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He and Mrs. Hackleman are the parents of one child, Ward Hibben. Doctor Hackleman is a member of the Methodist church, as was also his wife, who at all times took an active interest in church work as well as in the general social activities of their home town, until the time of her death, April 30, 1918. The Doctor is a Repub- lican, and has for years been regarded as one of the leaders of that party in this county. He is a member of the American Medical Society, and of the Indiana State Medical Association, always giv- ing his close attention to the affairs of those scientific bodies. In his fraternal relations the Doctor is affiliated with the local lodges of the Masons and of the Knights of Pythias at Rushville, and is a Scottish Rite Mason, affiliated with the consistory at Indianapolis, and a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, affiliated with Murat Temple at Indianapolis.
WILLIAM ARNOLD, whose well improved and finely cultivated farm in Washington township, this county, bears testimony to excellent farm methods and justifiable pride in his home, was born in Union township, this county, September 13, 1878. His parents were John and Alice (Clifford) Arnold, both natives of Rush county and well known and highly respected people. They had the following children : Charles, Sarah, Richard, Josie A., John, Aaron, William, Bertha and Harvey M. After completing his education in Hanover College, John Arnold became a farmer and continued such during life. William Arnold attended the public schools and then assisted on the home place until ready to start out for himself. He made a beginning by renting a tract of 112 acres, which he operated one year, then rented 170 acres in Washington township, where he farmed for five years and then moved to near Ging, where he operated ninety- three acres for several years. After renting another farm in Wash- ington township, comprising 133 acres, for a year, he purchased his farm of ninety and a half acres, which is well situated in Washington township. Mr. Arnold has added greatly to his farm's original value by his many substantial improvements, including a handsome residence. On December 31, 1903, Mr. Arnold married Myla B. Smith, who also was born in Rush county, and they have two children, John W. and Margaret E., both of whom are attending school at Raleigh. Mr. Arnold and his family are members of the Christian church. He has always been affiliated with the Republican party.
HENRY F. ADDISON, a well-known farmer of Posey township, whose life has been a busy and successful one, was born in that town- ship on January 22, 1869, and is the son of Levi and Elizabeth (Stinger) Addison. Mr. Addison was a farmer during all his active years, owning a farm of fifty-three acres. He and his wife were the parents of ten children, eight of whom are living, namely : Samuel, Marshall, Thomas, Henry F., Savanna, Osa, Dora and Lillie. Henry F. Addison attended the Conaway school in Posey township and his youth was spent on the paternal farmstead. He remained with his parents until he had attained his majority, when he began working
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out by the month, continuing to be employed in this way for about eighteen months. After his marriage, in 1892, Mr. Addison began to farm on his own account, renting land for about twelve years, at the end of which period he bought eighty acres, comprising his present farm in Posey township. He conducts general farming operations and has met with success, being numbered among the progressive and substantial agriculturists of his section of the county. Mr. Addison has been married twice, first in 1892 to Martha Hendricks. To this union were born two children, Sherman, a mechanic at Anderson, Indiana, who married Eva Talley, and Bessie, who became the wife of Gurney Ernest, a farmer in Ripley township, this county, and they have one child, Kenneth. Mr. Addison married, secondly, Stella Wymond, a native of Fayette county, Indiana, and to this union have been born two children, Grace and Bertha, both of whom are attending school. Politically, Mr. Addison is an ardent Democrat. Fraternally, he is a member of Beech Grove lodge, No. 399, Independ- ent Order of Odd Fellows, at Arlington. He and his family are mem- bers of the Hannegan Christian Church and he gives his unreserved support to every worthy benevolent or charitable object or any movement calculated to advance the general welfare of the community in any way.
