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 120

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be seen scattering in every direction; some even jumped from the top of the church. Two well-directed shots from one of the howitzers cleared a house lined with infantry in the direction of Colonel Lane's column. In this way an incessant fire was kept up on every enemy that could be seen and every gun that could be reached. All the guns were silenced but the nine-pounder, which continued to pour forth grape and solid shot. By almost a miracle none of Lieutenant Love's battery were killed and only seven were wounded, although the grape fell like rain among the men, striking the cannon, limbers, and caissons. The firing was continued until it was too dark to distinguish the enemy, and then the battery was held in position until news came of the city's surrender. General Love's part in the taking of Santa Cruz, or rather the foregoing statement of it, would be incomplete without the following testimonial of Sterling Price, Brigadier-general United States army, commanding :

"The distinguished conduct of Lieutenant Love, in the highly efficient manner in which his batteries were served, in the rapidity of movement which characterized his conduct when ordered to reinforce me-traveling night and day, going into battery four hours after his arrival-and his unceasing efforts during the entire day in working his battery, deserve especial notice, and I can not refrain from expressing the strongest recommen- dation for that honorable gratitude from his country which the brave soldier acquires by his exploits."

Lieutenant Love was breveted captain for honorable and meritorious services in this battle. It is not strange that, after the thrilling scenes and events of the Mexi- can War, even frontier service lost its charm to Gen- eral Love, and within a few years he resigned. He engaged at once in the active enterprise of railroad building, selecting Indianapolis for his home. For this business he was well fitted by taste and education, and his labors were successful. At the opening of the Re- bellion, General Love promptly took the side of the government and the section in which his lot was cast, and rendered efficient service in the cam- paign in Western Virginia as chief of staff under General Morris. When that campaign closed he was assigned to the important duty of command- ing the Indiana Legion. This was being at the head, in fact, of a military school, and instructing the soldiers who, in protecting the state from border raids, no less than in the field of battle, covered the name of Indiana with glory. He was commander of a division in defense of Cincinnati, and afterwards of a body of troops which protected the state against the rebel General Morgan.

After the war was over General Love's ability and address led to the position of repre- sentative abroad of the Gatling Gun Company, of which he was a member. To his diplomatic skill is the company chiefly indebted for the general introduc-

tion of the famous and most efficient engine of modern warfare. Subsequently, he disposed of his interest, and has since been largely engaged in land claims. The most recent recognition of General Love's high character as a man and scholar was in his appointment as state-house commissioner, by his excellency Governor Williams. He is in every respect admirably well qualified for the position. In 1849, on the Ioth of October, General Love married Miss Mary F., the accomplished daughter of the late Hon. Oliver H. Smith, a distinguished and honored citizen of Indiana, who died on the 19th of March, 1859, in the city of his adoption-Indianapolis. Hle was a member of the United States Senate in 1840, and in 1858 he wrote and published a highly in- teresting and instructive work, entitled, " Early Indiana Trials and Sketches ; or, Reminiscences by Hon. O. H. Smith." No man was more largely identified with the early railroad system than Mr. Smith. He built the Bellefontaine road almost alone, and was the author and originator of the system of union depots. General Love is a Mason, and was the first president of the Masonic Mutual Benefit Society of Indianapolis; has held most of the offices in said society. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, and has taken every degree in both rites. He is a Democrat, and, with his wife, has been an Episcopalian since 1853. He received his literary education at Nashville, Tennessee, at Columbia College, and was sent by General Jackson to West Point in 1837. Previous to his entrance at Columbia College he at- tended the public schools at Nashville. He was a great friend of, and highly esteemed by, General Jack- son. Mrs. Love received her education at Mrs. Ri- land's, an institute at Cincinnati of national reputa- tion, one of the most rigidly thorough English and classical female seminaries in the United States at that time. In appearance General Love is strikingly like his great-grandfather, Richard Henry Lee, as his lineaments are portrayed in painting. There is the same cast of features, the same massive head, and the same expression of decision, intelligence, and benignity of character. He who runs may read in each and both faces the story of lives well spent and filled with lofty aims.

