Mary, who died in 1874, and Charles D., of Indianapolis. During his residence in Bowling Green, w'hich e.xtended over nearly two years, he devoted his leisure time to the study of the law-, and with a view of continuing his law studies he returned to Greencastle and entered the law office of Eckles & Hanna for that pui"pose and in due time applied for examination for a license to practice law and admission to the bar, honors conferred at that time only as a reward of merit, it being necessary for the young aspirant to climb to the coveted distinction by a greater effort than is required at present. The oldtime lawyers, such as guarded the profession from intrusion by empirics in the far-away days of the forties, regarded their prerogatives as semi-sacred. The examining committee in the case of Mr. Williamson was composed of Gen. Tilghman H. Howard, Joseph .\. Wright (afterwards governor of Indiana and minister to Gennany), Henry Secrest and Delano R. Eckles (afterwards supreme judge of Utah) - all noted for their great abilities. This committee reported favoral)ly and a license was issued, signed by Judge

Bryant, of the circuit court. Tlie admission, however, was not yet complete. The candidate proceeded to Owen county, where he was a second time examined bv Judge David E. McDonald, from wliom he also obtained permission to practice.

[Mr. Williamson located as a lawyer first in Clay county, where he practiced his profession with a reasonable degree of success until 1850, when he was elected to the lower house of the Legislature from Clay county, on the Democratic ticket, by six hundred majority, over two competitors. Among his associates in the house were Ashbel P. Willard, afterwards governor; John P. Usher, afterwards secretary of the interior; and Daniel D. Pratt, afterwards senator of the United States from Indiana.

In the vear 1S53 Mr. Williamson removed to Greencastle and there made his home. In 1S5S he was again nominated as a Democrat for the Leo'islature, but, owing to a division in the party, was beaten by five votes. Meanwhile he was admitted to practice in the supreme court of the state, and traveling through the adjoining counties he became well and favorably known, not only as an advocate, but also as a prominent and influential citizen, and in the practice of his profession he was eminently successful and becarhe distinguished for his legal learning and mental acumen, easily taking front rank among the ablest lawyers of the state.

In 1859 Mr. Williamson formed a law partnership with Hon. Addison Dao-o-y, which continued for thirty years to a day. securing a reputation and practice second to few legal firms in the state, the partners l>eing well balanced in their characteristics and talents.

Down to i860 Mr. Williamson had always been a stanch Democrat, and in that year he took a very active part in the campaign, being a supporter of Stephen A. Douglas for the Presidency. In 186 1, immediately after President Lincoln's call for troops to suppress the rebellion, Mr. Williamson, never flinching in his devotion to the Union, became an active supporter of the government and the administration, and he devoted himself for the next twelve months with patriotic zeal to the promotion of the war spirit in his own and adjoining counties. He pressed his loyalty to the extent of producing a rupture between himself and the Democratic party, and he was excluded from its councils and leadership. In June, 1862, at the Union convention of the state, composed of the Republican party and the L'nion Democrats, he received the unsolicited nomination for attorney-general of the state. Among his five competitors in the convention were Senator Pratt and Judo-e Smith. The war spirit widened the breach between the adherents and the opponents of the government : men became estranged, and party feel- ing ran high and was intensified with the prosecution of the war and the Emancipation proclamation. At intervals the Democratic party in Indiana gained the upper hand, but the Union cause held on to final triumph. In 1S64, 1866 and 1868 Mr. Williamson was elected attorney-general of the state, ablv serving three consecutive terms, and in 1870 he refused a fourth nomination. Xo better evidence of his professional skill and unblemished reputation as a man of honor can be given than the unqualified support of his party for the highest legal office in the state for a period of eight years. In 1872 he accompanied Senator ^lorton in his great canvass through the middle and southern counties of Indiana, participating with great ability in the campaign. In 1876 he was a candidate for Congress before the Republican nomi^nating convention at Greencastle; but. owmg to local divisions in the partv, he was defeateil for the nomination.

Tanuary 3, 1861. Mr. Williamson married his last wife, Carrie Badger, of Greencastle.' daughter of Rev. Oliver P. Badger, a distinguished minister in the Christian church. Two children were born to them: Ida B., wife of O. G. Sercombe, of Louisville. Kentucky, and Badger Williamson, who resides in Greencastle with his mother, and wlm, on May 15. 1895, was married to Eugenia Pearle Stoner. The>- were married by Alexander Campbell, founder of the Christian church. Of the children of his first marriage, Robert E.. the eldest son. served in the Fourth Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, participating in the battle of Antietam and in the severe winter campaigns that followed.

Politically, ^^Ir. Williamson continued to act with the Republican party until the year 1892. Bv that time the issues on questions of revenue and finance had been clearlv 'announced. On these he had always held the principles of the Democratic party. During the war epoch and the period of reconstruction he espoused the principles of the Republican party as paramount to all questions touching the tariff and the financial management of the country The reconstruction period being closed, his old-time sympathies with Democratic doctrines revived, and being unable to influence the doctrines and tendencies of the Republican party, he ceased to act with that organization. He was eagerlv welcomed by' his old political associates and in 1894 was nominated bv the Democratic party as joint representative for the counties of Putnam. Clay and Montgomery. He made a gallant canvass, but, owing to the political revulsion in that year, was not elected.

