A portrait and biographical record of Delaware and Randolph 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 149

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Publication date: 1894
Publisher: Chicago, A. W. Bowen & Co.
Number of Pages: 1474

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Fort Sumter was fired on April, 12, 1861, and on the 13th, James Patchell, fired with patriotic ardor for his adopted country, led fifteen other molders out of the back window of the shop, leaving dinner buckets behind, and, sending word to their wives, hastened to Harrisburg, in their working clothes, and, with the smut and grime of their occupation still thick upon them, enlisted, April 17, 1861, in the Thirteenth Pennsylvania infantry for three months, took part in the battle of Fall- ing Waters, and came out at the close of his term as orderly sergeant August 19, 1861, he joined the One Hundred and Second P. V. I. as first lieutenant of company D. The regiment was assigned to the army of the

Potomac, Fourth army corps, under Gen. George B. McClellan, and the deeds of that hero and his corps are a matter of history. Suffice it to say that Lieut. Patchell was through the peninsula campaign-was at Will- iamsburg. Chickahominy, Fair Oaks, Seven Pines, the seven days' fight around Richmond, and after this was promoted to a captaincy, having, in fact, led his company through all these battles. From the peninsula he went to join the army before Washington with Couch's division; took part in the second bat- tle of Bull Run, covering the retreat at Chan- tilly, and was next at South Mountain and Antietam; was in front of Fredericksburg, at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Salem Heights, Rappahannock Station, Franklin Crossing, in the Wilderness, at Spottsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Fort Stevens, and at Winchester, Va., where he was wounded in the face, but never left the field; was at Fish- er's Hill, Cedar Creek (where he was wounded in the leg, October 19, 1864, and carries an ounce ball therein to this day); was at the taking of Petersburg, April 1, 2 and 3, 1865, and was wounded in both hands and left side on the Ist, but never left the field; was at Sailor's Creek, and at Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865, at the surrender of Lee, and was mustered out at Washington, D. C., June 28, 1865. The captain commanded his regiment from the battle of the Wilderness, on account of his major and colonel having been wounded. He served in the One Hundred and Second through all the ranks, from lieu- tenant to colonel, having been breveted as colonel for bravery at the battle of Winches- ter, Va., by President Lincoln. It may be mentioned here that the enlistment in the One Hundred and Second, from August, 1861, to the close, was 2, 100, and that the loss was thirty-nine officers, and 905 enlisted men, mak- ing a total of 944.

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On his return to Pittsburg the colonel went to molding on the same floor that he had left, and their worked until 1867, when he came to Union City, Ind., and started a foundry and machine shop, on the Ohio side, in company with four others, and carried it on for three years; he was next employed as car- inspector for the "Bee Line" railroad com- pany for eleven years; then. started a small foundry of his own on the Indiana side, and now advancing years admonish him to retire from an active business.

The colonel was married in Pittsburg, Pa., to Miss Mary A. Fairbourn, the offspring being George W., now editor of the Union City Times, and Charles L. S., a printer on the Chicago Inter Ocean. Mrs. Patchell lived in connubial bliss with the colonel until Au- gust, 1883, when she was called to her final rest. The colonel was reared a Presbyterian, but on his marriage joined the Methodist Protestant church, in which his wife held her faith. On coming to Union City they joined the Methodist Episcopal congregation, there being no Methodist Protestant in the city. The colonel is a Mason, a Knight of the Gold- en Eagle, a member of the I. O. R. M., and was the first commander of Sedgwick post. G. A. R., named after his corps commander.

EORGE W. PATCHELL, son of James and Mary A. Patchell, was born March 10, 1858, at Pittsburg, Pa. He attended the schools of Pittsburg until the removal of the family to Union City, and completed his course of study in the schools of this place. At the age of sixteen years, he entered upon an apprentice- ship at the printer's trade, in the office of the Union City Times, of which John Commons was then editor. Three years later, he pur-

chased the Times, and has ever since continued as editor and proprietor of this paper. Under his management its sphere of usefulness has been extended, and it is recognized among the leading and influential journals of eastern In- diana. It is a faithful exponent of the prin- ciples of the republican party, and enjoys a very satisfactory circulation. Its editor, though a young man, has developed marked ability in his chosen profession, and occupies a high rank in the journalistic fraternity, while his social standing is of the best. Mr. Patchell was one of the charter members of Invincible lodge, Knights of Pythias, at Union City, and is still an active and interested member of fhat fraternity.

