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 19

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

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S AMUEL O. BUDD, senior member of the famous dental firm of Budd & Son, Muncie, Ind., is a native of West- chester county, N. Y., and was born November 23, 1829. His parents, John P., and Hebe (Sands) Budd, were also natives of New York state, the former of whom was of Scotch and French extraction and the latter of English parentage. To John P. and Hebe there were but two children born-Susan and Samuel O. The family came to Union county, Ind., in 1836, and settled near Fairfield, where Samuel O. was reared on a farm until twenty years of age. In April, 1853, they came to Muncie, but in the meantime Samuel O. had learned both the carpenter's trade and gun- smithing, and on arriving in Muncie opened a

gunsmith shop and carried on the business until 1860. He then began the study of dentistry with Drs. Riley & McCormick, and in a short time, under their preceptorship, he became a proficient in the art. In 1861 he opened a dentist's office, but still continued doing odd jobs at gunsmithing. By 1863 his fame as a dentist had become established, and from that time on he has devoted his entire attention to the science. He has been a hard student and is thoroughly posted in his profession, has made an excellent reputation and enjoys a lucrative practice.

Dr. Budd was married, in 1853, to Miss Indiana Allen, daughter of John Allen, a pioneer of Franklin county, Ind .; this lady was born November 1, 1834, and has become the mother of five children, viz: Ada S. A., now Mrs. Edwin Ellis; Chester Allen, who entered into business with his father July 15, 1879; Rose; wife of William S. Stewart; Mary, deceased, and John M. The doctor and his amiable wife are members of the Universalist church being charter members of their church society. In his earlier days the doctor was a republican in politics, but in 1884 he became a prohibitionist and now is one of the stanchest advocate's of that cause. He is a royal arch Mason, and as a member of society he and family enjoy the sincere respect of their neighbors, and as professional men he and his son hold positions among the foremost dentists of Muncie.

a HESTER ALLEN BUDD, of the firm of Budd & Son, the famous dental surgeons of Muncie, Ind., is a native of the city and was born March 13, 1857, and of whom further mention of his parentage has been made above. Chester A. has passed his whole business career in Mun-

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cie and all of his social career. From her high school he graduated in June, 1875, fol- lowing which date he entered the Ohio college of Dental Surgery at Cincinnati, and after graduating in 1879 returned to Muncie and en- gaged in practice with his father, and from that date on has filled a foremost position in the profession in all its various branches, pros- thetic and theoretical. He was most happily married, September 18, 1879, to Miss Fran- ces L. Corbly, who was born in Mount Wash- ington, Hamilton county, Ohio, December 20, 1854, a daughter of William and Louise (Den- ham) Corbly, a most respectable family now residing in Muncie, having come to the state in 1874. Seven children have been born to bless this union and are named Alma S., William O., Ada May, Chester F., Bessie E., Frank W. and Allen M. Mr. Budd is a mem- ber of Muncie lodge, No. 74, I. O. O. F., and the Muncie encampment, No. 30. In politics he is a republican, and with his wife he is a member of the Universalist church.

R OBERT A. BUNCH, M. D., one of the most successful physicians and surgeons of Muncie, was born Octo- ber 28, 1852, in the town of Portland, Jay county, Ind. Paternally he descended from French ancestry, and on the mother's side traces the history of his family back to Ireland. His grandfather, William Bunch, left France in an early day, emigrating to the United States and settling in North Carolina. He served with distinction in the war of 1812, and many years ago moved to Indiana, set- tling in the town of Portland, thence later moved to Plymouth, Marshall county, where his death occurred at the advanced age of eighty-nine years. The doctor's maternal grandfather was born in Ireland, from which

country he emigrated to Virginia, and after residing in that state a number of years became a resident of Ohio. Ishmael Bunch, the doc- tor's father, was born in North Carolina and came to Indiana at the age of thirty, settling west of Portland, in Jay county, where he en- gaged in farming and stock raising. He mar- ried, at the age of thirty-five, Miss Margaret Bishop of Greene county, Ohio, by whom he had five children, namely, Dixon M., Robert A., Nathan E., John A. and Elizabeth N. Of these, Robert A., Nathan E. and John A. are living at this time. Ishmael Bunch died on the 25th day of February, 1865, at his home in Jay county, after an illness of almost two years.

