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 20

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

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Mr. Carmichael was married, in 1864, to Miss Martha, daughter of John add Mary (Thompson) Losh, of Delaware county. Five children blessed this union, viz: Otto, on the the editorial staff of the Detroit Journal; Milton, city editor of the same paper, and also former assitant chief of the Muncie fire depart- ment; Wilson, cutter in a custom tailoring es- tablishment at Indianapolis; Jesse, reporter on the Muncie News, and Mary, at home, Mr. Carmichael is a member of the Williams post, G. A. R., and in politics is a stalwart repub- lican.

EV. VALENTINE G. CARMICHAEL is a native of Delaware county, Ind., and a member of one of the earliest pioneer families of the present town- ship of Monroe. His father, Patrick Car-

michael, was born in Ohio, the son of Andrew Carmichael, a descendant of an Irish family, representatives of which came to the United States at an early period of the country's his- tory. Patrick Carmichael came to Delaware county with his parents as early as 1827, lo- cating on government land in Monroe town- ship, a part of his original entry being now owned by Rev. Valentine G. He cleared a farm, taught school for some years in an early day, and about the year 1839 or 1840 was united in marriage with Miss Louisa Gibson, daughter of Valentine and Catharine (Harrold) Gibson, who became residents of the county of Delaware as early as 1825, moving to this part of the state from Tennessee. Patrick and Louisa Carmichael reared a family of fifteen children, namely : Oliver; Milton, member of the Fifty-seventh Indiana volunteers, died while in the service ; Andrew, also died while serving his country in the late war, member of the Sixty- ninth regiment, Indiana troops ; Valentine G .; Eliza, wife of J. J. Clevenger ; Mary A., de- ceased ; Charles ; Catharine, married to Joseph Stiffler, resides in South Dakota; William, deceased ; John, deceased ; Ephraim F., re- sides in Muncie ; George W., also a resident of Muncie ; Firmin V., lives with his mother on the old homestead ; Margaret, deceased, and Coloston, deceased. Patrick Carmichael was one of the well known pioneers of Dela- ware county, and during a long and very useful life earned the reputation of a straightforward and honorable man. He was a member of the church of Christ and supported the principles of the republican party, although descended from a family noted for its adherence to the democratic faith. He departed this life on the home farm and was laid to rest at the old cemetery in Monroe township.

Valentine G. Carmichael was born July 29, 1845, in the township of Monroe, and passed his youthful years on a farm, attending

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in the meantime the country schools, in which he pursued his studies until his eighteenth year. He attended two terms in Muncie high school, and in the fall of 1866 entered Wabash college at Crawfordsville, in which institution he took a three years' course, making substan- tial progress. On leaving college he returned to Delaware county, and for a number of years thereafter was actively engaged in educational work, having taught in all seventeen terms, thirteen of which were in District No. 1, in Monroe township. As a teacher, Mr. Car- michael was careful and painstaking, and he brought to his work a mind well disciplined by long and careful study, which earned for him the reputation of being one of the ablest instructors of Delaware county. His success in the field of education is sufficiently attested by the fact of his having been retained for so many successive years in one place. Mr. Car- michael united with the church of Christ in the year 1869, and shortly thereafter began his first public religious work as a teacher in the Sunday school, and he was also frequently called upon to address other religious assem- blages. For a period of eighteen years he taught the infant class, and in 1874 entered upon the active duties of the ministry, preach- ing at different points throughout the country, principally for congregations unable to support a regular pastor. For this work he received no pecuniary remuneration worthy of mention, supporting himself in the meantime by teach- ing and from the proceeds of his farm. On August 14, 1869, Mr. Carmichael was united in marriage with Samantha B. Tidd, daughter of Moses and Sarah (Golden) Tidd, of Ohio, to which union two children have been born: Anna, wife of Sherman Whitney, and Lacy, wife of Frank W. Ross, both daughters resid- ing in Monroe township.

Mr. Carmichael resided upon his farm until February, 1892, when he rented out the

place and moved to Muncie, since which time he has devoted nearly all his time to the active work of the ministry, preaching at different points, his present charges being at Woodland, Ill., and Frankton, Ind. In his ministerial work he has been very successful, and through his instrumentality many have been induced to unite with the church and start upon a better life. He has always been an uncom- promising enemy of the liquor traffic and carries his ideas of intemperance beyond the mere indulgence of intoxicants, and his life has been singularly free from those habits, which destroy so many men. He never remembers of swearing a single oath, and five cents spent years ago for tobacco represent the sum total of his money invested in narcotics of any kind. Financially Mr. Carmichael has met with gratifying success, being in possession of a comfortable competence gained by his own efforts. His life has indeed been one of great activity and usefulness, and the future awaits him with bounteous rewards.

