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Nimrod Kerrick was a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church and at the time of his daughter's marriage to Cyrus Mull, Septem- ber 17, 1857, was stationed at Milroy, this county, where the mar- riage took place. To this union eight children were born, namely : Horace E., born in 1858, who died in 1860; Thomas K., born in 1860, who is still living, president of the Manilla Bank; William C., born in 1863, who died in 1892; Frank A., born in 1864, who died in 1913; Leonidas H., born in 1866, who died in 1917; George F., born in 1868, who died in 1915; Jacob C., born in 1878, who died in 1881, and Mary M., born in 1882, who is still living in the old home place at Manilla, she and her brother, Thomas K. Mull, con- tinuing to maintain their home there. Miss Mull is an alumnus of the H. Thane Miller School for Girls at Cincinnati. Frank A. Mull, who died at his home in Rushville in 1913, had extensive farming and other interests in this county. He married Sarah E. Harpole, of Bloomington, Ind., and had been a resident of Rushville for about fourteen years at the time of his death. Leonidas H. Mull also had extensive farm interests and had for years been connected with the Manilla Bank, of which he was vice-president at the time of his death in 1917. He was a Democrat and represented this county in the lower house of the Indiana General Assembly during the session of the legislature in 1899. George F. Mull was grad- uated from DePauw University and from Yale law school and at the time of his death in 1915 had been for years a practicing attor- ney at Indianapolis, a member of the law firm of Edenharter & Mull. Thomas K. Mull, president of the Manilla Bank and the only surviving brother of this family, has always been a resident of Manilla except for about three years, in early life, when he was employed at Rushville. He has been identified with the Manilla Bank since he and his brother became its owners in 1901, and for years prior to the death of Leonidas H. Mull he and his brother were associated together in business at Manilla. Mr. Mull is a Republican and in 1894 was elected state senator from this joint senatorial district (Hancock and Rush), and thus served in the Indiana state senate during the sessions of 1895 and 1897. He is a Scottish Rite Mason (thirty-second degree) and a Shriner, as were three of his brothers, and is also a Knight of Pythias.
JACOB A. WISSING, JR., an enterprising farmer of Walker township, this county, was born in Shelby county, Indiana, September 1, 1867, a son of Jacob and Caroline (Hertzel) Wissing, substantial farming people in Shelby and Rush counties. Jacob A. Wissing attended the public schools in Walker township and remained at home, assisting his father until 1891, after which he worked as a farm hand in different sections up to the time of his marriage. Then he bought 104 acres of good land in Walker township, which he has improved greatly, erecting new buildings and doing a large amount of ditching. He raises grain and hay and about 100 head of hogs annually. In
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addition to profitahly operating his own farm, he farms a sixty-acre tract adjoining that belongs to his father. On April 23, 1900, he married Mrs. Erevell (Tanner) Wilber, born in Decatur county, Indiana, daughter of Ira and Lucreta (Markland) Tanner, both of Decatur county where Mr. Tanner was a carpenter. Mrs. Wissing is a member of the Baptist church at Homer. By a former marriage Mrs. Wissing became the mother of one child, Opal Wilber. She married Clarence Brown and they reside at Shelbyville. Mr. Wissing is a Democrat. He belongs to the Odd Fellows and the Red Men lodges at Homer.