From 1888 till 1893, Mr. Patchell was exec- utive member for Indiana of the Republican League of clubs, and attended all the county, state and national conventions of that body; he had also attended every district, state and national convention of the republican party since 1880. He has serve of secretary of the republican county committee, and also as chairman of the city committee. He is past grand chancellor of Invincible lodge, K. of P., and is a member of Invincible division, No. 15, uniform rank, K. of P. For the past two years he has been a member of the real estate firm of Patchell & Heck, which has done a most prosperous business.

Mr. Patchell was married on the 14th of December, 1880, to Miss Lillie Butcher, a na- tive of Union City, and daughter of John Butcher. She is an estimable lady, and shares with her husband the regard of a large circle of friends. The union has been blessed by the birth of two sons-Roy, now seven years of age, and Jamie, aged three.

The Butcher family, like the Patchell family, maintain a high standing in the society of Union City, being recognized as among its most enterprising citizens.

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a HARLES PRIOR, very popular as a livery man of Union City, was born in Prussia (near Carsel, Germany), January 5, 1839, and is a son of Adam and Ann Catherine (Shaffer) Prior, who, when Charles was about nine years of age, came to America, and for a year lived in Columbus, Ohio, and then settled in Milford Centre, Union county, where a married sister had pre- ceded them. Charles there attended the common school and learned to read both Eng- lish and German. At the age of sixteen he began blacksmithing, and followed the trade until twenty-two, when he enlisted August 9, 1861, in the Thirty-second O. V. I., and was sent to West Virginia. He was at Cheat Mountain and in several skirmishes, but his first battle was at Greenbrier. At Alleghany Mount, December 13, 1861, he was shot through the ankle, the ball coming out under the heel, from which wound he was confined at Beverly two months before he could walk on a crutch. He was absent sixty days on furlough, and when he rejoined his command his wound was still very tender. His command was then at Strassbourg, under Gen. Fremont. He was up the Shenandoah valley, at Win- chester, Va., and at Harper's Ferry, and was with Gen. Miles when he surrendered.

The fight at Antietam caused the parole of several thousand prisoners, Mr. Prior among the rest, and for some time were placed in Camp Douglas, at Chicago, until exchanged, when they mustered at Cleveland in the early part of 1863, and were sent to join Grant at Vicksburg. After the surrender of that city, the boys were then sent to Louisiana and to Jackson, Miss., and in the winter of 1864, veteranization set in, but Mr. Prior was reject- ed on account of his wound. But he was given a veteran's furlough, went to Meridian, and then home. At the expiration of furlough, he return- ed to his command and fought at Kenesaw

Mountain; then marched with Sherman to At- lanta, where his time expired August 9, 1864, and he returned to Milford Centre, Ohio, and in the spring of 1865 came to Union City, Ind., bought an interest in a blacksmith shop, and was with Tom Lewis for awhile, and then built a shop of his own, which he ran for many years. Advancing years compelled him to relinquish blacksmithing, and he enlarged and remodeled his shop and established his livery business, which he prosperously con- ducted until a fire, June 27, 1893, destroyed his stables. He saved his stock of all kinds, however, and is now temporarily doing busi- ness within one block of the old site.

R. JEREMIAH A. PROCTOR, a prac- ticing physician and druggist of Union City, Ind., is a son of Joel and Lucretia (Crouse) Proctor, and was born in Butler county, Ohio, April 10, 1829. When a small boy he was brought to Indiana by his parents, who settled in Franklin county, on the state line, near Contreras, Ohio, where he attended the common schools and clerked in winter, and assisted on the farm in summer. At the age of eighteen he began the study of medicine with Dr. Huston, of College Corner, Butler county, Ohio, and graduated from the St. Louis college of Medicine at the age of twenty-one, being the youngest, except one, to graduate from that institution down to that time. His mother, Lucretia (Crouse) Proctor, was also a practising physician. The young physician first located for practice near Oxford, Ohio, and was quite successful until the civil war war broke out. He then removed to Fairfield, Ind., where he alternated between his practice and the drug business for ten or more years. In 1877 he settled in Union City and erected his present building at No.

