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 25

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

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Mr Garrard then became interested with John K. Ritter, of Muncie, in the manufacture of bed lounges, mattresses, etc., for nearly two years, and then became a partner with I. T. Lake in the general furniture business for three years, and then sold out and engaged in the real es- tate and loan business, in partnership with John A. Keener. The firm of Keener & Gar- rard has done a very extensive business in Muncie and Delaware county, and also oper- ates to a considerable extent in other parts of the state. Mr. Garrard is a substantial citi- zen, quiet and unostentatious, and is very popular with those with whom he has business or other relations. He is an earnest supporter of the republican party, and for twenty-five years has been a consistent member of the Christain church. He is prominently identi- fied with several fraternities, belonging to the G. A. R., I. O. O. F., K. of P. and I. O. R. M. He belongs to the uniform rank of the Pythian order, takes an active interest in the branch of the fraternity known as the Pythian Sisters, and also belongs to the Rebecca degree in Odd Fellowship.

ENRY N. GATES, harness maker, of Muncie, Ind., is a native of York county, Pa., born August 4, 1845, and is a son of John and Mary (Nay- lor) Gates, who were of Pennsylvania German extraction, residents of Little York, and who reared a family of six boys and six girls, nine of whom are still living, although the parents are now deceased. Henry N., at the age of ten, was taken to Cumberland county, Pa., and placed on a farm, on which he lived, at- tending school meanwhile and learning har- ness making, until the civil war broke out, when he enlisted, in June, 1862, in the Twen- tieth Pennsylvania cavalry, company A, at

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Mechanicsburg, being then not seventeen years of age. At the expiration of his term of six months he re-enlisted for three years and served until the close of the war. During his first term he served under Gens. Couch and Hunter, and fought at Piedmont and in vari- ous skirmishes. On veteranizing in January, 1863, he was assigned to the consolidated Twentieth and Twenty-second Pennsylvania cavalry, which was designated the First Pro- visional, under Gen. Philip Sheridan, first divis- ion, second brigade, sixth army corps, and 1863- 64-65, serving at Gettysburg, Lynchburg, Ashby's Gap (near which place he was cap- tured, in Loudoun valley), Cold Harbor, second Fredericksburg and Winchester. At the latter place, with thirty others, he was again cap- tured and taken to Lynchburg, Danville, An- dersonville and Libby prison, and in all was con- fined eight months and three days, during which time Mr. Gates was reduced from 150 to ninety-six pounds in weight. At Richmond he was out on parole thirty days, and in March, 1865, was released, receiving an hon- orable discharge from the service July 13, 1865. Returning to Mechanicsburg, he fin- ished learning the trade of harness making, worked as journeyman until 1868, and then moved to Columbiana, Ohio, where he worked fifteen years. In 1883 he went to Indianapo- lis, worked at his trade three years, and then came to Muncie, and from 1886 until August, 1890, was foreman for Stuckey & Co., and was also with Wachtell & Son until J. C. Cun- ningham opened his store, when he worked for that gentleman one year and ten months, then at the old Stuckey stand for seven months, when he bought out Mr. Cunningham in De- cember, 1892, and has since been the proprie- tor of the oldest harness shop in Muncie, on the west side of the court house square, carry- ing the largest and best assorted stock of har- ness and saddlery, turf goods, etc., in the city.

The marriage of Mr. Gates took place at Columbiana, Ohio, October 25, 1871, to Miss Mary E., daughter of Samuel and Esther (Brown) Sheets, and to this union were born three sons, viz: Robert Egbert, boiler maker, aged twenty-one years; William Ralph, aged seventeen, learning harness making with his father, and John Samuel, aged thirteen, at school in Orville, Ohio. The mother of these children was called away March 27, 1893, at the age of forty-two, and was sadly missed by her sorrowing family. Mr. Gates is a member of the Masonic fraternity, but is no longer an affiliating brother, but he still retains his con- nection with the G. A. R. He is highly re- spected by the community, and is regarded as one of Muncie's most useful citizens.

