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fireman on the Pennsylvania Railroad as is also his brother, Wilbur Allen Foster. Graham Ray, Anna Irene and William E. Foster still remain at home with their parents. Susan J. Spicer is also a member of the family cir- cle. She is the daughter of Mrs. Foster's deceased sister and was left an orphan at the age of three years.
William Henry Foster is well versed in the affairs of the Knights of Pythias. He is a member of Hope Lodge, No. 13. In religion he is a lifelong member of the local Presbyterian church. He lives on the same corner facing the Ohio river as did Governor Jennings when he resided in Jeffersonville.
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JOSEPH THOMAS ENLOW.
The well known chief of the Jeffersonville fire department, Joseph Thomas Enlow, was born at Mauckport, Harrison county, Indiana, August 20, 1866, the son of John Emmett and Mary A. (Reynolds) Enlow, both branches of the family being well established and- worthy representatives of Harrison county. In 1869 the Enlow family removed to Louisville, Ken- tucky, and in 1879 they removed to a farm near Underwood, Clark county, Indiana, our subject having remained on the farm until he was about eighteen years old, when he decided that better opportunities awaited him in the city than on the farm, consequently he went to Jeffersonville and secured employ- ment in the car shops, having performed his services there in such a creditable manner that he at once attracted the attention of his employers and he was accordingly made foreman of the steel plant.
On September 3, 1906, Mr. Enlow was appointed chief of the Jefferson- ville fire department, which appointment was for four years. He has suc- ceeded in greatly strengthening the department in every respect and accord- ing to many of those in position to know, he is perhaps the best chief the de- partment in Jeffersonville has ever had. When he took charge of the depart- ment it was equipped with only one "combination" wagon and one hose real, fifteen hundred feet of hose, and there were but four horses and five men. Now these are in addition to the city service combination ladder truck, which "carries a chemical engine and one hundred and ninety feet of ladders, two hundred and fifty feet of hose; also an engine which was built especially for the Jeffersonville department. It has an Amoskeag pump, which is the very best design made, a Fox boiler, also highly efficient apparatus, in short, a most excellent fire fighting machine. Technically it was rebuilt from an old one that had been out of use for many years, but the old part is so insignificant as to hardly deserve mention. There is now a total of three thousand and two hundred feet of hose and eight horses and eleven men. A new house has also been erected and another house reconstructed on East Chestnut street.
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The department as a whole has been more than doubled since Mr. Enlow took charge, which certainly speaks well of his executive ability and energy as a wide-awake fire chief, who is deserving of the high esteem in which he is held by the people of Jeffersonville.
Mr. Enlow was united in marriage on January 11, 1887, with Florence Austin, a native of New Albany, who passed to her rest in July, 1898, hav- ing become the mother of five children, namely: Grace, Laura, Florence, Mary and Ione.
The subject's father, who is the postmaster and a merchant at Under- wood, Indiana, was a soldier in the Civil war, having been a member of the Thirty-fourth Kentucky Infantry. The Enlows bear an excellent reputation in the vicinity of Underwood and wherever else they are known.
Mr. Enlow is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Lodge No. 3, of Jeffersonville. He is distinctively a fire fighter, seemingly singled out by nature for such work, a medium sized man with well knit frame, a square jaw, showing fortitude and determination. While in his every-day life is a kind-hearted and generous man, he has the dash and fire of a born leader of men when occasion requires, but is always cool and self- possessed.
CAPT. FRANCIS B. SHEPHERD.
