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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 Iate 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 Eartham 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. 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, deccased; 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.
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.
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.
ship of Monroe.
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- 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.
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