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The New Jersey family, from whom the subject of this sketch is de- scended, has not multiplied like the other families. The Revolutionary Chad- wick who settled and married in New Jersey ( whose christian name is not known to the writer) domiciled in or near the town of Elizabethtown. now. grown to be quite a city, and here he reared a family of four children. ti sons and two daughters.
One of the sons. Mahlon Chadwick, became a physician, enlisted in the United States Navy, in which he was a surgeon with the rank of captain. during the War of 1812. On a cruise, during this war. he sickened and die.l. and was buried at sea. The remaining brother and sisters came to the West in the great tides of emigration in the early years of the nineteenth century, settling near Harrison, in Hamilton county, Ohio. Not long after coming to the West the older sister. Elizabeth. was married to Alexander Rittenhouse. Mr. Rittenhouse and his bride then came to Shelby county. Indiana, about
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the year 1822. and settled near Morristown first, but just a year or two later in the then young town of Freeport. possibly before the platting of Freeport : and there Mr. Rittenhouse opened a mercantile business which he continued for fully forty years. He greatly prospered. acquiring four hundred acres of fine land immediately around the town of Freeport, and other property. About the year 1863 Alexander Rittenhouse and wife moved to Shelbyville. buying the property now owned by Harry H. Teal. on the extreme north end of Harrison street, on which premises these old people died, both at an advanced age, Mrs. Rittenhouse in 1870, Mr. Rittenhouse in 1871.
Their younger daughter. Mary, married Jacob Cory, and with him set- tled first in Preble county, Ohio, whence, in a short time they moved to Fay- ette county, Indiana, and later they moved to and settled in Wabash county, Indiana, acquiring considerable land there. Jacob and Mary Cory reared a large family of children, among whom was Alexander Cory, of Shelbyville. who, from 1822 to 1864. figured prominently in the publie and financial af- fairs of Shelby county. Ile was a man of immense activity and of excellent business capacity. Jacob and Mary Cory both lived to an advanced age, and both died in Wabash county.
The remaining son of this New Jersey family was Samuel Reuben Chud- wick. He was born shortly after the close of the Revolutionary war, near Elizabethtown. New Jersey. In early manhood he was married to Jerusha Hopping, of a neighboring family, and soon after he moved, with his young wife. to Harrison, in Hamilton county, Ohio. He opened a general store there which he operated with success. Not many years afterwards. however, he moved from Harrison. Hamilton county. to New Paris, in Preble county. which was near or on the National road. and in closer touch with the tides of travel and commerce. After accumulating what was for that time a large fortune, he retired from business and took up his abode in Winchester, in Preble county. There, after a retired life of only a few years. he departe 1 this life, about the year 1845, only a little over sixty years of age. His wife. Jerusha, had preceded him into the great beyond by some ten or twelve years.
To Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Reuben Chadwick were born two daughters and six sons. Of the daughters. Ann Eliza, the older, married John W. Er- win. of Quaker lineage. of Richmond, Indiana: Mr. Erwin later took up his abode in Hamilton. Ohio, where he embarked in various enterprises, and be- came prominent in the business life of that city. Hannah Maria, the younger daughter, married James Manning, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church. Both daughters are now dead. The sons were Clinton. Caius Cas- sius, Marcus Brutus. Samuel Hopping. and Reuben. Caius Cassius died in youth. The others all survived to old age, and were prominent factors in business affairs in the several communities in which they lived. All are dead now, except Samuel Hopping Chadwick, who lives at Dayton, Ohio, reputed
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to be wealthy. Reuben Chadwick was at one time a successful merchant in Chicago. Marcus Brutus Chadwick, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born at Harrison, Hamilton county, Ohio, April 12, 1820. Alice and Phoebe Carey, the Ohio poetesses, grew to womanhood in the near neighbor- hood of his early home, and had attained some celebrity as authors when young Marcus knew them, and occasionally visited at their home.
