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himself. He farmed until his twenty-fifth year, and during the following five years was a resident of Indianapolis, Indiana, four years of the time being spent as a street car conductor and the remaining year in the ice business. It was in the year of 1893 that he came to Muncie, and from that time to the present he has been prominently identified with the ice business. During the first three years he served as manager of the Muncie Lake Ice Company, at the close of which period he organized the Crystal Ice Com- pany, his associate being Mr. Thornburg, but at the expiration of seven years Mr. Nelson sold his interest, and during the following two years harvested and shipped ice from Dawson, Ohio. During the following four- teen months he had charge of the Muncie Ice & Coal Company, and he has ever since remained a stockholder in this large and important industry.
At the age of twenty years Mr. Nelson was united in marriage to Lillian Pace, whose death occurred about ten years later, and he subse- quently wedded Mrs. Emma Kerr, nee Thornburg. He has one son by his first marriage, Walter L. Mr. Nelson holds membership relations with the Knights of Pythias fraternity, and although he is identified with the Democ- racy he votes for the man regardless of party affiliations.
FRANCIS A. SHAW, son of Obed A. and Mary E. Shaw, was born on the sixth day of July, 1879, at Luray, Henry county, Indiana, where for more than twenty years his father was engaged in the merchandise busi- ness and operated a harness shop. The grandfather, Nicholas Shaw, was one of the early settlers of Wayne county, emigrating to that county from North Carolina with his family in September, 1826, where he resided on a farm near what is now Economy, and it was on this farm on the twelfth day of April, 1840, that the father of Francis A. was born.
When Francis A. was six years old the father sold his store and harness shop to his eldest son, William R., and moved with his family upon a small farm west of Cowan, in Monroe township, Delaware county, Indiana, where he has ever since and does now reside.
The family of .Obed A. has consisted of ten children, of whom there is now living, William R., who is a farmer and lives upon the site of the old family homestead at Luray; Enos L., who is a graduate of Pur- due University, a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and is a consulting engineer in Chicago, having an office at 1105 Monad- nock building, Chicago; Francis A., the subject of this sketch; Orian L. and Orpha E. Shaw, a twin brother and sister, who reside at home with the parents.
Francis A. Shaw attended and graduated from the common schools and high school of his township, and in the fall of 1898 began the study of law in the city. of Muncie, in the law office of a local practitioner, and was admitted to the bar on his birthday, July 6, 1900, at the age of twenty-one, since which time he has gradually forged his way to the front by hard work and earnest effort until to-day he occupies a leading
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position among the representatives of the bar in Delaware county. He is in every sense of the word a self-made man, and is winning a reputation through earnest, honest labor, and his present standing is but the merited tribute to his ability. He has demonstrated his ability to successfully handle the intricate problems of jurisprudence and now has one of the largest and best clientages in his county. Mr. Shaw is a general practitioner, but is considered a specialist on insurance and municipal matters, and is admit- ted to practice in all of the state and Federal courts.
Before his admission to the bar, Mr. Shaw took up the study of stenog- raphy and mastered its principles without the aid of a teacher and became so proficient that he has held the position for short periods of both the Delaware and Randolph Circuit courts.
Mr. Shaw, while an active, energetic Republican, has always stood for the rights of the people of his county first, and has refused to support nominees of his party on the county ticket when he considered them un- worthy of his support. He has always refused to be controlled by political bosses and has always stood for good citizenship rather than partyism in local affairs. He has for a number of years been identified with local Good Citizenship Leagues.
Just a few days after his admission to the bar and on the 18th day of July, 1900, Mr. Shaw was married to Miss Virgie E. Wright, only child of Charles F. and Mary J. Wright, of Richmond, Indiana. This union has been blessed by one daughter, Helen M., who was born on the 7th day of August, 1902.
Mr. Shaw holds membership relations with the Delaware Lodge, F. & A. M., with the B. P. O. E., Knights of Pythias, and is a member of the Jackson Street Christian church of the city of Muncie.
JOSIAH HUFFMAN. In reviewing the early and much of the subsequent history of Delaware county the name of Josiah Huffman will be found promi- nently recorded on its pages. He was born in Greene county, Ohio, in 1822, and his death occurred in Delaware county, Indiana, on the 7th of September, 1897. He was a son of Aaron Huffman, who came to the United States from his native land of Germany and established his home first in Virginia, from whence he later removed to Greene county, Ohio, and there his death occurred.
