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He was married on the 4th day of August, 1841, to Miss Kate Harryman, oldest daughter of Major Charles Harryman, of Washington county, Indiana, who had served one year as a Ranger during the
year 1812 in the Far West. He died in 1856. Her mother resided with her in Jeffersonville, and died April 1, 1882, aged 80 years.
Mr. Lee's father died in November, 1844, on his farm at Organ Springs, Washington county, aged 57 years, and his mother died in Jeffersonville, in the home of her son William, after long suffering and great affliction, September -, 1878, in the 85th year of her age.
PROF. W. E. LUGENBEEL, principal of Borden Institute, was born in Frederick county, Maryland, in 1854, and is a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Harn) Lugenbeel, natives also of Maryland. The father of former. and grandfather of subject, was William Lugenbeel, a soldier in the War of 1812.
The father's side of subject's family is of German extraction; mother's side is English and French. Prof. W. E. was edu- cated at a private academy; then went to Lebanon, Ohio, and graduated in July, 1873, from the National Normal University. He then commenced teaching at Woodstock, Ohio, continuing only one year; then taught three years at Amo, Ind., and four years at several other places. He built up the Southern Indiana Normal College at Mitchell, Ind., and taught there eight years, and in March, 1888, he accepted Prof. Borden's liberal offer to take charge of Borden Institute, and is one the prominent young educators of the State.
He is a member of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, of Mitchell Lodge of Masons, and of K. of P.
MICHAEL V. McCANN is a native of Baltimore, Md., being born in that city November 21, 1819. His father, Henry
MIT MeDann.
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McCann, died when he was a small boy ; his mother, Mary (Cunningham) McCann, died at the advanced age of 73 years.
Mr. McCann left Baltimore at the age of 12 years, and went to Boston, Mass., where he attended the common schools of that city and obtained a good common-school education. In 1840 he determined to seek his fortune in the great western country, and came to Cincinnati, Ohio, by stage, and was nine or ten days in making the trip. What a revolution in travel since 1840 has been wrought! That same trip can now be made in less than thirty hours. After arriving at Cincinnati, and looking round, he located and entered into the furniture business, which he followed until 1849, when he removed to Franklin county, Ind., and located on a farm near Brookville. He now became a granger and reveled in the beauties and pleasures of farm life for three years, when a change again came over the spirit of his dream, and he pulled up and re- moved to Louisville, Ky., where he remained for one year.
From Louisville he went to Jonesville, a village and station on the J. M., & I. R. R., in Bartholomew county, and there engaged in the mercantile business. In 1855 he removed from Jonesville to Henryville, a station on the J., M. & I. R. R. in Clark county, Ind., about twenty-one miles from Jeffersonville, and there engaged the same as in Jonesville, in the mercantile business. While in business at Henryville, he was in 1866 nominated and elected Auditor of Clark county, by the Democratic party, and in 1870 he was again elected to succeed himself. This caused him to remove to Charlestown, the then county-seat of Clark county. It is not necessary to say anything about the manner in which he performed the duties of his office, as his re-election is a sufficient answer to that question.
He was succeeded in the Auditor's office by his son, Charles A. McCann, who had been one of his efficient deputies during his incumbency of the office. At the end of his four years' service, Charles A. McCann re- tired, refusing to again stand for re-elec- tion. It was during his son's term as Aud- itor that the great wrangle over the removal of the county seat from Charlestown to Jeffersonville took place.
In this contest much feeling and bitter- ness between sections and individuals were engendered, and all other questions were made subordinate to that. When he saw what the result must be, that it would cer- tainly be removed to Jeffersonville, he sold out all his interests in Charlestown, and lo- cated in the city of Jeffersonville and en- gaged in the coal business, and has con- tinned in it ever since.
He was married to Miss Mary Cowin, of Cincinnati, in 1843, who is still living. They have been blessed with seven children, five girls and two boys, to wit : Charles A., Henry, Amelia F., Mollie E., Florence E., Emma and Grace L. Charles A. McCann is in the wholesale grocery business in Spring- field, Mo .; Henry McCann is in Orange county, Fla., where he owns an orange grove. Mollie E. is the wife of the Hon. Frank B. Burke, a lawyer by profession, and is now joint senator, representing in the State Senate the counties of Clark, Scott and Jennings. The rest of the girls are all at home with their parents.
