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Under the parental roof Mr. Dougherty was reared to manhood, and to the public schools of his native village he is indebted for the educational priv- ileges which were afforded him. When the country became involved in civil war, he offered his services to the government, August 6, 1862, becom- ing a member of Company B, Fifth Indiana Cavalry, in which he enlisted for three years. He served on detached duty through Kentucky and Tennes- see, also belonged to the advance guard of the first federal troops that entered the city of Knoxville, Tennessee, and in 1864 joined Stoneman at Tunnel Hill, Georgia, continuing with that command to Atlanta. While on a
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scouting expedition under General Stoneman, he was captured with a majority of his regiment and confined in Andersonville prison for six weeks. His brother, John Shaffer Dougherty, was with him in the same company, but they were separated at this point and sent to different places. John was exchanged March 30, 1865, then sent to Jefferson Barracks Hospital, Mis- souri, and on to Camp Chase, Ohio, where he was discharged June 10, 1865. James P. Dougherty was exchanged February 28, 1865, reported to his command at Pulaski, Tennessee, and was there discharged June 16, 1865. He suffered severely from his prison life, and has never entirely recovered his old-time strength. Since his return home he has engaged continuously in agricultural pursuits, and until recently has been associated in business with his brother John, they being the most extensive tobacco-growers in Harrison township.
On the Ist of December, 1875, Mr. Dougherty was united in marriage to Miss Lizzie, daughter of Jacob and Christina (Fike) Miller, of Jackson- burg, Indiana. Her father, a wagonmaker by trade, is a native of Germany, and her mother of Trenton, Ohio. They have four children: Mrs. Dough- erty, Henry, Charles, and Katie, wife of William Wilson. Our subject is socially connected with Jackson Lodge, No. 552, I. O. O. F., and M. D. Leason Post, No. 453, G. A. R. He is also a member of the Disciples' church, and gives his support to all moral, enducational, social or material interests which he believes will benefit the community. He is a man of sterling worth and justly merits the high regard in which he is held.
CALEB B. SMITH.
Caleb B. Smith, who in his day was the most distinguished citizen of Connersville, as well as among the most celebrated of his state and nation, ranking second only to Governor Morton in Indiana, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, April 16, 1808, and accompanied his parents to Cincinnati when six years of age. There he spent his boyhood days and received his early education. Later he entered Miami University, at Oxford, Ohio, in 1825. After his college course he returned to Cincinnati and began reading law. In the autumn of 1827 he came to Connersville and continued the study of law, under Oliver H. Smith, being admitted to the bar in 1828. At the bar he rose rapidly, being a most fluent speaker. He was the Tom Corwin of Indiana, and ever had a fund of anecdotes to illuminate his speeches, whether they were before a jury or a political audience. In 1832 he, with M. R. Hall, established the Indiana Sentinel, a weekly paper devoted to the advocacy of Whig doctrines. As an editor Mr. Smith was witty, pungent and brilliant. The next year he was elected to the legislature, and he served in that body for several terms, being speaker of the house three sessions. He
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was one of the foremost advocates of the great internal-improvement system of the state.
In 1843 he was elected to congress and served three terms, becoming easily the foremost man in the Indiana delegation, and one of the foremost in the nation. He was peculiarly eloquent, with a pleasing voice and captivat- ing manner. He was recognized as a powerful debater in all the great ques- tions then before the public, and but few, if any, could equal him before an audience of the people. In 1851 he moved to Cincinnati, and became presi- dent of the Cincinnati & Chicago Railroad, -in which connection he became deeply involved financially, as the project proved a failure. In 1859 he removed again, this time making Indianapolis his home, and there he entered again upon the practice of his profession. It was in the stirring times when slavery was making its greatest efforts to spread over the western territories. Mr. Smith became an ardent Republican, and in the great political campaign of 1860 canvassed almost every part of Indiana in the interest of Mr. Lin- coln, in securing whose nomination he had been largely instrumental, as chairman of the Indiana delegation, which voted solidly for Lincoln. When Mr. Lincoln was making up his cabinet he selected Mr. Smith as his secre- tary of the interior. This position he resigned in the latter part of 1862, to accept the position of United States judge for the district of Indiana. He died suddenly, on the 17th of January, 1864. He left his home in the morning in his usual health, and went to the court-room. He entered his private room in the government building and was seized by a fit of coughing, which ruptured a blood vessel, producing a violent hemorrhage. Physicians were called, but it was some time before the flow of blood could be checked. In the afternoon another fit of coughing renewed the hemorrhage, and he gradually sunk until he died. From the time he entered congress until he was placed on the bench but few men in the country wielded as wide a polit- ical power as did Mr. Smith. It was chiefly as a stump orator that he became so wonderfully popular. His language was copious and always appropriate, -often striking, always clear.
