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LIVING LEADERS, AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
Living Leaders
. AN
Encyclopedia of Biography.
SURNAME FILE
SPECIAL EDITION
FOR
DAVIESS AND MARTIN COUNTIES,
INDIANA.
ILLUSTRATED.
AMERICAN PUBLISHING COMPANY,
1897.
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INTRODUCTION.
HERE is an irresistible attraction in reading the lives of cel- ebrated people which enchains the hearts of young and old alike. The study of individual character as represented by men and women whose names are graven on the imperish- able tablets of Fame, is not only fascinating but instructive. Strange as it may seem we know less of living celebrities, who by thought and action are now molding the destiny of the nation, than we do of the immortal dead whose epitaphs are written in the sacred archives of history.
This work is a record of noted Americans now living, and of the impor- tant events they have created. It contains the portraits of famous persons whose names are prominent in the annals of the times. Each portrait is reproduced from a recent photograph, and is accompanied by a biographical sketch obtained in nearly all cases by personal interview. The work is there- fore of untold value as a text book of national character, an authentic account of modern progress and development, and the influence of master minds upon American history.
Hon. Benjamin Harrison, Ex-President of the United States, has said :
" If we would strengthen our country, we should cultivate a love for it in our hearts and in the hearts of our children and neighbors; and this love for civil institutions, for a land, for a flag, if they are worthy and great and have a glorious history, is widened and deepened by a fuller knowledge of them."
Biography is not alone the history of individuals, it is the history of a Nation.
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The influence of truly great men upon humanity cannot be estimated. The diplomacy and stanch patriotism of Grover Cleveland, the statesmanship of William Mckinley, the forensic ability of Melville W. Fuller, the rare schol- arship of Edward Everett Hale, and the broad liberality of Archbishop Ireland, have been important factors in shaping the course of human events.
The scientific discoveries of Thomas A. Edison have resulted in untold benefit to Americans and to the world.
The poetic genius of Thomas Bailey Aldrich, the oratory of Chauncey M. Depew, and the humor of Mark Twain, have left an indelible impress pon mankind.
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin," whether it be the princely charity of John D. Rockefeller, or the devotion of Neal Dow to the cause of temperance.
The world loves to read of great deeds of bravery and the heroism of Ida Lewis, the lighthouse-keeper who risks her life, in an open boat, during a ter- rible storm, to rescue drowning sailors, or the courage of Dr. Charles Park- hurst, battling against the forces of evil, calls for the admiration of all.
America has produced many celebrated men who have risen from humble stations to occupy exalted positions. Levi P. Morton started in life as an humble clerk; Robert Collyer was a blacksmith; John Wanamaker, a mes- senger boy; Lyman J. Gage, a night watchman; James Whitcomb Riley, a wandering sign painter ; William B. Allison, a farmer boy; George M. Pull- man, a house mover; Richard J. Oglesby, a carpenter, and Francis Bret Harte, a printer. These and many others began the battle of life under dis- couraging conditions, but finally overcame all obstacles and rose to eminence and honor.
This work is of especial importance in view of the approaching presiden- t'al campaign. Soon a new pilot will stand at the helm to guide the Ship of State through the shoals and shallows of doubt and danger. Many able statesmen have spent their lives in vain pursuit of this coveted honor, while others, more fortunate, have secured the prize. The biographies and portraits of all possible candidates for president and aspirants for other political honors are found in this book.
The work is an invaluable cyclopedia of names and a portrait gallery of the most prominent men and women of the day. Its value to the young is unquestioned, as it teaches them to emulate the deeds of those who are living examples of deserving fame.
The work necessarily contains the portraits and biographies of many who have seen long years of service, but who wear their age "like a lusty winter, frosty but kindly." And when the summons comes for any one of these grand old heroes to rise to a higher and a better life we can say from our hearts:
" Weep not for him,
Who departing leaves millions in tears ;
Not for him- Who has died full of honor and years;
Not for him- Who ascended Fame's ladder so high,
From the round at the top He has stepped to the sky."
MELVILLE W. FULLER.