Before this time, for a period of about five years, Mr. Williamson had been in verv ill health. It appeared at times that his erstwhile vigorous and active constitution was giving way under the impact of disease and advanc- ing years, but he made a splendid rally, and in 1892 and 1893 he resumed the practice of law, taking in with him, under the firm name of Williamson & Williamson, his promising son. Badger Williamson, upon whom the more active and aggressive part of the practice devolved and for years they continued to do a large business, the elder Williamson, the senior member of the Putnam county bar, retaining his rare tact and strength of intellect up to the last, and after an earthly pilgrimage of over four score years this distinguished lawyer and citizen was called to his reward on a higher plane of action. May 2. 1903, from his home in Greencastle, having bravely and heroically approached the sunset of a busy and distinguished life with every grace that adorns old age. Learned in the law and in literature, familiar with the history of his country, in sympathy with the best thought of his times, watchful of events and the trend of affairs, urbane and companionable, he rounded up a life of usefulness to his fellow men, all classes of whom revere his memory.

Religiously, Mr. Williamson was a member of the Christian church, in which body he had great local influence. He was a member of the ilasonic fraternity, attaining the Royal Arch degree. Personally he was a man of imposing presence, tall, erect, his broad shoulders bearing a splendidly shaped head - strong, patrician features, cleancut, expressive, showing depth of thought, strength of character and indomitable will. His manners were those of the cultured, genteel, courteous, well-bred gentleman, and he was a noted hgiu-e in any assembly of distinguished men. His success in life was largely due to a steadfastness of purpose, honesty, fiiielity to right principles, a high order of intelligence and a remarkable force of character which inspired at once the confidence and esteem of his fellow men.

Andrew Ai. Lockridge

Among the highly honored, influential and well remembered citizens of Putnam county of a past generation who well deserve definite recognition in a work of the province assigned to the one at hand is Andrew 'SI. Lockrido-e, for the history of the county and his biography are very much one and the same thing and for much of its growth and prosperity it is indebted to him. He was long one of its enterprising laborers and wise counselors. A progressive business man in the broad sense of the term, he realized the needs of the people and with clear brain and strong hand supplied the demand generouslv and unsparingiy. The county was never lionored by the citizenship of a man more widely or fa\orably known in western Indiana, and none stood higher in the esteem (jf his acipiaintances, for to him was accorded nntiiiah'fied confidence and regaril. and that lie was deserving of the same no (jne w ill deny. His long and useful life was sjient practically within the borders of this countv, with whose wiried interests he was acti\"el}" and successfullv identified. His well-directed efiforts in the practical affairs of life, his capable management of his own business interests and his sound judgment brought to him well earned prosperity, his life demonstrating what may be accomplished by the man of energ}- and ambition, who is not afraid to work and who has the perse\erance to continue his labors whether attended by favorable results or in the face of seemingly discouraging circumstances. Thus his career mav be held up as an example to the youth of the land who hesitate at the parting of the ways.

Andrew M. Lockridge was born March 30, 1814, near Mount Sterling, Montgomer}- county, Kentucky, and there he grew to maturity, assisting with the work about the home place and attending such schools as those early times afforded, and although his text-book training was limited he always kept abreast of the times by home reading and study. Desiring to cast his lot in a new country where land was cheaper and opportunities greater, in 1S35, he brought his widowed mother to Putnam county, Indiana, reaching their future home in the autumn and settled on a farm tifteen miles north of Greencastle, which place is yet known as the Lockridge farm. Here, amid primitive contlitions, ]\Ir. Lockridge, then a young man of vigor and ambition, went to work and in tlue course of time had an excellent start and developed a fine farm, and, being a man of excellent judgment, keen foresight and indefatigable energy, he seldom failed in carrying to successful issue whatexer he undertook. He was certainly deserving of the same, for he was trul\- the architect of his own fortunes, being a purel\- self-made man. his father, Robert Lockridge. a fine Kentuck\" gentleman of the old school, having died when Andrew M. was but twehe years old. The lad was thus earlv in life thrown practically upon his own resources and soon came in charge of the care and responsibility of the family, and such cares in the then frontier of the midrlle West, in 18J5. meant more than we of toda_\- can fully appreciate. However, this was excellent as well as hard discipline and it fostered in the growing bov such traits of sterling character as to make for success. He was ahva\s a very reserved and unpretentious man. physically and mentally strong, vet seemingly unconscious of liis strength and power. Although his life was de- ( 4'J ) voted almost exclusively to agricultural and stock-raising- pursuits, having few equals and no superiors in either line in western Indiana, being an unusually good judge of all kinds of livestock and a student of the soil and all phases of progressive farming, vet he was interested in many and varied industries and was always ready to assist in a substantial way any movement promising good to thi.ise cui'.cerned and the general pul^lic, being a promoter and a financier b\- nature, a man who would have succeeded in any environment and at any line of endeavor. He was generous, giving freely of his means, never - withholding from any needeil good, taking a delight in anything which he belie\ed would make his fellow men better, and sought to teach his associates by frugalitv and economy to be self-sustaining, independent and useful citizens.