Upon the sudden death of this citizen, orator, statesman and judge of distinction, it was ordered by the president of the United States that the executive buildings at Washington be draped in mourning for fourteen days, in honor of a prudent and royal counselor of the administration in an hour of peril. July 8, 1831, Mr. Smith was united in marriage to Elizabeth B. Watton, of Connersville, Indiana.
DANIEL G. REID.
Daniel G. Reid is now a resident of Chicago, but has been so closely identified with the interests of Richmond that the city feels a just pride in
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claiming him among her native sons. He stands to-day at the head of one of the leading industrial concerns of the county, being president of the Amer- ican Tin Plate Company, and his prestige has been won through marked executive force, keen discrimination, sound judgment and unfaltering energy. To manage mammoth business interests it requires as great and skillful gen- eralship as is manifest on the field of battle by him who leads armed hosts to victory. His campaign is no less carefully planned, and the tactics which he must follow to avoid competitors demand a nicety of decision unsurpassed by the army commander; at the same time if he would gain an extensive public patronage, his business methods must be so honorable as to be above reproach, for the public is a discriminating factor and quickly sets its stamp. of disapproval upon any underhand methods. Daniel G. Reid has met every requirement of the business world in these regards, and has attained an almost phenomenal success, which illustrates the wonderful possibilities. which America affords her young men of energy, enterprise and ambition.
Born in Richmond, in August, 1858, Daniel G. Reid is a son of Daniel and Anna (Dougan) Reid. The family is of Scotch-Irish lineage, and the grandfather of our subject, who also bore the name of Daniel Reid, was a native of Virginia, in which state he spent his entire life. He married Mar- garet Patterson, of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, who died in Richmond at an advanced age. Daniel Reid, father of our subject, was born in Rock- bridge county, Virginia, February 5, 1799, and in 1821 took up his residence near New Paris, Preble county, Ohio, whence he removed to Richmond in the fall of 1823. Here he engaged in clerking for some years, and in 1828: began merchandising on his own account, as a partner of Joseph P. Strattan, carrying on the business ten years. In 1829 he was appointed postmaster of Richmond, serving in that capacity until 1838, when he was appointed by President Van Buren as register at the land office in Fort Wayne, where he remained for about five years. He then removed to a farm in Allen county, Indiana, and in 1855 returned to Richmond, where he engaged in the grocery business with his son, William S., and N. S. Leeds until the firm changed to Reid & Vanneman. He remained in the store, but made his home upon a farm a mile and a half west of Richmond, where he was living at the time of his death, which occurred March 3, 1873. He was for many years a mem- ber and ruling elder of the United Presbyterian church in Richmond, and his honorable, upright life commanded the respect of all with whom he came in contact. He was twice married, his first wife being by maiden name Letitia Scott, who died in Allen county, in 1854. They had seven children. In October of that year, Mr. Reid married Mrs. Ann Dougan, then a resident of Niles, Michigan, and they had two children: Daniel Gray, of this sketch, and Emma Virginia, wife of Oliver Bogue. 21
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Daniel G. Reid was educated in the public schools of Richmond. His father died when he was in his fifteenth year, and he was reared by his mother. At the age of seventeen he entered the Second National Bank as messenger boy, obtained his business training there and gradually won pro- motion until he was made teller, which position he resigned in 1895. He is still a director and vice-president of the bank, but though his opinions influence its management he takes no active part in controlling the daily routine of business. In 1892 he became interested in the American Tin Plate Company, owners of an extensive plant at Elwood, Indiana. In 1898, when the great tin plate trust was formed, he became a large stockholder and the president of the corporation, and now occupies that important position. He has always been of a speculative turn of mind, but where many would make injudicious investments and so lose their money, his tendency toward specu- lation is guided by a judgment rarely at fault and by a keenly discriminat- ing mind.
