Greater Indianapolis : the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes, Part 108

Author: Dunn, Jacob Piatt, 1855-1924. cn
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: Chicago : The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 972

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domain of practical educational work and have given him wide prestige in his chosen and most worthy field of endeavor. In 1897 Mr. Heeb established in connection with the University, whose other provisions and func- tions had been greatly amplified with the pass- ing of years, the National Correspondence Schools, which have become one of the largest and most effective institutions of the kind in the world, with a curriculum embracing the arts and sciences. In the year 1897 also Mr. Heeb effected the organization of the Indian- apolis College of Law, of which he is secre- tary. In this institution is offered a curric- ulum which comprises a regular three years' course in two years. Degrees and diplomas are granted, admitting to practice, in the county, state and federal courts.

The merits of the case render consonant the incorporation in this article of the follow- ing pertinent extracts from the attractive catalogue issued by the Indianapolis Business University :

"The history of the Heeb, Bryant & Strat- ton, Indianapolis Business University covers more than half a century of continuous suc- cess and reflects the highest honor upon prac- tical education. The first Indianapolis com- inercial school that contributed to the ultimate formation of the university was founded in 1850, and in 1864 it became a link in the widely known chain of Bryant & Stratton col- leges. The present chief executive was associ- ated with the founder, and in January, 1885, purchased direct from him the Bryant & Stratton and Indianapolis Business Colleges and all the interests, stock and good will of all the various commercial and shorthand schools in Indianapolis, and consolidated these colleges into the Indianapolis Business Uni- versity. On this consolidation of meritorious schools, with extensive courses of study, it ranks in reality as well as in name as the business university. The continuous prosper- ity and wide influence and prestige of the institution are due to its superior course of study and the thoroughness and efficiency of the instruction given by its experienced pro- fessional business educators. The pre-eminent position which it has attained, and the esteem and prestige that are accorded to its superior rank, are the rich fruits of mature experience in high-grade work. Its broad, well chosen systems are skillfully adapted to studies which meet the increasing demand for thor- ough, practical business education. Its suc- cess is due to tactful methods, suited to the varying needs of different classes of students. It gives diligent attention to their interests and success. Ample expenditure of money,

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time and labor, by an enterprising manage- ment, has kept this institution abreast of the times. The Indianapolis Business University occupies a higher and more commanding posi- tion than that of the 'business colleges' scat- tered over the country, or the so-called pri- vate schools or commercial departments. Its work is broader, more thorough and of a higher grade, as is fully attested by its popu- larity, and its command of the confidence and patronage of business men and the intelligent public."

It may well be said that the Indianapolis Business University supplements and crowns the effective system of the public schools and that it is an institution in every way worthy of the "Greater Indianapolis"-the capital of a great commonwealth and an industrial and commercial center of recognized importance.

Mr. Heeb has been a member of the Nat- ional Commercial Teachers' Federation since 1882. and it was largely dne to his efforts that the meeting of this organization was secured to Indianapolis in 1909, at which time he had the distinction of delivering the address of welcome to the association, in which he is a valued and honored factor. He is essentially progressive, loyal and public-spirited as a citizen, and none could take a deeper interest in the encouraging and aiding of young men and women in their efforts to make for them- selves secure places among the productive workers of the world.

In politics Mr. Heeb gives his allegiance to the Republican party; he is identified with the Commercial Club and the Columbia Club; and in a fraternal way he is affiliated with Mystic Tie Lodge No. 398, Free and Accepted Masons; Keystone Chapter No. 6, Royal Arch Masons; and Indianapolis Lodge No. 56, Knights of Pythias.

On the 26th of February. 1891, Mr. Heeb was united in marriage to Mrs. Mary Peery, daughter of Thomas Burns, a representative citizen of Greensburg, Indiana.