A LESS modest man of equal abilities would probably have risen to public prominence earlier in life than did Mr. Fuller. Not until 1888, when he was appointed Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, did he become known to the country as a great jurist, though he had long been recognized as such in Illinois. Melville W. Fuller was born in Augusta, Maine, February 11, 1833. After grad- uating at Bowdoin College in 1853 he began the study of law at Har- vard, and in 1855 entered upon the practice of his profession in his native city. Here he edited the Augusta "Age," became president of the common council, and in 1856 was elected city attorney. In the last-named year he removed to Chicago, where for thirty-two years he conducted a highly successful law practice. Mr. Fuller was a member of the Illinois Constitutional Convention in 1862, and of the Illinois House of Representatives in 1863. A strong Democrat, he served as a delegate to all the national conventions, from 1864 to 1880 inclusive, and was always prominent in the councils of his party, where his word had the greatest influence. When President Cleve- land selected him to fill the vacancy on the Supreme bench of the United States, caused by the death of Chief Justice Waite, the choice was pronounced a wise one by those who knew Mr. Fuller best. He was confirmed by the Senate July 20, 1888, and took the oath of office on the 8th of October following. The degree of LL. D. has been conferred upon him by Bowdoin College and the Northwestern Uni- versity.
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MELVILLE W. FULLER.
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THOMAS ALVA EDISON.
TT may be truthfully said that the current history of this country contains no brighter page than that which recites the achievements of Thomas A. Edison. This great inventor first saw the light of day at Alva, Ohio, February 11, 1847. As a boy he became particu- larly interested in the study of chemistry. While employed as a news- boy on a railway train he took up the study of telegraphy, and pur- sued it so persistently by sitting up late at nights in a railway station that he was soon an expert operator. He worked at this trade in a number of places, and while at Adrian, Mich., opened a shop for repairing telegraph instruments and the making of new machinery. He then went to Indianapolis, where he invented his automatic repeater. Later, he was stationed in Cincinnati, with an established reputation as an inventor, and from there went to Boston, where he perfected his duplex telegraph. Shortly thereafter Mr. Edison was made superintend- ent of the New York Gold Indicator Company, and transferred his shops to Newark, N. J. In 1876 he resigned this position and established himself permanently at Menlo Park, N. J., devoting his entire time to research and invention. Among the productions of his brain are the phonograph, the microphone, the electric pen, the quadruplex and sextu- plex transmitter, improvement in the electric light and the telephone, the kinetoscope and kinetograph. Mr. Edison is of a modest, retiring dis- position, an indefatigable worker, and when occupied in perfecting a new invention scarcely takes time to eat or sleep until it is completed. Remarkable as have been many of his achievements in the past, he expects to produce still greater results from recent experiments, and the public has great confidence in his forecasts of coming miracles.
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ELIZABETH CADY STANTON.
A MONG the women of the United States who have devoted their lives to the work of correcting existing evils in the social con- ditions of their sex, there is none now living who is better known or more highly honored for the good she has accomplished than Elizabeth Cady Stanton. This popular lady was born in Johnstown, N. Y., November 12, 1815, and was graduated at Mrs. Emma Willard's Sem- inary, in Troy, N. Y., in 1832. In 1840 she was married to Henry Brewster Stanton, and in the same year, while attending the World's Anti-Slavery Convention, in London, she met Lucretia Mott, with whom she was in sympathy, and with whom she signed the call for the first Women's Rights Convention. This was held at her home in Seneca Falls, July 19 and 20, 1848. She addressed the New York Legislature on the rights of married women in 1854, and in advocacy of divorce for drunkenness in 1860, and in 1867 spoke before the Leg- islature and the Constitutional Convention, maintaining that during the revision of the constitution the state was resolved into its original ele- ments and that citizens of both sexes had a right to vote for members of that convention. She canvassed Kansas in 1867 and Michigan in 1874, when the question of woman suffrage was submitted to the peo- ple of those states. . Since 1869 she has addressed many congressional committees and conventions, and delivered numerous lectures on this subject, and for ten years she was president of the National Woman Suffrage Association. In 1868 she was a candidate for Congress. She was an editor with Susan B. Anthony and Parker Pillsbury of "The Revolution," founded in 1868, and is joint author of "History of Woman's Suffrage."
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GROVER CLEVELAND.
