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 76

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his second year's service he was chairman of the Com- mittee on Public Works, the leading committee of the House. In 1872 he was elected a member of the city council of Richmond, Indiana, and brought her finan- cial condition from a depressed and embarrassed state to one of soundness, and among the most satisfactory in the state. In 1875 he was elected mayor of the city, and served for two years. In December, 1874, he was made presi- dent of the Richmond Board of Trade, with a view of getting up and publishing an exhibit of the manufac- turing, commercial, and general business industries of the city, together with an outline of its history, situa- tion, social condition, and special characteristics, which was organized satisfactorily early in 1875. At present he is president of the city school board. He has been active and influential in all public enterprises of the city for many years, and in preparing Indiana for the Cen- tennial Exhibition was a laborious member of the gen- eral committee and chairman of the sub-committee on building. The parents of Doctor Hibberd were Qua- kers, and while he is not a member of that society his associations and proclivities are with that organization. In politics he was a Whig as long as there was a Whig party, and since the organization of the Republican party he has been a Republican, with a propensity to scratch a bad man on the party ticket when there is a good man for the same place on the opposite side. On the 30th of March, 1842, he married Nancy D. Higgins, of Montgomery County, Ohio, who died April 26, 1846, leaving a son two years old, Edgar G. Hibberd, now married and living in Richmond, Indiana. May 16, 1856, he married Catherine Leeds, of Richmond, who died October 15, 1868, leaving a son ten years old, Wilton L. Hibberd, now living in Richmond. April 20, 1871, he married Elizabeth M. Laws, of Richmond, his present wife. The last marriage is without living issue. Doctor Hibberd's first medical essay was prepared by · direction of the Eaton Medical Society, in 1844, on " Milk Sickness," and published in the Western Lancet, February, 1845. Since then his professional papers have been numerous, including a prize essay of the Massa- chusetts Medical Society in 1868, and published in va- rious journals, in pamphlets, and in the transactions of many societies. While traveling in South America and California he was an occasional correspondent of news- papers, but during his trip to the old world he wrote a regular series of fifty-two letters, which were published in the Richmond Telegram for 1869-70. Doctor Hib- berd is five feet nine inches high, weighs about one hun- dred and ninety pounds; a well-preserved gentleman of vigorous appearance, never having met with a serious accident nor been seriously ill in his life. He is pre- possessing, courteous, and sociable, positive in opinion, decided and energetic in action; a man of honesty, in- dependence of spirit, and great executive ability, and A-23

fitted, therefore, to be intrusted with important inter- ests, and to carry out extensive enterprises. He has a more than ordinary mind, developed and enriched by study and professional experience, and extended and ob- serving travel. He has tastes and abilities that would have won success in literature; and he possesses other talents by which he might have succeeded in any of several avocations. He is a respected and influential citizen, and in the profession of his choice has won a wide and enviable reputation.

ODSON, JOHN MILTON, editor of the Win- chester Journal, was born in Clinton County, Ohio, August 24, 1839. He is the youngest son of Matthew and Hannah (Hunt) Hodson, who had five children, four of whom still survive. The family removed to Hancock County, Indiana, in 1852. Being a studious lad, Mr. Hodson attended the common school, and at the early age of sixteen he was qualified to teach. For the next four or five years he was em- ployed in teaching during the winter and working for his father on the farm during the summer. In 1860 he became a student in the South-west State Normal School, of which Professor Holbrook has long stood at the head. Here he completed the regular course of study in one year, but, by the rules of the institution, he could not obtain a diploma until he had attended two or more years; however, as he preferred knowledge to diplomas, this was no serious disappointment. From early boyhood he had an ambition to be a lawyer, and, when quite a young man, procured and brought home the necessary books preparatory to study ; but his father's prejudices against the profession were such that, with tears in his eyes, he implored his son to give up his cherished idea, which he reluctantly did. He continued in the profession of teaching, and for four years had charge of the public schools at Carthage, Indiana. He was principal of the Knightstown school for one year, and afterward was superintendent of the Plainfield schools for two years, but owing to ill-health he resigned the position. Prior to this time he served as county examiner, and was school superintendent of Rush County for three years. On leaving Plainfield he came to his present home and bought a half interest in the Winchester Journal, July 1, 1872, since which time he has successfully filled the position of chief editor. His paper has long been established, having first been started by Colonel H. H. Neff, under the name of the Winchester Patriot. Mr. Hodson has always been an active and outspoken temperance man, and has fear- lessly advocated his principles, whether as a private citi- zen, teacher, or journalist, without regard to the narrow limits of expediency. Neither himself nor family belong

