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August M. Kuhn was signally favored in having been reared in a home of culture and refinement, and much of his early study was carried on under the direction of his able and honored father, under whose guidance and encouragement the boy made rapid prog- ress, having completed the curriculum of the gymnasium or high school by the time he had attained to the age of fourteen years. From that time forward he depended largely upon his own resources, having. early gained valu- able experience in connection with the prac- tical affairs of life and having shown a nat- ural predilection for business. In 1865, at the age of nineteen years, Mr. Kuhn sev- ered the gracious ties that bound him to home and fatherland and set forth for the United States, where he believed there were offered better opportunities for the gaining of suc- cess and independence through individual ef- fort. He remained in New York City about six months after his arrival in America, in the meanwhile making a judicious survey of the situation and formulating definite plans. He arrived in Indianapolis in 1866, and neither the city nor himself has lost by the close association that he has since maintained with local business interests. For nine years Mr. Kuhn conducted a millinery business and he then made a diametrical change in turn- ing his attention to the more prosaic line of enterprise implied in the handling of coal
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and building materials. With this business he still continues to be identified, and his con- cern is now one of the most important of its kind in the city, although it represents only a minor part of his productive business ac- tivities. He is one of the interested princi- pals in the wholesale grocery house of Brink- meyer, Kuhn & Company; is vice-president of the Citizens' Loan & Deposit Company ; is a member of the directorate of the Capitol National Bank, and is also a director of each the Inter-state Life Assurance Company, and the Columbus, Greensburg & Richmond Trac- tion Company. He also has other large and important capitalistic interests of local order, and in these associations he contributes to the support of enterprises and industries that have marked influence in furthering the com- mercial and civic prosperity of his home city.
In politics Mr. Kuhn has ever given an un- wavering allegiance to the cause of the Demo- cratic party, and has manifested a lively in- terest in the questions and issues of the hour, the while he has given a loyal support to the cause of his party, both in a local and general way. He has served as city commis- sioner, school commissioner and collector of internal revenue, and his record in these of- fices is one that stands in exemplification of the same sterling integrity and mature judg- ment that have characterized his career as a business man. He had but little financial re- inforcement when he took up his residence in Indianapolis, and here it has been given him to gain, through his own efforts, ad- vancement to the status of a representative business man and substantial and influential citizen. He has attained to a high degree in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Mason- ry, is identified with the adjunct organiza- tion, the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; and is affiliated with the Indianapolis lodge of the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks. He is a member of a number of representative civic organiza- tions, including the German House and other German organizations. He has been special- ly active in the Indianapolis Maennerchor, in which connection he was president of the lo- cal festival board of the thirty-second saenger- fest of the North American Singers' Union, held in Indianapolis in June, 1908, the fes- tival being not only one of the most suc- cessful in the history of the organization but also constituting one of the most important and interesting musical affairs in the annals of the Hoosier capital. Both Mr. Kuhn and his wife are zealous and valued members of the Lutheran Church, to whose support they contribute with much interest and liberality.
The family home, at 602 North Capitol ave- nue, is one of the magnificent residences of the city and is recognized as a center of gracious and generous hospitality.
On the 21st of June, 1871, Mr. Kuhn was united in marriage to Miss Emma Ruschaupt, who is a daughter of Frederick and Kath- erine (Bonn) Ruschaupt. To Mr. and Mrs. Kuhn have been born three children, con- cerning whom the following brief record is given in conclusion of this sketch: Cora is the wife of George Goepper, and they have one daughter, Dorothy; Edna, the wife of Dr. Paul F. Martin, a successful physician and surgeon of Indianapolis; and George.
LUCIAN BARBOUR. For more than a third of a century Lucian Barbour was one of the strong men of the Indianapolis bar. He was not showy, but was a sound lawyer-usually the "office lawyer" of his firm, and the work- ing member in everything he went into. He was born at Canton, Connecticut, March 4, 1811. He worked his way through college by teaching, and graduated at Amherst in 1837. He then removed to Madison, Indiana, where he read law with Stephen C. Stephens, one of the judges of the Supreme Court, and in 1839 located permanently at Indianapolis. Here he formed a partnership with Judge Wm. W. Wicks, which continued for a num- her of years. During it Mr. Barbour wrote the volume on the powers and duties of justices of the peace known as Wick & Bar- bour's Treatise-Judge Wick contributing the weight of his name. This is said to have been the first legal treatise published in In- diana. Mr. Barbour subsequently had as partners Albert G. Porter, John D. Howland, Chas. P. Jacobs, Charles W. Smith and James Laird.
