Greater Indianapolis : the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes, Part 36

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

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buildings. John M. Wood was married in Indianapolis to Miss Margaret A. Gresham, who was born and reared in Frankfort, Ken- tucky, and they established their home in a log cabin located on the site of the present office of the livery establishment of their son, Horace F. Their wedded life was of an ideal order and, continuing for a period of over half a century, they celebrated their golden wedding. Both of them passed away in the year 1896, their home at the time having been on the site 'of the present Young Women's Christian Association building on North Pennsylvania street. They were popular fig- ures in connection with the social activities of the city in the early days and their circle of friends was coincident with that of their acquaintances. At their little log homestead on the present Monument place was enter- tained one of the early governors of Indiana, who was there accorded a public reception. John M. and Margaret A. (Gresham) Wool became the parents of eight children, namely : Belle. who is now the wife of Thomas G. Barry, of Indianapolis; Frances, who is the widow of Lewis Morrison; Charles H., who is engaged in the livery business in Indian- apolis; Horace F., whose name initiates this sketch: Frank G., who is engaged with the Atlas Paper Company at Indianapolis; and Harry, Mary and Jolin, who are deceased. The father continued to be actively identi- fied with the livery business until 1880, when he was succeeded by his son, Horace F., who has since conducted the enterprise and who controls a large and representative business.

Horace F. Wood is indebted to the public schools of Indianapolis for his early educa- tional discipline, which included a course in the high school and his entire business carcer has been one of active identification with the livery business. He is one of the loyal, prog- ressive, public-spirited business men of his native city, where he enjoys unequivocal con- fidence and esteem. He is affiliated with the time-honored Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained to the thirty-third ultimate de- gree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite. His maximum affiliation, the York Rite, is with Raper Commandery, Knights Templar, and he also holds membership in Murat Tem- ple. Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of which he was a director for a period of fourteen years. He is one of the prominent and valued members of the Co- lumbia Club, in which he served as secretary for three years, and he is also a member of the German Honse, the Country Club and the Canoe Club. In politics, while never seek- ing official preferment, he is a stanch sup-

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porter of the principles and policies for which the Republican party stands sponsor.

On November 7, 1884, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Wood to Miss Rose Gra- ham, who was born and reared in Indianap- olis and who is a daughter of Benjamin M. and Margaret Ann (Beach) Graham. The one child of this marriage is John G., who is associated with the Empire Motor Car Com- pany.

SAMUEL E. RAUH. One of the valued and loyal citizens contributed to the Indiana capi- tal by the great empire of Germany is Sam- uel Elias Rauh, who is to-day numbered among the most prominent and influential business men of Indianapolis, where his capi- talistic interests are large and varied and where he may well find classification among those valiant "captains of industry" through whose efforts has come the magnificent com- mercial and civic progress of the city within the past decade and a half.

Mr. Rauh was born in the kingdom of Ba- varia, Germany, on the 21st of December, 1853, and is a son of Elias and Hannah (Abrahams) Ranh, both likewise natives of Bavaria, with whose annals the respective names have been identified for many genera- tions. In 1866 Elias Rauh immigrated with his family to America, landing in the port of New York City and soon afterward mak- ing his way to Ohio. He established his home in Dayton, that state, where he engaged in the fur and hide business, in which he built up a large and successful enterprise, be- coming one of the substantial citizens and in- fluential men of Dayton, where he continueil to reside until his death, at the age of sixty- nine years. His devoted wife was sixty-five years of age at the time of her demise, and both were zealous in the work and support of the Hebrew church, representing the faith of their forefathers. Of their ten children the subject of this sketch was the fourth in order of birth and of the number eight are now living. Elias Rauh was a stanch Demo- crat in his political proclivities and while signally loyal to all the duties and responsi- bilities of citizenship he had naught of am- bition for public office.

Samuel E. Rauh, whose name introduces this article, secured his rudimentary educa- tion in the excellent schools of his native land and was a lad' of thirteen years at the time of the family immigration to the United States. He was reared to maturity in Day- ton, Ohio, where he was afforded the advan- tages of the public schools and of a well or- dered commercial college. He early became associated with the details of his father's

business, in connection with which he re- ceived a thorough training and well fitted himself for independent operations as a busi- ness man of broad capacity and distinctive initiative power. He continued his residence in Dayton until 1874, when he removed to Indianapolis and here engaged in the hide and pelt business, in which he successfully continued for nearly twenty years, having re- tired from this field of enterprise in 1891.

