Greater Indianapolis : the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes, Part 23

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

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In December, 1889, Mr. Wilson took up his residence in Indianapolis, where he forthwith effected the organization of the Capital Na-

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tional Bank, which was incorporated in Decem- ber, 1889, with a capital stock of $300,000. He was the president of this institution from the time of its inception until January, 1904, when he disposed of his stock and resigned his official position, to accept the presidency of the Columbia National Bank, of which he has since been the able and popular executive head. He is one of the well known bankers of the state and his name stands exponent of fine technical knowledge, correct methods and wise conservatism in the handling and man- agement of financial affairs. As a citizen he is essentially loyal and public-spirited and while he has never had aught of ambition for polit- ical office he gives a stalwart support to the cause of the Democratic party. He and his wife are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis. In the Masonic fra- ternity Mr. Wilson has attained to the thirty- second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, in which connection he is identified with the consistory of the Valley of Indianapolis, where his York Rite affiliations also are main- tained and where he is also identified with Murat Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a valued member of the Indianapolis Board of Trade and holds membership in the Commercial, Uni- versity and Country Clubs, representative or- ganizations of the capital city, where he is held in high esteem in both business and social circles.

In 1872 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Wilson to Miss Nettie A. Ames, who was born at Geneva, Ohio, and reared in Detroit, Michi- gan, and Cleveland, Ohio, of which latter city she was a resident at the time of her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have five daughters. Daisey married Frank F. Churchman, of · In- dianapolis: Sarah is the wife of James L. Floyd, of Indianapolis; Ruth married George M. B. Hawley, of Geneva, New York; Edith is the wife of William H. Stafford, of In- dianapolis ; and Clare lives at home.

JAMES M. BERRYHILL, a leading attorney of Indianapolis, and an active member of the firm of Remy & Berryhill, is a native of the Hoosier state, born in Lebanon, Boone Coun- ty, August 31, 1869. He is a son of William O. and Mary A. (Riley) Berryhill, both na- tives of Indiana. The father was a drug- gist and ambitious, for he had prepared him- self to enter the practice of medicine just be- fore his death. when James M. was seven years of age. He left a widow and five chil- dren. The mother continued to reside in Lebanon, where she faithfully applied herself to the rearing and education of her children, but she did not herself live long enough to

fully realize the good fruit of her labors, as her death occurred when James M. was fif- teen years of age.

Mr. Berryhill was educated in the public and high schools of Lebanon, and was grad- uated from the latter in May, 1887. He then taught in the country schools of the neigh- borhood for a year and in the fall of 1888 entered Franklin (Indiana) College, fron which he was graduated in June, 1892, with the degree of B. S. For the succeeding four years he served as the deputy clerk of the Boone County circuit courts, giving all his spare moments to the study of law. In Oc- tober, 1896, he became a student in the In- diana Law School, Indianapolis, from which he was graduated in May, 1897, having been admitted to the bar at Lebanon during the previous year. On graduating from the In- diana Law School he was admitted to prac- tice before the state Supreme and Federal courts. as well as before all the courts of Marion County. His actual practice in In- dianapolis dates from October, 1896, the year previous to his graduation from the Indiana Law School.

In his important and growing practice Mr. Berryhill was first associated with the Hol- stein, Barrett and Hubbard law firm of which he later became a member. Mr. Barrett re- tiring, the style of the firm become Holstein, Hubbard and Berryhill. Mr. Hubbard sub- sequently withdrew, and the firm remained Holstein and Berryhill until January, 1901, when it was dissolved by the death of Major Holstein. Mr. Berryhill continued in prac- tice alone until January, 1905, when he formed a partnership with his present asso- ciate, Charles F. Remy. Alone and in as- sociation with his partner, Mr. Berryhill has been connected in large important litigations. Among the late honors conferred upon him was his appointment in June, 1907, as per- manent guardian of the celebrated George Rodius estate. It came to him quite un- solicited and in making the appointment Judge Samuel R. Artman of the Boone Cir- cuit Court made the following declaration : "The man whom I shall appoint is one whose character no person can question. He is hon- est; I know he is. When I name him, I am sure all parties concerned will be satisfied. I shall appoint James M. Berryhill of Indian- apolis, who had the good sense to be born in Boone County". In making the appointment Judge Artman fixed the bond of the guardian at $150,000, which is an evidence of the finan- cial responsibility of the profession. Mr. Berryhill is an active and leading member of the Indiana State and Indianapolis Bar