RUSH G. BUDD, one of the prominent farmers of Rush county, conducts extensive farming operations in Rushville township from his home in Rushville. He was born on November 14, 1865, in Indianapolis, a son of John R. and Sarah R. (Singleton) Budd, both natives of New Jersey, in which state they were married. John R. Budd was a poultry dealer, but when he first came to Indianapolis he engaged in the grocery business for several years. He then reverted to his first calling, opening a commission house specializing in poultry, and in this business he was considered the pioneer in the middle West. He continued successfully throughout his entire life, which was brought to a close in 1910. The firm of J. R. Budd & Company was the first produce and poultry house in the West that could boast of a cold storage plant, and was everywhere honored for its upright business methods. Mr. Budd and his wife were the parents of five children: W. S., George W., Mattie, who died at the age of sixteen years, Rush G., and David S. Rush G. Budd was a student in the public schools of Indianapolis, and when he finished his scholas- tic training he entered business with his father, with whom he con- tinued until 1893. In that year he came to Rush county, locating on a farm three miles south of Rushville. Here he lived for five years, and at the expiration of that period moved to Rushville, but has since actively carried on the affairs of the farm. This is a tract of 400 acres in Rushville township, exceptionally fine land that has been kept in a high state of production by scientific methods of manage- ment. A general farming and stock raising business is done, but the specialty is the raising of seed corn, "Budd's Yellow Dent" having established itself high in the favor of hundreds of farmers. In addi- tion to this, Mr. Budd has the distinction of having introduced the Hampshire hogs to Rush county, and for several years he raised thor- oughbred animals of this breed. In 1890, Mr. Budd married Jennie Winship, a daughter of Lewis E. and Margaret Winship, ranked among the prominent citizens of the county. A more extended men- tion of the Winship family in America will be found in the biography of A. L. Winship, a brother of Mrs. Budd, elsewhere in this volume. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Budd, Lillian, who died in California in infancy, and Alleine, who was graduated from the Rushville high school in 1914. She then entered Goucher College at Baltimore, where she was a student for two years, at the end of which
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time she became a student at the Northwestern University, from which she was graduated with the class of 1918. Mr. Budd has for years been a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church at Rushville, of which he is a member, and fraternally is a Mason, having attained the thirty-second degree in that order. Politically, Mr. Budd adheres to the principles of the Democratic party, and in political as well as civic and moral affairs takes a good citizen's part. He served the city for one term as a member of the school board, and for four years was drainage commissioner, in addition to which he is now in his second term as a member of and treasurer of the board of trustees of the Indiana village for epileptics at Newcastle, Ind.
EMORY VANDEVENTER, a well-known and substantial farmer of Union township, has been a resident of Rush county for twenty- five years and in that time has developed here a good piece of property. He was born in Hannah county, Tennessee, May 20, 1875, son of Jesse and Ann ( Albert) VanDeventer, both of whom were born in that state. Jesse VanDeventer was a farmer, who died in 1877, leaving his widow with two small sons, the subject of this sketch having had a brother, Jesse, now deceased. After the death of her hus- band the widow VanDeventer moved to Lee county, Virginia, where she remained until 1888 when she moved to Kentucky. Emory Van- Deventer was thirteen years of age when he went to Kentucky with his mother and his schooling was completed in that state. He remained there until he was twenty-one years old when, in 1896, he came up into Indiana and located in Rush county, renting a farm of 160 acres in the Raleigh neighborhood with a view of starting farming on his own account. Something more than a year later he married here and not long afterward rented a 200 acre farm in Union township on which he made his home for three years, at the end of which time he rented the farm on which he is now living and was there engaged in farming 208 acres for two years, at the end of which time he moved back to his former place near Raleigh and there farmed 240 acres until 1909, in which year he bought the farm of 105 acres on which he is now living and has since resided there. Since taking possession of this place Mr. VanDeventer has made numerous improvements on the farm and has an up-to-date and well equipped farm plant. It was on December 23, 1897, the year following his arrival in Rush county, that Emory VanDeventer was united in marriage to Maude Redding, who was born in this county, and to this union seven chil- dren have been born, Elsie, Anna, Jesse, Maxine, Marion (deceased, 1919), Ross (deceased, 1911) and Ruth. The VanDeventers have a pleasant home on rural mail route No. 1 out of Falmouth and take an interested part in the community's general social activities. Mr. and Mrs. VanDeventer are members of the Fairview Christian church and have ever taken an earnest part in the work of the church, Mr. Van- Deventer long having been an office bearer in the church, is now one of the elders and also is a teacher in the Sunday school. He is a member of the Masonic lodge and in his political leaning is
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"independent." Mrs. VanDeventer is a member of one of the old families of Rush county, both her parents, Callaway and Vilena (Davis) Redding, having been born here. Callaway Redding was born on the farm in Washington township where he is now living and where he has lived all his life. He is a son of John and Mary Ann (Bush) Redding, the former a native of North Carolina and the latter of New York state, who were among the early residents of Washington township, where John Redding entered a tract of 120 acres and established his home in pioneer days. Callaway Redding has a farm of forty-six acres, a part of the old Redding place in Washington township. He and his wife have three children, Mrs. VanDeventer having two sisters, Fannie and Effie.
