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MARION WARD. One of the most prominent of the business men of Indianapolis is Marion Ward, who moved with his parents when a boy of six from his native county of Parke, Indiana, to Fayette County, and later to Indianapolis. His parents, James and Osee (Bell) Ward, were both born near Lex- ington, Kentucky, and came to Indiana with their respective parents when children and located on farms near Connersville, Indiana. They both died at Ridge Farm in Illinois, she at the age of sixty-eight and he at eighty- six. Eight children blessed their marriage union, and four are now living: Sarah, the wife of James K. Jamerson, of Connersville, Indiana; Marion; Adeline, the wife of Dr. John Guffin, living at Ridgefarm, Illinois; and Osee, the wife of G. C. Hanson, of Con- nersville, Indiana. James Ward was a life- long tiller of the soil.
The boyhood days of Marion Ward were spent on his parents' farm two and a half miles from Connersville, Indiana, in Fayette County, and when eighteen he moved with
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them to Vermilion County, Illinois, and farmed with his father, although their home was in the village of Ridge Farm. But after one. year there as an agriculturist the son secured a clerkship in the general. mercantile store of A. J. Darnell at Ridge Farm, and after two years there in 1871 became asso- ciated with his brother, Dr. Boswell Ward, in the sale of drugs in Indianapolis. The latter was one of the pioneer druggists of this city, organizing his business here as early as 1867, and his store was first located on St. Clair and New Jersey streets, but after about a year there was moved to the Bush- man Block on Fort Wayne avenue, where it remained from 1873 to 1883. This firm was the first to solicit city trade from the retail druggists, and having in the meantime lo- cated at 40 East Washington street they ex- tended their wholesale trade and also con- tinued the retail trade until 1893, when they discontinued the latter department and moved to 120 South Meridian street, and later to 207-209 South Meridian street, the present location of the house. They at one time suffered the loss of their business house by fire and were at temporary quarters for the nine months required in constructing the building erected expressly for their business. The senior member of this firm, Dr. Boswell Ward, died in August of 1903, and in his death Indianapolis lost one of her pioneer business men and worthy citizens. The firm of Ward Brothers Drug Company was incor- porated in 1896. Marion Ward is a member of the Commercial and Columbia Clubs, of the German House and of the Republican party.
MAJOR CARROLL B. CARR is the efficient and. popular incumbent of the office of actuary of the American Central Life Insurance Com- pany, of Indianapolis, and is one of the well known business men of the Indiana capital, where he is also specially prominent in con- nection with the affairs of the Indiana Na- tional Guard, in which he holds commission as major in the quartermaster's department, also having served with his command in the Spanish-American War.
Carroll B. Carr was born at Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio, on the 28th of Decem- ber, 1865, and is a scion of honored pioneer families of the old Buckeye state. He is a son of Joseph H. and Alice (Hard) Carr, hoth of whom were likewise born in Ohio, the former having been a son of Thomas Carr, who was a native of Pennsylvania and of Irish lineage and who took up his residence in Ohio in the pioneer epoch in the history of that commonwealth. The maternal grand-
father of Major Carr was Moses K. Hard. who was born in Ohio, whither his parents removed from Connecticut in a very early day, the family having been founded in America in the colonial era and being of stanch English extraction. Joseph H. Carr was reared and educated in Ohio and at the cutbreak of the Civil War he was one of the valiant sons of the republic to tender prompt aid in defense of the Union. He enlisted in the Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and continued in service until the close of the war, when he was mustered out with the rank of lieutenant colonel. After the war he was for many years employed in the pension- de- partment of the national government, and he passed the closing years of his life in Wash- ington. where he died in 1898. His wife passed away in 1899, and of their children two are now living.