OVE, JOHN W., of the Indiana school of art, of Indianapolis. No one deserves more consideration from a free and enlightened people than he who adds to the value of their intellectual treasures, or who enables them to find new beauties and pleas- ures in what they already have, nor should any one be commended more highly than he who adds a luster to our native state by providing the means of a new enjoy- ment of a pure and lasting kind. Such a man was John W. Love, who was born at Napoleon, Indiana, August

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10, 1850. He was the son of William and Mary Love. He first attended the public schools of Indianapolis, whither his parents had moved while he was but eight years of age, continuing until he was fifteen, when he left the high school, and at once, in 1865, entered the North-western Christian University, where he took a scientific course, graduating at the age of seventeen. From his merest boyhood he was a lover of art, and to such an extent that he was fully persuaded that there he would find his adequate sphere. In 1869, at the age of nineteen, he practically commenced his professional studies with Henry Mosler, of Cincinnati. After having been with him one summer, teacher and pupil together went to New York. There he divided his time be- tween the studio of Mr. Mosler and the National Acad- emy of Design, in which institution he had but shortly before obtained a membership. He soon left Mr. Mos- ler, and spent a year and a half at the academy, de- voting almost the whole of that time to drawing from antique models and life. In 1872, June 8, he started for Europe, arriving in Paris about the last of June or the first of July. He planned entering the government school of art in that city, to obtain admission to which a student is required to pass a thorough examination in all the necessary preliminary branches-in anatomy, perspective, antique art history, and is required to make a competitive drawing from a life model. On account of the rigidness of the rule considerable time is ordinarily demanded by this review, but so persistently did Mr. Love apply himself that in three days he was allowed to enter the school-the Beaux-arts-in the atelier of J. L. Gérome. The heads of this institution are all men of note and great proficiency in their pro- fession. The places offer but meager emolument, yet are sought for by the best talent of the country, so high is the standard of the academy. They have a faculty of three painters, three or four sculptors, and as many architects; and each year they send abroad, to Italy, or elsewhere, a painter, a sculptor, and an architect, from among the native students, the candidates to be chosen by comparative excellence in their re- spective departments. For four years he studied there ten months in the year, spending his short summer vacations in the country, two of which were occupied in visits to Brittany, Department of Finisterre, at Pont-Aven. Here is the residence of Robert Wiley, celebrated as an artist from his taking a medal in a French salon, and ranking well with the

French figure painters; in him Mr. Love found a val- ued friend. At the time of his visit to France he knew but little of the language; and preferring a systematic knowledge to the ability to copy, he procured an instruc- tor, who lived with him and gave him daily instruction. In July of 1876 he turned his face toward his native land, sailing from Liverpool, England ; on his journey west-

ward he stopped a short time at New York and at Phil- adelphia, and, on coming to Indianapolis, opened a studio at No. 37 West Washington Street, in Brad- shaw's Block. During the latter part of the one year that he was here, he made the acquaintance of Mr. James F. Gookins, director of the Academy of Design, of Chicago, and with him discussed the feasibility of establishing a school of art in Indianapolis, on the plan of a stock company ; there should be ten thousand dol- lars of stock, with fifty-dollar memberships. But the people were slow to recognize the advantages of the project ; and to have carried it out, were it practicable, would have required too long a time. However, the matter received some encouragement; in their soliciting they secured perhaps forty members; but the work went on slowly, and they resolved to make the attempt upon their own responsibility, which they did. At the open- ing there were on display a collection of pictures of the ·best American artists, with many by well-known Euro- peans; also a very large collection of bric-a-brac and ceramics. It was in every respect a success, and bespoke for the undertaking a successful career. Then there was organized an Art Union, soliciting membership at ten dollars each per individual, each certificate entitling the holder and his family to free admission to the exhi- bitions and the holders to a sketch, by either Mr. Gook- ins or Mr. Love. This proved successful, over two hundred certificates of membership having been sold, and while it could not do otherwise than assist in devel- oping the æsthetic tastes of the people, at the same time it was a means whereby periodical exhibitions were established by the school, one being given every three months. None of the students now in attendance had ever had any instruction in drawing previous to their entrance upon this school, and by many of them aston- ishing progress has been made, so that a number partly support themselves by portrait painting. Such is, in brief, the history of the Indiana School of Art, estab- lished in 1877, October 15. The best instructions are secured. Mr. Mersman, of Cincinnati, who studied at Munich, Bavaria, until lately has taught the art of sculpture. One of the students fills the place now. Mr. Love's object was to make this a state institution, one recognized and fostered by the Legislature, which each year should send to Europe a student to remain perhaps five years, on the express condition that he should return to the state for a specified time. In this manner Indiana would become an art center; a gallery and library would each offer its advantages, nor would it cost above seven thousand dollars per annum. Such an institution, devoted to the fostering of art and taste, would be highly profitable in a commercial point of view as well. It multiplies and improves the indus- tries of the land. The founders of the school have received no aid from any professional artists in Indian-