HIRAM B. WILSON, former principal of the high school at Rushville, now living at Milroy, was for more than thirty years prior to his retirement a few years ago engaged in the teaching profession and there are few teachers in Rush county who have a wider and more appreciative acquaintance than he. Mr. Wilson is a native son of Rush county, having been born in Rushville, and all his life has been spent here with the exception of a period of four years during which he was engaged in teaching at Rockport and during which period he also was for a year or more engaged in the newspaper busi- ness in that town. The Wilsons are of Kentucky stock, H. B. Wilson's father, the late Charles Porter Wilson, having come to Indiana from Kentucky with his parents when about sixteen years of age, in 1845, the family locating on a farm in Richland township, this county. Charles P. Wilson "grew up" in Richland and Anderson townships and in the latter married Sidenia Smith, who was born in Milroy, daughter of Austin K. Smith. He had learned the trade of tinsmith and after his marriage located at Rushville where for several years he was engaged at the trade. He then moved to Milroy, where he followed the same vocation for several years, at the end of which time he moved to Greensburg, down in the neighboring county of Decatur, and there opened a tinshop. Some time later he sold that business and then became engaged in the livery business, later moving again to Milroy, where he died in 1912. He and his wife were the parents of four children, those besides H. B. Wilson being Florence, Elizabeth and Mabel. Reared in this county, H. B. Wilson supplemented the excellent preparatory schooling he received here by attendance at the normal school at Richmond, equipping himself for the teaching pro- fession to which he had devoted himself, and after entering actively upon that profession added to his scholastic acquirements by attend- ance at DePauw University and at the University of Indiana, in the meantime continuing his work in the school room and so continued until he had an honorable record of thirty years continuously engaged as a teacher, all of this service being rendered in Rush county with the exception, as noted above, of four years spent in teaching at Rock- port, during one year of which period he also was engaged as editor of the Rockport Democrat. During this honorable period of service in
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the schools Mr. Wilson taught at Rushville for ten years, seven years of which time he was engaged as principal of the high school there. He also taught in Anderson township six years, at Milroy six years, at Manilla one year and in Posey and Jackson townships three years, his work at Milroy and Manilla being in the high school, and thus acquired an acquaintance over the county which gives him many pleasant memories in the time of his retirement. In 1916 Mr. Wilson found that the state of his health would no longer permit the close labors of the school room and he retired from the profession and has since been living quietly and pleasantly at Milroy, which he long has regarded as his home, though his vocation often had taken him else- where during his long period of teaching service. In 1885 H. B. Wilson was united in marriage to Abigail Rardin, who died in 1889 leaving one child, a daughter, Cloude Bernice, who married Louis Rindt and has one child, a daughter, Elizabeth. Mr. Wilson is a mem- ber of the Christian church at Milroy and has long given his earnest attention to church work, serving for a short period as a member of the diaconate of the church and is now an elder. In his political affiliation he is a Democrat, and has ever given his thoughtful con- sideration to local civic affairs, his voice and pen ever ready to advance the cause of good government.
