Greater Indianapolis : the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes, Part 90

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

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he mueh disliked grumbling or complaint of any kind. He covered even the weather with his broad mantle of charity, and when anyone grumbingly spoke of rain or cold, his question was-"Children, whom are you complaining of?" Everybody who knew him loved him. Even the little children along his daily walk, however rude to others, always made way for him. When he passed away, one of his friends Judge C. C. Hines, said in speaking of him:

"My first acquaintance with Mr. Sharpe dates back to 1854, nearly forty years ago, when I was a law student. The first impres- sion he made on me was that of a just, broad- minded man of sterling integrity and much more than average ability. What especially im- pressed me was his sympathy with and love of young people. He was always ready to en- courage a young man, and I know that he im- pressed himself upon my memory, and I be- lieve upon my character, more than almost any other person ; so that my recollections of him, as then in the prime of life, are warmly tinged with gratitude. I have never, in my most inti- mate relations with him, had any occasion to revise those early impressions. He seemed to know and seek but one thing-his duty. That, he was always anxious to perform. I knew him in prosperity and dire adversity, but he was the same large minded, honest minded man with- out selfishness, whether as head of a banking institution or the benevolent society. I was warmly attached to him. The world was bet- ter for his life."

Another friend said : "By the death of Thomas H. Sharpe, Indianapolis loses a man whose life has been an example to his fellow- men and a benefit to the community. Its mem- ories remain as a rich legacy to his family and his friends. Through prosperity he was always progressive and public-spirited. Through mis- fortune he was patient, gentle and never bitter. Always he was unselfish and thoughtful to others. An earnest Christian, his life has been consistent with his professions. Visited by misfortunes that would have broken down many younger and stronger men, he went on bravely and sweetly to the end, never complaining, never faltering.

His life passed away as sets the morning star, Which goes not down behind the darkened west,

Nor sinks obscured amid the vapors of the sky, But fades away into the light of day."

"Mark the perfect man and behold the up- right, for the end of that man is peace."

HENRY W. TUTEWILER. In the matter of definite accomplishment and high personal in- tegrity Indianapolis has every reason to be

proud of her native sons who are lending their co-operation in forwarding her indus- trial, commercial and civic advancement. As a member of one of the honored pioneer fani- ilies of the Indiana capital and metropolis and as one of the representative business men of the city, Mr. Tutewiler is specially eligible for consideration in a publication of the province assigned to the one at hand. He has been for many years actively engaged in business in Indianapolis, where he is now senior member of the firm of Tutewiler & Son, undertakers and funeral directors. Ever loyal and public-spirited as a citizen, he has contributed his quota to the upbuilding of the greater Indianapolis, where he has ever commanded the most unqualified popular confidence and esteem. He rendered effect- ive service as a soldier in the Civil War, has held various positions of public trust, includ- ing that of city treasurer, and has at all times acquitted himself as a man of strength and impregnable subjective honor.

The birthplace of Mr. Tutewiler was the family homestead on Massachusetts avenue, Indianapolis, where he was ushered into the world on the 9th of January, 1842, a son of Henry and Nancy ( Jennings) Tutewiler. His father was born near Lancaster, Ohio, and was a son of Jacob Tutewiler, who was born in Pennsylvania, of sterling German ances- try, and who was a scion of one of the hon- ored pioneer families of the old Keystone state, where he was reared and educated and whence he removed to Ohio in the pioneer epoch in the history of that commonwealth. The mother of the subject of this review was likewise born in Ohio and was a daughter of Israel Jennings, ho came from Ohio to In- dianapolis in an early day, becoming one of the pioneer business men of the capital city, where he passed the residue of his life. Henry Tutewiler took up his residence in In- dianapolis in the year 1834, and here his mar- riage was solemnized. He became one of the successful contractors and builders of this city, where he continued in business along this line for many years. He finally retired, when well advanced in years, and he con- tinued to maintain his home in Indianapolis until his death, in 1896, at which time he was nearly ninety years of age, being one of the honored pioneer citizens and one of the most venerable residents of Marion County when he was thus summoned to his final rest. He was a man of sterling attributes of char- acter, of strong individuality and fine mental- ity. He wielded no little influence as a suc- cessful business man and loyal citizen. In the early days he served as a member of the