GENERAL LEW WALLACE. Not too often can be recorded the life history of one who lived so honorable and useful a life and who attained to such notable distinction as did the late Gen- eral Lew Wallace-lawyer, soldier, diplomat and author. His character was one of signal exaltation and purity of purpose. Well disciplined in mind, maintaining a vantage point from which life presented itself in correct proportions, judicial in his attitude toward both men and measures, guided and guarded by the most inviolable principles of integrity and honor, simple and unostenta- tions in his self-respecting, tolerant individu- ality, such a man could not prove other than

a force for good in whatever relation of life he may have been placed. His character was the positive expression of a strong na- ture and his strength was as the number of his davs. In studying his career interpreta- tion follows fact in a straight line of deriva- tion and there is no need for indirection or puzzle. The record of his life finds a place in the generic history of the State of Indiana and that of the nation and in this compilation it is necessary only to briefly note the salient points in his life history.

General Low Wallace was born in Brook- ville. Franklin County, Indiana, on the 10th of April, 1827, and was second in order of birth of the four sons of David and Esther French (Test) Wallace, the sons in order of birth being, William, Lew, John and Edward. Hon. David Wallace, the father, was a son of Andrew Wallace, who immigrated from Penn- sylvania to Cincinnati, Ohio, when the latter city was a mere village in loose assemblage un- der the guns of a frontier fort. As to the progenitors of Andrew Wallace, but little in- formation of an authentic order can be found. He finally removed from Cincinnati to Brook- ville, Franklin County, Indiana, and was ac- companied hv seven sons and one daughter, David being the eldest son.

In 1821 David Wallace was graduated from the United States Military Academy, at West Point. After being in active service for a period of three years, he resigned from the regular army. He then took up the study of law, was finally admitted to the bar of In- diana and initiated the active practice of his profession at Brookville, this state. He became one of the political giants of Indiana in his dav and a member of a har notable for the brillianey of its personnel. He gained much prominence and distinction in public life, having served as a member of the legislature. twice been elected Lieutenant Governor, and in 1837 elected Governor of the State. He continued in this executive office until 1840 and in the following year he was elected to Congress. He there added to his distinction as a public official and in 1843 popular commenda- tion of his course was manifested by his being chosen as his own successor. He was residing at Covington, Indiana, at the time of his elec- tion to the office. After his retirement from Congress he served as judge of the court of common pleas and his death occurred in 1859, at which time he was sixty years of age.

Governor Wallace was twice married, his first wife being the daughter of Honorable John Test, who was a pioneer of Indiana and whose voice represented his state in Congress. Governor Wallace married for a second wife

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Miss Zerelda G. Sanders. The distinguished subject of this memoir was a child of the first marriage, as already intimated in the context.

General Lew Wallace was self-educated. His carly life was eompassed by those conditions and environments that beget self-reliance and definite ambition. He began the study of law in his youth and when the Mexican War was precipitated tendered his services in behalf of the cause of the United States. In this war he was Second Lieutenant of his company and after his return to the paternal home in Cov- ington, Indiana, resumed the study of law. In 1852 he located at Crawfordsville, this state, where he afterward maintained his home and that attraetive little city has long held unusual prominence by reason of the fact that it was his place of abode. The military career of General Wallace in the Civil War was one of gallantry and his name finds a place of distinc- tion in the records of that great internecine conflict. Later he was appointed Adjutant General of Indiana and soon afterward re- ceived a commission as Colonel of the Eleventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, with whose com- mand he served in West Virginia, and on the 3rd of September, 1861, was commissioned Brigadier General. He was division command- er at Fort Donelson, and on the 21st of March, 1862, was promoted to the office of Major General. He commanded a division at Shiloh ; prepared the defenses of Cincinnati, in 1863, and saved that eity from capture by Gen- eral Edmund Kirby Smith; later he com- manded the Middle Department of the Eighth Army Corps; at Baltimore his command inter- cepted the march of General Jubal A. Early against Washington, D. C. He engaged in the battle of Monocacy on his own responsibility, a forlorn hope which saved the National Capital from capture on the 9th of July, 1864. Gen- eral Wallace was the second member of the court that tried the assassins of President Lin- coln and was president of the court which tried and convicted Henry Wirz, commander of the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia. He was mustered out of the service at the close of the war, duly receiving his honorable dis-

the charge. General Wallace represented secret-service branch of the United States, with the rank of Brigadier General, in the Mexican army. He was territorial Governor of New Mexico in 1878-81, and from 1881 to 1885, inclusive, he was United States Minister to Turkey.