HAROLD BEALL, who stands in the front rank among the practical and progressive farmers of Rush county and who has through his well-directed efforts, gained a position of deserved prominence in his community, was born in Clarksburg, Ind. on January 28, 1892, and is the second in order of birth of the six children who graced the mar- riage of Dr. C. M. and Myrtle (Logan) Beall, the former a native of Greene county, Ohio, and the latter of Decatur county, Indiana. C. M. Beall spent his early years in his native county, but while still a young man he was brought by his parents to Indiana, receiving his elementary education in the public schools of Richmond and at Milan. After leaving the common school he attended Moores Hill College, after which he matriculated in the Cincinnati Medical College, where he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine. He entered upon the active practice of his profession at Clarksburg, Ind., and has remained there continuously since, being now the oldest medical practitioner in that place. He has not only enjoyed an enviable reputation because of his high professional success, but has also been successful in a fi- nancial way, being now the owner of 700 acres of splendid farming land in Rush and Decatur counties. Doctor Beall has ever taken a keen interest in agricultural matters and has given his personal attention to the farming of his land. He also handles much live stock on his land, feeding annually from seventy-five to 125 head of cattle and from 200 to 300 hogs. To Dr. C. M. and Myrtle Beall have been born six children, namely : Frank, Harold, Marion, Marjorie, Hugh and Thelma. Harold Beall received his educational training in the public schools of Clarksburg, graduating from the high school there. He then entered Purdue University, where he took the four-year agricul-
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tural course, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science in agricul- ture. He then took up farming on his father's farm near Clarksburg, where he remained for two years, and then located on the farm belong- ing to his father in Richland township where he now lives. This farm, which comprises 355 acres, is all located in this township and is among the best tracts of farm land in Rush county. Mr. Beall is here carrying into actual and successful practice the progressive ideas gained by him while on the experimental farm at Purdue and has demonstrated in no uncertain manner the efficiency of his education along those lines. Mr. Beall is particularly interested in the breeding and raising of pure bred live stock and is the owner of the largest pure bred Percheron herd in the state of Indiana. Every mare in his herd is a thoroughbred and he has produced some exceptionally fine stock. He also breeds pure blood Duroc Jersey hogs and pure bred Shorthorn cattle, having had as high as forty of the latter at one time. Careful and certain in all he does, yet he is progressive and is numbered among the advanced thinkers in his community along agricultural lines. In all matters affecting the welfare of the locality in which he lives he takes a deep interest and enjoys the high esteem of all who know him. When the Farmers' Federation was organized in Richland township in September, 1919, Mr. Beall was elected president of the same and is still serving in that capacity. On October 14, 1915, Mr. Beall was married to Louise Jackson, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Jackson, and they are the parents of three children, Helen, Barbara and Hilda. Mr. Beall and his family are identified with the Presbyterian church and in politics he gives his support to the Republican party.
JOHN F. MAPES, formerly and for years a teacher in the schools of Rush county and who is now serving his second term as trustee of Union township, making his home at Glenwood, where he has resided for years, is a native Hoosier and has resided in this state all his life. He was born at Fayetteville (Orange) in the neighboring county of Fayette on May 15, 1865, son of Dr. John W. and Mary A. (Neal) Mapes, the latter of whom was born in Baltimore, Maryland, but was reared in Pennsylvania to which state her parents had moved from Baltimore when she was a child. Dr. John W. Mapes, who for years practiced his profession and had a drug store at Glenwood, was born in Palmyra, New York, and was trained to the trade of shoemaker. As a young man he went to Pennsylvania and was there married, August 1, 1839, to Mary A. Neal, shortly afterward moving to Cin- cinnati, where he entered medical college and in due time was grad- uated. Upon receiving his diploma Dr. Mapes went to New Richmond, Ohio, where he opened an office and was there engaged in the practice of his profession for several years, at the end of which time he came over into Indiana and located at Cambridge City. After a sometime practice there he moved to Fayetteville (now known as Orange) in Fayette county and practiced there until 1869 when he moved to Glenwood where he established himself in practice, in connection with
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which he maintained a drug store, and there spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring on July 6, 1881. The Doctor's widow survived him for more than thirty years, her death occurring on August 23, 1913. John F. Mapes was but four years old when his parents became residents of Glenwood and his early schooling was received in the excellent schools of that pleasant village. He early turned his attention to the teaching profession and schooled himself for that profession by attendance at the Central Normal School at Danville and at the normal school at Marion. For five years Mr. Mapes was employed as a teacher in the schools of Fayette county and then for nine years was employed as a teacher in the schools of Rush county, thus teaching fourteen terms, during which term of useful service he became one of the best known educators hereabout. In 1904 Mr. Mapes was elected trustee of Union township and served for four years. In 1918 he again was elected trustee and is now serving the public in that useful capacity. On April 3, 1892, Johu F. Mapes was united in marriage to Kate Jane Stevens, who was born in the neighboring county of Fayette, daugliter of Edward and Hannah (Bean) Stevens, and to this union two children have been born, Gladys, who was graduated from the Rushville high school and who died on August 6, 1915, and Maurice M. Mapes. Mr. and Mrs. Mapes are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Glenwood and Mr. Mapes is a member of the board of trustees of the church and was a teacher of the Bible class which he helped to organize in the Sunday school. He is a Republican and has for years been looked upon as one of the leaders of that party in his section of the county. Fraternally he is affiliated with the local lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the P. O. S. of A. and is past noble grand of the Odd Fellows lodge and present financial secretary of the same.
