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deceased; Robert J., whose name heads this sketch; Mary, deceased; Frank, a druggist, who died in early manhood; and Fannie M., of Lafayette.
Robert J. Clark was born in the city of Lafayette, May 24, 1844, and in that city his boyhood days were spent. He received his education in the public schools and in the University of Notre Dame. In 1862, at the age of eighteen, he entered the Union army, for thirty days, and served during the Morgan raid, and in March of the following year he enlisted, for three years, as a member of the Twenty-second Indiana Battery, the fortunes of which he shared until the close of the war. This battery was assigned for duty to the Army of the Ohio, Twenty-third Corps, and therefore was in many en- gagements, and not a few hard-fought battles. During his army service he was wounded a number of times, and has that knowledge of war and army service which comes only by actual participation.
At the close of the war our subject was honorably discharged and returned to his father's home on a farm near Lafayette. He remained there till the death of his father the following year, when he gave exclusive atten- tion to the study of medicine, for which he seemed to have a natural inclina - tion. His progress was rapid, his study thorough, and he was regularly graduated by the Ohio Medical College, at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1870. He then served one year as resident physician in the Cincinnati Hospital, where he had a large experience in all manner of diseases and surgical operations. This opportunity well improved was invaluable, in that it gave him the bene- fit of actual practical work and enabled him to commence the actual practice with experience and confidence. He located in Monticello, White county, Indiana, in February, 1867, and this place has since been his home. In the science of medicine he keeps fully abreast with the times; is not only familiar with the best known remedies, but knows how and when to apply them. His ability is not confined to the practice of medicine, but he is a skillful surgeon, and in difficult or complicated operations he is almost universally depended upon to the extent of a large territory.
Dr. Clark was married to Mary E. Reynolds, a daughter of James C. and Miranda (Sill) Reynolds, of Monticello. They have two children: Cor- nelia R., a teacher, and Frederick A., an electrical engineer, and a graduate of Purdue University.
Fraternally, the Doctor is a member of the Grand Army of the Repub- lic, Tippecanoe Post, No. 5; and the White County Medical Association, State Medical Association and American Medical Association.
Dr. Clark is a genial, companionable, sympathetic gentleman, and possesses in rare degree those characteristic elements which indicate the true physician. He detests fraud and hypocrisy and has always taken a commend- able interest in every endeavor to have laws enacted for the protection of the
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people. He believes that to administer strong medicines or attempt diffi- cult surgical operations without requisite knowledge is a crime, and that the laws of the state should prohibit persons from committing murder under cover of pretended qualifications.
JOHN ADE,
The cashier of the Discount and Deposit Bank, of Kentland, is one of the substantial citizens of Newton county, which he helped to organize and served as its first recorder of deeds. He was born in Sussex county, England, September 18, 1828, and is a son of John and Esther (Wood) Ade, both of whom were natives of that same county. The father followed the occupa- tion of a maltster in England and with his family sailed for America, in June, 1840, landing in New York after a long voyage of forty-five days. He pos- sessed but little of this world's goods, and he settled in Hamilton county, Ohio, near Cincinnati, where he subsequently purchased a small farm and resided on the same until the close of the civil war, when he sold out and removed to Scott county, Iowa, and bought a sinall farm near Davenport, where he died in the fiftieth year of his marriage. He was the only member of the family to come to this country, and was an honest, industrious man, winning the confidence and high regard of all with whom he came in contact. His wife survived hin but a few months, when she passed away at Daven- port, Iowa. Both Mr. and Mrs. Ade were devout members of the Baptist church. The following mention is made of their children: John is the sub- ject of this review. William resides in Davenport and learned the carpen- ter's trade, but since 1860 he has been in the railway mail service. He is married and has seven children. Henry was the first to be born in the United States. He married, and followed farming near Davenport, Iowa, until his death. Samuel died in Iowa. Joseph, the youngest child, was born in Ham- ilton county, Ohio, and served as a soldier in the civil war, in the Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He married, and engaged in farming in Scott county, Iowa, where he now lives.
