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 33

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

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ON. ORLANDO JAY LOTZ, judge of the appellate court of Indiana, representing the Fourth judicial dis- trict, was born January 15, 1851, in Jay county, Ind., son of Jeremiah and Melissa A. Lotz. The father, whose birth occurred December, 1824, in Gallia county, Ohio, is a son of Abraham Lotz, who left the Buckeye state as early as the year 1830, immigrating to Indiana and locating in the county of Jay. For a number of years Jeremiah Lotz followed

the farmer's vocation, but subsequently, about 1863, entered the internal revenue service of the United States, with which he is still iden- tified, being the oldest living official in that department of the government. His wife, whom he married about the year 1845, and whose maiden name was Melissa A. Schutt, was born of German and French parentage and departed this life in the year 1877 in Ran- dolph county.

Orlando J. Lotz spent his youthful years amid the active duties of the farm, received his rudimentary education in the common schools, and later pursued the more advanced branches of learning in the high school of Fort Recovery, Ohio. Subsequently, he was engaged, for a limited period, as a teacher, but having early chosen the legal profession for his life work, he began the study of law in 1873. Having gained a knowledge of the principles of his profession, Mr. Lotz entered the National Law school of Washington, D. C., in which he completed his prescribed course, graduating in 1874, and the following year began the practice in Muncie, Ind. From the beginning of his professional life Mr. Lotz exhibited a high order of talent, and won for himself the reputation of an able and success- ful lawyer.

In March, 1885, upon the creation of the Forty-sixth judicial circuit, Mr. Lotz was ap- pointed judge of the same, and at the ensuing election, in 1886, was duly chosen his own successor by the direct vote of the people. He adorned the circuit bench for a period of seven years and eight months, at the end of which time he was called to a higher position of usefulness, being elected, in 1892, judge of the appellate court of Indiana from the Fourth judicial district. As a lawyer, Judge Lotz is studious, careful and judicious in the prepara- tion of legal papers, and painstaking and thorough in their presentation to the court.

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He was successful in the practice and came to the bench with the knowledge that fitted him for a good judge. Few judges of his age have acquired so high a reputation for soundness in the knowledge of the law, and for careful ap- plication of principles in the investigation and determination of questions sumitted for his disposal. Always ready in grasping facts per- tinent to the issues involved, and fortified by his convictions of right, he seldom committed errors of sufficient import to justify reversal at the hands of the supreme court. As the out- growth of his legal acumen and power of anal- ysis, he came upon the bench at a compara- tively early age, and, leaving that position with well earned judicial honors, it is but reason able to predict for him a career of distinction as a member of the high tribunal to which he has so recently been called. Eminently popular in the profession, Judge Lotz is equally so as a man and citizen, and is held in great esteem by his fellow citizens. Politically, he is a democrat, and as such is recognized as a potent factor in the councils of his party in Indiana.

Judge Lotz was united in marriage May 16, 1878, in Muncie, to Miss Amanda Inlow, daughter of Walter and Rachael Inlow, resi- dents of Delaware county; one child has been born of this marriage, a son, Walter J. Lotz.

J AMES B. LUDLOW, the senior part- ner of the firm of Ludlow & Glass, general contractors and builders, with office at 501 South Jefferson street, Muncie, Ind., is the son of Israel D. and Eliza (McMillen) Ludlow, and was born in Miami county, Ohio, December 4, 1832. He was reared on a farm, but received an education at the common schools, which was somewhat above the ordinary training of farm lads of

that day. In 1850 he entered upon an ap- prenticeship of three years with Lane & Buckles, carpenters, at Piqua, Ohio, and, after fully learning the trade, took a position as foreman in the door factory of Diltz & Sons, with whom he remained three years; then fol- lowed his trade in Troy, Ohio, for nine months; in April, 1856, he went to Galesburg, Ill., and assisted in the erection of Knox col- lege, and in the fall of 1856 went to Peoria, and for eight years was foreman for A. J. Hodges, one of the heaviest contractors of that city. In the spring of 1864 he came to Muncie, where he worked for P. H. D. Bandey and also for Martin Young; later had charge of the wood work and repairs of the bagging mill of James Boyce. After this he engaged for six years years in manufacturing and deal- ing in furniture, and later was pattern maker and millwright for the Wysor, Haines & Patter- son machine shop. About 1883 he went to Florida, and for five or six years was a con- tractor in St. Augustine, Chulooto and Oviedo, meeting with the most flattering success. About 1888 he returned to Muncie, and for a year did contracting on his sole account. In 1889 he formed a partnership with Mr. Lee M. Glass, and established the present thriving business. Among the edifices erected by this enterprising firm may be named those for J. W. Heath, M. E. Vandercook, Vernon Davis, Carl A. Spilker, P. S. Heath, Bowers Bros., Muncie Glass factory and Young & Kessler. The firm, which is a progressive one, pride themselves on the superior character of their work, and consider it their best recom- mendation, and this is verified by the fact that, in 1892, their contracts amounted to $150,000.00. They employ, in the busy season, from twenty to fifty hands, and all of them are first-class workmen. Much credit is due to both partners for their industry and intelligent management of their business, as