When the subject of this review was a lad of fourteen years his parents removed from Ohio to Louisville, Kentucky, where he was reared to maturity, having there supple- mented the earlier, educational training se- cured in the public schools of Ohio, and hav- ing also completed a short course in Wooster University, at Wooster, Ohio. At the age of twenty-one years Major Carr secured em- ployment with the Standard Oil Company, and for seven years he was a valued attache in the statistical department of this great corporation, with headquarters in Louisville during the major part of this period. In 1893 he came to Indianapolis to assume the position of actuary with the old Masonic Mutual Life Insurance Company, with whose interests he continued to be identified until 1899, since which year he has held the re- sponsible office of actuary of the American Central Life Insurance Company, contribut- ing materially to the success of its operations and being known as a discriminating execu- tive and administrative officer. He is a fel- low of the American Institute of Actuaries and is well known in the insurance circles of the country.
Major Carr had identified himself with the Indiana National Guard within a short period after taking up his residence in Indianapolis, and at the inception of the war with Spain he enlisted with his regiment for service, be- coming second lieutenant of Company H, Second Indiana Volunteer Infantry, whose period of active service was passed prin- cipally in southern camps. He was mus- tered out of the United States service, with the other members of his command, in No- vember, 1898. He has since continued to take a deep interest in the affairs of the
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National Guard of Indiana and in 1903 re- ceived in the same his commission as major in the quartermaster's department, with which he has since been connected in this capacity. He is a member of the Indiana Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and also holds membership in the Military Order of Foreign Wars, and the United Spanish War Veterans. He is affiliated with Myatic Tie Lodge No. 398, Free and Accepted Masons, and is identified with various civic and social organizations of representative order in his home city. In politics he accords a stanch allegiance to the Republican party. Though not an active member Major Carr's church connections are Methodist and his wife and daughter are members of the Episcopal Church.
On the 23rd of October, 1889, Major Carr was united in marriage to Miss Murrie Gib- bons, daughter of David Gibbons, who was for forty years a member of the staff of the Louisville Courier-Journal and who is now living retired in the city of Tampa, Florida. Major and Mrs. Carr have one child, Octavia.
JOHN O. D. LILLY, the honored subject of this memoir, became a resident of Indiana fully sixty years ago, and during a career of signal activity and usefulness he did much to further the industrial and economic progress of the Hoosier state and its beautiful capital city. He stood as a type of the steadfast, honorable and upright business man and loyal and public- spirited citizen, and his fine intellectual pow- ers increased materially his usefulness and prestige as one of the noble workers of the world. He rendered distinguished service in the cause of the Union during the Civil War, and the entire course of his life was dominated by the same high sense of duty that prompted him to tender his services in support of the righteous cause of a nation whose integrity was thus threatened by armed rebellion. He was long a prominent and influential citizen of In- dianapolis and maintained an inviolable hold upon the respect and esteem of all who knew him. A man of firm convictions, broad mental ken and distinct individuality, he made, his life count for good in all its relations, and in this historical work touching those who have contributed to the upbuilding of "Greater In- dianapolis" it is most consonant that a tribute be paid to John O. D. Lillv.
The founder of the Lilly family in America was Rev. William Lilly, a clergyman of the Church of England, who came to America about the year 1794, settling with his family in Albany, New York, whence he later re- moved to the historic old town of Elizabeth,
New Jersey, where he wielded much influence and was greatly loved and revered. He was a man of high intellectual attainments and in addition to his zealous and consecrated cn- deavors in the priesthood of the church he also conducted a female seminary in Elizabeth, the institution attaining marked popularity and having a support of the highest class. Botlı he and his wife continued to reside in New Jersey until their death. Concerning their children the following data are available: Catherine became the wife of Francis Lath- rop; John was an able physician and niain- tained his home at Lambertville, New Jersey, where he was engaged in the practice of his profession for half a century; and William, father of the subject of this memoir, was a lad of six years at the time of the family im- migration to America, indicating that his birth must have occurred in England about the year 1789. He was reared to maturity in New Jer- sey, where he had the influences of a cultured home and was also afforded the best available educational advantages. He was a large chem- ical manufacturer in Penn Yan, but during the panic of 1837 his business was wiped out through his willingness to endorse for his friends. He was for many years a resident of the State of New York; he and his wife passed the closing years of their lives in Lam- bertville, New Jersey. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, as a member of a New York regiment, and participated in the battle. of Plattsburg. He married Miss Catherine Dey, of Geneva, New York, and they became the parents of fourteen children, of whom nine at- tained to years of maturity, namely: Sam- uel, Benjamin, Phoebe, Ann, Jane, Charlotte, William, John O. D. and James W. All are now deceased and the last of the number to be summoned to the life eternal was Jane, who became the wife of William G. Wright and who died in June, 1909, being ninety years of age at the time of her demise.