John Ade, the immediate subject of this mention, attended the district schools in his youth and learned the rudiments of farming, but at the age of eighteen he took up the blacksmith trade, at which he worked about four years. After his marriage, in 1851, he had charge of a toll-gate near Cin- cinnati, working in that capacity until 1853, when he came to Morocco, Jas- per county, and for two years conducted a general store for Ayers & Com- pany, afterward becoming the village blacksmith of that place. In 1860 Newton county was organized, and Mr. Ade was made his party's candidate for recorder of deeds and was elected, he being the only successful candidate
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on the Republican ticket. Removing to Kentland, he fulfilled the duties of his office for four years and was then, in 1864, elected county auditor, in which capacity he also served four years. At the expiration of his term he took up farming, traded in real estate and was also in the grain business with C. B. Cone and Elmer McCray, and in 1872 he entered the banking house of Mr. Cone, at Kentland, as cashier.
In 1875 Mr. Ade became associated with Greenberry W. McCray and E. Littell Urmston and they purchased the bank of C. B. Cone, which they have since conducted, the firm name being Ade, McCray & Company. Mr. Ade has been its cashier, and during the past twenty-three years has but seldom been absent from his desk. The Discount and Deposit Bank, of Kentland, is the oldest bank in Newton county; it is a sound financial insti- tution and does a larger business than any other concern of a similar nature in the county.
On May 20, 1851, Mr. Ade was united in marriage to Miss Adaline Bush, who was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, August 8, 1833, a daughter of Isaac and Margaret (Adair) Bush. Isaac Bush was born in New Jersey and was a farmer and hotel-keeper. Mrs. Bush was born in Fayette county, In- diana, on the present site of Connersville, and was the first white child born in that county. Mr. and Mrs. Ade became the parents of seven children: Anna Eliza, born April 18, 1852, near Cincinnati, Ohio, married John W. Randall, of Kentland. Mary Alice, born January 19, 1856, married John G. Davis and resides at Plymouth. Mr. Davis was born in Miami county, Ohio, March 24, 1854, and educated at Pleasant Hill, Ohio. In January, 1867, he became editor and publisher of the Chronicle, at Pleasant Hill, which he conducted for a year, and in 1868 came to Newton county and engaged in the nursery business and in farming. In March, 1873, he became deputy in the circuit-court clerk's office and in 1878 he was elected circuit clerk and re- elected in 1882. He was married to Miss Ade January 19, 1876, and they have two sons, -William Harry and George A. William H. Ade was born August 3, 1859, and is now (1899) county treasurer of Newton county. Emma was born January 23, 1861, and died November 28, 1865. Joseph was born September 23, 1862, and is now in the railway mail service on the Fort Wayne Railroad. He was in the wreck that occurred near Shreves, Ohio, September 21, 1892. He was the only survivor of five postal clerks that were caught in that terrible disaster, and the other four were burned to ashes! George Ade was born February 9, 1866, and obtained his early edu- cation in the public schools of Kentland, later attending Purdue University, at Lafayette, from which he was graduated with the class of 1887. In early life he developed a taste for literary work, and his first effort to appear in print was entitled "A Basket of Potatoes," which was written while being
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" kept after school " to write an essay. After obtaining his diploma Mr. Ade accepted a position as reporter on the Lafayette Call. While at Purdue his classmate and chum was John McCutcheon, who subsequently was the cele- brated artist of the Chicago Record, and who assisted Mr. Ade in getting a place on the same paper as a reporter. His ability as a descriptive writer soon becoming recognized, and in 1893 he was given the special work of preparing "Stories of the Streets and of the Town," which were illustrated by his friend Mccutcheon. Through this work both these young men have won a national reputation. Mr. Ade has made two trips to Europe, and on each occasion has written for the Record a description of his travels, in a most entertaining manner. Ella M. Ade was born October 23, 1867, and be- came the wife of W. T. McCray, of whom a sketch appears elsewhere in this work.
John Ade proudly points to the fact that he has voted the Republican ticket from the organization of the party, and besides the office mentioned he served for six years as a member of the school board at Kentland. He is a Royal Arch Mason and is past master of Newton Lodge, No. 361, F. & A. M., while he has been for over forty years a member of the Christian church.
ALBERT E. TUCKER.