On the 13th of October, 1880, Mr. Reid was united in marriage to Miss Ella C. Dunn, of Richmond, Indiana. Mrs. Reid died on the 25th of June, 1899. In matters of public moment Mr. Reid is deeply interested, although he has never sought the preferment which he might easily attain in that line, ·content to gain leadership in business circles alone. The day of little under- takings in our western cities has long since passed, and an enterprise or industry is nothing if not gigantic. It is a master mind than can plan, excute and control a mammoth institution of the nature of the American Tin Plate Works, and the gentleman who stands at its head well deserves to be ranked among the most prominent business men of his adopted city, where only ability of a very superior order is now recognized.
REV. REUBEN TOBEY.
For twenty-six years one of the most efficient laborers in the cause of Christianity in northern Indiana was Rev. Reuben Tobey, who for that period was a member of the conference of this section of the state, in the Methodist Episcopal church. A strong and forcible speaker, earnest and eloquent in the presentation of the truth, his efforts were abundantly blessed, and over two thousand persons identified themselves with the church under his teach- ing,-four hundred while he was pastor of the Pearl street church in Rich- mond, some three years. (This is now known as the Fifth Street church. ) :Since 1883 he has been on the superannuated list, but has been active in the continuance of the work to which he dedicated his life when in the prime of his early manhood.
The paternal grandfather of Rev. Reuben Tobey was named Michael. He was born near Hagerstown, Maryland, on Pleasant Valley farm, where
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he spent his entire life. He was a very prosperous farmer and his homestead was one of the most beautiful in a section where lovely homes abounded. A fine spring, and great orchards which bore an abundance of excellent fruit of various kinds, were among the attractions of the farm. There the father of our subject, Michael Tobey, Jr., was born, May 15, 1789, and upon the death of his father the young man inherited the old homestead. He con- tinued to cultivate the place until 1836, when he removed to Montgomery county, Ohio, and became extensively engaged in farming, at a point to the westward of Dayton. While a resident of Maryland he had also attended to contracting and building, employing a manager whose duty it was to look after the farm. In Ohio he followed much the same plan, giving his own attention chiefly to contracting, and giving employment to many men. His death took place in Dayton, September, 1872. Actively concerned in the spread of the Christian faith, he built a church on his own land in Ohio, it being popularly known as "Tobey's meeting-house." A large congregation grew up there and flourished, the doctrines of the United Brethren being taught in the little chapel. During the fifteen or twenty years of his residence in Day- ton he was a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He had more than a local reputation as a man thoroughly posted on all public affairs and policies, and was strongly in favor of protective tariff for this country. First a Whig, he later identified himself with the Republican party. For his wife he chose Margaret Miller, of Maryland, and to them six sons and four daughters were born. Before his life closed he saw his sons all married and well settled, and four of them officiating as ministers-three of them of the United Brethren church, namely: Jonathan, Michael T. and Henry. Reuben was a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church. Another son, Dr. Rob- ert Tobey, was a physician, and died in Decatur, Illinois, and Nathaniel was a rich capitalist and business man of Troy, Ohio.
The birth of Rev. Reuben Tobey occurred March 22, 1830, in his paternal home near Hagerstown, Maryland. His education was obtained in Ohio, and as early as 1855 he made a trip into this state, selling merchandise in Goshen and other towns. In 1857 he was ordained a deacon in the church and two years later was made an elder by Bishop Janes. For ten years he was connected with the Bethel work, having the state of Indiana under his supervision, as regards this department of usefulness, but recently he retired from this responsible position on account of failing health. He has always been a stalwart Republican in his political views.