When a mere child Josiah Huffman was bound out, and thus his chances for gaining an education in his youth were extremely limited. He made his own way in the world from an early period in life, and was reared to man- hood's estate in Ohio, there also marrying Lettishia Bryan, who was born in Virginia. Mr. Huffman continued to follow his trade of wagon and carriage maker in Cedarville, Ohio, until the fall of 1880, when he came to Delaware county, Indiana, and located on a farm in Center township. Pre- vious to leaving his Ohio home he had purchased the shop in which he
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learned his trade, but after coming to this county he became identified with 'its agricultural interests, and for seventeen years he continued as one of the county's prominent business men and citizens. He was a Republican in his political affiliations, and both he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. She was called to the home beyond in 1885. In their family were five children, Ferdinand Jasper, Calaway F. (deceased), Wil- muth A., Josiah N. and one who died in infancy.
Wilmuth A. Huffman was born in Cedarville, Ohio, July 24, 1857, and in that city he was also reared to mature years and received his educational training. It was there, too, that he learned his trade of carriage trimming in his father's shop, but after coming to Indiana with his parents he turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, and save for a period of nine years spent as a merchant he has since been prominently identified with the tilling of the soil. His nine years as a merchant were spent at Royerton. He is the owner of an estate of one hundred and sixty acres of excellent farming land, and Center township numbers him among her leading agriculturists and business men. His political support is given to the Republican party.
Mr. Huffman married in 1884 Estella I. Clark, a daughter of Robert and Fannie ( Kemper) Clark, and they have one child, Lulu May. Robert Kemper was a son of Arthur Smith Kemper, whose history will be found in that of Dr. Kemper. Woodson Clark was the grandfather of Mrs. Huffman. Robert Clark is engaged in general farming and stock raising, making a specialty of Poland China hogs, and he also has both full blood and high grade Jerseys. Mr. Huffman is a member of the fraternal order of the Knights of the Maccabees.
H. R. GALLIVAN, chief of the fire department of Muncie and one of the city's most popular and trustworthy officials, is a native son of the Buckeye state, born in Bellefontaine on the 6th of March, 1877, but his parents, Maurice and Mary (Kirby) Gallivan, were both natives of Ireland. The father came to the United States at the age of twenty-nine years, and twice he took up his abode in Delaware county, first in 1874 and again in 1892.
After completing his education in the schools of Ohio H. R. Gallivan learned the plumbing business, and continued in that occupation for several years after his removal to Muncie. In 1900 he joined the fire department, and two years later became assistant chief, while in 1906 he was promoted to the high office of chief. When he assumed charge there were thirteen men in the department, while under his able administration the membership has been advanced to twenty and two new fire houses have been erected, furnished with all the modern appliances and they are thoroughly up to date in all their appointments. The department is very efficient in every manner and Muncie may justly feel proud of its excellent fire department, while to its chief much praise is due. He is an unassuming, popular and reliable gentlemen, and a worthy representative of an honored family.
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HAROLD C. R. WALL. The subject of this review, Harold C. R. Wall, has attained a marked success in business affairs, has gained the respect and confidence of his fellows, and is recognized as one of the distinctively repre- sentative citizens of Muncie. As a leading real estate dealer he has been energetic, keenly discriminating and sagacious, qualities which win success wherever applied to the practical affairs of life.
Mr. Wall is a native of Wadsworth, Medina county, Ohio, born on the 26th of December, 1865, his parents being Paul and Isabella (Rothacker) Wall, both Ohioans and of German descent. The paternal family of Walls, or Wahls, was established in the United States in 1771 by the great-great- great-grandfather of Harold C. R. Wall, who was one of seven brothers and settled in northeastern Pennsylvania. In 1819 the great-grandfather migrated to Ohio, while the father, Paul Wall, became a farmer in that state. As a grain dealer and manufacturer he was afterward identified with the commercial and industrial interests of that section of the state, and thus continued until his retirement from active business in the early '8os. His death occurred on the 23rd of November. 1906, and he is still survived by his widow. Her family, the Geigers, were for two centuries apothecaries in Germany, and Harold seems to have inherited a taste for the profession.
