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JOSEPH C. MORGAN.
The subject of this sketch is deserving of mention in this work, if for no other reason, because of the valiant service of three years he rendered his country during the internecine strife of the early sixties. Joseph C. Mor- gan was born in Laporte county, Indiana, November 20,, 1843, the son of Luther L. and Betsy (Hough) Morgan, the former having been born March 1, 1809, in the old Nutmeg state (Connecticut), having come to the state of Indiana about 1836, following the carpenter's trade here for a period of about seven years, when he went to Michigan and engaged in farming, also
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worked at his trade there, dying in that state in April, 1862. Betsy Hough, mother of the subject, was born in 1806 in Otsego county, New York. Her wedding with Mr. Morgan occurred in Michigan in March, 1835, and to this union four children were born, three boys and one girl, all deceased except Joseph C., of this review. Mrs. Luther L. Morgan passed away September 16, 1881.
Joseph C. Morgan received his early education in the common schools of Michigan, assisting with the work at home in the meantime, never leaving his parental roof-tree until the breaking out of the war between the states, when his patriotism prompted him to enlist in the Union army, on August 7, 1862, in Company H, Nineteenth Michigan Infantry, and he was on detached service most of his enlistment of three years. He was a clerk in the quarter-master's department part of the time, and later he was sent to Chicago, where he did guard duty. An older brother enlisted in the same regiment with Joseph C., and was killed in 1863 at the battle of Spring Hill, Tennessee.
Upon being mustered out at the close of the war Mr. Morgan returned to Michigan and engaged in farming. On May 20, 1873, he was united in marriage, in the city of Grand Rapids, to Cornelia Doty, who was born in 1854; in New York. After becoming the mother of one child, Mrs. Bertha McGee, now living in Battle Creek, Michigan, the subject's first wife passed to her rest in 1876, and Mr. Morgan was again married, his last wife being Louisa Devoe, whom he married in Nebraska in the year 1883. They lived in Ne- braska for about twelve years, this union resulting in the birth of four chil- dren, an equal number of boys and girls, namely : Adelle, born January II, 1885; Ray, born August 22, 1886; Ellis, born in 1888; Beda, born in 1889. Mr. Morgan's second wife was called to her rest in 1906.
Mr. Morgan's life work has been successful for he has always been a hard worker. He learned the carpenter's trade when young and worked at it most of the time he spent in the West. But he has devoted his time to farm- ing since coming to Clark county, this state, some eight years ago. He lives on a farm in section 67, located on the interurban line, two miles from Sellers- burg. He has built a very comfortable house and made many other substantial improvements on the place since coming here until it now ranks with the best farms of this township and he is reaping from year to year, excellent results from his toil.
Mr. Morgan took a great deal of interest in political affairs while living in Michigan, but since his removal to Clark county he has not been active in political matters. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and he has gained the respect of all whom he has met since casting his lot in this county.
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FERDINAND ENDERS, SR.
Although a large number of foreign born citizens have located in Clark county, no class has done nearly so much in the general development of the same as has the Germans, who are among our best residents, being law-abiding, loyal and industrious. Belonging to this class is the gentleman whose life record is here briefly outlined.
Ferdinand Enders was born in Bavaria, Germany, in the year 1846, the son of August and Marthalene (Hedcer) Enders, spending their lives in the Fatherland, in fact, our subject was the only member of this family who ever came to the United States, he having made the trip in 1865, after receiving a common school training in his home country, He located in the city of Balti- more, Maryland, where he remained for a period of two years, then came to Clark county, Indiana, believing that greater opportunities were to be found in the Middle West than in the more effete East.
Although a proficient veterinary surgeon, having been trained in this work before leaving Germany, he never practiced it here. His father was also a veterinary surgeon, having practiced the same in the service of the Ger- man government.
Mr. Enders says that Clark county was somewhat wild and undeveloped when he came here. He has spent his entire life since his advent in Clark county working in the cement mills, the first mill for the manufacture of cement having been established here about forty-one years ago. He has thoroughly mastered this work and is one of the best authorities in this line that could be found in this country, and he has been eminently successful in the same. He is very ably serving as assistant superintendent of the Belknaps Cement Mills.