J OHN CASSELL, a well-to-do farmer and popular citizen of Centre township, is a native of Virginia, born in the county of Wythe, on the 23d day of July, 1825. David Cassell, his father, was born in Pennsylvania and married, in Virginia, Catherine Keesling, of Wythe county, who bore him ten children, seven of whom are liv- ing at this time. David and Catherine Cassell spent their married life in Virginia, where their deaths occurred in 1866 and 1867 respectively. They are remembered as most excellent people, popular in the community where they resided, and were for a number of years devoted members of the Lutheran church. John Cassell was reared to manhood

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in his native county and state, received his education in such schools as the country afforded, and on attaining his majority began life for himself as a farmer, which useful voca- tion he has since successfully followed. He resided in Virginia until 1871, at which time he moved to Indiana, locating in Monroe township, Delaware county, where for a peri- od of two years he farmed land for a part of the proceeds. In 1873 he purchased eighty acres of land where he now resides, in addi- tion to which he also owns seventy-eight acres of land in the township of Hamilton. Mr. Cassell was married in Wythe county, Va., June 10, 1858, to Mary F. Umbarger, who was born in the same county and state on the 12th day of October, 1838. The parents of Mrs. Cassell, Michael and Nancy (Cassell) Umbarger, were both natives of Virginia, and descendants of old German families that set- tled in the Dominion state at an early period of its history. To the marriage of John and Mary Cassell have been born four children: Martin L., of Delaware county, Ind .; Nancy C., wife of William N. Williams; Margaret, who lives with her parents, and Berton, deceased.

Mr. Cassell participated in the late war as a private in company C, Fifty-first regiment Virginia infantry, enlisting in 1863 and serv- ing until August of the following year. He received a severe wound in the side at the bat- tle of Sniggersford, Va., shortly after going to the front, and from July 18 until September 20 was in the disabled list at Winchester, where his hurt was properly cared for. For some time after returning to his home, owing to the effects of his wound, Mr. Cassell worked at the shoemaker's trade, but when sufficiently recovered he resumed the pursuit of agricul- ture, to which he has since devoted his atten- tion. He is a representative citizen, a suc- cessful farmer, and one of the substantial men

of the neighborhood where he resides. In his political affiliation he is a republican, and in religion he and wife are communicants of the Lutheran church.

A BRAM W. CHAPMAN .- Prominent among the well known and success- ful business men of Muncie and Dela- ware county is Abram W. Chapman, who was born in Brooke connty, W. Va., on 6th day of April, 1837. His father, Thomas W. Chapman, also a native of the same coun- ty and state, was born June 21, 1815, the son of William and Elizabeth Chapman. Until the age of twenty-two, Thomas W. Chapman remained with his parents upon the farm, and then married and later removed to a place of his own in the same county, where he followed the pursuit of agriculture for the period of three years. At the end of that time he re- moved to Stark connty, Ohio, where he be- came a very extensive farmer and stock raiser among the most celebrated in the state, and after remaining there until 1889 removed to Indiana, locating in Muncie, where he at present resides. Thomas W. Chapman was for many years prominently identified with the political history of Ohio, and at one time represented the counties of Stark and Carroll in the general assembly. He met with most gratifying suc- cess as a stock raiser, and by careful foresight and successful management accumulated a handsome fortune, the greater part of which he has since shared with different members of his family. When twenty-two years of age he married Rebecca Warner, daughter of John and Rebecca (Howenstein) Warner of Penn- sylvania, and raised a family of six children, whose names are as follows: Abram W., William M., Clara A., Maria, Elizabeth E.

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and Alice, all living with the exception of William M. The mother of these children died 1891, and her remains were laid to rest in the Home cemetery, Stark county, Ohio.