Dr. Bunch attended the public schools of Portland until his fifteenth year, and then en- tered Liber college, Jay county, which he attended five terms, supplementing his educa- tion in that institution by a course in the Northern Indiana Normal school at Valparaiso. He early signified his intention of becoming a physician, and after finishing his literary course he began reading medicine in the office of Gillam & Allen of Portland, under whose instruction he continued for some time, and then began the practice of his profession at DeSoto, a small village in Delaware county. With a laudable desire to increase his profes- sional knowledge, Dr. Bunch entered the Eclectic Medical institute of Cincinnati, Ohio, in which he completed the prescribed course, graduating in June, 1881. He continued the practice at the town of DeSoto for a number of years, and then sought a wider field in Muncie, moving to the latter city in 1889, where he has since established a large and growing practice and earned the reputation of one of the most successful physicians in Dela- ware county. So extensive has his practice become that he has found it necessary to em- ploy an assistant, and his professional business

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at this time is perhaps larger than that of any other medical man in Muncie. 3 Dr. Bunch combines, with a thorough knowledge of his profession, the sympathizing nature and tender touch of the true healer; and he has earned the reputation of the poor man's friend, never turning any one away on account of inability to remunerate him for services rendered. He has good business tact, and his careful judg- ment, diligence, and faithful application to his profession, have secured him not only a very large and lucrative practice, but have made him exceedingly popular with all classes of people with whom he has had professional or other relations. He is a man of good pres- ence and dignified bearing, benevolent in all the term implies, and is certainly entitled to prominent mention among the representative men of Delaware county. Dr. Bunch was married April 20, 1877, to Miss Mary A. Bair, and his home has been brightened by four interesting children : Bessie G., Rollie H., Freddie L., and Morrell McK., all living.

ON. JOHN W. BURSON was born August 21, 1820, at the Burson homestead in Springfield township, Bucks county, Pa., within five miles of the town Bursonville. His parents were Dr. Edward and Jemima (Stroud) Burson, who removed from Bursonville to Stroudsburg, Pa., and subsequently to Wilmington, Ohio. His father was an able physician, practiced both in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and died at Waynesville, Ohio, in 1852. His mother died at Richmond, Ind., in 1863. His paternal grandparents were David and Lydia (Will- iams) Burson. Lydia Williams was one of a numerous family who settled near the Dela- ware river, above Bristol, and not far from Irvina. Dr. Burson's father was a native of Wales and settled in America about the mid-

dle of the eighteenth century. The maternal grandparents were Col. Jacob and Elizabeth (McDowell) Stroud. Jacob was the founder of Stroudsburg, now a flourishing and beauti- ful village situated above the Delaware Gap. In the campaign of the English against the French, Col. Stroud, although a young officer, served on the staff of Gen. Wolfe, and was present at the death of his general at the storming of Quebec.

In the year of 1837, Mr. Burson accompanied his father's family to Clinton county, Ohio, where for seven years his time was employed in superintending a farm near Wilmington Subsequently he learned the carpenter's trade, and worked in Ohio and afterward at LaPorte, Ind. Returning from the latter city to Ohio, he was engaged in mercantile pursuits with the means saved from his earnings as a me- chanic. He possessed the qualties of a suc- cessful business man, more as the endowment of nature than the result of education, and, in 1848, at the age of twenty-eight years, he was elected teller of the Eaton branch of the old State Bank of Ohio, where he remained for about four years. It was during this period that he formed the acquaintance of his devoted wife, Mary E. Wilson, to whom he was united in marriage February 19, 1851.

In 1853, he left the Eaton branch bank, and with John Hunt founded the Cambridge City bank, at Cambridge City, Ind. In the great financial crisis of a few years later, this was one of the few banks that withstood the shock. In 1856, he came to Muncie and formed the Muncie branch of the State Bank of Indiana, with a capital of $100,000, which was soon increased to $150,000. In 1865, this bank was reorganized under the national bank act, with a capital of $200,000, and a surplus sum of $100,000, and Mr. Burson was its cashier. In 1871, the capital increased to $300,000, the surplus remaining as before.

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For a number of years Mr. Burson was a di- rector of the "Bee Line" railway, and a di- rector of the Lafayette, Muncie & Blooming- ton railway at the time of his decease. In politics he was a republican, and served as a member of the state central committee from this district from 1868 to the time of his de- mise. Once only did he permit himself to be- come a candidate for office. This was in 1870, when he was elected state senator from the districts composed of the counties of Delaware and Madison.