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they had no outside financial aid at the start; and, as an illustration of Mr. Ludlow's indomi- table spirit, it may be mentioned that when he came to Muncie to remain he walked four miles to his work night and morning, receiving $1. 50 per day for his labor.

In 1855 Mr. Ludlow was happily united in marriage with Harriet Merriweather, at Piqua, Ohio. To this union have been born four children, viz: Lizzie, who was born in Piqua, Ohio, but died at Peoria, Ill., at the age of seven years; Ida, born at Peoria, and now at home with her parents; George W., who was born at Peoria in 1862; he was a machinist in the Indiana Bridge works, but, sad to relate, was killed while performing his duty, leaving a bride whom he had married only six weeks previously. The youngest child of Mr. Lud- low is Lottie M., who was born in Muncie, and is the wife of Ed. B Tyler, bookkeeper for the Iron Bridge company. Mr. Ludlow is a member of Delaware lodge, A. F. & A. M .; and he has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal congregation for forty-two years, is a trustee of the High street church, and a member of the building and loan improvement committee.

To refer to the proximate genealogy of Mr. Ludlow, it is proper to state that his par- ents were natives of Cincinnati, and that the paternal grandparents came from New Jersey at a very early date, with subject's great- grandfather, who erected the first frame dwell- ing in that then infant city. They were of Scotch-Irish stock, and by marriage Salmon P. Chase was connected with the family. The maternal ancestors bore the name of McMillen, and were of Irish Presbyterian descent. Grand- father McMillen was a magistrate in Cincin- nati, and at one time had the unbounded au- dacity to order William Henry Harrison, then a lieutenant, to be whipped for insubordina- tion, but the sentence was suspended.

J AMES H. McCLUNG, of the firm of Wildman & McClung, publishers and proprietors of the Muncie Times, was born in New Albany, Ind., February 7, 1834. His father, also named James H., was a native of Rockbridge county, Va., born September 23, 1807; his mother, who bore the maiden name of Mary Collins, was born in 18to, in Madison county, Ky .. whither her parents had emigrated from Virginia. The father died at Fredericksburg, Ind. ; the mother, who, after her husband's death, had been married to W. H. Green, a prominent news- paper man of the state, died at Brookville, Ind., June 5, 1887. James H., Jr., led the uneventful life of a boy about a printing office, with intervals of attendance at school in win- ter, until sixteen years of age, when he was placed on the footing of a journeyman printer and was paid journeyman's wages, at that time eight dollars per week. With the excep- tion of an additional attendance at school in 1852, he worked as a journeyman until twenty- two years of age, and then purchased a half interest in the office of the Connersville Times, and in connection with Mr. Green, his step- father, conducted the paper until December, 1856, when he purchased the office of the Liberty Herald, then called the Union County Herald, which he owned and conducted for almost eleven years. In August, 1856, Mr. McClung was married to Miss Clarissa Good- lander at Connersville. To their happy union were born three children, two sons and a daughter, all married and with families of their own. Mr. McClung enlisted in the early part of the war in company G, Thirty-sixth Indiana volunteers. He acted as orderly ser- geant of his company at Camp Wayne, but before leaving camp was commissioned as' second lieutenant. He served in various ca- pacities in the field, being for a time A. A. A. G. on the staff of Gen. Jacob Ammen; adjut-

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ant of his regiment, and captain of his original company-G. His company was with the first of Buell's troops to reach the battle field of Shiloh, and besides many skirmishes and small engagements was present at Stone River, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge and Chickamauga. On the 26th of January, 1864, Mr. McClung resigned his commission in the army, and returned to Liberty and assumed charge of his paper. He has, since selling the Liberty Herald office in 1867, been connected, as part owner, with the Connersville Times, Wabash Plain Dealer and the Muncie Daily and Weekly Times, purchasing in connection with his son, Charles, a half interest in the latter October 24, 1887.

