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PAST AND PRESENT
OF
TIPPECANOE COUNTY
INDIANA
ILLUSTRATED
DeHart
VOLUME II
Ic 977. 295 D36 B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS Use. 2 INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 1909
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INDEX
A
Abdon, Joseph.
751
Abdon, Mary Jane 751
Alexander, Robert 903
Amstutz, William A. 1133
Anderson, William H
1076
Andre, Adam W 1068
Ankeny, Charles Howard. 543
Arnett, Arett C. 765
Arnold, Alba G.
637
Arthur, Joseph Charles
757
B
Baer, Lena M. 1152
Baird, Samuel Probasco 568
Baird, Zebulon 560
Baker, Alvin Cornellus. 1046
Baker, Edward Elmore. 1082
Baker, Moses
735
Balentine, Abram.
724
Ball, Cyrus 626
Bals, Asa C.
1208
Balser, John. 829
Barnes, Thomas Jefferson 572
Bartholomew, John C. 1156
Bartholomew, William. 1156
Bartlett, Joseph Delmar
646
Bauer, Thomas
631
Baugher, Franklin George
762
Bausman, Andrew 1048
Beaucond, Joseph Benjamin
764
Bennett, William
823
Bergquist, Charles
781
Blistain, Joseph
549
Bohan, George W 822
Born, Samuel 736
Boswell, Edwin 821
Bradshaw, Charles H. 591
Briney, Alexander. 879
Brockenbrough, Brown
926
Brommer, John C. 1043
Brown, Louis
1094
Bruce, George Lawson. 662
Buck, Milton 1161
Buck, Samuel 1134
Burditt, Daniel
843
Burditt, Nancy 843
Burkhalter, William Henry 1021
Burley, John F 759
Burley, Mary A.
759
Burt, Thomas William 608
Bush, John Stevens 784
Bush, Ezra 785
Bush, William 784
Butler, William F. 912
Byers, Parker A 681
Byers, William D.
1216
Byrne, Michael J
756
C
Caldwell, Albert 731
Caldwell, James H. 730
Caldwell, James Lindsey 730
Campbell, John
1093
Campbell, William S
1060
Cann, John William 782
Carter, James 1116
Carter, Robert 1116
Cartmill, David 997
Chamberlin, David J. 605
Chamberlin, John E. 605
Chew, Joshua
901
Christie, George Irving 953
Clawson, Louis 1040
Clayton, Mrs. Emeline 695
Clayton, Thomas J. 695
Cleaver, Charles H. 1136
Cochel, Wilber A.
1054
Combs, James P. 835
Combs, Sarah P.
836
.Conarroe, Thomas Newell 978
Cones, Francis Marion 1121
Conn, Asahel B.
986
Conrad, E. Parker
1074
Ball, James D 1070
INDEX.
Coulter, Stanley 917
Coyner, Martin P. 971
Crist, Charles Marsteller. 999
Crouch, Jeptha 1015
Crouse, Alexander Hamilton 683
Crouse, John W. CS3
5.87
Crouse, Simeon
Crouse, William O. 585
Cunningham, John R.
1042
D
Davidson, Edward C. 723
Davidson. Judalı 619
Davidson, Robert P. 618
Davisson, William C. 976
Deibert, Jeremiah M.
946
DeLong, Mannow Albert. 1096
Dienhart, Jacob 919
Doolittle, W. E. 887
Dorner, Frederick 565
Downs, Andrew J.
1128
Dryer, Lyman Lewis
803
Dryfus, Ferdinand
937
Dryfus, Leopold
SSS
Duncan Electric Mantg. Co.
1214
F
Eckhart, Balsar 1065
Eckbart, lohn C. 1063
Edwards, Jeremiah 832
Ehresman, John H 1142
Elliott, David 1053
Elliott, Samuel Wilson 892
Ellis, Joseph 979
Ellis, Thomas 1084
Ellis, Thomas P. 980
Erb, Frederick Henry, Jr 676
Evans, Herman H.
Everett, Frank B.
981
F
Feldt, August
1186
Field, Thomas W. 691
Fisher, Martin L. 948
Fisher, William J 808
Flack. Hugh
580
Flack, John
1120
Flanagan, Daniel P 710
Fluegel, Ernst J. . 1114
Folckemer, Charles V. 649
Foreman, Charles Preston 942
Foresman, Bennett 1211
Foresman, John P. 693
Foresman, William B. 914
Fotterall, B. F. 1087
Fowler Family 1166
Fowler, James M 1171
Frazer, Darius H.