After an illness of three weeks, Mr. Burson passed peacefully away on September 21, 1872. The obsequies took place on the 24th, and a special train draped in mourning carried the Masonic order of neighboring cities, together with a large number of friends, to mourn the loss of the deceased. Business was suspended in Muncie, and the entire county was in mourning. The funeral services were conducted according to the rites of the Mason- ic order, and the corpse was in charge of the Muncie commandery, No. 18, of which he was a member. Raper commandery, and the members of the Scottish Rite order, from Indi- anapolis, were also in attendance. Among the distinguished visitors who came to mingle their tears with those of the bereaved family, was ex-Gov. Oliver P. Morton, between whom and Mr. Burson a strong personal friendship had existed for many years. Dur- ing that terrible period embraced between the years of 1861 and 1865, Gov. Morton had no firmer friend, no truer ally, and none to whom he could look with more positive assurance of encouragement and assistance, than Mr. Bur- son. Nothing was thought too extravagant, when represented as a need of the nation's defender; no journey was too tedious or too dangerous for him to undertake, and what- ever sum of money was asked by "the war governor" of Indiana to further his plans or

relieve the wants of the Indiana soldiers, it was cheerfully and unhesitatingly advanced.

He became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1858, and, throughout his life was a faithful attendant upon its serv- ices and means of grace. He was a consist- ent and enthusiastic Free Mason and a Knight Templar. He received the orders of knight- hood in Raper commandery, No. 1, at Indian- apolis, July 8 and 22, 1863; was a charter member of the Muncie commandery, No. 18, and took the thirty-second degree of Masonry (Scottish rite), at Cincinnati, Ohio. At the annual conclave of the grand commandery his death was referred to in touching language by the grand commander in his address, and both branches of the general assembly of Indiana adopted appropriate resolutions, while the sen- ate chamber was draped for a period of thirty days. In the church and in the Sunday school, in political and commercial affairs, his voice was heard, and his influence felt and acknowledged; and his keen judgment and scrupulous principles made him a safe and val- ued counselor in matters affecting public or private interests.

ILLIAM CALAWAY, proprietor of one of the largest sale and livery stables in Muncie, Ind., was born in Wabash county, this state, in November, 1855, and was reared in the town of Wabash, where his father, Stephen Cala- way, kept hotel. William attended school until thirteen years old, and then, of his own accord, left home and made his way to Wich- ita, Kan., did any work he could handle until seventeen, and then for a year and a half carried the mail between Wichita and Chey- enne, a distance of 120 miles. He next bought a feed yard at Wichita, but sold out at the expiration of two years, returned to Indi-

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ana, and traded in and shipped horses for a year at Fort Wayne; thence he went to Ko- komo, Ind., and for six years carried on a livery stable, and afterward owned stables at Liberty, then at Dublin, and again at Liberty, where he also bought and shipped horses in partnership with Hollis Beard. Here he sold out to his partner and came to Muncie in August, 1893, bought a livery stand on Frank- lin street, and also owned a feed yard on Elm and Main streets for a time, then sold and purchased his present barn, on Gilbert street, of Milt Hamilton. This is the largest and most popular livery, feed and sale stable in the city, as 510 horses have been sheltered in it at one time, and it is here where the semi- monthly Delaware county horse sales were held. Mr. Calaway also carries a full line of rigs for hire, at the lowest rates, and his ani- mals are among the best in the land. He has owned such thoroughbreds as Wild Duck, winner in Illinois and Iowa, and the Kentucky- bred horse, Kill Dove, that won several places in Ohio in 1891; also several trotters and pa- cers of note.

Mr. Calaway was married, in 1880, to Rosa McCarty, of Marion, Ind., but lost his lady in 1886. In June, 1887, he married Miss Helen Rood, of Liberty, Ind., and this union has been blessed with four children, viz: Mary, Gertrude, Homer and Max. Mr. Calaway is a member of the I. O. O. F., and as a busi- ness man he is regarded as strictly upright and without guile. Socially he is popular, and is agreeable in his intercourse with his fellow- men, accommodating and obliging.

