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WILLIAM P. KING
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public schools of Richland and Noble townships, and upon comple- tion of his literary training took up farming in association with his father. Subsequently, he rented land from the elder man until the latter's death, farming some 180 acres with a fair degree of success. At his father's demise, Mr. King came into an inheritance of some property, to which he has added by purchase until he now has 120 acres, all in Noble township. He made numerous improvements on this tract, upon which he engaged actively in general farming and stock raising until 1910, when he retired. The modern, well furnished home and capacious barns are due to his success and forethought, and the place generally bears the impress of the large and generous personality of the owner. Mr. King was married on January 28, 1880, to Mary Pond, daughter of Thomas Hitt and Sarah A. (Parvis) Pond, and to this union three children have been born: Willard P., who married Laura Jones and has three children, Helen Leila, Mabel and Gladys; Lela Irene, who married Roscoe Lefforge and has two children, Angus Loren and Lowell; and Mary Edith, who married Lowell Norris and has two children, Mary Helen and Paul Tillette. Mrs. King belongs to a family which came to Indiana from New York state and settled in Frank- lin county. Her father was a native New Yorker and her mother was born in Dundee, Scotland. Mrs. King was born at Metamora, Franklin county, in which county she resided until her marriage, her father being the owner of a farm of 208 acres. There were six children in the Pond family : Elizabeth K., Ella, Cassius C., Mrs. King, Frank F. and Ida B. Mr. and Mrs. King are members of the Christian church at Andersonville, and Mr. King is a Republi- can. He is a companionable and well-posted man, observing the world from wide range, and retaining his faith in the goodness of mankind, and in the existence of opportunity for all who earnestly seek it.
CYRUS E. INLOW, one of Rush county's best known and most substantial farmers and stockmen, was born in the village of Manilla, where he still resides, and has lived there all his life. He was born on February 18, 1863, son of Dr. John J. and Mary A. (Mull) Inlow, the latter of whom was a daughter of Jacob Mull, a Virginian and one of the pioneers of Walker township, further mention of whom. together with a comprehensive story of the Mull family in this county, is set out elsewhere in this volume. The late Dr. John J. Inlow, who for many years was a practicing physician at Manilla, was a Kentuckian, born in Fleming county in the Blue Grass state, February 13, 1826, son of Abraham and Sophia (Bell) Inlow, the latter of whom, a native of Lewis county, Kentucky, died in 1828, and the former of whom also was born in Fleming county, Kentucky. July 18, 1802, of Welsh descent, his parents having been among the pioneers of that county. After the death of his first wife Abra- ham Inlow married Mary Payne and by that union was the father of six children, Jane, Samuel, Thomas, Joseph, Lucy and Octave. John J. Inlow was but two years of age when his mother died and he was
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reared in the family of his paternal grandfather, James Inlow. He finished his local schooling at the Flemingburg Academy and when twenty years of age, in 1846, began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. E. O. Bell at Flemingburg, following this by a course in the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati and in the spring of 1849 began the practice of medicine at Martha Mills, a village in his home county in Kentucky. In 1851 Dr. John J. Inlow left that place and came to Indiana, locating at Manilla in this county, where he bought the practice of Dr. J. W. Trees and became a settled physician of this county. Doctor Inlow had a realizing sense of land values and in time became the owner of about 600 acres of land in the eastern part of Shelby county and in the western part of this county, a considerable tract of which adjoined the village of Manilla. On June 28, 1853, about two years after coming to this county Dr. John J. Inlow married Mary A. Mull, who was born in this county. April 28, 1831, a member of one of the pioneer families of Walker township, as noted above, and to this union were born nine children, six daughters and three sons, all of whom grew to maturity save three of the daughters, those besides the subject of this sketch being Emma S., born in 1854, who married Nathan F. Talbott and moved to Chat- tanooga, Tennessee, in 1878; two infant daughters who died unnamed; William E., 1859; Katie, 1861, who died in 1862; Lulu J., 1865, who married Louis J. Kauffman in 1884 and moved to Colum- bus, Indiana ; Charles, 1867, and Lucy J., 1870, of Rushville. Cyrus E. Inlow was reared at Manilla and early began to give his attention! to his father's farming interests, giving particular attention to the live stock business, making a specialty of