718
Fretz, Daniel B. 787
G
Gagen, John P. 815
Gay, James Madison 945
Gay, John W 776
Gay, Samuel 776
Gaylord. Harrison 904
Gladden Family 1193
Gladden, Richard 1194
Gladden, William 1194
Gladden, William, Jr 1195
Glaze, William 939
Gobat, Frederick August 860
Golden, Michael Joseph 1059 Goldsberry, Peter Putnam 1090
Goldsmith, Oliver C. 844
Goodrich, Silas O. 1197
Gray, M. M. 1069
Greenburg, William F. 1189
Grubb, Lewis S.
1187
Gude, William G.
90G
H
Hammond, Edwin P. 632
Hannagan, Stephen J. 861
Harding, Charles Francis 1154
Harshman, Isaiah 944
Hassel. Conrad
830
Hawk, Daniel 839
Haywood, Enoch Francis 1209
Haywood. George Price. 533
Henderson, Charles Haskell. 696
Henderson, Jones
696
Herriman, Willlam, Jr. 930
Hight, Robert Foster 584
Hill, Aaron S. 749
Hill, Jolin Allen
749
Hinea, Charles Benjamin.
648
INDEX.
Hogan, Thomas W 698
Hooker, Brainard 664
Hooker, Henry
664
Howell, Robert Henry
988
Hubertz, Edward
1127
Hudlow, William B
920
Hunziker, Otto F
1222
Hurst, James
1131
J
Jackson, Daniel
900
Jackson, Ferdinand Cortez. 1108
Jackson, Sylvester H.
773
Jackson, William Monholan. 563
Jacobs, Dnane D.
846
Jamison, Albert R. 708
Jamison, Hugh Seabaugh. 570
Jester, Lewis N.
880
Jones, William J., Jr 957
Jones, William Lyman.
983
Justice, Noah 1130
K
Kern, Frank D. 916
Kienly, Andrew 898
Kile, John P.
1078
Kimmel, Frank
706
Kimmel, John
706
Kimmel, Louis
706
King, Warren R.
628
Koonse, Jeremiah Philip 741
Koonse, Virginia
742
Kurtz, Charles
933
L
Lafayette Conservatory of Music. 1152
Lairy, M. M. 720
Latta, William C. 951
Lee, George W. 1089
LeGalley, Myron E.
722
Lehnert, Michael
1066
Lentz, Moses A 1032
Lesley, Calvin 1118
Lesley, Daniel 1118
Lewis, James D 1146
Lewis, Robert
1147
Lofland, William Alfred
598
Lucas, William Kent. 604
Ludy, Llewellyn V. 1058
Lngar, Thomas Wilson. 654
Lugar, William 654
Lyle, Thomas
680
Lyle, Urban A.
680
Lyman, Edwin B.
1205
Lyman, Harry B. 1203
Mc
McCahe, James Earl
1062
McCabe, Theodore
1202
McClure, Lawrence James. 1002
McCorkle, Charles A.
816
McCorkle, John W.
989
McCormick, Owen
1141
McCormick. Thomas Jefferson
1109
McCormick, William
1139
McCoy, Jobn
1192
McCoy, Moraine
1191
McDill, Charles
962
McGrath, Robert Henry
766
McKee, Thomas G
760
McMahan. Adah
767
MeMillin, John K.
1182
M
Macak, Henry
1045
MacMullan, John W. T.
120G
Madden, Joseph
1088
Marks, Thomas M
1019
Masters, James
1145
Masters, William G
1145
May, Jacob
837
Mayfield, A. M. 1196
Meharry, Greenleaf Norton. 969
Mertz, Christian
601
Meyer. Frederick
993
Mills, Daniel 80€
Mitchell, John W 610
Mitchell, Josephine M. 786
Mitchell, Samuel
928
Mitchell, William C.
777
Moffitt, William Robinson. 659
Moore, Sarah A. 834
Moore, Thomas Maxwell
Moore, William H. 834
Moore, William H. H. 761
Morehouse, Joseph Jennings
1105
Morehouse, Levi J.
1106
INDEX.