Ferdinand Enders was united in marriage in the year 1867, to Barbara Ehringer, who was born in Sellersburg, Indiana, March, 1848, the daughter of John and Barbara (Popp) Ehringer. Mrs. Enders' father was an early pioneer in Clark county, having served for a period of three years in the Ger- man navy before coming to the United States, having during that time visited the major portion of the civilized world and much wild country.
To Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Enders the following children have been born : Mary, who is at this writing forty-one years old, married Christopher L. Apple, living at Hamburg, Indiana, and they are the parents of nine children ; Fred, thirty-eight years old, married Frances Capps, being the parents of two chil- dren and living at Hamburg; Annie, thirty-four years old, married William Ried; they are the parents of five children and live at Belknaps; John, who was born in 1876, married Susan Stroble, and they live in Louisville, Ken- tucky, and are the parents of one child; Edith, who was born August 7, 1879, married James Talkington; they are the parents of two children and live in Vansville, Indiana ; Margurite, born in 1882, married Horace Warfort, and
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they are living in Cleveland, Ohio; Ferdinand, born in 1886, married Teresa Liefelt; they live in Silver Creek township, this county, and are the parents of one child; George, born in 1889, is living at home; one son of the subject is deceased, George T., who was born in 1873 and died when fifteen months old.
Mr. Enders is quite a musician and plays a number of instruments in a manner that has delighted hundreds, and his pleasant home is often the gather- ing place for the many friends of the family who are entertained by Mr. Enders' playing. In politics he is a Democrat and has served his township as Trustee, also has held several other township offices, and is one of the most influential men in the township. He is a member of the Catholic church at St. Joe.
PORTER C. BUTTORFF.
Few of the captains of industry have achieved or deserved greater success than this energetic and progressive citizen of Jeffersonville. He belongs to the class who possess an intuitive insight into the problems underlying manu- facturing on a large scale, and this, connected with a capacity for organizing, initiating new methods and utilizing the latest improvements while applying all the economics, have made Mr. Buttorff notable among the prosperous busi- ness men of the state. He has a natural capacity for large affairs, combined with unruffled patience in working out details, which are prime factors in achieving results in any line of manufacturing. Porter C. Buttorff was born at Nashville, Tennessee, April 12, 1866, his parents being Henry W. and Mary E. (Nokes) Buttorff. After the usual course in the public schools of Nashville, young Buttorff decided to fit himself for the world of practical busi- ness, by obtaining an education that would qualify him best for a calling where profit is the sure result of skill. With this end in view he became a student at the celebrated Technical Institute at Worcester, Massachusetts, with a determination to become proficient in mechanical engineering. By close application and diligence, he accomplished his object and when he left the school walls he knew how to do something and to do it well. He spent two years in New York City, and being a close observer, learned much from what he saw and heard in that busy mart of finance and commerce. Returning to Nashville, he took charge of a blasting furnace and spent two years to great advantage in studying the processes of making iron. He next became junior member of the Phillips & Buttorff Manufacturing Company, at Nashville, makers of stoves, tinware, general wholesale hardware and house furnishings, in which lines they were both manufacturers and jobbers. Although his enter- prises took him elsewhere Mr. Buttorff still remains a member of this pros- perous concern at the Tennessee capital.
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It was in the spring of 1901 that Mr. Buttorff transferred his activities to Southern Indiana, which was destined to be the scene of his future operations and his permanent home. He had been called to take up the responsible task of managing and superintending the complicated work of the Indiana Manu- facturing Company and the Indiana Chain Works, in both of which he became a heavy stockholder. These establishments employ about five hundred men at the Indiana Reformatory, the first making cast-iron, stoves and hollow- ware, and the other manufacturing chains of all kinds. November 25, 1899, Mr. Buttorff was married to Cornelia Johnson, of Nashville, and they have two sons, Henry and Gordon. He holds fraternal relations with Clark Lodge, No. 40, Free and Accepted Masons, and the family enjoy an extensive acquaintance in the highest social circles of Jeffersonville and Louisville. · They live in a beautiful home on the banks of the Ohio, enjoying a fine view up and down the great river, the residence being roomy, handsomely fur- nished and supplied with every modern convenience. Mr. Bottorff's financial success has not spoiled him in the least. He is affable and approachable, of pleasing personality and popular with all who meet him, either socially or in business.
