Greater Indianapolis : the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes, Part 67

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

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On the 11th of October, 1882, Mr. Allison was united in marriage to Miss Mary M. Rob- bins, daughter of Captain Moses W. Robbins, of Charleston, Illinois, and concerning the children of this union the following brief data are entered: Frances L. is the wife of Frank A. Preston, of Indianapolis: Lila E. is the wife of Dr. Chas. D. Humes: Charles W. is a member of the class of 1913, in Wabash College : Ruth H. is attending Ogontz College

near Philadelphia, and Mary A. is attending Knickerbocker Hall, Indianapolis.

GUSTAVUS H. Voss. Among the many noble figures that have lent dignity and honor to the legal profession in the State of Indiana a place of special distinction must be accorded to Judge Gustavus H. Voss, who was long rec- ognized as one of the leading members of the bar of this commonwealth. His life was one of large, generous and distinct accomplish- ment, and our later generation may well pause to contemplate his exalted and useful carcer and pay due tribute to his memory. He at- tained high honors as a loyal and public- spirited citizen, and his appreciation of his stewardship was on a parity with the dis+ tinctive success which it was his to gain through the proper application of his own energies and talents.

Gustavus Henry Voss was born in the City of Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 14, 1822, and his death occurred at his home in the City of Indianapolis on the 15th of March, 1883. He was a son of Andrew and Jane (Ticer) Voss, the former of whom was born in Charleston, South Carolina, of stanch Danish extraction, and the latter of whom was a native of North Carolina and a member of one of the patrician families of the historic Old Dominion, being a descendant of the Doty family which came over in the Mayflower. Andrew Voss became a substantial business man of Cincinnati. After due preliminary discipline the subject of this sketch entered Woodward College, in Cincinnati, in which he was graduated. Thereafter he was matricu- lated in the law department of the University of Indiana, at Bloomington, and he had the distinction of being a member of the first class graduated in this department of the state uni- versity, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Having an analytical, re- ceptive mind and a natural predilection for dialectics, Judge Voss had early determined to prepare himself for the legal profession, and after duly fortifying himself in its learning he engaged in the practice of law at Nobles- ville, Indiana, where he met with immediate success and proved himself admirably equipped both as a trial lawyer and counselor. Later he removed to Greencastle, this state, where he continued in practice for six years, within which he gained a professional reputation that far transcended local limitations. Ever aggres- sive, enterprising and public-spirited as a citi- zen, he contributed generously to the promo- tion of the civic and material progress of Greencastle, and there he erected a large and substantial business block. He finally sought a broader field of endeavor, and in 1868 he

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removed to Indianapolis, where he soon as- sumed a place of leadership in his profession, to whose work he long continued to give his attention and in connection with which he ap- peared in much important litigation in the state and federal courts. He is remembered as a lawyer of profound erudition and great forensic versatility, and his name shall · ever hold a place of honor on the roll of those whose able efforts and exalted characters have given dignity to the bar of this state.

Though ever a close devotee of his profes- sion, Judge Voss found many other avenues in which to exert his splendid energies, and he did much to further the progress and pros- perity of the capital city of Indiana. He iden- tified himself with various business enterprises and showed marked discrimination in the buy- ing of local real estate as well as in the im- proving of the same. Through the apprecia- tion in the value of his real estate holdings here and in other parts of the state he ac- quired a substantial fortune,-the tangible re- sults of his own discernment and business sa- gacity. He. was essentially liberal and loyal as a citizen, and his aid and influence were ever extended in support of measures and enter- prises tending to advance the general welfare and promote the commercial and civic progress of his home city. During the crucial period of the Civil War he was unremitting in his efforts to uphold the cause of the Union, and his zeal was one of- definite action and great liberality. In the promotion of enlistments for the service he made vigorous and fruitful speeches throughout the state, and his fervid patriotism did much to quicken loyal response on the part of volunteers. During. the absence of soldiers at the front he personally provided from his own means for the expenses. of many families who thus became dependent, while in many other ways his aid was extended in fur- therance of the righteous cause.