It will add but little force to what has al- ready been said, to say which is manifest that Mr. McCann is one of our most sub- stantial and trusted citizens, and stands high as a business man and merchant. He is a Democrat among Democrats, ever ready to do all that he can to promote the cause of the Democracy and the success of his party.
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JAMES HARVEY McCAMPBELL. About three miles back of the Ohio river, and some twelve miles northeast of the Ohio Falls stands the beautiful town of Charles- town. It is one of the oldest towns in southern Indiana, having been settled early in the present century. It was, at an early day, established as the county-seat of Clark county, the second organized county in the Indiana Territory. It became at an early day, distinguished for the cul- ture and refinement of its inhabitants, its churches and its schools. It was here that James Harvey McCampbell was born on the 31st day of January, 1817. His father, Samuel McCampbell, emigrated from Rock- bridge county, Va., at an early day, and located in the town of Charlestown. He was a tanner by trade and engaged in that business, and James Harvey worked in his father's tanyard while he remained at home, attending school during the winter months, acquiring such common-school education as was to be obtained at the schools then taught in Charlestown. At an early age he became distinguished among his school associates and his teachers for his accuracy and arithmetic, and the beauty of his hand- writing.
In 1838, when he arrived at his major- ity, he left the paternal home and started out in the world to do for himself. Like many another youth, he had high hopes, and the world was all bright sunshine be- fore him. He went from home to Jeffer- sonville, then a town of some three or four thousand inhabitants, situated at the head of the Ohio Falls, and engaged himself as a clerk in the dry goods store of Simon Bottorff. He remained with Mr. Bottorff two years, when in September, 1840, he went into partnership with John D. Wood- burn in the dry goods business, and opened a store in Jeffersonville. The firm of
Woodburn & McCampbell continued to do business until the financial crisis of 1846, when, in consequence of the large amounts credited out, upon which the firm could realize nothing, it was compelled to suc- cumb. He then entered into partnership with his brother-in-law, Waller L. Merri- wether, in the drug business, and continued it until 1849, when he was chosen secre- tary and treasurer of the Jeffersonville & Indianapolis Railroad Company, and the partnership in the drug-store was dissolved, and he devoted all his time to the interest of the railroad. After the purchase of the Madison & Indianapolis Railroad by the Jeffersonville Road, and it became the Jef- fersonville, Madison & Indianapolis Rail- road, the offices of the secretary and treas- urer became too arduous for one man to handle, and they were separated, and Mr. McCampbell became treasurer of the com- pany. When the principal offices were re- moved to Pittsburgh, he was cashier for the road, and continued as such until he resigned in 1882, and severed his connec- tion with the railroad, which he had served altogether thirty-three years.
In 1865, after the close of the war, he was largely instrumental, if not wholly so, in organizing the First National Bank of the city of Jeffersonville, and was elected its president, and retained the position until his death. Up to 1882 the manage- ment of the bank had been largely left in the hands of its cashier, when a reorgani- zation of its affairs took place, and Mr. Mc- Campbell resigned his position under the railroad, and assumed direct control of the affairs of the bank, as its chief executive officer. His administration of the finan- cial affairs of the bank was able and effi- cient, and left it in a prosperous condi- tion. .
He served the city of Jeffersonville in
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various capacities, as a member of the Common Council and as a member of the Board of School Trustees. In whatever capacity he was called to serve the public he did it well and conscientiously. He was the friend and patron of education. For many years he was a trustee of Hanover College, Indiana, and of Center College, Kentucky, and contributed largely to the support of each. He was a stockholder and director in the Ohio Falls Car Company, and was interested in other stock companies and material interests of our city.
On the 6th of October, 1840, he was married to Miss Letitia Merriwether, daughter of Samuel Merriwether, M. D., of Jeffersonville. Seven children were born to them, of whom four are still living: Rev. George Merriwether McCampbell, of Stapleton, Staten Island, N. Y .; Mary, wife of Rev. J. K. Demerest, of Gettysburg, Pa .; Margaret Allen, wife of Henry Cole Smith, of N. Y. City ; and Anna Walker, wife of Rev. J. M. Hutchison, of Jeffersonville.
