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He was married in 1834 to Jane Ann Paulson, of Wil- { a few days after his inauguration, Morton succeeded mington, Delaware, a descendant of those Swedes who | to the gubernatorial chair, and appointed Mr. Hollo- came to the United States when they were yet a wilder- ness, and settled on the banks of the Brandywine in 1656. Mr. Holloway has now passed his threescore and ten, but is still active. His life has been an industrious and useful one.
OLLOWAY, WILLIAM ROBESON, postmaster of Indianapolis, was born at Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana, December 6, 1836. His father, Hon. David P. Holloway, who belonged to the society of Friends, was for forty years editor of the Richmond Palladium, one of the oldest Whig and Re- publican papers in the state. He represented Wayne County in the state Legislature during the years 1843-44, and was for six years a member of the Indiana state Senate, and a member of Congress from the old " Burnt District " in 1854-56. He was commissioner of patents from 1861 to 1866, and is now solicitor for patents in Washington, D. C. The mother of W. R. Holloway was Jane Ann Paulson. She was a native of the state of Delaware, of Swedish descent, and was a noble-hearted Christian and public-spirited woman, whose death was occasioned by contracting a cold while administering to the wants of Indiana soldiers encamped at Washington in the winter of 1862-63. The cold terminated in hasty consumption, of which she died in December, 1864. Her children numbered six sons and two daugh- ters, of whom four sons and two daughters still survive. William R. Holloway, the subject of this sketch, was raised, and, it might be added, educated, in the printing- office, and memory carries him not back to the time when he could not set type. In this occupation he im- bibed those habits of applied industry, a seeking after practical knowledge, and an enthusiastic love for the profession of printer and editor, which have characterized him through life. He finished his trade in the office of the Cincinnati Times, remaining there from 1852 until 1857. The divine passion may have impelled his next move, as he returned to the Palladium office in Rich- mond in 1858, and the same year was married to Miss Eliza Burbank, of Centerville, a beautiful and charming little lady, daughter of Isaac Burbank, Esq. Mr. Hollo- way during this year also published a history of Richmond and the settlement of Wayne County. Soon after his marriage he concluded to enter the profession of law, and for that purpose studied in the office of Morton & Kibbey (Mr. Morton being his brother-in-law). He was admitted to the bar in Wayne County in 1860. Hon. Oliver P. Morton was elected Lieutenant-governor of the state in that year, with Hon. Henry S. Lane Governor. The latter being elected United States Senator . in the world.
way his private secretary. He remained in this position throughout two years, full of trying vicissitudes incident to the war, and the mustering and equipping of thousands of troops. In this arduous labor Colonel Holloway's business sagacity, industry, quickness of thought and action, were of invaluable assistance to the chief execu- tive of the state. In 1863 he went into business in the city of New York, in which he was successful. The old love for a printing-office, however, was revived, and in 1864 he purchased the Indianapolis Journal establish- ment, remaining its sole proprietor and editor for more than a year, during which time he was elected by the Legislature to the office of state printer, which he re- signed when he sold the Journal and entered Governor Morton's office as confidential secretary and adviser. A year later he repurchased an interest in the Journal, be- ing an active participant in its editorial control until 1872. He was appointed postmaster of Indianapolis by President Grant in 1869, and was reappointed by him in 1872, retiring from the Journal in that year. He re- purchased the Journal in connection with E. B. Mar- tindale in 1875, but disposed of his interest to his partner after a few months. So satisfactory to the peo- ple and the officials of that department was his admin- istration of post-office affairs, that President Hayes continued him in the position, which, in 1880, he still occupies. His management of the Journal was con- spicuous for the introduction of most of the metropoli- tan features that now mark Indianapolis journalism. He dispatches business with great rapidity, has a great deal of executive ability, and meets every demand upon his time with unwavering good humor and courtesy. His friendships are warm and lasting, and no service in the interests of friends is too exacting for him to per- form. His energy is unbounded, and public entertain- ments, receptions, or enterprises that have been success- ful have in many instances been so. owing to the management of Colonel Holloway. A writer properly remarks of him, that "a city full of such bustling men as he could remove mountains if they stood in the way of progress," for in the character of such citizens must be found the secret of the wonderful advancement of the " Hoosier metropolis.". As the most valued friend and confidant of the late Senator Morton, his political adviser and aid-de-camp, the services of Colonel Hol- Holloway have been an adjunct to Morton's greatness, as they still are invaluable to the Republican party. He accomplishes great purposes with little assumption, and less of arrogance or austerity. He has but one child, Edward Morton Holloway, a promising youth of eighteen, who is now attending Cornell University at Ithaca, New York, and who bids fair to make his mark
