A portrait and biographical record of Boone, Clinton and Hendricks Counties, Ind. : containing biographical sketches of many prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies and portraits of all of the presidents of the United States, and biographies of the governors of Indiana, Part 90

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Publication date: 1895
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Bowen & Co.
Number of Pages: 1080

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road as a traveling salesman for a cigar and tobacco firm of Indianapolis, in which capaci- ty he continued about three years, and then traveled for a Chicago house till 1890, when he came to Frankfort. For nearly two years thereafter he had charge of the Garber House, managing it with success, then, selling out, he was engaged for a brief time in the hotel busi- ness, first at Fort Wayne, and later at Ander- son, Ind. In January, 1893, Mr. Stultz took charge of the Pitman House at Frankfort. He had this house remodeled and the name was changed to Eureka hotel. The Eureka hotel is situated on West Clinton street, opposite the city hall and fire department. It is cen- trally located, and is reached from the depots by a walk of five or seven minutes; it is only a block and a half from the postoffice, while the express office and telegraph offices are at its very doors. The Eureka hotel is not a large house, but it is a model of neatness and order. Its rooms are well furnished and arranged in the most pleasant and convenient manner possible. The dining-room is well appointed, and the tables supplied with the best of every- thing in the market. The charges are one dollar and a half per day, and everything per- taining to the well-being of guests is well looked after. Mr. Stultz is to be congratulat- ed upon the success which has met his efforts to make the Eureka a home-like and comfort- able hotel. He is a genial host, makes every- body him feel at home, and is successful as a business man, and his fair and just dealings win for him the confidence of all. In 1891, Mr. Stultz and Miss Lizzie Rhodes of Parkersburg, W. Va., were united in marriage. They have one child, a daughter, named Iva Corrine. Fraternally, Mr. Stultz is a member of the Pythian order, and in politics he is a repulican. Mr. Stultz is still a young man, and, judging from the past, will yet stand at the head of his calling.

M. TEEGUARDEN, farmer and manufacturer of Colfax, Clinton county, Ind., was born in Union county, Ind., March 21, 1840. He was reared a farmer, but had inherited a mar- tial spirit that made him one of the best sol- diers, later on, that went to the defense of the national flag, from the state of Indiana in the late rebellion. His descent is from a very old German-American family. His grandfather, "George T., was born in Pennsylvania, was a soldier in the war against Mexico, and ended his days in Parke county, Ind., where he owned 160 acres of land. The maternal grandfather of F. M. Teeguarden was also a soldier in the Mexican war and was killed in battle. The father of our subject was William H. Teeguar- den, who was born in Pennsylvania, and there married Eleanor Ducat, and soon afterward came to Indiana and settled in Union county, where the father died in June, 1874, and the mother April 24, 1862.

F. M. Teegnarden, June 16, 1861, enlisted for three years at the first call for volunteers to quell the rebellion, in company G, Thirty- sixth I. V. I. He was sent to Louisville, thence to Nashville, Tenn .; then to Pittsburg Land- ing; later crossed the river and fought the Mississippi Tigers; was at Columbus and Iuka, and again at Nashville and at Buzzard's Roost; was in the pursuit of the rebel general Bragg; fought in the famous battle of Perryville, Ky. ; also at Wildcat, Ky .; fought at Chickamauga, and at the battle of Stone River; was at Look- out Monntain, and in the Resaca fight; was at Atlanta and Peach Tree Creek; and was, in fact, in all the engagements and marches of his regiment until his honorable discharge, Sep- tember 17, 1864. The personal experiences of Mr. Teeguarden in this long period of val- iant military service in these historical en- gagements were too numerous for detailed de- scription within the limits of a biography of

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this character, and although his many remi- niscences are most interesting and well worth recording, they are similar to those of every other brave volunteer who served so long in the defense of the Union, and, if given in detail, would fill a volume the size of this. Suffice it to say, he was brave, faithful, attentive to his duty, always at his post in time of danger, and never flinched on the march or picket duty, in a skirmish, or in the many sanguinary engage- ments in which he bore so soldierly a part.

