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 112

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which attaches to his success. He is a Republican, but has a legion of friends and admirers in the Democratic party, and among the citizens of Indianapolis. Mr. Hin- ton is of medium height and compactly built. He has an erect and stately carriage, and is possessed of easy, though dignified manners; is graceful, and is also a fluent and entertaining conversationalist and public speaker. He has a strong, well-modulated, and pleasing voice, and when making political speeches upon the hustings, or delivering literary addresses from the ros- trum, he has no difficulty in making himself heard, and distinctly too, at the farthest limits of an audience, though large, so clear is his voice and perfect his enun- ciation. Taking him all in all, Mr. Hinton is a remark- able man, of great probity of character, and of high social and political standing among all classes through- out Indiana and elsewhere where known. He is a use- ful citizen and an honor to his race.

ODGSON, ISAAC, architect, of Indianapolis, was born in Belfast, North Ireland, December 16, 1826. His paternal grandfather was Isaac Hodg- son ; his maternal grandfather, William Patton, was a captain in the British army, and did service dur- ing the stormy times of 1798. On one occasion he was captured by the enemy, and saved his life by giving, as a last resort, the Masonic hailing sign of distress. The subject of this sketch was the son of Jackson and. Eliza (Patton) Hodgson, and was one of eleven children. His mother was born in camp, and led the life of the bar- racks until she had reached the age of fifteen. Isaac attended the parochial schools and Royal Academy dur- ing his early youth, and at the age of sixteen entered the office of Charles Lanyard, afterwards Sir Charles, a well-known architect. Here he remained three years, and in 1848 he sailed for the new world, landing in New York. In that place he met the family of his uncle, who had emigrated at an early date; had been lieutenant of a battery in the War of 1812, and after- wards colonel of a New York regiment. He left New York for the growing West, and, reaching Decatur, In- diana, he remained there two years, pursuing his pro- fession, and marrying Miss Mary Ann Edwards, a lady of Scotch descent, and daughter of a leading merchant and mill-owner of the county. In 1849 he went to Louisville, Kentucky, and became assistant architect in the government buildings then being erected. On the completion of this work, he removed to Indianapolis, where he still resides, and where numerous buildings, public and private, attest his skill. During the late war Mr. Hodgson had charge, as architect and super- intendent, of the arsenal buildings. The court-houses in Marion, and many other counties in this and adjoining.

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states, are monuments of his architectural labors. He erected the Alvord Block, Indianapolis, besides numer- ous residences, among the most elegant and costly in the city ; the Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute, and designed the Rose Orphan Asylum, in the same city. He also erected the Indiana Female Reformatory build- ings, and numerous prisons, of which the one in Day- ton is a model of strength and neatness, and was erected at a cost of a quarter of a million, the others ranging from twenty-five thousand dollars to sixty thou- sand dollars each, and distributed through various states. He was the successful architect and superintendent of the new Marion County court-house. This building was begun in 1869 and completed in 1876, at a cost of one million five hundred thousand dollars. It is visited by thousands every year, and is much admired for its combined durability and beauty. Mr. Hodgson has at- tained the thirty-second degree in Scotch Masonry, and is a member of the Indianapolis Consistory. The Hodgsons for generations past have been Episcopalians. Mr. Hodgson's eldest son, Edgar Jackson Hodgson, was educated at the public schools of Indianapolis, and at the Racine (Wisconsin) College, and is a practical arch- itect, in the office with his father. Mr. Hodgson's his- tory is its own best commentary. A patient, persistent worker, he has steadily built himself up, and is an honored and respected member of society, a stanch friend, and a good citizen.