Mr. Rauh's career as one of the able and honored business men of Indianapolis, has been one of secure and consecutive progress, and through his well directed endeavors he has done not a little to further the industrial and commercial prestige of the city. In 1891 he became president and one of the principal stockholders of the Moore Packing Company, one of the leading concerns of its kind in the state, and he continued its chief executive officer until 1897, when he was elected presi- dent of the Belt Railroad & Stockyards Com- pany and also of the People's Light & Heat Company, with the administration of the af- fairs of which great and important corpora- tions he is still identified in this capacity. He is also vice-president of the Federal Union Surety Company, of Indianapolis; is a direc- tor of the Abattoir Beef & Pork Packing Company and the E. Rauh Fertilizer Com- pany; is first vice-president of E. Rauh & Sons Fertilizing Company; vice-president of E. Rauh & Sons Company, engaged in the hide business; a director of the Union Trust Company; and vice-president of the Egry Register Company, of Dayton, Ohio. Mr. Rauh has shown great capacity for the man- agement of business enterprises of broad scope and importance, has ordered his course according to the highest principles of in- tegrity and honor, and has achieved a success worthy of the name. He is held in high re- gard as a citizen and business man and is a valued member of the Indianapolis Board of Trade and the Commercial Club. He and his family hold membership. in Delaware street Temple, the leading Jewish church of the city. In politics, while never an aspirant for office, he accords a stanch allegiance to the Democratic party.

On the 20th of May, 1879, Mr. Rauh was united in marriage to Miss Emma Sterne, who was born in Peru, Indiana, and who is a daughter of Charles F. and Eugenia (Fries) Sterne, and seven of their eight chil- dren are living, Mrs. Rauh being the eldest. The father was for many years a prominent manufacturer of woolens, having been the owner of the old Peru woolen mills and also having owned and operated the gas plant in

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that city, where he continued to hold pres- tige as a representative citizen and business man' until his death. His wife also is de- ceased.

Mr. and Mrs. Rauh have three children, - Estelle, who is the wife of Samuel D. Wild, of Cleveland, Ohio; Charles, who is assistant manager of E. Rauh & Sons Fertilizer Com- pany; and Hortense, who remains at the parental home.

ERNEST DE WOLFE WALES, M. D. One of the able representatives of the medical profession in the capital city of Indiana is Dr. Wales, who is engaged in successful practice as a specialist in the treatment of the diseases of the ear, nose and throat, in connection with which he has attained distinctive prestige, and who is clinical professor of this class of diseases in the Indiana University School of Medicine, one of the noteworthy institutions of Indianapolis.

Dr. Wales was born in Braintree, Massa- chusetts, on the 1st of September, 1873, and is a son of George Oliver Wales and Abigail Frances Paine (Howard) Wales, the former of whom is still living, being head of the firm of George O. Wales & Company, iron mer- chants and agents for manufacturers, in the City of Boston, Massachusetts; the mother of the doctor died October 6, 1886.

The subject of this sketch is of the tenth generation in line of direct descent from Na- thaniel Wales, son of John Wales, of York- shire, England. This Nathaniel Wales fig- ures as the founder of the family in America, having come to the new world on the ship "James" in 1635 and having settled at Dor- chester, Massachusetts. He died in Boston, December 4, 1661. His son Nathaniel, who died in Boston, on the 10th of May, 1662, married Isabel Atherton, daughter of Major Humphrey Atherton. The next in direct line of descent was their son Nathaniel, who was born about 1649, and who died March 23, 1718, having settled at Braintree, Massachu- setts, in 1673. By his first wife, Elizabeth, he had one child, Elizabeth, who was born in 1675 and who became the wife of John Child. His second wife was Joanna Faxon, who was born September 20, 1661, and who died May 11, 1704. She was a daughter of Thomas and Deborah (Thayer) Faxon. Nathaniel and Joanna (Faxon) Wales became the pa- rents of fourteen children, namely : Joanna, Sarah, Nathaniel, Joanna (II), Elkanah, Deborah, Thomas, Mary, Samuel, Thomas (II), Joseph, John, Rachel, and Atherton. Of these children the one to whom Dr. Wales traces his lineage was Captain Elkanah Wales, who was born on the 1st of December, 1685,