The first marriage of Mr. Tobey was solemnized in West Alexandria, Ohio, in 1849. To himself and wife, whose maiden name was Adelina Houghman, three children were born: Maria E. Hazard, of Tacoma, Washington; Winfield Scott, freight agent at Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and Mrs.
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Mary E. Peabody, of Columbia City, Indiana. His first wife having died in 1870, Mr. Tobey married Nettie Mann, of McConnellsville, Ohio, in 1871. Their two sons are Edwin R., who is connected with the street-railroad lines in Seattle, Washington; and Charles F., who for the past five years has been employed in the Columbia City (Indiana) Bank.
WILLIAM MENDENHALL.
The Mendenhall family is one of the oldest and most honored in the United States, their ancestors having accompanied William Penn to these shores and settled in the vicinity of Philadelphia. The family have authentic documents from which the name is traced in England back to 1275. From the American branch are descended the numerous persons of the name now to be found in every state in the Union. Like their distinguished leader, they were members of the Society of Friends, living peaceful, just lives, and ever striving to aid and uplift humanity.
The more immediate ancestors of William Mendenhall became pioneers in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, his grandfather, Aaron Menden- hall, a surveyor, going to Beaver Falls in 1800 and to Columbiana county, Ohio, in 1828. In 1804 he was married to Lydia Richardson, by whom he had four sons,- John, Moses, Cyrus and George. George became a physi- cian of distinction and president of a medical college in Cincinnati. Cyrus and Moses were members of the Ohio legislature from 1856 to 1858. Cyrus, while a member of that body, originated and secured the passage of the bill making it unlawful to inflict corporal punishment upon inmates of the peni- tentiary, and also the law enabling a convict, by his good behavior, to lessen the time of his term of imprisonment. Following this humane movement similar laws have from time to time been enacted by other states. John, the oldest son, born in 1806, was the father of the subject of this narrative. In 1835 he married Hannah Milhous, of Belmont county, Ohio, who is now living at Richmond ( June, 1899), in her eighty-sixth year, genial and ener- getic. In his early married life John Mendenhall lived in Columbiana and Morgan counties, Ohio, while from 1860 until his death, in 1868, he was a resident of Richmond. His chief occupation was that of a leather mer- chant, which business he followed until shortly before his demise. He was exact, punctual and above reproach in all his financial transactions, and enjoyed the confidence and respect of all who knew him.
Born in Columbiana county, Ohio, October 12, 1836, William Menden- hall was a mere boy when the family removed to Morgan county. There he received his elementary education in the public schools of McConnelsville, though when yet a small boy he attended also the Friends' boarding school (now Earlham College) at Richmond. He was graduated at the University
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of Michigan in 1863, but previous to that time had been successfully engaged in teaching in Belmont county, Ohio; two years at Fountain City, Indiana, and at Earlham College. After his graduation in 1863 he was appointed and served in the astronomical corps of the United States coast survey along the shores of the great lakes. Being elected principal of the preparatory depart- ment of Earlham College, he entered on his new duties, continuing for two years. At the end of that time he was chosen as principal of the Richmond high school, in which capacity he acted for some time to the entire satisfac- tion of all interested in the excellence of our schools. Later he became one of the owners and principals of the City Academy of Indianapolis, with which well-known institution he was connected for two years. Having given considerable thought and attention to the subject of suitable text-books for use in schools, he had some correspondence with Charles Scribner & Com- pany, of New York, which firm published a number of the finest school-books, and the result of the matter was that he entered the employ of the firm, and during the following two years introduced their publications as general agent for the state of Indiana.
In 1871 he went to Colorado, where he was for many years extensively engaged in mining operations and civil engineering. He met with success in his various ventures and undertakings, but the associations and old friends of former days recalled him at last to Richmond, where he has dwelt since 1884. Of late years he is occupied in civil engineering and deals in real estate. Politically, he is a stanch Republican, and in religion he adheres to the faith of his forefathers, being a member of the Society of Friends.