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Associations and takes just pride in enrolling himself as a member of the Sons of Veterans. One of the brave acts of his talented father was his enlistment as a Union soldier in the Tenth Indiana Regiment, his service of one year and four months being terminated only by his physical disability to endure army hardships. But later, however, he re-enlisted in the Eleventh Cavalry of the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Infantry Regiment, and served one year and a half or to the close of the war. This patriotic service it will be re- membered was rendered several years before the birth of James M. Mr. Berryhill is an active member of many organizations outside those which are connected with his profes- sion, being identified with the Century Lit- erary Club and other associations of a re- fined nature. In 1895 he was married to Miss Edith Craft, of Franklin, Indiana, and their two children are Esther and Edwin.

HOWARD KIMBALL has been a resident of Indianapolis and identified with its business interests for nearly forty years, and for more than two decades he has held his present re- sponsible executive office as secretary of the Aetna Savings & Loan Association, one of the important concerns of its kind in the middle states of the Union. He is a scion of one of the old and honored families of New Eng- land, where the original American progenitor took up his abode in the early part of the seventeenth century. The name has been identified in a prominent way with the vari- ous wars in which the nation has been ilt- volved, and it has ever stood for the highest type of citizenship, as one generation has fo !- lowed another on to the stage of life. Thus the subject of this review has an ancestral heritage of which he may well be proud, for none can afford to hold in light esteem those who have wrought nobly in the past, leaving records of worthy lives and worthy deeds.

Howard Kimball has the distinction of being a native son of the City of Boston, Mas- sachusetts, where he was born on the 23rd of June, 1845, and is a son of Warren and Ann (Baker) Kimball. both natives of Ipswich, Massachusetts, where the former was born on the 22nd of March, 1812. and the latter on the 3rd of July, 1814. The father was a resident of Indian Territory at the time of his death, and the mother died on the 14th of June, 1895, at Indianapolis. Of their eight chil- dren Howard was the fourth in order of birth, and is the second in age of the three now surviving. His sister. Annie, is the wife of Captain William II. White, of Junetion City, Kansas, and his brother. Harry S., is a resi- dent of the City of Chicago.

Warren Kimball received such advantages as were afforded in the common schools of the locality in which he was reared, and his initial business experience was gained in the general country store of Daniel Coggswell, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, with whom he re- mained as a trusted employe until he had at- tained to his legal majority. He then went to the City of Boston, where he engaged in the grocery and provision business on his own account, building up a thriving enterprise and having derived specially large returns from his transactions in shipping of produce and supplies from Boston to San Francisco in the early days of the gold excitement in California, in the '50s. He continued to be identified with mercantile interests in Boston for a number of years and later held an ex- ecutive position in that city in the employ of the Vermont Central Railroad. In politics he was originally an old-line Whig, but he identified himself with the Republican party at the time of its organization and ever after- ward continued a strong advocate of its prin- eiples and policies. He was a leader in its local ranks in the early days and assisted in the organization of the first "Wide Awake Club" in Boston, an organization formed for the purpose of promoting the interests of the party in the historic campaign which re sulted in the election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency. During the first term of President Lincoln, Mr. Kimball held the ap- pointment of weigher and gauger in the United States custom house in Boston. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and was a pewholder and sup- porter of the old Park Street Church in the City of Boston, of which his wife was a de- voted member.