0 AVID CAMMACK .- The grain and lumber business of the city of Mun- cie, of late years, has become quite extensive and profitable, and among the prominent men interested therein is the

gentleman whose name introduces this biogra- phy. David Cammack was born in Wayne county, Ind., January 25, 1846, and is the son of Nathan H. and Priscilla (Morris) Cammack, natives of Indiana and North Carolina, respect- ively, the father for many years a successful manufacturer of woolen goods in Wayne county, this state. David Cammack received his elementary education in the public schools, and later became a student of Earlham college, Richmond, Ind., where he pursued his studies until December, 1863, at which time he entered the army as private in company K, One Hun- dred and Twenty-fourth Indiana volunteer infantry, with which he served until the close of the war .. His regiment formed a part of the army of the Cumberland, and during his period of service he participated in many of the noted and hard-fought battles of the south- western campaign, through all of which he passed without receiving an injury. After peace had once more descended upon the land, he returned home and became a partner with his father in the manufacturing business, which he continued until his removal to Cambridge City in the year 1869. He early became pro- ficient in the manufacture of woolen goods, and all the clothing worn by himself until his twenty-eighth year was made from goods woven with his own hands. In Cambridge City he began dealing in lumber, and after a successful continuance there of ten years re- moved to what is known as Cammack Station, Delaware county, and began the manufacture of hard-wood lumber, which he has since con- ducted upon an extensive scale in connection with the buying and shipment of grain.

In 1890 Mr. Cammack was instrumental in organizing the Muncie Coil Hoop company, of which he was president until February, 1892. In a business sense Mr. Cammack is thorough- going and progressive, and the various enter- prises which have inured so greatly to the ad-

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vancement of this flourishing city have found in him an earnest friend and liberal benefactor. At this time he is president of the Co-opera- tive Fuel Gas company, and he was the princi- pal mover and is now the executive head of what is known as the Cammack Gas company, the success of which is directly traceable to his efforts. He is also a potent factor and promi- nent member of the Citizens' Enterprise com- pany, and was a member of the Indiana State Cracker company, and acted as its president, and also vice-president of the Muncie Indus- trial Loan company, and also the vice presi- dent of the Muncie Savings and Loan com- pany.

In 1891 Mr. Cammack effected a co-part- nership with J. L. Streeter and William Marsh under the name of D. Cammack & Co., which firm does a very extensive grain business, hav- ing warehouses at Cammack, Royerton and Selma. In 1883 the station and post office at the point known as Cammack were named in honor of David Cammack, through whose efforts so much has been accomplished toward . the material development and upbuilding of this section of the gas belt. He is proprietor of a large lumber mill at Mulberry, Ind., which does a very extensive and lucrative bus- iness, and is also prominently identified with various other enterprises which have resulted in great good to the country. Mr. Cammack is prominently identified with the Masonic fra- ternity, belonging to Muncie lodge, chapter, council and commandery, also to the Indiana consistory, S. K., the Murat temple, N. M. S., and the Muncie lodge of B. P. O. E. He was an organizer, and at this time is past sa- chem of the Cammack White Feather tribe, I. O. R. M., and is also a prominent member of Williams post, G. A. R., of Muncie. Po- litically Mr. Cammack is uncompromisingly republican and adheres to the doctrines of his party as persistently as he attends to his other

duties of life. Mr. Cammack is in every re- spect a representative business man, and his success in his various enterprises has been the result of superior intelligence, directed and controlled by wise forethought. He has an elegant home in Muncie, his residence being among the finest in the city, the building alone representing a capital of over $8,000, and the furnishing, all of which is of the latest and most improved pattern, cost the sum of $5,000. In 1873 Mr. Cammack and Miss Ella E. Mar- son, daughter of John Marson of Cambridge City, Ind., became man and wife, and three children have been born to their union: Ralph, Grace May and Adda. The first named was born in 1880, and lost his life in an accident at the Cammack mills on the 17th day of July, 1885. 3 Mrs. Cammack and daughters are members of the Baptist church, but Mr. Cam- mack, himself, adheres to the simple Quaker belief of his forefathers.