In the early boyhood of Marcus his father removed to New Paris, Ohio. and there young Marcus Brutus grew to manhood. His youth and early man- hood were employed in study, varied with clerking in his father's store and in farming some on one of his father's farms; but while yet in his teens he went to Miami University, at Oxford, Ohio, and continued there until he closed his sophomore year. He relinquished college life because of ill health. In early manhood he took up the study of law, reading in the office of Hon. Lewis D. Campbell, at Hamilton, Ohio, and later he graduated from the Law School, at Cincinnati. He opened an office for the practice of his profession at Eaton. Preble county, about the year 1847. In November, 1847. he was married to Mary Eliza Rossman, at Franklin. Warren county, Ohio. He served one or two terms as Prosecuting Attorney of Preble county. He did not, however, find the legal profession congenial, and retired from it to acquire a large farm, five miles south of Eaton. in Preble county, on Seven Mile creek. This was in the year 1858. In politics Marcus B. Chadwick was first a Whig, and he became an ardent Republican on the organization of the Republican party in 1856. He was a delegate to the Whig National Convention, at Baltimore in 1852, and voted there for the nomination of General Scott. In 1864 Mar- cus B. Chadwick failed financially, losing his tine farm of three hundred fifty- six acres in Preble county, and came out of the crash utterly penniless and still burdened with debts. He then moved to Shelby county, Indiana, and rented the fine farm of Alexander Rittenhouse, near Freeport. He lived in Freeport until his death, which occurred January 30, 1877. He is buried in the Hanover cemetery.
Marcus B. Chadwick was possessed of considerable force of character. He was possessed. also, of a good mind. well cultivated. He was a man of unimpeachable integrity, and commanded the respect and confidence of all men with whom he came in contact in the various relations of life. He was elected three times Trustee of Hanover township. Shelby county, and it has been said of him that he was the most popular and satisfactory Trustee the township ever had, and that he conducted the affairs of the township with greater precision and economy than any other person ever elected to that position in that township. and, at the same time, with wise consideration of all the best interests of the township. Marcus B. Chadwick. notwithstanding his intelligence and his capacity for affairs, never succeeded in accumulating
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an estate. and at his death left no patrimony to his children, a matter which none of them ever regretted.
Mary Eliza Rossman, becoming the wife of Marcus B. Chadwick in 1847. was born at Franklin. Ohio, in the year 1822. Her father, Philip Rossman. was of Scotch-Trish descent. His parents were Irish Presbyterians, and were natives of County Derry, Ireland. They were typical Irish Presbyterians of that day, bound in the narrow limits of church creed and practice. They talked with the broad Irish brogue, and their granddaughter. Mary Eliza, often re- lated and mimicked their manner of talking to her own children long after the good old people had passed from earth.
Philip Rossman was the second child of this Londonderry couple. Ile had an older sister. Frances, who married William Delorac, and lived for many years and died in the city of Hamilton. Ohio. Philip and Frances were both born in green old Ireland. And then this Londonderry couple migrated to America for larger freedom and larger opportunity to practice the thrift for which the Scotch-Irish people are well known. They settled for a few years in Virginia, near Alexandria, but later came West, and settled on the banks of the Big Miami, in Franklin, Warren county, Ohio.
Sarah- Rossman was born to this worthy couple next : she married a Doc- tor Haller, and after a brief sojourn in Franklin the Doctor and his young wife went further into the West and South. Five other sons were born to this Londonderry couple in America: William, who married and located in Eaton, Ohio, and embarked in his father's trade, harness-making and sad- dlery. in which he prospered moderately, acquiring a home and a competence : John and James, who located at Hamilton. Ohio, where they became pros- perous and wealthy dry goods and carpet merchants: Alfred, who located in Winchester. Indiana, married there and reared three children. Mrs. Belle Salter, of that city, still surviving. The fifth son wandered into the South. lived for many years in New Orleans, but he probably died before the Civil war.
Philip Rossman. born in County Derry about the year 1790 or 1795, was taken by his parents to Virginia when only about two years old : he married Mary Aeger in that state, in or near Alexandria, about the year 1815. Her father was Albrech Aeger, who was born in Prussia about the year 1750. and who migrated to America in his early manhood and settled in or near Alexan- dria, Virginia, at which place he died about the year 1816. After this event Philip Rossman and his young wife came to the West and settled, with his father and mother. in Franklin. Ohio. He embarked in his father's trade. harness and saddle making, which he successfully conducted until his death. in September. 1860. Six children were born to Philip and Mary Rossman. viz : Martha, Maria. Frances, Mary Eliza, Edward and James. Martha, Ma- ria and Edward never married and they are now dead. Frances, born in
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1820, was married to James Kennedy, of Irish birth, and to them two chil- dren were born, but both died in early life: Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy are both dead. James Rossman, born about the year 1826, was married to Abbie Nailor, in the year 1860, and to them four children were born : George. Kate. Louis and Ollie, of whom all are living, at Franklin, Ohio, except Louis. who is deceased. Mary, Philip Rossman's wife, died when only a little over thirty years old. Philip Rossman never remarried.