BENJAMIN OWEN, who died at his farm home in Orange town- ship in 1881, was for many years one of the most substantial residents of that section of the county and it is but fitting that there should here be carried in the definite history of the county in which he had so long lived a brief tribute to his memory. Benjamin Owen was a member of one of the numerous families of Carolinians who settled in Rush county immediately following the opening for sale of the lands hereabout in 1820. He was born in North Carolina on Novem- ber 15, 1808, and was but a child when his parents moved from that state to Ohio and settled in Montgomery county, where they remained until abont 1821 when they came over into Indiana and settled on a tract of land entered from the Government in Orange township. Benjamin Owen then was about thirteen years of age. His father erected, on Big Flat Rock, the first mill established in Orange town- ship and for years he was helpful in the operation of that pioneer mill. Later he became engaged in farming and this latter vocation he followed the remainder of his life, becoming one of the well established and substantial farmers of his neighborhood and a man of much influence in the community. He was married thrice, his last wife having been Jane Sliger, by whom he had four children, two daugh- ters, Leona and Millie, and two sons, Charles and Ray. Charles Owen was born on April 8, 1871, and has always lived in Orange township, where he is the proprietor of an excellent farm. In 1898 he was united in marriage to Mattie E. Tevis and to this union one child has been born, a daughter, Daisy Ruth Owen, who is a successful teacher in the schools of Rush county, during the past year con- nected with the Orange township consolidated school at Moscow. Mr.
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Owen is a Republican and has ever given his interested attention to local civic affairs. In 1909 he was elected trustee of Orange township and for six years served in that important public capacity, rendering valuable service in behalf of the community.
A. L. RIGGS, now living in retirement at Rushville, where for many years he conducted a successful hardware establishment, was born at Wabash, Ind., October 15, 1856, a son of Alfonso and Ella (Maple) Riggs, and received his graded and high school education at Rushville. After leaving school Mr. Riggs started his business career as an employe in a hardware store, working as a clerk for J. B. Kennedy for about fifteen years, at the end of which time he, with his brother-in-law, W. E. Havens, bought out the Kennedy interests. For twenty-two years they continued to conduct this establishment, the business of which they developed to a large scale. When they retired, they disposed of the establishment to its present owner, John Morris. Mr. Riggs, while retired from active labors, is interested in several enterprises. The firm of Havens & Riggs still own the "Silver Dale" farm of 200 acres in Rushville township. Mr. Riggs is a director of the Rush County National Bank, and vice president and director of the Peoples Gas Company. A stalwart Republican in his political allegiance, he is one of the most influential men of his party in this section, and since 1914 has been county chairman of the organization. He was one of the organizers, in 1897, of the Rushville Social Club, of which he was elected the first treasurer. He also is a member of the Columbia Club of Indianapolis, a state organization, and holds membership in the Knights of Pythias at Rushville and Rushville lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. With his family, he belongs to the Methodist church. On June 7, 1876, Mr. Riggs was united in marriage to Laurette Havens, who was born and educated in Rush county, a daughter of William and Frances (Maddux) Havens, and to this union there has been born one daugh- ter, Blanche, a high school graduate of Rushville, and a graduate of Bowling Green (Ky.) College, who married Guy Abercrombie, a farmer of Rushville township, this county, and has one daughter, Laurette.
FREDERICK A. CALDWELL, the well known furniture dealer and funeral director of Rushville, was born in that city and has lived there all his life, for years one of the recognized and forceful factors in the commercial life of the city. He is a member of a pioneer family in Rush county and has ever done his part in helping to maintain the high standards set by the forefathers of this well established commu- nity. Mr. Caldwell was born on June 16, 1875, son of William A. and Emma (Cullen) Caldwell, the former of whom was born in Jackson township, this county, son of James and Alcy (Ploughe) Caldwell, the latter of whom also was born in this county, a member of one of the old pioneer families of this section of the state. James Caldwell was a native of the Keystone state who in the days of his young man- hood left his native Pennsylvania and came to Indiana, locating in
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Rush county, where he presently married Aley Ploughe and settled on a farm in Jackson township. He made a good farm out of the place on which he settled and became one of the substantial citizens of that community. He and his wife were the parents of eight children, all of whom save two, George and Rachel, are still living, those besides William A. Caldwell being Mary, Sadie, Lyda, J. Edward and Oliver. William A. Caldwell was reared on the home farm in Jackson town- ship and received his schooling in the local schools. As a lad he determined that a commercial life was better suited to his tastes and inclinations than that of a farm and upon completing his schooling went to Rushville, where he became engaged in the dry goods business with W. C. and A. G. Mauzy and thus early became identified with the business interests of the city. In 1873 William A. Caldwell mar- ried Emma Cullen, of Ohio county, Indiana, and to this union four children were born, those besides the subject of this sketch being Mrs. Alice Herkless, Mrs. Fannie Harrison and Helen S. Reared at Rushville, Frederick A. Caldwell completed the course in the city schools and supplemented the same by a course at Graham Academy. Upon becoming engaged in the furniture business, supplemented by the undertaking business, Mr. Caldwell qualified himself as a funeral director by taking a course in the school of embalming at Indianap- olis. He has a well-stocked furniture store and a thoroughly modern undertaking equipment, his business being carried on along up-to-date lines in all details. On June 5, 1900, Frederick A. Caldwell was united in marriage to Alice S. Perkins, of Rising Sun, Ind., and to this union one child has been born, a son, James A., who is now (1921) a student in the school of electrical engineering at Purdue University. Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell are members of the Presbyterian church and take a proper interest in church work. Mr. Caldwell is a Republican and is a member of the Rushville lodges of the Masons, the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Red Men and the Modern Woodmen.