3 OSEPH A. GODDARD, prominent among the active business men of Muncie, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, December 19, 1840, and is a son of John H. and Ann (Wilson) Goddard. He was reared in and near the above city until his seventeenth year, attended the public schools, in which he obtained a practical edu- cation, and attained his majority well equip- ped to do battle with the world. On leaving the parental roof he went to Cincinnati, in which city he found employment in the grocery business, and, with the exception of the time spent in the army, continued there until the year 1874. In 1862, with thousands of other young men who responded to the country's call for volunteers, Mr. Goddard entered the army, enlisting in company M, Fourth Ohio cavalry, with which he served for a period of six months, when he was as- signed to company D, of the same regiment, with the rank of second lieutenant. Later he was promoted captain of the company, be-

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coming quarter master on the staff of Gen. W. L. Elliott, and later on the staff of Major Gen. W. H. Wilson. He was with his com- mand in several battles of the rebellion, among which were Chickamauga and Nash- ville, and served in the army of the Cumber- land, taking an active part in many of the en- gagements of the southwestern campaign. At the close of the war he returned to Cincin- nati and took service with his former employers, later becoming a commercial traveler for the firm, and was thus engaged until his removal to Indiana in 1874. On locating in Muncie, Mr. Goddard engaged in the grocery business with Mr. B. R. Adamson, which partnership continued until 1880, when the firm dissolved, Mr. Goddard, at that date, engaging exclusive- ly in the wholesale trade and eventually be- coming one of the leading jobbers in Indiana. He has now an extensive and lucrative busi- ness, which is constantly increasing and re- quires the services of three traveling salesmen, the house supplying the trade in many of the counties of eastern Indiana, besides being very extensively patronized by all the grocery establishments of Muncie. Mr. Goddard is a self-made man in all that term implies, and his present high standing in commercial circles has been attained by his own unaided efforts. He possesses business qualifications of a high order, his integrity and honor have never been questioned, and his fair and upright dealings have borne legitimate fruits in the large busi- ness which has made his name popular among the representative men of Muncie.

Mr. Goddard was one of the organizers of the Citizens' Enterprise company, and for the past seven years has held the responsible po- sition of president of the Muncie school board. Politically he is a republican. In 1866 Mr. Goddard was united in marriage to Miss Mary Hough, daughter of William Hough, of Wayne county, Ind., to which union three children

have been born, namely: William H., Grace and Annie-the last named being the wife of Mr. C. M. Rich. Mr. Goddard and family are prominent and consistent members of the Friend's society in Muncie, in the organization of which he was a leading spirit, and in which he now holds the position of elder. While his standing in the commercial world is that of a first-class business man, sound in judgment and wise in counsel, he also possesses in a generous degree the confidence of the public, and all movements having for their object the moral and educational welfare of the com- munity, find in him a liberal patron and gen- erous benefactor.

J OSEPH MILTON GRAY, the effi- cient manager of the Muncie Casket company, is a native of Delaware county, Ind., born November 22, 1854, on a farm in Salem township. His father, James M. Gray, was born in Tennessee in January, 1829, went to Ohio when a youth, and became a resident of Delaware county, Ind., in early manhood, locating in the town- ship of Salem, where he carried on farming for several years. Later he embarked in the mercantile business at Daleville, where he car- ried on a fairly successful trade for twenty- eight years, removing, at the end of that time, to the city of Anderson, where he engaged in the sale of buggies and carriages. His first marriage was consummated with Elizabeth Shoemaker, of Salem township, who died November 20, 1866, the mother of seven chil- dren-two sons and five daughters-Joseph M. being the third in order of birth. Mr. Gray's second marriage took place in the year 1868 with Mrs. Mary A. McClanahan, widow of the late Elijah McClanahan, the union re- sulting in two children-a son and a daughter

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-the latter dying in infancy. For a number of years James M. Gray has been a leading mem- ber of the Christian church, and a prominent Mason. He met with encouraging success in his various business ventures, but suffered severe financial reverses during the panic of 1873.