trading in horses and mules. for which at that time there was an excellent market hereabout, and has continued thus engaged, making his home in Manilla and at the same time operating the old home place of 250 aeres in Walker town- ship which he owns jointly with his sister, Lucy J., and he has done very well in his operations, long having been regarded as one of the progressive and substantial citizens of that thriving community. Mr. Inlow also owns a tract of land near Indianapolis and has a farm in Kansas. On March 1, 1889, Cyrus E. Inlow was united in marriage to Alice Haehl, who also was born in this county, daughter of John M. and Sarah (Headley) Haehl, who were the parents of six children, three of whom survive, those besides Mrs. Inlow being Fred Haehl and her sister Corda. Mr. and Mrs. Inlow have four children, three sons and a daughter, William D., Charles F., Herbert and Alaelie, the latter of whom married Alonzo Sheedy, a farmer of the Manilla neighborhood, and has one child, a son, William. All three of the Inlow brothers have followed in the footsteps of their grandfather, Dr. John J. Inlow, in their inclination toward the medical profes- sion and the elder of the brothers, Dr. William D. Inlow, is now con- neeted with the world-famed hospital of the Mayo brothers at Roches- ter, Minnesota, where he has been located for the past two years. He was graduated from the University of Chicago and afterward was accorded his medical degree by Rush Medical College and was serving as an interne in the Cook County Hospital at Chicago when American
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participation in the World war was begun in 1917. He enlisted his services in behalf of the medical corps of the United States army and was commissioned a lieutenant in that branch of the service, serving until mustered out some time after the signing of the armistice, after which he entered upon his present connection in the great Mayo hospital. Dr. William D. Inlow has done considerable research work for the government, has written widely for medical journals and has a United States license, having won second honors in the examination which secured him this distinction, the only one who passed a higher grade in that examination having been a professor of medicine. The second son, Charles F. Inlow, served in the medical department of the United States navy during the war and is a member of the 1921 class at Rush Medical College, Chicago. He also was graduated from the Kirksville (Missouri) Osteopathic school in 1915. The third son, Herbert, who was graduated from the University of Chi- cago, won his "letter" for athletics while attending that institution and is now attending Rush Medical College, a member of the class of 1922. He married on September 8, 1920, Opal Martyn, one of the teachers in the school at Manilla.
WILLIAM C. CULBERTSON, a retired farmer of this county, now living at Rushville, was born in Noble township on December 10, 1874, the son of William and Victoria (Armstrong) Culbertson, both natives of that township. The father of William Culbertson, also named William, was one of the earliest pioneers of Rush county, coming here from Kentucky in the first years of its organization, and entering land in Noble township. Here he built a log cabin and set about clearing his land for suitable cultivation, and here his son William grew to manhood taking up farming for himself when he had reached man's estate. At one time he was the owner of 140 acres of fine land, on which he did a general farming business, continuing actively engaged until a few years before his death. He and his wife were the parents of seven children, two of whom are still living in Rush county, William C. having a brother Charles, who lives at Sexton. William C. Culbertson was educated in the public schools of Noble and Rushville townships and until he was eighteen years of age worked on the home farm in conjunction with his father. He then began working out as a farm hand, and was variously employed for the succeeding eight years, at the end of which time he married and started farming on a place of 132 acres in Rushville township which had been inherited by his wife. He conducted general farming operations, in which he was eminently successful, until the time of his retirement. He then removed to Rushville, where he now resides and has since sold the farm. Mr. Culbertson married Martha Colvill, a daughter of John and Nancy Colvill, who came from Kentucky when Martha was an infant, locating on a farm in Rushville township where they spent the rest of their lives. One child, who died in infancy, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Culbertson and their loss has been a great sorrow to them both. Mrs. Culbertson is a devout com- municant of the Christian church, and never overlooks an opportu-
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nity of doing good. Mr. Culbertson is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in his political affiliations is counted among the adherents of the Republican party.