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66 Oak street, and opened business under the style of "Proctor & Co.," which firm was suc- ceeded in January, 1881, by the present pro- prietors, who occupy for salesroom and labora- tory one floor and basement, each 22×45 feet in dimensions, carrying a full line of the purest and freshest drugs and chemicals, standard and proprietary medicines, toilet articles, per- fumes and druggists' sundries generally. This firm also make a leading specialty of the accu- rate preparation of physicians' prescriptions, family recipes and pharmaceutical compounds, and manufacture "Dr. Proctor's Ague Specific," "Dr. Proctor's Hops and Boneset, " for coughs, colds, asthma, etc .; and "Dr. Proctor's Cele- brated Balsam," three of the most desirable proprietary medicines of the day. The indi- vidual members of this firm are Dr. J. A. Proctor and his son, Mr. Charles A. Proctor. Dr. Proctor acknowledges no superior in the United States, having never failed to cure a cancer, ulcer or tumor, where he has promised a cure. He removes cancers without the use of instruments or causing much pain, and those who may desire to consult him may rely upon his guaranteeing just what he promises to per- forms, and he is responsible for his pledges. He has also a specific for hydrophobia, which was used by his mother over half a century.

The doctor is a conscientious member of the Christian church, and for sixteen years was a minister of that denomination, preach- ing in Butler county, Ohio, and Franklin coun- ty, Ind. His marriage took place in 1843, to Miss Sarah A., daughter of Coperthwait C. Smith, of Ohio, and the union has been blessed with two children: Lydia E. and Charles A., the latter the business partner of his father. The wife of Dr. Proctor died December 19, 1892. Joel Proctor the father of Dr. Jeremiah A., came from England when a young man, followed carpentering in the state of New York until the outbreak of

the war of 1812, when he entered the Ameri- can army, fought through the war, and after its close came west, worked at his trade near Oxford, Ohio, and died of cholera in 1832. Mrs. Proctor's father was Dr. Crouse of Kinderhook, N. Y., and under him she studied medicine. She was constantly employed in practice while in Ohio and Indiana, and gained a wide-spread reputation by having formula- ted a cure for rabies, and her saving from death many who had been bitten by rabid dogs. She died in 1863. Dr. Jeremiah A. Proctor is an upright citizen, whose word is as good as his bond, and has a wide circle of friends. He possesses a large collection of let- ters and unsolicited testimonials from hun- dreds of patients he has treated with success and he has been deservedly prosperous in his professional career.

AJ. JOHN L. REEVES, M. D., now of Union City, Randolph coun- ty, Ind., was born in Darke county, Ohio, September 14, 1827, a son of James and Rachel Reeves. May 10, 1832, the family canie to Indiana and settled on a farm four and a half miles north of Union City, in Jackson township, the father being about the fourth voter to build his cabin in that precinct. John L. was reared like all other young pion- eer lads were, going to school in inclement weather only, and attending the farm duties at times when the air was pleasant, and thus his life was passed until he reached his majority, and during this interval the farm was cleared up. He started to read medicine at home, however, before he was of age, and worked at plastering, at $8 per month, in order to defray expenses. He next studied under Dr. Noah Simons, of New Lisbon. In 1849 he married Angeline Milligan, but this lady was taken

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away from him in 1854. The same year he began practice at Pittsburg, Randolph county, Ind., and successfully continued until 1856, when he located at Lancaster, Jay county, Ind., where he built up a fine business and was actively employed until the war broke out. He then recruited a company of state guards at Lancaster, which was offered to the government at Indianapolis, but the rolls had been filled, and the company was distributed throughout various regiments, the doctor en- tering the Fortieth Ohio voluntary infantry, as lieutenant in company F, and was first sent to Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio. Thence the regiment was sent to eastern Kentucky, and became part of the army of the Cumber- land.

The lieutenant was then made captain of his company, and was under Garfield at Pound Gap, and in all marches and skirmishes in which his regiment took part. At Chicka- mauga, September 20, 1863, he was wounded in the left ankle, which is still lame at times. He was also stunned by a shell, and supposed by his comrades to be dead. But, recovering from the shock, he was nevertheless disabled for three months. He came near being cap- tured the same day, but was spared the hor- rors of Andersonville, and the perils, and per- haps the fact of an awful death in that fearful prison pen. His company was then placed to guard the crossing at Shell Mound, Tenn., and the captain remained with them, not going to the hospital, but lying on a brush heap until the spring of 1864. Here the company, as a company, veteranized January 1, 1864, and in March of the same year Capt. Reeves was promoted to be major, and served with that rank until mustered out December 10, 1864. In the meantime his company had gone into the Atlanta campaign, and after Gen. Hood; at the battle of Franklin, the major's regiment was consolidated with the Fifty-first Ohio, of

which Major Reeves was offered the colonelcy, but, as he had been in active service three years and four months, and his health was somewhat shattered, he declined the honor, resigned his commission as major, returned home, and was for a short time engaged in the grocery business at Union City. In 1866, he entered the Eclectic Medical college, at Cin- cinnati, graduated in 1867, and resumed his practice, but this time at Union City. He here enjoyed a very large and lucrative prac- tice uhtil 1882, when an old army trouble (diarrhœa) returned, and he was compelled to relinquish active work. In 1890, however, he purchased his present drug store in the opera building, which he utilizes for both office and business room.