John O. D. Lilly was born in Penn Yan, Yates County, New York, on the 17th of Sep- tember, 1822, and when he was a lad of six years his parents removed thence to New York City, where they remained a brief interval, at the expiration of which they removed to Steu- ben County, New York, which represented the home of the subject of this sketch for a period of seven years. He was afforded the advan- tages of the common schools and also those of a well-ordered academy in his home town, and he finally went to Carbon County, Penn- sylvania, where he learned the trade of ma- chinist. He showed special skill in mechan- ical work and before he had attained to his legal majority he was made foreman of the
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machine shop in which he was employed. At the age of twenty-two years Mr. Lilly took up his residence in the City of Philadelphia, and thence he later removed to. Reading, Pennsyl- vania, where he became foreman in the shops of the Reading railroad.
. In 1849 Mr. Lilly decided to leave the old Keystone state and seek his fortunes in the west. In that year he came to Indiana and took up his residence in the village of Madi- son, which was then known as Madisonville. There he secured the position of master me- chanic of the Madison & Indianapolis Rail- road, the first railroad line constructed in the State of Indiana. Among the first locomotives to be used on this primitive line were those which were brought here by Mr. Lilly, in his official capacity. He secured the locomotives in the City of Philadelphia, whence they were transported to Trenton, New Jersey, and finally to New York City, from which point they were shipped on Hudson River boats to Albany, from the latter place to Buffalo by canal, and from Buffalo to Toledo by way of a vessel on 'Lake Erie. From Toledo the wan- dering locomotives were shipped down the canal to Cincinnati, from which point they were transported up the Ohio River to Madi- son, Indiana, their destination. This cir- cuitous route of shipment was practically all represented in transportation by. water.
About the year 1855 Mr. Lilly left the em- ploy of the Madison & Indianapolis Railroad and accepted the position of master mechanic and superintendent of the Lafayette & Indian- apolis Railroad, with headquarters in Indian- apolis, where he established his home. He was serving in this important dual office at the in- ception of the Civil War, and his intrinsic loyalty and patriotism did not long wait tangi- ble proof. He made to Governor Morton the proposition of raising a regiment composed of railroad men, making the request that he him- self might be permitted to name the captains of the various companies and that he himself might enter the service as colonel of the regi- ment to be thus formed. . The governor ac- cepted the overtures thus made and under the active direction of Mr. Lilly the regiment was soon raised, but political pressure was brought to bear upon Governor Morton to such a de- gree that he informed Mr. Lilly that he could not appoint him colonel of the regiment, by reason of the fact that he was a Democrat. The governor, however, offered to secure for Mr. Lilly the position of master mechanic with the United States military-railroad service, in which connection he should have the rank of colonel. The regiment which he had raised became a part of the Sixty-eighth Indiana Vol-
unteer Infantry, and he .himself accepted the position tendered him through the influence of Governor Morton. While he ranked as col- onel he refused to accept formal commission as such, by reason of the fact that in such case he would have had to assume the uniform of his rank, this implying that he could easily be singled out by those working under his direc- tion, which he considered inimical. to the best interests of the service. During the period of his able and loyal service for the government Mr. Lilly maintained his official headquarters and the family home in the City of Philadel- phia. He resigned his office in the autumn of 1863, and removed back to Indianapolis, which city thereafter continued his home until his death. His resignation was tendered because of his determined objection to complying with instructions or orders issued by the secretary of war, who ordered that all ditched locomo- tives should be abandoned and that new ones should be supplied in their places. Mr. Lilly held that that was unreasonable and gross ex- travagance, and rather than follow the orders he resigned his position. This action clearly indicated the independence and strong individ- uality of the man, and in none of the relations of life did he ever fail to show the courage of his convictions, the well taken tenacity of his ideas, nor his ability to accomplish those plans which he had formulated.