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city council, but other than this he never con- sented to become a candidate for public of- fice. He was a man of deep religious con- victions and exemplified his faith in his daily life. He was one of the organizers of and zealous workers in the Roberts Chapel Meth- odist Episcopal Church, now known as the Roberts Park Methodist Episcopal Church, and his devoted wife also took an active part in the various departments of the church work. She was summoned to eternal rest in 1850, at the age of forty-two years. Of their eight children five died in infancy, and of the three who attained to years of maturity the eldest was John W., who was long num- bered among the representative business men of Indianapolis, where he died in 1891; Hen- ry W. is the immediate subject of this review : and Charles W. has likewise been long and. prominently identified with business interests in Indianapolis, where he still resides.

Henry W. Tutewiler was reared to matu- rity in Indianapolis, and after completing the curriculum of the common schools, he here be- came a student in the Northwestern Christian University, which is now known as Butler College. He was a student in this institution at the inception of the Civil War, and his youthful patriotism was soon roused to re- sponsive protest, which resulted in his ten- dering his services in defense of the Union. On the 6th of August, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company D, Seventeenth Indi, ana Volunteer Infantry, and he was soon afterward detailed as orderly and secretary- clerk on the staff of Colonel John T. Wilder, who later attained to the rank of brigadier- general and who is now a resident of Knox- ville, Tennessee. Mr. Tutewiler continued on the staff of General Wilder until the close of the war, when he was mustered out, as first lieutenant and regimental quartermaster. He received his honorable discharge, in Indian- apolis, on June 12, 1865. Maintaining a deep interest in his old comrades in arms, Mr. Tutewiler gives evidence of the same by his affiliation with George H. Thomas Post, Grand Army of the Republic, besides which he is identified with the Union Veterans' League and with the Indiana Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.

After the close of the war Mr. Tutewiler returned to his native city, and thereafter he was associated with his brothers, John W. and Charles N., in the stove and tinware business, under the firm name of Tutewiler Brothers, until 1870, when they sold the busi- ness. From 1872 to 1876 Mr. Tutewiler was incumbent of the office of city treasurer, as

will be noted later in this context, and he then established himself in the retail shoe business, in which he continued until 1885, when he disposed of the same and engaged in business as an undertaker and funeral di- rector. He has since been actively identified with this line of enterprise, in which he is now associated with his son, Harry D., un- der the firm title of Tutewiler & Son. They have a large and admirably appointed estab- lishment, located at 129 and 133 West Mar- ket street, and the facilities throughout are of the most approved modern type.

In politics Mr. Tutewiler has ever been ar- rayed as a stanch supporter of the cause of the Republican party, and while he has never been animated by ambition for public office he served two terms as city treasurer of In- dianapolis-from 1872 to 1876, inclusive. He made a most admirable record in handling the fiscal affairs of the municipality, and dur- ing his regime he made. a significant inno- vation, in that he accounted to the city for interest on all public funds in his keeping. Prior to his administration the interest had been held as an honorarium by the incumbent of the office. The popular confidence and es- teem reposed in Mr. Tutewiler in his native city was significantly shown when he became a candidate for the office of city treasurer, as he overcame the normal Democratic majority and met with decisive victory at the polls ou the occasion of both his first and his second election. His administration as treasurer is still referred to as one of the most clean and admirable in the history of the local munici- pal government.

Mr. Tutewiler has held membership in the Roberts Park Methodist Episcopal Church from his childhood days and he has been an official of this' church for more than forty years, being at the present time a member of the board of trustees and also classleader. Both he and his wife are numbered among the most earnest and zealous workers in the church, and to the support of the same, with its various collateral benevolences and chari- ties, they contribute most generously. In the time-honored Masonic fraternity Mr. Tute- wiler has attained to the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and he is also affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. Few citizens of Indianapolis are better known in the community than this sterling business man and none retains a more tenacious hold upon the confidence and es- teem of the community.

On the 21st of June, 1866. Mr. Tutewiler was united in marriage to Miss Lonisa M. Dunn, daughter of the late Jacob P. Dunn,

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an honored citizen and representative busi- ness man of Indianapolis. Mrs. Tutewiler was born and reared in Lawrenceburg, In- diana, coming to Indianapolis with her par- ents and the rest of the family in 1860. Of the three children born to Mr. and Mrs. Tute- wiler the eldest is Harry D., who is associated with his father in business and who is in- dividually mentioned on other pages of this work; Hattie Mary became the wife of Dr. Frederick C. Blackwelden, of Litehfield, Il- linois, her death occurring in 1904 at Ros- well, New Mexico; and Miss Louise remains at the parental home, which is known as a center of generous hospitality.

