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After that, he came to Kentucky on his leave of absence. Having lost his wife, and having four little children and an aged mother, as well as a mother-in-law, to look after, General S. resigned. Mr. Lincoln offered him a Major-General's commis- sion if he would remain in the army.
General Shackelford proved a true soldier under all circum- stances. Brave, to the verge of rashness ; unconscious of fear, and at all times capable of making the best disposition of his men ; a good disciplinarian, yet much beloved by his men ; strictly conscientious, he has manifested rare ability in the midst of great trials. He never failed to do what he could for the helpless, and to protect their rights, as far as his authority extended.
In speaking of General Shackelford's career as a lawyer in Evansville, a brother attorney says : " His forte consists not so much in the preparation of his cases for trial-though in this he is quite accurate - as in the peculiar adroitness with which he manages his causes in court. His mode of conducting the ex- amination of a witness is conciliatory, and well calculated to disarm prejudice ; leading slowly but surely to some point which he desires to make. On the contrary he is exceedingly laconic with an adverse witness ; rarely if ever putting a cross-inter- rogatory, unless it is a dishonest witness, whom he sometimes castigates most unmercifully. His style of speaking is easy and fluent ; sometimes vehement and declamatory, but never harsh. His voice is full, well modulated, and with a great flow of words. He is never at a loss for a word, and his style of handling the subject is much after the manner of developing the evidence in the case : first presenting the weaker points and gradually approaching the climax - reserving the most impor- tant testimony for the last ; and there rests his case."
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General Shackelford's legal career has not reached its height ; and the eminence which he may attain in the future may be imagined from his brilliant course in the past. The brave soldier and eminent lawyer may be seen every Sunday at his post of duty, as teacher of the Bible class in the Cumber- land Presbyterian Sunday School ; and in this, as in other affairs, he holds a prominent position among the ablest biblical teachers in the land.
J. J. Kleiner,
PRINCIPAL OF THE EVANSVILLE COMMERCIAL COLLEGE.
HE business education of the youth of our land has for some time attracted the attention of parents. For several years the Commercial College of the city has sent forth, annually, from its halls several hundred young men, prepared for the busy walks of commercial life. As the head of this prominent educational feature of our city, Mr. KLEINER has become noted, not only as a successful teacher, but also as a leading citizen of the Crescent City.
He was born in Hanover, Pennsylvania, in 1845. When our subject was only three years of age, his parents removed to Medina County, Ohio, and located within thirty miles of Cleve- land. He prepared for college at the Eclectic Institute, Hiram, Ohio, and was under the charge of Professor Platt R. Spencer, the celebrated teacher of penmanship, for nearly two years. He left the Institute and enlisted in the Second Ohio Cavalry, as a private, for three months, and re-enlisted in the Eighty-sixth Ohio Infantry, and served till the Summer of 1864; when, on account of the expiration of his term of service he was dis- charged. He entered Dennison University in 1864, and remained there three years. In 1867 he came to Indianapolis and studied book-keeping at Gregory's Commercial College.
In the Fall of 1867 he became connected with the
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business management of the Evansville Commercial College ; of which, since, since that date, he has become the sole propri- etor. The College has prospered from its commencement ; and on its catalogue are found, annually, the names of nearly five hundred students. The system as taught by Professor Kleiner is that adopted by the leading Business Colleges of the country ; and the citizens can justly be proud of an institution which attracts to our city so many of the young men -- and ladies, also -- of this and the neighboring States. The people last Spring expressed their confidence in his integrity by electing him a member of the City Council from the Sixth Ward.
Hon. H. C. Gooding.
