A biographical history of eminent and self-made men of the state of Indiana : with many portrait-illustrations on steel, engraved expressly for this work, Volume I, Part 109

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Publication date: 1880
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ART, ANDREW T., merchant, Greenfield, Han- cock County, was born July 7, 1811, in Greenbrier County, Virginia. He is the son of Patrick and Isabel Hart, highly respected members of society in the county in which he was born. His father was a native of Ireland, and emigrated to Virginia when he was twenty years of age. He took a prominent part in the development of the country and was a soldier under General St. Clair, being with him at the time of his memorable defeat near the head-waters of the Wabash, in 1791. Andrew T. Hart in his youth en- dured the toils and privations and discomforts of pioneer life in what was then almost a wilderness. Yet this rugged training in the hard school of privation and

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endurance doubtless laid the foundation of that patient | children. One son, William E. Hart, was a soldier in the 18th Regiment Indiana Volunteers, and served for three years. After his discharge he joined and served as lieutenant in Captain A. K. Branham's company of state troops, in their pursuit of John Morgan during his celebrated raid into Indiana and Ohio, and was killed in that most unfortunate disaster at Lawrenceburg, Indi- ana, in 1863. Mr. A. T. Hart is a man highly respected, and has by his enterprise and benevolent actions won a prominent place in the history of the development of Hancock County. He is of genial nature, equitable temper, steadfast in his friendships, and upright in his dealings, and has by these attributes endeared himself to a large circle of friends, who recognize and appreciate his good qualities of heart and mind.

perseverance to which much of his success is attributa- ble; and the thrift and economy which such surround- ings necessarily inculcate has been of eminent advan- tage to him in the subsequent battle of life. Here, too, he no doubt acquired many of the generous and genial social qualities for which he is noted. In April, 1819, he removed from the home of his earlier youth to Cen- terville, Wayne County, Indiana, where he attended such schools, public and private, as the country then afforded, and acquired a common English education. Like most others at that day, his opportunities were nec- essarily limited, and whatever of success there has been in his career has been mainly the result of his own exertions, and he may be properly said to be the arch- itect of his own fortune. His life was early directed into the great channel of industrial pursuits, and at the age of eighteen he went to Liberty, Indiana, where he was apprenticed as a saddler, working with his elder brother, James B. Hart. He continued to labor faith- fully at this trade for three years, or until 1833, when he removed to Greenfield, Hancock County, where he has resided ever since. On arriving at his new home he opened a grocery store and continued business there for two years, and then entered the store of Nicholas McCarty as a clerk, staying in his employment for one year, when he formed a mercantile partnership with Na- than Crawford. This connection lasted for two years, when he purchased Mr. Crawford's interest. He has ever since been in the same line, sometimes alone and sometimes with other gentlemen, but always with the same undeviating energy and integrity. He is now senior member of the prosperous firm of Hart & Thayer. Mr. Hart has filled several positions of public trust, and always with honor. In 1839 he was appointed agent of Hancock County for the distribution of surplus revenue. In 1841 he was elected first treasurer of Han- cock County, and was re-elected in 1843, serving in that position for six successive years. In 1869 he was commissioned by Salmon P. Chase as United States assistant assessor for Hancock County. Mr. Hart has been prominently connected with almost all public en- terprises of moment in the county since he has resided therein. In 1878 he was president of the Hancock Agricultural Society, and did much to advance its inter- ests. He joined the Masonic Fraternity in 1859, and the Independent Order of Odd-fellows in 1865. He is of orthodox faith. He was formerly a Whig and cast his first vote for Henry Clay, and has been a Republi- can since the organization of that party. He was mar- ried, in June, 1835, to Miss Louisa Forelander, daugh- ter of Lewis Forelander. This lady lived but about two years after, and on November 14, 1838, he was married to Miss Gabrielle Sebastian, daughter of William and Elizabeth Sebastian. Mr. Hart is the father of five | known as the County Seminary, and thence was called c-6.

