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In 1900, Mr. Fletcher was united in marriage to Miss May Henley, and they are prominent and popular in connection with the best social activities of their home city.
AUGUSTUS L. MARSHALL, M. D. One of the representative physicians and surgeons of the younger generation in the capital city is Dr. Marshall, who is amply fortified in the learn- ing and practical work of both departments of his chosen profession, in which he has gained unequivocal success and no uncertain prestige. He has been in a significant sense the architect of his own fortunes, as he defrayed the ex- penses of both his literary and professional edu- cation through his own efforts, and it was his also to make an admirable reputation in the pedagogic profession, to which he devoted his attention for a period of about seven years.
Dr. Marshall is a scion of one of the old and honored pioneer families of Indiana and the name has long been identified with the an- nals of Franklin County, this state. His pa- ternal grandfather, Dr. Zepheniah Marshall, was one of the pioncer physicians of that county, where he lived and labored with all
of devotion and self-abnegation and where his memory is revered by all who came within the sphere of his kindly and helpful influence. The Marshall family was founded in Virginia in the early colonial epoch and from the Old Dominion representatives went into Kentucky in the pioneer days. From the latter state came the founder of the line in Indiana. Berry LaRue, the maternal grandfather of Dr. Au- gustus L. Marshall, was a native of France, and while he was a mere boy he severed the home ties and immigrated to America, becom- ing one of the pioneers of Franklin County, Indiana, where he gained much of success as a merchant, having long been engaged in busi- ness at Andersonville, that county, and having been a citizen of prominence and influence.
Dr. Augustus L. Marshall was born on the old homestead farm, adjoining the City of An- dersonville, Franklin County, Indiana, on the 4th of April, 1876, and is a son of John S. and Cora (LaRue) Marshall, both of whom were born and reared in Franklin County, which has continued to represent their home to the present day and in which they are held in uniform confidence and esteem. The father has devoted his attention to agricultural pur- suits throughout his entire active career and still resides on his old homestead farm, lying contiguous to the corporate limits of Anderson- ville. Both Mr. Marshall and his wife are zcalous members of the Christian Church. They became the parents of five children.
Dr. Augustus L. Marshall is indebted to the public schools of Andersonville for his prelim- inary educational discipline, and at the age of seventeen years he put his scholastic acquire- inents to practical test and utilization by secur- ing a position as teacher in a district school of his native county. Later he completed a two years' course in the Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute, and after leaving this institution he held for four years the position of principal of the Andersonville schools, where his services gained unequivocal popular ap- proval, thus setting at naught all application of the biblical aphorism that "a prophet is not without honor save in his own country". He was actively identified with the pedagogic pro- fession for a period of seven years, and through his services in this capacity he secured the funds necessary to defray the expenses of his medical education. He began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. Isaac Dunn, of Andersonville, under whose direction he continued his technical reading for one year, after which he passed a year under the precep- torship of Dr. H. P. Metcalf, of the same place. He then entered the Indiana Medical College, in the City of Indianapolis, in which
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well ordered institution he completed the pre- scribed course, being graduated as a member of the class of 1905 and duly receiving his well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. After his graduation, Dr. Marshall passed about seven months as interne in the City Hospital of Lafayette, Indiana, and at the same time con- tinned his studies under the direction of an able specialist in the treatment of diseases of the eye, to which specialty he himself has de- voted particular attention, in connection with a general practice. While in the medical college, Dr. Marshall was secretary of his class during the sophomore ycar and its president during the junior year. During his last year in col- lege he was editor-in-chief of the College Jour- nal. After leaving Lafayette the doctor located in Andersonville, his native town, where he was engaged in the practice of his profession for the ensuing two years, at the expiration of which, in 1907, he established his home in In- dianapolis, where he has since followed the work of his profession and where he has built up a very successful practice of a representative order. He is a member of the American Med- ical Association, the Indiana State Medical Society, and the Indianapolis Medical Society, and he is held in high regard by his profes- sional confreres in the capital city. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and both he and his wife hold membership in the Chris- tian Church.