MAJ. GEORGE DALLAS HAND.
Of the many soldiers furnished by the Keystone state to the army of the Union during the deadly struggles of the Civil war, none served more gal- lantly than the subject of this sketch. He belonged to an old and influential family from which he inherited patriotism and all those social courtesies of distinguished gentlemen of the old school. Dr. George Chew Hand, who was prominent as a physician in Philadelphia, was married in early manhood to Susan Taylor, an accomplished lady of the same city, and by this union there was a son, christened George Dallas, in honor of one of the country's foremost statesmen. George Dallas Hand was born at Allentown, Pennsylvania, and received a liberal education as he grew up. Through the influence of political friends his father secured him an appointment as cadet at the Annapolis Naval Academy, where he graduated with honors previous to the Civil war. He . entered civil life but was not so engaged very long when the firing on Fort Sumpter electrified the country, and started a blaze that was only extinguished by the complete submission of the seceding states. Hastening to offer his ser- vices he was made captain of a company of the Lochiel Cavalry, recruited in Pennsylvania, but later was promoted to the rank of major of artillery in com- mand at Fort Delaware, Pennsylvania.
In 1862 Major Hand married Mildred Cosby Lyon, a scion of one of the best known families of Jeffersonville, and a lady of many admirable qualities.
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Her parents were Sidney S. and Honora Vincent Lyon, widely known in the social circles of the Falls Cities. Blanche Vincent Hand, the fruit of this union, married A. H. Simmons, of Louisville. Major Hand died November 5, 1892, and since then his widow has resided with her sister in Jeffersonville. The latter, formerly Blanche Lyon, was married May 23, 1859, to William Wallace Caldwell, who afterwards became prominent both in military and civil life. He was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, August 3, 1834, a son of James Gordon and Sarah (Leonard) Caldwell, and was brought to Jeffersonville by his parents when still a boy. Unusually precocious and ambitious he was ap- pointed postmaster of Jeffersonville when twenty-one years of age. At the breaking out of the Civil war he raised Company D, of which he was elected captain and which became a part of the Twenty-third Indiana Infantry and kept them six weeks at his own expense. Later he recruited the Eighty-first Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, of which he was appointed colonel by Governor Morton and for a time was acting brigadier-general. After the war he resided for a while at Lafayette, but later returned to Jeffersonville, and finally located at Indianapolis, where he was general agent for a number of fire insurance companies. After a retention of this place for ten years he re- moved to Chicago, and continued in the same line of employment there for nearly twenty years. Colonel Caldwell died in Chicago, November 2, 1891. By his marriage with Blanche Lyon he had three children, of whom Mildred D. died in Chicago at the age of seventeen years. William Lyon Caldwell, the only son, is a resident of Indianapolis. Jessie Caldwell, the surviving daugh- ter, married M. J. Ries, of East London, South Africa, and is now residing with her husband in that remote country.
JOSEPH J. HAWES.
A strong and courageous character that meets all life's duties and dangers with fortitude is Joseph J. Hawes, well known throughout Clark county as a popular official and in business circles as a successful manufacturer and mer- chant. This section was decidedly wild if not "woolly," when his grandfather, old Jason Hawes, left his home in New York and floated down the Ohio in 1824. Landing at Utica, he moved on to Washington county, but in a few years returned south and settled near Memphis. About the same time a family by the name of McGuire moved in from Alabama, and a friendship sprang up between the children of the two households, which resulted in the marriage of Isaac Hawes and Elizabeth McGuire. The former was born in New York, in 1809, was about fifteen years old when his parents reached Clark county. After his marriage he operated a saw mill at Memphis for twenty-two years
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incidentally following as a side line. He had eight children, all of whom are dead but the subject of this sketch.