For thirtv years this extraordinary man was vice-president and a director of the First National Bank of Greencastle and much of its prestige was due to his conservative advice in its management, and in all that has made this city beloved at home and respected abroad the impress of this truly good and honest man is plainly written. By nature modest, he never courted applause and despised ostentation, doing what he did for his community through other and more exalted motives, true rectitude being one of the fundamental principles of his character and a high regard for the sacredness of right. He scorned the mean compliance of recognized dishonesty, and would not stoop to the disgraceful tricks of trade; he was known as a man of honor in the commercial world. Another distinctly marked trait of his character was his indomitable energy - an energy that rose with irresistible force in the presence of accumulating difficulties, which he surmounted or pushed aside, ignoring the things that would have retarded if not completely thwarted others of less courageous spirit. Combined with this trait was his gift of great practical common sense, which made him a safe counselor to those who needed wise advice. His life and character were an open book.

In iSsS IMr. Lockridge joined the ^lethodist church in Greencastle and continued true and faithful in his duties and obligations to the church. He was a man of deep religious conviction and carried his religion into his everydav life. After a brief illness, this good and useful citizen was summoned bv the common fate of all to close his earthly accounts antl take up his work on a higher plane of action, November 2, 1893.

No less devoted to right living and right thinking was the noble life companion of Mr. Lockridge, known in her maidenhood as Elizabeth Farrow, whom he married February 23, 1843. She was the daughter of Col. A. S. Farrow, one of the county's leading pioneer citizens whose career is fully given in another part of this work. She was reared and educated in this countv and had hosts of friends here, and she lived with Mr. Lockridge, sharing his jovs and sorrows, for a period of nearly forty-five years, passing serene- Iv away on February 4. -1888, leaving behind her the priceless heritage of her prayers and the memory of a beautiful Christian life, for she was a loving wife, a devoted mother and faithful friend, her whole life being one long sacrifice of self to the welfare and happiness of those she loved. Through all her long illness her thoughts were for others rather than herself.

:Mrs. Lockridge, like her husband, lived most of her life in Putnam county, having been born near Mt. Sterling,. Montgomerv- county, Kentucky, November 24. 1826, and was therefore at the time of her death sixty-one vears. two months and eleven days old. She was the seventh child of a familv of ten children, three brothers of whom preceded her to the land of spirits. When she was four years of age, in the autumn of 1830, her family emigrated to Putnam county, Indiana, locating nine miles north of Greencastle. The countrv was new and sparsely settled and the advantages of school and church associations were meager, but in the little log school house of that day, she, with her brothers and sisters, obtained a fair common school education. When only thirteen years oUl, in a little log church on her father's farm, she professed the religion of the Christ and united with the Methodist church, in which faith she lived with unfaltering trust, without a cloud to dim her hope of immortality, until the moment her purified spirit passed into the mystic bevond.

To Mr. and ]^Irs. Andrew M. Lockridge four children were born, the first born, Robert, dying in infancy; the other three reached maturity and have been leading and influential citizens of Putnam county since they came into manhood's estate, evincing in all the relations of life the wholesome home environment in which they were reared ; they are Simpson, Alexander H. and Albert O.

Daniel Zaring

Few families of Putnam county are as well known and highly esteemed as the Zarings, who were among the early settlers of Washington township and from the year of their arrival to the present time the name has ever stood for honorable manhood and progressive citizenship. Perhaps the best known representatives of the family, certainly one of' the most enterprising and successful, was the late Daniel Zaring, whose parents moved to this couiitrv in 1844. originally settling- where the Mt. Olive church now stands, later changing their residence to a farm south of the village of Manhattan. Daniel Zaring. father of Daniel, was a native of Xew York, but in early life went to Pennsylvania, where he grew to manhood. From the latter state he went to Ohio when a young man and locating near Wooster, where he married and lived until the coming to Indiana in the year mentioned above. Daniel Zaring, Jr., was born December 30, 1839, in Ohio, and in 1844 accompanied his parents to Putnam county, Indiana, growing to maturity on the home fann in Washington township, where he developed those sterling traits of character which so greatly tended to his success in after life. He was reared in agricultural pursuits, assisted in the cultivation of the family homestead until attaining his majority, when he married and entered upon his own career, choosing for his wife Lucinda Lewis, who was born December 24. 1841, and to whom he was united in the bonds of wedlock in Xovember, i860. ^Irs. Zaring was a native of Putnam county and a daughter of .A.bram Lewis, who moved to this county from North Carolina in an earlv dav and settled east of Reeseville, on the farm adjacent to Walnut creek, now owned by Lycurgus Stoner. He was one of the early pioneers of that localitv and his name appears as a juryman at the first term of court held in Putnam county. He cleared and improved a good farm, lived an exemplary life and died a number of years ago at an advanced age.