AUGHTON, RICHARD E., M. D., professor of surgical pathology, and clinical and operative surgery, in the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons, Indianapolis, was born in Fayette County, Indiana, December 8, 1827. He traces his genealogy on both sides to the English aristocracy. His father's ancestry is traced back to Sir Wilfred Haughton, a baronet of the seventeenth century, from whom the numerous branches of the Haughton family are descended. Many of the stock were tradesmen, merchants, etc., and accumulated fortunes, while a few became known in the world of letters. One of the most prominent living members of the family is the Rev. Professor Samuel Haughton, of Trinity College, Dublin, an eminent scientist and teacher. On the mother's side the stock is traceable to an English noble- man (Ashley) in the reign of James I, who was at- tached to the court, and comes down to the time of the colonists who became the first settlers of the Old Do- minion. They were slave-holders, wealthy in land and in slaves, but, being of the sect called Quakers, they manumitted the latter, and washed their hands of that " sum of all villainies," as it has been characterized. William Haughton, the father of Richard E., was born in the county of Carlow, Ireland, and came to this country at the age of eighteen. For about fifty-five years of his life he was a professional teacher, com- mencing his career as a teacher in Fayette County, In- diana. He afterward moved to Union County, where he became acquainted with and married his wife, who was Miss Sarah Johnson, both being members of the society of Friends. He taught school in the county for about twenty years on the ground afterward occupied by the Beech Grove Seminary, in which young men from over twenty states of the Union were under his precep- torship. He was afterwards transferred to what was

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to Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, originally the | " Friends' Boarding School," which is the college of the society of Friends in the West. ' After ceasing his labors at Richmond on account of failing health, he moved to Knightstown, Indiana, where his son had preceded him in the practice of medicine. He went into the high school there as a teacher, and there, after fifty-five years of constant labor in his profession, he died, July, 1878, from a paralytic stroke, with which he was attacked at his post in the school-room. He was seventy five years old at his death. He had long been a minister in the society of Friends, in which he had always lived and held membership. His devoted wife still lives, at Rays- ville with her only daughter, in her seventy-sixth year. Richard E. Haughton was educated under his father's care up to the time of his studying medicine, and thus received a liberal education, equal to the best collegiate course, in the English language, natural sciences, and mathematics. He began teaching as an assistant to his father at fifteen years of age, and at eighteen began teaching independently, working in the interim on the farm owned by his father, helping to pay for the ground by raising corn, hogs, and beef. In the fall of 1849 he began the study of medicine with Doctor Z. Casterline, his father's family physician, and the leading practitioner of the county, a graduate of the Transyl- vania University. After studying two years with him, during which time he also taught in the Union County Seminary, succeeding his father, who had been called to Richmond, he attended Cleveland Medical College for two successive terms, and took his degree in 1853, graduating at the head of his class. On February 13, 1853, he was married to Miss Catharine W. Meeker, in the First Presbyterian Church of East Cleveland. She died December 29, 1867, leaving two children, who are still living. Before his graduation he had practiced medi- cine for a little while at Knightstown with a partner, and after his marriage he returned there and continued in business until October, 1855, when he removed to Richmond, Indiana, and there remained for twenty years actively engaged in a laborious practice, which was both extensive and lucrative. His first wife having died, as above stated, in March, 1870, Doctor Haugh- ton married Miss Elizabeth Mather, a pupil of Earlham College, and a lineal descendant of Rev. Cotton Mather, D. D., the celebrated divine. Doctor Haughton's study of his profession and ambition to master its principles did not cease at graduating. A considerable portion of his time was given to research, and many articles from his pen were contributed to various medical journals, which soon extended his reputation far beyond that of an ordinary local practitioner. In the fall of 1873 he was invited by the trustees of the Indiana Medical College, Indianapolis, to accept the chair of descriptive and surgical anatomy, and he began teaching medicine in

