Greater Indianapolis : the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes, Part 5

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

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Judge Charles Remster was reared to ma- turity on the home farm and to the district schools is he indebted for his early educational discipline, which was supplemented by a course in the Veedersburg high school, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1882. He then entered Purdue University, at Lafayette, this state. in which institution he completed the work of the junior year, after which he withdrew and turned his attention to the reading of law, under the effective pre- ceptorship of a leading member of the bar at Veedershurg. He made rapid and substantial progress in the ahsorption and assimilation of the science of jurisprudence and in 1889 was duly admitted to the bar of his native state, in Fountain County. He maintained his resi- dence at Veedersburg and was one of the suc- cessful members of the Fountain County bar until 1895, when he removed to Indianapolis, finding in the capital city a wider sphere for

effective labor in his profession. He here gained a large and representative clientage and he has appeared in connection with much im- portant litigation in the federal and state courts, being known as a versatile and effective trial lawyer as well as a judicious and dis- criminating counsellor. ' He continued in the active general practice of his profession in In- dianapolis until his elevation to the bench, and at the time of his election to this high judicial oflice he was serving as assistant prosecuting attorney of Marion County, under Elliott. R. Hooton, the able incumbent of the office of county prosecutor. He was elected judge of the Marion circuit court in 1908, and he assumed the discharge of his official duties on the bench on the 11th of November of that year, having been elected for the reg- ular term of six years. The members of the bar and others who are familiar with his ad- ministration have naught but commendation for his able and equitable handling of the business of his tribunal, and not only has he shown a distinctive judicial acumen and a broad and exact knowledge of the minutiæ of the law and familiarity with precedents, but he has also carried forward the work of the court with facility, avoiding the accumulation of cases and the consequent burden of an over- loaded docket. Since he assumed office there have been few reversals of his decisions by the higher courts, and his course has been such as to gain to him a strong hold upon the con- fidence of the bar, those who have appeared as principals in cases submitted for his ad- judication, and the general public. In short, his course has amply justified the wisdom of those through whose suffrages he was elevated to the bench.

In politics Judge Remster has ever been aligned as a stanch supporter of the principles and policies for which the Democratic party stands sponsor, and he has rendered loyal serv- ice in the promotion of the party cause. He is a member of the Indiana Democratic Club, of which he served as president in 1907. In a fraternal way he is identified with the Knights of Pythias, and he is a member of the Indiana Bar Association and various other civic organizations.

On the 30th of October, 1894, Judge Rem- ster was united in marriage to Miss Isabelle McDaniel, who was born and reared in Foun- tain County. Indiana. and who is a daughter of Samuel MeDaniel, a representative farmer of that county.

THOMAS B. EASTMAN, M. D. In a profes- sion dignified and honored by the services of his father, the late Dr. Joseph Eastman, to whom a memoir is dedicated on other pages of

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this volume, Dr. Thomas Barker Eastman has well upheld. the professional prestige of the name which he bears,. and is now engaged in the practice of his profession in the capital city.

Dr. Thomas B. Eastman was born at Browns- burg, Hendricks County, Indiana, on the 8th of April, 1869. . As a review of the career of his father appears in this work, it is unneces- sary to repeat the genealogical data in the pres- ent sketch. Dr. Eastman secured his early edu- cational training in the public schools of In- dianapolis, and was then matriculated in Wa- bash College, in which institution he was grad- uated in 1890, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He forthwith entered the Central Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons, of Indian- apolis, in which he was graduated as a mem- ber of the class of 1893, and from which he received his well-earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. In the practice of his chosen pro- fession his success has been on a parity with his recognized ability and he is one of the es- sentially representative physicians and sur- geons of "Greater Indianapolis." He is a mem- ber of the American Medical Association, the American Association of Obstetrics and Gyne- cology, the Indiana State Medical Society and the Marion County Medical Society. In poli- tics he accords stanch allegiance to the Repub- lican party and in the Masonic fraternity he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, in which con- nection he is affiliated with Indiana Sovereign Consistory, Sublime Princes of the Royal Se- cret, and he also holds membership in Murat Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi, a literary college fraternity, and of the Phi Rho Sigma medical fraternity. By reason of his father's military service in the Civil War, he is eligible for and holds mem- bership in the Military Order of the Loyal Le- gion of the United States.