OLLOWELL, AMOS KENDALL, treasurer of the Nordyke & Marmon Company, of Indianapo- lis, was born in Orange County, Indiana, August 19, 1844. His father, James Hollowell, is still living at Salem, Washington County, Indiana. His mother, Celia (Thomas) Hollowell, died in 1851. His father was engaged in farming, and Amos was brought up to farm life until thirteen years old, obtaining his early education in the ordinary district schools, after- wards attending the seminary at New London, Howard County, and subsequently finishing his school life at Bloomingdale (Parke County) Academy. In 1861 he ceased attending, and, farm life having become distaste- ful to him, he decided to adapt himself to other pur- suits, and entered a dry-goods store at Paoli as clerk, remaining there about two years. After a further ap- prenticeship of two years in the same business at Ko- komo, at the end of which time he had obtained a very fair knowledge of the dry-goods trade, he came from Kokomo to Indianapolis in 1865, and for four years was engaged in the wholesale grocery trade, trav- eling the greater part of the time, the next two years filling the position of accountant and bookkeeper. In the fall of 1870 he went to Newport, Wayne County,

where he married Adeline H. Parker, on October 19, of that year. They have one son, Linden P., now eight years old. After his marriage, Mr. Hollowell went into mercantile business in Newport, opening a general store, which he conducted with much success until November, 1875, when he became interested in the Nordyke & Marmon Company, and at the next election was chosen treasurer of the company, a position he still holds. Mr. Hollowell is the financial manager of the company, whose business has grown prodigiously, even in the comparatively short time that he has been connected with it. The sales have increased from an an- nual showing of one hundred thousand dollars to nearly half a million. The crisis from which the trade of the country has recently suffered was passed through by the company by very careful and judicious management, and now the works are in the full tide of successful operation. The move from Richmond to Indianapolis, although by some at first considered injudicious, has proved highly successful and remunerative, and no firm in Indianapolis stands higher than the Nordyke & Mar- mon Company. Mr. Hollowell is to all intents and purposes a self-made man, as he had to start in life with no capital besides energy and industry, and the education obtained principally by his own efforts; and his career has in the main been a highly successful one. He is of English ancestry on his father's and Welsh on his mother's side, and his parents were members of the society of Friends. He inherits much of the tenacity and perseverance characteristic of his descent, and his industry is of the most persistent type. Much of his life's history is still in the future, as he is now in the prime of life, with prospects before him of continued success in business, while he has the reputation of a pure, conscientious, honorable, and capable man, and is highly esteemed in the community.

OGELAND, ISRAEL, of Indianapolis, was born in Hardy County, Virginia, July 30, 1830, and is one of a pair of twins. Three brothers and three & sisters are still living. Mr. Hogeland is of Hol- land descent on his father's side and of Irish descent on his mother's side. His paternal grandfather was a Revolutionary soldier under General Washington's im- mediate command. His father, James Hogeland, was a miller. In 1840 he moved to Tippecanoe County, In- diana, and two years after to Lafayette. Here he pur- chased a woolen mill, which burned a few months after, leaving him one thousand dollars in debt, with nine children dependent on him. He rebuilt, however, with friendly aid, when sickness came, and three members of the family died within five months. In ten years after he had, by unremitting toil, acquired a consider-

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Sunday-schools, from some of which flourishing Churches have sprung into existence. Always ready for every good word and work, the world will be better for Israel Hogeland's having lived in it.