Mr. Barbour was originally a Democrat, and as such was appointed United States Dis- trict Attorney for this district by President Polk, in 1848; which office he filled accepta- bly until the close of Polk's term. In 1852 he was chosen by the legislature one of three commissioners to prepare the Civil and Crim- inal Codes of practice provided for by the Constitution of 1851. The president of the Commission. George Carr, was not a lawyer, and most of the work was done by Mr. Bar- bour. These codes, modeled on the New York reform code, abolished the old common law pleading, and established the simpler forms now in use.
When the Democratic party became ag- gressive on the slavery question, and under- took to modify the Missouri Compromise, Mr. Barbour was one of many who left it; and in 1854 was made the candidate of the new-
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ly-born Republican party for Congress in the Indianapolis district. The campaign was a warm one, there being more stress put on the "Knownothing" issue than on the slavery is- sue, and Mr. Barbour had a strong opponent in Thomas A. Hendricks, but Indiana swung over to the "Fusionists", as the new party was then called, and Mr. Barbour became the first Republican congressman from the In- dianapolis district.
After his term in Congress, Mr. Barbour devoted himself strictly to law business; and his life was very quiet, as his health was impaired, and he no doubt prolonged his life several years by the care he gave to himself. He died at. Indianapolis, July 19, 1880, wide- ly regretted, and warmly eulogized by the press and the bar for his conscientious, cour- ageous life. In the course of Mr. Barbour's practice a number of lawyers of the later generation read law in his office, among them A. C. Harris, E. B. Martindale and Charles W. Smith, all of whom agree that, in addi- tion to his high personal qualities, Mr. Bar- bour was one of the most deeply versed in the principles of the law of all the attorneys that have ever practiced here.
JACOB BUENNEGAL is one of the well known and highly esteemed citizens of Indianapolis, which has been his home since his childhood days. He has long been identified in a promi- nent way with business and civic affairs in the capital city and the high regard in which he is held has been attested by his service in various offices of public trust and responsibil- ity, including that of representative of Mar- ion County in the legislature of his native state. He now conducts a prosperous real estate and fire insurance business, with well equipped offices in the Law building.
Mr. Buennegal was born at Gosport, Mon- roe County, Indiana, on the 6th of June, 1858, and is a posthumous child, as his fa- ther died six months before the time of his birth. He is thus the youngest of the chil- dren born to John W. and Mary O. (Itten- bach) Buennegal, both of whom were born and reared at Koenigswinte, on the Rhine, Germany, where their marriage was solem- nized and where. all of their children were born with the exception of the subject of this review. The children numbered five sons and two daughters, the latter of whom are both deceased. The eldest son, Fred, is deceased and the four living in order of birth are here indicated : Charles, Frank, Joseph and Ja- cob.
John W. Buennegal immigrated with his family to America in 1857, landing in New York City, where he died the same day, leav-
ing his widow and their children as stran- gers in a strange land. Upon the devoted mother thus devolved the responsibility of keeping watch and ward over her children, and she bravely upheld the burden thus im- posed until her sons were able to relieve her through their individual efforts as honest and honorable members of the gallant army of the world's workers. The father was an architect by profession and he left his fam- ily in comparatively comfortable financial cir- cumstances. The mother was summoned to the life eternal in 1882, at the age of sixty- five years, and of her it may well be said that "her children rise up and call her blessed". She was a devout communicant of the Cath- olic Church. as was also her husband.
