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In 1878 he moved to Kokomo, where he was elected president of the Howard National Bank, which was organized and opened for business in Jan- uary, that year; the charter, however, was dated in the November preceding. The duties and responsibilities of president of this bank have ever since been faithfully performed by him, who has now reached the age of eighty years and is as vigorous and active as ever. He still owns the old homestead in
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Parke county, containing four hundred and ten acres, seven miles from Rock- ville, the county seat.
November 18, 1841, is the date of Mr. Pickett's union in matrimony with Miss Harriet Emily Carter, daughter of Jehu and Lydia (Thompson) Carter, of Morgan county, Indiana, near Monrovia. They had two sons and eight daughters, named Louisa, Catharine, Lydia, Sarah, Jehu, Emma, Amanda, Walter, Ella and Ida. Louisa was married three times and has two children, -Foster Branson and Grace Nixon, being children of the first and second husbands respectively. Her last husband's name was Branson also; she is now a widow. Catharine died at the age of ten years. Lydia became the wife of William A. Moore, and had two children, of whom only Amanda is now living. Mr. Moore was a teacher for a number of years in Earlham College at Richmond, this state, and is now deceased. Sarah is now Mrs. D. T. McNeil, at Ann Arbor, Michigan, where her children, Walter and Paul, are attending the university. Jehu, now a traveling man, married Miss Louisa Lindley, and they reside at Wichita, Kansas. Their children are Emma and Ella. Emma, his sister, married Louis F. Horna- day and they live in Crawfordsville, this state. Amanda died at the age of twenty years. Walter married Miss Jessie Vansickel, of Crawfordsville, and has one child, named Catharine. He and his brother-in-law are in business together in that city, dealing in groceries, queensware, house-furnishing goods and stoves. Ella, twin sister of Walter, is unmarried. Ida, now deceased, became the wife of Julius Ayres and has one child, named Warren.
Mrs. Harriet E. Pickett, the first wife of our subject and mother of the above children, departed this life May 30, 1888, in her sixty-sixth year. She was a noble woman, a member of the Society of Friends. On the 20th of October, 1894, Mr. Pickett chose for his second wife Mrs. Catharine (Cox) Overman, widow of Charles Overman and formerly a resident of Parke county.
In his political views Mr. Pickett is a Republican, but he has never had any taste for public office.
Now, the subject of the foregoing sketch is an example of rising to a competency by honest methods and a steady aim, perseverance and intelli- gent application, courage and fidelity. When his parents settled in this state other settlers were there before them but two years. There were eight children in the family. At one time his father endeavored to buy some
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wheat for manufacture into flour, and at length succeeded in finding two bushels, which was ground, bolted by hand; and that was all the wheat flour the family had for a number of months. The staples of their table fare were corn, pork, pumpkin, milk and butter. Now, besides his finely improved farm at the old homestead in Parke county, he has a nice property here in Kokomo, his residence being at No. 140 West Sycamore street, where he is enjoying life.
JOHN B. SHULTZ, M. D .- Devoted to the noble and humane work which his profession implies, Dr. John B. Shultz has proved faithful, and has not only earned the due reward of his efforts in a temporal way, but has proven himself worthy to exercise the important functions of his calling, through his ability, his abiding sympathy and his earnest zeal in behalf of his fellow men. His understanding of the science of medicine is broad and comprehensive, and the profession and public accord him an honorable and distinguished place among the medical practitioners of Logansport and Cass county.
The Doctor is a native of Carroll county, Indiana, born September 22, 1839, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Dunbar) Shultz. The father was born in Pennsylvania, in the year 1795, of German parentage. In 1824 he removed to Ohio, thence to southern Indiana in 1830, to Tippecanoe county in 1834, and about 1837 took up his residence in Carroll county. He was a farmer and miller and resided for many years in Carroll county, where his death occurred in 1855. His wife was a native of Kentucky and lived to the advanced age of eighty-six years. By her marriage she became the mother of nine children, but only two are now living.