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apolis, with the exception of Mr. T. C. Steele. Mr. Love did not live to see the success of his enterprise. He died June 24, 1880.

ACAULEY, GENERAL DANIEL, of Indian- apolis, was born in New York City, September 8, 1839. He is of Irish parentage, his father, John Macauley, being a native of Belfast, Ire-

land. The General is one of a family of four, every member of which has been prominently before the pub- lic. His older brother, Barney, who was also born in New York City, is a prominent member of the theatri- cal profession, now starring in the "Messenger from Jarvis Section." An only sister, now Mrs. Charles R. Pope (Pope's Theater, St. Louis), is four years younger, and was born in Cincinnati. His younger brother, Captain John T. Macauley, born in Newport, Kentucky, is now manager of Macauley's Theater, Louisville, Ken- tucky. After the various removals of the family, as above indicated, they settled finally in Buffalo, New York, when Daniel was about eight years old. Here his father died, August 9, 1849, leaving his family un- provided for. Daniel and Barney at once left school, and went to work to assist their widowed mother in the maintenance of the family. Both learned the book- binding trade; but, having a decided talent for the stage, at the age of seventeen Daniel found himself be- fore the footlights, having adopted the profession two years after Barney had made his debut. He remained on the stage (working at his trade at intervals) until 1859, when, becoming dissatisfied with theatrical life, he came West, with the intention of working at book- binding. He reached Indianapolis, and obtained em- ployment in the old Sentinel building, on Washington Street, with Bingham & Doughty, and here he remained until the firing on Fort Sumter. The foundation of Mr. Macauley's military life had been laid while a boy at Buffalo, where he had been a member of Company C, 74th New York State Militia, under a splendid officer (General W. F. Rogers). His tastes naturally in- clined him to a military career, and previous to the outbreak of the Rebellion, with a West Point officer, Captain Frank A. Shoup (afterwards a very prominent rebel officer, and the author of " Southern Tactics"), he had organized and managed a very fine militia com- pany, known as the "Independent Zouaves." When Sumter was fired on, his anti-slavery enthusiasm was aroused, and he laid down his tools and joined a party to be sworn into service. He became a member of Company E, IIth Indiana Volunteers, and while yet in camp was made first sergeant, and then first lieutenant, then regimental adjutant, in which position he was mustered into the United States service with the regi-