In the early '60s Mrs. Buennegal came with her family to Indianapolis, where she passed the residue of her life, and in this city the subject of this sketch was reared to manhood. He was afforded the advantages of the Cath- olic parochial schools, after which he further fortified himself for the active duties and re- sponsibilities of life by the completion of a course in Koerner's Business College, which was located in the old Glenn block, on the site of the present New York store. At the age of sixteen years Mr. Buennegal secured employment in the establishment of the H. Herman Furniture Manufacturing Company, where he served a thorough apprenticeship and became an expert in the manufacturing of furniture. He remained in the employ of this one concern for a period of nineteen years, and this fact stands indicative both of his fidelity and his ability. When but twenty-four years of age he was given the post of superintendent of the factory, and he held this position until he resigned to initiate his independent business career. In 1899 he effected the organization of the Indianap- olis Parlor Furniture Manufacturing Com- pany, and engaged in the manufacturing of upholstered furniture. In 1896 the business was closed out, and on the 1st of February of the following year Mr. Buennegal became bookkeeper for the comptroller's office under the regime of Mayor Thomas Taggart, re- taining this incumbency four years and also holding the position of deputy auditor of the board of school commissioners. In 1901 he engaged in the real estate and fire insur- ance business, in which he continued until 1903, when he withdrew from the same and became deputy city comptroller, under Jacob P. Dunn. He held this office until 1906, when he resumed the real estate and fire insurance business, with which he has since been suc- cessfully identified and in connection with
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which he has built up a substantial and rep- resentative enterprise. Mr. Buennegal for the last thirty years has been secretary in different savings and loan associations and at present is secretary of the Indiana Sav- ings and Loan Association No. 4, the Madison Avenue Savings and Loan Association No. 8 and the Occidental Savings and Loan Asso- ciation.
Mr. Buennegal has ever given an unswerv- ing allegiance to the Democratic party, and he has rendered effective service in its local ranks. In the election of 1908 he scored a decisive victory at the polls when he was chosen to represent Marion County in the lower house of the state legislature, and he has proved a valuable working member of the same, holding assignment on various impor- tant committees and doing all in his power to conserve wise and effective legislation. He and his wife are communicants of St. Mary's Catholic Church, of whose board of trustees he is a member, and they are both active in the various departments of parochial work.
On the 6th of September, 1882, was solem- nized the marriage of Mr. Buennegal to Miss Magdalene M. Keen, who was born in Zanes- ville, Ohio, on the 2nd of September, 1858, and who is a daughter of Lawrence and Eliz- abeth Keen, both of whom were born and reared in Germany. Her father came to America when a young man and his mar- riage was solemnized in the City of Baltimore. He and his wife came to Indianapolis in the early '60s and here passed the residue of their lives, honored by all who knew them. Both were communicants of the Catholic Church and in politics he was a stanch Democrat. He was a shoemaker by trade and followed this vocation during the major portion of his active career. Of the nine children in the family Mrs. Buennegal was the sixth in or- der of birth, and of the number two sons and six daughters are now living. Mr. and Mrs. Buennegal became the parents of five children, namely: Lawrence A., Elizabeth, Edna, Helen, and Stella, and all are living except the last'mentioned, who died at the age of six years.
DR. HUGO OTTO PAUTZER is an Indiana physician and surgeon of high standing, long practice and thorough European training. He is a native of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, born. June 9, 1858, and is the eldest child of Ger- man parents. For two years he attended the Lutheran and the public schools of his native city, and at the age of fifteen entered the government draughting office at Rock Island, Illinois, and later was employed as a ma- chine hand on a Mississippi River sounding
boat. Through his savings from this employ- ment he was able to take a course at the Bryant and Stratton Business College at Dav- enport, Iowa, from which he graduated in 1874. Afterward he refused promising mer- cantile positions, because he wished to further his literary education, and, with that pur- pose, attended three courses at the German- English Academy of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The youth then accepted a position as book- keeper, devoting his evenings largely to gym- nastics. He became so much interested in this practice, both as a science and a means of physical development, that he became a pupil in the Gymnastic Teachers' Seminary of the North American Turnerbund (German sys- tem) at Milwaukee. At his graduation, after a twelve-months' course, he taught gymnas- tics for five years and, at the same time, studied medicine. During this period he was a teacher in the employ of the turnvereins of Sheboygan and Plymouth, Wisconsin, and Indianapolis, Indiana, as well as a private tutor in the family of a mining superinten- dent in southwestern Utah.