Joseph M. Gray first attended the district schools, and after the removal of his parents to Daleville became a pupil in the school of that village, obtaining thereby a fair English education. After the death of his mother, which occurred when he was twelve years old, he went to live with his uncle, P. M. Rudy, whose house was his home for about two years, or until his father's second marriage, when he returned to the village of Daleville and entered his father's store. At the age of nineteen he purchased an interest in the business, which from that time until the fall of 1881 was car- ried on very successfully under the firm name of J. M. Gray & Son, the latter retiring at that date, and effecting a co-partnership in the general mercantile and grain business with his two uncles, J. P. and S. B. Shoemaker, under the firm name of Shoemaker, Gray & Co. The relationship thus constituted lasted about nine years, at the end of which time Mr. Gray disposed of his interest, and with J. P. Shoe- maker purchased a controlling interest in the Muncie Casket works, of which he was made secretary. Subsequently he assumed general management of the concern, a position he still retains, and under his able supervision the volume of business has been greatly increased, being over one hundred per cent. in excess of what was done when Mr. Gray became a part- ner. Mr. Gray has met with the most flatter- ing success in his various enterprises, and his judgment is seldom wrong in matters of busi- ness policy. He possessess rare executive abilities, is prompt and methodical in the management of his affairs, not given to specu-

lation, being satisfied with legitimate gains; in short, he possesses those correct business principles which when directed and controlled by good judgment, seldom fail of insuring suc- cess.

Mr. Gray was married June 24, 1877, to Miss Jennettia Griffis, daughter of Robert Griffis, an old and prominent physician of Middletown, Henry county; two children re- sulted from this union: Owen Leslie, who died at the age of twenty-two months, and Myron Herbert, a bright boy of twelve, whose birth occurred on the 7th day of Sep- tember, 1881. Mr. Gray has been a life- long republican, but his ambition has never run in the direction of seeking office, never having been a candidate for any position. He is a member of the Improved Order of Red Men and the order of Maccabees, and for some years has been a prominent Odd Fellow. He became identified with the Christian church in 1870, since which date his life has been a practical exemplification of his religious pro- fession.

EORGE R. GREEN, M. D., the well known physician whose name introduces this sketch, is one of the most skillful and experienced of the city of Muncie, where he has many brother practitioners. He was born in Hamilton township, Delaware county, Ind., October 15, 1851, a son of Andrew J. and Massy (Johnson) Green, and a grandson of William Green, who was a native of New York and of English descent. William Green in an early day moved from from New York to Ohio, and from that state to Delaware county, Ind., where he purchased a tract of land in Niles township, being among the earliest pioneers of that section. Andrew J. Green was born in Athens county, Ohio, and accompanied his

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parents to Delaware county, Ind., when a child, and was here reared and educated. Af- ter attaining his majority he engaged in teach- ing school and also preached in the Christian church, later practicing medicine and continu- ing the latter profession for many years. He was a man of many gifts, mainly self-educated, and proved his business acumen by the enter- ing of a tract of land in Hamilton township, which he cleared and made very valuable. His death occurred January 5, 1885, his wife still surviving him and residing in the city of Muncie. She was a North Carolinian by birth, and a daughter of James Johnson, who was an early settler of Wayne county.

Dr George R. Green was reared in Ham- ilton township, received his literary education in the high school of Muncie, and after leaving school engaged in teaching for three years, read law for one year, and then began the study of medicine under his father. Subse- quently, in 1877, he graduated from the col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons, and the year following received an ad eundem degree from the Medical college of Indiana. He was a very bright and intelligent student, and during his course was selected from the class to be assistant to the demonstrator of anatomy, and graduated with high honors. Actuated by a commendable desire to excel in his profession, the doctor has since supplemented his medical education by a post-graduate course in the New York Polyclinic, and has also taken pri- vate instructions in gynecology at New York. Dr. Green began his medical practice in Roy- erton, Ind., but in June, 1885, came to Muncie, where he has since enjoyed an excel- lent and remunerative practice in Delaware and adjoining counties. He is a member of the Delaware County Medical society, the Del- aware District society, and the Indiana State Medical society, in the deliberations of which bodies he has taken an active and prominent

part. He has served as president of the. County Medical society, and is also a member of the American Medical association. Frater- nally he has connected himself with the Masonic fraternity, K. of P. and the A. O. U. W., and politically is a republican. Dr. Green is a married man, his marriage to Miss Mary E. Monroe, daughter of Hugh Monroe, of Ohio, having taken place in 1871, and three children, Dwight, Earl and Bessie, with Mrs. Green, comprise the pleasant family. They are all valued members of the Presby- terian church, in which body the doctor is an elder.