ALONZO P. ELLISON, a well-known farmer and stockraiser residing in Walker township, was born in Rushville township, this county, February 18, 1859, a son of William J. and Sarah J. (Duke) Ellison. Alonzo P. Ellison attended the Miller school in Rushville township and school in district No. 6, Walker township, after which he worked with his father on the home farm until his marriage. After starting out for himself Mr. Ellison rented a farm of 160 acres in Walker township, on which he lived for eight years, when he bought the farm on which he has ever since resided. Mr. Ellison has 160 acres of valuable land, on which he has done a large amount of ditching and has otherwise improved it, since coming here having erected his comfortable farmhouse and fine barn. In addition to crop raising he gives a large amount of attention to cattle and hogs, his annual increase being from 10 to 15 head of cattle and 125 head of hogs. On January 17, 1889, Mr. Ellison married Belle Johnson, who was born in Rush county, daughter of Casper and Martha (Sells) Johnson. Mrs. Ellison died on January 14, 1900, leaving three children, Frank, who died on June 5, 1914; Charles and Lucille. On September 16, 1903, Mr. Ellison married Adenia Lee, who was born in Tipton county, Indiana, daughter of Harlen and Catherine (Nelson) Lee, farming people there, who had a family of seven children, four of whom are living, those besides Mrs. Ellison being Arthur, Florence and Royal. Mr. and Mrs. Ellison have three children ; Floyd, Beulah and Allen. The family belongs to the Christian church at Homer, of which Mr. Ellison is a trustee. Although never aspiring to political office, Mr. Ellison has always been an active citizen in his community and from early manhood has cast his vote with the Republican party.
MRS. ALICE A. BROOKS, widow of the late Melvin Brooks, of Rushville, has been a resident of this county since the days of her girlhood and has thus been a witness to the many changes that have taken place in this community since the days of the Civil war, and has many interesting stories to tell of the gradually changing conditions which have marked the extraordinary develop- ment noted during this period. Her late husband was a veteran of the Civil war and she had three brothers engaged in the service of the Union during that period of national stress, hence the im- pressions created by the war were to her not only very vivid but have proved lasting. Mrs. Brooks was born in Washington county, Ohio, and was but a child when her parents, Horatio and Nancy Culver, came to Indiana with their family and located in Rush county. Here she received her schooling and here she married Melvin Brooks, who had been a soldier in the Union army during the Civil war. Melvin Brooks was born in Nicholas county, Ken- tucky, and was but five years of age when he came to Rush county with his parents, the family settling in Noble township. Here he
MELVIN BROOKS
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received his schooling and as a young man became engaged in farming on the home place. When the Civil war broke out he enlisted his services in behalf of the Union cause and went to the front as a member of G Company, Fifty-second regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, with which command he served for nearly four years. Upon the completion of this service Mr. Brooks returned home and resumed farming on the home place in Noble township. Following his marriage to Alice A. Culver some time later he purchased a tract of 200 acres in Noble township and there estab- lished his home. He continued to operate the farm until his retire- ment in 1910 and removal to Rushville, where he spent the remain- der of his life, his death occurring there on November 21, 1917. Mr. Brooks had two brothers, Thomas and William Brooks, who also were veterans of the Civil war. Mrs. Brooks had three brothers, George M., Oscar and Wesley, who also were soldiers in the Union army. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Brooks has continued to make her home at Rushville, residing at 225 West First street, where she is very pleasantly and very comfortably situated. To Melvin and Alice A. (Culver) Brooks were born seven children, Fannie, Forest, Charles, Sadie, Myrtle, Vernon and Morton, all of whom are residents of this county with the exception of Morton Brooks, who is a resident of Indianapolis. Mrs. Brooks is a member of the Christian church and has ever taken an inter- ested part in church work as well as in the general social activities of the community in which she has so long resided.