Judge Voss was the owner of a fine farm property near Noblesville and there he indulged himself in the breeding of fine horses, for which he ever had a great admiration and fondness. He was a man of fine social qualities, and his genial and gracious personality gained to him stanch friends among all classes, as he was most democratic in his attitude and placed true val- uations on all sorts and conditions of men. He had naught of intellectual intolerance or big- otry, though he was a man of recondite knowl- edge along manifold lines; he was a great reader and close student, and he kept also in touch with the current events and issues of the hour, so that he was invariably well forti- fied in his opinions as to matters of public im- port and political expediency. His support

was given to the Republican party and he was an able exponent of its principles and policies. Judge Voss was a man of deep spirituality and was a devout and zealons member of the Chris- tian Church. He was affiliated with the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows and also held membership in various social and professional organizations of representative character.

In 1845 Judge Voss was united in marriage to Miss Sarah A. Evans, who was born in Kentucky, whence she came with her parents to Indiana when a girl. She was summoned to the life eternal in 1880, and concerning the four children of this union the following brief data are given: Theresa Herriott is the widow of the late Weller B. Smith, of Indianapolis, where she still resides; Corinna is the widow of Isaac S. Randolph and now resides at Nobles- ville; and Miss Tarquinia and Jay G. are both residents of Indianapolis.

ORANGE S. RUNNELS, M. D. Among the representative physicians and surgeons of the capital city of Indiana to whom it has been given to gain especial distinction in their pro- fession is Dr. Orange Scott Runnels, who is one of the leading exponents of the beneficent system of Homeopathy in Indiana, and who has held many important preferments in the line of his profession and in civic positions of trust. He owns and conducts a finely equipped and appointed private surgical hos- pital at No. 522 North Illinois street and the same receives a large and representative sup- port. A man of distinctive academic and professional attainments Dr. Runnels well merits consideration in this work, which gives special recognition to those who mark leader- ship in the various fields of human endeavor in the designated province of the publication.

Dr. Orange Scott Runnels was born in Fre- donia, Mckean Township, Licking County, Ohio, on the 11th of June, 1847, and is a son of Edwin and Lydia (Eaton) Runnels, the former of whom was born in Vermont and the latter in the State of New York.

The Runnels family is of stanch Scotch and English descent and has been established in America since the colonial epoch of our national history. The name has been spelled both Runnels and Reynolds, according to the Scotch or Irish lineage of the branches, but the original Scotch orthography is that which is retained by him whose name initiates this article. The original representatives of the family in America came from Scotland and first settled in Nova Scotia, whence migra- tion was later made to the State of Vermont, many years prior to the War of the Revolu- tion. Stephen Runnels, great-grandfather of the doctor, was a gallant soldier in the Con-

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tinental line and took part in the battle of Bunker Hill, in which he lost the gun which he had used with decisive effect. According to the New Hampshire provincial records he gained the office of corporal. Colonel Daniel Runnels (or Reynolds), great-great-uncle of the subject of this review, was captain of Company I in Colonel Nichols' regiment, which accompanied General Stark to Ben- nington, Vermont, in 1776, and later he be- came in turn major and colonel of that regi- ment, attaining high distinction as one of the able and gallant officers in the great strug- gle through which oppression was hurled back and the boon of liberty achieved. Revo- lutionary records also bear evidence of the valiant service of another representative of the Runnels family, and concerning him the following has been written: "Enos Runnels also was in the battle of Bunker Hill, in Cap- tain Moore's company, Colonel Stark's regi- ment. They started from Medford early in the morning and reached Bunker Hill 'along in the forenoon'. They marched to the re- doubt, which was then full. Orders were given to the regiment to take the post on the left when the rail fence was commenced, and he helped to make it. He afterward enlisted for three years, and served in the Northern army, under General Schuyler; he was taken prisoner by the Indians and delivered to the British. He escaped imprisonment at Ticon- deroga, rejoined the army under General Gates, and was present at the surrender of Burgoyne, at Saratoga. At the time of Ar- nold's treachery he was stationed at West Point, and he performed guard duty in the same room with Major Andre on the last night of the latter's life."