At Indianapolis Dr. Pautzer studied medi- cine under Drs. William B. Fletcher and E. F. Hodges and attended the Indiana Medical College, from which he graduated in 1881. Through a competitive examination he then held a position in the City Dispensary for a year, and in the spring of 1892 engaged in obstetrical and gynecological practice, having in the modern conduct of these specialties es- tablished a sanitarium of the most complete and advanced type. Fully three and a half years of this period have been spent abroad at world-famed universities and under mas- ters of surgery and clinical medicine. Alto- ยท gether he has made three trips, studying in the universities and clinics of Germany, Vien- na, London and Paris, his travels extending into Hungary, Switzerland and Italy. Two of his courses at Munich were spent as as- sistant at the Surgical Clinical Institute of Professor von Nussbaum. He also attended the bacteriological course at Koch's Institute, Berlin; was practicant at the obstetrical wards of the Allgemeine Krankenhaus at Vienna, and completed many other courses in medical and surgical specialties under Euro- pean teachers of renown. His last visit was devoted solely to surgery and gynecology. Dr. Pautzer is a member of the Marion Coun- ty and Indiana State Medical societies, In- dianapolis Surgical Society (ex-president), American Medical Association and Interna- tional Medical Congress. Besides being wide- ly known in his specialties as a practitioner, he has a substantial reputation as a writer
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on the subjects of which he has made so pro- found a study. He is a Mason of the thirty- second degree, Scottish Rite and Shriner. His marriage in 1891 was to Miss Emmy Schmidt, a native of Westphalia, Germany.
CARLETON B. McCULLOCH, M. D. Among the most popular of the younger members of the medical profession in Indianapolis is Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, son of Rev. Oscar C. McCulloch, of whom more extended notice will be found in the account of Plymouth Congregational Church in the first volume of this work. Carleton was born at Sheboy- gan, Wisconsin, June 30, 1871, and came with the family to Indianapolis in 1878. Here he entered the public schools, and graduated from the high school in 1889. He as first contemplated civil engineering as a profes- sion, but after a year at Rose Polytechnic changed his mind, and decided on medicine. After four years of close study he graduated from the Chicago Homeopathic Medical Col- lege in 1895, and entered the practice at In- dianapolis, in which he has been very success- ful from the start. In 1900 he was united in marriage to Miss Reeda Kerfoot. Dr. Mc- Culloch pins his faith to the Democratic party and the Congregational Church. He is a facile writer, and the publishers and author of "Greater Indianapolis" are under obliga- tions to him for valuable contribution to the chapter on "The Medical Profession". Like his father, he is broadly liberal in his thought on all subjects, recognizing and accepting good wherever it is found, professionally as well as in other matters.
JAMES A. COLLINS. In the election of James A. Collins to the bench of the police court of Indianapolis, in November, 1909, was given a fitting recognition of the ability and civic loyalty of this well known and popular member of the bar of the capital city, where he has long been engaged in the practice of his profession. Judge Collins has taken special interest in the cases appearing in the police court, where he served from 1898 until 1902, and he has been unflagging in his advocacy of a probation system in connection with the af- fairs of the municipal tribunal. A student of practical sociology in its various aspects, im- hued with a deep sympathy for those in dis- tress and affliction and understanding well the causes of many of the minor malfactions, he has realized that justice should be tempered with mercy in the treatment of many of the unfortunate persons who are brought into the police court and whose incarceration works, in many cases, sad havoc in homes thereby neg- lected. Particularly has he shown his solicitude in regard to juvenile offenders, whose redemp-
tion to worthy and useful lives is often possible, and it is to be hoped that he may find ample scope for the institution of his desired reforms now that he has been called to the bench.
Judge Collins is a native of the old Bay state, having been born at Arlington, Massa- chusetts, on the 12th of October, 1870, and he is a son of Joseph and Jane Elliott (LaVelle) Collins, the former of whom was born in Eng- land and the latter in Ireland. Judge Collins secured his early educational discipline in the public schools of his native state, having been graduated in the Washington grammar school at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1886, after which he continued his studies for one year in Columbia Latin School, in view to preparing for college. The death of his father, however, compelled him to seek employment and provide for his own maintenance. He was identified with business interests in the city of Boston for some time and then went to Springfield, Massachusetts, where he became assistant sec- retary of the local Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation. Later he held the position of secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association at Mattawan, New York, and thereafter was iden- tified with association work in the city of New York. He finally began reading law under effective preceptorship, having come to In- dianapolis in 1895 and having here entered the law offices of the firm of Griffith & Potts. He was admitted to the bar of the state in De- cember. 1895, and later he further fortified himself for the work of his profession by com- pleting a course in the Indiana Law School, of this city, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1904 and from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws.