Completing his educational training in Oberlin College, from which he graduated in 1887, Mr. Wall engaged in the drug business at Akron, Ohio, where he remained for seven years. Going thence to Seattle, Washington, he again entered the drug business, being thus employed during the disas- trous fire which swept through the city. In this fiery casualty he had many exciting experiences, and he had the satisfaction of saving his employer's stock from destruction. Soon after returning to the East he resumed the drug business at Akron, advancing to the front ranks in this line before his retirement from the field in 1893. He then entered real estate, purchasing and reorganizing the Abstract Title-Guarantee & Trust Company, which is the only recognized authority on titles in the city. He also organized and became manager of the Permanent Savings & Loan Company, which is now one of the leading institutions of the city. Selling his interest in both of these companies Mr. Wall came to Muncie in 1900 and purchased the prop- erty of the Muncie Land Company, which was in the hands of a receiver at that time. In order to handle the property the Citizens Land Company, con- trolled by himself and family, was organized, and under his skillful manage- ment that organization has been largely instrumental in the improvement and upbuilding of the city.
On coming to Muncie Mr. Wall identified himself with the progressive business element of the city, and became a member of the old Commercial Club, serving as vice president thereof for one year. He was one of the organizers of the new Commercial Club, of which he was vice president for three years and president for one year, while for two years he was also chair- man of the manufacturing committee. He is a man of keen foresight and sagacity, is energetic, enterprising and reliable, and therefore during the
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comparatively few years of his residence in Muncie has made many judicious and profitable investments, as well as earned the confidence of the public and a liberal share of its real estate patronage.
In March, 1889, Mr. Wall was married to Miss Minnie S. Gilbert, of Cleveland, Ohio. Although, as stated, he has spent but comparatively few years in Muncie, he has made his mark in the city, and is widely known and held in uniform regard by its residents.
DUNCAN WILLIAMS, whose death occurred January 3, 1892, had spent almost his entire life in Hamilton township, where he was known as a suc- cessful farmer, a man of integrity and trustworthiness in public and private life. His name has a place in the official affairs of his township, which he served as trustee.
His active life was spent on a farm which his father had entered during the pioneer days of Hamilton township. Josiah D. Williams, the father, was born in Adams county, Ohio, October 21, 1800, and the same county was the birthplace of the son Duncan on November 9, 1832. Josiah D. Williams came to Delaware county in the fall of 1835, entering one hundred and sixty acres in Hamilton township, and a year later he brought his family to this new home, and both parents and children began the work of clearing the wilderness and making a home. Among the early settlers Josiah D. Williams was a prominent character, a man of uprightness and industry, serving his township in various offices, and his death in 1855 was a loss to the citizen- ship of the community. He had married, in 1821, Emily McCall, daughter of a Scotch settler of the Ohio valley, and of their union were seven chil- dren, namely : Maria, William McC., John W., Mary, Duncan, Martha and Sarah J. Of these Martha, wife of Amos Shafer, of this county, is the only one still living.
Duncan Williams came to this county at such an early age that he may be considered to have passed his entire lifetime in the county. An education in such early schools as the country districts afforded was followed, in 1850, by his entrance in the Delaware County Seminary at Muncie, where he was a pupil during two years in what was then the highest educational' institu- tion of the county. When his father died he bought the interest of the other heirs in the old homestead, and as a farmer and stock-raiser he was one of the men who contributed substantial results to the rural development of this county. His name and influence were connected with various enterprises and movements, and as trustee he assisted the progress of education and the pub- lic schools. He was a Democrat in politics, and, with his family, was a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Mrs. Duncan Williams, the widow of this well known old citizen, who now makes her home in Muncie, was a daughter of Robert Clark, one of the earliest settlers of Delaware county. Robert Clark, son of Woodson Clark, was born in Madison county, Kentucky, January 27, 1816, and came to this county at the age of sixteen, where he died April 22, 1895. By his marriage
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to Frances Kemper he had the following children: Sarah J., William G., Mary A., Lucy B., John W., Margaret F., Carrie G., Thomas J., Stella J., Ralph H. Sarah J. Clark married Duncan Williams September 23, 1858. Mrs. Williams has four living children, namely: Lucy, Emma, Gertrude and Robert J., while one, William K., is deceased.