General Wallace is best known to the world in the field of classical literature, and in view of the wide dissemination of his works throughout all civilized lands, it is not neces- sary to offer any words of commendation or

details concerning his works. His first liter- ary production was "The Fair God," which was published in 1873; In 1880 appeared his "Ben Hur, A Tale. of the Christ;" in 1888 was published his "Life of General Benjamin Harrison ;" in the following year appeared his "Boyhood of Christ;" in 1893 was contributed to the literature of the world "The Prince of India ;" in 1898, "The Wooing of Malkatoon," and later, his "Autobiography," in two vol- umes. 'These literary productions won for him exalted fame. The nation has justly honored him by placing his statue in its Hall of Fame, at Washington, D. C. General Wallace died at his home in Crawfordsville, Indiana, on Feb- ruary 15. 1905. He was a staunch supporter of the principles and policies of the Republican party. He was a believer in the divinity of Christ.

In the year 1852 was solemnized the mar- riage of General Wallace to Miss Susan Ar- nold Elston, who was born in Crawfordsville, this state, and who was a woman of gracious presence and high intellectual attainments. She, too, was a writer of marked ability and was summoned to the life eternal on the 1st of October, 1907. One child-Henry L. Wallace -was born to General and Mrs. Wallace.

DR. JAMES H. TAYLOR merits recognition as one of the representative physicians and surgeons of the capital city of his native state, where he has been established in the successful practice of his profession for a pe- riod of nearly a quarter of a century and where he holds unmistakable prestige and popularity as a physician and also as a citizen.

Dr. James Henry Taylor was born at Green- castle, Putnam County, Indiana, on the 15th of November, 1852, and is a son of James and Susan Mahala (Williamson) Taylor, the former a native of Kentneky and the latter of Indiana and both representatives of hon- ored pioneer families of the Hoosier state. Dr. Taylor's great-grandfather, Colonel David Taylor, served with distinction as a patriot soldier in the War of the Revolution, in which he had command of a regiment and held the rank of colonel, and he was an intimate and valued friend of General Washington. Wash- ington Taylor, an uncle of the subject of this review, was for forty years engaged in the practice of medicine in the south and served as surgeon in the Confederate army in the Civil War. In the maternal line Dr. Taylor is a grandson of Tucker Woodson Williamson and ---- (Martin) Williamson, the latter of whom was a granddaughter of one of the Earls of Warwick, England, the first of this historic earldom having been known as the

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"kingmaker", and having been one of the most powerful figures of the English nobility in his day and generation.

James Taylor, father of Dr. Taylor, was born in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on the 14th of January, 1822, and when he was ninc years of age he came with his parents to In- diana. The family settled in Washington County, where he was reared to maturity un- der the strenuous discipline of the pioneer farm, and as a young man he learned. the carpenter's trade, in the work of which he established himself at Salem, this state, when twenty-one years of age. Later he became manager of a dry-goods store at Bryantsville, Lawrence County, where he met and married Miss Susan Mahala Williamson, their union having been solemnized on the 20th of De- cember, 1849. In 1851 they removed to Greencastle, Indiana, where Mr. Taylor en- gaged in the dry-goods business, in which he continued until 1885, having built up a pros- perous enterprise and having gained a secure hold upon popular confidence and esteem. He was long known as one of the representa- tive business men and influential citizens of Greencastle and after his retirement from business, in the year noted, he there continued to maintain his home until his death. Mr. Taylor and his wife were zealous and devoted members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and contributed with much liberality to the promotion of religious and educational causes, particularly to the support of Asbury Uni- versity, now known as DePauw University, at Greencastle.

Dr. James H. Taylor was afforded the ad- vantages of the public schools of his native city, where he completed the curriculum of the high school and also received instruction under able private tutors, after which he was a student for one year in the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware. He then entered DePauw University, in which he was gradu- ated and from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1881, his alma mater conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts. Dr. Taylor initiated the study of med- icine under the preceptorship of Drs. Ellis and Smith, of Greencastle, and in 1878 he was graduated in the Medical College of In- diana, 'in Indianapolis, receiving from this well ordered institution his degree of Doctor of Medicine. He forthwith engaged in the practice of his profession in the capital city, where he gained recognition as an able and discriminating physician and surgeon and where he has long controlled a large and representative professional business. In 1889 he became assistant demonstrator of anatomy

in the Medical College of Indiana, and later was promoted to the position of chief dem- onstrator. He was elected to the chair of diseases of children and medical clinics in this institution, and he held this professorship for several years, within which he established a high reputation as an able educator in his technical field.