Dr. Shultz, of this review, having acquired a good English education, entered upon the study of medicine, and in 1860 was graduated in the Eclectic Medical Institute, of Cincinnati, Ohio. In February of the same year he located in Logansport and entered upon his professional career, which has been such as to distinguish him as one of the ablest physicians and surgeons of this part of the state. He soon secured a liberal patronage, and with the passing years his practice has increased, for he has always been a close student of his profession and has kept fully abreast with the advancement that has been made therein.
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In his political views Dr. Shultz haslong been a stalwart Republican, and he does all in his power to promote the growth and insure the success of the party. He has been honored by election to several local offices, and his loy- alty and public-spirit were manifested in his prompt, able and faithful service. In 1870 he was elected county treasurer, and so well did he discharge the duties of the office that he was re-elected in 1872, filling the position for four years. He also filled the office of mayor of Logansport for two years and his admin- istration of the affairs of the city was wise, progressive and discriminating. He has always given his support to the enterprises calculated to prove of public benefit, and his labors in this direction have been instrumental in the upbuild- ing of town and county. Socially he is connected with the Improved Order of Foresters, and the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Orient Lodge, No. 272, A. F. & A. M .; Logan Chapter, No. 2, R. A. M .; Logansport Council, No. 11, R. &. S. M., and St. John Commandery, No. 24, K. T.
H L. MORELAND, justice of the peace, Kokomo, deserves mention in this volume, inasmuch as he is an exemplary citizen who has done his share in the development of the interests of the communities in which he has resided. Without any air of pretentiousness he has humbly and faithfully fulfilled his duties in all the relations of life.
Mr. Moreland is a native of the Keystone state, born in Franklin county, August 8, 1824, a son of David and Isabella (Lang) Moreland, also natives of that state. They had seven children, of whom five are now living, all in Indiana, namely: John, in Delaware county; Henry L., the subject of this sketch; Rebecca, widow of Gideon Keefer and now living at Alexandria; David, of Bourbon; and Isabella, wife of Hiram Murphy, of Newcastle.
David Moreland, the father, was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1792, and devoted his life to agricultural pursuits. In 1864 he emigrated to Indiana, where he passed the remainder of his life, dying in 1868, aged about seventy-seven years. His life companion had left this world long before, namely, December 20, 1844. Both were sincere Christians, holding their ecclesiastical membership in the Presbyterian church.
Before leaving the subject of Mr. Moreland's genealogy, we may notice that his paternal grandfather, Thomas Moreland, was an emigrant from Ire- land in the second year after our Revolutionary war, who settled in Pennsyl-
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vania, where he was a follower of agricultural pursuits and finally died. He had a large number of children.
Henry Lang, the maternal grandfather of Mr. Moreland, was a native of the Keystone state and of Scotch parentage. He was a graduate in the classical course at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania; studied medi- cine under the preceptorship of Dr. McClelland, a noted surgeon; practiced there a short time, and then for a while was a resident and practitioner in Rockbridge county, Virginia; and returning to his native state, he located at Greencastle, where he at length abandoned the medical profession and became a school-teacher. He died at the latter place, when he was about seventy-five or eighty years of age. He was a very intelligent and social gentleman. His father, named James Lang, was a Presbyterian minister, who died in Pennsylvania.
Henry L. Moreland, the subject proper of this brief biographical outline, was brought up in agricultural life in his native county, attending, during the winter seasons, the old-style subscription schools, where the children had to occupy slab seats and have but one window for the whole room.
During the winter of 1844-5, when he was about twenty years of age, he took a load of goods by wagon and a six-horse team over the mountains to Pittsburg, before a railroad was completed to that city. The distance was about one hundred and fifty miles, and the trip was a tedious and hazard- ous one, especially for a man so young, requiring twenty-one days. During his youth he was a member, for a time, of a military company raised for service in the Mexican war; but, although he drilled with them for a time, he was not called into active service.