HORACE G. WHITEMAN, the owner of a well-cultivated farm in Anderson township and one of his community's substantial and con- structive citizens, was born on the property on which he now resides, April 25, 1860, a son of William and Emily (Warriner) Whiteman. The grandparents of Mr. Whiteman, Jacob and Mary Whiteman, migrated to Rush county from Pennsylvania, in 1818, making the journey overland in true pioneer style and becoming early settlers of the new community, where they entered land from the Government. Here they rounded out long and useful lives in the pursuits of agricul- ture, and reared a family of seven children: William, Elkana, Mi- nerva, Sarah, Jane, Mary Ann and Drusilla. William Whiteman was born in Rush county, where he was reared and educated, and after his marriage in Anderson township engaged in farming. During a long and industrious life he accumulated a property consisting of 188 acres, the greater part of which he cleared himself, and here his life's activities were passed in the peaceful pursuits of the soil. He and his
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wife were the parents of six children: Clara, Horace G., Seward, Mary, Martha and Emma. The schools of Milroy furnished Horace G. Whiteman with his educational training, and when his studies were put aside he began farming in association with his father on the home place. At the time of his marriage he rented land from the elder man and continued to be a renter until 1909, in which year he purchased eighty acres of the home place. General farming and stock raising have constituted Mr. Whiteman's activities, and at pres- ent he is feeding all his grain to his hogs, of which he ships about two car loads annually. He has been industrious and persevering and has carried on his operations in an intelligent and modern way. Mr. Whiteman married Olive, daughter of John R. Mercer, and to this union there have been born five children: Chester, who married Susan Hilligoss and has two children, William and Helen Olive; Conde, who during the World war was a member of Battery B, One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Field Artillery, and after seeing active service at St. Mihiel and the Argonne accompanied the Army of Occu- pation into Germany, having the distinction of being the only boy from Anderson township who saw such service, returned safely to his home and married Hazel Coen; and Mercer, Gus and Walter, who reside on the home place and are unmarried. In his political belief Mr. White- man is a Republican, but he has never been active in public affairs, save as a good citizen supporting worthy measures. After more than sixty years in the same community, he finds himself firmly entrenched in the good will and regard of his fellow men, a man of unquestioned personal honor and fine consideration for all with whom he is thrown in contact.
WILLIAM McCOY CARR, who is recognized as one of the energetic and successful farmers of Rush county, operating a fine farm belonging to his mother in Richland township, is a native of Richland township and was born on August 14, 1887. He is a son of Milton C. and Pocahontas (McCoy) Carr, the former a native of Butler county, Ohio, and the latter of Richland township, Rush county. Milton C. Carr came from his native state to Rush county in his young manhood and here his first employment was as a farm hand for his brother. Later, after his marriage, he began farming operations on his own account, operating the land on which the subject of this sketch now lives. He farmed 142 acres and devoted himself to the operation of this farm, with energy and success, until his retire- ment in 1918, when he moved to New Salem. To him and his wife were born six children, namely : McCoy, Mildred, Robert B., Ruth, Frank H. and Jean Augusta. The subject of this sketch attended the common schools of Richland township and the high school at New Salem, graduating from the latter institution in 1906. After leaving school, he worked as a farm hand two seasons and then entered Wabash College, at Crawfordsville, Ind., where he was graduated in 1912 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then returned to the home farm, to the operation of which he has since devoted his energies.