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LLEN, HORACE R., M. D., Indianapolis, proprie- tor and founder of the National Surgical Institute, was born in Athens, Ohio, October 21, 1834. His
in surgery ; new appliances for relief, consisting of aids to nature rather than hindrances to nature's work. Re- maining at the Medical College until he graduated father, Joseph Allen, who was of English descent and a native of Connecticut, was an extensive land-holder and largely engaged in agricultural pursuits. His mother, Sarah (Davis) Allen, was also of Yankee birth. Their family consisted of three sons and four daughters, Horace being the second child. His boyhood was spent in this vicinity, and was characterized by scores of marvelous hair-breadth escapes from death by accidents, so closely following each other as would lead to the belief that the therefrom, in 1856, he soon after started for Des Moines, Iowa, intending to hang out his shingle to the breeze. Slight incidents, however, sometimes change or deter- mine a whole course in life, and so it proved in this case. While on the train he made the acquaintance of a brother of General Lew Wallace, and made a trade with him conditionally for a drug store at Charlestown, Illinois. Upon his arrival there it seemed as though providence had guided him to this spot, for, perhaps, in boy bore a charmed life, and that destiny preserved him | no other area of like extent in the country were so many suffering from physical deformity. To quote a familiar passage, "the halt, the lame, and the blind," found their way to him for relief; hundreds came from a dis- tance, and by his successful treatment he soon acquired a widespread reputation in the domain of surgery, and from that time to this, now nearly a quarter of a cent- ury, his life has been devoted to the attempt to restore the human form to its natural proportions, to bring grace out of deformity, and release from pain the long suf- fering. His mechanical ingenuity is remarkable, and his genius finds employment in designing appliances and the inventing of surgical apparatus, the manufact- uring of braces to suit each individual case, etc. The Doctor's business increased so rapidly that he not only attained distinction, but acquired wealth, and in 1869 he resolved to choose a more central location, his choice falling upon Indianapolis, to which city he removed in that year. Here he founded the National Surgical In- stitute, purchasing for that purpose one of the large hotels. He soon metamorphosed it into a scientific insti- tution, with earnest, thoughtful, and well qualified man- agers. Its patrons also are of that character, and made up from the intelligent and thinking classes. The Na- tional Surgical Institute was incorporated under the laws of the state, with a capital of five hundred thou- sand dollars, with the avowed object of treating all cases of surgery and chronic diseases; also, engaging in the manufacture of surgical and mechanical appliances, splints, bandages, braces, machinery, and other articles needed for the treatment of the afflicted. The Indi- anapolis Institute owns and occupies a four-story block of buildings, covering one-quarter of a square, on the corner of Illinois and Georgia streets. These buildings are provided with sleeping rooms to accommodate three hundred patients. No less than thirteen rooms are used as laboratories, consultation, prescription, appa- ratus, drug and operating rooms, and offices. Back of the main buildings, and connected with them, is a ma- chine shop, covering twenty-five hundred square feet, in which are manufactured all kinds of apparatus and ma- chinery for this Institute. In this department are lo-