Morgan, Lee Harry. 562
Motter, Thomas Seymour. 1010
Murdock, Charles 737
Murdock, Frederick 881
Reser, Alva O. 672
Reser, Harvey 960
Reule, Fred 754
Roberts, William A. 574
Rochester, William King. 712
Rosebery, William J 714
Rosser, John 1151
Rosser. Walter C. 1151
S
Sample, Henry Taylor 6SS
Sample, Robert W. 592
Sattler, John 871
Sattler, George Henry 869
Schnaible, John
507
Schnaible, Matt. 582
Schnaible, Michael 589
Schultz, Anton 820
Schultz, Charles Henry
961
Schultz-Boswell Drug Company 820
Sense, Harry C ..
704
Sharpe, Burton Crouse. 1030
Shaw. James B .. 678
Shearman. Albert Eugene. 745
Shearman, Willett H.
746
Shelby, George B. 863
Sheltmire, William 818
Shoup, A. W.
1104
Simison, Barney 1184
Simison, David Parker
1024
Simison, Denny Boyd. 1008
Simison, John Franklin 973
Simms, Daniel W. 640
Skinner, John Harrison 1079
Skinner, John W
752
Slipher, David 1218
Smith, Arthur Bessey 1004
Smith, Benjamin Wilson 848
Smith. William Werden 789
Smock, Richard M. 1174
Snideman, Harry Madison 668
Snoddy, Alfred Nevin 1050
Stallard, Charles T 702
Stallard, lacob M. 700
Stallard. Samuel Thomas.
699
Stanfield, Allen
1073
0
Oglesbay. George H
965
Oglesbay, John P. 965 Schumm, George Michael. 742
Ohl, Charles W
1095
P
Parker, Henry Arnold $10
Parks, George Daniel. 827
Parlon, Thomas 967
Paul, Alfred
804
Paul. Monford 799
Paul, Reuben 799, 805
Peirce, Charles H.
548
Peirce, Oliver Webster. 656
Peterson, Jonas A 936
Pfrommer, George . 595
Phillips. Morris Winfield. 596
Potter, William S. 725
Q
Quaintance, Ellis
984
R
Ransch, Casper.
992
Redinbo, John C. F.
1138
Reeves, James L. 893
Reeves, William 893
Rentschler, Michael 1037
Murdock, James 529
Murdock, John
882
Murdock, Samuel. 531
Murdock, William F
886
Murdock, William T 882
Myers, Amos
994
N
Naylor, Isaac
90
Neumann, Julins
Newhard, Simon Peter. 1028
Newman, Christopher Columbus. 824
Newman, John H.
$24
Newton, Doc I.
728
Nisley, Oliver Morton.
652
Peirce, Martin Luther 540
INDEX.
Stanfield Family 1072
Stanfield, Samuel B. 1073
Steele, William Wellington 908
Stein, John A. 403
Stein, Mrs. Virginia.
403
Sterrett, Joseph C.
1163
Stewart, Joseph Norris. 895
Stillwell, William F.
600
Stingle, James M.
622
Stone, Winthrop Ellsworth
536
Stuart, Charles B.
1199
Stuart, William Vaughn 612
Sullivan, Dennis T 934
Swisher, John B.
1132
Switzer, George W
800
T
Taylor, Bennett
635
Taylor, Henry 616
Taylor, Jacob M 1007
Terry, Ollver P. 1017
Test, Erastus
1038
Throckmorton, George K. 770
Throckmorton, Ora E. 1160
Titus, Harry Edward. 670
Tower, E.
1158
Towsley, Schuyler A. 593
Troop, James
949
Tull, Luther
1123
Turner, Charles
940
V
Van Natta, Aaron 874
Van Natta, Job. 644
Van Natta, Job Haigh 555
Van Natta, J. Lynn. 644
Vater, Septimius
864
Vawter, Everett B.
921
Vawter, Philemon C. 923
Vayou, E. E.
1064
Vess, Filander Taylor 768
Vinton, Henry Heath 1173
Vyverberg, K. T.
703
W
Wabash
Valley
Sanitarium
and
Training School
1177
Wagoner, Robert Henry 1075
Walker, William Simpson 686
Wallace, Aaron
872
Wallace, James Bee. 877
Wallace Machine and Foundry Co. : 578
Wallace, William 576
Walter, William J. 1099
Ware, William H.