Warren Kimball was a son of Benjamin and Huldah (Wade) Kimball. His father was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, on the 3rd of November, 1786, and his death occurred on the 29th of October, 1867. Benjamin Kim- ball and Huldah Wade were united in ınar- riage on the 16th of April, 1807, and she died on the 3rd of December, 1813. On the 29th of November, 1815, he married Miss Priscilla Kimball, who was born August 8, 1784, and who died December 18, 1872. She was a daughter of Jeremiah Kimball, of Ipswich. Benjamin Kimball was for many years en- gaged in the lumber business on the Ipswich River, where he operated a saw-mill, and he was one of the prominent and influential men of his community. He reared a large family of children, and his descendants are now to be found in the most diverse sections of the Union. His father, Benjamin Kimball, Sr.,

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who was a sergeant and aide-de-camp in the Massachusetts militia and who was a valiant soldier in the War of the Revolution, in which at least thirteen members of this an- cient family were enrolled as patriot de- fenders of the cause of independence, fight- ing bravely to hurl oppression back and keep the boon of liberty. The original progenitor of the Kimball family in America was Rich- ard Kimball, who, with his family, embarked at Ipswich, Suffolk County, England, on the 10th of April, 1634, on the ship "Elizabeth", William Anderson, master, and set sail for the far distant land of promise. The ves- sel landed in the harbor of Boston, and from that point Richard Kimball proceeded with his family to Watertown, Massachusetts, whence he later removed to Ipswich, where he engaged in the work of his trade, that of carriage and wagon-making. The first stone bridge built in the United States was erected in Ipswich, Massachusetts, by a mem- ber of the Choate family, of which the mother of the subject of this review was a collateral representative. Members of the Kimball fam- ily were also represented in the early colonial wars, not less than eight bearing this name or that of Kemble, the spelling retained by certain branches, having participated in King Philip's War and in other conflicts marking the early history of our nation. The services of some of these are mentioned in the re- cently published history of the Kimball fam- ily. Caleb, Henry and Richard Kimball are shown to have been in the historic ambuscade at Bloody Brook, and Thomas Kimball was massacred at his home in Bradford, Massa- chusetts.

Howard Kimball was reared to maturity in the classic old city of his birth and in the schools of "the Hub" he received excellent educational advantages in his boyhood and early youth. As a lad he secured employ- ment in the office of a file factory in Boston, and for his services during the first year he received the dignified stipend of fifty dollars, which amount was doubled the second year. He was engaged with this concern about four years. He held a clerical position with this firm until he had reached the age of eighteen years, when his ambition and venturesome spirit led him to start for the west. He made his way to Leavenworth, Kansas, which was then an important frontier town and govern- ment post, on the route followed by many of those making their way across the plains to Colorado, Montana and other sections of the great west. In Leavenworth he became book- keener in the hook and stationery establish- ment of Drake Brothers, in whose employ he

continued for three years, at the expiration of which he engaged independently in the book and stationery business in Leavenworth. After passing ten years in Kansas he dis- posed of his interests there and came to In- dianapolis, where he took up his residence in the year 1875 and where he has maintained his home during the long intervening years, marked by earnest application and worthy accomplishment on his part. Here he entered the service of the Franklin Life Insurance Company, later was identified with the Ma- sonic Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Indianapolis, and in 1888 he became secretary of the Aetna Savings & Loan Association, of which office he has since remained in tenure, having administered the affairs of the asso- ciation with marked ability and discrimina- tion and having gained an impregnable place in the confidence and regard of the commu- nity which has so long represented his home and been the center of his interests.

Though never manifesting aught of ambi- tion for political office, Mr. Kimball has ever given an unswerving allegiance to the cause of the Republican party. In 1910 he was ap- pointed to the office of city controller, which office he is now filling. In the time-honored Masonic fraternity Mr. Kimball has main- tained a deep and appreciative interest from the time of affiliating himself therewith. He is a member of Oriental Lodge, No. 500, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he served as secretary for ten years; Keystone Chapter, No. 6, Royal Arch Masons, of which he is secretary; Raper Commandery, No. 1, Knights Templars, of which he is the present recorder; and Murat Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.

Mr. Kimball was married to Sallie M. Hurt, a daughter of John and Mary Hurt of Ken- tucky. Mrs. Kimball died. The child of this union, Arthur W., is now living in Columbus, Ohio.

On the 4th of September, 1895, Mr. Kim- ball was united in marriage to Miss Emma J. Anthony, who was born at Troy, Ohio, on the 7th of September, 1861, a daughter of Daniel and Rachel (Wadsworth) Anthony. The father was born in the State of Maryland and sacrificed his life while serving as a soldier in the Civil War. His widow is still living and now resides in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kim- ball, who accord to her the deepest affection and solicitude. Mr. and Mrs. Kimball have one child, Alice.