Dr. Runnels is a grandson of Stephen Run- nels, who was born at Topsham, Vermont, where his father followed the vocation of farming, and he himself was reared in the sturdy discipline of the old New England farm, continuing to be identified with the great basic industry of agriculture in Ver- mont until 1819, when he severed the home ties and with his family set forth for the wilds of Ohio. He secured a tract of wild land in Licking County and there instituted the reclamation of a farm, continuing to re- side on this homestead until his death, at which time he was fifty years of age. At Cambridge, Vermont, on the 26th of January, 1806, he was united in marriage to Miss Jane Brown, who survived him by a number of years. Of their children six sons and three daughters attained to years of maturity.

Edwin Runnels. father of the doctor, gained his rudimentary education in the com-

mon schools of the old Green Mountain state and was a lad of twelve years at the time of the family removal to Ohio, where he was reared to manhood under the scenes and in- fluences of the pioneer era. He lived up to the full tension of arduous toil, but his alert mind and distinctive ambition enabled him to effectively supplement his early educa- tional training, and he became a man of ma- ture judgment and broad information. He reclaimed a farm in Licking County, being one of the honored and influential citizens of his community, and there continued to reside until he was well advanced in years, when he removed to Red Oak, Iowa, where he died in 1879, at the age of seventy-two years. His cherished and devoted wife preceded him to the life eternal by three years, and was sixty- seven years of age at the time of her death. In religious faith they were originally Bap- tists, but they later identified themselves with the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Edwin Runnels was a forceful public speaker and took active part in political af- fairs. In the climacteric period. leading up to and culminating in the Civil War he was an uncompromising abolitionist, and he was an efficient conductor on the historic "under- ground railway", through the agency of which many a poor slave was assisted to free- dom. Of his eleven children, seven sons and four daughters, six are now living (1909) : Celestia is the wife of Rev. George H. Hicks, of Sidney, Iowa; Ormond is a resident of Red Oak, Iowa; Annie P. is the wife of Charles McFarland, of Nipomo, California; Dr. Orange S. is the immediate subject of this sketch; Dr. Moses T. is a leading physician and surgeon of Kansas City, Missouri; and Sherwin T. is a resident of Nipomo, Califor- nia. Mrs. Lydia (Eaton) Runnels, mother of these children, was a daughter of Sidney Eaton, who was a native of Connecticut, of English lineage, and who removed from that state to Rome, New York, from which place he came to Licking County, Ohio, in an early day, there developing a farm and passing the residue of his life, which was prolonged to an advanced age.

Orange Scott Runnels was reared on the old homestead farm in Licking County, Ohio, and as a boy and youth was not denied the privilege of contributing his quota to the various departments of farm work, the while he attended the district schools during the winter terms. Later he was at intervals a student in Oberlin College, at Oberlin, Ohio, but impaired health prevented him from completing the course upon which he had en- tered with all of zeal and ambition. During

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his years of study in this institution he taught in the district schools each winter and by this means defrayed his college expenses. He be- gan the study of medicine under the effective preceptorship of Dr. John B. Hunt, of Co- lumbus, Ohio, and after due preliminary reading he was matriculated in the Cleveland University of Medicine, in the City of Cleve- land, in which he was graduated in February, 1871, and from which he received his well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. In the following April he took up his residence in Indianapolis, where he has been engaged in the successful work of his profession during the long intervening period of nearly forty years, marked by earnest devotion to his ex- acting vocation and by that broad human sympathy which transcends mere sentiment to become an actuating motive in the relief of distress and suffering. Since 1885 he has devoted himself exclusively to the surgical branch of his profession, and in the same his reputation is far from being one of local or- der. He has taken effective post-graduate courses in leading medical schools in Chicago and New York and attended important clinics of the most renowned surgeons in Europe. In 1890 he established the Runnels Surgical Hospital, and the same is now one of the best equipped and most ably managed private in- stitutions of its kind in the Union-in fact its facilities are on a parity with those of many of the leading public or semi-public hospitals. The doctor has been an extensive and valued contributor to the standard and periodical literature of his profession and has been called upon to present papers before the various professional organizations with which he is identified. In 1894 he received from Oberlin College the honorary degree of Master of Arts, a fitting recognition of his ability and his generous services to humanity.