able fortune. Israel had devoted his time to alternate work and attending school, and, after he had attained manhood, he went for two years to Hanover College, but was called from his studies, by the death of his father and mother, to the woolen mill, which he and Alexander now conducted. Four out of five of the sons and daughters married within a single year, in 1856. In 1857, through wool speculation and decline OLSTEIN, CHARLES L., United States Attorney for the District of Indiana, was born in Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana, on the twenty-sixth day of January, 1843. His father, a successful business man of that city, was born in Gratz, near the city of Leipsic, in Germany, and emigrated to America in 1837. His mother was a native of the city of Madi- son, of Swiss and French parentage. In September, 1856, after receiving the ordinary common school edu- cation of those days, Mr. Holstein entered Hanover College, where he remained two years in the prepara- tory department. He left Hanover College in Septem- ber, 1858, and entered the Kentucky Military Institute, at Frankfort, as a cadet. In that institution he pursued the course of studies with much diligence, and took rank as one of the distinguished or star cadets. (Ex- tract from catalogue of Kentucky Military Institute --- Explanation : Those cadets marked with a star (*), two in each class, are reported to the Governor of the com- monwealth, conformably to law, as " Distinguished Cadets.") During his first year he ranked first in a class of fifty cadets, and took the first star. At the close of the second year he was ranked as third in a class of fifty-six cadets, though in fact first in "merit in study," and third for " merit in conduct," which classification ranked him third in the class, on average of " general merit." After entering the junior year the War of the Rebellion broke out, in 1861. The Kentucky Military Institute, as well as many other educational institutions, suspended, the cadets generally entering the several armies. As the large majority of the cadets in attendance at the institute were natives of the South, nearly all, with very few exceptions, entered the rebel army. As soon as his institute suspended, Mr Hol- stein, then a lad of seventeen years, hastened to his home in Madison. The proclamation of President Lin- coln, calling for seventy-five thousand volunteers, heightened the warlike excitement of the people. Mr. Holstein, full of patriotism, against the earnest protests of parents and friends, on account of his youth, en- listed in one of the companies forming in the city of Madison, for service in the 6th Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, and from there proceeded to Indianapolis with the command, and was mustered into the service of the United States. The training which Mr. Holstein had received at the Kentucky Military Institute brought him quickly in demand, and he was appointed by Col- in the market, the brothers failed. In two years Israel was again in business, but an injudicious choice of partners again brought trouble, in 1866. In 1867 Mr. Hogeland moved to Indianapolis, and sold to Merritt & Coughlin a half interest in an improved wool washer, of which he was the inventor. In 1871 he invented a single stave barrel machine, and placed it on exhibition in 1873. Five mills were started in as many states, with an aggregate capital of one hundred thousand dol- lars, which were operated for one year, and then came the panic. A single stave bucket followed, but the parties purchasing failed to meet their obligations, Mr. Hogeland, however, still retaining a half interest in both. In 1879 he invented the noiseless car-wheel and axle, now in use on the Indianapolis, Bloomington and Western Railroad, and which are attracting the close at- tention of railroad officials, as are also his new fish joint. Mr. Hogeland has also invented adjustable dies for manu- facturing tile coffins, to be burned and japanned, and which are susceptible of high polish. He has a lifting jack in use, for locomotives and other heavy work, with a capacity for lifting forty-five tons. A half dozen minor patents are included in his list. With the advent of better times these will find their appropriate places. Mr. Hogeland married Miss Virginia Paul in 1855, and this union was blessed with four children. In 1874 dis- ease prostrated father, son, and mother, at one time, and Mrs. Hogeland died, leaving her husband and three children-Nellie and Emma, aged respectively seven and eleven, and William, now a telegraph opera- tor. Nellie died at the age of sixteen, in 1877. Mr. and Mrs. Hogeland have both been respected members of the Fifth Presbyterian Church, Rev. J. R. Mitchell pastor. His brother, Alexander, was a captain in the Ioth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and subsequently lieu- tenant-colonel of the 10th Kentucky Regiment, and was twice in Libby Prison. Subsequent to the war, he was for ten years internal revenue agent in Kentucky. Mr. Israel Hogeland, the subject of this sketch, is an ear- nest and enthusiastic worker in the temperance cause, giving much time and money to this great reform; a zealous Christian, exemplifying his faith by his works, his voice is heard wherever an opportunity presents itself to speak a word for religion. His earnest and eloquent appeals in behalf of temperance have reached many hearts. He has been particularly efficient in or- ganizing and bringing into successful operation various I onel Crittenden, the commander of the regiment, ser-