November 13, 1867, Mr. Teeguarden gave his hand in marriage to Miss Lucy M. Gard- ner, whose heart, hand and life-long compan- ionship he had happily succeeded in winning. This lady is a daughter of Henry and Ann (Maxwell) Gardner, of Union county, Ind., the former a farmer and a veteran of the late war. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Teeguarden are Maud, Bennie, Wallace, Mabel, Willie, Earl and Annie, all of whom are still gracing the family reunions or brightening the house- hold by their daily presence. Mr. Teeguarden is a successful farmer, for the reason that he is an intelligent one, and his farm of seventy- two acres is in itself a model that denotes the superior ability of its owner. He is the pro- prietor of the Colfax saw-mill, and also holds a half interest in the chief manufacturing com- pany of Colfax. He is a member of Stillwell post, No. 375, G. A. R., and has filled the highest office-that of post commander. His position, socially, with his fellow-townsmen is a most desirable one, he and all his family be- ing respected by the entire community without reservation or exception.

EORGE W. TEMPLE, the oldest native of Clinton county, Ind., now residing in Frankfort, was the second white child born in Owen township, his birth having taken place May 30, 1831.

His parents were John and Diana (Berry) Temple, who settled in Indiana in 1830. John Temple was born in Scotland, from which country three brothers come to America together, one of whom went south, another remained in Pennsylvania, while John, with his wife and one child, came over-land in a one-horse wagon, in true pioneer style, and located in Owen township, Clinton coun- ty, Ind., where he made his home until his death, which occurred in the fall of 1834. His wife Diana had borne him four children, viz: Louisa J., deceased; George W., our subject; John A., of Frankfort, and Mary A., deceased. The widow, Diana, next married, in 1848, David Ferrer, a farmer of Clinton county, by whom she became the mother of three chil- dren, named: Sarah E., Hannah and James, and died of cholera in 1854-a member of the Presbyterian church.

George W. Temple was reared a farmer and was early inured to toil. He assisted in the support of the family until his mother's second marriage, when he apprenticed him- self for three years to the carpenter's trade under James Bunnell. Having finished his apprenticeship, he cut wood and drove team for five years, and then went to California, in February, 1854, via New York and the Isthmus of Panama, and landed in San Francisco, where he worked for one month for sixty dol- lars and his board. He then prospected and mined for himself three and a half years, acquiring a handsome competency. Return- ing to Clinton county in 1857, he hired part of the home farm in Owen township, bought more land and engaged in farming for three years, when he resumed carpentering, and, in 1861, added a general contracting and building business.

The marriage of Mr. Temple took place in Clinton county, February 23, 1858, to Mary A. Clark, a native of Juniatta county, Pa.,

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born June II, 1827, and a daughter of Mat- thew and Elizabeth Clark, natives of the same state. To this marriage have been born two children, viz: Rettie L., wife of James P. Gaddis, and Elonzo V., of whom mention is made in the following sketch. Mr. and Mrs. Temple are members of the Presbyterian church. Politically he is a democrat, and for four years was trustee of Owen township. He owns some very valuable real estate in town and country and has practically retired business, living in Frankfort.

LONZO V. TEMPLE, of the firm of Ashman & Temple, druggists, 6 North Main street, Frankfort, Ind., was born in Clinton county, November 22, 1860, and is a son of George W. and Mary A. (Clark) Temple. George W. Temple, the old- est native of Clinton county now residing in Frankfort, has his residence at the corner of Clinton and Aughe streets, an aristocratic neighborhood. But the home of the family was on the farm until Elonzo V. reached his thirteenth year, when the city was chosen for their place of residence, which it still continues to be.

Elonzo V. first attended the country schools of his native township of Owen, and the edu- cation there obtained was supplemented by a higher grade education at the schools of Frank- fort. He subsequently learned the carpenter's trade under his father, and at this he worked for three years, but for the past fourteen years he has been in the drug business-the first five years of which time were passed as a clerk. June 10, 1885, Charles Ashman and Mr. Tem- ple, with Frank E. Ross, bought out a drug store and founded the firm of Ashman, Temple & Ross, which was continued until 1891, when Mr. Ross withdrew, and the business continued

under the present firm name of Ashman & Temple -- now the most popular in the city.

The marriage of Mr. Temple took place, in 1890, to Miss Clara Belle Hillis, daughter of Anderville Hillis, who resides near Scircleville, Ind. Mr. Temple is a democrat in politics, and fraternally is a Knight of Pythias. In the biography of George W. Temple more inter- esting details concerning the family will be found. The residence of Elonzo V. Temple is a most beautiful one and is delightfully situ- ated on the corner of Aughe and Washington streets, the finest residence locality in the city of Frankfort. With his wife, he is also owner of 540 acres of arable land on Indian Priarie, in Johnson township, Clinton county, one mile north of Scircleville, all of which is under a high state of cultivation, with the exception of forty acres, and is well and substantially im- proved with modern farm dwelling and com- modious barns and convenient out-buildings, the financial condition of Mr. Temple permit- ting him to make such expenditure as may be necessary to render their farm a model one, and that will compare favorably with any other in the county. Mr. and Mrs. Temple are con- sistent members of the Presbyterian church, to the support of which they contribute most liberally.