to be a benefactor to the suffering ones of earth. It would be interesting to trace step by step the succession of incidents which finally led him to devote himself to the profession in which he has become such an enthusiast ; but space will forbid more than a brief outline. After having obtained the rudiments of an education in the country schools, he took a four years' collegiate course at the Ohio University, of Athens. After the comple- tion of his college course he entered upon the study of law, under the preceptorship of Hon. John Welsh, ex- Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio. Here he re- mained about a year, when seemingly without delibera- tion he determined to study medicine, and forthwith is found enrolled among the students of Cleveland Medical College. While here, apparently pursuing his studies with no more definite purpose than, perhaps, to aid a law practice by a knowledge of medicine, his attention ; was directed to the course of treatment prescribed for a little child, who was slightly affected with spinal dis- ease. The mode of treatment seemed to the young man . to resemble nothing so much as the old time tortures of the Inquisition, and his active sympathies became aroused as the child daily became emaciated under the blistering, seton, and burning process, and screamed with spasmodic fear when the door opened to admit the torturers. Many an hour the young student brooded over the subject, and pondered on the modus operandi. When he looked at the sapling which is growing awry he knew that the way to straighten the growing tree would be to brace and support it, until nature aided in the work by strengthening the limb, until it could stand alone. If the tree is barked, he would not attempt to heal it by hacking into the wound, and persist in try- ing to cure it by augmenting its sensitiveness and cut- ting and slashing. Thus the Doctor drew his first lesson in theoretical surgery from nature, with the thought of how it might be applied to the human form ; and in all his application of surgical knowledge has proved that nature and science walk hand in hand together. Sym- pathy for the sufferings of that little one was undoubt- edly the impelling influence that awakened the genius of a master mind to the development of a new science | cated a forty horse-power steam engine, power punches.
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dies, shears for stamping and cutting out work, emery institute. It is not amiss to say that the average num- wheels, lathes, and other necessary machinery. Here ber of patients is not less than fifteen hundred. These are not all at the institute at one time, as those who are supplied with needed apparatus and are making sat- isfactory progress are at their homes. The evidence of relief is all that can be asked by the most incredulous, and the words of praise and gratitude from the consci- entious and faithful patients who are improving in health and regaining the use of long useless limbs are the best testimonials of skill that could be given, while thousands of grateful letters are the pleasing assurance that the life efforts of Doctor Allen have not been made in vain. The great number of railroad accidents, to- gether with many occurring at the machine shops of this city, annually furnish hundreds of wounded appli- cants for treatment. This branch of the business, though incidental and not that for which the institution was chiefly founded, has become a very extensive field of practice. When we reflect that there is a total inadequacy of means provided for the cure of the thousands of de- formed and helpless beings all over our land, whose lamentable condition cries aloud for help, then the facilities to be found at an institution based on such principles as that herein described must be appreciated. Asylums are provided for the deaf, the blind, and in- sane; homes and charities for the indigent sick and in- firm ; bastiles and reformatories for the vicious and the criminal. Yet the wail of the indigent and suffering cripple is unheeded, save at the house of alms, where necessary surgical skill and appliances are not to be found. The fact that over four hundred thousand crip- ples and deformed human beings in this country are without proper treatment should suggest a great and momentous duty to philanthropists and legislators. Several years since the demand on the facilities became so great from all parts of the country that it was deemed best to establish an Eastern Department of the National Surgical Institute at Philadelphia, which was soon handsomely fitted up and in successful running order. Soon afterward a branch or Southern Department was established in an institution at Atlanta. And at about the same period the Western Branch for the urgent need of dwellers upon the Pacific coast was established at San Francisco, which in 1876 was greatly enlarged and improved. Although these institutes are well estab- lished, Doctor Allen soon found it impossible for him to give them his personal superintendence, and that un- less he did personally give directions for manufacture of appliances or braces, the work was not so satisfactory in results. He felt compelled, therefore, to withdraw from the branch establishments and concentrate all his energies to the success of the central one at Indianapo- lis. The National Surgical Institute, though inaugu- rated under the most discouraging auspices, and with a limited patronage, is to-day a proud monument of liber- are constantly employed twenty to