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to any Church. He was reared in the society of Ortho- dox Friends, but now discards the idea of the divinity of Christ. He is a stanch Republican, and from child- hood was taught to abhor the system of slavery, as his father was an Abolitionist of the most radical type. October 17, 1861, he married Martha A. Rawls; they have one child living, a bright little girl. He is pros- perous in his profession, and has a good social and business standing in the community. He deserves great credit for the success he has attained in life.

ORNE, JOHN, M. D., Yorktown, comes of what in some respects is the best race in Europe. He was born in Braehead, parish of Carnwath, county of Lanark, Scotland, February 28, 1814. His fa- ther, Rev. William Horne, was pastor of the Presby- terian Church at Braehead until 1833, when he emi- grated to America, and settled in Canada, near Goodrich, on Lake Huron. From there he removed, in 1835, to Switzerland County, Indiana, and preached for twelve years in Caledonia, a Scotch settlement. The subject of this sketch was educated in a school in Carnwath and in the University of Edinburgh. In 1831 he regis- tered as a student of medicine in the College of Sur- geons, in that city. Two years later he came with his father to this country, and in 1840 graduated from the Ohio Medical College. Doctor Horne had now enjoyed superior advantages, both literary and professional, and was better prepared than many of his classmates to assume the responsible duties of the physician. He did not establish himself permanently until 1848, when he went to Yorktown, Delaware County, Indiana. Al- though engaged for a short time in the mercantile busi- ness, his chief attention has been devoted to the prac- tice of medicine. His success in this may be inferred from the fact that he was elected, in 1877, president of the Delaware District Medical Society, and the same year president of the Delaware County Medical Society, for a term of two years. Doctor Horne is a member of the Presbyterian Church, the teachings of his father having taken deep root in his nature. He married, in the spring of 1844, Isabel B., daughter of Captain W. T. Scott, from Virginia. By this marriage he has two sons and three daughters now living. The elder son, W. N. Horne, M. D., graduated in the spring of 1877 at the Medical College of Ohio, and is now associated in practice with his father. Doctor John Horne is a thorough, conscientious, and capable physician. He studies his cases with great care, and brings to the exer- cise of his duties a mind enriched by culture and experi- ence; and in all his relations he sustains the character of a Christian gentleman.

UBBARD, CHARLES S., of Knightstown, was born in Milton, Indiana, September 1, 1829. His parents were Richard and Sarah (Swain) Hub- bard. His paternal grandfather was Jeremiah Hubbard, a minister of prominence in the society of Friends. Charles was the second child in a family of twelve children, five sons and seven daughters. When ten years of age his father removed to Henry County, and located on a farm about a mile and a half from Knightstown. By an unaccountable freak of nature, Charles was born without a right hand, yet, in spite of this disadvantage, he was able to plow, chop wood, and do almost all kinds of work-a striking proof of na- ture's law of compensation. At the age of sixteen he began teaching a district school in the neighborhood, at a salary of ten dollars per month, boarding himself. He continued to alternate between teaching and at- tending school until the summer of 1847, on the open- ing of the Friends' boarding school (now Earlham College), when he entered that institution, perhaps as its first scholar. Here he continued three terms. In the mean time his father had removed to Raysville, near by, and engaged in merchandising. Charles continued to teach for some time, but the field was too limited for his aspiring ambition, and he joined his father in business. In November, 1850, he married Martha White, daugh- ter of Sorns and Millicent White, of Washington County, Indiana, and located in Raysville, where, after three years' close application to business, he was en- abled to purchase a one-third interest in his father's store, for five hundred dollars. A year later, his brother- in-law, Doctor Cochran, joined him, and under the new arrangement each owned a half interest. At the end of another year Mr. Hubbard bought him out, and con- tinued the business alone. He now realized his boyish ambition-to be a merchant, to deal in live-stock, and to live in a brick house of his own. He continued to