Dr. Runnels was incumbent of the office of surgeon general of the Indiana National Guard during the administration of Governor Mount, 1897-1901, and established and had supervision of Camp Mount military hospital, in Indianapolis, after the return of the In- diana troops from the Spanish-American War. The doctor is identified with the Amer- ican Institute of Homeopathy, the Indiana Institute of Homeopathy and the Marion County Homeopathic Medical Society. In . 1886 he was president of the National Sur- gical and Gynecological Society, was presi- dent of the American Institute of Homœop- athy in 1886, and president of the Indiana Institute of Homeopathy in 1884. He is also an honorary member of the Massachu- setts Surgical & Gynecological Society, the

New York State Homoeopathic Medical So- ciety, the Missouri Institute of Homeopathy, the Kentucky Homeopathic Society, and the Southern Homeopathic Association. He is also identified with the American Association of Orificial Surgeons, of which he was presi- dent in 1894. The doctor was chairman of the delegates from the American Institute of Homeopathy to the World's Homoeopathic Congress held in Basle, Switzerland, in 1886, and was made vice-president of that notable body.

In politics Dr. Runnels is aligned as a stanch supporter of the principles and poli- cies for which the Republican party stands sponsor, and while the exactings of his pro- fession and his devotion to the same have precluded his entering the domain of prac- tical politics, he is esentially public-spirited and progressive as a citizen and lends his co- operation in the promotion of enterprises and measures tending to advance the general wel- fare. He is a member of the Indianapolis Board of Trade, is a director and vice-presi- dent of the Inter-State Life Assurance So- ciety of Indianapolis, and is examiner for the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, Newark, New Jersey, and of the New Eng- land Mutual Life Insurance Company . of Boston, Massachusetts. He enjoys marked popular esteem in his home city and is con- nected with representative social organiza- tions of local order, including the Commer- cial Club, the University Club, and the In- dianapolis Literary Club. He and his wife hold membership in the First Congregational Church.

On the 20th of June, 1872, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Runnels to Miss Dora Clark, of Columbus, Ohio. She was born and reared in that state and was a daughter of the late Sumner Clark, a representative citi- zen of Columbus. Of the four children of this union the first born, Edwin C., died at the age of five years; Walter died at the age of eight months; Scott C. is now engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in In- dianapolis; and Clark was nine years of age at the time of his death. Mrs. Runnels was summoned to the life eternal on March 24, 1891, at the age of forty-five years, having been a devout member of the Congregational Church.

June 28, 1893, Dr. Runnels was united in marriage to Mrs. Alice (Barteau) McCulloch, widow of Rev. Oscar C. McCulloch, who was minister of the Plymouth Congregational Church of Indianapolis, and a resident of Indianapolis at the time of his death. Mrs. Runnels was born at Ellington, Connecticut,

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November 15, 1854, and is a daughter of Morris R. Barteau, an influential citizen of Appleton, Wisconsin. No children have been born of the second marriage.

JOHN NEWMAN CAREY. A prominent fig- ure in connection with industrial enterprises of distinctive scope and importance and a member of one of the old and honored fam- ilies of Indianapolis, which has been his home from his boyhood days, Mr. Carey well merits representation in this work, which has to do with the history of the capital city and its people.

