Greater Indianapolis : the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes, Part 21

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

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Mr. Deschler is one of the stockholders of the Indiana Hotel Company and is also one of the seven members of the directorate of this corporation. which erected and which also owns and manages the magnificent Clay- pool Hotel, the finest in the State of Indiana and one of the best in the middle west. Mr. Deschler has other capitalistie and business interests in his native eity, is essentially pro- gressive and enterprising, and as a eitizen has the highest civic ideals and loyalty. His po- litical support is given to the Republican party, though he has never cared to enter the arena of practical politics, and he is a eom- municant of the Catholic Church, in whose faith he was reared. He is a member of the Marion, Columbia, Commercial and Country Clubs, all representative organizations of the capital city, and of the Board of Trade, and also holds membership in the German House, the Indianapolis Maennerchor, the Deutscher Klub und Musikverein. and other leading German societies. He is well known in the eity and state, and his eircle of friends is limited only by that of his acquaintances.

DR. JOHN B. LONG. Indianapolis is the Vol. II-7

home of many prominent members of the medieal profession, and numbered among this coterie is Dr. John B. Long, a successful prac- titioner here for many years. He was born in Marion County, Indiana, near the city of Clermont, but received his early educational training in the public schools of Marion County, this state, and in Butler College. His medieal studies were pursued first under the instructions of Dr. Joseph Eastman in Indianapolis, and following his graduation in medicine in 1882 he began the practice of his chosen profession in Indianapolis, where he has won a reputation as a skilled physi- eian. His offices are at 760 W. New York street. Dr. Long served as professor and demonstrator of anatomy for fifteen years in the Central College of Physicians and Sur- geons, and as professor of obstetries in the same institution for three years. He is a post graduate of the New York Medical Col- lege, served one year as a member of the Indianapolis Board of Health during the ad- ministration of Mayor Denny, and is a mem- ber of the Marion County Medical Society, the State Medieal Society, the American Med- ical Association, Aneient Landmarks Lodge No. 319, F. & A. M .; Indiana Consistory, S. P. R. S .; Murat Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., and since 1882 has been a member of the Central Christian Church. His politics are Republican.

Dr. Long is a son of William P. Long, who was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, Decem- ber 10, 1825. He came to Rush County, In- diana, with his parents, Daniel and Rachel (Sparks) Long, in 1832, where they located on a farm. On the 13th of March, 1848, William P. Long came to Pike Township, Marion County, where he lived in a little log cabin until 1854, in that year building and moving into the home in which his son John was born on the following 20th of Au- gust. He continued to farm his land there until 1907, when he retired from active pur- suits, and although he yet elaims his residenee at this old homestead the greater part of his time is spent with his son in Indianapolis. He has held many of the township offices, and he has been a Republican since the organiza- tion of that party. During fifty years or more he has been a member of the Christian Church at Clermont, one of its elders and devoted workers. In Rush County, Indiana, February 24, 1848, William P. Long was married to Sarah Reeve, born in Fleming County, Kentucky, October 22, 1827, and she is now deceased. This union was blessed by the birth of seven children, but three of the number died young, and the four now living

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are: Elizabeth, the wife of Dr. H. F. Har- naday; John B .; Benjamin F., who is mar- ried and living in Indianapolis, and Mary, the wife of Franklin Johnson.

Dr. John B. Long on the 20th of August, 1878, was married to Margaret L. Hunt, born in Rush County, Indiana, May 14, 1854, a daughter of Abijah W. and Margaret (Ste- phen) Hunt, the father dying in 1892, when eighty-three years of age, and the mother in 1873. They reared a large family of children, the daughter Margaret having been the thir- teenth born. Mr. Hunt was a farmer in Rush County. The four children which have been born to Dr. and Mrs. Long are: Lulu E., the wife of Frederick J. Niedhamer, living in In- dianapolis; William Hunt, a graduate of But- ler College and the Indiana Medical College with the class of 1908, and now practicing in this city; Frank E., a graduate of the Phila- delphia Dental College with the class of 1907 and now in practice in this city, and married to Eda Steeg; and Mabel C., a graduate of Butler College. Dr. Long has given to his children splendid educational advantages, and he may well be proud of the high station which they now occupy in life.