After their marriage Daniel Zaring and wife began housekeeping on a farm belonging to his father, but some years later he removed to what is known as the Athey farm, where the first term of court was held, remaining on the latter place for about five years. At the expiration of that period he moved to the farm on- Deer creek which his father afterwards deeded to him, the improvement at the time he took possession consisting of an old house and about thirty acres of cleared land. With his characteristic ener,g\- he addressed himself to the task of further developing the place and it was not long until he had one of the finest and most valuable farms in his section of the country. Among the improvments which he added from time to time was the large and comfortable residence erected in 1870, and which is still one of the best edifices of the kind in the community, also a fine barn and other buildings, which greatly enhanced the value of the place and made it one of the most desirable homes in that part of the county.

Mr. Zaring"s farm originally consisted of one hundred and sixty acres, but bv additional purchases it was afterwards increased to three hundred and fiftv acres, about two hundred being bottom land of great fertility, the old farm being owned by his son, Lewis Zaring. For several years he and his son Lewis carried on farming and the Hvestock business as partners, making a specialty of high-grade cattle. Mr. Zaring was always an enterprising, wide-awake man and manifested a lively interest in his business affairs as long as he lived, retaining possession of his farm to the day of his death. He was essentially a home man. great lover of his family and made every other consideration subordinate to his children's interests, taking little part in politics beyond voting the Democratic ticket an-l having no ambition whatever for official preferment. In the management of his affairs he was prompt and methodical, not given to speculation, but satisfied with legitimate and gradual gains. :Mr. Zaring died on the 20th day of September. 1895. at the village of Manhattan, his wife passing to her reward on March 25, 1901. The family of this worthy couple consisted of four children, the oldest being Lewis A., a sketch of whom appears elsewhere. Clinton Thomas Zaring. M. D.. of Greencastle. one of the leading physicians and surgeons of Putnam county, is the second in order of birth, the third l>eing Clara ^Lay, who died unmarried at the age of thirty-eight. She was an accomplished stenographer and for a number of years held important positions in various offices in the citv of Indianapolis. Musa D., the youngest of the family, became the wife of Ernest Stoner. of Greencastle, Indiana, and died at }i[ar.hattan two vears after her marriage.

Gonsalvo Cordova Smythe. A. M.. M. D.. was born on a farm three miles east of Greencastle. Indiana. October 31. 1836. His parents. Ebenezer and Eli-zabeth (Sill) Smythe. were natives of Kentucky who emigrated to Indiana soon after their marriage in 1827. Doctor Smythe was the fifth child in the family, there being in all nine children. One of his sisters. Hannah Roxanna.' was the wife of John Clark Ridpath. the historian. Ebenezer Smvthe, the father, though a poor man. was especially well educated for the times. He was a voracious and inordinate reader and remarkably well informed as to the facts of history and the philosophy of literature.' Although the mother's early advantages were meagre, she was nevertheless a woman of decided natural ability and loyally joined her husband in the determination to provide their children with the best tacilities for education the times and their surroundings afforded. The opportunities oft-ered h.nvever. were at first onlv those of the regulation district schools of that period and in these the methods employed were far from adequate in producing the best results. Doctor Smythe's experience in the backwoods school was somewhat novel. At the age of fifeen he became impatient at his slow progress in school and laid the fault to the "class system," which he conceived reallv restrained him. He therefore asked for and secured from the teacher a mitigation of the rule and was granted the privilege of studying and mastering his lessons in his own way. The result justified the wisdom of the concession, for his progress from this time forward was both easy and rapid. ^leanwhile there were alterations of labor. Before his sixteenth vear he was chopping wood for fifty cents a cord and later employed by his father, a contractor on the line of the Terre Haute & Indianapolis railroad to blast rock, a work in which he was very successful and of which he was inordinately fond. There was something in the big reports made by the "giant" powder which especially pleased him and he continued at the work on his own account on the lines of other neighboring railroads. At the age of seventeen he engaged in teaching school, thus laying up a little money for the exigencies of the 'future. Soon afterward he made up his mind to finish his education by a course in college and accordingly, in the fall of 1855, he entered the sophomore class in Asbury University at Greencastle. He lived at home and walked in to college ever}- morning, a distance of three miles. His brother. Ulvsses, was also in college at the same time. As a student Doctor Smythe was noted for his clear vision, industry and close reasoning powers. He was very proficient in mathematics, with a decided leaning toward the investigation of scientific subjects. The physical sciences were especially attractive to him. In 1856 his college course came to an abrupt end due to the famous rebellion, during the administration of Doctor Curry, president of Asbury University. Along with others. Doctor Smythe left and never returned to the institution. Having always been drawn to the study of medicine, he determined now to prepare himself for that profession and, to that end. entered the ofiice of Dr. William C. Hopwood. a physician in the village of Fillmore, where he was a diligent and observing student for almost three years. In the fall of 1859 he attended his first course of lectures at Rush Medical College in Chicago. In the summer of i860 he entered upon the practice in Fillmore and from the first impressed all those with whom he came in contact with his skill and qualifications for the profession he had chosen. .\ few months before - February 28th - he was married to Marparet A. .A.llen, a young lady who lived in the neighborhood and who had Ijeen one of his schoolmates in the days of the district school.