To Marcus B. and Mary Eliza Chadwick were born eight children. They were George, born in 1848, and who died a mere babe; Mary, born in 1850, and who died of scarlet fever when only three and one-half years old; Ed- ward H., the subject of this sketch, born March 20. 1852: Charles Cains, born April 2, 1854: Frank Rossman Chadwick, born on April 1. 1856. on the Preble county farm. killed by a rearing horse falling upon him, in March, 1872; Marcus Mahlon Chadwick, born in September, 1858, died of typhoid fever in September, 1869: Horace Manning Chadwick, born in November, 1860, and Albert R. Chadwick, born in February, 1863. killed in a railroad wreck. in June. 1893, at Lafayette, Indiana. These children were all born in Preble county, Ohio. Charles Caius Chadwick has never married : he now resides on a farm near Dayton, Ohio. Horace Manning Chadwick was mar- ried in November, 1883, to Mazie P. Hughes, of Van Buren township. Shelby county, Indiana ; he and his wife together have acquired a splendid farm of eighty acres, and have four children: Sarah, now the wife of Oscar Miller. and Frank Rossman Chadwick, who has recently married Nell Nail, daughi- ter of John W. Nail, who resides in Shelby county. Brandywine township. four miles from Shelbyville: Ruth Chadwick and Mary Katharine Chadwick :.
Mary Eliza Chadwick, wife of Marcus B. Chadwick, departed this life in September, 1871, in the fiftieth year of her life. A few days after this sad event Edward H. Chadwick, at the age of nineteen years, entered the prepara- tory department of Miami University, at Oxford, Ohio. He took with him an old Latin dictionary which his father had used. He studied faithfully the first year, and at the opening of the college year, in September, 1872, he entered the freshman class of Miami University. He had the distinction of leading his class through the freshman year. At the close of the freshman year the university suspended. Young Chadwick then obtained a school in Hanover township, Shelby county, and taught a term of six months, saving all of his salary by boarding at home. In the meantime he had put out a wheat crop of twenty acres, from which in the summer of 1874 he reaped an abundant erop. and with his savings accumulated to more than five hundred dollars, he started to Dartmouth College. New Hampshire. This was in September, 1874. He entered the freshman class there, taking the academic course. He graduated from this famous institution in 1878, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He very largely made his own way through Dartmouth
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College. The college terms were arranged so that students wishing to do so could teach twelve weeks each winter and "make up" all studies gone over in the class room independently. Young Chadwick availed himself of this opportunity, and taught each winter of his course through college, and. dur- ing the summer vacations he engaged in one and another enterprises as op- portunity offered. By the death of a great-uncle, John Rossman, at llam- ilton, Ohio, in the year 1876, he inherited about four hundred dollars. Ile received a gift from another source, under circumstances rather unique, of more than three hundred dollars. The inheritance and the gift greatly aided him to pursue his course without interruption through the famous college. During the winter vacation of 1876-77. the young student filled a vacancy in the high school, of Pittsford. Vermont, the usual period of twelve weeks. this vacancy being occasioned by the illness of a teacher who was a brother of the author. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. At the close of his college course. young Chadwick was in debt to the amount of about two hundred dollars. which he repaid with the first money earned by him after his graduation. From his twelfth year young Chadwick had experienced the pinch of very limited means. All through his youth and early manhood his life was one of almost constant effort. working on the farm, attending the country school, fill- ing in the hours between with reading and study, all with the quite definite end in view of at least going through some college worthy of the name. To this end he studied and labored and saved. It should be mentioned that Dart- mouth College has an unusually large number of "scholarships." A large number of the alumni and friends of the college have made bequests of moneys and stocks, in sums running from two thousand dollars up, the in- comes from which, as invested. are devoted to paying the tuition of students. Young Chadwick was fortunate enough to be presented with one of these scholarships, thereby saving for him the yearly tuition of ninety-six dollars.