FRANCIS PATRICK BAILEY. Indianapolis has been the home of Francis Patrick Bailey since he was fourteen years of age, so that the com- munity has had a fair opportunity of estimat- ing his strength and uprightness of character; with the result that nothing but good has ever been said regarding him. His ability as a busi- ness man has been especially prominent in the field as a furniture manufacturer, and for more than thirty years he has been one of the leading forces in the development of the L. W. Ott Manufacturing Company, of which he is now the vice-president. Mr. Bailey is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was born March 11, 1857. to Michael and Marcella (Dailey) Bailey. His parents were both natives of Ire- land, and the father was born at No. 2 Duke street, Dublin, which is one of the picturesque, interesting and historical spots of that city. The old Bailey house located there is one of the most famous hostelries of that city and is still maintained in first class style. Mr. Bailey's parents were married in this section of Dublin. and came to the United States soon afterwards. They first located in Boston, where they remained about three years, whence they removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, which, as stated. was the birthplace of Francis Patrick. In 1871 the parents located in Indianapolis, where they passed the remainder of their days at 2026 Capitol avenne, north.

Francis Patrick Bailey was in his fourteenth year when his parents came to Indianapolis,

and that city has since been his home. At the time of their arrival business men were agitated by a great real estate boom, and young Bailey became a part of it by entering the em- ploy of a leading house engaged in that line. He remained with this concern for a number of years, and then engaged in the furniture business, his identification with which has con- tinued until the present time. At the outset of his career he accepted a minor position with the L. W. Ott Manufacturing Company, a house which had been established by John Ott in 1850 who was one of the pioneers in the manufacture of furniture in Indianapolis. The founder was succeeded by his son Lewis W. Ott, who in turn died in 1885. At this time the business was incorporated under the firm style of The L. W. Ott Manufacturing Company, of which W. F. Kuhn became president and is still the incumbent of that office. Of late ycars the company has been giving especial at- tention to the manufacture of leather and up- holstered goods, and has earned such a high reputation in this line that its output is now shipped to all parts of the world. At various world's fairs and other minor exhibits the L. W. Ott Manufacturing Company has been awarded first class medals both for the sub- stantial make of its furniture and for its ar- tistic qualities. It is therefore a high honor to be connected with an institution of this kind.

Speaking more personally it may be stated that Mr. Bailey's religious faith is that of Ro- man Catholicism. For more than twenty-five vears he has also been found among the stanch supporters of total abstinence. He is a man of rugged constitution and fine physique, weighing about two hundred pounds, and is a striking illustration in defense of temper- ance, which he has so long advocated.

In 1883 Mr. Bailey married Miss Emma Ott, daughter of John and Julia (Reproth) Ott, both of whom were natives of Bavaria, Germany. John Ott, the founder of the busi- ness of which Mr. Bailey is now the vice-presi- dent, as has been stated, fixed his early resi- dence at what is now West Washington, be- tween Senate and Capitol avenues, and this lo- cation was the birthplace of his daughter, who is now Mrs. Francis P. Bailey. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey have become the parents of Francis P., Jr .. John J., August L., Julia M. and Emma. The sons are all engaged in the manufacture of metal and furniture polish, and are pros- pering as members of the Crown Manufactur- ing Company.

CHARLES N. WILLIAMS. Commanding a post of importance in connection with finan- cial affairs in the capital city of his native

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state, Charles N. Williams, who is president of the Farmers Trust Company, of Indian- apolis, is one of the representative business men and liberal and loyal citizens of the city, where he stands exemplar of that' pro- gressive spirit which is making for the fur- ther advancement of the "Greater Indian- apolis".