ENRY H. THOMAS, member of the wholesale business firm of J. H. Fear & Co., also of the firm of Campbell, Thomas & Co., proprietors of the City mills and elevator of Frankfort. was born in Fayette county, Ind., August 18, 1848. He is of German descent paternally, and on his mother's side is descended from French ances- tors. His father, Minor L. Thomas, was a native of New York and son of David L. Thomas, also a New 'Yorker, and a pioneer of Fayette county, Ind., moving to that part of

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the country in a very early day. David L. . Thomas was a soldier In the war of 1812, and reared a family of three children-Minor L., Erastus, and Harriet. Minor L. Thomas mar- ried Cynthia Jeffrey, whose father, William Jeffrey, was a native of New York state and an early settler of Fayette county, Ind: Both Mr. Jeffrey and David L. Thomas moved with their respective families from New York to the county of Fayette, Ind., and located not far from the town of Connersville, where a number of other New- Yorkers also settled, the locality being designated by the name of "Yankee Town." The marriage of Minor L. and Cyn- thia Thomas was consummated in Fayette county in 1842, and resulted in the birth of three children-William D., Henry H. and Caroline. The mother died in 1859, and the father in 1863. Minor Thomas served in the late war as a member of the Fifty-fourth Indi- ana infantry, and rose from orderly sergeant to the rank of second lieutenant. He took part in a number of battles, and after the siege of Vicksburg was granted a furlough on ac- count of ill health, having contracted a chronic ailment which resulted in his death nine days after arriving home. In 1838 he had entered government land in Tipton county, Ind., set- tled thereon immediately after his marriage, and aided in laying out the original plate of the town of Tipton. He resided in that county until 1848, at which time he moved back to Fayette county and lived there until his return to Tipton six years later.

H. H. Thomas was born and brought up on a farm and his educational training embraced the studies usually taught in country schools. Mr. Thomas enlisted May, 1864, in company D, One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Indiana volun- teer infantry, in the hundred day serivce, and served six months and fifteen days and was in garrison duty in Kentucky and Tennessee- was discharged October, 1864, at Indianapo-

lis. In the year 1872, he left the farm, and with a capital of $600, saved from his earnings, went to the town of Tipton and engaged in the buying and selling of live stock, which from the first, proved a most gratifying suc- cess. He remained at Tipton until 1876, and then removed to Elwood, where, during the four succeeding years, he bought and sold live stock and conducted a business in grain. Re- turning to Tipton, he continued dealing in live stock until 1885, but from 1876 was associated in the business with J. H. Fear, Esq.

In 1885. Messrs. Thomas & Fear embarked in the wholesale poultry business, in which they have since continued, having at the pres- ent time houses at Frankfort, Tipton, Nobles- ville and Colfax, being among the most exten- sive dealers in their line in Indiana. In De- cember, 1892, the firm of Campbell, Thomas & Co., was organized as proprietors of the City mills and elevator of Frankfort, and the better to give his attention to his business, Mr. Thomas in that year moved to Frankfort and has since made this city his home. In 1886 Mr. Thomas was nominated by the republican party of Tipton county for the office of circuit clerk, and such was his popularity that at the ensuing election he defeated his competitor by: a majority of ninety-nine, although the oppo- site party in Tipton had always been in the ascendancy. He was the first and only repub- lican ever elected to the clerkship in the coun- ty of Tipton, and he discharged the duties of the position with acknowledged ability for a period of four years. As a business man, Mr. Thomas is safe and reliable, and his name has never been connected with any transaction of a questionable nature. He possesses financial ability of a high order, and his various enter- prises, managed with intelligence and wise forethought, have resulted most profitably, and he is now one of the representative and well-to-do business men of Frankfort. Mr.

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Thomas is a prominent member of the I. Q. O. F .. and personally he stands high in the estimation of all with whom he has had busi- ness or other relations. His home is presided over by Mrs. Thomas, whose maiden name was Henrietta Free, and to whom he was united in marriage in the year 1878.