CHARLES C. PERRY. For nearly a quarter of a century, Charles C. Perry, of Indianap- olis, has been connected with some form of electrical industries, and at the present time

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holds the place of president of the Indian- apolis Light and Heat Company. A native of Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana, he was born December 15, 1857. His father was Dr. Joseph James Perry, long ranked among the notable physicians of Indiana. The family was long established in Somersetshire, England, where the doctor received his medical educa- tion. Coming to America in 1840, he first located at Detroit, Michigan, and for ten years conducted a growing practice in that city. In 1850 he moved to Richmond, Indiana, where he remained until his death in 1872. During this period he served in the Civil War, being appointed as surgeon in 1864 in the Forty- second United States Infantry. He continued with that command until his regiment was mustered out, afterwards he returned to Rich- mond and resumed the work of his profession. In his capacity as a religious member of the community, he was a founder of the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church at Richmond, and during the entire period of his residence in that city was an officer of the organization. The deceased was twice married, secondly to Miss Ruth Moffitt, born at Richmond in 1821.

Charles C., the only child of the second marriage, was educated in the Richmond pub- lic schools and at the Earlham College of that place. At an early period in his boyhood he developed strong business talents, which first were demonstrated by his success as a vender of city newspapers. His next venture was as a messenger boy for the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway, and was soon dili- gently applying himself to the mastery of tel- egraphy. With this latter accomplishment he rose from one position to the other, until he reached the managership of the Western Union Telegraph Company at Richmond, retaining that position between the years 1880 to 1884. In 1886, Mr. Perry came to Indianapolis as representative of the Jenny Electric Company ; in 1888, he became one of the financiers of the Marmon-Perry Light Company, and was also one of the organizers of the Indianapolis Light and Power Company, in 1892, which is now known as the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company, since 1904. Of the latter he is now president and treasurer and perhaps the most active promoter. In politics he is a Re- publican and is an active member of the In- dianapolis Board of Trade and the Commercial and Columbia Clubs. He is also a trustee of the Y. W. C. A. Mr. Perry was married to Miss Capitola Adams, a daughter of T. J. Adams, of Indianapolis.

JOHN J. KYLE, M. D. . A specialist in the treatment of the diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, Dr. John J. Kyle is one of the

representative physicians and surgeons of the capital city, where he has been engaged in the practice of his profession since 1899. Dr. Kyle was born in the City of Aurora, Dear- born County, Indiana, and is a son of Dr. Thomas M. and Anna (Johnson) Kyle, both likewise natives of Dearborn County and rep- resentatives of honored pioneer families of the state. The lineage of the Kyle family is traced back to Scotch-Irish derivation and that of the Johnson family to stanch Scotch stock. Dr. Thomas M. Kyle became one of the successful physicians and surgeons of his native county and was engaged in the prac- tice of his profession at Aurora for a quarter of a century. He was a graduate of the Miami Medical College, of Cincinnati, and was a man of marked ability in his profes- sion.

After completing the curriculum of the public schools of his native town Dr. John J. Kyle was a student in Moore's Hill College, in Dearborn County, Indiana, for three years, and he then entered his father's alma mater, Miami Medical College, in which he was grad- uated as a member of the class of 1890, and from which he duly received his degree of Doctor of Medicine. He passed the following year in effective post-graduate study in the medical department of the University of Ber- lin, Germany, and upon his return to Indiana he located at Marion, where he was engaged in the active work of his profession for about six years. At the outbreak of the Spanish- American War Dr. Kyle received a commis- sion as major surgeon of the One Hundred and Sixtieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, which was made up of the Fourth Regiment of the Indiana National Guard, in which lat- ter he has served as lieutenant in the line, later as captain, and finally as assistant sur- geon, from which office he was promoted to that of major surgeon at the time when the regiment was mustered into the service of the United States. Dr. Kyle continued in active service with his regiment for one year, from April 24, 1898, to May 1, 1899, and five months of this period were passed at Matan- zas, Cuba. While with his command in the reserve camp at Columbus, Georgia, Dr. Kyle built and equipped the brigade hospital of the First Brigade, Second Division, First Army Corps, and so effectively did he accom- plish this work that he was specially compli- mented by the division commander, General Joseph R. Sanger. On the 1st of May, 1899, Dr. Kyle was mustered out with his regi- ment, and he received his honorable discharge with the rank of major.