and who died December 12, 1763. On the 17th of May, 1808, he married Elizabeth Holbrook, who was born September 30, 1684, and died February 27, 1763; she was a daugh- ter of Samuel and Lydia Holbrook, of Wey- mouth. The four children of this union were Elizabeth, Elkanah, Samuel and Nathaniel. Captain Nathaniel Wales was born April 11, 1717, and died June 26, 1790. He first mar- ried Anna Wild, daughter of William and Ruth .(Hersey) Wild, and they had five chil- dren-Aseph, Elizabeth, Achsah, Elkanah, and Anna. On the 30th of May, 1754, Cap- tain Nathaniel Wales contracted a second marriage, having then been united to Mrs. Anne Fitch, widow of Joseph Fitch and daughter of John and Elizabeth (Fenno) Waldo. She was born July 15, 1719, and died in February, 1801. By her marriage to Captain Wales she had three children-Eliz- abeth, Nathaniel and Benjamin. The second of these children was the representative of the sixth generation in line of descent to the subject of this review.

Major Nathaniel Wales, son of Captain Na- thaniel and Anne (Waldo) Wales, was born on the 8th of February, 1757, and died De- cember 24, 1825. On the 4th of December, 1778, he married Mary Hayden, who was born February 14, 1757, and died January 27, 1841; she was a daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Wild) Hayden, and she became the mother of three sons and one daughter, namely: Nathaniel, Benjamin, Mary, and John Waldo. Of these, Nathaniel, seventh generation, was born October 7, 1779, and died October 11, 1851. On the 20th of De- cember, 1806, he married Sarah Wild, who was born in 1787, and died December 25, 1871; she was a daughter of Jonathan and Deborah (Wild) Wild and became the mother of ten children-Mary Waldo, Sarah Ann, Jonathan Wild, Harriet Newell, Nathaniel Waldo, George, Benjamin Carr, William H., Ruth, and Thomas.

George Wales (eighth generation) was born May 2, 1820, and married Isabella C. Moul- ton, who was born January 25, 1821, and who was a daughter of Oliver and Salome (LaPlaine) Moulton. The LaPlaines were French Huguenots who fled from France to escape the religious persecutions incidental to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, settling in England, whence came the founders of the family in America. Here settlement was made at Roxbury, Massachusetts, and, later, members of the family became identified with the settlement of Hallowell, Maine. George and Isabella C. (Moulton) Wales, grandpar- ents of Dr. Wales, became the parents of

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three children-George Oliver, father of the doctor; Joseph Moulton ; and Isabella. George Oliver Wales was born April 1, 1848, and has long been a representative business man and honored citizen of Boston. His first mar- riage, to Abigail Frances Paine Howard, was solemnized on the 9th of November, 1870, and Mrs. Wales was summoned to the life eternal on the 6th of October, 1886. The sur- viving children of this union are here men- tioned in order of birth: George Howard, Boston, Massachusetts: Ernest de Wolfe; Mary Helen, married Willis Howard Butler, minister of Edwards Church, Northampton, Massachusetts; Louise F. and Nathaniel Brackett, Boston, Massachusetts. The second marriage of George Oliver Wales was sol- emnized on the 16th of December, 1896, when Lucy Cary Morse became his wife. They have no children.

Dr. Ernest de Wolfe Wales was afforded the advantages of the public schools of the city of Boston, where he was graduated in the high school as a member of the class of 1891. He then entered Harvard University, in which he was graduated in 1896, with the degree of Bachelor of Science, and in the medical department of the same historic in- stitution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1899, duly receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine. After his graduation he passed a year in effective post-graduate work in the University of Berlin, Germany, returning to the United States in the summer of 1900 and engaging in the practice of his profession in the city of Boston. From 1900 to 1901 he was aural house surgeon of the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear In- firmary, in which institution he was there- after clinical assistant until 1904. From 1905 to 1906 he was assistant surgeon in the throat room of Massachusetts General Hospital, and from 1904 to 1906 he was assistant aural sur- geon of the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, serving simultaneously as as- sistant in otology in Harvard Medical School, his alma mater. In the autumn of 1906 Dr. Wales took up his residence in Indianapolis, where he has met with unqualified success and gained marked precedence in the practice of the important branch of his profession in which he is specializing. Soon after his ar- rival in this city he was appointed clinical professor .of diseases of the ear, nose and throat in the Indiana University School of Medicine, and he has since remained incum- bent of this position, being a valued member of the faculty of the institution and being recognized as an authority in his special field and as an able and discriminating edu-

cator. He controls a large and representative practice and is held in unequivocal esteem by his professional confreres in the capital city.