Mr. Mendenhall has been twice married. His first wife, whom he wedded in this city, bore the name of Hannah N. Lancaster. After her death Mr. Mendenhall was married, in 1886, to Miss Eliza D. Hadley, by whom he has three children, namely: Olive J., William Edwin and Jessie C. The family have a pleasant, cozy home in West Richmond, where their hos- pitality is enjoyed by their numerous friends and well-wishers.
RICHARD E. HAUGHTON, M. D.
Dr. Richard E. Haughton, who for forty-five years has been actively engaged in medical practice in Indiana, is one of the most talented members of his profession in the state, and has, perhaps, done as much to elevate the standard of medical excellence therein as any other man. Being of broad and liberal mind, and having enjoyed the advantages of a superior education, he has had the interests of the people deeply at heart, and has keenly felt how completely they are at the mercy of the medical practitioner, who, but a few years ago, before the present rigid regulations were put into operation, was often the most veritable charlatan, plying his arts to the jeopardy of his
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misguided patients. By pen and speech Dr. Haughton has used his influence for many decades in the advocacy of higher education and training for phy- sicians, and the limitation of their once almost absolute power over the lives of their patients. He has always stood boldly forth as the champion of progress, and his wonderful influence has been exerted at all times on the side of right and truth.
A son of William and Sarah (Johnson) Haughton, the Doctor traces his ancestry, along both lines, to old English nobility. On the paternal side he is descended from Sir Wilfred Haughton, a baronet of the seventeenth cen- tury, and many of his ancestors achieved distinction in the business and pro- fessional world and as statesmen and authors. One of the eminent representa- tives of the family at the present day is Rev. Dr. Samuel Haughton, of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. The maternal ancestor of our subject was a nobleman at the court of James I. of England, and his descendants were among the first colonists of Virginia. They were wealthy landholders and slave-owners for some time, but, being associated with the Friends, they came to abhor the principle of human slavery and eventually manumitted their slaves.
William Haughton was born in Carlow, county of Carlow, Ireland, about forty miles from Dublin, in 1804. He was partially educated in Ack- worth boarding school, in England, and in 1822 he set out to make his for- tune in the United States. At first he located in Fayette county, Indiana, and subsequently removed to Union county, same state. Here for forty-five years he was known as an educator, one of the ablest in the state, and though he taught for several years in the old-time log school-house, he later was connected with some of the leading educational institutions of Indiana at that day. For over a score of years he was a preceptor in Beech Grove Seminary, having under his charge young men from all parts of the country, some twenty states being thus represented. He was principal in the Union County Seminary and thereafter he became a member of the faculty of Earl- ham College, where he continued actively engaged in his beloved work of instructing the young, until, by reason of failing health, he was compelled to resign his position. When he had rested from his labors for a period at Knightstown, Indiana, he could not resist a resumption of his former work, when he was tendered a position as principal in the high school there, and death found him at his post. He died in July, 1878, of paralysis, aged sev- enty-six years. A birth-right member of the Friends' church, he was a preacher in that sect for a number of years, his life being a consistent and beautiful example of the doctrines to which he was reared. His devoted wife survived him, dying in 1882, when four-score years of age. He had but two children, Richard E., and Mrs. Lucy White, of Texas.
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The birth of Dr. R. E. Haughton occurred in Fayette county, Indiana, December 8, 1827. He found an able friend, companion and instructor in his father, and at an early age was remarkably proficient in mathematics, science and literature. When a youth of fifteen he rendered his father excel- lent service as assistant teacher, and from 1845 to 1849 he devoted a por- tion of each year to the cultivation and management of his father's farm, helping to pay for the property. In the fall of the year last named, he com- menced medical studies with their family physician, but, his father having been called to Richmond, the young man took his place in the Union County Seminary. In 1853, however, he was graduated at the head of his class, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, in the Cleveland Medical College, where he had pursued the prescribed course of study. For a short time prior to his graduation he had practiced at Knightstown, with a partner, and he now returned, and until October, 1855, he remained in that place. Thereafter he practiced in Richmond for a score of years, meeting with exceptional and merited success.
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