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He carries on general farming, raising all the crops common to this section, and also gives some attention to live stock, feeding about 140 hogs a year. He is thoroughly practical and up-to-date in his methods and enjoys a reputation as an enterprising and progressive agriculturist. Mr. Carr was married on August 19, 1918, to Lillian Larinan, the daughter of Michael and Lillian (Brown) Larinan, and they have one child, Janet H. Mr. Carr is a member of the United Presbyterian church at Rushville and Mrs. Carr of the Baptist church. Fraternally, Mr. Carr belongs to the Free and Accepted Masons, while, politically, he is an ardent supporter of the Democratic party, having served as township assessor, and is the present member of the Democratic county central committee from Richland township.
GUY BUSSELL, a well-known and progressive young farmer of Union township, was born in the house in which he is now living in that township on August 30, 1882, son of John T. and Nancy (Smith) Bussell. He received his early schooling in the district schools of his home township and supplemented the same by a course at the central normal at Danville, Ind., after which for about three vears he was located at Indianapolis. He then returned to the home farm and became engaged in farming in association with his father and so continued until in 1909 when he rented a farm of 172 acres and began farming on his own account, farming that place until he moved onto the place he is now occupying and is now farming 320 acres. In addition to his general farming Mr. Bussell gives consider- able attention to the raising of live stock and is doing well in his operations. In 1912 Guy Bussell was united in marriage to Clara Schaeffer, who was born in Pennsylvania, daughter of Philip and Mary (Hurtig) Schaeffer, and to this union three children have been born, John Philip, Clarence and Edgar. Mr. and Mrs. Bussell have a very pleasant home and take an interested part in the community's general social activities. Mr. Bussell is a member of the Ben Davis Christian Church and is a deacon of the same. In his political affilia- tion he is a Republican and has ever taken a good citizen's interest in local civic affairs.
JAMES W. NORRIS, a well known retired farmer of Union township now living at Glenwood, is a native of Maryland, but has been a resident of Indiana since he was fifteen or sixteen years of age and has thus long regarded himself as a Hoosier for all practical purposes. He was born on a farm in Caroline county, Maryland, November 13, 1855, son of William and Sarah (Richardson) Norris, both of whom were born in that same state. William Norris was trained as a boy to the trade of cabinet maker, a vocation he followed for some time after his marriage, but later took up farming and was for eighteen years engaged as a farmer in his home county, continuing thus engaged until his appointment to the position of superintendent of the Caroline county (Maryland) infirmary, a position he occupied for years thereafter. He and his wife were the parents of seven children, three of whom are still living, James W. Norris having a
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sister, Wilmina, and a brother, Thomas G. Norris. James W. Norris spent his boyhood in his home county of Caroline, Maryland, receiving his early schooling there, and in 1871 came to Indiana seeking employ- ment and stopped in Franklin county for a time but presently went over into Union county and there became engaged as a farm hand, working "by the month," and so continued engaged there for some years, or until his marriage in that county to Geraldine Stanton, a resident of Union county, after which he rented a farm and estab- lished a home of his own. Mr. Norris continued farming there, oper- ating a place of 178 acres, until he was appointed superintendent of the Union county infirmary, a position he occupied for three years, at the end of which time, in 1911, he came to Rush county and rented the McFarland farm in Union township. For five years he operated that tract of 450 acres and then retired from the farm and moved to Glenwood, but ten months later the lure of the farm proved too strong to resist and he rented the Baker farm of 220 acres and for three years operated that place, making his home on the farm. In March, 1919, he again retired and moved back to Glenwood, where he and his wife are now living, quite comfortably situated. Mr. and Mrs. Norris are Republicans and are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Fraternally, Mr. Norris is affiliated with the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias.