Dr. Wales is identified with the Natural History Society of Harvard University; the Harvard Religious Union, of which he was secretary for one year; the Pi Eta fraternity of the same university; is a life member of the Harvard Union and also of the Young Men's Christian Union, of Boston. He was a member of the. Boston University Club from 1904 until his removal to Indianapolis, and in a professional way he holds membership in the Boylston Medical Society (Boston), the American Medical Association, the Amer- ican Otological Society, the American Laryn- gological, Rhinological and Otological So- ciety, the American Academy of Ophthal- mology and Oto-Laryngology, and the In- dianapolis Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. So- ciety, besides which he formerly held mem- bership in the New England Otological and Laryngological Society, during the time he was engaged in the practice of his profession in Boston. He and his wife hold member- ship in All Souls Unitarian Church of In- dianapolis; he is a Democrat in his political proclivities; he holds membership in the Ger- man House and the Country Club of Indian- apolis; and here is affiliated with Center Lodge No. 23, Free and Accepted Masons.

In the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, on the 21st of June, 1899, Dr. Wales was united in marriage to Miss Franc Hale, daughter of George W. Hale and Jeanette (Webster) Hale, both of whom are deceased, the latter being a representative of the same family line as was Daniel Webster. Dr. and Mrs. Wales have two children-Jeanette, who was born on the 4th of April, 1902, and Elizabeth, who was born on the 7th of January, 1904.

FREDERICK J. MACK. Among the progres- sive business men and highly honored citi- zens of Indianapolis is numbered the subject of this review, who is at the present time a member of the Board of Public Works and. who is head of the well known firm of F. J. Mack & Company, house painters, interior decorators, frescoers, sign painters, and scenic artists, with headquarters at 26 Kentucky avenue. The concern is one of the largest and most important of its kind in the city and controls an extensive and substantial business. Mr. Mack has been a resident of Indianapolis for nearly two score of years and has here won success through his own energy and ability, the while he has ever stood exponent of the most loyal and useful citizenship and has merited the high esteem in which he is uniformly held.

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Frederick John Mack comes of stanch Ger- man lineage and is himself a native of the old Buckeye state of the Union, having been born in the city of Cleveland, Ohio, on the 5th of January, 1854, and being a son of Frederick J. and Regina (Baumann) Mack, the former of whom was born in Wurtem- berg, Germany, and the latter in the kingdom of Bavaria. They came to America when young and passed the closing years of their lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where the father had long followed the vocation of mer- chant. Both were consistent members of the Lutheran Church and were folk of sterling attributes of character.

Frederick J. Mack gained his rudimentary education in the public schools of his native city, and in 1867, when thirteen years of age, he became a resident of Allen County, In- diana, where he continued to attend school as opportunity afforded and where he found cm- ployment principally in connection with manufacturing industries as an employe. In 1872, when eighteen years of age, Mr. Mack came to Indianapolis, where he has ever since maintained his residence and where he has gained independence and success as an active and enterprising business man. Soon after his arrival in the capital city he entered upon an apprenticeship at the trade of fresco paint- ing, in which he finally became an expert artisan and one of special ability in the de- vising and carrying out of original and artistic decorative work. In 1877, when twenty-three years of age, he initiated busi- ness for himself. in the line of his trade, and in this connection he has directed his ener- gies with so much of discrimination and abil- ity and has been so honorable and upright in all his dealings and transactions that he has built up a business of which no other of its kind in the city can take precedence. The enterprise is now conducted under the title' of F. J. Mack & Company, and his associates in the same are his son Frederick L. and Clemens W. Beck, who have proved his able and valued coadjutors.