In 1847 he emigrated to Ohio, settling in Xenia, where he remained about eighteen months and learned the cooper's trade. In 1848 he came still further west, locating at Middletown, in Henry county, where he remained about seven years, following his trade as cooper. It was the 20th of October, 1857, that he arrived in Howard county, from Grant county, this state, and he devoted his attention and energies to agricultural pursuits until 1872, when he moved to Kokomo, purchased a cooper shop and fol- lowed his favorite vocation until 1889, when he sold out in order to give his attention to official business. Previously, at the June (1865) term of the county commissioners' court, he was appointed by that body to fill the unex- pired term of John Moulder as a member of that board, and at the conclu-
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sion of that term he was regularly elected for the full three-years term, so that altogether he served as a member of the county legislature for a period of four years and six months. He proved to be a very popular officer; and the public, recognizing his capacity and fidelity, elected him in 1874 to the office of county auditor for the regular term of four years, and in 1878 for another term; and in this responsible position he served eight years, with unabated acceptability. In the summer of 1889 he began work in the city treasurer's office and served several months. In April, 1890, he was elected justice of the peace, which office he still holds; and in March, 1898, he was. renominated for the office, and at this writing is a candidate for re-election. Thus as a public official we see that Mr. Moreland has demonstrated his title to the popular esteem.
On the 8th day of May, 1849, Mr. Moreland was united in marriage with Miss Almira J., daughter of Chauncey H. and Jane Burr. By that mar- riage there were nine children, namely: Oscar LaSere, Loren O., Zerelda, John Edgar, Isabella, Chauncey D., Addie Eliza, Henry L. and one who was not named. All died young except Loren O., Addie Eliza and Henry L., Jr. Loren O. married Miss Jennie Bowers and had three children, -Gracie, Chauncey and Morah. Loren O. was engaged in the loan and abstract busi- ness in Kokomo for some years, and later was assistant deputy auditor in his father's office; but, on account of close confinement, and the work of the office not being congenial to his taste, he left it and went to Texas, on busi- , ness, and while there he fell a victim of typhoid fever, due to the use of alkaline and impure water, and the result was his death in Kokomo, August 8, 1878. Henry L. Moreland, Jr., married Miss Bessie Tenant and lives at Alexandria, where he is a glass-cutter; he has two children. Addie Eliza married Edward T. Hatton and lives at Center, Howard county; they have two children, - Ruth and Zerelda.
Mrs. Almira J. Moreland died March 1, 1870, and subsequently Mr. Moreland was united in matrimony with Mrs. Margaret M. Neil, widow of John Neil and daughter of Joshua Belt. By this marriage there have been four children, two of whom are deceased; the living are Olive and Willia M. Mrs. Moreland is a devout Christian, identifying herself with the Congrega- tional church, with which the daughters also are connected. They have a pleasant home at 204 South Union street, in a large frame dwelling erected. in 1891.
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"Squire " Moreland is a Royal Arch Mason in his fraternal relations, and politically he is a stanch Republican. Previous to the rise of the Repub- lican party he voted for two Whig candidates for president of the United States, -Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott.
Such is but a brief outline of some of the principal points in the life career of a worthy and exemplary citizen of Kokomo.
D R. JAMES M. DARNALL, of Kokomo, came to the Wabash valley when the public appraisers were fixing the price of the land through which the famous Wabash & Erie canal was to run from the mouth of the Tippecanoe river. The government purchased a large strip of land from the Indians and made a donation for the construction of the canal. And ever since that extremely early day in the settlement and development of this state has the Doctor been an eye witness of the multitudinous changes involved in the progress of improvement.
Dr. James Milton Darnall is a native of Kentucky, born in Jessamine county, June 28, 1817. His father, Zenas Darnall, a native of West Vir- ginia, married Miss Agnes Bridges, a native of North Carolina, both of Eng- lish descent. They were taken to Kentucky when children by their parents, and were reared and married in that state. They had six sons and two daughters, and three sons and one daughter are still living, namely: Dr. James M. (our subject); Harvey B., of Lebanon, Indiana; Riley W., a mer- chant in the Great Northern Hotel building in Chicago; and Mary E., wife of Joseph E. Pedigo, an attorney at Lebanon, Indiana. The last named served as a soldier in the Civil war. Zenas Darnall, a farmer by vocation, moved from Kentucky to Decatur county, Indiana, in 1822, and purchased at first eighty acres of land and afterward more, and brought up his children there. Losing his wife in 1852, at the age of fifty-four years, he moved to Boone county, this state, where in 1857 he died, aged sixty-nine years. He was a Baptist in early life, but at length he united with the Christian church, of which his wife had been a member and of which he was an elder at the time of his death. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, taking the part of musician in a volunteer company. He was a fine musician and to some extent taught vocal music. He was a prominent man in Decatur county and held various offices. .