Dr. Taylor is actively identified with the Indianapolis Medical Society, the Indiana State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He has attained to the thirty-second degree of Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Masonry, and both he and his wife hold membership in the First Presby- terian Church.

On the 13th of September, 1880, was sol- emnized the marriage of Dr. Taylor to Miss Lelia E. Kern, youngest daughter of the late David G. Kern, who was for many years en- gaged in the drug business in Indianapolis. Dr. and Mrs. Taylor have two children- Margaret Ann and John Moore.

AMBROSE P. STANTON. As one of the vet- eran members of the bar of the capital city of Indiana, where he has long been engaged in the successful practice of his profession, and as a citizen who has ever held the in- violable confidence and esteem of those with whom he has come in contact in the various relations of life, there is all of consistency in according in this volume recognition to Am- brose P. Stanton, the able lawyer and sterling gentleman whose name initiates this para- graph.

Mr. Stanton is a native son of Indiana and a scion of one of its honored pioneer families. He was born on the home farm in Fayette County, Indiana, on the 15th of February, 1834, and is a son of Daniel and Mary (Brat- tain) Stanton. His father was a native of Virginia, where the family was founded in an early day, and as a young man he followed the trade of blacksmith, to which he severed his allegiance to give his attention to the great basic industry of agriculture, in con- nection with which he gained independence and definite prosperity, besides which he con- ducted for a number of years a general store. When the subject of this review was four years of age his parents removed from Fay- ette County to Liberty, Union County, In- diana, where they passed the residue of their long and useful lives and where Ambrose P. was reared to years of maturity.

In the village schools of Liberty, Union County, Ambrose P. Stanton secured his pre- liminary educational discipline, after which he continued his studies in Beach Grove Sem- inary, Indiana, and in Farmer's College, at

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College Hill, Ohio, in which institution he was graduated in June, 1852. After leaving pollege he gave his attention to teaching in the country schools for a time and then be- came a successful and popular teacher in the public schools of Richmond, Indiana, where he continued his pedagogic labors for years. He then went to Dayton, Ohio, where he be- gan reading law under effective preceptor- ship, and in 1856 he was admitted to the Ohio bar, upon examination before the Supreme Court, in the City of Columbus. His initial work in his chosen profession was accom- plished in the City of St. Louis, Missouri, where he took up his residence in 1857. In 1861 he returned to Richmond, Indiana, where he was located at the inception of the Civil War and where he continued in practice until the autumn of 1864, when he came to Indianapolis, where he has maintained his home during the long intervening period and where he has gained distinctive prestige in the profession for which he had so carefully pre- pared himself and for which he had a natural predilection. In addition to continuing in general practice as an attorney and coun- selor he has also been engaged in the real estate business for several years past. Mr. Stanton has served as a member of the City Council, and he was elected to represent Mar- ion County in the State Legislature, in which he had the distinction of being chosen speaker of the house for the session of the general as- sembly in 1869. He has also given efficient service as a member of the board of educa- tion and has otherwise given evidence of his loyalty and public spirit as a citizen. It was at his suggestion to one of his honored clients, the late Mr. Herron, that the latter endowed the Herron Art Institute, one of the valued public institutions of the capital city of In- diana. In politics Mr. Stanton has ever been arrayed as a stalwart supporter of the prin- ciples and policies for which the Republican party stands sponsor and his aid and in- fluence have been potent in advancing its cause. He is identified with a number of civic and fraternal organizations in his home city.

In May, 1860, Mr. Stanton was united in marriage to Miss Annie E. Nye, of Richmond, Indiana, and she was summoned to the life eternal in 1895, being survived by three children, concerning whom the following brief data are entered : Cora S., who is the wife of Charles T. Brown; Howard M., who is asseci- ated with his father in practice as a member of the law firm of Stanton & Stanton; and Miss Anna N., who remains at the paternal home. Mr. Stanton married Mrs. Mary H. (Vinton) Ruddell, of Indianapolis.