Mr. Mack has taken a zealous interest in all that has tended to conserve the progress and material and civic welfare of his home city; and in the domain of practical politics he has wielded no little influence. In 1884 he was elected to represent the 24th ward in the city council, and in ' 1886 he was again elected to this office. In 1890 still more dis- tinetive evidence of his personal popularity was given in his election as representative of Marion County in the legislature, in which he was an active and valued member during the general assembly of 1891, in which he

made an admirable record in the conservation of wise legislation. For five years, under the administration of Mayor Thomas Taggart, he held the responsible position of member of the board of safety, representing an impor- tant department of the municipal govern- ment. Of this board he was president and as such he gave most effective and timely serv- ice in the handling of the affairs of the de- partment. For one year (1902-1903) Mr. Mack was a member of the park board. He has ever given an uncompromising allegiance to the Democratic party and is well fortified in his convictions and opinions as to matters of public policy.

Mr. Mack is identified with a number of the essentially representative fraternal and social organizations of the capital city, and in each his popularity is of the most positive order. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and he is also identified with the United Ancient Order of Druids, the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He holds membership in the Commercial Club, the German Orphan Home Association, the Indianapolis Maennerchor, the German House, the Independent Turnver- ein, the German-American Democratic Club, and other organizations, and the Southside Turnverein.

On the 2nd of March, 1876, Mr. Mack was united in marriage to Miss Josephine Beck, who was born at Germany, and who is a daughter of the late Conrad Beck. Mr. and Mrs. Mack have six children: Frederick L., Carrie, Lambert W., William E., Joseph C. and Lillian. Three are married and living in Indianapolis; Joseph C. is in Dallas, Texas, and William E. and Lillian are living at home.

CHARLES A. KORBLY. The state of In- diana has reason to take pride in the per- sonnel of her corps of representatives in the federal congress from the early days in the history of this commonwealth to the present time, and on the roll of honored names that indicates the service of distinguished citizens in this branch of governmental affairs there is reason in reverting with gratfication to that of Hon. Charles A. Korbly, of Indianapolis, who is the present representative of the Sev- enth district in the lower house of the na- tional legislature. He is a native son of the old Hoosier state, is a representative mem- ber of the bar of Indianapolis, and is a mem- ber of a family that has been one of promi- nence and influence in public and civic af- fairs in Indiana for many years.

Charles A. Korbly was born in Madison. Jefferson County, Indiana, on the 24th of

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March, 1871, and is a son of Charles Alex- ander Korbly and Mary (Bright) Korbly. His father was born in Kentucky and was a son of Christian Korbly, who was a native of Germany and who became a resident of the city of Louisville, Kentucky, where he continued to reside until 1849, when he joined the throng of argonauts making its way across the plains to California after the discovery of gold in that state, where he met his deatlı. Soon afterward his widow removed to Ripley County, Indiana, where Charles A. Korbly, Sr., was reared to maturity. Here he received some education at home, and for a while taught school. He finally took up the study of law, and for thirty years he was success- fully engaged in the practice of his profes- sion at Madison, from which place he removed to Indianapolis in 1895. He gained still higher prestige in his chosen profession after becoming a member of the bar of the capital city, and here he continued to maintain his home until the time of his death, in 1900, at the age of fifty-eight years. His wife sur- vives him and still resides in this city. She is a daughter of Michael Bright, who was a native of the state of New York and who was a scion of one of the stanch old Revo- lutionary families of Pennsylvania and who was an honored pioneer member of the bar of Indiana. He was engaged in the practice of his profession at Madison, this state, whence he finally removed to Indianapolis, where he continued in the successful practice of law, becoming one of the leading members of the bar of this commonwealth and wield- ing much influence in public affairs.

Hon. Charles A. Korbly has well upheld the honors of the name that he bears, both as a member of the legal profession and as a citizen of prominence and influence in public life. He was reared to maturity in his na- tive city of Madison, and there gained his early educational discipline in the parochial school of St. Mary's Catholic Church, of which his parents were devout communicants. He began the study of law under the able preceptorship of his honored father prior to the family removal to Indianapolis, and in the latter city he was admitted to the bar in the year 1896. Here his father was a member of the law firm of Smith & Korbly, and with this firm the subject of this review continued to be associated in practice until the death of his father, in 1900. He and his brother Bernard continued to be associated with Alonzo Green Smith in their professional work. and in 1902 Charles A. severed his con- nection with the firm and continued an in- dividual practice. Shortly afterward, how-

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Greater Indianapolis : the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes, Part 36

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