The Tucker family has long been represented in Indiana, and the state has had no better or more loyal citizens, foremost in works of improvement, public-spirted and law-abiding. In tracing the ancestry of Albert E. Tucker, of Harrison township, it is found that his great-grandfather Tucker was an Englishman by birth. He lived in Nova Scotia and was a sea captain at the time of the Revolutionary war in this country. He was a Tory and was employed in carrying supplies to the British army when he was last heard from. His wife having died at their Nova Scotia home, he took his two boys, Anson, aged fifteen, and William, thirteen, with him on one of his sea voy- ages. The vessel stopped at a New England port, and, strange to relate, the two lads, who in some manner had imbibed very strong prejudices in favor of the American colonists and their heroic struggles to free themselves from foreign bondage, deserted the ship which was used for conveying "comfort to the enemy," and, fleeing into the hills, not only forever lost their father but were sparated and never saw each other again! William, the younger boy, was the grandfather of our subject. He was born in Nova Scotia and died in Lima, Indiana, about 1844. He lived in Connecticut in his youth, and was married in that state to Sarah Stevens. Later he removed to New York, thence to Indiana, then to Adrian, Michigan, and finally, returning to this state, passed the remainder of his life here, engaged in farming and shoe-
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making. His children were: William; Anson; Ann, who became the wife of Joseph Sawdy, of Adrian, Michigan, and had two children; Warren and Amanda: Matilda, who married R. D. Gunn, of New York state, and had two sons,-Sherbun and William; and Seth, the father of Albert E. Tucker.
The birth of Seth Tucker took place in Stamford, Connecticut, January 10, 1803. He removed to the Empire state in boyhood, and on the 2d of October, 1836, came to Indiana and entered a quarter section of land on sec- tion 23, Lima township, La Grange county, the patent to the property being signed by Andrew Jackson, under date of April 5, 1836. He resided there until 1855, when he settled on a farm of one hundred and forty acres, which he owned in Milford township, and that place he cultivated until he sold it in 1864. From that time until his death, in 1875, he lived in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was a shoemaker as well as a farmer, and was fairly success- ful in his business undertakings. He was a man of fine physique, six feet and one inch in height, and often weighed two hundred pounds. He stood high in the Masonic order, being active in the lodges at Lima and La Grange. Politically he was a Whig and later a Republican, and religiously he was a Presbyterian and a deacon in the church. His wife, whose maiden name was Hannah Evans, was born in the opening year of this century, at Enfield, New Hampshire. Later she lived in Vermont and New York, and attended school in Boston for a period. She was married in the Empire state and accompanied her husband to the west. Her death occurred in February, 1867, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and she was placed to rest near her old home at Lima. Her eldest child, Edward, died when less than a year old, and Albert E. was the second. Emily, born in 1835, is the widow of Grosvenor Rathbun, who was a capitalist. She is now living at Glens Falls, New York, where her son, Amos, is the proprietor of the Glenn House, a popular hotel. Edward E., the third son of Seth and Hannah Tucker, was born in 1837, and is engaged in farming in La Grange county, Indiana. He married Martha Bates, and their children are: Edna, wife of Edward Tooley; Myron, William, Grosvenor and Hattie. William, born in 1841, died in the autumn of 1865, and left a wife, formerly Clara Young, and one child, Cora, now married.
The father of Mrs. Hannah Tucker, Edward Evans, was born in Enfield, New Hampshire, and lived in Vermont, New York, Ohio, and Indiana, set- tling in La Grange county, this state, about 1845. He came from one of the respected old New England families, and his father, Edward Evans, was a hero of the war for Independence, being with the gallant little band under Washington at Valley Forge. Edward Evans, Jr., married a Miss Dunham, by whom six children were born, namely: Mehitable, who married William
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Corcoran, and lived in New Hampshire; Edward; Dunham, who chose Mary Bachelor for his wife, and their children were Franklin, Amelia, Mary Thomas, Alonzo and Ziba; Coale, the fourth in order of birth, went to Ala- bama, and there reared his children; Polly first married William Aiken, and had a son, Albert G., and later became the wife of George Spear; Hannah; and Nancy, who never married.
The birth of Albert E. Tucker took place May 1, 1831, in Ridgeway township, Orleans county, New York. He remained at his parental home until he was twenty-eight years of age, when his father gave him a deed to a tract of eighty acres, situated in Springfield township, La Grange county. This property, which he had thoroughly merited on account of his faithful- ness in working on the home farm, he sold in 1864, and invested the pro- ceeds in one hundred and twenty acres of land in Gilead township, Branch county, Michigan. In 1865 he came to Fulton county, Indiana, and rented land in Union township for thirteen years. In the autumn of 1865, how- ever, he had purchased one hundred and seventy-three acres on sections 35 and 36, Harrison township, and section 1, Van Buren township. He built a comfortable house thereon in 1883, and has since resided here, making sub- stantial improvements and materially increasing the value of the farm. He is not a politician nor office-seeker, but is earnest in his desire to see his own party, the Republican, prosper, as he believes its wise management of the affairs of this nation since the war has brought about the prosperity which we enjoy as a people.