One prosper in business until 1862, when he retired. year of idleness, to the man of strong business habits and restless activity, so wearied Mr. Hubbard that in 1863 he engaged in the dry-goods business at Knights- town, with Timothy Harrison, of Richmond, Indiana. They did a large and successful business for several years. In 1864 he was elected one of the three trustees of the Soldiers', Seamen's, and Orphans' Home, a state institution established that year near Knightstown. This position he filled four years. In 1866 he was made a director in the Franklin Life Insurance Company, of Indianapolis, which duties he still performs. In 1868 he again retired from mercantile life, wishing to devote his time to religious and benevolent work; but his business qualifications and experience were too valuable not to be utilized. About this time he was appointed one of the managers of Earlham College. The need of an endowment fund for this institution had long been

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felt by himself and other friends of higher education, and a plan was laid for its procurement, and Mr. Hub- bard was chosen to execute it. He proceeded energet- ically and enthusiastically in the work; traveled exten- sively in the United States, visiting members of the so- ciety of Friends and others interested, and at the end of two years had secured about fifty-three thousand dollars as a permanent endowment fund. This was placed under the control of five trustees, of whom Mr. Hubbard was chosen one, and where he still continues to faithfully serve the best interests of that institution. He has also been one of the seven directors of the First National Bank of Knightstown since its organization, in 1865. In 1876 he was elected a member of the Indiana Legislature, and re-elected in 1878. As a member of the state exec- utive committee, he has been largely interested in the Sabbath-school cause, in local, Church, and state work. He has been a life-member of the society of Friends, active in Church work, and for several years a minister of the Gospel. He has an interesting family of five children-one son, who is now engaged in business with his father, and four daughters. The two older children are married. It should be remarked that Mr. Hubbard, who has been from childhood a strong anti-slavery man, has been particularly interested in the education, progress, and elevation of the freed- men of the South. He is a member of the mission- ary board, and in pursuance of his duties has often visited the states of Arkansas, Tennessee, and Missis- sippi. Mr. Hubbard still enjoys remarkable health, the result of an industrious and temperate life. He has often spoken of the loss of his hand as among his great- est blessings, believing that its loss has been indirectly of inestimable value to him. He is still active and vigorous in business and good works, and is highly esteemed by his widely extended acquaintance.

AMESON, JESSE KLINE, D. D. S., of Conners- ville, was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, October 2, 1832. His father, Jacob Jameson, is of Scotch-Irish ancestry, while his mother, Mary Tay- lor, is of German descent. When Mr. Jameson was about six years of age his parents removed to Franklin County, Indiana. Both were members of the Methodist Church, in which the father labored as local minister for more than sixty years. His father was poor, and the school privileges of Mr. Jameson were limited to two or three months each winter in the common schools of that com- paratively new country: Even these advantages were denied him at the age of fifteen ; but while at school he was industrious and stood well in his classes, especially those in grammar and arithmetic. When he was seven-