Abram W. Chapman grew to manhood in Stark county, Ohio, early became inured to the rugged usages of life on the farm, and at the age of fifteen entered Heidelberg college at Tiffin, where he pursued his studies until his eighteenth year, making substantial progress in the higher branches of learning in the mean- time. On the completion of his education he returned home and assisted his father on the farm until his marriage, at the age of twenty- five, to Susannah Walter, daughter of Capt. John and Elizabeth Walter of Tuscarawas county, Ohio, when he acquired a farm of his own and pursued agriculture and stock raising in his native state until July, 1885. At that date he disposed of his farm and purchased a tract of improved land adjoining the city of Muncie, Ind., coming into possession of the same a short time prior to the discovery of natural gas in October, 1886. The discovery of gas at once caused all real estate in the vicinity of Muncie to increase very rapidly in value, and in the spring of 1887 Mr. Chapman sold his farm at a greatly advanced price, re- alizing from the sale a very valuable consider- ation. With wise forethought he at once engaged in real estate transactions and loan business, effecting a co-partnership therein with J. W. Ream, and the firm thus consti- tuted was soon conducting a very extensive business in both of these lines.

Mr. Chapman soon afterward organized the well known Muncie Savings & Loan compa- pany, with a capital of $1,000,000, of which he has since been the executive head, and which, under his prudent management, has proved one of the most successful financial enterprises ever established in the city. The almost unprecedent success of this company

induced Mr. Chapman and other progressive business men to organize a new association, which was effected in 1892, and which, like the former, is now on the high road to pros- perity. In his real estate transactions Mr. Chapman has been signally fortunate, and in this line he easily leads the business in Muncie and Delaware county. As a business man he has few equals in the city, and in his trans- actions of various kinds he has been governed by principles of the highest honor. Politically, he wields a potent influence for the democratic party. For a period of five years he has held the office of city commissioner, and in March, 1893, was appointed, by the governor, a com- missioner of the metropolitan police system of Muncie, being at this time chairman of the board. His first wife, by whom he had no children, died in January, 1886, and subse- quently, November, 1888, he was united in marriage with Miss Emma Ankeney of Greene county, Ohio, who bore him three children, all of whom died in infancy. Mr. Chapman is a Presbyterian in his religious belief, and an earnest worker for and liberal contributer to the congregation in Muncie.

a HARLES H. CHURCH, a prominent business man of Muncie and one of the city's popular and highly esteemed citizens, is a native of New York, born on the 7th day of May, 1839, in the county of Chenango. His father, William Church, also a native of the same county, was born in the year 1806 at Church Hollow, a small hamlet named in compliment to the family, and was a descendant of one of the early pioneers of that section of the Empire state. For a number of years William Church was engaged in the mercantile business in

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Chenango county, and later carried on the same line of trade in the county of Orange, where his death occurred in 1890 at the ad- vanced age of eighty-four years. He was a man of more than ordinary mental endow- ments, took an active interest in all public matters, and at one time represented his county in the general assembly of New York, in which body he served two sessions. Politi- cally he was an ardent supporter of the old whig party, and religiously was for many years a leading member of the Presbyterian church in the community where he resided. His first wife, the mother of Charles H. Church, bore him five children, three sons and two daugh- ters, only two of whom are living at this time, one in Muncie and one at Susquehanna, Pa.

Charles H. Church, when but three years of age, suffered the loss of that dearest of all earthly friends-mother-and his youthful years were passed in his native village, in the schools of which he received the rudiments of an English education. Subsequently he pur- sued the higher branches of learning in a local academy of Chenango county, and obtained his first insight into the active business of life as a clerk in his father's store, in which capac- ity he continued until embarking in mercan- tile trade for himself, at the age of twenty-one, at Coventry, a small country town. He con- tinued at this point for two years, doing a very encouraging business in the meantime, and then abandoned merchandising, and for five years thereafter dealt extensively in live stock and wool in Chenango and adjoining counties, frequently extending his business operations throughout various parts of the Western Reserve, Ohio. At the of twenty- six, Mr. Church was united in marriage with Miss Lou Tyler, daughter of Henry P. and Ann Tyler, natives of Vermont, but at that time residents of the Buckeye state. Imme- diately after his marriage, Mr. Church en-