HARRY D. TUTEWILER was born to Henry W. and Louisa M. Tutewiler in Indianapolis, on the 19th of July, 1869, and received a common school education. He has been as- sociated with his father in the undertaking business under the firm name of Tutewiler & Son since its establishment in 1885.

Mr. Tutewiler was appointed by Governor Durbin as a member of the first State Ex- amining Board of Embalmers in 1900, under the provisions of the new law creating this important body. He continued a member of the Board until he was elected coroner of Marion County, in 1902. To the latter office he was re-elected in 1904, and he was not only the first man other than a physician ever elected to this position in the county, but was also the first to have been chosen for a sec- ond term within a period of twenty years, showing the estimate placed upon his services by the voters of the county.

Mr. Tutewiler has manifested his public spirited and progressive ideas in no uncer- tain way, and his services and efforts have not fallen short of popular appreciation. In May, 1909, he was appointed civic representa- tive of the city on the Indianapolis Play- ground Commission, a commission created by legislative enactment in that year. In secur- ing this legislative provision Mr. Tutewiler himself was largely instrumental and none can doubt the beneficence of the object at- tained. In 1906 Mr. Tutewiler established the first public bathhouse in Indianapolis, and later he gave the same to the city, by which it has since been conducted. Since 1907 Mr. Tutewiler has been chairman of the recrea- tion committee of the Children's Aid Asso- ciation, representing one of the noble civic benevolences of Indianapolis, and this com- mittee has charge of the public bathhouse of the city.

In the Masonic fraternity Mr. Tutewiler has attained to the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite. In York

Rite circle of the fraternity his supreme hon- ors rest in his membership in Raper Com- mandery, No. 1, Knights Templar, and he is also affiliated with Murat Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also an active member of the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Tutewiler is a mem- ber of the Indianapolis Board of Trade and Commercial Club, which are the leading civic organizations of the capital city.

In politics Mr. Tutewiler has always been an active Republican, a member of the Co- lumbia Club, and in 1908 was elected Presi- dent of the Marion Club, one of the largest and most influential organizations of its kind in the country.

On the 21st of October, 1896, Mr. Tutewiler was united in marriage to Miss Julia Belle Goodhart, daughter of Benjamin F. and Julia H. Goodhart, of Indianapolis, and granddaughter of Willis Wright, one of the pioneer citizens and business men of Indian- apolis. Mrs. Tutewiler has an individuality of her own, being an active club woman and a writer of ability, and while doing her full duty in the social world has not neglected her home. Mr. and Mrs. Tutewiler have three daughters, Julia Louise, Belle Caroline, and Mary Margaret.

DR. GEORGE H. ROBERTS, prominent in the professional circles of Indianapolis, was born in Alabama, Genesee County, New York, No- vember 1, 1864, a son of Horrice and Mary (Easton) Roberts, the father also a native of the state of New York, and the mother of England, and he was the third born of their four children, two sons and two daughters. Horrice Roberts followed farming in Gene- see County until moving to Orleans County of the same state in 1865, and he spent the remainder of his life in the latter place as a farmer and stock dealer. He held many of the township offices, and was one of the ac- tive Republicans of his community and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He died at the age of seventy-five years, and his wife was sixty-four years of age at the time of her death.

From the public schools George H. Roberts passed to Medina Academy and thence on to the Genesee Wesleyan College and the New York Veterinary College, graduating with the class of 1888 from the latter institution. Then after a course in the laboratory of Bellevue College he began practicing at Albion in Or- leans County. New York, and from there came to Indianapolis in 1890 and organized the Indiana Veterinary College. Dr. Roberts was made the president of this institution, and the college has had a rapid growth and

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is now one of the largest of its kind in the United States. During the year of 1909 the class roll numbered 178 students. Three years are required to complete the full course, which is complete in. every department. Dr. Roberts is now serving his third term of four years each, as assistant state veterinarian, is also the city veterinarian, appointed first in 1901 and reappointed in 1905 to serve for four years, and is a member of the Veteri- nary State Association, which he has served one term as president, of the American Vet- erinary Medical Association, of the Marion and Commercial Clubs and of the Republican party. He has also attained a high place in the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Ancient Landmarks Lodge, No. 319, F. & A. M., In- diana Consistory, S. P. R. S., and Murat Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He is a member of and a deacon in the Fourth Presbyterian Church.