William H. McClung, the eldest son of James H. McClung, was born in Liberty, Ind., in September, 1857, and was married at the same place to Miss Georgia Pierce, who is now the mother of four children. William H. is now the foreman of the composition room of the Muncie Times. Charles T. McClung was born in Liberty, Ind., September 28, 1864; was educated in the common schools in his native town, and spent his boyhood days in the office of his father. He was married in Muncie, Ind., March, 1890, to Miss Minnie Smith, born in Liberty, Ind., in June, 1864, daughter of E. P. Smith, a prominent manu- facturer of the city. May McClung, the only daughter of James H. and Clarissa McClung, is the wife of F. H. Barton, a bookkeeper of Champaign, Ill., and is the mother of six children.

3 OHN McCONNELL was born March 22, 1832, in Scioto county, Ohio, the son of William and Arie (Armstrong) McConnell. William McConnell was born April 10, 1807, and his parents were John and Barbara (Bowman) McConnell, the

father of Scotch-Irish and the mother of Ger- man ancestry. John McConnell had a family of seven children, all of whom have passed to that bourne from which no traveler ever re- turns. In the year 1832 William McConnell, came to Delaware county, Ind., and entered eighty acres of land in section 20, township 20, range 10, and the following year, moved from Ohio to his new home, in what was then an almost unbroken wilderness. He lived upon this place the greater part of his remain- ing life, and in his declining years moved to Muncie, where his death occurred in 1878. On moving to this county the present prosper- ous city of Muncie was but a mere hamlet of a few inhabitants, and surrounding the village was a dense forest, through which wild ani- mals and the scarcely less wild Indian roamed at pleasure. Mr. McConnell added to his original purchase from time to time, and became the possessor of 160 acres of valuable land, also some good town property. He was a man of local prominence, popular with his friends and neighbors, and served as justice of the peace for a number of years. His wife was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and died on the 26th day of February, 1863. William and Aire McConnell reared the following children: Jeremiah, deceased; Rosanna, deceased; John; Abraham, of West Virginia; Sarah, wife of George Wilhelm; Moses, who is living a retired life in Muncie; Catherine, wife of Samuel Huston. Three others are dead-Levi, George and William.

As will be seen, by reference to the above dates, John McConnell was but one year old when brought by his parents to Delaware county, in the growth and development of which he has borne no inconsiderable part. Reared to manhood amid the scenes of pio- neer times, his early life, of necessity, was one of hard work and considerable privation, and such educational advantages as the country at

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that time afforded were obtained in the old log school house, which he attended at intervals of about two months of the year during his mi- nority. He recalls the primitive log structure, with puncheon floor, greased paper windows, slab benches, and large fire place, which took up about one-fourth of the end of the building, while the writing desk was made of unplaned plank, laid upon pins fastened into the wall. In keeping with the building and its rude fur- niture was the instruction imparted therein, notwithstanding which Mr. McConnell laid the foundation of a practical education. He at- tended school in Muncie for a brief period and remained with his parents until his twenty-first year, at which time he began life for himself as a farmer, purchasing eighty acres of land in Blackford county, for which he paid the sum of $550. Subsequently he exchanged this land for eighty acres in Monroe township, Delaware county, which he improved, and upon which he lived until his removal to his present farm in section 28, Centre township. His first pur- chase in the latter township consisted of eighty acres, to which he afterward added forty acres, thus making him a very comfortable home and valuable farm. Besides this he owns his father's old homestead, a part of which has been laid out in lots under the'name of McCon- nellsville. This addition consists of 132 lots, and such has heen the growth and develop- ment of the city that what a few years ago was a cultivated field, is now a town of itself.

The marriage of Mr. McConnell was sol- emnized October 7, 1857, in Muncie, with Margaret Bowers, who was born December 4, 1835, in Perry county, Ohio. The parents of Mrs. McConnell were George and Margaret (Foster) Bowers, the former of Pennsylvania and the latter a native of Maryland. The father died in Ohio in 1837, and the mother subse- quently came to Indiana and died in Muncie November 5, 1883. Her birth occurred in 1809.