teen he apprenticed himself to learn the cabinet-maker's trade, where he remained until he attained his majority. Being at that time in ill-health, he entered the dental office of Doctor Peek, of Mount Carmel, Indiana, little thinking what would be the result. After spending five years of the succeeding seven with Dr. Peek, he re- moved, in October, 1860, to Shelbyville, intending to practice dentistry. A principle of his life has been that what is worth doing at all, is worth doing well; and he became dissatisfied with his work, and determined to know all that he could know, both about the science and the art of dentistry. He read every thing on the subject that he could find; procured " Harris's Prin- ciples and Practices of Dental Surgery," mastered it, and applied to his old preceptor for information about saving and building up teeth, as illustrated in that work. But it was as the blind leading the blind; and Doctor Jameson, fearing that he should fall into the " ditch of non-progression and self-satisfaction," struck out boldly for information. He attended dental associ- ations, district, state, and national, far and near, and listened to the discussions and investigations with a mind eager for the truth. He has been eminently suc- cessful, and abundantly repaid in his researches for knowledge. He has frequently been called before den- tal associations to read papers on special topics under consideration. In 1874 the degree of D. D. S. was conferred upon him by the Ohio College of Dental Surgery. When it is considered that he arrived at this distinction almost entirely by his own efforts, at a time when the science was in its infancy, without the aid developed by modern research, it will be seen that the title was well earned. In the annual catalogue of the above-named institution, Doctor Jameson's name has appeared for some years past as one of the clinical instructors before the students. August 28, 1872, he removed to Connersville, Indiana, bought the interest of Doctor A. O. Rawls, and opened his dental office for practice. Here he was very successful, and, in January, 1875, took possession of his present elegant and commo- dious suite of rooms, where he is doing the leading business of the town. He was united in marriage, August 14, 1852, to Miss Elizabeth A. La Rue, of Mount Carmel, Indiana. For more than four years past he has been an active member of the Young Men's Christian Association. Doctor Jameson joined the Meth- odist Episcopal Church in 1857, to which Mrs. Jameson also belongs. With this Church he has been officially connected for the past sixteen years. As a Mason, he has filled almost all of the offices connected with the lodge, chapter, council, and commandery, and is a mem- ber of the Ancient and Accepted Rite. In disposition Mr. Jameson is modest and retiring; as a Christian, earnest and sincere; and as a citizen, he is influential and highly respected in the community.

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UMP, SAMUEL V., M. D., of New Burlington, is the fourth of five children of Isaac and Eliza- beth (Gulett) Jump. He was born in Kent County, Delaware, June 27, 1822. His paternal grand- father came from Wales to Delaware, and took part in the Revolution. His mother's father was born in Eng- land, and also emigrated to the state of Delaware. After the death of his father, in 1832, Samuel Jump re- moved with the family to Wayne County, Indiana, and settled near Richmond, then a small village. Necessity compelled him to labor on the farm, so that he could attend school only three months of the year; but at length his increasing desire for knowledge led him to go out, at the age of sixteen, and work for means to pay the expenses of a course of instruction. At the end of two years, having earned a sufficient amount, he at- tended a select school in Richmond. For the next two years he engaged in teaching during the winter, and the remainder of the time attended a school taught by Barnabas C. Hobbs, who finally became state superin- tendent of public instruction. While teaching, Mr. Jump began the study of medicine, under the direction of Doctor Richard Swayne, which he continued, con- ducting a school during the winter, until 1846, when he entered the office of Doctor Prichett, of Centerville. There he remained until the fall of 1847, and then at- tended a course of lectures at the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati. The following spring he went to New Burlington, Indiana, and commenced carefully applying the knowledge thus far gained to the treatment of the sick, still continuing his studies. In 1858, fitted by the experience of ten years' practice to comprehend the most difficult subjects presented in medical instruction, he attended another course of lectures at the same col- lege, and graduated in the spring of 1859, with the de- gree of M. D. He then returned to New Burlington, and resumed the duties of his profession. Doctor Jump's influence grew with his practice, and political preferment came unsought and undesired. In 1869 he was, without his consent, nominated and elected Repre- sentative to the Legislature. During the term he served through extra sessions also, and was a member of im- portant committees. He has always lent aid, both as a legislator and a private citizen, to every enterprise pro- motive of the public good. When his professional duties permit, he devotes considerable attention to politics as a member of the Republican party. He has been connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church for thirty-eight years. He has been a member of the Masonic Order since 1852; was master of Whitney Lodge, No. 229, from 1857 to 1865; and is a member of Muncie Chapter, Muncie Council, and Muncie Com- mandery. The life of Doctor Jump calls to mind the well-known truth that it is better to begin one's career in poverty with industry and virtuc, than in wealth