In every community, large or small, there are a few men who, by their force of character, are intuitively recognized as leaders, men who are success- ful in whatever they undertake. In the thriving city of Jeffersonville, In- diana, there is a representative of this class found in Capt Francis B. Shep- herd, a man who justly merits the high regard in which he is held by all who know him, if for no other reason, because of his past enviable record as a soldier, having performed his duty in the cause of humanity during the last wars of his country. He was born in White Sulphur, Scott county, Ken- tucky, in 1866, the son of Phillip B. Shepherd, a native of Mead county, Ken- tucky, and a man of many worthy attributes of character. The subject's mother was known in her maiden hood as Catherine Lee, daughter of Robert E. Lee, of White Sulphur, Kentucky, who had the distinction of serving in the War of 1812. Phillip B. Shepherd represented Mead county in 1849 and 1850 in the Kentucky Legislature, being the only Democrat ever elected from that county up to that time, which fact is indicative of popularity in his own locality. He afterward moved to Decatur, Illinois, and edited the first Democratic paper at that place. So faithfully did he defend the principles of Democracy that President James Buchanan appointed him postmaster of De- catur, in which capacity he served until the breaking out of the Civil war,
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when his sympathies for the Southern cause prompted him to sell out all his possessions and move to the South, where he at once joined Gen. Joseph Johnston's division of the Confederate army, in which he rendered efficient service. After the close of the war he was elected Judge in Grant county, Kentucky, in which capacity he served for a period of four years. Thus it is no wonder that Francis B. Shepherd should have naturally taken to army life, with the record of his ancestors so permeated with militarism.
Our subject remained at home (White Sulphur, the Blue Grass state) until he was eighteen years old, when, with his parents, he removed to Ft. Scott, Kansas, where he attended the Kansas Normal College during the first three years of his residence. After leaving school he enlisted in the Fourth United States Infantry, stationed at Ft. Omaha, Nebraska, and subsequently served all through the West. After his five years' term of enlistment expired he re-enlisted in the Seventh United States Cavalry, in which he served three years, by this time having made great progress in army discipline, and shortly afterward he gladly availed himself of an opportunity to go to Cuba, where he joined the Insurrectos, who were rising to throw off the yoke of Spanish oppression, two years before American troops were sent to that island. Mr. Shepherd's object in this new line of activity was to teach the Cubans tactics, drills, maneuvers, etc. So efficient was his work in this connection that he was promoted to the rank of major in the Cuban army. Leaving Cuba Mr. Shepherd went to South America, where he remained until the breaking out of the Spanish-American war, when he returned to the United States and. enlisted in the Twentieth Infantry of the regular army, and was in the first expedition to land in Cuba, June 22 and 24, 1898, then fighting their first battle, in which President (then Colonel) Roosevelt was engaged. The sub- ject was in Bates' Flying Brigade, and he also participated in the battles of El Caney and San Juan Hill, where this regiment did very effective work, re- turning to Montauk Point, then to Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, after the close of hostilities. The regiment was then sent to Manila, Philippine Islands, leaving San Francisco on the transport Warren, which landed at Manila, Feb- ruary 12, 1899, that city still being practically on fire, resulting from the fierce fighting on February 5th. Mr. Shepherd was detailed as personal orderly to Maj .- Gen. Lloyd Wheaton, and he participated in the following engagements : Guandaloupe Ridge, March 13, 1899; Pators, March 14th, ad- vanced from San Fernando to Calulut, August 9th, following. Then the regi- ment with which the subject was connected engaged in skirmishes from San- dalon to Angeles, which place was reached on August 13th, and from whence they went to Porac, arriving there on September 28th, following, engaging in a skirmish; also at Lingayan Gulf, November 5th, remaining there until December 31st, when they captured Aguinaldo's mother and his secretary, but the famous insurgent leader escaped. From January 7th, to April 24,
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1900, Mr. Shepherd was in Grant's expedition, which brigade invaded the Bulucan Mountains. They were in a battle at Balubad, June 11, 1900. There was almost constant fighting and skirmishing between these battles.
At the expiration of his term of service in 1901 Mr. Shepherd returned to Manila and was given the position of superintendent of land transportation under Col. C. P. Miller, and he remained there until 1904, when he was trans- fered to the classified service at the quartermaster's department in Jefferson- ville, Indiana. He is messenger of Class C at the government depot and is captain of Company M, Indiana National Guard. at Jeffersonville. He is one of the best posted men in army and navy affairs in the state, receiving all general orders and keeping up-to-date in reference to military affairs. Cap- tain Shepherd's personal appearance is that of a born soldier, portly and digni- fied. He is at present engaged in writing a book on the Cuban insurrection, which is awaited with great interest by his friends and army acquaintances, for it will doubtless be replete with stirring incident as well as valuable from a historical standpoint.