Mr. McCampbell was an earnest, devoted Christian. He took a deep, personal inter- est in all that pertained to the building up and extension of the Church of Christ. Early in life he made a profession of his faith in Christ, uniting with the Presbyte- rian Church. On March 23, 1844, he was made a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church of Jeffersonville, in which church he continued to serve in that capacity until his death. For twenty years he was super- intendent of the Sunday-school connected with this church, and after his resignation he continued to teach a class, and did so until the close of his life.
His death was sudden and unexpected. He had been suffering from cold, but there was nothing calculated to excite fear or apprehension of danger. On Saturday, the 11th of February, he did not arise as usual. By Monday his disease was pro- nounced pneumonia; he gradually grew worse until death came and relieved him, at 5 o'clock on Wednesday, the 15th day of February, 1888.
Mr. McCampbell was a loving and tender husband, a kind and indulgent father, a liberal and benevolent neighbor, a good and worthy citizen and a Christian gentle- man. In his death the public have sus- tained a loss that will be difficult to repair. Upon the whole, Mr. McCampbell's life has been one of active labor and great useful- ness. He was a live, active, energetic business man ; he controlled large and im- portant business interests which he dis- patched rapidly and correctly. He was easily accessible, always ready and courte- ous to every demand made upon his time and patience. His friendships were of the warmest character, and for those whom he favored with friendship and confidence he was ready to render almost any service, no matter how exacting.
In his life he has demonstrated to the world how it is possible for a man to be an earnest, active worker in all humane and Christian enterprises and a systematic busi- ness man at the same time. He has demon- strated also to the world how a man may grow in business and yet keep his heart pure and his life unspotted from the world.
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DENNIS MURPHY, a native of Water Grass Hill, County Cork, Ireland, was born September 28, 1840. He came to the United States, with his parents, in 1852, at the age of 12 years. Their first settlement in the new country was in the city of Bos- ton, but owing to the fact that his father had six sons who had to be provided for, and the greater opening to secure employ- ment, on account of the large manufactur- ing interests, in Milford, Mass., he moved there in 1853. It was in this manufactur- ing town that the subject of this sketch learned the trade of a shoemaker. He continued there working at his trade. Al- though a native of a foreign land, he loved his adopted country, and was a strong Union man, and when the War of the Re- bellion broke out and the Southern States undertook to destroy the Union, he respond- ed to the call of his country for volunteer soldiers, and early in 1862 he enlisted as a private in the 15th Massachusetts Infantry. He was sent immediately, with his regi- ment, to the front. In October, 1862, his regiment was engaged in the battle of Balls Bluff, Va., where he was dangerously wounded and was left on the field for dead. His regiment went into this battle with six hundred and twenty-three strong, and came out with only three hundred and ten, so terrible was the fire of the enemy which they encountered. He was captured while lying wounded upon the field of battle, and carried as a prisoner of war by the Confed- erate Army. He remained a prisoner until in March, 1863, when he was exchanged, and in the same month he was honorably discharged from the service on account of the wound he had sustained, and returned home to Milford, and continued to reside there until the year 1867, when he came west and located in Jeffersonville, Ind., and was employed at the Government depot,
where he remained nine years, until 1876, when he resigned his position and engaged in mercantile life in the same city. He continued in this business until the year 1885, when, in consequence of the wound which he had received in the head, at the battle of Balls Bluff, he was compelled to retire altogether from business, from the effects of which he died on the 15th of December, 1885, at the age of 46 years.
As a business man and as a merchant, Mr. Murphy was a success. He had built up and conducted one of the largest dry goods houses in the city, making one of our most successful business men. Had not his health failed him, as it did, in the very midst of his most prosperous career, he would undoubtedly have made his fortune.
He was a man of sterling worth. His intelligence, his stern integrity, and his moral courage commanded the respect of all who knew him; while his generous nature, his unassuming, gentle manners, his patriotic spirit made him warm per- sonal friends wherever he went. He had a rare combination of virtues for one of his race, an Irishman, a Republican and a Prohibitionist, and he practiced all he preached. He was a member of the Order of the Knights of Pythias and of the G. A. R. His heart was in the right place. His hand was ever open to the demands of the needy and deserving poor.