On the 22nd of March, 1893, was solem- nized the marriage of Dr. Eastman to Miss Ota Beal Nicholson, who was born in Crawfords- vills, Indiana, and who is a daughter of William E. and Jennie (Beal) Nicholson. Her father was a representative citizen and substantial capitalist of Crawfordsville, where his death occurred in 1903 and where his wife still main- tains her home. Dr. and Mrs. Eastman have one child,-Nicholson Joseph.

DAVID F. BERRY, M. D. This is an age of specializing, in other words, of concentration of effort, and in view of the wide realm cov- ered in sciences of medicine and surgery it may well be understood that in the lifetime of no one man is it possible to become familiar in a

practical and adequate way with the vast fund of information and the technical scheme of all that is involved in the work of the profession. Thus there is distinctive propriety in specializ- ing in this exacting vocation, for years of study, investigation and active work along certain specified lines may alone place ample demands upon the time and attention, as well as the mental powers, of the successful practitioner. Dr. David F. Berry of this article is numbered among the representative physicians and sur- geons of Indianapolis, where he makes a spe- cialty of the diseases of the ear, nose and throat, in the treatment of which he has been most successful and gained a high reputation.

Dr. Berry is a native son of the fine old Hoosier state, inasmuch as he was born on a farm near the village of Franklin, Johnson County, on the 25th of April, 1874. He is a son of William H. and Elizabeth J. (King) Berry, the former of whom was born near College Corner, Butler County, Ohio, and the latter in Boone County, Indiana, where her parents were early settlers. His father was one of the honored and influential citizens of the community in which he so long lived and labored to goodly ends. Practically his en- tire active career was one of close identifica- tion with the great basic industry of agri- culture, in connection with which he gained marked success. He was a stanch Republican in politics and served in various local offices of trust, and both he and his wife held member- ship in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

On the old home farm Dr. Berry was reared to maturity and after completing the curric- ulum of the public schools of the village of Franklin he became a clerk in various drug stores in Indianapolis, where he became a skill- ful pharmacist. He was employed in this capacity for a period of seven years and his knowledge of and taste for materia medica and therapeutics, gained during his experience as a pharmacist, led him to enter the medical profession, in which he felt were offered wider opportunities for effective service. After pass- ing one year in the study of medicine under the effective preceptorship of Dr. Thomas E. Courtney, of Indianapolis, he entered the Cen- tral College of Physicians & Surgeons, in this city, in which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1900 and from which he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine. In his class he had the distinction of winning the highest honors in surgery and thus was made the recipient of the John M. Gaston gold surgery medallion. He forthwith ini- tiated the practice of medicine in Indianap- olis, and he is now one of the prominent and successful specialists, devoting his attention

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exclusively to diseases of the ear, nose and throat and having control -of a representative clientage, also holding a secure place in the esteem of his professional confreres and the confidence and regard of the general public. He is a member of the Indianapolis Medical Society and the Indiana State Medical So- ciety, and the American Medical Association.

In politics Dr. Berry is arrayed as a stal- wart supporter of the principles and policies for which the Republican party stands spon- sor, and he is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is also a member of the Marion Club, one of the representative civic and social organizations of the capital city. He and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

CHARLES F. REMY. The bar of the City of Indianapolis has as one of its representa- tive members Charles F. Remy, former re- porter of the supreme court of the state and now senior member of the law firm of Remy & Berryhill, whose offices are located in the Law building. He is a representative of the fourth generation of the Remy family in In- diana, with whose annals the name has been identified since the territorial epoch of its history.