HUGH ALVIN COWING, physician and surgeon, was born near the city of Muncie July 28, 1860, a son of Granville and Lucy (Moran) Cowing and a grandson of Joseph Cowing. After completing his edu- cation in the common schools of Delaware county and graduating from the Muncie high school with the class of 1882, Hugh A. Cowing taught school in this county for eight years, from 1879 until 1887. It was in 1886 that he began the study of medicine, first under the supervision of Dr. G. W. H. Kemper, of Muncie, and later attended three courses of lectures at the Miami Medical College in Cincinnati, Ohio. He received his degree of M. D. from that institution March 11, 1890, and on the 24th of the same month entered into a partnership with his former preceptor, Dr. G. W. H. Kemper, at Muncie. This relationship continued until 1897, and since then he has continued alone in this city.
Dr. Cowing is a member of the Delaware County (Indiana) Medi- cal Society, of which he was the secretary in 1893 and the president in 1906; a member of the Indiana State Medical Society, of the American Medical Association, of the American Public Health Association; was a member of the Indiana State Committee of the International Congress on Tuberculosis, 1908; has been secretary of the Delaware County Board of Health since 1890; and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Dr. Cowing is also the president of the Delaware County Children's Home Association and president of the Delaware County Board of Children's Guardians. His contributions to medical literature are: "Tobacco; its Ef- fect Upon the Health and Morals of a Community"; "Diseases of the Cornea"; "Paracentesis Thoracis," Indiana Medical Journal, May, 1892; "A Case of Tetanus; Recovery," Ibid., January, 1893; "Fracture of the Skull; Report of Two Cases, with Operation and Recovery," June, 1894; "Report of a Case of Purpura," Cincinnati Lancet Clinic, January 27, 1894; History of the Small Pox Epidemic at Muncie, Indiana, in 1893, and "Management of an Outbreak of Small Pox," Twelfth Annual Report of the Indiana State Board of Health, 1893; "How Shall We Solve the Tuberculosis Problem?" 1905; "The Adulteration of Food and Drugs," Delaware County Medical Society; "Twins and their Relation to Obstetric Procedures," 1901 ; "The Modern Sanatorium Treatment of Tuber- culosis," 1906, Indiana State Medical Society; "Shall Indiana Improve Her Laws which Regulate the Practice of Medicine?" 1896; "The Tuberculosis Sanatorium," 1905, Health Officers' School, Indianapolis; "The Relation of the Physician to the Tuberculosis Problem"; 1906, American Public Health Association, Mexico City, Mexico; "The Hospital and the Sanatorium a Ne-
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cessity in the Combat Against Tuberculosis," 1906; Tuberculosis Exhibit, Indianapolis ; and "Six Hundred Cases of Labor in Private Practice," 1907, Delaware County Medical Society.
Dr. Cowing married, June 23, 1892, Miss Alice E. Frey, of Cincinnati, Ohio. They have two children, Kemper Frey Cowing and Rachel Cowing.
EDWARD TUHEY. The subject of this review, Edward Tuhey, is a worthy representative of that type of American character and of that pro- gressive spirit which promote public good in advancing individual pros- perity and conserving popular interests. He has long been prominently identified with the business interests of Muncie, and while his varied affairs have brought him success they have also advanced the general welfare by accelerating commercial activity. Mr. Tuhey is of Irish ancestry, his father, Edward Tuhey, having been born in county Cork, Ireland, but when twenty years of age he came to the United States, and like many of his country- men from the Emerald Isle, engaged in railroad work. He came to Indiana at the time of the construction of the Big Four Railroad, locating in Muncie, where his life's labors were ended in death on the Ist of July, 1895. He became a loyal and patriotic American citizen, and during the Civil war served as a soldier in the Thirty-fifth Indiana Infantry.