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geant major. He marched with it to West Virginia, and remained with it in all its service and engagements during the three months' service. Here he was con- spicuous for his untiring energy and ceaseless activity. Whenever his regimental duties permitted it, he took prominent part in all scouting parties, which, in the absence of cavalry, a corps which had not yet been organized, was the only available source of ascertaining the whereabouts and movements of the enemy. Being mustered out of the service upon the expiration of the term of enlistment of the 6th Regiment, Mr. Holstein was appointed first lieutenant and adjutant of the 22d Regiment Indiana Volunteers, Colonel Jefferson C. Davis commanding. During the early existence of this regiment, he discharged the duties of that position in a manner highly satisfactory to Colonel Davis and the officers and soldiers of the regiment. When Colonel Davis was promoted a brigadier-general, and placed in command of a brigade, and subsequently a division, Adjutant Holstein was appointed by General Davis his acting assistant adjutant-general. Here again his con- duct was such as to receive the unqualified approval of the command. For those who know the high character of General Davis, and how exacting he was in all mat- ters pertaining to the service, it is sufficient to say that this distinguished officer ever spoke in his praise. Ad- jutant Holstein participated with General Davis's divi- sion in the battle of Pea Ridge, in Arkansas. His con- duct on this occasion was conspicuous for gallantry, and in his official report, General Davis says: "The bear- ing and efficiency of my staff officers, Lieutenant Hol- stein, acting assistant adjutant-general, and Lieutenants Pease and Morrison, aides-de-camp, were conspicuous everywhere, fearlessly executing every order. Every part of the field witnessed their gallantry." But not only his immediate superior officers noted the bravery and usefulness of Adjutant Holstein, but Colonel Julius White, commanding one of the brigades, in his official report says : "I should do injustice if I omitted to mention, the very valuable aid received at various times from your aides. Also from Adjutant Hol- stein." After the battle of Pea Ridge, the 22d Regi- ment Indiana Volunteers recommended him for lieuten- ant-colonel of that regiment, that position being vacant by the death of Lieutenant-colonel Hendricks, who was killed in the conflict. But, owing to his youth and other influences which were exerted at home, before the recommendations and requests of the regiment reached Indianapolis, another officer was ap- pointed to that position. Adjutant Holstein continued attached to the command of General Davis in the sev- eral campaigns in Arkansas, Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama. In October, 1862, he was tendered the commission of major in the 22d Regiment Indiana Volunteers, which he declined. Sub- C-7

sequently, in 1862, upon recommendation of General Davis, he was by President Lincoln appointed an assist- ant adjutant-general, United States Volunteers, with the rank of captain, and attached for duty to General Da- vis's division until in 1863, when he was recommended by General Davis and other officers for the command of a regiment, but Governor Morton declined to accede to the request of General Davis on account of the ex- treme youth of Captain Holstein. Being without hope of further promotion, having served for nearly three years since the breaking out of the War of the Rebell- ion, he resigned his commission, and left the service. On returning home to Madison, he re-entered Hanover College, and graduated from that institution in 1865. To further complete his education, he entered Harvard Law School, where, after the regular course, he gradu- ated. In the latter part of 1866 he came to the city of Indianapolis, and entered the law office of Hendricks, Hord & Hendricks, remaining with that well-known firm until the fall of 1868, when he formed a partner- ship with the Hon. Byron F. Elliott, and engaged in the practice of the profession. This arrangement con- tinued until the election of Mr. Elliott as Judge of the Marion Criminal Circuit Court, when that gentleman retired from the firm, and Mr. Holstein continued alone with marked success until August, 1871, when he was appointed assistant to the United States District Attorney, Thomas M. Browne, by the Attorney-general of the United States. Mr. Holstein's time not being fully oc- cupied by his official duties, in January, 1874, he entered the law firm of Hanna & Knefler, which then became known as Hanna, Knefler & Holstein. Mr. Holstein continued practice with his associates until he was com- pelled, on account of the whisky conspiracy prosecu- tions, to dissolve his previous connection, then deeming it his duty to devote his entire time and labor to the government. In these prosecutions he took a conspicu- ous position. His untiring and persevering efforts con- tributed greatly to the successful result, in the conviction of all the offenders, and elicited the well-merited com- mendation of the Department of Justice. The Attor- ney-general of the United States, after the whisky conspiracy cases were concluded in Indiana, appointed Mr. Holstein as principal counsel to represent the gov- ernment in similar prosecutions at New Orleans, but, owing to ill-health, contracted by his arduous labors, he reluctantly declined this very flattering distinction. As assistant attorney, he took a leading part in all the criminal business of the United States Courts, and has rendered distinguished services in the numerous coun- terfeiting, revenue, and national bank cases. His suc- cess in the prosecution of violations of the pension laws has been exceptional. Upon the death of Colonel Nel- son Trussler, District Attorney, on February 12, 1880, upon the recommendation of the Department of Justice,