The Civil war having broken out. Doctor Smythe offered his services, which were accepted, and in August, 1862, he was duly appointed assistant surgeim "t the Fi irtN-thinl RL-ginieiit. Imliana X'olunteers. He remained in the services until the cL>se of the war in i8h5. l^eing promoted to surgeon- of the regiment and finallv surgeon of a miHtary division. His experience as an armv surgeon in tlie field and in the hospitals was of incalculahle benefit and was the basis of his subsequent extended reputation as a surgeon. After returniiv;- frrmi tlie armv, Dnctur Smythe located in Greencastle and formed a partnership with Dr. Hamilton E. Ellis, who al^o had been an army surgcn. This partnership continued till the death of Doctor Ellis in 1880.

From the time of his return from the army Doctor Smythe had constantlv risen in reputatinn ma mily in medical circles but in the estimation of the L-er.er.d public. F;is rise in usefulness and infiuence was effected in the face of nianv and serious discouragements. One of these was the death of his wife. Februarv 10. 1S70. Soon after he went to Xew York and there cnmpleted a course of special study in Long Island Hospital ^ledical College, graduating therefrom with the degree of Doctor of ]^Iedicine. ad eundem. Returning to Greencastle, his sendees were more than ever in demand and his aljility and skill as one of the leading physicians and surgeons in central Indiana were everywhere recognized. In January, 187 J. he was married to Tanie Frances Black, of Greencastle; but his wife soon developed svmptoms of tuberculosis and was carried of¥ by that fatal malady Xovem- Ler 14, 1874. In 1S76. Febrtiary 17, Doctor Smythe was a third time married. His wife was Jennie, the daughter of :\IcCamey Hartley. Esq., who was an earlv business man in Greencastle, and also filled the office of auditor of Putnam county. Three children blessed this union. Roxanna. who died lulv 8. 1887; Winona, who died August 13, 189'), and Arta. who is now the wife of Morton Diall. superintendent of the Gas and Electric Light Companv of Lockport. Xew York.

Doctor Smvthe was a frequent contributor to the leading medical journals and maga.^ines of the day. Among his principal C(.MnriI)utions were "A Ple-\ for Practical An-Uomy," an article which v,as largely instrumental in seciu-ing the pa--a;,e of a law bv the Legislature of Ind.iana for the legal iHssection of human liodies; "The Antipyretic Treatment of Typhoid Fever"; Dermoiij L \ -t in the Lung.'" and "'I'he Treatment of Sciatica by the Hyperdemic Injection of /\tropia". a p;q)er which was translated into French, and German, and then unwittingly retranslated into English as an auth(3rity. In 1871) Doctor Smvthe was elected to a chair in t'.ie Central College of Physicians and Surgeons of Indianapolis and assigneil to the chair of the practice of medicine and sanitary science and at once demonstrated his ability as an instructor. His lectures were at once profound and popular. During the summer of 1880 he issued his first medical work, entitled. Heresies Historically Considered: A Series of Critical Essays on the Origin or the Evolution of Sectarian Medicine''. The subject was of such nature as to involve a review of homeopathy and that theory of medicine has rarelv been more ably or severely handled than in Doctor Smythe's masterly treatise. Idle book recei\'ed an extensi\-e notice at the hands of medical men evervwhere and excited nijt a little discussion and criticism.

As the years rollerl by Doctor Smythe's reputatii^n as a phvsician and surgeon broadened until he was easily one of the leading practitioners in the state. As a surgeon he had few equals and some of the operations he l^erfornied are e\-en yet regarded as wonders of skill and precision. But the constant and unremitting attention to his patients and bis anxietv to do all in bis power to alleviate suffering humanity began to tell on him. He denied' himself the luxury of vacations and applied himself to his tasks with such concentration and zeal that his health at last broke under the strain, and. after a brief illness, he died February 7, 1S97.

In every respect Doctor Smythe was a remarkable man. and in the line of his profession eminently successful. He was emphatically a man of ner\e whom no responsibility could appeal. Under all circumstances he was cool, prudent and self-confident. His judgment never forsook him and his per.etration was rarely at fault. He was in e\ery sense a physician, a man of one work, ardently devoted to the duties of his profession. He was generous minded and liberal of view. Although apparently brusque in manner, he was in reality tender at heart, patient and sympathetic. A man of innate modesty, he rarely ever dwelt upon his own achievements. A stranger to diplomacy, he could not flatter or deceive. In every emergencv he was a plain, tolerant and unaffected gentleman, the corner stone of wdiose religion was relieving the distress of his fellow men.