To the first marriage of Dr. Reeves with Angelina Milligan there were born two chil- dren: James Samuel, of Union City, and Emeretta, who lived in Missouri with her grandmother, Margaret Milligan, a widow, but who were both driven out by the rebels in the fall of 1861, and both died seven years later at the home of John Milligan, in Darke county, Ohio, from nervous prostration and exposure caused primarily by their expulsion. The father of Mrs. Angelina (Milligan) Reeves, Samuel Milligan, came from Erie county, Pa., was married in that state, and, on coming west, first located in Shelby county, Ohio; whence he came to Randolph county, in March, 1841, remaining until 1855, and then went to Henry county, Mo., where he died in 1860. By his first marriage he was the father of four children; by a second marriage, to Margaret Graham, he became the father of twelve chil- dren. The second marriage of Dr. Reeves was to Esther McFarland, of Pittsburg, Ran- dolph county, Ind., and of the four children born to this union three are still living, viz .: Elizabeth A., wife of Charles W. Truitt; John C. F., grocer of Union City, and William R.,

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at home. The doctor is a stanch republican and cast his first presidential vote for John C. Fremont. He uses all his influence to strenghten the hands of the party, but he never asks a favor at those hands.

J AMES S. REEVES, a prominent and well known business man of Union City, was born December 26, 1850. His parents, Maj. John L. and An- gelina (Milligan) Reeves, resided on a farm in Jackson township, Delaware county, Ind. When James was ten years of age the family moved to Lancaster, Ind. They had lived in their new home but a short time when the civil war broke out and James S.'s father was one of the first one to answer Lincoln's call for troops, entering the army as lieutenant. Being an officer, he was allowed a servant, and James S., owing to the strong filial tie that bound him to his father and the burning desire of his little heart to be a soldier, was chosen for this place, and remained with his father throughout the struggle.

Mr. Reeves was married in 1879 to Lizzie Borhis and three years later engaged in the grocery business, which has kept up ever since. He is an earnest supporter of the principles of the republican party and served as postmaster in Union City under Harrison from 1889 to 1893, his term expiring April 15. His grocery is situated on Columbia street and is a very popular store, Mr. Reeves possessing every re- quisite to qualify him as a first-class business man.

R. GRANVILLE REYNARD, of Union City, is the third son of Nathan and Eliza A. (Griffin) Rey- nard, and was born on a farm near Winchester, Ind., April 26, 1857. His grand-

father, Jeremiah Reynard, a native of Penn- sylvania, was among the earliest settlers of White River township, Randolph county, and his wife, Sarah R., was a native of North Carolina. Nathan Reynard, the father of our subject, was born in Randolph county, March 16, 1821. He was educated in the log cabin subscription schools of those days, and was married May 8, 1851, to Eliza A. Griffin, daughter of James Griffin, a North Carolinian, who was a representative of one of the promi- ment and early families of Wayne county, Ind. The parents of our subject were members of the Society of Friends, industrious, temperate and frugal. The father was recognized as a man of sound judgment and quick perception. He served his township as justice of the peace, acceptably, for three terms. He reared five children to manhood and womanhood, all of whom are now living. Another died at the age of sixteen. They are Vespasian C., Emily J., Azile (deceased), Granville, Edward G. and Sada A. The father died in 1890.

Dr. Granville Reynard received the rudi- ments of a common school education in the township schools and supplemented this with an attendance at the Winchester high school. He studied medicine with Dr. John T. Cheno- weth, of Winchester, and in 1879 entered the Ohio medical college, from which he gradua- ted in 1881. He established himself and practiced his profession for three and a half years at Castine, Darke county, Ohio. In 1884, he came to Union City, Ind., where he has ever since enjoyed a large and lucrative practice. For the last seven years, Dr. Rey- nard has ably filled the position of United States pension examiner, serving as secretary of the board. The doctor is an active and in- fluential member of the Randolph County Medical society, the Delaware District Medi- cal society, the Indiana State Medical society, the American Medical association, the Missis-

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sippi Valley Medical association, and an hon- orary member of the Southwestern Ohio as- sociation. In politics, Dr. Reynard is a repub- lican, and takes an active interest in pro- moting his party's welfare. He was married August 5, 1886, to Miss Anna Dean, of Union City, Ind., and to this marriage there are born two children, Florence and James.