During the years of young Chadwick's course through Dartmouth Col- lege the average attendance of students was about five hundred to six hundred. In recent years the average attendance has been about one thousand three hun- dred. The faculty now consists of about one hundred instructors. The tui- tion has been increased to one hundred twenty-five dollars yearly, and the tui- tion realized to the college now runs up to an average of more than one hun- dred thirty thousand dollars annually. During young Chadwick's college course there were four college dormitories, now there are sixteen. The col- lege has taken on the university regime, with elective courses, and is one of the strong and notable educational institutions of our country.
Graduating from Dartmouth College in June. 1878, young Chadwick found difficulty in securing a more remunerative position, and hence was driven to take a country school for the school year of 1878-79. He taught this school in the Windfall district, two miles south of Freeport. in Shelby county. At
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the conclusion of this school he took up the study of law in the office of the Hon. Benjamin F. Love, at Shelbyville, in which office he remained about one year in all. On May 6, 18;9. young Chadwick was married to Mary Hughes, eldest daughter of Robert Hughes, of Van Buren township. Shelby county. In the same year he was admitted to the Shelby County Bar. In the fall of 18;9. however, he engaged to teach another school term, this time taking the upper grade of the Fountaintown schools. During this school year he and his young wife lived in Fountaintown, and their first child was born there. In the fall of the year 1880 Mr. Chadwick and his family moved to Shelbyville. On January 1. 1881. he opened a law office in that city, in the "Exchange Block." in which block he has remained to this day. He has been, perhaps, as suc- cessful in his profession as the average practitioner in a provincial town. He has had charge of a number of large interests, and has enjoyed some of the larger fees earned by the lawyers of Shelbyville. For about eighteen years he was the owner of the most complete set of abstract of title books in Shelby county, and during those years devoted much of his time to abstract of title work. In this connection he loaned moneys for large money hoklers, and probably in this period negotiated a larger aggregate of loans than any man in the county. before or since.
Mr. Chadwick owes much in his abstract and loan business to Harvey H. Daugherty, formerly a resident of Shelbyville, a lawyer, an abstract of title man, and a large money lender. Mr. Daugherty was the compiler of the abstract work which Chadwick acquired in 1889. Mr. Daugherty was and is a man of fine business ability, and of very excellent attainments in intellectual culture. He is the author of a very excellent book, entitled "The Young Lawyer." a copy of which Mr. Daugherty was generous enough to present to each of the lawyers and law-students of Shelbyville. at the time the book came out. The writer of this sketch takes the liberty to copy here a letter addressed by Mr. Chadwick to Mr. Daugherty in acknowledgment of the gift, showing thereby the appreciation of the book by at least one member of the legal pro- fession in Shelbyville, and giving some idea of Mr. Chadwick's style as a writer :-
"Shelbyville, Indiana, July -. 1907.
"Dear Mr. Daugherty :-- I have been feeling a bit blue this July morn- ing. The state of one's spirits is often inexplicable, you know. There is a prospect of nothing doing in the office today. The sky is hidden by a curtain of clouds : the atmosphere is humid and oppressive with heat : all these condi- tions combined make an environment not conducive to happy rumination. And. besides, a copious shower of rain has just fallen on several tons of new mown hay belonging to me. Such an event, you know, is in the nature of a catastrophe to a hay crop. Not only does it take from the hay the delightful odor so highly celebrated in song and story, but it reduces its commercial val-
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ue, in large measure. likewise. And so, whether I have the poetic tempera ment to appreciate the oder aforesaid, or am possessed with the commencial instinct that looks most to the price of a commodity, the event before men- tioned. you see, is alike depressing.
"I have turned. therefore, to the contemplation of something more pleas- ing. I have taken up the book this morning, the gift of which you so kindly made me, not long ago, and have just now read another chapter in it. Even so, from day to day, has the book been to me a most charming companion. Evening and morning have I read its delightful pages, to myself inaudibly. aloud to my wife and my younger son and daughter. All alike we have been charmed with the many beautiful things present on every page. I thank you gratefully for the preference which enables me to add the book to my modest library.