thirty skilled work- men, who are engaged in manufacturing appliances for patients. The expense of this department, material and incidentals, amounts to over seventy-five thousand dollars per annum. On the second-floor are the parlors, tastefully furnished and provided with pianos. On this floor also are the dining hall (a room fifty feet square, handsomely furnished), the bath rooms, ladies' treat- ment rooms; besides large rooms occupied as a nursery, where all children left at the institute without attend- ants or nurses are placed under charge of a matron and nurses, who look after their wants and carry out their prescribed treatment, dressing and undressing them, attending to their wardrobe, and remaining with them night and day. As a large percentage of the patients are children, many of whom have not relatives who can remain with them at the Institute, this feature of the arrangements will commend itself to many. The gymnasium, or general treatment room, is large, and arranged with special reference to the requirements of the patients, who congregate there in scores daily for their prescribed treatment. The ladies and children with nurses receive the varied treatment for the paralyzed or affected limbs in a separate room, upon one side of the hall, and the gentlemen, in like manner, upon the other. Directly connected with this apartment the Swedish movement machines and appliances, complicated, in- genious, and varied in character and number, are in full operation, driven by steam from the engine of the shops. Here, also, are electrical machines, batteries and fix- tures for the easy application of electricity or galvanism, electro-magnetism in all forms, quantities, character, or intensity. Ingenious inventions for training paralytics to walk, for straightening crooked backs, contracted or stiff joints, and for the correction of deformity and paralysis in general, abound on every hand. No de- scription can do justice to this department, or convey full and accurate knowledge of its great advantages and efficiency. Owing to the great amount of professional labor imposed upon the surgeons and assistants, it was deemed necessary to make the boarding department sep- arate, and this is placed in the hands of a competent landlord. It is the earnest purpose of the proprietors to make the stay of the patients in the institution as pleasant and satisfactory as possible. On arriving at the institute each patient is shown by the usher into the reception room, where he awaits the examination of those preceding him ; the ordeal, though necessary, of waiting for his turn may be very tedious to the new comer, unaccustomed to institutions of such magnitude. The visitor, no doubt, experiences the greatest surprise of his life in beholding the number of crippled, de- formed, and helpless persons under treatment at the
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ality and skill ; and prominent among the most philan- a man is Judge E. B. Martindale, whose name is a fa- thropic enterprises of the age, it is fulfilling its great mis- sion of subserving to the relief of human misery every discovery, invention, and improvement within the scope of science and at the command of money. The eminent success attained can not be overestimated. The thou- sands made happy by the magnanimous treatment of the poor, the moderate fees demanded of the rich, and the explicit and candid manner in which all are treated have gained for the institute the confidence and support of good people throughout the country. Furthermore, it has been endorsed and sustained by all the intelligent physicians who have availed themselves of the oppor- tunity to study its claims to merit by visiting the insti- tution. Nothing but the inherent principle of its system could have brought the institute to its present mammoth proportions and wide reputation. More than forty thou- sand patients have been treated, and a large majority of them permanently cured, at this great depot for the relief of human suffering. Doctor Allen, amid his multifarious duties, has found time through trusted agents to amass a large fortune in real estate and other enterprises, and is not dependent upon the proceeds of the institute for support, having an adequate income from other sources. He is therefore prepared to give personal and individual efforts to the relief of suffering humanity. "And they shall rise up and call him blessed." When the Doctor was but twenty-two years of age he was married to Miss Harriet E. Shepherd, a lady in every way worthy of him. They have a fine family of four children, three of whom are daughters ; the eldest a young lady, the youngest now eight years old. The Doctor has been an active member of the Presbyterian Church for many years, and a leader in the Sunday-school. His life has been full of good deeds. A liberal-minded gentleman, his generous, noble nature and esthetic tastes make him a valuable addition to any city, a shining light in any community.