PARKER BROWN. The deserved reward of a well spent life is an honored retirement from business, and now, after a useful and beneficent career, Parker Brown is quietly living at his pleasant home in Broad Ripple, surrounded by the comforts that earnest labor have brought him. He was born in Clinton County, Ohio, near the City of Wilmington, November 19, 1844, a son of James and Sarah H. (Schinlier) Brown, born respectively in Kentucky and in Ohio, and both now de- ceased. Of their large family of fifteen chil- dren, the four now living are: Matilda, Parker, Mary E. and David. Mrs. Brown died when her son Parker was thirteen years of age, and the father married for his second wife Catherine Murphy. He was a farmer in Clinton County for many years, and in pol- itics was a Democrat.

Parker Brown received his educational training in the schools of Huntington County, Indiana, and he became a resident of Marion County when a boy of ten. At the age of twenty he enlisted for service in the Civil War, joining Company C, One Hundred and Fifty-third Indiana Regiment of Volunteers, on the 29th of January, 1865, and on-the 4th of September of the same year he was honor- ably discharged, for the war had ended. Re- turning home he began farming nine miles northwest of Indianapolis, remaining on his tract of forty acres there for twenty-four years, and in that time he saved five thousand dollars. On the 14th of November, 1900, he came to Broad Ripple, laying aside the active cares of a business life to spend the evening of his career in rest and quiet. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, Zionsville Boone Post No. 202, of the Pro- hibition party and of the Christian Church.

Mr. Brown married Mary Jane Hollings- worth April 19, 1869. She was born in Ma- rion County, Indiana, a daughter of William D. and Elizabeth (Pugh) Hollingsworth, the father born in Randolph County, this state, and the mother in Marion County, on the present Canada Holmes farm. Both have passed away, and two of their seven children are also deceased. Mr. Hollingsworth was a Marion County farmer for many years, a Re- publican in his political affiliations and a faithful member of the Christian Church.

HARRY A. JACOBS, M. D. One of the repre- sentative physicians and surgeons of the younger generation in his native city, Dr. Harry A. Jacobs is engaged in the success- ful practice of his profession in Indianapolis, where he is held in high esteem by his profes- sional confreres and enjoys unequivocal pop- ularity in a generic sense, being well known

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in the city that has represented his home from the time of his nativity.

Dr. Jacobs was born in Indianapolis, on the 21st of March, 1880, and is the only child of Abraham and Sarah (Simon) Jacobs, the for- mer of whom was born in Poland, in 1854, and the latter in London, England, in 1860; their marriage was solemnized in the City of St. Louis, Missouri., Abraham Jacobs, who died in Indianapolis in 1907, at the age of fifty-three years, was for many years a suc- cessful merchant of this city, where he ever commanded unqualified popular confidence and esteem. He was one of the organizers of one of the leading Jewish churches of the Indiana capital and continued a zealous mem- ber of the same until his death. He was identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows for thirty years, and it is worthy of note that he was a charter member of seven different fraternal organizations in Indianap- olis. One of these, Abraham Jacobs Lodge, Progressive Order of the West, was named in his honor. He was also one of the organizers and the first president of the Sheltering House, a home for itinerant immigrants, and his broad sympathies and high sense of stew- ardship were shown in his generous contribu- tions to charitable and benevolent objects and enterprises. He was a man of strong men- tality and sterling attributes of character, and he long held a place of honor as an able and reliable business man and loyal and pro- gressive citizen of the Indiana capital and metropolis. Though never a seeker of public office, he gave a stanch allegiance to the Re- publican party and showed a lively interest in the questions and issues of the hour. His widow was summoned to eternal rest on the 23rd of August, 1909, and her memory is revered by those who came within the sphere of her gentle and gracious influence.

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Greater Indianapolis : the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes, Part 108

Author: Dunn, Jacob Piatt, 1855-1924. cn Publication date: 1910 Publisher: Chicago : The Lewis Publishing Company Number of Pages: 972

Author: Dunn, Jacob Piatt, 1855-1924. cn
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: Chicago : The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 972