()N. H. C. GOODING was born at Greenfield, Indi- ana, on the 14th day of June, 1838. His father, Asa Gooding, and his mother, Matilda, were both from Kentucky. His grandfather was also a Kentuckian, and took a prominent part in the early Indian wars of the country. He commanded a Kentucky regiment at the hard-fought battle of the Thames. His regiment always claimed for him the honor of killing the celebrated Tecumseh. Certain it was that he he took the scalp of an Indian warrior-chief, which, if not the identical scalp of Tecumseh, closely resembled it. The father of the subject of this sketch was a merchant at Greenfield, and one of the early pioneers of that now beautiful and thriving town. He died in 1842, leaving his widow, Matilda Gooding, with but little prop- erty and a large family of children, eight in number, to support. By dint of wonderful industry, management and economy, she succeeded in raising and educating all of her children ; and now lives to see them comfortable and thriving in the world. One of her sons is the Hon. David S Gooding, for a long time Judge and State Senator, and Elector for the State at Large in 1864, upon the Union Ticket. Another of her sons is General O. P. Gooding, a graduate of West Point, and a gallant officer in the late war -- serving, with particular prominence, at the siege of Port Hudson and on the Red River campaign.
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Mr. H. Clay Gooding, after leaving the schools of his na- tive town, attended Asbury University, at Greencastle, Indiana, where he graduated in 1859. While in college he bore a con- spicuous part in the literary society to which he belonged, and was often chosen to represent it in public contest debate. Like most of the students of the institutions of that day, he was compelled at times to " lay out of college " and teach school to earn money necessary to defray his expenses. After graduat- ing, he immediately started South to try his fortune among strangers. He was, in fact, a " carpet-bagger " before that phrase was coined -- all his worldly goods he carried in one car- pet-bag. After tarrying for a short time near Winchester, Ten- nessee, he proceeded westward, along the line of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, in search of a school. At length after many vain efforts to get employment, and after almost the last dollar was spent and hope was flagging, he found an empty school-house at Macon, Tennessee. Here he was told by the citizens that he might take possession, and try what he could do as a teacher, that several larger and older men than him- self had tried the experiment, but had been driven out by the enemies, and, in some cases, the violence of the older scholars. Pocket-pistols and revolvers were as common as pen-holders, and the life of a Yankee, at that time, was not held particularly sacred among the rough classes. He succeeded, however, in teaching out the term, and retired from the place, taking with him three hundred dollars in gold, congratulating himself on his pecuniary success and his personal safety. During his stay as a teacher at Macon, the famous raid of John Brown was made in Virginia; and all Northerners, especially teachers, were " suspicioned " and watched throughout the South.
From Macon he proceeded to Vicksburg, Mississippi, where he remained some time with his uncle, Harper S. Hunt, a prom- inent and wealthy citizen of that city. It soon became appa- rent that war between the North and South was imminent, and not wishing to be on the side of secession and rebellion, be re- turned to the North. After remaining a while at home he sought the West, and located for a time at Carlinville, Illinois, reading law in the office of Governor Johnson, until his pecu- niary resources were exhausted, when he retired to Brighton, 16
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Illinois, and took charge of the academy at that place for one year. His career at Brighton was eminently successful, and endeared him to the people of that village, of all ages and classes.
When the war between the North and South became seri- ous, and the disaster of Bull Run chagrined and mortified the people of the North, he enlisted as a private, was elected Lieu- tenant, and immediately detailed as Adjutant of the regiment, the One Hundred and Twenty-second Illinois. He served as Adjutant, Post-Adjutant and Judge-Advocate, at different points, till the close of the war, when he was mustered out, at Louisville, Kentucky. About the close of the war, his brother, Judge Gooding, who had been for several years on the bench in the State Senate, was appointed Marshal of the District of Co- lumbia, and he prevailed upon the subject of this sketch to accompany him to Washington City. Mr. H. C. Gooding, doubt- ing his ability to succeed as an attorney at the Capital, was, nevertheless, induced to " swing out his shingle." After a few weeks of close application to the local law of the District, he began the practice. and succeeded far beyond his expectations. He soon became recognized as one of the most promising young men at the Capital, and for two years engaged in an honorable and lucrative practice. But he had never relinquished his love for the West, and determined, without further delay, to take up his home at the place of his present residence, Evansville.
He located at Evansville in September, 1867, and began the practice of the law, taking the office of Judge Morris S. Johnson, then recently elected to the bench. In a short time he formed a partnership with Colonel J. S. Buchanan ; and they have ever since been associated as partners, and rank as one of the best firms in the city.