Dr. Roberts married Margaret A. Fleming November 7, 1895. She was born at Chip- pewa, Canada, a daughter of Thomas D. and Mary (Curry) Fleming, natives respectively of Scotland and England, and the eldest of their five children. Thomas D. Fleming was with the Birdsall Manufacturing Company, of South Bend, for twenty years or more as a traveling salesman, and during that time made his home in Indianapolis. Both he and his wife are now deceased, he having died at the age of fifty-seven years, and his wife passed away in 1890. They were members of the Presbyterian Church.

ALONZO P. HENDRICKSON was during many years one of the most active of the business men of Indianapolis, but he is now living re- tired. He was born in Cambridge City of Wayne County, Indiana, December 10, 1845, and two years afterward was taken by his parents, David and Ruth (Stewart) Hen- drickson, to their new home in Howard Coun- ty, this state. David Hendrickson was born near Lexington, Virginia, in 1805, and be- came a mechanic in Cambridge City, Indiana. Moving to Howard County in 1847, he turned his attention to general farming, and he spent the remainder of his life there and died at the age of seventy-six years. Mrs. Hen- drickson was born in Harrisburg, Pennsyl- vania, in 1806, and died in 1874. Alonzo P. was the tenth born of their eleven children and the only one now living. The father was a member of the Christian Church, and in politics was a Whig and a stanch aboli- tionist.

Alonzo P. Hendrickson received his edu- cation in the district schools of Howard County, and his life was spent on his fa-

ther's farm until the 26th of January, 1864, when he joined Company A, One Hundred and Thirtieth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, for three years or during the war. From Kokomo on the 16th of March the com- mand was moved to Louisville, Kentucky, and thence to Nashville, Tennessee, and with General Hovey's Division, First Brigade, Second Division, Twenty-third Army Corps, marched to Dalton, Georgia, and participated in the battle of Buzzard Roost, near that city, on the 7th of May. Mr. Hendrickson was also in the battle of Resaca, Georgia, then it was a running fight until they reached Kene- saw Mountain, where they were engaged in battle near the Culp farm. His brigade cap- tured Decatur, five miles east of Atlanta, and on the evening of July 19 moved on to the works of Atlanta. They participated in all the battles attending the capture of that city, made a complete circle of Atlanta before its fall, were in the retrograde movement back to Nashville, they took part in the fight on December 15 and 16, 1864, and chased Hood into the eastern part of Tennessee. The Twenty-third Corps was then placed on transports and sent to Washington, D. C., from there to Fort Fisher, North Carolina, and landed at Fort Anderson, where they re-embarked for Beauford, North Carolina, marched to Kingston, where they had a two- days' engagement with the Confederate forces under the command of Joseph E. Johnson, driving him back on to the advance of Gen- eral Sherman's army near Bentonville, where the last important battle was fought by Sher- man's army. Mr. Hendrickson's command marched into Goldsboro, North Carolina. At that place General Sherman joined all his forces and moved on to Raleigh, North Caro- lina, chasing Johnson until the latter's sur- render at Durham Station. The war being ended, Mr. Hendrickson's division was marched to Charlotte, North Carolina, where they remained until the 15th of December, 1865, when Mr. Hendrickson was mustered out as Commissary Sergeant of his regiment and arrived home January 1, 1866. He had suffered a wound in the leg at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain.