Charles N. Williams was born on a farm near Dayton, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, on the 10th of April, 1856, and is a son of Henry and Martha (Barnum) Williams, both of whom were born in the State of Connecti- cut, being representatives of old and honored families of New England, the cradle of much of our national history. For a number of years Henry Williams was engaged in the wholesale dry-goods business in the City of Lafayette, Indiana, when he finally removed to Crawfordsville, where he continued in the same line of enterprise and where he long held prestige as one of the honored and in- fluential citizens and able business men of that section of the state. Both he and his wife continued to' reside in Crawfordsville until their death. Of their two children the sub- ject of this review is the younger, and Laura is the wife of Benjamin F. Crabbs of Craw- fordsville. Mrs. Martha (Barnum) Williams was first married to John L. Covin, who was a native of Baltimore, Maryland, and who was for a number of years engaged in the retail dry-goods business in Quincy, Illinois, where his death occurred. Of the five chil- dren of this union one is living.

Charles N. Williams was afforded the ad- vantages of the excellent public schools of Crawfordsville, after which he was for three years a student in Wabash College. After leaving college he was employed for three years in the postoffice at Crawfordsville, and thereafter he was there engaged in the real estate and loan business until 1886, when he became state representative for Indiana of the Provident Life & Trust Company, of Philadelphia, having charge of the investing of their capital in approved farm and city loans in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. In 1881 he was one of the organizers of the Citizens National Bank of Crawfordsville, and he con- tinued a member of its directorate until June, 1896, when he removed to Indianapolis and established the private banking house of C. N. Williams & Company. He built up a prosperous business and the same was con- tinued under the title noted until 1905; when he organized the Farmers Trust Company, which absorbed the banking business and which is incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000. This is one of the ably managed

and eminently solid financial institutions of the state and Mr. Williams has been presi- dent of the same from the time of its in- corporation. Since 1903 he has also been In- diana state representative of the celebrated Prudential Life Insurance Company, of New- ark, New Jersey, and has direct control of the company investments in Indiana.

In politics Mr. Williams is found arrayed as a stalwart in the camp of the Republican party, and he has given effective service in the promotion of its cause. For eight years he was chairman of the Republican county committee of Montgomery county, and he marshaled his forces with marked ability in the various local and state campaigns dur- ing this period. He is affiliated with Mont- gomery Lodge No. 50, Free & Accepted Ma- sons; Crawfordsville Chapter No. 40, Royal Arch Masons; Montgomery Council No. 34, Royal & Select Masters, and Athens Chap- ter No. 27, Order of the Eastern Star; Craw- fordsville Commandery No. 25, Knights Templars, all of which organizations are lo- cated in Crawfordsville; and in Indianapolis he is identified with Murat Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.

On the 6th of April, 1897, Mr. Williams. was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Doll, who was born and reared in Lafayette, Indiana, a daughter of the late James Doll, a representative citizen of that place.

JOHN N. HURTY, M. D. A distinguished member of the medical profession in the cap- ital city is Dr. John N. Hurty, for the last fifteen years state health commissioner and a member of the faculty of his alma mater, the Department of Medicine of the Indiana University. Dr. Hurty is a native of Lebanon, Ohio, where he was born on the 21st of February, 1852, and he was the fourth in order of birth of the three sons and two daughters of Professor Josiah and Anne I. (Walker) Hurty, both of whom were born in the State of New York, the former of Ger- man and the latter of English lineage. They were reared and educated in the old Empire state and in the City of Rochester their mar- riage was solemnized. The father was a scholar and man of fine intellectual attain- ments and was for many years prominent in the field of popular education. He removed from New York to Ohio, where he followed the pedagogic profession until 1855, when he came to Indiana and located in Richmond, which was then a fair sized town, and he there became the first superintendent of the public schools of the town. Later he was similarly and most successfully engaged at

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Liberty, North Madison, Rising Sun and Law- renceburg, and he was one of the well known and highly honored pioneer teachers of the state. He passed the latter days of his long and useful life in the State of Mississippi, whither he had gone in the hope of recuperat- ing his health, and there he died at the age of seventy-five years. His devoted wife was summoned to the life eternal in 1881, at the age of seventy-nine years, and of their chil- dren four are now living. Professor Hurty was affiliated with the time-honored Masonic fraternity and gave his support to the cause of the Republican party from the time of its organization until his death. Both he and his wife were zealous members of the Pres- byterian Church.