Associated with Dr. Reynard is his younger brother, Dr. Edward G. Reynard, who was born in Randolph county, in 1860. His youth was spent on a farm and in the common schools, until the age of eighteen, when he at- tended the Central Normal college, at Dan- ville, Ind. Following this, he taught school for six years and utillized his vacations in the study of medicine. He graduated from the Ohio Medical college at Cincinnati, in 1884, and began practice in Darke county, Ohio, where he remained until 1890, when he came to Union City, and formed a co-partneship with his brother, Dr. G. Reynard. He was married, in 1889, to Ida G. Martin, a daughter of L. R. Martin, of Darke county, Ohio.

J OHN A. ROSENBUSH, the eldest son of John A. and Wilhelmina (Shaeland) Rosenbush, was born in Union City, Ind., August 10, 1858. His father, John L. Rosenbush, was born in Oldenburg, Germany, March 4, 1827. He attended school in his native country until fourteen years of age, when he was apprenticed for three years at the trade of turning near the village of Oehen, in Hanover, his father hav- ing died when John L. was a small boy. He followed his trade in Germany until 1849, when he immigrated to America, and located at Cincinnati, Ohio, where he followed the carpenter trade for about five years. Dur- ing his stay there he was married, in 1853,

to Miss Wilhelmina Shaeland of that city. In 1854 he came to Union City, Ind., attracted here by the demand for carpenters to erect houses in the fast growing new town. He followed his trade here of carpentering until 1867, and during a portion of this time was co-partner with Jacob Klumpp, and together they built a large number of the first frame buildings erected in this place. In 1867, Mr. Rosenbush gave up his carpentering and re- turned to his original trade of furniture mak- ing and followed it for about ten years. Dur- ing this period the financial condition of the country affected this business in such a way as to make it unprofitable, and Mr. Rosen- bush has, since 1877, been principally em- ployed in responsible positions in the factories of Union City, being everywhere recognized as a skillful mechanic and as a trustworthy gentleman. In politics Mr. Rosenbush is a democrat, and served one term as member of the city council. Since childhood he has been a member of the Lutheran church here, and is a trustee of the same. Mr. Rosenbush is the father of nine children; John A., subject of this sketch; Henry G., salesman of the Witham & Bowen Lumber company; Lizzie, at home with her parents; Aaron W., a mer- chant tailor at Hartford City; Adolph G., clerk in Hendrick's drug store, and Daniel H., at home. Besides those living, three daugh- ters died in infancy or childhood.

John A. Rosenbush, subject of this sketch, is a typical self-made business man. He re- ceived a good, common school education here, and at the age of thirteen became a clerk in Hardy's drug store, where he rendered pro- ficient and intelligent service for about twenty years under the same employer. During this period Mr. Rosenbush acquired a well de- served reputation for skill and reliability in preparing and compounding all kinds of medi- cines. March 1, 1891, he embarked in busi-

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ness for himself, opening a well stocked drug store in his present site in the Oehler building on Columbia street, where he has enjoyed a large and lucrative trade in all kinds of drugs, paints, oils and fancy articles. He has one of the finest drug stores in Indiana. In poli- tics he is an independent. His residence, at No. 141 North Walnut street, is one of the best in Union City. He was married in 1881 to Miss Mary Dozer, daughter of the late J. G. Dozer of Union City. To this marriage there is born one daughter-Mabel.

ENRY G. ROSENBUSH, the son of John L. Bosenbush, was born in Union City, Randolph county, Ind., March 23, 1862. The Rosenbush family is a well known one in Wayne town- ship, as well as in Union City, and, indeed, throughout Randolph county. By reference to the sketch of John A. Rosenbush, in close conjunction with this, further details will be found in relation to Henry G. Rosenbush's antecedents. As a lad, however, Henry G., was not at all behind his associates. At the age of fourteen years he had completed his common school education in Union City, and even at that early age was able to go to work in the planing mill owned by P. Kuntz, where he passed one year, making at least money enough to support himself. His talents and ability were fully recognized, and he was trans- ferred to the counting-room of the same firm, became book-keeper and shipping clerk, and for the long period of thirteen years a sales- man. February 22, 1890, Mr. Rosenbush entered the employ of the Witham & Bowen Lumber company, his ability as salesman and shipping clerk having made him a reputation fully recognized by every firm in the trade, and this position he still holds.

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A portrait and biographical record of Delaware and Randolph 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 149

Author: Publication date: 1894 Publisher: Chicago, A. W. Bowen & Co. Number of Pages: 1474

Author:
Publication date: 1894
Publisher: Chicago, A. W. Bowen & Co.
Number of Pages: 1474