a public capacity in October, 1873. This position he resigned at the end of the term, taking the chair of physiology and physiological anatomy in the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons at Indianapolis. He filled this position for four years, when he resigned. He then, in the summer of 1879, origi- nated the idea of a new medical school, which should take a higher position, and which should endeavor to elevate the standard of medical teaching and instruction in Indiana. With this end in view, in connection with others, more especially with Doctor W. S. Haymond, he gave form and shape to the Cen- tral College of Physicians and Surgeons, which began its career in September, 1879. The incorporators, Doc- tor Haughton and associates, filed with the Secretary of State the articles for the new college, which was opened for the first regular term October 1, 1879. The school is now approaching the end of its first session, and has achieved a success never before attained in the same time by any institution of its kind in the state. It was made a member of the Indiana College Associa- tion at the meeting of the latter, December 27 and 28, 1879. Doctor Haughton has been unremitting in his efforts to make the institution a model one in every re- spect, and in this effort he is ably seconded by his col- leagues. Elevation of the standard of medical knowl- edge and teaching has been for years the goal for which he has labored, and this has been specially manifest in his contributions to the medical literature of the day. Various articles from his pen have appeared from time to time in the periodical literature of the profession, and his productions bear all the marks of the close stu- dent, the close thinker, and the fluent and graceful writer, as well as the thoroughly educated physician. Among the journals to the pages of which he has contributed are the Nashville Journal of Medicine and Sur- gery, the Cincinnati Lancet and Observer, Indiana Medi- cal Journal, American Journal of Medical Science, "Trans- actions of the Indiana State Medical Society," Peninsular Medical Journal, etc. He has written on an almost endless variety of subjects. His articles on diseases of the nerv- ous system have attracted special attention, and have been widely copied. In his professional capacity Doc- tor Haughton has a special fondness for surgery, in which his repertoire includes most of the capital opera- tions, and, from the simplest to the most difficult and complicated, his success has been of the most flattering description. Doctor Haughton has been a member of the American Medical Association since 1859. He is also a member of various other associations; namely, the Indiana State Medical Association, the Union Dis- trict Medical Association, the Tri-state Medical Associa- tion of Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois; the Wayne County Medical Association, the Marion County Med- ical Association ; and is an honorary member of the Ohio

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State Medical Association. He organized the Wayne County Medical Association, and assisted in the organ- ization of the Union District Medical Association, hav- ing urged it upon members of the profession for years before it was effected. While a resident of Wayne County, Doctor Haughton took an active interest in public enterprises which, in his opinion, were beneficial to the city of Richmond. He was one of the projectors and original stockholders of the Richmond Street Rail-

road. It will be seen from the foregoing brief sketch that Doctor Haughton has spent the greater part of his life in Indiana, except the few years of his boyhood, which were passed in Ohio. He takes a very pardon- able pride in the state of his adoption, and is a true Western man with Western ideas. In matters of re- ligion he is liberal, anti-ritualistic, and independent in thought and action, though raised after the strictest principles of the Quaker sect. He adheres to the doc- trines of his sect, as set forth in the revealed word of God, as sufficiently authoritative for a creed, and has none other. In politics he is a Republican, in love of country a patriot, and in regard for men, in his eyes all are equal before God. In social life the Doctor is a genial and pleasant companion, a good converser, affa- ble and polite in his bearing to all. In his professional capacity nó one is better calculated to bring comfort and cheer to the sick chamber, his presence inspires confidence, and in his ministrations he is as tender and sympathetic as a woman. As a lecturer, he is clear and concise in his language, a fluent and easy speaker, and his words carry with them the irresistible impression that he knows whereof he speaks. His private charac- ter is as irreproachable as his professional standing is unquestioned. He bears the name of an exemplary husband and father, a good citizen, an honest man, and a popular physician and surgeon of eminent ability.

AUGHEY, THEODORE P., president of the In- dianapolis National Bank, was born in Smyrna, Delaware, November 27, 1826. Here he obtained his rudimentary schooling, and here he resided until his early manhood, when he went to the city of Baltimore, Maryland. Before he had attained his ma- jority, by close contact with the ways of the busy world, he received a thorough business education, such as ex- perience alone can give, and acquired a knowledge of trade which has been valuable through life. His father died when he was but little over two years of age, and he was left to the care of an aged grandfather, a mem- ber of the Society of Friends, who was one of the early settlers of Delaware. In the spring of 1848 he removed to the city of Indianapolis, where he has lived ever since, and where he has, without intermission, been engaged