Dr. John N. Hurty gained his early edu- cational discipline in the public schools of the several towns in which his father was en- gaged as superintendent of the same, and in 1872 he completed one year of the prescribed technical course in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & Chemistry, in the City of Philadelphia. In 1881 he received from Pur- due University, at Lafayette, Indiana, the de- gree of Doctor of Pharmacy. He had the distinction of being the founder of the school of pharmacy of this university, and he was its head for a period of two years, within which he brought the department up to a high standard of efficiency.

The doctor's thorough training in the close- ly allied profession of pharmacy had well fortified him for further study in preparing himself definitely for the medical profession, and after taking a course of lectures in Jef- ferson Medical College, in the City of Phila- delphia, he entered the Medical College of Indiana, in Indianapolis, where he completed the prescribed course and was graduated as a member of the class of 1891, duly receiv- ing his well earned degree of Doctor of Medi- cine and coming forth specially well equipped for the exacting work of his chosen vocation. As a physician he has since been engaged in the active practice of preventive medicine. Since 1897 he has held the chair of hygiene and sanitary science in the Medical College of Indiana, now the medical department of Indiana University, and he is one of the members of the faculty of this well ordered institution. In 1894, without solicitation or suggestion on his part, Dr. Hurty was ap- pointed secretary of the Indiana State Board of Health, which position he still holds. He is thoroughly en rapport with his profession and continues a close student of the science of hygiene. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the American Public

Health Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, -the Amer- ican Pharmaceutical Association, the Indiana State Medical Society and the Indianapolis Medical Society. He is the author of a school text book on hygienic subjects, the same being entitled "Life with Health". He has also contributed to the leading periodical publi- cations of his profession and has been called upon to prepare and read many papers be- fore the various professional associations with which he is identified. He was superintend- ent of the hygienic exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, held in the City of St. Louis, and had much to do with bringing the same into favorable attention on the part of both the profession and the laity. In poli- ties he is a supporter of the principles and policies for which the Republican party stands sponsor, but he has never manifested aught of ambition for the honors or emolu- ments of political office.

On the 25th of October, 1877, Dr. Hurty was united in marriage to Miss Ethel John- stone, who was born and reared in Indian- apolis, being a daughter of Dr. John F. John- stone. The two children of this union are Gilbert J. and Anne M. Hurty.

J. RICHARD FRANCIS. A representative busi- ness man of the city of Indianapolis, where he is president of the Francis Pharmacy Com- pany and chemist for the Cleveland, Cincin- nati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company, J. Richard Francis has attained distinction and wide reputation in the line of his profes- sion and his fine retail establishment in the capital city is one of the best equipped and most ably managed drug stores in the middle west, having facilities of the highest grade and affording a service that has called forth the most unequivocal commendation on the part of the medical fraternity. Mr. Francis is an authority in the domain of pharmaceutical- chemistry, in which his researches and original investigations have been wide and varied, and in the practical field he has produced results that have contributed to the wellbeing of hu- manity in no insignificant sense. Of the es- tablishment of the Francis Pharmacy Company the following pertinent statements have been made: "The prescription department ranks among the very best in the middle west, the laboratory has no superior in the city or in the state. The work done in both is always performed with the utmost regard for the public good as well as in affording punctilious servite to patrons". Mr. Francis has concen- trated distinctive technical and business en- ergies and through this medium gained con- crete results of worth and magnitude.

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We of this restless, vigorous twentieth cen- tury can not afford to hold in light esteem the lives and services of those who have wrought nobly in the past, from which has come the beneficent heritage of the present. Mr. Fran- cis may revert with satisfaction to his genealogy in both the agnatic and maternal lines, and the name which he bears has been identified with the annals of American history from the colonial epoch to the present time. Strong men and true; gentle and gracious women, have represented the name as one generation has followed another on to the stage of life's activities, and loyalty and patriotism have been in distinctive evidence, while the family escutcheon has ever been a symbol of integrity. honor and usefulness.