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and as a recognition of the valuable services rendered by him as assistant attorney, President Hayes appointed Mr. Holstein United States Attorney for the District of Indiana for the full term of four years. The position which he now holds, and is filled by him with distin- guished ability, is proof of his professional attainments as a lawyer. Mr. Holstein possesses an eminently legal mind, and is noted for his erudition and thorough law learning, especially for his knowledge of the science of civil and criminal pleading and the law of practice. As an advocate, the terse and perspicuous style of his argument, and the boldness with which' he grapples in- tricate questions, as well as the purity of his diction, are much admired. His frankness and unwearying courtesy in his intercourse with his professional brethren have made him a universal favorite with them. Mr. Holstein is a ripe scholar for one of his years, and a close student of ancient and modern literature and belles-lettres. He has even, in his leisure moments snatched from professional engagements, devoted some time to the pursuit of the muses. Some of his poetical effusions have elicited warm praise. On December 17, 1868, Mr. Holstein was married to Miss Maggie Nickum, the accomplished daughter of John Nickum, Esq., one of the most prosperous business men of Indianapolis. He resides in Indianapolis, in an elegant home, sur- rounded not only with the comforts, but the luxuries, of life. It is noted for its refined hospitality, and is a favorite resort of many cultured people.

OUGH, WILLIAM R., lawyer, Greenfield, was born at Williamsburg, Wayne County, October 9, 1833. He is the second child and eldest son of Alfred and Anna Hough, the former a native of Surrey County, North Carolina, and the latter of South Carolina. Mr. Hough's ancestors, both paternal and maternal, were prominent members of society, and figured extensively in the early history of the country. In the year 1683 two brothers, Richard Hough and John Hough, arrived at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the British brig "Welcome," and located in Bucks County, in that state. They were Quakers and noted men in the colony. Richard was for a number of years a member of the General Assembly, and also a member of William Penn's Council. From this gentleman descended the subject of this sketch. His father, Alfred Hough, was the eldest son of Ira Hough, who was the son of Will- iam Hough, who, before the War of the Revolution, removed from Pennsylvania to North Carolina, where the father and grandfather of William R. Hough were born. In 1813, when his father was but three years of age, his grandfather removed from North Carolina to New Garden, in what is now Wayne County, Indiana.

His grandfather was a prominent member of the society of Friends, at New Garden, of which society he was clerk for a number of years. His father grew to man- hood in Wayne County, where he was married to Anna Marine, daughter of Rev. John Marine, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. This lady was born in Marlboro District, South Carolina, and was related on her father's side to the Adams family of that state, being a cousin of Governor Adams, whose mother was the only sister of Rev. John Marine. This couple were the parents of two sons and two daughters. They resided in Williamsburg until the subject of this sketch was eight years old, when they removed to Hagerstown, in the same county, where they remained about a year. In the fall of 1842 they journeyed to what was then known as the "St. Joe Country," arriving at the village of Middlebury, in Elkhart County, Indiana, November I of the same year. In this village Hon. William R. Hough grew to manhood, attending the public and private schools of that locality, the Middlebury Sem- inary, and, finally, the Lagrange Collegiate Institute, at Ontario, Lagrange County, Indiana. Alfred Hough was a mechanic of great versatility of skill and talent, especially in wood-work, but confined himself princi- pally to manufacturing cabinet ware. His son inherited a good share of this mechanical talent, and, his father being in limited circumstances pecuniarily, he aided him during school vacations in the cabinet shop at times, but never regularly learned the trade. His tastes being of a decidedly artistic character, he devoted most of his time out of school to the finer and more conge- nial work of finishing cabinet ware, and also to house, sign, carriage, and wagon painting, in all of which he became an expert. During the winters of 1853-4 and 1855-6 he taught school in Lagrange County, under- going the then common experience of "boarding round," a Yankee custom which obtained in the country at that time. His experiences both in the school-room and at his boarding places during this time have been of great value to him in cultivating that keen perception of the varying phases of human nature which has characterized his later professional career. At one time, when he was nearly grown, he, by the advice of his father, came near studying the photographic art, but his mother, having higher ambition for her sons, strenuously opposed the project, and thus by her good sense prevented the subject of this sketch from burying that talent which he has since developed to his own honor and profit and the admiration of his friends. The profession of the law was finally selected, by mutual consent, as the field of his future labors; and accordingly, with the wages of his last school in his pockets, not exceeding seventy-five dollars in all, and a decently passable wardrobe in his trunk, in the summer of 1856 he started out to try his fortune in the world. But he possessed that which was

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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 112

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