He was married twice. He was married in 1870 to Miss Nannie Smith, of Jeffer- sonville. After but four short but happy years of wedded life she died and left him no children. His second venture in matri- monial line was Miss Sallie J. Bottorff, a daughter of Henry and Teresa Bottorff, of Clark county, Ind. It has been said that true marriages are made in heaven. If that poetic idea be true, the match between this couple must have had a celestial
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origin, for a happier couple than they never existed in this world. This time the hus- band was taken, and the wife left to the lonely life of a widow. She resides in her beautiful residence, "Inmur View," on Spring Hill, in the north of the city, where she cherishes the memory of her late hus- band, and devotes her time to the rearing and educating of her sister's children.
SAMUEL D. OGLESBY was born in Jefferson county, Ky., December 10, 1847. His parents removed from Kentucky when he was only five years old, and located on a farm near Jeffersonville, in Clark county, Ind. He continued to reside on the old place until 1874, when he married Miss Mary A., daughter of Robert A. Walford, who was a prominent farmer of the county and died in 1876. After he married he re- moved to the town of Port Fulton, where he continued to reside until he purchased his present beautiful home in the city of Jef- fersonville and removed to it in 1888. Previous to this time he had acted as one of the township assessors for several years to the entire satisfaction of the public. While a citizen of the town of Port Fulton he served in the capacity of town trustee and school trustee for several terms each. Previous to his removal to the city, in 1888, after being nominated by the Democratic party for the position, he was elected town- ship trustee of Jeffersonville township. About this time he formed a partnership with Jerome B. Dustin, bought out Jos. L. Guersney, and entered into the wholesale and retail grain and feed business. He continued in this business until 1887, when he sold out to Jacob S. Fry & Co., and retired from the business in order to give more time and closer attention to the du- ties of his office. At the April election, 1888, he was re-elected to the office of township
trustee withont opposition, and is now oc- cupying the office and devoting his whole time to its duties. He has given much care and attention to the township schools and they are second to none in the county, or in the State for that matter, outside of the towns and cities. Mr. Oglesby is a mem- ber of Jefferson Lodge, No. 3, of the I. O. O. F., of Jeffersonville. He is a member and an officer of the Christian Church, and stands high in that progressive body of Christian workers. He is surrounded by the comforts of life, living in a new home, blessed with a good wife and five living children, one boy and four girls,-Thomas W., Alma, Minnie, Bessie and Alice. Be- sides his home he owns property in Port Fulton and seventy-one acres of choice bottom land in a high state of cultivation. He is the son of Thomas B. and Mary De Haven Oglesby, who were natives of Ken- tucky. They came to this State in 1852, and located in this township, where they continued to reside until in 1877 he died at the age of sixty-eight years. His mother is still living at the old homestead, far ad- vanced in years. Outside of the routine duties of township trustee, as overseer of the poor and looking after the public roads and highways, he is made by law ex-officio school trustee for the township. Besides the important duty of looking after the school interests of the children of the town- ship, the township library is placed in his care and keeping. Mr. Oglesby has de- voted much time in building up the town- ship library. He has added many new books to its catalogue and the old ones have been repaired and kept arranged in order so that it is a credit to the township and to the city in which it is located.
CHRISTOPHER PEACELEY, the re- corder of Clark county, was born in the
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city of Jeffersonville, in said county, August 29, 1838. His father, Christopher Peace- ley, native of Ireland, and his mother, Clarrissa (Gunn) Peaceley, native of Scot- land, and emigrated to the United States, and located in Jeffersonville among its early settlers.
His father was a shoemaker by trade. He was the second mayor of Jeffersonville. He served as justice of the peace twenty- six years. He has been dead over thirty years.
Mr. Chris Peaceley is the only living son, and one sister, Mrs. G. A. Hull, of California, is living. Mr. Hull is a cap- tain in the United States army. Mr. Peaceley was educated in the public schools in the city of Louisville, Ky. After he left school he went into a printing office to learn the printer's trade. He worked at the printer's case at various places for some fourteen years. In April, 1862, he enlisted in the Forty-Ninth Regiment, Indiana Volunteers. Remained in the ser- vice for three years. Was wounded by the guerrillas at Lexington, Ky., by which he lost his foot. After the war he returned to Jeffersonville, and was employed in the quartermaster's depot for seven years, up to 1876.