One of the leading incident's in the captain's life in the Philippines and one of the most important events of his life, was his marriage in Manila, on March 2, 1904, to Catherine Hogan, of Colorado Springs. Colorado, who made the long trip from her home to the Philippine capital that she might marry Captain Shepherd.
In his fraternal relations our subject is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Tell Lodge, No. 272. He is also past commander of the Spanish War Veterans, making one of the most efficient leaders that body has ever had. Thus possessing as he does so many likable traits of character and such sterling worth, it is not strange that he is one of the popular men of his county.
LUTHER M. WORRELL.
The Worrells were originally a well established old family of Virginia, but representatives found their way west during the first half of the ninteenth century and became identified with different states. Martin B. Worrell, who was born in Harrison county, of the Hoosier state, enlisted as one of the In- diana soldiers during the Civil war, and made a good record while in the army. He married Margaret Hunsemacher, a native of Germany, who came to America in her childhood. Luther M. Worrell, one of the children by this union, was born at Jeffersonville, February 1, 1878. Mr. Worrell received the usual education in the common schools of the city. After finishing the course he studied electricity and worked in that line of business for four years. In 1898, when the Spanish-American war began, he determined to
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join the army, then enlisting for the defense of the country and do what he could to uphold her honor. With this end in view he joined Company E, One Hundred and Sixty-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry, with which he went to Cuba. Shortly after arriving in the island he was transferred to the Thir- teenth Company of the United States Signal Corps, with which he served six months. This corps did valuable service for the government during the mili- tary operations in the island and Mr. Worrell is justly proud of the part he bore in the work.
After returning home Mr. Worrell secured a position as fireman on the Pennsylvania Railroad and gave such satisfaction that he was promoted to the post of engineer on August 1, 1906. He has since retained that place and is in active service with the Pennsylvania, being regarded as one of the . company's most reliable locomotive engineers. He takes much interest in all that concerns the welfare of railroad men, and is one of the enthusiastic mem- bers both of the Brotherhood of Locomtive Firemen and Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
On October 30, 1901, Mr. Worrell was married to Libbie Brinkworth, a young lady of refinement, who was born at Jeffersonville, but reared at In- dianapolis. Her parents were George and Mary (Pepper) Brinkworth and natives of England, who came to Jeffersonville before the birth of Mrs. Wor- rell. They came to America in childhood and were reared near Madison, Indiana. Mr. Brinkworth enlisted at Madison in the Third Indiana Cavalry, and served with credit during the Civil war, on the side of the Union. Mr. and Mrs. Worrell have had three children, of whom George M. and Clara C. are living, the other having died in infancy. Mr. Worrell talks entertainingly of his experiences during the Spanish-American war. He was originally in Capt. Lewis C. Baird's company and after being transferred to the Signal Corps crossed over from Havana to Santiago, where the principal fighting took place. He learned much of the ways and peculiarities of the Cubans and also became acquainted with the large and varied assortment of annoying in- sects to be found in that part of the tropics. The family reside in a neat cot- tage in the best district of the city. Both Mr. and Mrs. Worrell are people of intelligence and refinement and their home life is ideally happy.
HENRY WATTERSON HARRISON, D. D. S.
The family of this name is of Kentucky origin and one branch of it at an early day settled in the county of Carroll. During the heated discussions pre- ceding the Civil war, when Kentucky was rent with political, social and civic feuds, the Harrisons sided with the Democratic party and when the actual
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clash of arms occurred were found in the ranks of the Confederates. R. F. Harrison, who was born in Carrollton, enlisted in the Southern army and went through many of the stirring scenes that distinguished this troubled period from the spring of 1861 until the surrender in 1865 brought compar- ative peace. That he was a man of prominence and popularity is proved by the fact of his election as Clerk of Carroll county, but still more by the fact that he held this important office for twenty-eight years. Under the old system prevailing in Virginia and Kentucky the county clerkship was prac- ticularly a hereditary office, being handed down from father to son for genera- tions. It was a position of great influence, combining in its incumbent great knowledge of the law as well as current business of the county, the clerk often figuring as guardian of children and administrator of estates. Some years be- fore the Civil war a flatboat floated down the Ohio river, containing a New York family on their way to the Falls, where the parents hoped to better their condition in life. Kate E. Gibson, then a child of tender age, was a member of this family and when she reached Jeffersonville was adopted by Rev. Henry Smith, a minister and lawyer of the town .. She grew to maturity, attended the public schools and finished her education at the Charlestown Academy. Subsequently she met and married R. F. Harrison, of Carrollton, and to this union we are indebted for the young dentist who is the subject of this brief review.