S TEPPING from comparative obscurity into the highest position in the gift of the American people, it is safe to say that no man was ever more favored by fortuitous circumstances than President Cleveland. He was born in Caldwell, Essex County, N. J., March 18, 1837. His father was a Presbyterian clergyman. After his father's death Grover became a clerk and assistant teacher in the New York Insti- tution for the Blind, but in 1855 he settled in Buffalo with his uncle, and studied law in the office of Rogers, Bowen & Rogers. He was admitted to the bar in 1859, and from 1863 until 1866 was district attorney of Erie County. He became the law partner of Isaac V. Van- derpool, and in 1869 a member of the firm of Lanning, Cleveland & Fol- som, practicing until 1870, when he was made sheriff of Erie County. The firm of Bass, Cleveland & Bissell was formed in 1873, and in 1881 Mr. Cleveland was elected mayor of Buffalo. In 1882, favored by a factional fight in the Republican party, he was made governor of New York, and in 1884 the Democratic party nominated him for President of the United States, and elected him on a platform of tariff reform. He was defeated for a second term by the Republican candidate, Ben- jamin Harrison, but in 1892 he in turn defeated Mr. Harrison, and again became President. Mr. Cleveland is a man of well-balanced temperament, a hard worker, persistent almost to obstinacy, and devoted to economical reforms. He was married in the White House, in 1886, to Miss Frances Folsom, daughter of his former law partner. He stands forth a very sturdy figure in the line of Presidents.
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FRANCES FOLSOM CLEVELAND.
N TEVER did a fairer type of American womanhood preside over the domestic affairs of the White House than she who has been twice called to the proud position of "the first lady in the land." Mrs. Cleveland, only a few years ago, was the charming Miss Fran- ces Folsom, of Buffalo, N. Y., where she was born in 1864. Her father was at one time Mr. Cleveland's law partner and the two men were close friends up to the time of Mr. Folsom's death, in 1875. After that sad event Mr. Cleveland was appointed guardian of his late friend's daughter, and she was taken to the home of her grandinother in Medina, N. Y., where she attended high-school.
She was regarded as one of the brightest pupils in her class, and upon finishing her course in the high-school she entered the sophomore class of Wells College, where she graduated with high honors. As a girl, Miss Fol- som was a general favorite, admired for her beauty and charming vivacity, as well as for her many accomplishments. After leaving col- lege she visited Europe with her mother, and soon after her return she became the mistress of the executive mansion at Washington. She was married to Grover Cleveland, in the White House, May 28, 1886, and at once became the most popular lady in America. Under her leadership Washington society acquired great brilliancy. With a grace and dignity all her own, coupled with a charming cordiality and sim- plicity of manner that commanded the admiration of the whole country, she bore the responsibilities of her trying position like one to the manor born. She has proved a loving mother as well as a devoted wife. Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland have three beautiful children, Ruth, Esther and Marion.
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WILLIAM B. ALLISON.
W T ITH a broad and breezy style of statesmanship that at once stamps him as a product of the great West, Senator Allison, of Iowa, must be enrolled among those eminent Americans whose abil- ities have forced them into prominence from the obscurity of the farm. His early years were spent on the farm at Perry, Wayne County, Ohio, where he was born March 2, 1829. He was educated at Alle- gheny College, Pennsylvania, and at the Western Reserve College, Ohio, after which he took up the study of law, and practiced his pro- fession in Ohio until 1857. He then went to Dubuque, Iowa, which city has since been his home. He was a delegate to the Chicago convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln for the presidency in 1860, and in the following year became a member of the staff of the gover- nor of Iowa, in which capacity he rendered valuable service in raising troops and organizing volunteer regiments for the war. In 1862 Mr. Allison was elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress as a Republican, and was re-elected to the three succeeding Congresses, serving continuously as a member of that body from December 7, 1863, until March 3, 1871. In 1873 he was elected United States Senator to succeed James Harlan, and he has been three times re-elected. His present term of service will expire in 1897. Senator Allison has long been recognized as one of the strongest men in the Republican party, a nat- ural leader and organizer, combining the shrewdness of the politi- cian with the broad-minded patriotism of the statesman, and with per- sonal influence second to that of no man in Washington. He has been a prominent candidate for the presidential nomination in more than one Republican convention.
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DAVID BENNETT HILL.