Capt. Hexrv Bascom Martix

The distinction of being the oldest native of Cloverdale township now residing therein l>elongs to Capt. Henry B. Martin, an honored and revered resident of the attractive little town of Cloverdale. Xot only has his pri\-ate life been one of probity and integrity, but he has also a military record of which he has just reason to be proud, having gi\'en to his country several vears of effective and appreciated ser\-ice during the period of its greatest need. He

Capt. Henry B. Martin

Henrv Basconi Martin was horn in Cluverdale township, fntnam county. Indiana. Tulv lO. 1833. and is a srm of Kiil)ert and Lucy (Rdutte) Martin. The paternal grandfather was William Martin, a Methodist preacher who was horn and reared in \'irginia. his birth having taken place during the war of the Revolution. His father. John >.[artin. was a soldier in that memorable struggle who served during nearly the w he ile period of the war. and near its close sent a son. also named John, as a substitute, the latter being present at the siu-render of Cornwallis. The subject's mother was a daughter of Genrge and Catherine (Hendricks) Routte. This family came from \'irginia and located in Kentucky. Robert Martin was a native of Virginia and in his voung hovhood the family removed to Bath county, Kentucky, and sulise(|uently he there met and married Lucy Routte. He and his wife came to Clovenlale township. Putnam county. Indiana, about 1S25. and entered a tract of government land two miles southwest of Cloverdale. He first entered two forty-acre tracts, the patents for which were signed by President John Quincv Adams, and he afterwards acquired more land, so that his holdings amounted to two h.undred and forty acres. He remained in that locality until 1853. when he moved to the state of L>wa. where he remained until about 1S77. when, his wife dying, he returned to Indiana, locating at Greencastie. where his death occurred in tSjy. Robert Martin was twice married, his first wife dving in 1851. In about 1854 he married Mrs. Xancy Xosler. whose death occurred in 1877 in Iowa, as above stated. Wx. Martin was the father of ten children, namely: Sally, who died in infancy. Catherine. John S.. George R.. Henry E.. William S.. Alethe. Byram. Man- and Robert.

Henrv B. :\[artin remained on the home farm near Cloverdale until about eighteen vears old and in the meantime .secured a fair education in the common schools of the locality, the school facilities of that day being somewhat meagre as compared with the splendid system of the present day. Later the subject was a student in Cloverdale Seminary, but the major part of his educition was receixed outside the school rooms, as after he had quit the educational institutions mentioned he pursued the study of Latin. Greek and higher mathematics, including surveying. He was employed as an assistant in the survey of the Monon railroail. and after the completion of that work he went to Ohio and used the transit in the preliminary survey of a part of the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton railroad. In the spring of 1854 Mr. :\Iartin went to \\'ebster countv (now Hamilton county). Iowa, and there followed surveying until the winter of 1859-Cio. Returning to Putnam county, IndijyS weik's history of ana. his patriotic spirit was soi m stirreil by the sounds of the oncoming- conflict in the Southland, and when the President's call for volunteers was issued he promptlv responded, becoming a meml)er of Company A, Second Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. Prior to this he had organized a compan_\- at Cloverdale. but the state's quota had become filled and his company could not be accepted. He then went to Cincinnati with a few of his men and there enlisted. He was mustered into the service as a private, but was afterwards commissioned second lieutenant, the company to which he belonged being assigned to the Kentucky regiment. .Vbout July 9. i86t. the command was sent to \\'est Virginia, and four days later they were engaged in the battle of Earboursville. where the subject was severely wounded in the right thigh. He was conveved by an impro\ised ambulance and boat to the hospital at Gallipolis. where he nearly died from the wound. The hospital was first located in a seminary, and was then moved to a deserted school room, where the subject lav on one of the long rlesks. When convalescent he was sent home on sick leave and for some time went about on crutches. In the latter part of the following October he rejoined his regiment along the Kanawha river above Charleston. The next battle in which the Second Regiment participated was the great struggle at Shiloh. They arrived there on Sunday, as a part of Nelson's division, and were engaged all day Alonday until the defeat of the enemy. Later they took part in the siege of Corinth and the manv skirmishes incident to that campaign. In the spring of 1862, before the .battle of Shiloh. Second Lieutenant Martin became a first lieutenant. After the siege of Corinth, the Second Regiment marched with the army through ]\fississippi and Alabama, under the command of General Buell. They then marched to Louisville. Kentucky, and chased the Confederate General Bragg awav from there and followed him to -Perryville, where there was a bloody fight. The regiment then went to Xashville. where they remained until midwinter. Then followed the terrific engagement at Stone River, where the soldiers endured severe privations, being compelled to sleep in the open air on the battlefield and for forty-eight hours they had nothing to eat but a few^ crackers. The armv then occupied INIurfreesborough, and were soon afterwards engaged in the battle oi Chickamauga. wdiere Lieutenant Martin was severelv wounded, his wrist bone being shattered by a minie ball. Because of this wound he was disabled until the following Xo\ember. and was stationed at Bridgeport, not participating with his regiment in the protectii')n of tl-.e lines of communication. He then started with Sherman on the celebrated march to Atlanta, but before the end of that campaign his period of service expired. After the battle of Stone River, the stihject had been pro- moted to ;i captaincv ami commamleil his company at the battle ol Chickamaug-a. After beiny mustered out at Cincinnati. Captain Martin was appointed a captain in the A'eteran Reserve Corps and was located at Giesboro, near the city of Washington. At this time the death of his father-in-law made it necessary for him to return to his home at Cloverdale. The county was then in a turmoil and the family needed his protection, he having left a wife and infant son when he entered the army.

It should be here noted that while residing in loua in the winters of iS;7-:S and iS^S-^i^ the subject was a member of the state troops, having l)een mustered in to assist in protecting the northern part of the state against a threatened massacre of the Indians, who had a short time previously committed terrible depredations among the settlers in that part of the state. The subject was chosen captain of his company and commanded it throughout the campaign.