In Muncie, on the 14th of January, 1856, occurred the birth of Ed- ward Tuhey, and after completing his education in its public schools he was engaged in teaching for twelve years in Delaware county. Leaving the professional for a business career, he engaged in contracting and building in Muncie, and to him belongs the credit of having built the larger part of the drainage system of this city. Four years later he erected the rolling mills and engaged in the manufacture of iron, as a member of the Muncie Iron & Steel Company, and thus he continued for about ten years. On the expiration of that period he organized the Tuhey Canning Company, this being in 1900, and since the time of its organization the enterprise has grown in volume and importance until it is now classed among the leading industrial institutions of Delaware county. They can only tomatoes, of which they ship from one hundred to one hundred and twenty-five car- loads annually. In addition to his extensive business interests Mr. Tuhey has also taken an active part in the public affairs of his native city, and for four years during Cleveland's administration, he served as its postmaster, while from 1898 until 1902 he served in the highest office within the gift of his fellow citizens, that of mayor, wherein he was active and earnest in his advocacy of all measures for the public good.
On the 18th of October, 1876, Mr. Tuhey was united in marriage to Mary Edna Mckinley, a daughter of Alexander McKinley, one of the hon- ored pioneer residents of Delaware county. Of the ten children born to Mr. and Mrs. Tuhey all are living, and three are associated with their father in business. He has been an influential factor in the progress of Muncie, and, alone and unaided, he has carved his way to the high position he now occupies.
DAVID A. LAMBERT. One of the best known among men who have held public office in Delaware county is David A. Lambert. His first public position was that of deputy county treasurer, to which place he was appointed in 1891 by Mark Powers, who at the election in 1890 was made county treasurer. In 1894 Mr. Lambert was nominated and elected county treas- urer, and at the expiration of his first term of two years was re-elected for a second term, retiring from this office on the 31st day of December, 1899. In 1903 Mr. Lambert was appointed by President Roosevelt as postmaster at the city of Muncie, which position he held for one term of four years,
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from April 1, 1903, to April 1, 1907. On the 18th of February, 1908, he was nominated by the Republicans of Delaware county as their candidate for state senator. For many years Mr. Lambert has been very much interested in agricultural pursuits, and takes much interest in the management of a fertile and well kept farm which he owns in Hamilton township. He has never been too busy in public life to neglect the affairs of the farm, and his success in agriculture has been fully demonstrated.
Mr. Lambert was one of a family of nine children, having been born in Salem township, Delaware county, Indiana, on the 29th of June, 1861. His father was John N. Lambert, one of the pioneers in the settlement of Salem township. He was born in Ohio, near Cincinnati, December 26, 1829, and, after a few years spent in southern Indiana, came to Delaware county about the year 1852. Here, for almost a quarter of a century, he lived on rented land, enduring all of the hardships incident to those times in Indiana. Industrious, honest, of good habits, upright and kind-hearted, John N. Lam- bert was a noble example for his children, and all who came in contact with him. After a long period of renting, he purchased the farm which he had tilled so long, and began to work out his ideas of a home. At the time the farm was purchased, much of it was in woods. With his proverbial pluck and perseverance he went about clearing it for the plow, draining the soil and making such other improvement as his financial circumstances would permit. On the first day of June, 1907, he passed away, after a lingering and painful illness, at the age of seventy-seven years. The mother of David A. Lambert was Nancy J. (Graham) Lambert, who was the daughter of Joseph Graham and was born in 1830. She was a woman of rare virtue, intelligence and good sense, and, by reason of her teaching and righteous living, instilled into the minds of her children a desire not only to live pure and cleanly lives but to do something and to be somebody in the world. She died in 1879 at the age of forty-nine years.
David A. Lambert attended the schools of Salem township during his boyhood days, and later became a student in the Central Indiana Normal College, located at Danville, Indiana. When eighteen years of age he began teaching and continued to teach for twelve years, and it was at the close of that period that he entered upon his long and successful career as a public official.
On September 3, 1889, Mr. Lambert was married to Elizabeth Kirklin, who was born in Delaware county on March 26, 1867. To this union were born two children-Marian, October 2, 1890, and Mildred, November 25, 1891. The loving and faithful wife and mother died July 13, 1893, only living long enough to prove her worth to husband and daughters and leaving them a legacy of undying and unending love, and the influence of a coura- geous and devoted womanhood. Her life was pure and spotless, and her life, though short, a blessing to all who knew her. On July 29, 1896, Mr. Lam- bert was married to Miss Anna M. Meeker, who was the daughter of Chester C. Meeker and Ann (Johnston) Meeker, who were natives of the state of New York. Miss Meeker was born July 29, 1870. To this union were born three sons-Jean, born August 30, 1900; George, born February 22, 1904, and David, born July 14, 1906.
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