ment. As first lieutenant (Captain Rugg being sick), he reported to General Lew. Wallace, adjutant-general of the state, and received from his hand the first march- ing order written in the state under the three months' call. The document is still in the General's possession, and is highly prized by him. It was written by Clerk (afterwards General) Fred. Knefler, at General Wal- lace's dictation, and was signed by the latter as adju- tant-general. It directed him to report to Camp Mor- ton, where he found three other companies, one of which (Gordon's Artillery Company) disbanded. The other two had probably marched out on verbal notice or "at will." His younger brother, John, was then living at Buffalo, with his mother and sister, but, at the solicitation of the embryo general, they removed to Indianapolis; and John, then fifteen years of age, donned the uniform of a drummer, and joined his brother's company. They served out their three months' service in West Virginia, seeing some cam- paigning, and a little active service. Returning home, they at once recruited for the three years' service, and left in September, 1861, for St. Louis; thence the regi- ment was ordered to Paducah, Kentucky, under Gen- eral Grant. He served through the operations up the Tennessee River, at Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, siege of Corinth, Memphis, Arkansas, Vicksburg (siege and fall), Louisiana, and the Teche country, his active service culminating in the glorious campaign under Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley. The three years term for which he had originally enlisted expired while he was in Louisiana, but with his brother he had re- enlisted for three years more. He was promoted to the rank of major immediately after the battle of Shiloh, and soon afterward was made lieutenant-colonel. He reached the colonelcy in March, 1863, and was twice breveted brigadier-general ; once in 1864, and again in 1865. He was in command of his regiment when major and lieuten- ant-colonel, and commanded the brigade while colonel. During the Shenandoah Valley campaign he at one pe- riod commanded a division (Nineteenth Corps), but was the greater part of the time in command of a brigade in that historic valley. At Champion Hills, Mississippi, during the Vicksburg campaign, General Macauley was severely wounded in the left thigh; and at Cedar Creek, Virginia, he was dangerously shot by a bullet in the right hip, in which the missile still remains. At the time of President Lincoln's assassination General Macaulay was in command of the defenses of Balti- more, which included Forts McHenry, Marshall, Fed- eral Hill, and Carroll. He was also in command of the skirmish line, an entire brigade, during the whole of the famous night pursuit after the engagement at Fisher Hill, Virginia. He takes all a soldier's pride in his gallant regiment, the 11th Indiana, which, to quote his own words, " was never beaten, either at work,

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play, march, drill, or fight." After being mustered out, at the close of the war, he served a brief time as colonel of the 9th Regiment, Hancock's corps, stationed at Indianapolis, and resumed civil life after four years and eleven months' continuous service as a soldier. A resumption of his old business of bookbinding, in company with John I. Parsons, resulted disastrously, on account of an unforeseen depression in business. In April, 1867, General Macauley was elected mayor of Indianapolis, when only twenty-six years of age. He was re-elected in 1869, and again in 1871. His admin- istration of the city government was commended alike by citizens of all classes and parties, and he displayed in its management executive ability of the highest order, while his popularity became almost proverbial. At the conclusion of his third term as mayor of the city he organized and completed, with James O. Wood- ruff, what is known as " Woodruff Place," in Indianap- olis; but the impending financial crisis deprived them of any fruits of the enterprise, which was intended to combine all the beauties of a public park with the ele- gant surroundings of a private residence, and even in its unfinished condition is one of the brightest ornaments of Indianapolis. During the year 1876 Mr. Macauley was manager of the Academy of Music, in Indianapolis; but the stringency of the times, the building of another theater, and the burning down of the Academy, brought his managerial enterprise to a close. During the great rail- road strike of 1877 General Macauley was appointed, by the Governor and committee of safety, commander of the city; and by his moderation and prudence averted much trouble, and rendered efficient and timely service to the cause of public order. In June, 1878, he was appointed to the general management of the Indianapolis Water- works Company, in which position he remains to the present time, in the full tide of reasonable success. March 26, 1863, General Macauley married Mary M. Ames, daughter of Rev. A. S. Ames, of Indianapolis. They lost one little daughter, eighteen months old, in 1865. They have surviving one child, a son, born in 1866, in Soldiers' Home (in camp), at Indianapolis; a fine specimen of American boyhood, bright and schol- arly beyond his years. There is not, perhaps, in the city of Indianapolis, a man more generally popular than General Macauley. He possesses talents of a very pro- nounced order, is a vocalist, musician, and dramatic artist of no mean pretensions, and is of a most social, genial, and cheerful disposition, fond of society, and entering into every thing with a keen relish for the good things of life. He is a member of the Masonic bodies, military company, Knights of Pythias, president of the "Choral Union " and of the " Haydn " musical societies. He is nearly six feet high, weighs one hun- dred and eighty-three pounds; and if buoyancy of spirits and cheerfulness of disposition, coupled with the best

of health and hosts of friends, can secure long life and happiness, there is a full measure of both in store for " Dan Macauley."