TN stature rather below than above the average height, and somewhat sparely built, Senator Hill is, nevertheless, a giant among the rep- resentatives of that wing of the Democratic party that has no patience with the so-called reform methods of the Cleveland administration. He was born in Havana, Chemung (now Schuyler ) County, New York, August 29, 1843. His first employment was as a clerk in a lawyer's office in his native village, and he afterward studied law in Elmira, and was admitted to the bar in 1864. He was appointed city attor- ney, and later was many times a delegate to the Democratic State Conventions, being president of those held in 1877 and 1881. He was also prominent in the Democratic National Conventions of 1876 and 1884; was a member of the New York Legislature of 1870 and 1871; was elected Mayor of Elmira in 1882, and in the same year was elected lieutenant-governor on the ticket headed by Grover Cleveland. When Mr. Cleveland resigned in 1884, to become President of the United States, Mr. Hill succeeded him as Governor of New York, and in 1885 he was elected Governor for the full term of three years. In 1888 he was re-elected over Warner Miller, and in 1891 he was chosen United States Senator to succeed William M. Evarts. As a champion of Tammany, Senator Hill was opposed to the nomination of Grover Cleveland for a second presidential term in 1892, and has since vigorously antagonized the administration by his vote and influ- ence in the Senate, defeating the President's favorite nominations. His bitterest political opponents admit his shrewdness and courage.
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THOMAS BRACKETT REED.
A MAN of forceful ideas and a happy gift of expressing them- a man who thinks for himself, and displays remarkable originality of thought in looking at any subject-Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, is a recognized leader of the Republicans in the National House of Rep- resentatives. Mr. Reed was born in Maine, October 18, 1839, and was graduated at Bowdoin College in 1860, after which he studied law. In 1864 he entered the Navy as acting assistant paymaster, but after one year of service he resumed his profession. He was elected a member of the lower branch of the Maine Legislature in 1868, and was state senator the following session. For two years he was attor- ney-general of the state, and was city solicitor for Portland for a term of four years. In 1876 he was elected a member of Congress, and has since been continuously re-elected. In the Fifty-first Congress Mr. Reed was elected Speaker of the House, and the vigor of his adminis- tration, and his fearless departure from the usage of years in his rul- ings, attracted widespread attention, as well as a storm of criticism. He was assailed in every way that party indignation could invent or the bitterness of defeat devise, yet his acts may be said to have been vindicated. It is admitted even by Mr. Reed's political opponents that he is a man of honor and patriotism-an American throughout-with a force of intellect and character, and a training and education which make all Americans proud to have him in the forefront of our public life. In the Fifty-fourth Congress Mr. Reed was again elected Speaker of the House. The revival of the Monroe Doctrine, by a controversy between England and the United States over the question of territorial rights in Venezuela, was the most important event of this Congress,
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JOHN SHERMAN.
P OSSESSING in an eminent degree the essential qualifications of a statesman, combined with a positive genius for solving the finan- cial problems in the affairs of government, the United States Senator from. Ohio presents one of the most imposing figures in public life. John Sherman was born in Lancaster, Ohio, May 10, 1823. After receiving an education he studied law with a brother at Mansfield, where he afterward practiced for ten years. In 1855 he was elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress in the interest of the Free-Soil party, and was re-elected to the three succeeding Congresses. He became a power on the floor and in committees, and was recognized as the fore- most man in the House, particularly in matters affecting finance. In 1861 he was sent to the United States Senate, where he at once became a leader. After the close of the Civil war he and Thaddeus Stevens prepared the bill for the reconstruction of the Southern States, which was passed by Congress in the winter of 1866-67. President Hayes appointed Mr. Sherman Secretary of the Treasury in 1877, and it was due to his management while at the head of that department that the resumption of specie payment was effected in 1879 without disturbance to the financial or commercial interests of the country. In 1881 he re-entered the Senate, of which he is still a leading member. Senator Sherman was a prominent candidate for the Republican presi- dential nomination in 1880, and again in 1888. His present term in the Senate will expire in 1899. He is a member of the committee on finance, the committee on foreign relations, and several select com- mittees requiring the exercise of his superior judgment and knowledge of affairs.
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JOHN GRIFFIN CARLISLE.