Upon his return to Indianapolis Mr. Lilly associated himself with the late. Henry B. Mears and engaged in the manufacturing of varnish. The enterprise had a modest incep- tion, but his energy and executive ability proved potent in the upbuilding of a fine busi- ness. He eventually purchased the interest of Mr. Mears and admitted his sons to partnership in the business, which is still continued under the title of the Lilly Varnish Company and which represents one of the important indus- tries of the capital city. He contiued to be actively identified with the affairs of this con- cern until his death, and the irony of fate was that he should meet his death through a rail- road accident, after long years of identifica- tion with railroad interests. He was killed by a passenger train while in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, on the 19th of March, 1888, and in his death Indianapolis lost one of its hon- ored citizens' and influential and successful business men,-a man whose unostentatious service as one of the world's noble army of workers and whose sterling attributes of char- acter had marked him worthy of the un- equivocal confidence and esteem in which he was uniformly held.
Mr. Lilly was essentially progressive and public spirited as a citizen, and was specially
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interested in providing of the best possible system of public schools for his home city. After the Civil War he gave his allegiance to the Republican party, and though never seeker of office he manifested a deep interest in public affairs, especially those of a local or- der. He was a Scottish Rite and York Rite Mason.
In 1848 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Lilly to Miss Catherine Miller, who was born and reared in the old Kevstone state and who was a daughter of Col. John Miller, a prom- inent and influential citizen of Berks Coun- ty, Pennsylvania, which he represented in the state legislature for a number of terms. Mrs. Lilly survived her honored husband by several years, having been summoned to eternal rest in 1898, at the age of sixty-eight years and having held the affectionate regard of all who came within the sphere of her gentle and gracious influence. Mr. and Mrs. Lilly are survived by four- children,-Miss Emma, who continues to maintain her home in Mount Clemens, Michigan; Ida, who is the wife of Lawrence W. Churchill, of Oswego, New York, but who now lives in Scarsdale, New York : Charles, who married Miss Jessie Hall; and John M., who married Miss Virginia Conway, and resides in Weston, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. The two sons, as already noted, be- came associated with their father in the var- nish manufacturing business, and soon after the death of the father thev effected the or- ganization of the Lilly Varnish Company, which was dulv incorporated under the laws of the state, with a capital stock of one hun- dred thousand dollars and in which they con- tinue the executive principals. Charles Lilly being president of the company and John M. secretary and treasurer. They are numbered among the representative business men of the capital city and as such, and also as loyal and liberal citizens. they have well upheld the prestige of the honored name which thev bear.
John O. D. Lilly was a member of both St. Paul's and Grace Episcopal Churches, and he was largely instrumental in the building of both churches. He with one assistant solicited all the money which was used for the building of the Grace Church. Mrs. Lilly was also a member of the same'churches.
RABBI MORRIS M. FEUERLICHT; the able and honored rabbi of the Indianapolis Hebrew congregation, one of the largest and most thoroughly representative in the middle west, is doing an admirable service in his chosen field of endeavor, is known as a man of scholarly attainments and fine intellectual caliber, and he has shown himself fully
equal to the demands placed upon him in the temporal administration of the affairs of his important charge. He- is held in high esteem in Indianapolis and is well entitled to representation in this historical work.
Rabbi Feuerlicht was born in Tokay, Hun- gary, on the 15th of January, 1879, and is a son of Jacob and Katherine (Deutsch) Feuer- licht, both of whom were likewise born and reared in that same section of Hungary, and of their four children the subject of this review is the only one living. In 1880 the parents severed the ties that bound them to home and fatherland and set forth to estab- lish a new home in the United States. They first located in Chicago, from which city they later removed to Boston, but they finally re- turned to Chicago, where they now maintain their home. The father is a distinguished rabbi of the Hebrew Church and after com- ing to America he held several pastoral charges. At the present time he is the hon- ored superintendent of the Jewish Home for the Friendless in Chicago, one of the noble charitable institutions of the western metropo- lis.