In 1870 Mr. Gooding was nominated at Princeton, Indi- ana, as Republican candidate for Congress. This was all the more flattering, because of the number and character of the candidates for the nomination. Among his opponents were Hon. Cy. Allen, Hon. A. L. Robinson, Judge Edson, Captain Ferguson, Dr. Lewis and R. A. Hill. Captain G. made a vig- orous and able canvass. He held twenty-two joint debates with his opponent, Judge Niblack, who had been for many
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years a member of Congress. Though defeated, as all Republi- can candidates in the District had been before him, he, never- theless did honor to himself and the cause, by his industrious and able canvass.
In the Winter succeeding, on the 15th of February, 1871, Mr. G. was married to Miss Mary C. Babcock, the amiable and highly - educated daughter of Charles and Amelia Babcock, of Evansville.
In 1872 he was urgently requested by many friends to allow his name to be presented to the Republican Convention of the County for the office of State Senator. This he finally con- sented to do, and was nominated by a very flattering vote. His opponent before the Convention was one of the ablest lawyers of the State - Hon. Asa Iglehart. Captain G. served at the special and regular sessions of 1872-3. Though a new mem- ber, he was placed upon the most important Committees, and bore a most conspicuous part in the legislation of both sessions.
Captain Gooding, though a young man, has arrived at an honorable position in the legal profession. A keen and logical debater ; possessed of a rich and full-toned voice; his reputa- tion at the bar, as an advocate or an orator on the stump, is well established, and betokens an honorable distinction in the future.
Judge William P. Hargrave.
IS the son of Rev. Richard H. Hargrave, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who spent fifty years in the service, thirty of which were in the saddle. The Judge was boru at Crawfordsville, Indiana, June 1st, 1832. His early ed- ucation was acquired in the Seminary at Crawfordsville and the places where his father was stationed, and with such success that, at the age of sixteen, he was engaged in teaching school. He entered Asbury University one year afterward, and gradu- ated in the Class of '54. His aptitude for the classics and gen- eral literary taste are still remembered at that institution, and
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he was always selected by its members as their representative in debates or exercises with the other classes. Upon graduat- ing, he at once began the study of law in Judge DeBruler's office, at Jasper, Indiana.
He was also engaged in teaching school, and during this time performed the feat of mastering the four volumes of Blackstone. He devoted his entire time to the study of his profession, when not teaching - working with great diligence from 4 o'clock to 8 in the morning, and from 7 till 10 at night. In July and August of that year he attended the first Normal Institute ever held in Southern Indiana, and which met at Jeffersonville. He afterwards read law with Hon. Sam Judah, recognized as one of the ablest lawyers at the bar. Judge Hargrave was admitted to practice at Vincennes, at the age of twenty-four years. Here he obtained, in the course of a few years, considerable business, and was very successful in his course He was an inveterate reader, and having access to a large library, he improved his opportunity to drink wisdom at the very fountains of the law.
In April, 1862, he came to Evansville, associated with Judge Iglehart, and began work under the most favorable aus- pices. His labors were, however, interfered with by the war ; when, in the August of that year, he enlisted in the army, with a Captain's commission, in the Ninety-first Indiana, remaining till the close of the war. For three months, during the Fall of '63, he commanded a district in Kentucky ; and was Command- ant of the Post at Cumberland Gap, in the Winter of '63-'64. Till the close of the war he occupied the position of Commis- sary of Musters, to which he was detached while his regiment was on the way to the front.
In the Fall of '65 he returned to his professional duties here. The citizens honored him by electing him to the respon- sible position of Prosecuting Attorney of the Fifteenth Judicial District. Such has been his success in the discharge of his official duties that he served, by the vote of the people, for eight consecu. tive terms in this capacity. . At the organization of the Vander- burgh Criminal Court, he was commissoned as Prosecuting Attor- ney of that Court; and in May, 1872, was appointed its Judge, and is still in the satisfactory discharge of its duties.