He was, at the death of Evan Shelby, the county recorder, appointed to fill the va- cancy by the board of county commission- ers, until the next general election, when a successor would be elected and qualified. At the November election, mn 1886, he was elected to fill the vacancy for four years, ending 1890.
Was married in 1869 to Miss Anna Car- ter, of Jeffersonville, daughter of Sparrow Carter, railroad conductor. He is a mem- ber of the G. A. R., K. of P., American Legion of Honor, and the Ladies and Knights of Honor.
DAVID C. PEYTON, M. D., is a native of Clark county. He was born October 12, 1860, near the old town of Charlestown, on Silver Creek. His parents, John M. and Susan Peyton, were also natives of Clark county and were to the manor born. His grandfather, Daniel Peyton, was a native of the Old Dominion, and emigrated to the then Great Northwest Territory and set- tled in Clark county some time about 1800, and was a captain of the militia in the early wars with the Indians. His Grand- father Clark was Scotch-Irish, and came from Scotland and settled near Jeffersonville. The father of Dr. Peyton was a farmer, born on June 29, 1816, and died on June 27, 1882.
The Doctor was the youngest child of seven sons and one daughter. His mother is still living, and resides at the old home- stead, where he was raised, and labored and went to school during the Winter ses- sions and obtained such education as could be acquired in such an irregular manner. At the age of twenty he began to read medicine with Dr. J. M. Reynolds, of Memphis, in this county. He took his first medical course at the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, in 1882, and com- menced the practice of his profession in 1883, at Utica, in Clark county, and prac- ticed there about one year and then moved to Charlestown, where he remained about a year engaged in the drug business in con- nection with his practice. He then went to the town of Henryville, in Monroe town- ship, Clark county, and remained there until the Fall of 1885, when he entered the University of Louisville, from which he graduated in the Spring of 1886. In March after his graduation, he located in the city of Jeffersonville, where he has re- mained ever since, where he has met with the most gratifying success in his profes-
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sion. He has been elected by the City Council as a member of the City Board of Health three successive terms, and is now president of the Clark County Board of Health, member of the Clark County Med- ical Society, and American Medical Asso- ciation, is assistant to the Principles and Practice of the Chair of Surgery in the Ken- tucky School of Medicine, with Prof. J. Mathews, of Louisville. Dr. Peyton, by industry and honest endeavor, has estab- lished for himself a high reputation as a skillful and safe practioner, and bids fair to become a shining light in his profession.
He was married, June 2, 1883, to Miss Retta Hay, a sister of Sheriff Charles S. Hay, of Clark county, and a daughter of Geo. W. and Susan Hay, of Charlestown, Ind. So far they have not been blessed with children.
GEORGE PFAU was born in Germany on the 18th of August, 1839. He came to the United States in 1854, and located in Jeffersonville in 1856. He learned the bar- ber's trade, which he followed, doing a good business until 1870, when he quit that business and went into the manufacture of lard oil and general lubricating oils. His business is an example of what pluck and energy will accomplish. He began with a small capital and in a small way, and by industry and close application to business, it has constantly grown and become ex- tended, until now he has a large factory and doing a large business, having an extensive trade all over the South, with orders beyond his capacity to fill as fast as wanted.
He was married to Miss Barbara Furhman, of Jeffersonville, in 1859, and they have seven children born to them, four boys and three girls : George, Willie, Alfred, Clar- ence, Annie, Minnie and Lillie. He took
George in as a partner in his business on the first of October last.
Mr. Pfau was elected a member of the school board of his city in 1881, and served until 1884. He was again elected to the same office in 1886, and is now a member of that body. As a German-American citizen he takes great interest in the effi- ciency and success of the public schools of his city.
In 1888 he was unanimously nominated by the Republican party as their candidate for Joint Senator for the counties of Clark, Scott and Jennings. He had for his com- petitor Hon. Frank B. Burke, of Jefferson- ville, Ind. Although the Democratic ma- jority in the three counties is pretty large, he was only beaten less than a hundred votes, having run ahead of his party in Clark, his own county, over two hundred votes.
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