He then entered into partnership under the firm name of Averill & Collins, and they con- tinued to be actively and successfully asso- ciated in the practice of law until the election of Judge Collins to the bench. The judge is secretary of the Indianapolis Bar Association and is held in unequivocal esteem by his pro- fessional confreres. He was the originator of the idea of establishing a separate court for the trial of juvenile offenders in Marion coun- tv, and this court has been in existence and done effective work since 1903. In politics he is a stanch adherent of the Republican party, he is identified with the Masonic fraternity, being affiliated with the Ancient Accepted Scot- tish Rite, besides holding membership in the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and both he and his wife arc communieants of St. Paul's church, Protestant Episcopal. In 1895 was solemnized the mar- riage of Judge Collins to Miss Lillian F. Knapp.
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MICHAEL H. REARDON has long been iden- tified with the breeding and training of horses of the highest grade and he is known as an authority in this interesting line of en- terprise and as one of the leaders in legiti- mate turf affairs in the United States. He has bred and owned many fine horses in the trotting class, and his success in his chosen field of endeavor, in which he is a distinct enthusiast as well as essentially practical, is indicated when it is stated that in 1909 he sold a standard-bred horse for fifty thousand dollars. He has maintained his residence in Indianapolis for years and is one of the city's well known and popular citizens.
Michael Henry Reardon was born in the town of East Jaffrey, New Hampshire, on the 9th of February, 1861, and is a son of Mich- ael Henry Reardon and Ellen (Shehan) Reardon, the former of whom was born in Limerick, Ireland, and the latter in the City of. Dublin. The father died at the age of sixty-four years and his widow still retains her residence in New Hampshire, where their marriage was solemnized, in the little City of Manchester. They became the parents of four children, and of the two now living the subject of this review is the younger; his sister, Jennie, is the wife of Edward Dillon, who is engaged in the livery business at East Jaffrey, New Hampshire. Michael H. Rear- don, Sr., was reared and educated in his na- tive land, whence he emigrated to the United States when a young man. He made the voyage on a sailing vessel and three weeks were consumed in crossing the Atlantic. He landed in the port of New York City and from that place finally removed to New Hampshire, where he became a successful farmer. He was a man of sterling charac- ter and ever held the high regard of the com- munity in which he so long made his home. He continued to reside on his farm until his death. He was a stanch Democrat in poli- tics and was a consistent communicant of the Catholic Church, as is also his venerable widow.
The subject of this review was reared on the home farm and early began to assist in its work. To the public schools of his na- tive county he is indebted for his early edu- cational training, and as a boy he manifested a great fondness for horses, in which noble animals his interest has never abated. When sixteen years of age he engaged in the serv- ice of C. E. Ware, of West Rindge, New Hampshire, to care for that gentleman's fine stock of horses, and eventually he was given charge of Mr. Ware's well equipped breed- ing farm, where was kept an average of morc
than two hundred head of horses. He con- tinued to be superintendent of this farm about six years and then removed to Brook- lyn, New York, where he had the general management of extensive sales stables for the ensuing five years. He then engaged in the same line of enterprise on his own responsibil- ity, and he became a successful buyer of horses in Indiana and Illinois and through- out other sections in the west. He built up an extensive and profitable business, in con- nection with which he exported many horses to England, and he continued his residence in Brooklyn until 1900, when he disposed of his interests there and removed to Indianap- olis, where he is now prominently engaged in the same line of business, being president of the Black-Quade Horse Company and having well equipped sales stables at the Union stock yards in this city. From time to time Mr. Reardon has been the owner of many fine thoroughbred and standard bred horses that have won distinctive honors on the turf, and among these may be mentioned "Alan Win- ter", "Locas Jack", "May Allen", and "John Taylor".
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