gaged in the mercantile and grain trade at New London, Ohio, in both of which lines his success was very marked, and he also estab- lished the First National bank in that city, of which he was vice president and manager for a period of about fourteen years. Disposing of his various business interests in New Lon- don, Mr. Church, in the spring of 1886, came to Muncie, Ind., and assisted in organizing the Delaware County bank, of which he was cashier, which was succeeded by the Dela- ware County National bank, of which he also became cashier. He was the prime mover in the organization of the Hathaway Investment company, of which he has since been a di- rector; is secretary of the Muncie Street Rail- way company, and for several years has been treasurer of the Muncie Savings & Loan asso- ciation, in the establishment of which he bore a prominent part In all his business transac- tions Mr. Church has shown himself to be a man of uncommon sagacity and discreetness of judgment, of scrupulous integrity and gen- tlemanly demeanor. In all public enterprises, having for their object the general good of his adopted city, his name and individual efforts have always been foremost, and in all the at- tributes of honorable manhood, honesty of pur- pose and uprightness of character, he stands prominent, enjoying in full measure the friend- ship and good will of all with whom he has been associated. Financially his success has been commensurate with the activity displayed throughout a long and varied business. career, and he is certainly entitled to a conspicuous place among the representative self-made men of the county of Delaware. Mr. Church cast his first presidential vote for Abraham Lin- coln, since which he has been a supporter of the republican party, but is not a partisan in the sense of seeking official preferment. He is the father of two children: William H. and Earnest, both living in Muncie.

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ARCUS S. CLAYPOOL, proprietor of Alameda Place, the famous stock farm, of Muncie, was born near Connersville, Fayette county, Ind., August 1, 1851, and is the son of Austin B. and Hannah A. (Petty) Claypool, of Indiana. Marcus S. lived in Wayne county, on a farm, until ten years of age, when the family re- turned to Connersville, Fayette county, at which place he received his preparatory edu- cation ; then he attended school at Dublin, Wayne county, and eventually graduated from Asbury (now DePauw) university, in 1872. In July of the same year he came to Muncie, and for seven years was assistant cashier of the Bank of Muncie. In 1879 he was sent to Colorado as agent for the Victor and Yandes consolidated silver mining companies, and also there became the treasurer and secretary of the consolidated Columbia Tunnel & Mining company, which he organized, and remained in the country until 1884, when he returned to Muncie, and has here since devoted his atten- tion to the breeding of trotting horses, Jersey cattle and Shropshire sheep. Like his father, he had always been a lover or trotting horses, and as far back as 1875 he had secured some well bred mares and had patronized such fa- mous stallions as Blue Bull (75) and Hamble- tonian Tranby-the best bred in Indiana at the time-securing some superior road horses, that, however, were not trained for speed. John E. Burson, brother-in-law of Mr. Clay- pool, had established the stock farm at Alameda Place, now in the Riverside addition, and on his removal to St. Louis, Mo., Mr. Claypool bought from him three stallions and six mares-the stallions being Happy Traveler, 2:27 1-2, son of Hambletonian Prince, dam Lady Larkin by Little Jack : Gift, Jr., still in stud, and Stansifer's Woful ; the six mares were by such sires as Hailstorm, Bonny Scot- land, etc. Mr. Claypool has now at Alameda

Place three high-bred stallions, sired by the best producing sons of such animals as George Wilkes, Electioneer and Harold, further en- riched by the best producing dams from other renowned sires of trotting families. They are Agricola, son of Gambetta Wilkes: first dam by Princeps ; second dam by Volunteer ; third dam, Flora Belle (2:22 3-4). Messala, son of Norval (2:14 1-4): first dam by Onward (2:25 I-4), second dam, Blanche Armour (2:26), third dam by Pilot, Jr., Russellami, by Lord Russell : dam, Lamia by Onward. Following these are the great stock horses Silvertone, by Happy Traveler, dam Little Dolly (dam of Gift, Jr., 2:27 1-2); Wilkes Pilot, son of Hambletonian Wilkes ; dam by Mambrino Chief, Jr., making him brother in blood to Phebe Wilkes (2:11); Gift, Jr. (2:27 I-2), sire of Sable Gift (2:24 1-4), also of Monk, (2:30) and others, and his son Edgewood, out of a daughter of Hambletonian Tranby. The entire collection of richly bred dams, colts and fillies number thirty-two head. The registered Jersey herd number nine, including the blood of Tormentor, Landseer's Fancy, and Signal. The Shropshire flock contains eighteen head, registered from the best imported strains. The farms include forty-eight acres at Alameda Place, 400 acres east of Muncie adjoining the city limits, and other extensive tracts in Centre township.

Mr. Claypool has been secretary of the Delaware county board of agriculture for sev- eral years, and a member of the state board ; also a member of the Indiana Trotting and Pacing Horse Breeders' association, and secre- tary of the Eastern Indiana Jersey Cattle Breeders' association, and is thoroughly posted in everything that pertains to live stock in all its characteristics.

The marriage of Mr. Claypool took place at Muncie, Ind., Jan. 14, 1880, to Miss Eliza- beth Burson, daughter of the late John W.