GREELEY P. MAUZY, a retired farmer now residing at Rush- ville, was born in Madison county, Indiana, September 10, 1861, a son of Peter and Jane (Wilson) Mauzy, the latter of whom was born in Rush county. His father was born in Kentucky and was five years old when he accompanied his parents to Indiana, the family locating in Rush county. In young manhood he moved from this county to Madison county, Indiana, where he carried on farming until fifty years old, when he returned to Rush county and bought a tract of 400 acres in Jackson township, which he farmed until within fifteen years of his death, when he moved to Rushville where he passed the rest of his life. He and his wife had a family of five children, Mollie, Sophia, Alma, Maggie and Greeley. After his schooldays were over, Greeley P. Mauzy began to help his father on the farm, the latter encouraging him by giving him a part interest in the products. He was twenty-one years old when he bought eighty acres of the farm, at the same time renting the rest of the land, and as his industry and good management proved the undertaking profitable, his father consented to continue to rent him the farm, up to his own death. He then rented the entire 320 acres from the other heirs and now is the owner of the old homestead. He demonstrated unusual business ability in carrying on all his agricultural industries, for many years being one of the leading stockmen of Rush county, paying particular attention to Shorthorn cattle and Poland-China hogs, turning off
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from 250 to 300 head of hogs annually. Since retiring from the farm Mr. Mauzy has occupied his comfortable residence at 1032 North Main street, Rushville, his son Chase having charge of the farm in Jackson township. On March 8, 1881, Mr. Mauzy married Alice Newhouse, who died on October 13, 1905. She was born in Rush county, a daughter of Alfred and Eliza (Tenner) Newhouse. On June 8, 1911, Mr. Mauzy married Alma Bishop, who was born in Union township, this county, daughter of Josiah and Elizabeth (Cline) Bishop. But two of Mr. Mauzy's children are living : Chase and Grace. Chase Mauzy is his father's dependable farmer in Jackson township. He married Florence Davis and has two children, Emily and Ruth. Grace Mauzy married Harry McManus, a farmer in Jackson township, and has two children, Thomas and Alice. Mr. Mauzy has been a deacon in the Christian church at Rushville many years and is a member of Ivy Lodge, No. 57, Knights of Pythias. He votes the Republican ticket.
CHARLES S. HOUGLAND, M. D., a well known physician at Milroy, this county, who served with the rank of captain in the army medical corps during the late World war, has been a resident of Rush county for about twenty-five years and in that time has won a wide acquaintance throughout this and adjoining counties. The Doctor is a Missourian by birth, born in Scotland county, Missouri, June 11, 1871, son of John C. and Sarah E. Hougland. Upon completing the high school course in the schools of Mexico, Mo., in 1888 he went to Kansas City and for more than two years was there engaged in newspaper work as a reporter. In the meantime he had been giving his serious attention to preparatory studies in medicine and had determined to devote his life to the practice of the medical pro- fession. Entering the College of Physicians and Surgeons at St. Louis he took a further course there and then entered the Marion Sims Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1892. Upon attaining his degree Dr. Hougland was appointed an interne in the government hospital at Memphis and after more than two years of intensive practical experience in that institution came to Indiana and opened an office for the practice of his profession at Rockport. Two years later he moved to Milroy and has ever since been engaged in practice there, with the exception of the period during which he was attached to the army medical corps during the time of America's participation in the World war. He entered the army on August 18, 1918, and was stationed at Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, with the rank of captain, in charge of convalescent camp No. 15, and con- tinned in service until honorably mustered out on February 25, 1919, though still retained in the medical reserve corps. In addition to the college experience acquired by Dr. Hougland and which has been noted above, he also some years ago took a post-graduate course in the Post-Graduate School of Medicine in New York City. The Doctor is a member of the Union District Medical Society, of which he served for six years as secretary and for one year as president; is a member of the Indiana State Medical Society and served for six years
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as counsellor for the same from this district, and is a member of the Rush County Medical Society, in the affairs and deliberations of all of which professional organizations he ever has taken a warm and active interest. For five years he served as a lecturer on gastro- intestinal diseases in the medical school of Indiana University. In 1896 Dr. Charles S. Hlougland was united in marriage to Amelia Catherine Jacobs and to this union two children have been born, William Gordon and Yuma Caroline. Dr. and Mrs. Hougland have a pleasant home at Milroy and have ever taken an interested part in the general social activities of their home community. The Doctor is a member of the local lodges of the Free and Accepted Masons and of the Knights of Pythias and gives proper attention to the affairs of these popular fraternal organizations.