975
Warner, John W 775
Washburn, Samuel S. 624
Washburn, William Sanford. 1056
Waters, Elmer Ritchey 1100
Weaver, Peter 1026
Weaver, William Otis. 739
Webster, John Colbert. 673
Welch, Amos
744
Westfall, Arthur Beaver 690
Wetherill, Richard B. 1002
Whalen, John W. 932
Whalen, Thomas H. 780
Wiancko, Alfred T 955
Wiggins, Randolph
1035
Williams, Charles F 639
Williams, Robert 1212
Wilson, James 841
Wilson, Moses F 840
Wilson, William C. 544
Winter, George 615
Wise, Joseph 1126
Wolf, Joseph
1111
Wood, William R. 552
Wooden Railroad
1222
Y
Yeagy, William W
910
Yost, Allen A. 1143
Yost, William H. 1144
Young, William W
896
Z
Zimmerman, John
1148
James murdock
PAST AND PRESENT
OF
TIPPECANOE COUNTY, IND.
JAMES MURDOCK.
One of the most conspicuous figures ever connected with the business interests of Tippecanoe and other counties of northern Indiana was the late . James Murdock, of Lafayette, who for a number of years was a leader in enterprises which tended greatly to the material progress of his city, county and state. He was long an influential factor in promoting large and important undertakings and such was the success with which his various efforts were crowned that his name is still suggestive of enterprises which bespeak the clear brain, mature judgment and master mind of the natural leader who moved among his fellows as one born to command. James Murdock was an Ameri- can by adoption, but none the less a loyal citizen of the country which he elected to be his home, and an ardent admirer and earnest supporter of free institutions under which he reaped success such as few attain, and attained to positions of honor and trust which none but men of a high order of intellect are capable of filling. Born in the county of Sligo, Ireland, in the year 1837, he inherited from his sturdy ancestors the sterling qualities of head and heart for which his nationality has ever been distinguished, and while still young gave evidence of those powers of mind which result in well-rounded character and a natural aptitude for something above the ordinary in the choice of a profession or calling. His father, John Murdock, was a Scotch- man by birth, and his mother, who bore the maiden name of Sabina Kelly, was born and reared on the Emerald Isle. These parents lived on a farm in Ireland until 1848, when they emigrated to Canada, thence in 1850 removed to New York, and still later changed their abode to Ohio, where they resided for a limited period, or until moving to Wayne county, Indiana, where John
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Murdock's death occurred in 1853; his widow survived him about a quarter of a century and departed this life at Lafayette in 1878, after reaching a ripe old age.
James Murdock spent the years of his childhood on the homestead in his native county and was indebted to such limited training as the schools of the neighborhood afforded for his preliminary education. Coming to America in his eleventh year, he attended for some time night schools in Canada and the United States, and in 1853, after the death of his father, he started out to make his own way by working at any kind of employment he could find. Coming to Lafayette that year, he worked for a while in a brickyard, drove a team for some months, and later in partnership with his brother engaged in farming on a small scale, renting for the purpose the river bottoms near the city, but meeting with only fair success in the venture. Not satisfied with his earnings as a tiller of the soil, he discontinued farming and in 1859 embarked in the grocery and produce business at Lafayette, which he con- tinued for twenty years with encouraging financial success. In the mean- time Mr. Murdock turned his attention to various other lines of enterprise, such as the building of bridges, taking contracts for the construction of gravel roads, railroads and other public work, which he carried on in connection with his mercantile interests and which from the beginning proved success- ful beyond his expectations. He also manifested an active interest in public affairs, and after serving a term as township trustee was elected sheriff of Tippecanoe county, the duties of which office he discharged with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of the people, proving in this as in other posi- tions which he held from time to time, a capable and thoroughly trustworthy public servant.