The original progenitors of the Francis fam- ily in America were three brothers of the name who came to the new world from their native Wales, one settling in the State of New York, one in New Jersey and the third in Virginia. From the New Jersey representative the sub- ject of this review traces his line of direct descent. His great-grandfather was a valiant soldier in the Continental line in the War of the Revolution. His grandfather Richard Francis became seized of a large landed es- tate in New Jersey and was a citizen of prom- inence and influence in his community, having served in various offices of public trust and having been known as a most devout Christian and thorough Bible student. His wife, whose maiden name was Anna Carr, was a member of an old and honored family of New Jersey and one distantly related to the Bonaparte family of which the great Napoleon was a member. Richard and Anna (Carr) Francis had a large family of children, and of these Dr. Joseph Francis was the father of him whose name initiates this review.

Dr. Joseph Francis, long numbered among the able physicians and surgeons of the State of Indiana, was born in Monmouth County, New Jersey, where he was reared to maturity and where he secured his early educational discipline. Concerning his early career the following somewhat intimate record is well worthy of perpetuation in this article: "His father was a very strict disciplinarian, and because of a thrashing administered to him by his father, Joseph, who had no small meas- ure of the paternal spirit, left home at the age of eighteen years, coming west to Indiana in company with his brother, Dr. Edward T. Francis. The boys had grit and ability, and they determined to make their way to success in spite of the adverse circumstances then pre- vailing in their new surroundings. They set- tled in Shelby County, Indiana, where they

found employment in cutting cordwood for a prominent farmer of the locality. Being totally unaccustomed to such work, they found it particularly severe, but they kept at it so bravely that they won the good will and es- teen of their employer, Mr. Banker, who joined with his wife in inviting the young men to make their home with him. The of- fer was accepted, and the Francis brothers took up the study of medicine with Mr. Bank- er's sons, Wilson and Adoniram,-all four young men becoming physicians. They all at- tended the Hartsville Classical School, an In- diana institution of learning famous in that day."

Joseph Francis was graduated in the Ohio Medical College, at Cincinnati, from which in- stitution he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine, and his alma mater offered him the chair of chemistry after his graduation, but he refused the flattering overture to establish himself in the private practice of his profes- sion. He located at Fountaintown, Shelby County, Indiana, and there he maintained his home during the residue of his long and sig- nally useful life, laboring with all of zeal of devotion in the service of suffering humanity and gaining the veneration and love of the community in which he thus proved himself one of the world's noble army of workers. He was often urged to seek a wider field of labor, this course being advised by fellow practition- ers who recognized his great technical skill and ability, but he preferred to remain in his chosen field, where for thirty years he rode and wrote, doing much to aid and encourage his fellow men and to bring them up to a higher plane of living, as his influence was as potent in a moral way as in the line of his profession. Concerning him the following ap- preciative statements have been written: "He was a high type of the devoted family physi- cian, possessing a most comprehensive knowl- edge of general materia medica and thera- peutics and in this respect being far ahead of his average professional contemporary. Hc was regarded with special confidence as a re- liable obstetrician. At one time he did not remove his clothing for sixteen days. He was attending thirty-two cases of typhoid-pneu- monia, and lost but one,-a wonderful record indeed. Dr. Elder, for many years secretary of the Indiana Medical College, practiced in the same neighborhood with Dr. Francis and they became warm friends. When Dr. Elder located in Indianapolis he tried to induce Dr. Francis to accompany him hither, as his part- ner, as he, in common with other' friends and admirers of Dr. Francis, believed that the lat- ter could win a high place in the profession

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mider more favorable circumstances. But he preferred the location of his first choice and continued there until his death, which oc- curred on the 14th of March, 1893." None could ask to have accomplished a nobler life work than did this unassuming, kindly and unselfish physician, and the results of his serv- ices abide in the tender reverence accorded his memory in the community in which he so long lived and labored to goodly ends. Dr. Francis married Miss Catherine Mutz, daugh- ter of Hon. Jacob and Anna Maria (Snepp Mutz, and their only child was J. Richard Francis, the immediate subject of this sketch. Dr. Francis was a Republican in his political adherency and he was zealous in the work of the Methodist Church. Mrs. Francis is living near Shelbyville, Indiana, and is an active member of the English Lutheran Church.

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Greater Indianapolis : the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes, Part 21

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