After his return from the army. Captain Martin was busily employed at farming, the practice oi law and surveying, in all of which he gave evidence of his versatile aljility. Eventually he moved to Greencastle in order to give bis chil.lren superior educational ad\antages. In 1892 Captain IMartin and bis son Charles established the Greencastle Democrat, one of the strong and intluential newspapers of Putnam county. About 1885 he was appointed an examiner oi surveys for the United States government, his duties being to examine the land surveys in Oregon. Washington and Idaho. He ser^-ed in this capacity until the summer of 1S89, the latter part of his service being in Xew ^.lexicr.j. where he was engaged in examining the boundary lines of Indian reservations. During a part of this time he was alone with the Indians, among whrmi were the bloodthirsty Apaches. In 1893 he received a request from the commissioner of the general land office of Washington to go to Califonu'a as special exanu'ner of the Benson fraudulent land surveys, which he accepted, and was th.us engaged, and in general government surveys, until 1895 when he re-igned on account of ill health. The appointment came to lu'm wholiv un-^olicited. and was an exceptional honor, as the Benson fraudulent surveys were of Xational interest. His services gave eminent satisfaction to the go\ernment and he could have continued in the office indefinitely, liut ill health compelled him to resign. Cajitain Martin continued the publication of the Democrat until June. 1897. when it was sold to Hamrick & A'ler. after which the Captain went to San Bernardino. California, and. with the assistance of his sons Ernest and Edwin and eldest daughter Winifred, established a Democratic newspaper. This enterprise was successful, but the Captain disposed of his interests four years later and returned to Cloverdale. where he is now residing.

While residing in Iowa. Captain Martin became tlie owner of one thousand acres of splench'd farming land, but this was afterwards sold, and he and his wife now own considerable land in Putnam county, near Cloverdale.

On the 2 1 St of October, 1858. Captain ]vlartin was united in marriage witli Svdnev \'ictoria Ellen Hart, a daughter of William L. Hart, one of the earlv and well known settlers of Cloverdale township. To this union have been born nine children, namely: Xiles H.. who resides on a fami near Clo\erdale. married Margaret Young: Charles Lee. who was interested with his father in the Greencastle Democrat, died near the close of the year 1895 : Lucy died at the age of two vears and three months : William died in infancy : Winifred, who has traveled extensively in Europe, !\[exico and Hawaii, is successfullv engaged in newspaper work at San Bernardino, California; Margarita is the wife of Alerton Brimmer, of Rialto, California, and they have one child. Elizabeth Ellen: Ernest, who is engaged in newspaper work in San Bernardino. California, and is also a writer for the Hearst papers, married Dorothv Cooley. the daughter of a prominent citizen there: Edwin is a printer and resides at Merced. California: Henry B., who is. the publisher and editor of the Cloverdale Graf^hic. married Anna Steinbach. and they have one son. Charles Lee,

Politicallv Captain [Martin is a Democrat and has always taken an active interest in the success of his party. LiiSji he was elected to the lower house of the Legislature and rendered effective ser\ice in that body. Fraternally he has been a member of the Masonic order for forty-six years and has served a number of terms as worshipful master of his lodge. He has taken a number of degrees above those of the blue lodge, including those of Knight Templar, being a member of Greencastle Commander}-, Xo. 11. Few men in his section of the county are as widely and favorably known and none stand higher than does he in the confidence and esteem of the public, and in view of his active and eminently creditable career and the influence he has always exercised on the right side of every moral question, it is proper to class him with the representative men of his day and generation in the community honored bv his citizenship.

Albert O. Lockridge

It is the progressive, wideawake man of affairs that makes the real history of a community and his influence as a potential factor of the body politic is difficult to estimate. The examples such men furnish of patient purpose and steadfast integritv strongly illustrate what is in the power of each to accomplish, and tliere is always a full measure of satisfaction in achertising, even in a casual way. to their achievements in advancing the interests of their fellowmen and in giving strength and solidit}' to the institutions which make so much for the prosperity of the community. Such a man is Albert O. Lockridge. the present popular pi")stmaster of ("ireencastle, and it is eminently proper that a re\-iew of his career be accorded a place among the representative citizens of the city and county in which he resides.

Mr. Lockridge is a natiNe of Putnam count}'. ha\'ing been born on a farm near his home cit_\'. Februar\" i~, 1S51. He is the voungest of three sons born to .Vmlrew M. and Elizabeth (Farrow) Lockridge. extended mention of whom is made elsewhere in this \-olume. The other sinis, Simi)son F. and Alexander H.. are also given notice in an(jther part o\ this work.

Albert O. Lockridge was reared on the parental acres and did his full share of the routine work ^^i the fanii. He was educated in the public schools of Greencastle and at Asbury (now DePauw) L'ni\'ersity, attending the latter institution during the presidency of Bishop Thomas Bowman, for whom he has great admiration. ^Ir. Lockridge also attended, in 1872. the Indianapolis Commercial College, and during this time was a meml)er of the militarv organizatiiin known as the Commercial Guarrls. which was often drilled by Gen. Daniel Mc.\ule\- and was subject to government call.