with either indolence or vice, and that he alone can wisely use and fully enjoy affluence who has himself earned it. The better part of the results of a successful life is not the gold accumulated, but the riches of ex- perience. Denied instruction for many years, Doctor Jump at last surmounted the obstacles that blocked his way to knowledge, and, strengthened by the effort, sup- plied the deficiencies of youth by severe study in man- hood. Thus by diligence, self-denial and the conscien- tious performance of every duty, he moved slowly but surely toward the goal of his ambition. He is now one of the best of physicians, respected on every hand, and surrounded by the blessings of abundance, the fruits of a well-spent life. Doctor Jump married Miss Leticia Allen, of Richmond, July 31, 1848; she died in 1854, leaving two children. December 9, 1856, he married Rebecca Cecil, whose death occurred October 25, 1871. He married his present wife, Sophia Gilbert, March 28, 1872. Four children were born of the second and two of the last marriage.

EMPER, GENERAL WILLIAM HARRISON, M. D., of Muncie, was born in Rush County, In- diana, December 16, 1839. His parents, Arthur Smith and Patience (Bryant) Kemper, were both born in Garrard County, Kentucky, and were of German ancestry. William Kemper remained at home, working on his father's farm and attending the common school, until the age of eighteen, when he engaged as a printer, and followed that occupation two years. From early boyhood he had aspired to become a physician, and ac- cordingly he commenced the study of medicine at Greensburg when twenty-one years of age. His studies were soon interrupted by the opening of the Civil War, and he enlisted, April 24, 1861, in the three months' service as a private of Company B, 7th Indiana Regi- ment. On the expiration of the term he re-enlisted, and was appointed hospital steward of the 17th Indiana Volunteers. In that capacity he served until February 20, 1863, and was then made assistant surgeon of the same regiment, retaining the position until July 27, 1864, when, his term of enlistment having expired, he was discharged. Doctor Kemper's experience in the army afforded him unusual facilities for obtaining pre- paratory knowledge of medicine and surgery, and he sought to make further advancement by attending, in the winter of 1864-5, a course of medical lectures at the Michigan University. He took a second course the following spring at Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, from which institution he gradu- ated in 1865. He then established himself in Muncie, Indiana, and commenced practice. Results soon proved Doctor Kemper to be especially adapted to the profession of his choice ; he is a member of the Delaware District