MARTINDALE, ELIJAH B. In every city of any pretensions there are always to be found a few men whose names are prominently and un- mistakably identified with the city's material growth and development, and who are always to be found associated with every movement which seems to promise an addition to the city's wealth, resources, or enterprise, and to enhance the importance of its loca- tion and surroundings. Such men are seldom obtrusive, though always on the alert, and always to be found when called upon. The masses feel their presence, rather than have it thrust upon them; and almost in- sensibly, but no less surely, do they leave their impress upon the character and institutions of their city. Such
miliar one, not only to citizens of Indianapolis, but all through the state of Indiana, and wherever the state is represented throughout the Union. He was born in Wayne County, Indiana, August 22, 1828. His father was a pioneer preacher of the Christian Church in this state. When he was four years of age Mr. Martindale's parents moved to Henry County, Indiana, and settled on a farm four miles east of New Castle. Here young Martindale was brought up, sharing all the hardships and pleasures incident to farm-life until he was sixteen years of age, his education consisting of the best which the county seminaries of those days afforded, and his attendance at school being alternated with work on the farm. At sixteen he was apprenticed to learn the sad- dler's trade, and continued at this until he was twenty, still attending school in the intervals of work, and by close attention and studious habits acquiring a good English education, as well as a knowledge of his trade. The destiny which "shapes our ends, rough hew them as we will," did not, however, intend that Judge Mar- tindale was ever to achieve distinction at the saddler's bench. All his spare time was devoted to the study of law, and in 1850 he hung out his shingle as attorney and counselor at law at New Castle, the county seat of Henry County. For twelve years he continued the practice of his profession there, and meanwhile held for one term the office of district attorney, and for a term the office of prosecuting attorney for the counties of Wayne, Henry, Randolph, and Delaware. In 1861 he · was appointed Judge of the Common Pleas Court for the district composed of the counties of Henry, Madi- son, Hancock, Rush, and Decatur. His practice had been lucrative, and in 1862 he removed to the city of Indianapolis, where he has since been located, and where his name has been prominently identified with many enterprises calculated to benefit the city. He was from the first a firm believer in a great commercial future for the city of Indianapolis, and with the keen foresight and sound judgment characteristic of the man, his plans were laid accordingly, and his energies were bent to encourage and foster every movement which tended to make the city attractive as a residence and desirable as a great manufacturing and commercial center. He was a prime mover in the laying out of a great part of the city in building plats, which were sold on easy terms to intending settlers. The result proved his excellent judg- ment and the soundness of his conclusions. In all his transactions the element of caution in his nature proved a safeguard against wild speculation, so that when the great financial crash came, which so ruthlessly and re- morselessly swept away fortunes, although Judge Mar- tindale was heavily loaded, when the wreck was cleared away it was found that he had succeeded in weathering the storm much better than had seemed
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possible, although compelled to sacrifice much. In the complex chain of business, no one who was linked to him was compelled to suffer by him, and his personal integrity and business management were above reproach. The "Martindale Block," one of the finest business edifices in the city of Indianapolis, is a standing monument to Judge Martindale's enter- prise and public spirit. It is built on the site of the old Roberts Chapel, on the north-east corner of Mar- ket and Pennsylvania Streets, and also partly covers the site of the first brick dwelling ever erected in Indian- apolis. He has ever been known as a cheerful giver to worthy and benevolent objects, and betrays in innumer- able ways an unselfish spirit that makes him popular with all who know him. He is an active and zealous member of the First Presbyterian Church of Indian- apolis, and for a long time was superintendent of its Sunday-school. In 1876 Judge Martindale purchased the Indianapolis Journal, the leading Republican paper of the state, and assumed its active control. A thorough and tried business man in every sense of the word, he brought to the management of the paper the same prin- ciples and sound judgment that had always governed his conduct, and under him the character and tone of the paper steadily improved. Ardently devoted to the principles of Republicanism himself, but in no sense a bitter partisan, or a seeker for the spoils of office, he aimed to make his paper a true exponent of Republican tenets and an ardent champion of the cause, while utterly ignoring and eschewing scurrilous or personal journalism. While in the management of a paper of the importance of the Journal, it can be truly said that it would be impossible to please every body, even of like politics, with very few exceptions Judge Martindale's conduct of the Journal met with the approbation of his party friends and commanded the respect of his polit- ical opponents. It might, perhaps, be said with truth that his spirit was ever too independent to render the management of a party organ entirely pleasing to him, and on the eve of the exciting political campaign of 1880 he sold out his interest in the Journal and resumed his ordinary business life. While a zealous partisan and a man whose advice is always looked for and of much weight in the counsels of his party, Judge Martindale has ever sought rather to advance the interests of others than to pave his own way to political preferment. He
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