R OBERT P. CAMPBELL, a success- ful business man, well and favorably known in the city of Muncie, was born in Zanesville, Muskingum coun- ty, Ohio, July 27, 1857, a son of Thomas and Margaret (Smith) Campbell. The father was a native of England, born in the city of Carlysle, April 13, 1825, and came to the United States in 1845, locating in Zanesville, Ohio, where he became a leading druggist and where he resided until 1886. In the latter year he removed to Baltimore, Md., where he died November 29, 1887. He was a brave soldier in the war of the rebellion, and was a popular citizen and business man in the city where he resided. His wife died on the 5th of April, 1869. She bore her husband five children, whose names are as follows: Robert P., Maria, Thomas, editor of the Laborers'

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Journal of Zanesville, Ohio; Lizzie, and Mar- garet, deceased.

Robert P. Campbell was reared in his native city and enjoyed exceptional advantages for obtaining an education, graduating with honors from the high school at a comparatively early age. From his fifteenth year he evinced a de- cided preference for the trade of book binding, to which he devoted all of his spare moments and in which he acquired an unusual degree of skill and proficiency. This trade requires extreme nicety of labor and an eye skilled to form and color, and such was the talent dis- played by young Campbell that the firm of Sullivan & Brown of Zanesville received him as an apprentice, the result of which was his retention by this well known house for a period of eleven years. Here he became a skilled workman, but afterward acquired a more thorough knowledge of the trade in the great establishments of Dayton, Columbus, Balti- more and Chicago, following which, he located in the city of Lima, Ohio, where he carried on a successful business until his removal to Mun- cie in December, 1892 Since locating in the latter city Mr. Campbell's success has fully met his expectations, and he now has a tastily arranged office and business room in the Boyce block, which is supplied with all the modern appliances for book binding and the making of blank books of every description. He is thoroughly familiar with every detail of his business, has an extensive and constantly in- creasing patronage, and his reputation as a skillful workman in every line of the trade is already much more than local. In the affairs of business and of every day life Mr. Camp- bell's actions are governed by a high sense of honor, and since locating in Muncie he has gained the confidence of all with whom he has come in contact. Socially he is quite popular, and those whom he meets or with whom he has business or other relations unite in pro-

nouncing him a most congenial, companion- able and courteous gentleman.

Mr. Campbell was married in Zanesville, Ohio, October 30, 1879, to Miss Ella Emery, daughter of James and Catharine (Watson) Emery, natives of Tyrone, Ireland, who be- came citizens of Zanesville in the year 1842. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Campbell, namely: Robert, deceased; Clar- ence R., Robert P., Jr., and Ruth. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell are members of the Methodist church, in which they are highly regarded. Politically Mr. Campbell is a supporter of the republican party, belongs to the Sons of Vet- erans and is a member of the Royal Arcanum.

B EV. OLIVER CARMICHAEL, of the Christian church, Muncie (retired), was born in Monroe township, Dela- ware county, Ind., in 1841, and is a son of Patrick and Louisa (Gibson) Carmichael. He was reared on a farm four miles south of Muncie, and remembers when the city was but a small village. He was educated in the com- mon schools of Delaware county until he had passed his twentieth birthday, when he enlist- ed in company E, Nineteenth I. V. I., under Col. Sol Meredith, and was assigned to the army of the Potomac, being soon promoted to first sergeant. His first heavy engagement was at the second battle of Bull Run; then at South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. Here, on the first day of the battle, he sustained a gun- shot wound back of the right knee; was taken to the hospital (the court house), but owing to the vast amount of work to be done by the surgeons, his wound was neglected for two weeks, and gangrene set in; being sent to the hospital at Baltimore, he was confined for three months, the gangrene in the meanwhile

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eating in a large hole in the flesh and render- ing the whole side of the lower part of the limb devoid of sensation. He was then trans- ferred to the Twenty-second Veteran Reserve corps, being unfit for further field service, and put on guard duty at Washington until honor- ably discharged, July 29, 1864, after three years' service He then returned to the farm in Delaware county, on which he remained until 1875, when, his health having further failed, he located in Muncie, and taught school at various intervals until about 1880. About the year 1865 he had united with the Christian church, in which he became an active worker, filling the position of elder for a long period. About 1880 he began regular ministerial work, preaching at different points in Delaware county, principally as pastor at Smithfield, Pleasant Run, Royerton, Switzer, Centre, Swazee, and Converse, and after fer- vent and eloquent pleading for the cause of his Master, closed his labors about 1892 on account of failing health.

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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 19

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