CHARLES A. MAUZY, a well known merchant at Rushville, the head of a long established business house that has been noted for its progressiveness and fair dealing for over fifty years, and vice-president of the Peoples National Bank and the Peoples Trust Company of Rushville, is a representative of one of the oldest fam- ilies in the country. He is descended from Henry Mauzy, the founder of the family in this country, who was a Huguenot forced to flee from France to escape persecution shortly after the revoca- tion of the edict of Nantes in 1685. Henry Mauzy first went to England, where he married the daughter of Doctor Conyer, and then came to Virginia. Through several successive generations, during which the Mauzy family spread to the four quarters of the land, the line is traced to Charles A. Mauzy, as follows : Henry, John, Henry, William, Peter, Abram Gooding, and Charles A. Abram Gooding Manzy, the father of Charles A. Mauzy, was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, in February, 1825. His early life was one of many hardships, having been left to fight life's battles alone. He was a marvel of industry all through his life, and in his few moments of rest he would read, and soon commenced to teach school. By hard work and pluck he saved enough money to go into the dry goods business in Spartansburg with R. M. Pomeroy, who in after years became president of the Union Pacific Rail- road. Abram G. Mauzy married Emily R. Jameson in New Paris, Ohio, November 3, 1847, and in the early '50s moved to Rushville, where he continued in the dry goods business and grain business
ABRAM G. MAUZY CHARLES A. MAUZY THE MAUZY COMPANY'S DEPARTMENT STORE HUGH E. MAUZY
II. LOUIS MAUZY
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until his two sons, Wesley J., and Charles A. Mauzy succeeded him. His first enterprise in Rushville was as a member of the firm of Hibben & Mauzy, and this name continued until 1865, when Mr. Mauzy bought out his partner and carried on the affairs of his store until 1883, when he retired. To him and his wife were born five children : Mary, widow of Edwin Payne, of Rushville; Charles A., Mrs. Sarah Mowers, of Rushville; Kate, wife of T. H. Parry, of Indianapolis, and Wesley J., who died in 1890. The mother of these children died in 1873. In 1874 Mr. Mauzy married Mrs. Lyda (Hibben) Jones. Mr. Mauzy died in 1905, and his widow in 1906. Charles A. Mauzy received his early education in the public schools of Rushville, and then attended Butler College at Irvington, Ind. In 1872, after leaving college, he returned to Rushville and engaged in the mercantile business with his father until the elder gentle- man's retirement, when he, in company with his brother, Wesley J. and his cousins, George G. and Eddy H. Mauzy, in the year 1883, undertook the management of the business. The firm was then known as the Mauzy Company for a number of years, and then as Mauzy & Denning until 1910, since which time it has gone under the name of the Mauzy Company, which includes Charles A. Mauzy and his sons, Hugh E. Mauzy and Henry Louis Mauzy. The busi- ness is housed in a fine building on the corner of Main and Third streets in Rushville, and does the most extensive business of its kind in the county, keeping fully abreast of the trend of fashion and modern ideas. Charles A. Mauzy married Lillie M. Carr, a daughter of Houston Carr, and to their union three children have been born : Hugh E., Henry Louis, and Mary Louise. Hugh E. Mauzy, who is in business with his father, married Anna Ross and has two children, Judith and Janet. Henry Louis Mauzy, also a member of the Mauzy Company, married Gladys Henley and has two children, David Henley and Robert Jameson. Mary Louise Mauzy married George H. DeHority, of Elwood, Ind., and has two children, Charles Mauzy and George H., Jr. Charles A. Mauzy is a member of various fraternal organizations, is a Republican in his political views, and in his religious beliefs adheres to the tenets of the Christian church, of which he at one time was a deacon.
SCOTT WARD, one of the worthy native sons of Rush county, ranking with the energetic and enterprising class that has contributed to the later-day success of this favored section of the great Hoosier commonwealth, was born in Jackson township, this county, ou Decem- ber 18, 1881, and is the son of Leonard A. and Mary E. (Warfield) Ward, both of whom were natives of Rush county, where the father followed the vocation of farming. Leonard A. Ward and wife were the parents of seven children, as follows : Bertha, Fannie, Donald, Roy, Willie, Scott and Caroline, the last-named being deceased. Scott Ward spent his youth under the parental roof and secured his edu- cation in the schools of Jackson township. Then up to the time of his
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