Henry Watterson Harrison was born at Carrollton, Kentucky, in 1872 and received his early education in his native county. About the time he reached his majority he entered the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery at Phildadelphia, from which he was graduated in March, 1893. He began practice at Carrollton, but after remaining there a year or two removed in April, 1895, to Rising Sun, Indiana. Remaining at this point for five years, he again changed location in 1900 and spent nearly two years at Evansville. In September, 1901, he removed to Jeffersonville, which has since continued the theater of his operations. He occupies an office and residence combined in the principal business part of the city. The neatness of the surroundings, the comfortable character and good taste displayed in the furnishings and the whole atmosphere of the place indicate that the young dentist is attending strictly to business and bids fair to make a success of his profession. Doctor Harrison is a member of the First Christian church of Jeffersonville and takes an interest in everything concerning its educational and charitable work. He has an inclination toward the fraternities and seems fond of lodge work, as is indicated by the numerous orders to which he belongs. These include Clark Lodge, No. 40, Free and Accepted Masons; Jefferson Lodge, No. 3. Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows; Hope Lodge, No. 13, Knights of Pythias, and the Modern Woodmen of America.
On October 10, 1894, Doctor Harrison was married to Hattie O.,
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daughter of O. P. and Hannah J. Dailey, of Vevay, Indiana. They have two children, Hugh P. and Henry W., Jr. The family live quietly and mod- estly, enjoy respect in their circle of acquaintance and number on their list of friends many of the best people of the city.
ADOLPH I. FRANK.
The subject of this sketch, who is efficiently performing the responsible duties of Police Commissioner of the city of Jeffersonville, is one of the best known citizens of Clark county. His appointment to the position he now fills met with the approval of the public and he has abundantly fulfilled every ex- pectation.
Mr. Frank is a native of Jeffersonville, Indiana, and was born on Janu- ary 3, 1844. His father, John G. Frank, was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1814, and received his education in the excellent public schools of his native land. In 1830 he emigrated to America, locating first in Canada, where he served an apprenticeship to the butcher's trade. In 1835 he came to 'the states," locating in Jeffersonville, where he remained during the remaining years of his life, his death occurring on the 10th of January, 1884. He had followed the meat business during his active life, retiring from active pursuits in 1870. He married Mary Oehm, who was born in Saxony, Germany, in 1818. In 1833 she came to America with her parents, who located near Charlestown, Indiana. The father, William Oehm, was an early settler and prominent farmer, but died in early life. Mrs. Mary Frank died on the 10th of June, 1890.
John G. and Mary Frank became the parents of eleven children, five of whom died in infancy, and but four of whom are now living. Those who lived to years of maturity are as follows: John W., who was a butcher in Jef- fersonville, died May 10, 1900; Adolph I. is the immediate subject of this sketch; John H. is a butcher at Owensboro, Kentucky; H. M. runs a suc- cessful drygoods business in Jeffersonville; Lucretia, the wife of William H. Kehrt, a saddler and harnessmaker in Jeffersonville; Oliver J. died at the age of twenty-six years.
Adolph I. Frank received a good practical education in the public schools of Jeffersonville, and upon the close of his school days he served an appren- ticeship in the drygoods business in Jefferonville two years. He was then for several years employed in a drygoods store in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1872 the entered into business on his own account in Jeffersonville, and so continued until 1890, when he entered the employ of his brother, H. M., in the same line. He has been fairly successful in all his business affairs, and, which is
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better still, he has earned and retained the highest regard of all with whom he has had business dealings.