in active business life for over thirty years. During all that time it can be truly said of his career that it has always been in a forward direction. Business friends that have known him intimately during the whole time unite in saying that he has made no step backwards. Commencing in subordinate positions, he has always acquitted himself well in every place of honor or trust that he has occupied. At first he obtained employment as accountant and bookkeeper, and gradually worked himself up to more responsible and lucrative positions. In the year 1854 he was connected with Hon. John D. Defrees, now government printer, in the publication of the Indianapolis daily Journal. For a number of years Mr. Haughey was secretary and treasurer of one of the leading railroads centering in Indianapolis. During the Civil War he was appointed by President Lincoln col- lector of internal revenue for the Indianapolis District. This was the only office of a political nature that Mr. Haughey was ever prevailed upon to accept, and he re- signed the position in 1864, to enter upon his duties as president of the Indianapolis National Bank, which place he still holds. He has the reputation of a shrewd, careful, and conscientious financier, living up to every obligation strictly, while entirely free from the narrow- mindedness which characterizes the mere money-getter. He is a liberal supporter of all worthy enterprises, and for years has been a prominent member of the Meridian Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Indianapolis. He represented the Indiana Conference as a lay delegate in the General Conference at Baltimore in 1876, and is otherwise active in Church and Sunday-School enter- prises. He has been for over twenty-five years treasurer of the Grand Lodge, Independent Order of Odd-fellows, of Indiana, and of course has wielded no little influence in shaping its finances. This is said to be one of the most flourishing and wealthy grand lodges in the Union. The uninterrupted occupancy of this position for over a quarter of a century speaks volumes for Mr. Haughey's financial ability, and is no less a tribute to his unim- peachable integrity. He has always taken a deep and active interest in educational progress, and for a number of years has been a trustee of the Indiana Asbury Uni- versity, at Greencastle, and one of the supervisory loan committee of its fund. Another instance of the many which go to demonstrate his acknowledged worth as a financier can be cited in the fact that for six years Mr. Haughey represented the old Second Ward in the city council of Indianapolis, during which time he was chairman of the finance committee, and just before the war had the honor of reporting the city free from debt. Personally, Mr. Haughey is a gentleman of genial and social characteristics. His demeanor is uniformly polite and courteous to all. He is close in his attention to business, entirely void of pretense in his manner, and so little inclined to talk of himself that the writer has

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had to depend almost entirely on outside sources for the material for this sketch. On November 8, 1853, Mr. Haughey was married to Miss Hannah Moore, of New- ark, Ohio, daughter of C. G. Moore, who is still living, at the advanced age of eighty-five years. They have had three children, two sons and one daughter. The latter, Josephine Morris, died of scarlet fever at the early age of six years. The eldest son, Louis Chauncey, is engaged in the manufacturing business. He married Zerelda, daughter of William Wallace, Esq., a leading attorney of Indianapolis, and an old and tried friend of the subject of this memoir. The younger son, Schuyler C., a youth of eighteen years of age, was named after a life-long friend of Mr. Haughey, the Hon. Schuyler Colfax, a familiar name in Indiana.

AY, REV. LAWRENCE G., of Indianapolis, was born in Charlestown, Clarke County, Indiana, October 7, 1823. His father, Andrew P. Hay, who died in Charlestown in 1849, was a surgeon in the War of 1812, and, under General Harrison, took part in the battle of Tippecanoe. Ilis mother, Sarah F. Gano, was one of a family through whose veins flowed some of the noblest blood of Kentucky. The subject of this sketch attended for a time the Academy of Charlestown, where he gave some attention to the classics. In 1841 he came to Indianapolis with a letter of introduction to Samuel Merrill, then president of the Indiana State Bank, and obtained employment in the office of the old Indiana Mutual Fire Insurance Com- pany, where he remained two years. In 1843 he made his choice of the ministry for a life work. The next two years he spent as registrar of the notes sent in from the different branches for cancellation, at the same time making a careful and systematic review of his studies under James S. Kemper. While here he became a mem- ber of the First Presbyterian Church, under the Rev. Dr. Gurley. He then joined the junior class of Miami University, and was graduated during the presidency of Doctor McMaster. During his stay at the university he became a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, his connection with which he was always proud to ac- knowledge. He finished his theological studies at Princeton, New Jersey, in 1850, and the same year was ordained an evangelist, a license to preach having been granted him the year previous. Doctor Alexander ten- dered him a fellowship; but this he could not accept, having determined to engage in missionary work. He offered his services to the Board of Foreign Missions of New York; and immediately upon their acceptance came West, and on the twenty-fourth day of June, 1850, married Miss Mary Landis, the daughter of Jacob Landis, of Indianapolis. In company with seven other