Rabbi Morris M. Feuerlicht secured his earlier educational discipline in the Brimmer School in the City of Boston, and he finally was matriculated in the University of Cin- cinnati, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1901 and from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In the same year he also received ordination as a rabbi from the Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, having previously, in 1897, re- ceived the degree of Bachelor of Hebrew Lit- erature, and thereafter he held for three years the charge of a Jewish temple in the city of Lafayette, Indiana. In 1902 he en- tered the celebrated University of Chicago, in which he completed an effective post-grad- uate course, continuing his studies in this in- stitution until 1904 .. In September of the same year Rabbi Feuerlicht came to Indian- apolis, where he was elected associate rabbi with venerable Rabbi Messing, who had been in pastoral charge of this congregation for thirty-seven years and who is now its pastor emeritus, having been succeeded as rabbi of the congregation by Rabbi Feuerlicht in 1907. The latter has well upheld the prestige of his honored predecessor, whose advice and coun- sel he has greatly valued, and he has carried forward the work of the church with ever increasing success and with consecrated zeal and devotion. Regardless of religious asso- ciations he is held in high esteem as an earnest and public-spirited citizen and has a wide circle of friends in the capital city.
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HON. CHARLES ANDREWS BOOKWALTER, mayor of Indianapolis from 1901 to 1903 and from 1905 to 1910, was born on a farm a few miles north of Wabash, Indiana, December 7, 1860. He has been in active politics since 1886, at which time he was connected with the Fort Wayne Gazette and was nominated by the Republicans for representative from the Allen and Huntington district. This dis- trict then gave a normal majority of 4,500 votes to the Democratic ticket, but his per- sonal influence came within a few hundred votes of gaining him the election. Since then he has been in business and public life at Indianapolis, and was the first Republican in a number of years to win the mayoralty of the city.
The Bookwalters were originally from Switzerland, the earliest American settlers of the name coming from that country in 1746. Josiah and Elizabeth (Riley) Bookwalter, the mayor's parents, were substantial farmers near Wabash, but moved to Fort Wayne when he was a child. In that city he at- tended public school, and while a boy spent several years in a printing office, where he learned to set type and all the technic of the printing trade. On reaching manhood, he was fireman on the Wabash Railroad for two years. From a locomotive engine he entered the office of the Fort Wayne Gazette, and soon became a proficient newspaper writer and there first developed an active interest in politics.
In 1887 he was appointed clerk of the State Printing Bureau at Indianapolis. The four years' service in this office was the stepping stone to his broader business and political ex- perience. He was afterwards in the real es- tate business, and during that time organized the Indiana Society for Savings. He was also organizer of the Gem Garment Com- pany.
In 1899 he was nominated by the Republi- cans for mayor of Indianapolis. His cam- paign was made against Hon. Tom Taggart, the popular Democratic candidate. It was a warmly contested campaign, and brought out a heavy vote for a municipal election. Though the political odds were against the Republi- can candidate it required the official count to show that Mr. Taggart had won by two hun- dred odd votes. In 1901, when again nomi- nated for this office, the citizens showed a partiality for the Republican candidate, and he was elected for a term of two years. In 1905 he was again nominated (having been defeated for re-election in 1903) and was a second time elected for a term of four years.
Mr. Bookwalter is a member of the Ma-
sonic and Knights of Pythias fraternities and of the Columbia and Marion clubs. He mar- ried, in 1884, Miss Maud E. Bennett.
FREDERIC M. LOOMIS is incumbent of the responsible executive office of chief clerk in the offices of the Indianapolis Gas Company, and he has been a resident of the capital city from his childhood days to the present time. He has been identified with various business interests, has been prominent in con- nection with social activities, particularly in the local musical field, and he is well known and held in unqualified esteem in the city that has so long represented his home and the center of his interests.
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