Mr. and Mrs. McConnell are the parents of the following children: Oliver; William R., deceased; Charles E., deceased; Laura, wife of Levi Stipp; Emily, deceased, and Nellie, Mr. and Mrs McConnell are among the few pioneers of Delaware county who live to tell the story of their early trials and struggles in laying a foundation, upon which the prosperi- ty and high state of civilization of the western country has been builded. Mr. McConnell is an intelligent and enterprising man, and for one of his years retains undiminished all his faculties, both mental and physical. He is a man of fine presence, and it is but just to state that few citizens of his township are as highly and universally respected as he. A democrat in politics, he has never been a seeker after official position, preferring to give his entire attention to his farm. He belongs to the I. O. O. F. and the Improved Order of Red Men.

J AMES McCULLOCH, M. D., deceased, was born in Springfield, Cumberland county, Pa., in 1813, one of a large family, of Scotch ancestry. His earlier · days were passed on a farm; merchandising succeeded, and then teaching, after which he was elected, as a democrat, recorder of his na- tive county, without solicitation on his part, and served his term of office at Carlisle, the county seat. In 1856, he became a republi- can. In the meantime he read medicine with Dr. Baughman, and attended lectures in Phil- adelphia, receiving his diploma from the uni- versity of Pennsylvania in that city. He com- menced practice in Carlisle, and at once arose to distinction. In 1851 he married Miss Car- oline J .. the youngest daughter of Dr. George D. Foulke, and soon afterward removed to Kingston, in the same county, resided there

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three years, and in the fall of the third re- moved to Lancaster, Ohio, and the following April, a year, after living a few weeks in Leb- anon, Ind., he became a resident of Muncie, with his family, in 1856, forming a partnership with Dr. George W. Edgerly for a few months. He then continued alone in the active practice of his profession until failing health compelled him to retire. He died on the 3rd day of May, 1877, leaving one son-George F .-- and four daughters.

EORGE F. McCULLOCH was born on the 25th day of September, 1855, in Lancaster, Ohio. His father, James McCulloch, was a native of Pennsylvania but left that state, emigrating to Ohio, thence, about 1856, to Indiana, locating in the city of Muncie, where he continued to reside for some years. George F. was then six months old, and in the schools of Muncie he received a liberal education, completing the high school course in 1870. Meanwhile he received his first introduction to practical life as a clerk in the queensware house of W. J. V. H. Cassady, and after his graduation in the year noted, he accepted a position with Will- iam Steward as a deliverer of groceries, also carried the mail, delivered express matter, and handled baggage as his services were required. In the spring of 1871, he engaged with J. L. Little as a salesman of sewing machine at- tachments for a limited period, and then as a clerk with the firm of Todd & Powers, dealers in general merchandise, remaining in their em- ploy until the fall of the same year. Mr. Mc- Culloch was next apprenticed to learn photog- raphy with Lon M. Neeley, of Muncie, in whose gallery he pursued the study until May, 1872, at which date he became deputy clerk of the Delaware county circuit court under G.

W. Greene. After the expiration of that gentleman's official term, Mr. McCulloch was retained by A. L. Kerwood, the successor of Mr. Greene, with whom he remained until January, 1881, severing his connection with the office at that time and effecting a copart- nership in the law with John McMahon, Esq. The firm thus constituted lasted until August, 1883, at which time he assumed the duties of clerk, to which office he had been elected the year previous.

Mr. McCulloch proved himself both capa- ble and popular, and in 1886 he was re-elected his own successor. Retiring from the office at the expiration of his term in 1891, Mr. McCul- loch turned his attention almost entirely to the industrial development of Muncie. In the organization of the Citizens' Enterprise com- pany, he was a prominent factor, having been made secretary of the soliciting committee, a position which he held for some time at the earnest solicitation of his associates. In 1892, he became interested in the Whitely Land company as general manager of the same, and to him as much as to any other man is the city indebted for the present town of Whitely, one of the most flourishing of the several suburbs of Muncie. In addition to those noted above, he is prominently identified with the Indiana Bridge company, the Nelson Glass works, the Muncie Natural Gas company, the Street rail- way of Muncie, of which he is secretary, and for a period of three years was connected with the Muncie Transfer company.

Mr. McCulloch's marriage was solemnized September, 11, 1883, with Miss Cora, only daughter of Arthur Patterson, of Delaware county, the result of which is two children- one deceased. Mrs. McCulloch is a highly accomplished lady and is a leader in the society of Muncie. Her parents are members of one of the oldest families in the county of Delaware.

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HOMAS McKILLIP, founder of the Muncie Herald, and formerly a most successful farmer and stock dealer, has had a remarkably varied as well as prosperous career. He was born in Fayette county, Ohio, in 1840. His father, Thomas Mckillip, also an extensive farmer and stock breeder, was born in North Carolina in 1809, but when young was taken by his parents to Fayette county, Ohio. The mother of our subject bore the maiden name of Sarah Pow- ell, and was of Scotch-Irish descent.