On the 18th of May, 1856, Mr. Tucker and Marcella Amelia Nash, daughter of John Stephens and Catherine Wolcott (Gillette) Nash, were united in matrimony. Her father, a native of Massachusetts, removed to Utica, New York, and thence to Summit county, Ohio, where he pursued his trade as a carpenter. He died at his home in the last named county, August 30, 1852, aged fifty-seven years. His wife, Catherine, survived him many years, dying in February, 1879, when in her seventy-fourth year. She was a native of Wolcottville, Connecticut, and removed to Summit county, Ohio, with her parents. Her last years were spent at the home of Mrs. Tucker, in Fulton county. Her eldest child, Edgar, died in infancy, and the others were Alfred, Melvina, Octavia, Marcella, Eliza and Albert. Her father, Nathan Gillette, married Abigail Wolcott, and of their children were Alexander, Eliza, Catherine, Charlotte, Amanda, Abigail, Mary Ann and Oliver. The Nashes have a family genealogy dating back several generations. Thomas Nash, the grandlather of Mrs. Tucker, married Mercy Jane Smith, and their children were Samuel, John, Bailey, Mary Ann, Cynthia and Siloam. Thomas Nash was a prosperous farmer and land-holder in Massachusetts.
The birth of the wife of our subject occurred on the 5th of August, 1839,
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in what was then known as Middlebury, now Akron, Ohio. They became the parents of six children, five sons and a daughter, all of whom, with the exception of the eldest son, who died in infancy, are living. Seth William, born March 12, 1862, is a farmer, residing near Polo, Illinois. He has a wife and two children, - Mary and Jasper. Kate Merrifield, born March 20, 1864, is the wife of Cyrus Mull, the postmaster at Star City, and their only child, Otis, was born October 24, 1886. Elon Weston is represented else- where in this work. Amos Rathbun, born March 25, 1877, and Samuel Randall, born September 28, 1880, are both at home with their parents. All of the children have been given good educational advantages, and are well equipped for the battle of life.
ELON WESTON TUCKER.
One of the rising young men of Pulaski county is the gentleman of whom the following lines are penned. He has already taken a prominent place in educational and political circles, and is generally recognized to be a man of exceptional ability and talents.
A son of Albert and Marcella Amelia (Nash) Tucker, our subject was born May 30, 1868, in Union township, Fulton county, Indiana. He received the benefits of a common-school education, and, being an apt pupil, made rapid progress in his studies. It became his ambition to be a teacher, and in the summer of 1889 he attended the normal school at Winamac. That winter he was employed as teacher of the Mull school, in Van Buren town- ship, remaining in charge there for five months. During the few winters succeeding that one he taught the Mooresburg school, the Smith school and Center school of Harrison township, and in the winter of 1894-5 was the principal of the Star City school. The ensuing winters he had charge of the Smith and Center schools again, and for the past two years he has been the principal of the school at Francesville. In the meantime he has continued his own higher education, and in the summer of 1890-I attended the Val- paraiso Normal School; in the summer of 1892 was present at the sessions of the normal at Gibbon, Nebraska, and in the summer of 1898 pursued a spe- cial course at the Rochester (Indiana) Normal. As he was reared upon a farm, and early became thoroughly familiar with agriculture, Mr. Tucker concluded to do some farming upon his own account, and in 1893 bought forty acres of land, which he cultivated until he removed to Francesville.
From the time that he received the right of franchise, Mr. Tucker has been an ardent Republican and worker for the party. During the late cam- paign he served as chairman of the Republican county committee, and so thoroughly organized and superintended the work before him that the party
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made the best fight ever made in the county, as is generally conceded. Recently Mr. Tucker entered upon his new duties as deputy in the office of the county auditor, and is giving thorough satisfaction to all concerned. To be in position to attend to his office, he made his home in Winamac, in July, of this year. Socially, he is a member of Francesville Lodge, No. 396, Knights of Pythias.