missionaries, all bound for India, they sailed from Bos- ton, August 8, 1850, in the merchant ship "Argo." After a voyage of one hundred and forty-five days they arrived at Calcutta. Here they delayed two weeks, laying in a supply of household goods, when they char- tered a boat for Allahabad, six hundred miles up the Ganges. They arrived at Allahabad the last of January, meeting there a warm reception from the Rev. Doctor Warren, then in charge of the Mission Press. At his residence they remained until their goods arrived, when they went to housekeeping. Within a year, however, the doctor was removed to Agra, when Mr. Hay suc- ceeded to the superintendency of the Press. He was also made treasurer of the Allahabad Mission, which position he held until his departure, in 1857. The Mission Press was the great supply depot for the mis- sions in the north-western provinces. Here were printed tracts, Bibles, and school-books, in all the different characters and languages used in the Upper Ganges Valley, such as Hindi, Persian, and Arabic. Besides almost daily preaching in the bazaars, Mr. Hay made interesting tours in tents every cold season, visiting the towns and villages in the valley of the Ganges as far up as Agra. He also attended the great Melas, one of which was held at his own city every January, lasting five or six weeks, and attended by over one hundred thousand pilgrims, who came to bathe in the sacred waters of the Ganges. In the year 1856 he visited the Himalaya Mountains for six months, his house being eight thousand feet above the level of the sea, from which so clear is the atmosphere that objects ap- pear with distinctness at a distance of one hundred and twenty miles. The Sepoy rebellion commenced late in May, 1857, and June 6 the town of Allahabad was destroyed. Mr. Hay, with three mission families besides his own, retired to the fort, where for nine days they remained in a state of siege. While here Mr. Hay suc- ceeded in getting two letters through the enemy's lines to friends in Indianapolis, which were published. They contain a detailed account of the burning of Allahabad, and graphic pen pictures of the horrors of the situation. The arrival of the troops under General Neale caused the civilians to abandon the fort. Mr. Hay and family, with a number of others, were put on a " flat" and taken in tow by a steamer to Calcutta, where they ar- rived after sixteen days of exposure to the rebel fire. Here they were taken in charge by the Relief Commit- tee appointed by the Governor-general, and on the 20th of July they left India for England, arriving in South- ampton about the middle of August. This sudden de- parture from the field of labor wherein they had worked so long and faithfully was necessitated by the failing health of Mrs. Hay, which, however, improved so rap- idly during the voyage that after their arrival in Eng- land she began rapidly to recuperate. Leaving her in

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Southampton, Mr. Hay went to London, having a note of introduction to Sir Charles Trevelyan, one of the lords of the treasury; also to the chairman of the East India Company, who sent for him, requesting informa- tion concerning matters in India. At the end of a week he returned to Southampton, where he lectured four or five times to crowded houses, so anxious were the people to learn of the late insurrection from one who had been an eye-witness to its horrors. At one of these meetings a large sum was contributed for the sup- port of the refugees, who were arriving there by every vessel. Arriving in America, Mr. Hay stopped at Wash- ington on the way West, where he called on his old pastor, Doctor Gurley, and while there lectured several times. His long residence abroad, the excitement and exposure engendered by the war, added to the care of two small children, and the anxiety caused by his faith- ful wife's declining health, made serious demands upon his native power of endurance, and in consequence he became reduced to such an extent that rest was a necessity. Still, at the request of the Mission Board, and true to his faith, he spent the entire six months next succeeding in traveling and lecturing in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and Missouri. Ev- ery-where, large and appreciative audiences greeted him, while he had the satisfaction of knowing that his labor was meeting a just reward, in the liberal contributions made to repair the losses sustained by the Board in India. But the severe toil and ex- treme change of climate induced a bronchial affection, which caused the severance of his connection with the Board, and entire abstinence from all public speaking. This was no little disappointment to him, as there now were offered him several very flattering calls to the pastorates of Churches, all of which he was forced to decline. And much as it was to him a matter of regret, he sought some secular employment; choosing that occupation most accordant to his tastes, he opened a classical school at Indianapolis. The institution began under discouraging auspices, with an attendance of only three students; yet so rapidly did the enterprise grow in public favor that before the end of the year the number had increased to seventy. Nor are the places few in which members of the old Hay's Academy now occupy positions of honor and trust. This work, how- ever, made a severe strain upon his throat, and at the end of three years he was compelled to give up his school and relinquish teaching. He next filled the position of chief clerk in the office of General James A. Eakin, whom he accompanied to Washington. This he resigned to accept a similar position with his brother, Captain C. Hay, post quartermaster, at Indianapolis. In 1864 he was chosen receiver of the Sinking Fund of In- dianapolis, an office he held for six years. In 1874 he was chosen secretary of the Franklin Life Insurance

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A biographical history of eminent and self-made men of the state of Indiana : with many portrait-illustrations on steel, engraved expressly for this work, Volume I, Part 109

Author: Publication date: 1880 Publisher: Cincinnati, Ohio : Western Biographical Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 1038

Author:
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Cincinnati, Ohio : Western Biographical Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 1038