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John Darnall, father of the preceding, was a native of Maryland, started from that state for Kentucky with his family, and, learning of the hostility of Indians, stopped in Virginia until the hostility had cooled down, and then. resumed his journey westward until he reached the desired section of coun- try, to which point two of his brothers also came. He died in Kentucky, aged about fifty-five years. His wife lived to be eighty-seven years of age, and she brought up sixteen children.
James Bridges, the maternal grandfather of our subject, was a native. of North Carolina, a miller and millwright by trade, and owned a large tract of land in his native state. He finally died there, well advanced in life. He had two brothers, one of whom, Charles, was an active man in the Society of Friends.
Dr. Darnall's ancestry came to this country with Lord Baltimore, and two of them were members of his privy council and one of them was his land agent, and was acting as governor of the province of Maryland when the Protestants succeeded in obtaining a majority of the legislature and took the government of the province out of Lord Baltimore's hands. These facts were recorded in history many years ago by a member of the Baltimore bar named Davis, whose statement has been corroborated by a later standard history of Maryland. The Darnalls were all Catholics in those days, and those remaining in the east generally continue to be Catholics, while those in. the west are Protestants.
Dr. James M. Darnall, whose name heads this biographical record, was reared on a farm in Decatur county, attending the district and common: schools and later the seminary at Greensburg, and still later Hanover College,. in Jefferson county. For a number of winter seasons he taught school.
In 1849, having determined to devote his life to the medical profession,. he began the study of the healing art, under the instructions of Dr. Brown, of Connersville, and in due time he was licensed under the auspices of the- Indiana Medical Institute, and he opened out in practice at Burlington, Indi- ana. After following his profession there for twenty-two years, he moved, in 1864, to Kokomo, where he continued in practice and also kept a drug-store.
About 1879 he drifted into the milling business, in connection with the Kokomo Milling Company, later Darnall & Hooper, and since 1886 the firm. style has been Darnall & Dawson, while the establishment is known as the Howard Mills. Its capacity is one hundred barrels of flour per day.
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Dr. Darnall has with great credit served in a public capacity. While a resident of Burlington he was a justice of the peace for many years. In 1854 he was elected a member of the state legislature, where he served with satis- faction to his constituents. Soon after the city of Kokomo was organized he was elected a member of its common council; and in 1879 he was elected mayor of the city and served two years. In his political principles he was in early life a Whig, but has been a Republican ever since the organization of that party.
Fraternally, he belongs to Kokomo Lodge, No. 133, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and to Kokomo Encampment, No. 61, of the same order.
August 19, 1845, is the date of the Doctor's marriage to Miss Mary Gwinn, daughter of Samuel and Magdelene (Johnson) Gwinn, and they have had only one child, who died in infancy; but they have brought up two chil- dren-John Doremus, now deceased, and Elizabeth Davis, now the wife of Miles McBeth. The Doctor and his wife are members of the Christian church, in which he holds the office of elder. Mrs. Darnall is a native of Virginia and was brought to this state when a child. The Doctor and his wife have their residence at 56 East Walnut street, in a brick house which was the second or third of the kind built in the town. Dr. Darnall, person- ally, is a large, well-proportioned man, of a rugged constitution and well pre- served for one of his age.
OHN E. SUTTON .- The enterprising city of Logansport is fortunate in J the citizens who make up its quota of business men, for it is a well established fact that a community is measured by the character of its representative men. The daily newspapers of a place, too, are usually just indices of its commercial and civic status, and, this being the case, too much importance cannot be attached to them and to their mission.
The young man of whom this sketch is penned is the sole proprietor and business manager of the Daily and Weekly Reporter, one of the wide- awake journals of Cass county. It was established by him in 1889, its first issue being dated October Ist. It was a doubtful venture, as he was repeatedly warned by his many friends, but he had had an extended experience in various live western cities and towns in this same line, and he confidently believed that a paper of the description he proposed would flourish here.