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Judge Hargrave's ideal practice of the profession is advo- cacy, in all its departments ; and upon this he has attained his reputation. He is in the enjoyment of good health, notwith- standing his severe mental labors ; his physique shows no bane- ful effects of his sedentary habits. He is very laborious in preparing his evidence, and his briefs are condensed and ar- ranged in an invincible manner. The Judge is recognized as one of the foremost in the legal profession, but is also a court- eous and thorough gentleman, and esteemed by all onr citizens.
James D. Saunders
AS born in the County of Lancashire, England, on the 2d of November, 1820. His father was a Gov- ernment Engineer, and belonging to the Ordnance Department of the service, was employed in the Trigonometrical Survey of Great Britain and Ireland. He was also engaged in the great railroad passing through Manchester, the Bolton Water Works and other important enterprises.
His son, the subject of the present sketch, attended Sand- hurst College, near London. He was articled, for five years, with Mr. Hawkshaw, Chief Engineer of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railroad. In November, 1850, he left Liverpool for America, arriving at New Orleans in January, 1851.
Before coming to America, he was in France, Ireland and Belgium, In the latter country he was Engineer on the Liege and Grand Railway He returned to England and occupied the same position on the Lancashire Railway. It was his inten- tion, after leaving the Lancashire Railway to go to India as an Engineer on the Madras and Bombay Railway.
From New Orleans he went immediately to Louisville, where he was employed on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad as Division Engineer. In '53 he severed his connection with that road. and surveyed the route from Craw-
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fordsville to Terre Haute. He then engaged with H. C. Moore as Engineer of the Evansville, Indianapolis and Cleveland Straight Line. He retained this situation till the company failed. In 1854 Mr. Saunders made Evansville his home ; and immediately after the failure of the last-mentioned road, he was elected City Engineer.
In 1861 he entered the army as Captain of Company D, Forty-second Indiana Volunteers. He remained in the service one year. In 1862 he was elected. for the second time, City Engineer, without opposition. For fifteen years he has acted in this capacity-there being a few years ad interim. He has now in contemplation a map showing the profile of the city's plat. It is to be published in a style surpassing anything hitherto known.
While a resident of England, he married Miss Mary Swee- ney, the daughter of a soldier who served under Wellington. The ceremony was performed at the Cathedral of Manchester. On coming to America, he left his wife in England ; she after- wards joined him at Madison, Indiana.
John H. Beadle.
AMES W. BEADLE, the father of our subject, was born in Jefferson County, Kentucky, in the year 1805. In 1830 he was married to Elizabeth Bright; and in the year 1837 removed to Liberty Township, Parke County, Indiana, when JOHN H. was born, on the 14th of March, 1840.
His early education was such only as could be obtained in the very common schools of a very remote country neighbor- hood. He was, even thus early in life, distinguished for a remarkably active and retentive memory - three perusals of a paragraph being sufficient to fix it in his mind. At the age of ten years he obtained a prize, given by the Methodist Episco- pal Sunday School, of Rockville, for having committed the entire New Testament to memory-the greater portion of which
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he retains at the present time, as perfectly as when he received the reward for committing the same.
At the age of nine years he completed the course of study taught in the common schools at that time, and his father re- moved to Rockville, in the same county, in order to give his children better educational advantages. In three years John H. and his older brother had completed the high-school course, and were ready to enter college. But our subject being at this time of a peculiarly delicate constitution, it was decided that his school-days were at an end. This he did not relish ; as hav- ing great aptitude and love of study, and, on the other hand, having but little inclination or capacity for manual labor, he could but think this decree a perversion of the laws of Nature. Yet, for the next five years he spent the time on his father's farm, near Rockville - it being about equally divided between ordinary farm-labor and driving stock. He also, during this time, attended two short Winter terms of school at the Rock- ville Academy, in which he reviewed his high-school studies ; making, beside, some progress in Greek and Surveying.
In October, 1857, he entered the Freshmen Class of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor. Here he acquired con- siderable distinction in the study of languages-his remarkable memory making it but an easy pastime for him to acquire a language so that he could read, write, and speak it in a shorter space of time than is ordinarily spent on the rudiments.