EVI L. THOMAS, of Jackson town- ship, Clinton county, Ind., was born in- Ripley county, Ind., March 11, 1847, the son of Purrel K. and Eliza A. (Merrick) Thomas, both parents natives of the Hoosier state. Purrel K. Thomas was the son of David Thomas, a native of Ohio who came to Indiana in an early day, settling in the county of Ripley, where he followed the occupation of farming. Purrel was reared in Ripley county, early chose agriculture for a life work, and came to Clinton county in the year 1857, locating about ten miles north of Frankfort, where he purchased 480 acres of land which, by reason of its many improve- ments, became quite valuable. Five years prior to his death, he retired from the farmn, moving to Frankfort, where the remaining days of his life were passed. He was born in in the year of 1818 and died on the twenty- third of June, 1885. By his marriage with Eliza A. Merrick he had seven children, name- ly : Levi L .; Helen N., wife of Jacob L. Catron; William D .; Indiana H., wife of John Beard: John W .; Laura, wife of Wood Thompson, and an infant that died unnamed. By his second wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth A. Anderson and who still lives on the old place, he had five children whose names are as follows : Nevada, wife of John Miller; Jennie B., wife of Charles Hammond; Pernal; Hugh B. ; and one that died in infancy.

Levi L. Thomas was reared on his father's farm, attended the common schools at intervals

during his minority, and, after becoming of 'age, engaged in agricultural pursuits on the home place for a part of the proceeds, being thus employed for a period of one year. He then purchased eighty acres of his own, to which he has made additions at different times, and now owns a beautiful farm of 280 acres, lying in one of the finest agricultural districts of Clinton county. Mr. Thomas has made many valuable improvements upon his farm, and, as a tiller of the soil and successful stock raiser, he ranks among the best of his town- ship. He raises full-blooded short-horned cattle, and his other livestock, notably horses and hogs, indicate the great interest he has taken in this department of the farmer's voca- tion. Mr. Thomas was married October 2, 1870, to Margaret A. Campbell, daughter of William and Sarah J. (Morrison) Campbell, the result of which union has been six children : James W., born August 20, 1871, Lewis L., born September 16, 1874: Jesse O., born November 4, 1876, died February 19, 1877; Iona E., born August 30, 1879; Nellie B , born June 30, 1884. and Glen D., born July 11, 1888. The mother of these children was born on the second day of September, 1850. Mr. Thomas, as already stated, is a successful farm- er, and his reputation as a liberal-minded citi- zen has never been impeached in the com- munity where he is so widely and favorably known. He is a member of the Masonic order, belonging to Frankfort lodge, No. 54, and in politics exercises the elective franchise in behalf of the democratic party.

3 OHN CHARLES F. THOMPSON, a thriving and enterprising farmer of Kirklin township, Clinton county, Ind., was born May 3. 1854. in Rush coun- ty, Ind., and through his great-grandfather is of English descent. His grandfather, Thomas

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Thompson, was a native of this country, was a farmer of Franklin county, Ind., and mar- ried Nancy Walker, by whom he became the father of two children-Alfred and Thomas. The last named was born in Indiana in 1814, was reared a farmer, and married Hannah Williams, who was born in 1818, in-Wayne county, Ind., and was a daughter of Jonas and Samantha Williams. In 1844, Thomas Thompson and wife settled in Rush county, Ind., where Thomas died in 1862, his wife surviving to -reach the age of seventy-three years. They were in very good circumstances, owning 160 acres in Boone county and 240 acres in Rush county, and both were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Their nine children were born in the following order: Samantha, died when a child; Alfred F .; Sarah; Ward; Everett; Winfield; John Charles F. ; Oliver, deceased, and Thomas, deceased.

John C. F. Thompson was reared to the toils and pleasures of farming, lived most of the time on the home place until he had reached the age of twenty-five years, when he married Belle Kemple, who was born October 18, 1856, in Butler county, Ohio, the daughter of David and Sarah (Jones) Kemple, and to this happy union of Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have been born Clayton E., May 22, 1881; Myrtie, March 28, 1884, and Goldie, Septem- ber 28, 1886. The parents began housekeep- ing on thirty acres, on which they lived four years, and then sold for $80 per acre and moved to Kirklin township, when Mr. Thomp- son bought sixty-three acres on the Michigan- town road, at $40 per acre. This he culti- vates with the utmost care, having laid 785 rods of tiling to increase its fertility. The old log cabin has given way to a fine modern dwelling, at a cost of $1, 300, and a commodi- ous barn has been erected worth at least $600, together with other outbuildings that denote the thrifty and prosperous farmer. Mr.