AJOR, ALFRED, attorney-at-law and vice-pres- ident of the First National Bank of Shelbyville, was born at Quarndon, Derbyshire, England, May 8, 1828. America is indebted to the En- glish people for her existence, and is still receiving benefits from her in the intelligent men and women which she contributes to our population. Some of these, like the subject of this memoir, learn our history and imbibe the spirit of our institutions before coming here, and therefore blend at once with our best people, and become a healthful element in our national life. His parents were Stephen and Harriett (Bigsby) Major, the father of Irish and the mother of English nativity. He was educated at King William's College, Isle of Man. He began to read law on shipboard, while coming to this country, so determined was he to qualify himself for an honorable career in that new land to which he was going, where talent and a resolute spirit are unfettered. In 1846 he settled in Shelbyville, and resumed the study of law, under the instruction of Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, a name now known in every household. In 1851, Mr. Major was admitted to the bar and com- menced practice. Superior to many of his associates in literary and scientific culture, and well endowed with natural gifts, he entered upon his duties under most en- couraging auspices. Success, professional and pecun- iary, attended him, and at length he engaged in bank- ing as one of the firm of Elliott & Major. In 1865 the First National Bank of Shelbyville was organized, and he became its vice-president. An able attorney in every branch of the profession, and an excellent financier and a man of integrity, Mr. Major exerts a marked influence throughout the county. He is the wealthiest man within its borders, and his possessions have been gained by his own exertions. The store of knowledge which study and experience have furnished him has been in- creased by foreign travel. He has crossed the ocean from America to Europe four times, visiting the British Isles and the Continent. He has two brothers and two sisters in England, and he is the only one of the fam- ily in this country. But, despite these ties of kindred, and that innate love of one's native land that nothing can eradicate, he is truly an American, and America will doubtless remain his home. Mr. Major is a mem- ber of the Episcopalian Church. He has been married twice. His first wife was Jane Lowry, to whom he was wedded, at Rushville, Indiana, in 1851. They had four children, now living. November 28, 1878, he married, as his second wife, Miss Helen Thompson, a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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ANSON, GENERAL MAHLON D. The life and character of General Mahlon D. Manson may be studied with profit by the young, con- templated with satisfaction by the patriotic, and

referred to with pride by his kindred and friends. His name is honorably mentioned on many pages of the history of his country during the eventful period of the War of the Rebellion. In the political affairs of Indi- ana he has taken prominent and important parts. In private life he has sustained an unsullied reputation, and has deservedly received and constantly retained the confidence and good will of his fellow-men. He is de- scended from an honorable and patriotic ancestry. His paternal grandfather, David Manson, an immigrant from Ireland, served his adopted country as a soldier of the American Revolution; and his father, David Man- son, born in Little York, Pennsylvania, was a soldier of the War of 1812, and was present at the surrender of Hull at Detroit. He was a farmer and a surveyor of lands. He married Sarah Cornwall, of Rockbridge County, Virginia, whose parents were English. Her family sympathized with the cause of American inde- pendence, and several members of it participated in its achievement, as soldiers of Washington's army. The subject of this biography, the issue of this marriage, was born on the 20th of February, 1820, near Piqua, Miami County, Ohio. His Christian name was given him as a mark of regard for Governor Mahlon Dicker- son, of New Jersey, Secretary of War under General Jackson's administration. At the age of three years he suffered the great misfortune of the loss of his father, who died leaving to his widow and infant son the in- heritance of an untarnished name, but with inadequate means of support. With a sturdy manliness unusual to such tender years, the subject of this sketch began while a mere child to assist his mother in the burden of their maintenance. To this excellent wife and mother may be ascribed the success of his life and its great usefulness. She had the happy privilege of living to see him grow to a noble manhood, and died, full of years and honor, in the year 1858, the evening of her life being spent in peaceful quietude beneath her son's roof. The education which he had from teachers was such as he received in the primitive log school-house, with its unglazed windows and rough benches; and even of the meager opportunities for the acquisition of knowledge thus afforded he was deprived, by the pres- sure of poverty, at the early age of eight or nine, when he hired himself to a neighboring farmer to do such work as so young a lad could perform, his stipulated remuneration being seventy-five cents per month. His education, however, did not cease, but by his applica- tion to study, without the aid of teachers, with such books as he could obtain, he so utilized his intervals of freedom from manual labor that upon attaining man-

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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 120

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