Thomas Mckillip received a somewhat limited education, as school houses were few and far between in the wilds of Ohio in his youthful days, and they of the rudest construc- tion, with tutors of a caliber to correspond. The school term consisted of three months during the winter, and yet many of the hours of this limited time were spent in caring for the live stock on the home place-the after- noons only, when available, being devoted to school. Thus the earlier years of Mr. McKil- lip's life were passed away until his majority was reached, when, in 1861, he married Miss Margaret A. Horney, of Jeffersonville, Fayette county, Ohio. But this matrimonial bliss was of short duration, as Mrs. McKillip was called away in January, 1864, leaving behind her one child about two years old. The following year, 1865, Mr. McKillip came to Indiana and purchased a 400-acre tract of land on the south side of Indian Prairie, in Sugar Creek township, Clinton county, where he did a very extensive business, both at farming and at handling cattle, sheep, hogs and mules, selling in the Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Buffalo, Indian- apolis, Chicago and New York markets for sixteen consecutive years. He was regarded as an expert in judging live stock, and for a number of years was a member of the Clinton County Agricultural association. In politics he has always been a pronounced democrat,

and as such served three successive terms as township trustee, or six years in all. For a number of years, also, he was a member of the democratic county committee of Clinton county, and has always been an active and ardent worker for the good of the party.

The second marriage of Mr. McKillip took place in 1867, to Cyenda A. Wilson, of Clin- ton county, Ohio, the result being a daughter and a son.

The panic of 1873 brought to Mr. McKillip, as it did to thousands of others, reverse of for- tune, and caused him to change the base of his operations, and to make a new financial start. In 1882 he removed to Muncie, and, after sundry business ventures, he decided, in 1885, to purchase the outfit of the New Castle (Henry county) Mercury, which he transferred to Muncie, and, placing the plant in the Mitch- ell block, on south Walnut street, issued the first number of the Muncie Democrat-Herald, October 2, 1885.

In March, 1886, he issued the first number of the Daily Herald, which immediately sprang into popular favor, and, being newsy and ably edited, it has come to be one of the leading dailies of eastern Indiana, although the journal was nurtured in the lap of poverty. Mr. McKillip, ever persistent and energetic, abso- lutely "footed it" all through the county, so- liciting subscriptions and business for the paper, and at last succeeded in establishing on a sure foundation this journalistic "little giant," that has so triumphantly withstood the onslaught of its political foes in this over- whelmingly republican county. Mr. McKillip is the present chairman of the Delaware county democratic committee. His energetic con- duct in pushing forward the interests of the Herald has won for him the confidence of his party, and the support of the party given to the Herald has been fully reciprocated on its part.

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J OEL R. McKIMMEY, ex-sheriff of Delaware county, Ind., is a son of James and Susan (Adamson) McKim- mey, and was born in Henry county, Ind., on the present site of New Lisbon, August 5, 1834. In October of the same year the father, with his wife and family of seven children, moved to Salem township, Delaware county, and entered 100 acres in the woods on the Range line road, as it is now called. On this farm Mr. McKimmey was reared, going to the old log school, two miles away through the woods, but going only in inclement weather, being required to assist in clearing up the farm when the days were fair. When twenty years of age, Joel began the affairs of life on his own account, and bought forty acres of woodland, and in 1855 married a girl who owned forty adjacent acres. He set- tled on this farm in 1856, and by 1874 had cleared and improved over half of it. In this year, also, he moved to Muncie, carried on a meat market for a year, and in 1875 began riding as deputy for sheriff A. J. Slinger, was with him two years, and then for four years was deputy for Sheriff John W. Dungan. In the spring of 1880, Mr. McKimmey, who is a stalwart republican and cast his first presi- dential vote for John C. Fremont, was nomi- nated in the republican primary as candidate for sheriff over nine contestants by a good plurality, and at the polls was elected by 1, 670 majority. In 1882 he was renominated with- out opposition, was re-elected in the fall, and served until August 27, 1885, when his second term expired. During his ten years' experi- ence as deputy and principal, during the greater portion of which time he was com- pelled to take his prisoners to New Castle, there being then no jail in Muncie, he never permitted a man to escape or break jail. In his incumbency of four years as sheriff, he handled 655 men in confinement, and during

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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 33

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