Thompson devotes special attention to the raising of horses and hogs, and he has, also, a fine young orchard, with an abundance of small fruits, and his entire surroundings are those of comfort and beauty.

Mr. Thompson is in politics a republican and has served as deputy prosecutor and as delegate to the republican county convention. In religion he is a Presbyterian, and has filled the position of deacon in his congregation the past four years. He is a stock holder in the Kirklin and Terhune Natural Gas company, and of course uses the natural product in his own tasty dwelling, and he and his faithful wife live in the enjoyment of the respect of all their friends and neighbors.

EORGE L. THOMPSON, an enter- prising business man, member of the lumber firm of Deming & Thompson, was born March 2, 1860, in Michigan City, La Porte county, Ind. His father, Charles C. Thompson, was born in the city of Philadelphia, Pa., in 1817, and came to Indi- ana, a single man, in the year 1848, and mar- ried, in Michigan City, Miss Martha Nosworthy, who was born near Plymouth, England, in 1828. Charles C. Thompson was a railroad contractor and came west for the purpose of engaging in the construction of the Monon route. He died in Michigan City in 1865, and his wife departed this life in the year 1870.

George L. Thompson was the only child of his parents. He was five years of age when his father died, and when ten years old was de- prived of the best of all earthly friends, a mother. From his tenth to his sixteenth year he lived with his uncle, who was also his guar- dian, and in the meantime attended the schools of Michigan City, acquiring therein a fair knowledge of the English branches. Subse- quently, he attended the Irving Park Military

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school at Chicago one' year, and then entered the Commercial college at Toronto, Canada, in which he completed the prescribed course, graduating in 1879. After receiving his di. ploma, Mr. Thompson accepted a clerical po- sition in the office of the Michigan Central railroad company, at Michigan City, the duties of which he discharged two years, and then became book-keeper and general office man with the manufacturing firm of Ford, Johnson & Co., Michigan City, with which he remained until his removal to Frankfort in May, 1887. On coming to the latter city, Mr. Thompson, in partnership with his father-in-law, Charles O. Deming, purchased the lumber business of J. F. Morgan, and the firm thus constituted lasted until the death of Mr. Deming. Subse- quently he became associated in the business with E. P. Deming, son of Charles O., a part- nership which still exists, and which is the most successful enterprise of the kind in Frank- fort. Messrs. Deming & Thompson deal very extensively in rough and dressed lumber, doors, window-frames, and other builder's material, the volume of their business representing about $100,000 annually. In addition to the plant in Frankfort, Mr. Thompson is also interested in a similar company in La Fayette, Ind., known as the Tippecanoe Lumber company, of which he is at this time vice-president.

Mr. Thompson was united in marriage in the year 1881 to Mary F. Deming, daughter of the late Charles O. Deming, of Frankfort, a union blessed by the birth of two children- Coy Charles and Frank Deming. Mr. Thomp- son is prominently identified with the Pythian fraternity and also belongs to the Masonic or- der, in the latter of which he has risen to the rank of Sir Knight. As a politician he is equally prominent, being a recognized leader in the republican party of Clinton county, and has done effective service in a number of cam- paigns, both local and general. As a business

man he is zealous and successful in the full sense in which the term is usually accepted, and as a citizen he stands high in the estimation of the people of Frankfort, and enjoys in a marked degree the confidence and esteem of all with whom he has business or other relations.

ERRIN TICEN, who resides on a farm in Warren township, Clinton county, Ind., is one of the worthy citizens that Ohio has furnished to this state. He was born in Greene county of the Buckeye state, November 8, 1829, and is a son of Pier- son and Hannah (Branson) Ticen, both of whom were natives of New Jersey, and were of English descent. The father was born in 1801, and with his parents removed from his native state to Greene county, Ohio. In 1838 he came to Clinton county, Ind., where he purchased 160 acres of land, and at the time of his death owned a valuable and highly im- proved farm of 200 acres. His death occurred on December 17. 1880, and his wife died on January 4, 18;1. Their union was blessed with a family of thirteen children, seven of whom are yet living. They are Elizabeth, widow of John Milliner; Matilda J. and Hend- derson, both deceased; Perrin, of this sketch; Andrew, who has also passed away; Abigail, wife .of Joseph V. Rice; Joseph M .; Sherin; Moses, deceased; Marion; William; Elmer, de- ceased, and one who died in infancy.

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Author: Publication date: 1895 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Bowen & Co. Number of Pages: 1080

Author:
Publication date: 1895
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Bowen & Co.
Number of Pages: 1080