Joseph J. Hawes was born on his father's homestead, near Memphis, In- diana, in 1838. When about seventeen years of age he quit school to become a brakeman on the old New Albany & Salem Railroad, but after a year and a half in this work he went with the Louisville & Nashville Railroad in Jan- uary, 1859, in a similar capacity. About the beginning of 1861 he was pro- moted to the position of conductor on that road and continued in that line until 1879. He still has the "traveling letters" used in those days instead of passes, as souvenirs of his railroad experience. After leaving the road he located on a farm and began manufacturing barrels and lumber at Blue Lick, but in 1887 removed his plant to Memphis. Here he branched out with sev- eral additions to his original enterprise, consisting of a saw mill, stave factory and planing mill, besides a creamery which he erected in 1890. He also con- ducted an extensive general merchandise business, employed the best men he could get for assistants and keeping his own accounts. He was postmaster at Blue Lick until 1887, and held the same office at Memphis until Cleveland's second term. In 1884 he was elected Trustee of Union township on the Re- publican ticket and was re-nominated in 1886. Though the Democrats held no convention they placed Mr. Hawes' name on their ticket, realizing the useless- ness of opposing one who had given such satisfaction in office. In 1880 Mr. Hawes made the race for Sheriff and though unsuccessful, ran four hundred and eighty-four votes ahead of his ticket in a strongly Democratic county. In 1894 he was re-nominated and elected and two years later was re-elected with- · out canvassing or asking for the office. When his term expired, August 22, 1899, none of his official acts were questioned nor was the slightest explana- tion needed as to his manner of fulfilling the duties imposed upon him by the people. About that time he completed the building of his flouring mill at Memphis.
One of Mr. Hawes' playmates in his boyhood days was an attractive little girl named Mary B. Dietz, daughter of T. M. and Abigail (Guernsey) Dietz. Between them there grew up a friendship which ripened into love, which only ended with the death of one of the parties. They were married December 31, 1863, at Blue Lick, and lived together in unbroken affection until November 18, 1900, when Mrs. Hawes was called to answer the summons which none can escape. Their thirty-five years of wedded life were singularly happy and as they had no children all their affections were concentrated upon each other. Mrs. Hawes was a noble woman, loved and esteemed by all who knew her. Exactly four months after her death a large portion of Memphis was destroyed by fire and Mr. Hawes lost his store buildings and stock, a big ware-room, with flour and other goods. Since then he has devoted his atten- tion to the flour mill and farming business, being also interested in a co-opera-
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tive creamery company, of which he is president. He is a member of the Jef- fersonville Lodge of Elks, and Hope Lodge, Knights of Pythias, at Jeffer- sonville.
CLYDE HOWARD.
No name is more familiar in Clark county than that of Howard. It has been associated for years with one of the most important industries of the Falls Cities, and members of the family have figured conspicuously in the po- litical and business history of this section. Some of them have been prominent In all the walks of life while others have filled useful situations in the less showy occupations. Among the latter is Clyde Howard, secretary and treas- urer of the Howard Ship Yards Company, a position he has filled acceptably over sixteen years. He was born in Jeffersonville in 1868, and is a son of Capt. Edward J. and Laura A. Howard. He received his education in the common schools of his native city and went through the high school and also attended a private school in Louisville, Kentucky. His life work has been in connection with the ship yards, having reached his present position when he was twenty- four years old.
On January 29, 1896, Mr. Howard was married to Julia Thompson, a native of Jeffersonville, and daughter of J. M. Thompson. They have three daughters, Laura Jean, Frances Rebecca and Ailsie. The family live quietly and unobtrusively enjoying their home life and society of friends.