In 1879, Mr. Murdock was appointed warden of the State Prison at Michigan City, and held the position for a period of twelve years, during which time he left nothing undone for the good of the institution and the welfare of the inmates, and ere resigning the office the Northern Indiana Penitentiary not only ranked among the best regulated prisons in the United States, but was pronounced by competent judges a model of its kind. Shortly after the discovery of natural gas in Indiana, he was among the first to develop and exploit the industry. Associated with a number of business men of Lafay- ette and Chicago, he took a leading part in organizing the Citizens' Natural Gas Company, of which he was elected president, and later he assisted in organizing several other natural and artificial gas companies in Indiana and Ohio, the success of which was largely due to his interest and capable manage-
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ment. He served some years as president of the Indiana School Book Com- pany, which was organized in 1888, and in 1890 he was one of the organizers of the Merchants' National Bank of Lafayette, of which he was made the chief executive official. In addition to the above enterprises he was identified with various other local industries, besides having large and valuable farm- ing and livestock interests in different parts of Tippecanoe county, from which he derived no small share of the liberal income of which he was the recipient. Of broad mind and liberal tendencies, he took large views of men and things, was calculated by nature and training for important undertakings and as a leader in the various enterprises with which identified, he proved worthy of every trust reposed in him, and discharged his duties with such conscientious fidelity that no suspicion of dishonor was ever attached to his name. His was indeed an active and useful life; his influence in promoting the business inter- ests and material advancement of his own and other cities of northern Indiana was greater perhaps than that of any of his contemporaries. One of the notable men of his day and generation, he laid broad and deep the foundation upon which the future prosperity of his city and county very largely depends, and that his labors are destined to constitute a monument to his memory, more enduring than marble or granite or bronze, is the belief of all who knew and were familiar with his enterprises and achievements.
Mr. Murdock was married July 4, 1860, to Miss Joanna Bourk, who bore him ten children, only three of whom survive, viz .: Charles and Sam- uel, sketches of whom appear elsewhere in these pages, and a daughter Mary, who is single and lives at the family home in Lafayette. Mrs. Murdock died October 29, 1891, and on November 27, 1908, James Murdock finished his life work and went to his reward, his death being deeply regretted by the people among whom he had so long lived and wrought.
Samuel Murdock, son of James and Joanna (Bourk) Murdock, was born in Lafayette, Indiana, June II, 1868, and attended during the years of his childhood and youth St. Mary's parochial school, where he received quite a thorough educational discipline. In 1879, when his father became a warden of the Northern Prison, he entered Notre Dame University, where in due time he completed a full course in civil engineering, and some years later he was made superintendent of the street car system of Michigan City, which position he held from 1887 to 1888 inclusive, resigning in the latter year to become secretary of the Citizens' Natural Gas Company of Lafayette. Mr. Murdock entered upon the duties of the latter office in February, 1889, and it was dur- ing his incumbency that gas was piped from the central Indiana fields to La-
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fayette, up to that time the largest and most important enterprise of the kind in the state. Subsequently the above company was merged into the Lafayette Gas Company, which took over both the Citizens' Natural Gas Company and the Lafayette Artificial Gas Company, also the Electric Light Company. Since the reorganization referred to in the preceding sentence, the Lafayette Gas Company has been merged into the Indiana Lighting Company, which operates in the following cities of this state: Peru, Wabash, Ft. Wayne, Frankfort and Lebanon, also a number of places in Ohio, including Lima, St. Mary's, Wapakoneta, Ft. Recovery, Greenville and Celina, of which large and important enterprises Samuel Murdock is secretary and general manager.
About the year 1898, Mr. Murdock and his brother Charles became inter- ested in traction lines and now have extensive holdings in a number of such properties, the subject being a director in the Ft. Wayne & Wabash Valley, Evansville & Southern Indiana, and the Chicago, South Bend & Northern Indiana traction companies, being secretary of the company last named, also a director of the Monon railway.
From the foregoing it will be perceived that Mr. Murdock is a man of action as well as ability, and that he has discharged worthily the various important trusts with which he has been honored is demonstrated by the con- tinued success of the enterprises with which he is identified. He is essentially a busy man, and though affable in his relations with others, companionable to a marked degree and fond of congenial company, he long since decided to act upon the motto, "Time is money. I have neither to spend save in the prosecution of my business interests." In person he is tall and cominanding, fully six feet in height, with broad shoulders, well knit frame-in fine, just such a man to engage in large undertakings and carry to successful conclusion anything to which he may address his talents. Possessing executive ability of a high order, he manages with apparent ease what the majority of men would find burdensome, and being systematic in all he does, his labors and responsibilities, although great, cause him little concern.
Mr. Murdock's domestic life dates from November 6, 1890, when he was united in marriage with Addie Gordon, of Elkhart, Indiana, daughter of Alexander Gordon, of that city, the union being blessed with three children, James Gordon, Alexander Gordon and Alice Gordon Murdock. In his religious faith Mr. Murdock is a Catholic, belonging to St. Mary's church, Lafayette, and in politics he is a Democrat, but not a partisan nor an aspirant for public honors. He and his wife move in the best society circles of their city, and those who know them best speak in the highest praise of their many sterling qualities.