Charles F. Remy was born on the parental farmstead, near the village of Hope, in Haw- creek Township, Bartholomew County, Indiana, on the 25th of February, 1860, and is a son of Calvin J. and Miranda C. (Essex) Remy, the former of French and Irish lineage and the latter of German. Calvin J. Remy was born in Franklin County, Indiana, as was also his father, John T. Remy, the year of whose na- tivity was 1810; showing that the family was founded in that section of the state in the early pioneer days, when the district was es- sentially an unbroken forest wilderness. John T. Remy became one of the successful farmers of Bartholomew County, and there his son Calvin J. also has gained prestige and defi- nite prosperity in connection with the great basic industry of agriculture, with which he is still actively identified. He is one of the honored and influential citizens of his section, is a stanch Republican in his political proclivi- ties, and both he and his wife hold member- ship in the Baptist Church. Mrs. Remy is likewise a representative of one of the ster- ling pioneer families of the Hoosier state and is a native of Bartholomew County.

The boyhood and early youth of Charles F. Remy were compassed by the beneficent in- fluences of the home farm, in whose work he early began to lend his aid, and to the district schools is he indebted for his early educational discipline. He made excellent progress in the

accumulation of scholastic knowledge and finally was matriculated in Franklin College, at Franklin, Indiana, in which well ordered institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1884, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Later he entered the law depart- ment of the celebrated University of Michi- gan, at Ann Arbor, where he completed the prescribed . technical course and was graduated in 1888, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was forthwith admitted to the bar of Michigan and also to that of Indiana, and he then located in Columbus, the county seat of Bartholomew County, where he entered in- to a professional partnership with Judge Mar- shall Hacker, with whom he was. associated in practice for a period of eight years, within which he emphatically demonstrated his pow- ers as an able and versatile trial lawyer and well fortified counsellor. In 1894 he was elected to represent Bartholomew County in the lower house of the state legislature, serving one term and proving a valuable working member of the general assembly of 1895. He was as- signed to various committees of importance and exercised no little influence both on the floor of the house and in the committee room. He was the house chairman of the Committee on Benevolent Institutions, and in that capacity assisted in the enactment that year of the law putting the state's benevolent institutions on a non-partisan basis. It was the hard fight of that session.

In 1896 Mr. Remy was elected reporter of the supreme court of the state, giving most discriminating and able service in this im- portant office, to which he was re-elected in 1900. upon the expiration of his first term. He was the first Republican ever elected to a state office from Bartholomew County, and he continued incumbent of the same until the ex- piration of his second term, in January, 1905. He did not become a candidate for re-election. Since his retirement from this position Mr. Remy has been engaged in active general prac- tice of law in Indianapolis, being associated with James M. Berryhill, under the firm name if Remy & Berryhill, with offices at 911-15 Law building. The firm controls a substan- tial and essentially representative business, and its members have appeared in connection with much important litigation in both the state and federal courts, also acting in an advisory capacity for a large and important clientage.

In politics Mr. Remy is arrayed as a stal- wart in the camp of the Republican party, and he has rendered efficient service in the promotion of its cause. He was a leader in the party maneuvers in his native county prior to his removal to the capital city, and his in-

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terest in the cause has not abated in the least, though he. subordinates all else to the, insistent demands of his professional business. In a fraternal way Mr. Remy is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Baptist Church.

On the 25th of November, 1891, was solem- nized the marriage of Mr. Remy to Miss De- borah Henderson, who was a resident of Bar- tholomew County, Indiana, and who is a daugh- ter of William Henderson. a representative citizen of Columbus, tha er .ty. Mr. and Mrs. Remy have one child, , Iliam H., who was born on the 18th of December, 1892.