A. J. CALLOWAY.
The family of this name is of Irish origin and descended from an emigrant who came over during the last half of the eighteenth century. John Calloway, a native of Dublin and son of a wealthy merchant of that city, was still young when he joined the tide settling in for the American colonies and crossed the ocean in time to join the movement for independence. There is a tradition that he became a soldier in the patriot army and after the treaty of peace set- tled in Virginia, where he died soon afterward. His son, Joseph, when four years old, accompanied his widowed mother, who decided to try her fortunes north of the Ohio, which held out the inducement of cheap land and easily ac- quired homes for the adventurous. Settling in Washington county, Indiana, Joseph grew to manhood and there married Polly Sloan, whose parents were among the pioneers from North Carolina. A. J. Calloway, one of the chil- dren by this union, was born in Washington county, Indiana, March 11, 1844,
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and remained with his parents until his seventeenth year, which he reached about the time the country was convulsed by the firing on Fort Sumpter. The excitement, great among all classes, was especially felt by the boys who longed to become soldiers and participate in "the pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war." Young Calloway caught the fever, like the rest of them, and became a member of Company H, Thirty-eighth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, with which he went to the front and served faithfully for three years. His command became a part of the great Army of the Cumberland and participated in all the long marches and hard-fought battles of that cele- brated corps. Returning after the cessation of hostilities, Mr. Calloway went to Michigan and found employment at Owasso, where he spent two years and then came back to Washington county, and settled near Chestnut Hill. Two years later he removed to Bartle post-office, but still not being satisfied came in 1875 to Flower's Gap, between Borden and Henryville, in Clark county, where he bought one hundred and sixty acres of land. In 1882 he located at Wil- son's Switch, conducted a store at that place for a year and then returned to the Chestnut Hill locality in Washington county. On May 16, 1892, he established himself permanently in business at Sellersburg, where he has a repair shop and deals in jewelry and millinery. As a side line, he represents two of the large fire insurance companies and altogether makes a good living, besides a modest profit from his various employments. For many years he has been a member of the Christian church, of the Masons and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
While living in Michigan Mr. Calloway married Margaret Burgess, by whom he had six children, all of whom are married and well settled in life. One of his daughters, Mrs. Perrin, has a grandson named Maxwell Jones, and this puts Mr. Calloway in the great-grandfather class, though he as yet not.a very old man. In January, 1878, his wife died and on May 31, 1881, he married Nancy J., daughter of James W. and Martha J. Stewart, of Wash -. ington county. By this union there are four daughters : Martha Jane, Hattie Belle, Ella Aretta and Tina Pearl.
CHARLES W. McCULLOCH.
When Hugh McCulloch reached Clark county as an emigrant from "Old Scotia," there was little in the land that was inviting and little in the prospect that was pleasing. Before leaving Scotland he had married an English woman named Sarah Guest, and with her made the long voyage which brought them . to Southern Indiana, in 1820. Settling at New Albany, then a mere hamlet, the new arrivals from northern Europe made a living in agricultural pursuits,
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which in those days were attended by great hardships and privations. They were unable to accumulate much and when their son, John McCulloch, started life it was as a poor boy, with a bitter struggle before him against adversity and toil in its worst forms. Cutting cord-wood and pealing tanbark were samples of his occupations, but out of it all with true Scottish thrift, he man- aged to save something and with this he bought a small piece of land. Event- ually he found himself the proud possessor of a saw mill at New Albany, which he ran with considerable success until 1865, when he went into the flour mill- ing business, but after a few years his establishment was burned down and this caused his temporary retirement. In the seventies he located on a farm near Jeffersonville, and lived there until his death, which occurred June 13, 1895. As he was born near New Albany, January 3, 1821, his age when the · final summons came was nearly seventy-four years. On April 10, 1856, he married Martha Ann Fry, daughter of an old Kentucky pioneer family. Her father, John Fry, who came from the vicinity of Louisville, was the son of George Fry, who was born in Virginia, November 13, 1796. John married Sarah, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Oldeweiler) Swartz, who came from Germany in pioneer times and located in Clark county, at a date that entitled them to rank as early settlers. They were religious people and among the leaders in establishing the second church in Indiana, the same being subse- quently known as the New Chapel of the Methodist Episcopal church, in Utica township. John and Martha Ann McCulloch had these children : Charles W., John, Franklin and James R., deceased in infancy ; Sarah F., wife of John R. Lancaster, postmaster of Jeffersonville, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this volume; Martha, wife of C. K. Boyer, who resides near the old farm; Edward M. and Walter.
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