John Newman Carey was born in the City of Dayton, Ohio, on the 4th of March, 1855, and is a son of Dr. Harvey G. and Mary (Newman) Carey, the former of whom was born in Sidney, Ohio, and the latter in Cen- terville, Indiana. The former was sixty- eight years at the time of his death, which occurred in Indianapolis, and his wife passed away at the age of sixty-seven years. Of their four children two are now living, of whom the subject of this sketch is the younger; Gertrude C. is the wife of Dr. Hen- ry Jameson, a representative physician and surgeon of Indianapolis. Dr. Carey was en- gaged in the practice of medicine. in Dayton, Ohio, until 1863, when he removed to Indian- apolis, where he became superintendent of the Indiana Central Railroad, of which his fath- er-in-law, John S. Newman was at the time president. Later the doctor became president of the Merchants' National Bank and he was otherwise conspicuously identified with busi- ness and civic affairs in the capital city. He was vice-president of the Van Camp Hard- ware & Iron Company, and prior to assuming this position had been one of the interested principals in the firm of Layman, Carey & Company, wholesale hardware dealers. He retired from active business about two years prior to his demise. He was for some time a member of the city council and also of the board of education, and was a member of the committeé which had charge of the organiz- ing and equipping of the public library, which is still maintained under the supervi- sion of the board of education. He was deeply interested in educational and religious affairs, was a close friend and adviser of Professor A. C. Shortridge, in whose honor the Shortridge high school was named, and he and his wife were zealous and valued members of the Meridian Street Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics Dr. Carey was aligned as a loyal supporter of the prin- ciples and policies of the Republican party and he was a citizen who ever commanded an invincible hold upon the confidence and

esteem of the city in which he so long main- tained his home and to whose material and social advancement he contributed in no in- significant degree.

John N .. Carey, the immediate subject of this review, gained his early educational training in the public schools of Indianapolis, and completed the curriculum of the high school, after which he attended Brown Uni- versity, in the City of Providence, Rhode Island. After leaving college Mr. Carey re- turned to Indianapolis and identified himself with the wholesale hardware business of Lay- man, Carey & Company, of which firm his father was a member, as already noted. In 1883 Mr. Carey became manager of the wholesale drug business of Daniel Stewart, and with this large and important concern he was identified as a stockholder and ex- ecutive officer until the 1st of October, 1908, when he severed his association with the same and founded the Stewart-Carey Glass Com- pany, of which he is president and treasurer. The company are manufacturers of and wholesale dealers in decorative window glass and the highest grades of polished plate and window glass, art glass and mirrors, and the concern represents one of the important in- dustrial enterprises of the city. Mr. Carey is also president and treasurer of the Dia- mond Flint Glass Company, of Jackson, Ohio, manufacturers of flint glass bottles.

Mr. Carey is known as one of the most enthusiastic and zealous workers in the local Young Men's Christian Association, of whose board of directors he has been a member for fifteen years. He served for some time as vice-president of the association, and has been president of the same since 1907. Of the first mentioned office he was incumbent. at the time of the celebrated "whirlwind campaign", in which two hundred and sev- enty-three thousand dollars were raised in eighteen days for the erection of the new association building, which is one of the finest in the Union and which was dedicated in February, 1909. In politics, though never a seeker of public office, Mr. Carey is a stanch supporter of the cause of the Republican party. He is a member of the National Drug- gists' Association, of which he served as presi- dent, having been elected to this office at the meeting held in the City of Washington, D. C., in 1906. He is a member of the Indian- apolis Board of Trade, the Columbia Club, the Commercial Club, and of the Indianapo- lis Dramatic Club, of which he served one term as president, and as a loyal and pro- gressive citizen he takes a deep interest in all that makes for the advancement and gen-

JAMES A . BRUCE

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eral prosperity of Indianapolis. He and his wife are active in the various departments of work in the Meridian Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of which both are mem- bers, and he has been a member of the official board of this church for the past thirty years. In all the relations of life he is well upholding the honors of the family name and he is one of the well known and highly esteemed citizens of Indianapolis, in whose social circles he and his wife maintain a prominent place.

On the 1st of May, 1879, Mr. Carey was united in marriage to Miss Mary Stewart, who was born in Greensburg, Indiana, on the 5th of March, 1859, and who is a daughter of Daniel and Martha (Tarkington) Stewart. When she was a child her parents removed to Indianapolis, and her father was long and prominently identified with business interests in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Carey have four children, Martha, Eleanor, Ruth and Mary.

JAMES A. BRUCE. The late James A. Bruce, who died at the beautiful old family homestead, at the corner of Twenty-third street and Col- lege avenue, in Indianapolis, on the 12th of December, 1892, was a native son of the old Hoosier state and a scion of one of the hon- ored pioneer families of Marion County. It was his to achieve marked success in connec-

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Greater Indianapolis : the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes, Part 67

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