WILLIAM FREDERICK ELLIOTT, a leading member of the Indianapolis bar and a widely known author of legal works, is junior in the law firm of Elliott and Elliott, of which his distinguished father is the senior. The latter, Hon. Byron K. Elliott, has spent nearly thir- ty years of his professional career in the of- ficial or judicial service of his city, county and state, the last decade of that period being oc- cupied as a judge of the state supreme court. The unusual and splendid services of this ven- erable citizen are portrayed in other pages of this publication. William F. is a native of Indianapolis, born April 29, 1859, and was reared and educated in that city. He received a thorough scholastic training, graduating

from Butler College in 1880 and from the law school of the University of Michigan in 1881.

Upon obtaining his professional degree, Mr. Elliott at once entered practice at Indianapolis, and since 1893 has been associated with his father under the style of Elliott and Elliott. Father and son are also joint authors of sev- eral standard text books on law, among which might be named as the later and best known works, "Elliott on Evidence" and a revised edition of "Elliott on Railroads". William F. has been a prolific and valued contributor to law literature, having written much for both encyclopedias and magazines. Mr. Elliott lec- tured at DePauw while they had a law school and for about ten years he has and does still lecture at the Indiana Law School of Indianap- olis. In 1897 he married Miss Effie Mar- quardt, of Des Moines, Iowa. In Masonry, Mr. Elliott is of the thirty-second degree and in his citizenship and private life does not belie the square and benevolent principles of his order. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the Sigma Ki fraternity.

WILL H. LATTA. Among the younger lead- ers of the Indianapolis bar is Will H. Latta, who is a native of the Hoosier state born No- vember 5. 1868. He is a son of William W. and Harriet E. (Jackson) Latta and he spent

the years of his development into manhood on .his father's farm. The son obtained a sound education, graduating, from DePauw Univer- sity in 1890 and pursuing a course of one year in the law school of that institution.

At his graduation in law and admission to the bar, in 1891, Mr. Latta located at In- dianapolis, where he has since been an active practitioner with a growing reputation. In 1894 he married Miss Carrie Hunt, and both he and his wife are members of the Meridian Street Methodist Episcopal Church, to whose social, charitable and religious work they are valued contributors.

DEWITT V. MOORE. Among those who are lending a due quota of aid in the laudable work of building up the greater and larger industrial Indianapolis Mr. Moore occupies a position of no secondary prominence, as he is identified in a capitalistic and executive way with two of the important industrial concerns of the capital city, and he exemplifies in marked de- gree that resourceful initiative power and that progressive spirit through which the civic and business interests of Indianapolis have been so signally furthered in late years. He stands to- day as one of the essentially representative business men of the younger generation in the capital city, and while it is incompatible with the province of this publication to enter into extended genealogical details, it is most con- sistent that a brief review of his career be in- corporated within its pages.

DeWitt Van Deusen Moore, civil engineer and contractor, was born in Perry, Lake Coun- ty, Ohio, on the 6th of April, 1874, and is the only child of Rev. Webster Oliver Moore and Anna Electa (Van Deusen) Moore, the for- mer of whom was born in Vermont, a scion of one of the old and honored families of New England, and the latter of whom was born in New York City, of stanch Holland Dutch lineage. The father is a prominent member of the clergy of the Christian, or Disciples, Church, in whose ministry he has long ren- dered zealous and effective service. He was graduated in the Northwestern Christian Uni- versity, now known as Butler College, located in Irvington, an attractive suburb of Indian- apolis. He is an influential figure in the af- fairs of his church and has been for many years a valued contributor to its periodical literature as well as one of the able exponents of its faith.

Because of the somewhat itinerant nature of his father's vocation, DeWitt V. Moore gained his early education in many different public schools, in the states of Ohio and New York, and his lack of continued attendance in any one school and the absence' of uniformity

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in the grading systems of the various schools, made it virtually impossible for him to gradu- ate, though he, perhaps, covered a wider range of study than did those who followed the cur- riculum of the public schools of any one place. His higher academic discipline was secured in the normal school at Wauseon, Ohio, and his- toric old Hiram College, at Hiram, that state, where he prosecuted his studies for one year.