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Medical Society, the Delaware County Medical Society, [ representative men of Indiana. Doctor Kemper mar- the State Medical Society, and also the American Med- ried, in August, 1865, Hattie, daughter of William Kemper, Esq., of Oskaloosa, Iowa. They have three children-Georgetta M., Arthur T., and William W. ical Association. He has studied much, and carefully ex- amined many cases, and, being an original thinker and a clear, logical writer, he has made known his investi- gations from time to time in a number of essays con- - tributed to various medical journals or read before medical societies. The following are among the num- IBBEY, JOHN F., Judge of the Circuit Court of the county of Wayne, was born in Richmond, In- diana, May 4, 1826. He was the only son of John C. and Mary (Espy) Kibbey. His grandfather, Ephraim Kibbey, was a native of New Jersey, and served as a soldier through all the Revolution. In 1790 he was one of the surveyors of "Symmes's Purchase," a large tract lying between the two Miami Rivers. In that year he located where Columbia, now adjoining Cincin- nati, stands, and in the Indian wars that soon broke out he bore an active part as captain of rangers, under General Wayne. His father was also born in New Jer- sey, and in 1813 he removed from Warren County, Ohio, to Wayne County, in the then territory of Indiana. Judge Kibbey's rudimentary education was acquired un- der the instruction of his father, and at the age of nine- teen he was sent to Miami University, at Oxford, Ohio, where he remained for three terms, and then left with- out graduating. In 1849 he entered the office of Sena- tor Morton as a student of law, was admitted to the bar in 1852, and the following year formed a partner- ship with his preceptor. In 1851, while reading law, he was elected surveyor of Wayne County, which office he held by re-election until 1856. The firm above men- tioned had a heavy practice, and were retained in all the most important cases. The partnership ceased when Senator Morton became Governor of Indiana. In March, 1862, Mr. Kibbey was appointed Attorney-general of the state, to fill a vacancy. The following year he was made military commander of his congressional district, with the rank of colonel. The duties of this office were to raise volunteers for the war, and to provide for their maintenance and control in camps within the district, until organized into regiments and mustered into the service of the United States. While acting in this ca- pacity he enlisted more than nineteen hundred volun- teers. In 1865 he was appointed Judge of the Common Pleas Court, which office he held by subsequent re-elec- tions until the spring of 1873, when the court was abol- ished. In October, 1873, he was elected Judge of the Circuit Court of the county of Wayne, into which the Common Pleas Court was merged, which office he still holds. He was nominated by the Republican party in 1876 for the office of Supreme Judge of the state, but was, with the remainder of the ticket, defeated by a small majority. Judge Kibbey up to 1854 acted with the Democratic party, but, being opposed to its action ber: "Diseases of Children " -- Western Journal of Medicine, Vol. II, p. 14 (January, 1867). " Operation for the Radical Cure of Varicocele "-Louisville and Richmond Medical Journal, Vol. IX, p. 285 (March, 1870). "Exophthalmic Goitre"-Transactions of the Indiana State Medical Society for 1871, p. 181. " La- bor Complicated with Peritoneal Adhesions of the Uterus"-American Practitioner, Vol. V, p. 289 (May, 1872). " Biblical Medicine "-Indiana Journal of Medi- cine, Vol. III, p. 1 (May, June, and December, 1872). " Case of Inversion of Uterus"-Indiana Journal of Medicine, Vol. IV, p. 482 (March, 1874). "Retention in Utero of the Dead Fœtus-Considered Particularly with Regard to its Effects upon the Mother"-Transactions Indiana State Medical Society for 1875, p. 23. " Is Labor Protracted by Early Spontaneous Rupture of the Membranes ?"-American. Practitioner, Vol. IX, p. 334 (June, 1874). "A Case Illustrating the Use of Intra- uterine Injections for the Arrest of Post Partum Hemor- rhage"-Clinic, Vol. VII, p. 75 (August, 1874). "Sequel to a Case of Retained Fœtus"-Transactions Indiana State Medical Society for 1876 (May, p. 119). "A Case of Podelcoma"-American Practitioner, Vol. XIV, p. 129 (September, 1876). "A Contribution to Medical Juris- prudence "-American Practitioner, Vol. XV, p. 340 (June, 1877). "Four Hundred Obstetrical Cases-Statistics and Observations"-American Practitioner, Vol. XVII, p. 227 (April, 1878). The essays contain much which is of value to the medical fraternity. They are the fruits of reason and experience combined, and have met with much attention in the medical journals, both at home and abroad. He has not neglected, as many other practitioners do, to record the result of his experience for the benefit of others. Doctor Kemper was coroner of Delaware County from 1872 to 1875, and since 1872 has been United States examiner for pensions. During the session of 1875-6 he was as- sistant to the chair of obstetrics and diseases of women and children in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Indiana. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church since his seventeenth year, and is a devoted Sabbath-school worker. A man of fine moral sensibilities and broad sympathies, he always abhorred the vice of intemperance, and cherished anti-slavery sentiments. His superior abilities as a medical prac- titioner and writer, and the sterling virtues of his char- acter, render him worthy of a high rank among the | on the slavery question, then abandoned it, and two

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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 76

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