PHIL WILK, the present auditor of Rush county, has attained to his substantial standing in the community by long years of indefatig- able effort throughout his interesting and varied career. He was born on January 27, 1859, in Scott county, Indiana, the son of Philip and Mary (Pfierman) Wilk, both natives of Germany who came to America when they were still single, the father landing in New Orleans and the mother in New York. Philip Wilk was a har- ness-maker, a trade which he had learned in Germany, and for a time after his arrival in this country worked at this business in New Orleans, later removing to Cincinnati where he was married and continued in the harness industry. He then owned a hotel in Cincin- nati for a time, but sold out his interests there to move to Scott county, Indiana, where he engaged in farming and harness making until about 1866, when he moved to Lexington, Indiana, where he - owned and operated the Lexington Hotel. After a number of years he sold out the hotel and bought another in Vienna, but soon went back to farming, an occupation which received his attention until the time of his death, prior to which he had acquired 120 acres of land. When he came to America his means were small, and he had to depend entirely upon his own resourcefulness as both of his par- ents had died before his departure for this country. But by frugality and application to business, his ascent of the ladder of success was sure and firm. To him and his wife were born seven children of whom five are living, George, Henry, Jesse, Phil and Mary. Phil Wilk received his education in the schools of his native county, and then learned telegraphy. At the age of seventeen he left Scott county and for three years thereafter filled various positions as telegrapher. He then took a position as bookkeeper for a contracting firm, a business which engaged his efforts for many years. He helped build the railroad from North Vernon to Rushville, now part of the Big Four system, and the railroad from Greensburg to Columbus known as the C., H. & G., also now a part of the Big Four. He next became bookkeeper for the contracting firm which built the Northern Indiana hospital for the insane at Logansport, and then went south into Tennessee with a railroad construction company by which he was
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employed as bookkeeper and paymaster. In 1888, he took up con- tracting for himself, and three years later came to Rushville as a member of the contracting firm of P. H. McCormack & Co., to build the court house. After the completion of this edifice he went into railroad construction work, principally for the traction lines, and continued this until 1917 when he turned to farming. He now owns a valuable and well-improved farm of 120 acres in Rushville township, this county, and takes pride in being included among the up-to-date agriculturists of this locality. In 1889, Mr. Wilk was married to Cora Smith, a daughter of Ben L. Smith, of Rushville, for years one of the leaders at the local bar, and of whom more extended reference is made in the sketch of his son, Donald L. Smith, elsewhere in this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Wilk are the parents of two daughters, Edith and Erema, both of whom are graduates of Indiana University. Edith Wilk married Wendel Wilkie and has one child, Philip, and Erema Wilk married Miller Hamilton, and has one son, James. In his religious beliefs, Mr. Wilk adheres to the tenets of the Presbyterian faith, and fraternally is a member of the Knights of Pythias in the local lodge of which he has been "through the chairs." He has taken an active interest in all political matters since his residence in Rush county, and was rewarded by the citizens thereof in his election on November 2, 1920, to the office of county auditor. He took office the first of the year (1921) and it is confidently believed by his many friends that he will make an exceptionally able and pleasing officer.
WILLIAM T. MOORE, former county commissioner and one time trustee of Richland township, whose life history is herewith briefly outlined, has lived to good purpose and achieved a large degree of success. By a straightforward and commendable course he has made his way to a respectable position in the agricultural world and has won the hearty admiration of the people of his community. Mr. Moore was born in Rushville township, this county, on July 18, 1864, and is the son of Andrew and Polly (Nick) Moore, who were natives of Rockbridge county, Virginia, where they were reared and married. In 1861 they came to Indiana, locat- ing in Noble township, this county, where Andrew Moore became employed by the day, later being similarly employed for a couple of years in Rushville township. He then began to cultivate rented land here, and so continued until 1890, when he moved to Posey township and farmed there until 1919, when he retired from active work and is now eighty-one years of age. William T. Moore received his education in the common schools of Rushville town- ship. Thereafter he followed agriculture as a vocation, working on his father's land until his marriage, when he began farming on his own account. Later he and his father rented 400 acres of land in Posey township, which he operated for six years. He then moved to Richland township and during the following one and a half years he operated 200 acres of rented land in Richland town- ship. He then moved to Decatur county, Indiana, where he rented and operated 400 acres of land about six years. Mr. Moore then
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