FRANK G. HACKLEMAN, M. D., of Rushville, former pension examiner, a member of the local draft board for Rush county dur- ing the progress of the World war, and for years one of the best known physicians in this section of Indiana, continuously engaged in the practice of his profession for nearly forty years, was born in Rush county and has lived here all his life. The Hacklemans are a pioneer family in Indiana, and in various lines of endeavor have created a distinct impression in the progressive development of the commonwealth. Doctor Hackleman was born in Rush county on May 30, 1859, a son of Oliver C. and Caroline (Worster) Hackle- man, the former of whom was born in the neighboring county of Franklin on October 26, 1816, a member of one of the first families to settle in the Brookville neighborhood in territorial days. In 1840, he then being twenty-four years of age, Oliver C. Hackleman transferred his residence from Franklin county to Rushville, where, in association with his brother, Pleasant A. Hackleman, he founded the Rushville Whig, later and at present known as the Rushville
DR. FRANK G. HACKLEMAN
RALPH WORSTER HACKLEMAN
OLIVER C. HACKLEMAN WARD HENLEY HACKLEMAN
WARD HIBBEN HACKLEMAN
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Republican. Pleasant A. Ilackleman enlisted his services in behalf of the cause of the Union, and when the Sixteenth regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, was organized, Col. Pleasant A. Hackleman went to the front as its commander. For a year or more, Oliver C. Hackleman served as sutler for the regiment. Upon the com- pletion of this service he returned to Rush county and engaged in farming. He spent the last ten years of his life at Rushville, his death occurring there on July 4, 1900, he then being in his eighty- fourth year. Oliver C. Hackleman and his wife were the parents of eight children as follows: Thomas Worster, Pleasant O., John L., Aldine, Frank G., Elizabeth, Caroline O., and Hypatia. Doctor Hackleman was born and spent his boyhood on a farm in Rush county, attending the district schools. He later entered the Rush- ville high school taking the regular four-years course, and was graduated from this school in 1878. He spent one year in the Graham Academy and then commenced the study of medicine under Dr. John Moffett, of excellent memory in this community. Doctor Hackleman was graduated from the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons in March, 1882. Ile then entered the prac- tice of medicine with his preceptor, Doctor Moffett, and continued with him for two years and then entered Bellevue Medical Hospital in New York City, and after a year of intensive application to clin- ical observation there returned to Rushville, and in 1885 resumed his practice, and has been thus engaged ever since. Upon his re- turn to Rushville in 1885, Doctor Hackleman received appointment as a member of the board of pension examiners for this district, con- tinuing to serve in that capacity until 1912. For the last twenty years he has made a specialty of eye, ear, throat and nose diseases. On September 29, 1887, Dr. Hackleman was united in marriage to Mary Henley, of Carthage, and to this union there were born three sons, the first born of whom died in infancy, Ward H. and Ralph W., the latter of whom was a student at Wabash College when he enlisted as a private in the United States army, when twenty years of age, to take part in the World war. In the summer of 1918 he was sent to Jefferson Barracks at St. Louis, and in the fall of that year was assigned to Camp Taylor for training as an officer, but with the signing of the armistice shortly afterward was presently discharged without a commission. He then re-entered Wabash College, from which he was graduated in 1920, and is now a student at Harvard University. Ward HI. Hackleman married Catherine Wiles Hibben, of Indianapolis. Miss Hibben's father, the late Harold B. Hlibben, was born in Rushville. He moved from there as a young man to Indianapolis, where he entered the wholesale dry goods business and at his death was the head of the firm of Hibben, Hollweg & Co. Ward HI. Hackleman is engaged in the insurance business in Indianapolis as general agent for the Massa- chusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Springfield, Mass.
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