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GEORGE PRICE HAYWOOD.
The Haywood family has long been prominent in the affairs of Tippe- cance county, materially, politically and socially, having come here in the pioneer days, from which time to the present no member has by word or deed dimmed the luster of an honored escutcheon. A worthy and well-known representative of this fine old family is George Price Haywood, an attorney of Lafayette, whose name needs no introduction to the people of this locality. He was born on a farm in the southern part of Tippecanoe county, December 15, 1852, the son of Henry and Martha (Sherwood) Haywood, the former a native of Trenton, New Jersey, and the latter of North Carolina. Henry Haywood was reared in Greene county, Ohio, and early turned his attention to farming, which he followed all his life. He came to Tippecanoe county when a young man, having married in Montgomery county, Indiana, where he lived a short time. It was in 1833, soon after his marriage, that he came to Tippecanoe county, being among the early settlers. He be- came a prosperous. farmer. He established a good home, and lived here the remainder of his life, dying at the age of seventy-nine years in 1891, his wife having preceded him to the silent land in 1877, when fifty-five years of age. Mr. Haywood was a man of many fine traits of character. The Hay- woods came to America from England in the colonial days. The Sherwoods were also of English descent, grandfather Sherwood having been a pioneer in Tippecanoe county. He later moved to Marion county, Iowa, in which state he died, having reached a very old age.
George P. Haywood was the seventh child in order of birth in a family of eleven children, eight of whom grew to maturity. Two brothers, Thomas and Curtis D., served in the Union army, in Indiana regiments. The former is still living in Lafayette, while the latter is deceased.
Two other brothers are now living, Enoch F., a landowner in Tippecanoe county, who lives in Lafayette, Indiana, and Benjamin S., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church who, at the present time, is the superintendent of the church and its affairs in Porto Rico.
George P. Haywood was reared on a farm, where he laid the foundation for a robust manhood and learned many lessons which have helped to mould his subsequent career. He attended the district schools until he was sixteen years old, then entered the academy at Green Hill, where he remained two years, and later took a scientific course at Valparaiso University, then known
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as the Northern Indiana Normal. He was graduated from the last named institution in 1876.
Mr. Haywood started in life as a teacher, which profession lie followed most of the time for eight years, having begun when nineteen years old, but the law had its attractions for him, and in 1877 he began studying for a career as an attorney with Bartholomew & Smith at Valparaiso He taught school in the meantime until 1880, in which year he was admitted to the bar in Lafayette. After this he continued the study of law for two years in the office of G. O. & A. O. Behm. In the spring of 1882 he formed a partner- ship with W. F. Bechtel, the firm being known as Bechtel & Haywood, which continued until the fall of 1884, after which he continued alone in the practice of the law until March 1, 1896, when he formed a partnership with Charles A. Burnett, under the firm name of Haywood & Burnett, which partnership has continued until the present time. His practice has steadily grown from the first, and he is now rated as one of the leading attorneys in a community long noted for the high order of its legal talent, the present firm of which Mr. Haywood is a member being an especially strong one, and having a clientele second to none in the county.
In his political relations Mr. Haywood is a Republican, having long taken a very active interest in the party's affairs until he has become a leader, his advice and counsel often being sought by local politicians and office seekers. In 1882, Mr. Haywood was a candidate for the nomination for prosecuting attorney, but was defeated. In 1884, he was again defeated for the nomina- tion for the same office ; but in 1886 he was successful in securing the nomina- tion, and was elected, taking charge of the office November 1, 1887. In the fall of the following year he was re-nominated and re-elected, ably serving two terms of two years each, his tenure of office ending on November 7, 1891. According to his constituents, the office never had a more painstaking and loyal exponent. During those four years there were seven murder cases, and six convictions were secured. The one failure was a second trial, having received a life sentence previously. The most noted case was the one known as the Pettit case. in which a Methodist minister was charged and convicted of poisoning his wife by strychnine. He was tried on a change of venue from Tippecanoe to Montgomery county in 1890. The trial lasted six weeks. Hon. A. B. Anderson, the present United States district judge, of Indian- apolis, was the prosecuting attorney of Montgomery county at that time and assisted in the prosecution.
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