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Burson, banker of Muncie, whose sketch will be found in another part of this volume.

ILLIAM H. M. COOPER, one of the prominent members of the Del- aware county bar, and a man who has achieved an extensive acquaint- ance through the medium of his abstract office, was born in Bartholomew county, Ind., Octo- ber 13, 1840, son of Henry and Lucy (Wil- liams) Cooper, natives respectively of the counties of Decatur, Ind., and Clarke, Ohio. Mr. Cooper is the eldest of a family of seven children born to the above parents. He received his primary education in the common schools, subsequently took a course in Marion academy, and after completing his literary studies in the academy at Greencastle, began teaching, which profession he followed very successfully for several months. In 1859 he located in Perry township, Delaware county, and on the 2nd day of July, 1861, entered the army, enlisting in company K, Nineteeth Indiana volunteer infantry, with which he shared the vicissitudes and honors of war until August 28, 1863, when he was honorably discharged from the service, on account of wounds received at the second battle of Bull Run. In 1865 Mr. Cooper was elected recorder of Delaware coun- ty and served in that position for a period of five years, after which he took a course of law in the university of Michigan at Ann Arbor, having previously taken a commercial course at the Bryant & Stratton business colleges at Indianapolis and Cincinnati. He was admit- ted to the Delaware county bar in the year 1871, and has since practiced his profession at Muncie, where his well known legal abilities have won for him a large and lucrative busi- ness.

For many years Mr. Cooper has been en-

gaged in the abstract business, in which he has become very proficient, being considered authority upon all matters pertaining to real estate in Muncie and Delaware county. Mr. Cooper is prominently identified with a num- ber of fraternal organizations, including Wil- liams post, G. A. R .; the I. O. O. F., encamp- ment and canton; Indianapolis lodge, B. P. O. E .; Improved Order of Red Men; the Independent Order of Foresters; the Indiana Society Sons of the Revolution, in all of which organizations he is an active and valued mem- ber. In politics he is a stanch republican, and, as such, his counsels have been of valua- ble service and have contributed much to his party's success in a number of local and gen- eral campaigns. Mr. Cooper was married, in 1868, to Miss Susannah N. Ellis, daughter of John H. Ellis, of Muncie, the fruit of which union is one child, Carrie T., wife of A. G. Adamson. Mr. Cooper and family are attend- ants of the Presbyterian church of Muncie, and they move in the best social circles of the city. Throughout the entire county of Delaware, Mr. Cooper has the reputation of an honora- ble man and painstaking attorney, and when he assumes charge of a case his clients well know that all that can honestly be done in their favor will be performed. He has a com- prehensive knowledge of legal principles, exhibits great skill in the management of his cases, is faithful to clients and friends in all his business transactions, and in all relations of life is a true type of the honorable profes- sional man and christian gentleman.

0 ANIEL W. COTTRELL, M. D .- Prominent among the successful members of the medical profession of Muncie, Delaware county, Ind., oc- curs the name of Dr. Daniel W. Cottrell, who

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was born in the town of Scott, Cortland county, N. Y., January 4, 1838. His parents were Peleg S. and Mary Jane (Small) Cottrell, the former of whom was a native of western Rhode Island, a lineal descendant of William Cottrell, who settled there in 1669; while the mother was a native of Gilmanton, N. H., and taught for five years in the Lancaster school of Albany, N. Y. In 1851 the family removed to Fayette county, W. Va., where they remained for ten years, removing to Indi- ana in 1861. Upon arrival in the last named state they settled in Daleville, Delaware county, where the mother died one year later. The father survived for ten years, dying in 1872. Both parents were members of the Seventh Day Baptist denomination and were most ex- cellent people. Dr. Cottrell is the eldest of the four sons and two daughters that composed his father's family. He received his literary education at the Homer academy, N. Y., and by private instruction in West Virginia. In order to read medicine, in 1856 he went to Allegany county, N. Y., and studied under Dr. Brayton Babcock. Finishing his course, Dr. Cottrell practiced medicine from 1859 to 1861 in West Virginia, but at the latter date came with the family to Daleville, Delaware county, Ind., following his profession there until 1881, when he located in Muncie, where he has since remained, engaged in his life call- ing. In addition to his studies under Dr. Babcock, Dr. Cottrell attended lectures in the medical department of the university of New York during the winter of 1858-9, at which time he began the practice of his profession. In August, 1863, Dr. Cottrell enlisted in the Third Indiana battery, and served until the close of the war.

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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 20

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