On the 22d of February, 1892, Mr. Tucker and Ida Custer, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Horn) Custer, were united in marriage. Mrs. Tucker is a native of Indiana, her birth having occurred in Logansport, September 8, 1868. The distinguished Indian fighter, General Custer, was a member of her branch of the Custer family, and even not distantly related. The eldest child of the young couple, Albert Custer, was born June 27, 1893, and died on the 3d of the ensuing October. Albion Chase, the second son, born June 26, 1894, departed this life about four weeks later, on the 27th of July. Wayne, born January 14, 1896, and Eugene Weston, born February 28, 1899, have been spared to their parents.
CHARLES L. WEEKS.
Among the earliest settlers of Indiana were the ancestors of C. L. Weeks, a leading citizen of Winamac, and for almost a century his name has been closely associated with the progress of this state. At a remote period in the colonial history of America, four brothers of the name left England and sailed to the hospitable shores, where they separated, locating in different states, and from them have descended many men who have risen to promi- nence in the affairs of this nation.
The great-grandfather of our subject, John Weeks, was born in North Carolina, and for a wife chose a Miss Wright. Their eldest child, Benja- min, who lived near Greenboro, Indiana, married Winifred Copeland, and had five children,-Alfred, Ellen, Nathan, Rebecca and Charlotte. William married Mary Anne Freestone, and resided near Salem, Iowa. Their eldest child was Elihu, and there were several younger ones. Ralph, who never married, made his home with our subject's grandfather, James Weeks, until his death at about fifty years of age. Lydia became the wife of Josephus Harris, of Indiana; and Anne, who wedded James Griffin, lived in Green- boro, Indiana. Of her children the names of three-Mary Jane, Eliza Ann and John-are remembered.
James Weeks, the third child of John Weeks and wife, was the grand- father of C. L. Weeks. He was born November 17, 1795, in Guilford county, North Carolina, on a plantation, and when he was eight years of age he accompanied his parents to Wayne county, Indiana, driving across the
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country. He located in what was known as the Graves settlement, in Wayne township, not far from the Smyrna Quaker meeting-house, and about two miles from the state boundary line. For his day and advantages, he was a man of good education, and at the age of eighteen he commenced teaching, and for a long time taught during the winters, while the remainder of the year he industriously worked upon his quarter-section homestead. After making many improvements upon the place he sold it, buying one of one hundred acres in New Garden township, and there he spent the rest of his life. He was about five feet, ten inches in height, weighed in the neighbor- hood of one hundred and seventy-five pounds, and was very energetic and active. He was a Whig and one of the founders of the Republican party, and though he never occupied public offices, he took great interest in every- thing affecting the national or local welfare. No one was more thoroughly opposed to slavery than he, and he was one of the active agents on the under- ground railway system. In the Society of Friends he was highly esteemed, being looked up to and consulted on financial questions and all others of moment. His long, useful life came to a peaceful close November 13, 1887, and his earthly remains were placed in the Quaker graveyard near Fountain City, Wayne county. His wife, whose maiden name was Cassandra Cramp- ton, was a native of the vicinity of Culpeper Court House, Virginia. She came to Wayne county, Indiana, with her parents, when she was a child, and was married at the age of seventeen years. She preceded her husband to the silent land, dying September 16, 1879, when in her sixty-ninth year.
Their eldest child was Merrick C., father of Charles L., subject of this sketch. Ruth Anna, the next in order of birth, married Jonathan Williams, and had one child. Jane, who married Benjamin Bailey and lived near Denver, Indiana, had three children,-Frank, Emma and Leola. John Wesley, who is a traveling salesman for a grocery house and resides in the vicinity of Richmond, Indiana, married Caroline Clark, and their children are Harry, Lois, Frederick, Cassandra, Grace, Ray and three who have passed away. Samuel, the fifth child of James Weeks, died in boyhood. Rachel became the wife of Elwood Jessup, and is a resident of Richmond; Louise, Mrs. David Johnson, lives on the old Weeks homestead; and Flor- ence, who is the wife of Elwood Powell, of Portland, Indiana, has one child, Harry. The two youngest children of James Weeks and wife died in infancy. The father of Mrs. Weeks, Samuel Crampton, was twice married, his second wife being Miss Hampton. His children were named as follows: Merrick, who wedded Ann Smith, lived in Wayne county, and had eight children: Sarah, Martha, Letitia, Mary, Smith, Samuel, Phoebe and Rachel; Jeremiah, of Paris, Ohio, married and had several children, -Frank, Wesley and others; Joshua, lived in Wayne county, married Martha Rhodes, and had children
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