In October, 1899, Dr: Kyle opened an office

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m Indianapolis, and here he has since devoted his attention specially to the treatment of the .diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, in which he is an authority. In the line of this special branch of professional work he also holds the professorship of such diseases in the Indiana University Medical College. He is also a member of the medical staff of the Indianapolis City Hospital, St. Vincent's Hos- pital and the Bobbs Free Dispensary. He is the author of two valuable works on the dis- eases of the ear, nose and throat, and these books have met with most favorable reception on the part of the medical fraternity. In April, 1909, President Taft conferred upon Dr. Kyle appointment as First Lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States Army. He is a member of the Indian- apolis Medical Society, the Indiana State Medical Society, the American Medical As- sociation, the American Academy of Ophthal- mology and Otolaryngology, fellow of the American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society. He is also a member of the American Geographical Society, the As- sociation of Officers of Foreign Wars, and the Veterans of the Spanish-American War. In the Masonic fraternity Dr. Kyle has attained to the Thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and is also affiliated with Murat Temple, Ancient Arabic Order, of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. In his home city he holds membership in the Colum- bia, Country and University Clubs, and his political allegiance is given to the Republican party.

DANIEL, WAIT HOWE. The bench and bar of Indiana have been honored and dignified through the life and services of Judge Howe, who is now engaged in the successful practice of his profession in Indianapolis, where he formerly served with distinction on the bench of the Superior Court. He is a veteran of the Civil War, is a member of one of the old and honored families of Indiana, of which' he is a native son, and furthermore is a scion of a family that was founded in America about the middle of the seventeenth century. The name has been prominently identified with the annals of American history during the long intervening years, and representa- tives of the family have been found enrolled as patriot soldiers in the various wars in which the nation has been involved.

Daniel Wait Howe was born in the village of Patriot, Switzerland County, Indiana, on the 24th of October, 1839, and is the only child of Daniel Haven Howe and Lucy (Hicks) Howe. His father was a native of the State of New York, where he was reared

and educated, and from Salamanca, that state, he came to Indiana about the year 1835, settling at Patriot, where he engaged in the lumber business, with which he continued to be identified until his death, which occurred in 1842. He was a son of Nathan Howe, who was captain in a New York regiment in the War of 1812 and who continued to reside in the old Empire state until his death. Two members of the family in direct line of de- scent to the subject of this review were val- iant soldiers in the Continental line during the War of the Revolution, Captain Eliakim Howe and his son Otis having served in the New Hampshire militia. Colonel Thomas Howe, another ancestor, was an active par- ticipant in King Philip's Indian War. The original American progenitor was John Howe, who came from England to the colony of Massachusetts and who was a resident of Sudbury about 1657.

After the death of her first husband the mother of Judge Howe became the wife of Colonel Samuel 'P. Oyler, and in 1850 they took up their residence in Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana, where Colonel Oyler en- gaged in the practice of law, having been one of the able and honored members of the bar of the state for many years. In the Civil War he served as major of the Seventh In- diana Volunteer Infantry, and later he be- came lieutenant colonel of the Seventy-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. After the ter- mination of his service, he resumed the prac- tice of his profession at Franklin and he served for several years as judge of the Cir- cuit Court, in' addition to which he repre- sented his district for four years in the state Senate. He was prominent in both the Knights of Pythias, in which he was honored with the office of grand chancellor, and in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he served as grand master of the Grand Lodge of Indiana. He died in 1898, and his widow thereafter maintained her home with her son, Judge Howe, in Indianapolis, where she died in 1904, a woman of gracious personality and one who was revered by all who came within the circle of her gentle influence. She was a native of the State of New York, whence her parents, Solomon and Lucy (Butts) Hicks, removed to Indiana in 1826. Her father was a member of a New York regiment in the War of 1812.

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Greater Indianapolis : the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes, Part 23

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