K ENTUCKY enjoys the distinction of being the birthplace of many noted men. Among those who have been before the public for a long term of years, and whose fame is so national in its scope that they can scarcely be said to belong to any state, is John G. Car- lisle, appointed Secretary of the Treasury in 1893. He was born in Campbell (now Kenton) County, Kentucky, September 5, 1835, and now resides in Covington, in the same state. He was occupied as a public school teacher while studying law, and in 1858 was admitted to the bar. Mr. Carlisle was elected a member of the Kentucky Legis- lature in 1859, and in 1864 he was nominated as presidential elector on the Democratic ticket, but declined to serve. He afterward served two terms in the senate of his native state, resigning his seat upon being nominated for lieutenant-governor, to which office he was elected in 1871. He was subsequently elected to Congress, and served with distinction in the House of Representatives, a portion of the time as Speaker, until he was elected United States Senator from Kentucky to succeed the late Senator Beck. He later resigned his seat in the Sen- ate to enter President Cleveland's Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Carlisle is a leading representative of that branch of the Democ- racy which advocates a low tariff, and in his public speeches he has presented many forcible arguments against the policy of protection. Personally, he is a man of generous impulses and charitable inclina- tions, and is one of the most popular officials at Washington. Mr. Carlisle is a vigorous advocate of a sound financial policy. His views are always openly and freely expressed, and he is an unflinching oppo- nent of any measure that threatens the safety of the currency.
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WILLIAM MCKINLEY.
H TIS sturdy advocacy of the principle of protection, coupled with abil- ities of the highest order, have made William Mckinley, of Ohio, a leader of his party, and one of the foremost figures in Amer- ican politics. Born in Niles, Ohio, in 1843, he inherited the indomi- table energy, perseverance and intellectual brilliancy characteristic of the Scotch-Trish and German blood that flowed in the veins of his parents. After completing an academic course Mr. Mckinley entered upon the career of a school-teacher, but abandoned that calling on the breaking out of the Civil war to enlist as a private in the Twenty-third Ohio Regiment. He was repeatedly promoted for gallant service, attaining the rank of captain in 1864, and was breveted major at the close of the war. He then studied law, and in 1871 established himself in Canton, Ohio, where he was married to Miss Ida Saxton. His rise in the legal profession was rapid, and in 1876 Major Mckinley was elected to Congress, where he remained four terms by successive re- elections. It was during this period that he became famous as the author of the measure known as the "Mckinley bill," which subse- quently became so great a factor in national elections. He was first elected Governor of Ohio in 1891. In 1893 he was re-elected by a plurality of over eighty thousand votes, mainly upon the issue of pro- tection. This remarkable record has greatly enhanced his chances of receiving presidential honors, and has caused the Republican party to look upon him as its leader. Mr. Mckinley has been likened to Napoleon in his personal appearance, though he is of larger physique than the famous general. As an orator and debater he has great power and influence.
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WILLIAM MCKINLEY.
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SHELBY M. CULLOM.
A VERY shrewd politician is Shelby M. Cullom. He was born in Wayne County, Kentucky, November 22, 1829. His family moved to Illinois when he was but a mere child, and he grew up among the pioneers. He worked on the farm in summer and attended the district school in winter. Subsequently, as has been the experience of so many of the strong men of the country, he taught the district school himself, and afterward entered the office of a law firm at Spring- field, Ill., and, it so chanced, used the very books that were used by Abraham Lincoln when he studied law. Mr. Cullom rapidly acquired prominence after being admitted to practice. He was elected city attor- ney at Springfield, and in 1856 was elected to the Legislature and was voted for by the Fillmore adherents as Speaker of the House. In 1862 he had become a man of prominence in Illinois, and was appointed by President Lincoln on the commission with George Bout- well, of Massachusetts, and Chas. A. Dana to oppose important claims against the government, arising from the accounts with quartermasters and others, dating from the Civil war. In 1864 he was elected to Congress as a Republican from a Democratic district. He remained in the House for years, and in 1872 returned to the Illinois House of Representatives, was elected Speaker, and in 1874 served another term in the Legislature. In 1876 he was elected governor of Illinois, and was re-elected in 1880, serving in that capacity until 1883, when he resigned to take his seat in the United States Senate, made vacant by the death of the Hon. David Davis. As a political organizer, Senator Cullom has few superiors, and as an experienced lawmaker his rank is among the highest.
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