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Time has abundantly proved his wisdom, for by its own intrinsic merits the Reporter has thrived from the first and is daily becoming more popular. The energy and zeal which its owner has at all times manifested have brought their reward. It has been his policy to employ the best obtainable talent and to make the paper independent of any particular person's genius, but broad and liberal, reflecting the brilliancy of numerous minds. During the summer of 1895 he travelled extensively in Europe, and in an original manner jotted down his impressions of places of interest, customs, etc. These letters, published as special correspondence in the Reporter at the time, have since been compiled by him and brought out in a small volume.
John E. Sutton is a native of Fulton county, Indiana, his birth having occurred October 21, 1863. Blessed by having the wise and careful super- vision of his work and play and his studies, by his father, a man of scholarly attainments, the lad grew to manhood, well rounded in character. When he was but six years of age the family removed to Logansport, and here our subject has made his home most of the time since. He received his educa- tion in the excellent public schools of this place, graduating from the high school in 1882. After teaching school for a short time he concluded to enter the field of journalism, and served three years in the office of the Logansport Pharos as city editor of the paper. Desiring to widen his mental horizon, to see something of his own country and to gain more extended and practical experience, the young man went to the west, and found employment with the metropolitan dailies of the various western cities at points along the line, between here and Los Angeles, California. There he engaged in publishing the Real Estate Reporter, which, during its rather brief life, had a wide cir- culation and a very prosperous career. It was during the great real-estate boom in southern California in 1886-7, and when the crash came, the paper, very naturally, was no longer needed. As a whole, however, it had served its mission and had met with a flattering success.
Returning to Logansport after an absence of about two years, he founded the Reporter here, as mentioned previously. It is the product of his own energy, unassisted by outside influence or capital. Here, as elsewhere, suc- cess has crowned his efforts. He is also proprietor and publisher of the Logansport Advance and Galveston Sun, Indiana. Many of the papers which he started in western cities and towns are still in existence and stand as monuments to his undaunted enterprise and faith.
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Politically Mr. Sutton is always independent, conducting his paper entirely on neutral lines. A Knight of Pythias, he belongs to Apollo Lodge, No. 62, and is also a member of Company No. 26, U. of R.
The stay of Mr. Sutton in the beautiful city of Los Angeles, in the " land of sunshine," was attended with greater effect upon his destiny than the mere experience which he there obtained in the journalistic line, for there it was that he became acquainted with the lady who is now his wife. She was at that time Miss Inez May Stanley, and their marriage was solemnized in Los Angeles, in January, 1887. Their two children, Psyche and Lindley Reporter, aged ten and nine years, respectively, are the pride of their pleas- ant and attractive home. Mr. and Mrs. Sutton are members of the Presby- terian church.
ANDREW J. SUTTON, father of John E. Sutton, has been a permanent resident of Logansport for twenty-nine years, but has been associated with the history of Cass county for a much longer period. He was born in Fayette county, Ohio, July 7, 1826, being a son of Ferdinand and Mary (Shellen- berger) Sutton. They were natives of West Virginia and Pennsylvania, respectively, and were of Scotch and German ancestry. When he was young Andrew J. removed to Clark county, Ohio, with his parents, and there attended the district schools of the period. At the age of nineteen he secured a certificate to teach in the common schools of Miami, Cass and Fulton coun- ties, Indiana, having come to this state in 1844. For twenty successive winters he was occupied in pedagogic work, and the success which he had in " training the young idea how to shoot," is abundantly shown by the fact that he was always in great demand in the districts where he had once been in charge of a school.
From 1871 to 1880 Mr. Sutton was engaged in mercantile pursuits, in this city, in the meantime being also interested in the buying and selling of real estate. While living in Fulton county he was honored with the office of justice of the peace, in which capacity he served, very acceptably to all concerned, for a full term of four years. In 1882 he was elected by his Democratic friends a member of the board of commissioners of Cass county. At the close of his three-year term, he surrendered the trust, and carried with him the respect of his political opponents, as well as those belonging to his own party, on account of the efficient and faithful manner in which he had met the requirements of the position. Since 1885 he has given his 2
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