EORGE WASHINGTON GREENE. -The following sketch of this most estimable gentleman was published at the time of his decease, in the local press of Muncie. George Washington Greene was born in White Hall, Washington county, N. Y., October 6, 1829, and died at his resi- dence in Muncie, Ind., June 30, 1887. Mr. Greene was one of the early settlers of Muncie. His mother, whose maiden name was Char- lotte Gilbert, was a sister to Goldsmith C., William and Edmund Gilbert, who were among the pioneers of Muncietown. She was first married at her home in New York to .Mr. Fuller, who died there, and subsequently she was united in marriage to George W. Greene, father of the subject of this sketch.

Mr. and Mrs. Greene and their family, con- sisting of three children, came to Muncietown in 1830 and settled on the southeast corner of Walnut and North streets, where the father afterward died. Charles H. Greene, a third son, was born about six weeks after his father's death. Mrs. Greene was afterward, November 5, 1837, married to William S. Collins, and the family then moved to what has since been known as the "Kirby Pasture

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land," on the Middletown pike After the mother's death the family was broken up, the children going to different parts of the country, George W., or "Wash" as he was familiarly called, being taken into the family of his uncle, Goldsmith C. Gilbert, with whom he lived un- til that gentleman's death in 1844, when he began working as a farm laborer in the north- ern part of the county. He did not remain long in the country, however, but soon came to Muncie and served an apprenticeship at the tailor's trade under William Perkins, whose shop stood on the ground now occupied by the Little block. He took charge of the busi- ness when he had "served his time," and carried on tailoring until he entered the army. After his return from the war he was elected clerk of Delaware county circuit court in 1866, and entered upon the discharge of his official duties August 23, of the following year. He was re-elected and held the office until August 23, 1875, when he retired with the record of honorable service, having earned the reputa- tion of an honest and efficient officer. After his retirement from office he engaged in no active business, but occupied his time in look- ing after his property and managing his farm. Mr. Greene was married to Miss Nancy H. Fleming on October 6, 1851; she died in Mun- cie, December 13, 1857, aged twenty-eight years, three months and twenty-three days. The first child, George, died at the age of about six months. Their second and last child, Ella, wife of H. B. Athey, survives her father, and her only child bears his name, Georgie G.

By no means the least interesting part of the life of George W. Greene is his career as a soldier. He enlisted in company E, Nine- teenth Indiana volunteers, July 29, 1861, and immediately thereafter was commissioned first lieutenant. Upon the honorable discharge of Capt. Luther B. Wilson, Lieutenant Greene

was promoted captain of the company, and was at the head of his men when taken prison- er at the battle of Gettysburg on the first day of that memorable fight, July 1, 1863. He was first taken to Libby prison, where he was confined for ten months, and was one of the daring fellows who, with Col. A. D. Streight of Indianapolis, tunneled a way out of the horrible prison pen and made their escape. Unfortunately, Capt. Greene was recaptured and returned to prison. He was then con- fined in Danville, Macon, and Charleston rebel prisons until March 12, 1865, at which time, he was paroled prisoner of war, and dis- charged at Washington, D. C. After long confinement in these prison pens in the south he became very much reduced in body and spirit, and was very sick and unable to walk. Capt. Greene never fully recovered from the effects of his twenty months' starvation and prison life, and suffered constantly, some- times severely, with rheumatism and bone fever, and his death was caused by general wearing out of a debilitated body. Mr. Greene was a good and faithful soldier, a brave and efficient officer, a generous and faithful friend, and a citizen in whom the people of Muncie and Delaware county placed the most implicit confidence. He was known and respected throughout Delaware county, and in his death all who knew him realized that they had lost a friend.