Mr. Lockridge has been largely interested in agricultural pursuits all his life. He has always been a stuilent of scientific farming an<l ranks as one of the best informed and most successful farmers and stock raisers in Indiana. For the past twenty years he has lectured before farmers' institutes (^\er Imliana. ha\-ing addressed institutes in e\"ery count}- in the state, and is perhaps the best known and most influential institute worker in the state, and his services have been in great demand of recent years in this connection.

Mr. Lockridge's beautiful farm, "Hazyview". comprising two hundred and seventy-one acres, and l}-ing six miles northeast of Greencastle. is one of the model farms of Putnam county - imleed. one of the "show places" o\ the count}-, and is a<lmired b}' all.

Mr. Lockridge is a director of the First Xational Bank of Greencastle. and is influential iii the industrial circles of the communit}-. In 1897 he was appointed b\- Go\-. J;inies A. ]\[ount a member of the boarrl of trustees oi the Central Hospital for the Insane, located at Indianapolis, and after three vears of faithful and commendable service he was re-appointed for three \-ears more, making six years of Cfuitinuous service. Fie was anpoiiited postjS2 weik's history of master of Greencastle by President Taft, and assumed office March 22, 1910. He is a member of the College Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, being a trustee of the same. He is especially interested in Sunday school work and frequently visits over the county, addressing- the various Sunday school organizations in behalf of association work.

Mr. Lockridge was married October 9, 1S7S, to Jessie Francis Birch, daughter of Alpheus Birch, deceased, a prominent woolen manufacturer of Greencastle for many years. The marriage ceremony was solemnized by Bishop Isaac \V. Joyce. Mrs. Lockridge was born at Bloomington, Illinois, January 6. 1858. Her grandfather, Henry Ewing Cowgill. was a very prominent physician and influential man in Putnam county a decade ago. He was commissioned by Gov. Oliver P. Morton during the most severe battles of the Civil war to go to the Southland and look after the comforts of the Indiana soldiers at the front.

Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Lockridge, Dr. Arthur Birch Lockridge, a practicing physician of Rockville, Indiana, and a graduate of the Indiana Medical College. The daughter, Elizabeth Farrow Lockridge, who is a graduate of the DePauw School of Music, is now teaching music in Kansas City. Missouri, being regarded as a very talented musician.

;Mrs. Lockridge is also a member of the College Avenue Methodist Episcopal church. Her home is a model of cheerfulness, refinement and hospitality and she and Mr. Lockridge are frequently hosts to the best people of the county, and they are always pleasant and are kindly disposed to the less fortunate with whom thev come in contact.

John Brewer DeMotte was born in the village of W'aveland, Indiana, August 21, 1848, and died in Greencastle, Indiana, September i, 1907. His father, who bore the same name, was an itinerant Methodist preacher and he in turn was the son of Rev. Daniel DeMotte, one of the early pillars of Indiana Methodism. His mother was Emily Franklin Payne, whose marriage to John B. DeMotte, the elder, took place September 2-. 1S42. Tlie mother died in July. 185 1 ; the father, November 30, 1901.

John D. DeMotte II, the subject of this sketch, attended the common schools of the dav and in whatever village or town he happened to live, for the circuit rider of that period hardly ever spent a second season in the same place. MoN'ing thus from place to placj. the boy had the benetit of maiu' changes in instructors. Being a \er_\- absorbent as well as observant lad, these transitions from one field to another were not without their good effect. As a pupil in school, he was equally apt and ambitious. He learned readily and readily made use of what he had learned. Therein lay the success of liis training. In i8(.o his father was principal of the Asbury Female Institute, - a girls' school in Greencastle, Indiana, and here the son came into contact with the atmosphere of uni\ersity life. Meanwhile the war came along and. though he was scarcely over fifteen years old, lie volunteered and was mustered in as private in Company E. One Hundred and Eighteenth Regiment. Indiana \'olunteers. Returning after the expiration of his army service, he soon entered Asbur_\' University, in college he was noted for his clearness of perception, his analytical mind and industrious habits. Along with his studies, he found time to teach certain branches in the preparatory classes. His capacity for work was prodigious. In 1874 he was graduated from the uni\-ersity with honors and the degree of Bachelor of Arts. The ne.\t vear he joined the faculty of his alma mater with a \icw to organizing the preparatory school. After remaining m charge of the latter department for se\eral years he was promoted to the chair of physics in the College of Liberal Arts. He had the enthusiasm for in\'estigation and research which all the great savants ha\e had w ho achie\ed anything of value in the world of science.

In 1887 Asbury L'niversity - his alma mater - conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and six years later the Iowa Central College of Physicians and Surgeons, the degree of Doctor of }iledicine. An earnest and profound student of electricity, he was made a life member of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia. Pie carried on a large amount of research work in Cornell. Columbia. Universiy of Pennsylvania, Bonn and Heidelberg- Universities in Germany. While abroad for study he was a co-worker with Henry Hertz at Bonn University, the discoverer of the Herzeman wave which made possible the discovery of the X-ray.