After leaving college, having determined to prepare himself for the architectural profes- sion, Mr. Moore went to the city of Cleveland, Ohio, where he passed some time in technical study and in working at practical carpentry, as a prerequisite of success in his chosen voca- tion. After leaving Cleveland he passed some time in the office of one of the leading archi- tects of Toledo, Ohio. The broken and inter- mittent character of Mr. Moore's education gave him no special standing or prestige from the standard of mere diplomas or collegiate de- grees, and his education as represented in his mastery of his profession must be considered more as a personal grasping of those things most essential to his chosen profession. His knowledge has been gained by a valuable com- bination of technical study and practical ex- perience, and none can doubt that he has made the best of the opportunities presented and that he has no reason to regret the lack of the mere superficial honor of a degree. The value of such an education of hard work is best evi- denced by his rapid advancement and by the large and important work designed by him and constructed under his direction.

Soon after identifying himself with the prac- tical work of the architectural profession Mr. Moore became convinced that his maximum potentiality lay along constructional rather than the artistic and decorative lines of the profession, and this decision naturally turned him toward the field of civil engineering. With this in view he came to Indianapolis in the autumn of 1895 and, through the kindly consideration of "Uncle Billy" Jackson, the ever loyal friend of young men, he entered the employ of the Union Railway Company, with which he remained for nearly seven years. His labors with this corporation were under the immediate supervision of the late Martin W. Mansfield, assistant chief engineer of the Penn- sylvania Railroad. At the time mentioned Mr. Mansfield was superintendent of the Pennsyl- vania lines in Indianapolis and Mr. Moore was soon advanced to the position of assistant engineer on the Indianapolis & Vincennes divi- sion. During the last four years of his railroad experience he carried the work of both the In- dianapolis and the Vincennes offices, with a large number of assistants. His association with Mr.

Mansfield was of great benefit to him, especial- ly in the development of character and broad- minded policies. Much systematic training also was obtained during this period, through his assisting in the preparation of reports and spe- cial work.

In April, 1902, there came to Mr. Moore the solution of the problem whether to accept pro- motion with the railroad company and enter upon the wandering career of a railway civil engineer or to leave the service and enter busi- ness in an independent way. The choice was made for the latter and he entered into part- nership with H. A. Mansfield, former city en- gineer of Indianapolis, under the firm name of the Mansfield Engineering Company. In August of the same year the Moore-Mansfield Construction Company was organized and in- corporated, and the engineering and construc- tion business handled by these two companies has been of wide scope and importance, espe- cially when is taken into consideration the youth of the interested principals and of the companies themselves. The aim of Messrs. Mansfield and Moore has been to establish in Indianapolis engineering and contracting con- cerns which could be depended upon for high- grade engineering service in connection with the commercial business of contracting, and with the attempt also to place the latter on a systematic and substantial basis. The field of operations has been varied, and no attempt has been made to specialize along any one line. Bridges, railroads, sewers, streets, buildings, etc., constructed from the plans of others or from their own designs, have demonstrated the facilities and powers of the two concerns and also the splendid technical and practical equip- ment of Mr. Moore and his confrere.

In February, 1904, Mr. Moore began to give special thought and study to the use of con- crete and reinforced concrete in connection with building construction. At this time there was not to be found in Indianapolis a single building of any importance that was constructed of the reinforced concrete, nor, indeed, was there such a building in the entire state. His first efforts to influence the utilization of this system of construction met with apathy, not to say discouragement. However, the knowledge of the value of the system and of its effective application in other cities was rapidly gaining recognition, and Mr. Moore began the use of the reinforced concrete in a small way and finally, during the spring and summer of 1906. the Moore-Mansfield Construction Company had the satisfaction of constructing under contract the fine Board of Trade building in Indian- apolis, an eight-story structure, all of rein- forced concrete. Since the completion of the

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Greater Indianapolis : the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes, Part 5

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