"The scope of the work (if I may venture to add a word by way of com- ment) is quite comprehensive. The grouping of quotations is most admir- able. In a word, your manner of treatment of the several subjects comprised in the work is all that could be desired. The book, as a whole. is to be re- garded. I take it, as a tribute to the profession of law. It is, indeed, a noble tribute to a most honorable profession. It comes from your hand an expres- sion of your high appreciation of that profession. Its value as such is much enhanced to all your friends, when they reflect that that expression is sincere.
"The book will be worthy a most careful reading by every one fortunate enough to secure a copy of it, and of rereading many times. I shall read it many times, I know, with unfailing delight. It is a book that can be read by every lawyer, young or ohl. with delight and profit. But especially to the young lawyer and to the law student will the book bring charm and enduring benefit : for it is rich in suggestions that appeal to the young lawyer. It will place before every young aspirant in the profession a higher view thereof. It will give him a truer and higher conception of his duties and responsibilities in the profession than he could have had had such a book not reached his hands. Aside from pecuniary considerations (to which you allude in your preface, and which are personal to yourself. of course, but of which I am prone to think, because I would be glad to have you reap a large return for the labor you have bestowed upon the book ), aside from these considerations, it is to be wished that the book may be published in an edition of thousands. in a number far beyond what you seem to have contemplated, so that it may come to the hands of the legal profession throughout the land.
"Beseeching you. Mr. Daugherty, to pardon the tardiness of my ac- knowledgment of your generous kindness in the gift of this treasure of a book, I remain. as ever. very sincerely your friend.
"EDWARD H. CHADWICK."
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Mary ( Hughes) Chadwick. wife of Edward 11. Chadwick, was born in Union county, Indiana. December 3. 1853. She was the eldest child of Rob- ert and Sarah ( Parkes ) Hughes. Robert Hughes was of Welsh and German extraction. On the paternal side he was descended from Welsh, on the ma- ternal side. from German ancestors. His great-grandfather on the paternal side was a Welsh Quaker, who came from Wales to Pennsylvania in the year 1699. upon the occasion of William Penn's last visit to America. Ail annals of the intervening generations of this Hughes family have been lost until we come to Stephen Hughes, who was born in New Jersey about the year 1767. There is a tradition in the Hughes family that Stephen Hughes served in the Revolutionary army in the closing years of the Revolutionary war, under General Washington's command, and that he was close to General Washing- ton, as an aide or in his "body-guard." About the year 1810 he was married to Catherine Moyer, in the city of Philadelphia. No chronicles of the Mover family have come down to her posterity other than that she and an elder sis- ter were fashionable dress-makers in the city of Philadelphia at the time her acquaintance with Stephen Hughes began. She was born in the city of Phil- adelphia about the year 1786. Stephen Hughes and his bride took up their home in Union county, Pennsylvania, and nine children were born to them there, seven of whom lived to manhood and womanhood. They were : John Hughes; Mary married Joshua Langsdale, who was long prominent in the business life of Indianapolis: Robert Hughes: Hannah married Isaac Van- sickle, a farmer in Union county, Indiana; Evan Hughes, Stephen Hughes and George Hughes. These seven children are now all dead. Robert Hughes was born on the 17th day of November. 1817. About the year 1837 John and Robert Hughes, having learned and become proficient in the mill-wright trade, migrated to the great West and settled in Union county. Indiana. Soon after, their mother and father followed them, with the remaining children. John and Robert Hughes had come to Indiana at a time most favorable for the plying of their craft. There was a demand at that time all over central and southern Indiana for the erection of flouring mills. Soon the younger brothers were absorbed into the growing business. The Hughes Brothers erected mills at numerous points in Indiana, notably at Indianapolis, Conners- ville, Metamora, Bowling Green, Wabash, Anderson and New Albany. They built the first flouring mill erected in Indianapolis, and the first paper mill erected in the state of Indiana. They built the old flouring mill at Marietta, in Shelby county. The last mill they built was the "Hanover Mill." in the "Hanover Community." on Big Blue river. in Hanover township. Shelby county. This was the largest frame flouring mill ever built in Shelby county. It was then one of the best equipped mills in the state. It was built for Alex- ander Cory, about the year 1850, and continued in active operation until it burnt down about the year 1885. The Hughes Brothers were widely known throughout Indiana as accomplished mill-wrights.
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