After his return home he was engaged in farming in Howard County until 1869, when he engaged in the retail general mercantile business at Windfall, Indiana, and in 1873 came to Indianapolis and accepted the posi- tion of traveling salesman with the firm of C. H. Talhott and Company. In 1880 he left that house and organized the firm of Henley. Hendrickson & Lefler. wholesale hats. caps, gloves, and straw goods. In 1882 he

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purchased William Henley's interest in the business, and Joseph E. Lunt came into the firm at that time and remained with the com- pany for about seven years. The business was carried on under the name of Hendrick- son, Lefler & Company until December of 1903, Mr. Hendrickson then purchasing Mr, Lefler's interest. Mr. Hendrickson was gen- eral manager and buyer for the company during its entire existence. In 1904 the stock company was organized known as the A. P. Hendrickson Hat Company, and Mr .. Hen- drickson continued as its general manager and buyer until 1908, when he sold his inter- est in the company and retired to private life. He is a member of the Columbia Club, and was the chairman of the house commit- tee during the first three years of its organ- ization and was its third president, is an hon- orary member of the Marion Club, and a member of George H. Thomas Post, G. A. R. He is a Republican in politics.

WILLIAM HENRY JUNE. better known as "Pop June" to all' residents of Indianapolis, was born in the year of 1823, at Newburgh, New York, his ancestors being among the early settlers of the Hudson, and among those that came from France and Holland. The paternal branch of Huguenot French came to this coun- try with a number of others from Rochelle, France, during the Huguenot troubles in that vicinity, and settled and named New Rochelle. New York. The Junes have been tavern, hotel and restaurant keepers for over a century or more in the United States, starting first with .Jacob June, the paternal great-grandfather of William H. June, who kept a tavern and cof- fee house at the corner of Front and Moore streets, near the Battery Park, in New York City, where the Board of Charters of that citv first met. Following him came the grand- father, Phenius June, who kept a hotel at New- hurgh, known as The Glehe, on land that was a grant from Queen Anne of England. The next in line was the father, Jacob June, who kept the Eagle Hotel at Newburgh, the house in which he was born.

In the early sixties. William H. June was engaged in the hotel business himself in part- nershin with Benjamin B. Odell, the father of ex-Governor Odell, in what was then known as The National Hotel. Arriving in Indianan- olis on June 1. 1970. Mr. June continued to supply the inner-man. opening in the ovster business, by importing the first shell ovsters. which he continued to serve in the regular down east style. thus making his name famous in that particular line. Pon June's Shell Oyster Bav and Marine Inn still continues to be the mecca of all those that are in search of the

products of the river, lake and sea, the same being conducted by his three sons, George W., John H. and Homer H. June.

Phenius June, the father of William H., be- sides being a boniface was also engaged in transferring passengers and freight by sailing craft on the Hudson River previous to the famous trip made by the "Clairmont" under the direction of Robert Fulton. As a mem- ber of the Hudson River Boating Association Mr. June was selected to row General Lafay- ette ashore from the ship during his visit to America when landing at New York City. The maternal side of the family were all of the hardy seafaring stock, descendants from the Coffins of Nantucket and the Pennys of Sag Harbor and Block Island; the latter fam- ily have been noted in that section of the coun- try for longevity, a number having passed the century mark, and one married couple, Jesse Penny and his wife, lived to the advanced age of one hundred and eleven and one hundred and seven, respectively, and during this time lived for cighty-five years in the same house at Sag Harbor. The only departure that the Junes ever made from that of being inn- keepers was to engage in the business of pro- viding amusement for the public. This de- parture was occasioned first by James June, who imported the first elephant ever brought to America, bringing him by ship from Bom- bay, India, and landing him at Fall River, James June traveling with the elephant by night and showing him in the tavern barns during the day. From this lone elephant sprang the once well known circus of June, Titus and De Angevine, and June, Nathens and Bailv. George W. June, the son men- tioned above, was from 1881 to 1900 also prom- inently connected with the theatrical line as manager and representative of such well known stage celebrities as Charlotte Thompson, Lotta, Thomas W. Keen. Gus Williams, Herrmann and Kellar, Viola Allen, Neil Burgess, and the enterprises of Gilbert and Sullivan, Kiralfy Brothers, Henry C. Miner and others. At In- dianapolis in 1881 George W. June was also instrumental in instituting the first lodge of Elks in Indiana, being the founder of Indian- apolis Lodge No. 13, on whose rolls he stands and is known throughout Elkdom as number thirteen of thirteen. Having drifted back in the catering profession and recognizing the need of a school for training emploves along the line of hotel work. he became very active in promoting the establishment of a National Training School of this class through the in- strumentality of the International Stewards Association here at Indianapolis in connection with The National Trades School of this city.

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Greater Indianapolis : the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes, Part 90

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