During the second year his health gave way, and for some time his life was despaired of. After recovering sufficiently to travel, he made a short visit home ; then started on an exten- sive tour through Illinois, Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota-much of the time on foot, and earning his subsistence by such work as he could find to do : such as farm-labor, teaming, selling books, etc. After four months' residence in Minnesota, his heath be- came so much improved that he was able to return to college in 1860, where he remained until the breaking out of the war.
After an extended tour through New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio, he came home, and enlisted as a pri- vate in Company A, of the Thirty-first Indiana Volunteers, and served until after the battle of Fort Donelson, when expos- ure brought on a disease of the lungs, which nearly terminated his life.
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During the next four years he alternately traveled, taught school, and studied law; and in 1866 settled, as he supposed, permanently in Evansville, in the practice of that profession. But his health began to give way, and in 1868 he started for California, attempting a correspondence with the Cincinnati Commercial-as he tells us in the " Undeveloped West "-with " the hope of being able to pay part of his expenses." And during the next Winter the readers of the Commercial were delighted by a series of fresh, spicy and original letters from. Salt Lake City, signed " Beadle," which proved to be the " trial letters " of Mr. Beadle. These letters soon brought him into notoriety, causing him to be classed as one of the first newspa- per correspondents in our country. .
While in Utah he, for one year edited the Salt Lake Re- porter, the only non-Mormon paper in the Territory. He soon made this one of the spiciest sheets in the West, and a contin- ual " thorn in the flesh " to the Mormons.
Since leaving this paper he has traveled continuously in the Western States and Territories, corresponding for the Cin- cinnati Commercial, Western World, and other papers - at the same time gathering facts for his books.
In the early part of the year 1870 he issued his first work, entitled " Life in Utah." This is, perhaps, the best and most complete history of Mormonism yet written. There have been but few books that have sold better than this - Mr. Beadle's first book. Up to the present time, eighty thousand copies have been sold. This work, which reflects great honor on the writer from the clear, impartial statement of the rise, progress, and workings of Mormonism-acquired only by the most hard and patient labor ; and from the forcible and interesting style in which it is written, will deservedly rank it among the reliable histories of our land.
Mr. Beadle in the following year issued a small work, enti- tled " The Confessions of Bill Hickman, the Destroying Angel of the Mormons." This work had, also, quite a circulation.
During the present year "The Undeveloped West," -- the best, as yet of Mr. Beadle's works-has been issued. It con- tains a full-and what is somewhat remarkable for a work on the " great West " - a truthful description of the far Western
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States and Territories. This must deservedly prove a very popular work; as well from the happy style in which it is writ- ten, as from the fund of useful information it contains.
Mr. B.'s style is enlivening rather than finished and often drops to colloquialisms and "Hoosier ' phrases ; and after reading his latest work one feels as if some good-humored friend had dropped in and talked a few hours in the vernacular.
Mr. Beadle has, perhaps, as fine and varied an education as that of any man in our State; which, together with his re- markable memory and more than ordinary happy faculty of of expression, has gained for him, even thus early in life, suc- cess and fame.
On last Christmas Mr. Beadle was married in Evansville, to Miss Jennie Cole - a lady who is peculiarly qualified, not only to gild his life with happiness, but to help and assist him in bis intellectual labors.
Mr. Beadle is, as yet, but a young man, and we shall expect him to add much to the success he has already obtained; and the future to mark him as one of America's best and most widely-known writers.
The Lindenschmidt Brothers.
HARLES and HENRY LINDENSCHMIDT were born in Germany, and at an early day were apprenticed in the locksmithing and blacksmithing business. The motto of " Labor conquers all things," has been fully illustrated in their career. On their arrival in America, in 1849, they went to work at their old trade, visiting several parts of the country till 1855, when they located in Evansville, After engaging with Henry Schreiber, Sr., and Roelker & Co., several months, in the latter part of 1856 they commenced work on their own ac- count as blacksmiths, on First street, between Elm and Pine. Beside their business as smiths, they made safes, worked in stoves, beside doing a general repair business. The energy and 17
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