On the establishment of the municipal office of Police Commissioner, in 1898, Mr. Frank was appointed to that office for four years. He then remained free from political office for four years, but in 1906 was induced to again accept an appointment to the same position, which he has since so acceptably filled. He has also served four years as a member of the City Council.
Politically Mr. Frank has always been an active Republican, and his fra- ternal affiliation is with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal church.
In 1866 Mr. Frank married Mary Robertson, a resident of this county, though a native of Birmingham, Iowa. The Robertson family is an old one and was prominently identified with the war of the Revolution. Mrs. Frank's paternal grandfather, Hezekiah Robertson, was an early settler of Indiana and assisted in hewing the logs for the erection of the first Methodist Epis- copal church in the state. That was in 1800 and the church was located about three miles north of Charleston. The deed to this property, which deed is still in the possession of the Robertson family, conveys the land "to the M. E. Church of the United States forever." Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank, namely: Ada W., who lives at home, is a graduate of De- Pauw University, class of '98, and is now a teacher of Latin in the Jefferson- ville high school; Clara K. died at the age of seven years; Laura O. is the wife of S. H. McMullin, of Aurora, Indiana ; Irwin R., of Cosmosdale, Ken- tucky, is the cashier of the Cosmos Cement Company ; he married Gertrude Hagerman; Olive died in 1906, unmarried.
NEWTON HUNT MYERS.
It was over ninety years ago, three years after Indiana was admitted as a state, when the whole territory was clothed in original forest, when settle- ments were few and far between and towns found only at a few places on the Ohio river, that Michael J. Myers left his home in Herkimer county, New York, to seek his fortune in what was then known as the "far West." He was a contractor by occupation, and his object in coming to Clark county in 1819 was to prosecute work on a then projected canal. Later he went to Ohio, where he ended his career at a comparatively early age. With him at the time of his arrival in Clark county was a son named Peter, then seven years old, who after reaching manhood engaged in merchandising, shipbuild- ing and the lumber business. He met with the usual fortunes attending such
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ventures, but on the whole seems to have prospered during a long life that was terminated by death in January, 1886, in the seventy-fourth year of his age. He married Rachael, daughter of Thomas Jacobs, one of the earliest of the county's pioneers, who lived in Utica township. She died in 1893, when sixty-three years old. She became the mother of eight children. By a former marriage Peter Myers was the father of six children, and of his fourteen chil- dren, nine are still living.
Newton Hunt Myers, third of the children of the second marriage, was born at Jeffersonville, Indiana, December 27, 1857. After the usual prelimi- nary attendance in the common schools, he was graduated from the city high school, in 1877, and was the second boy to receive that honor. After a course at Eastman Business College in Poughkeepsie, New York, he secured a posi -. tion as bookkeeper in the Plate Glass Works at Jeffersonville, which he held for two years and then embarked in business on his own account. In partner- ship with Ed. Heller he established a mercantile firm to deal in clothing, hats and furnishing goods, but after the retirement of Mr. Heller within a year, he took sole charge and has since continued in the business. In 1892, in part- nership with F. L. Rossbach he established a furnishing business in Chicago, known as the Washington Shirt Company, which proved a very successful venture. In addition to manufacturing the firm conducts three retail stores in Chicago. Several years ago a stock company was formed for the manu- facture of wagons, kitchen cabinets and other household supplies, of which Mr. Myers became the largest owner and directing head. In addition to his business ventures Mr. Myers has found time for other activities and has be- come quite prominent in local politics. He is chairman of the Republican Cen- tral Committee and a member of the State Advisory Committee. In 1894 he was elected School Trustee, to serve four years, but resigned this position in February, 1898, to accept a higher honor. He was appointed postmaster by President McKinley and served acceptably during his first term, and was re- 'appointed at the expiration of his term, in all completing a service of eight years. Mr. Myers' fraternal connections are numerous and conspicuous as they embrace membership in several of the best known fraternities. In the Masonic Order he is a Knight Templar, Scottish Rite and Shriner, an ex- trustee of the Knights of Pythias, and a member of the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks.
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