ALPH S. GREGORY was born in Delaware county, Ind., February 28, 1846. He lived upon a farm until fifteen years old, when he entered the high school at Muncie, Ind. After com- pleting the course of study there he entered Wabash college, where he continued his studies until 1862, when he entered the army as a private soldier in company B, Eighty-

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fourth Indiana volunteer infantry. Heremained in the army about two years, when, on account of failing health, he was honorably discharged at Shellmound, Tenn., having attained the rank of orderly sergeant. On returning home, having regained his health, he again entered Wabash college and remained there through the junior year. He then entered Asbury university, now Depauw university, where he graduated with honors in the class of 1867. The year following his graduation he was superintendent of the high school of the city of Huntington, Ind. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1869, and has since continued the practice of that profession. His practice in both the civil and criminal courts has been successful and lucrative. He has won an enviable reputation for himself as an advocate, and is known throughout the state. He has won especial distinction in the prac- tice of the criminal law. He has a large library of the best text books and law reports, in addition to which he has a private library composed of the choicest works on history, art and literature. He belongs to many of the leading secret and fraternal societies, such as the Masons, Knights Templar, Knights of Pythias, and the Improved Order of Red Men, and has held many of the great offices in these societies, and especially in that of the Im- proved Order of Red Men, in which order he has been the great Incohonee, which is the. chief officer of the order in the world. He is a close observer of men and things, and per- haps no one in Delaware county has a wider and more intimate acquaintance with the peo- ple of the state than he. He has always been a republican since his majority, except in the campaign of 1892, when his study of the tariff, and the attitude of certain leading statesman on the subject of bi-metalism, or the coinage of gold and silver as money upon a parity and equality, compelled him to with-

hold his political influence from the success of the republican candidates. He is a firm be- liever in bi-metalism, and recognizes that silver money has been the established friend of the people, and that without its use as money the masses must necessarily be at a disadvan- tage with the rich or the security holders. He believes the Mckinley bill as constructed was, and is, the most ingeniously prepared personal legislation that was ever devised by man. He is not a free trader, but believes in such a tariff as will sufficiently raise revenues to maintain the government, and that that tariff should be so placed as to protect labor and the industries in the true spirit of Ameri- can independenoe.

Mr. Gregory has a wife and two children, Walter Leon, and Florence Madden Gregory. Mrs. Anna C. Gregory, the mother of these, was born at Piqua, Ohio, in 1863, a daughter of Timothy C. Madden, of Irish parentage; was educated in her native city, and is highly accomplished in music. The pictures of his wife and children are in a group in this volume, on the opposite page from his own. He is cool in discussion and forms no dislike for any one who honestly entertains an opin- ion differing with his.

B F. GRIBBEN, the accommodating ticket agent of the "Big 4" railroad company at Muncie, Ind., was born in Pittsburg, Pa., June 4, 1852, and there attended the public schools until sixteen years of age, subsequently taking a special course at book keeping in the high school, and also served an apprenticeship at iron molding at Union City, Ind., where his father was partner in the foundry of White, Gribben & Co., and served from 1868 to 1871, when he returned to Pittsburg and worked in the

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Westinghouse air brake works, at his chosen trade, and a year and a half later returned to Union City and took charge of the Wooley & Fischers Electric Light company's molding department for a year; worked three months in the freight office of the "Big 4" and was then transferred to Muncie and was baggage master for eight years, and in August, 1890, was appointed to his present position. During his residence in Union City he was city clerk for seven years, on the Ohio side, and was the first president of the Delaware county and Gray club, of Muncie, a democratic organiza- tion. He was married in Union City, in 1873, to Miss Laura J. Dill, daughter of John W. Dill, of Greenville, Ohio, and has two chil- dren-Pearl M., at home, and Perry A., an employe of the Kirby house.

Andrew J. Gribben, father of the subject, B. F. Gribben, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1818, and settled in Union City, Ind., in 1868, and engaged in the foundry and machine business until 1872. While not licensed a lawyer, he was well posted in legal matters, and during the last few years of his life was engaged in real estate transactions. He was mayor, justice of the peace, and president of the board of education at different times, and died in August, 1890, honored by his fellow citizens as a useful member of society and as an upright man. He married Harriet A. Verner, and had born to him five children, viz: Mary A., wife of Charles A. Gould, of Pittsburg ; B. F., whose name opens this sketch ; Perry, yardmaster at Anderson ; Belle, wife of Herman C. Scranton, of Union City ; and Lizzie M., wife of James E. Folley, of Anderson. The mother is still living in Union City, aged sixty-four.

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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 25

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