In 1908 was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Marshall and Miss Ethel Sahm, daughter of Albert Sahm, one of the representative citizens of Indianapolis and now incumbent of the office of auditor of Marion County.
FOSTER C. SHIRLEY, attorney, Indianapolis. Born at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, April 27th, 1877. Education, grade schools, high school, collegiate and law course ; admitted to Indian- apolis Bar in June, 1899. Served in Forty- fourth United States Volunteers in Philippines, in all grades from Private to Second Lieu- tenant.
JOHN CHISLETT. The able superintendent of beautiful. Crown Hill cemetery, of Indian- apolis, is John Chislett, who claims as the place of his nativity the City of Dubuque, Iowa, where he was born on the 6th of February, 1856. He is a son of Frederick W. and Mar- garet D. (Edwards) Chislett, the former of whom was born in England and the latter in the State of Connecticut. The father lived to attain the. age of seventy-three years and was in the City of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, at the time of his demise; his wife, who was born in 1830, maintained her home in Indianapolis until her death, in January, 1910, at the age of seventy-nine years. They were married in
Pittsburg and of their three children two are now living, Richard E., who is a resident of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he is engaged in the wholesale grocery business; and John, who figures as the subject of this brief sketch. Frederick W. Chislett was son of John Chis- lett and was a child at the time of the family immigration to the United States, the voyage being made on a sailing vessel of the primitive type common to that period. His father was an architect by profession and was a man of marked ability in this vocation. He drew the plans and specifications for the old court house in the City of Pittsburg and many other build- ings of the highest grade as measured by the standard of his times. He also had much skill as a landscape gardener, in which connection he laid out the grounds for the Allegheny cem- etery, in Pittsburg, this being one of the first cemeteries established in America in accord- ance with the effective ideas of landscape gar- dening now in vogue. The grandfather of our subject took up his residence in Indianapolis in 1863 and herc he effected the organization of the Crown Hill Cemetery Association, in which he had the collaboration of a number of leading citizens. Upon him devolved the selection of a suitable location for the new cemetery and when he had designated such loca- tion he was the subject of not a little criticism for having selected a site so far distant from the city. The wisdom of his choice has been amply justified in the lapse of years, and his original statement that the city would eventually grow and surround the grounds has proven true, as the corporate limits of the city now extend no little distance beyond the environs of this beautiful "God's acre". This honored citizen, the founder of the family in America, was a devout communicant of the Church of Eng- land and after coming to the United States identified himself with the American organiza- tion of the same ancient faith, the Protestant Episcopal Church, to whose support he contrib- uted with much of consecrated zeal and lib- erality. In politics he espoused the cause of the Whig party, and he passed the closing years of his life in Pittsburg. Pennsylvania, secure in the high regard of all who knew him.
Frederick W. Chislett, father of him whose name initiates this review, was a child at the time of the family immigration to America and he passed his boyhood and youth in the City of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in whose schools he secured his early educational training. There he initiated his business career by assuming a clerical position in the old Bank of Pittsburg, and he eventually removed to Dubuque, Iowa, where he engaged in the hardware business, in which he there continued until 1863, having
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been one of the pioneer business men of that city. In the year mentioned he removed with his family to Indianapolis and became the first superintendent of the Crown Hill cemetery, of which office he continued the honored and effi- cient incumbent until the time of his death, which occurred while he was visiting in the home of his son Richard, in Pittsburg, Penn- sylvania. He became a member of the Second Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis in the year of his removal to this city and he was long one of its most zealous adherents. In politics he was identified with the Republican party from the time of its organization until the close of his life. He was a man whose in- tegrity of purpose and generous attributes of character gained to him the kindly regard of all with whom he came in contact, and in his official position his sympathy and solicitude endeared bim to those whose loved ones found resting place in the fair cemetery over which he was placed in charge. It is pleasing to re- cord that of the cemetery thus founded by his father and long supervised by himself, passed into the direct care of his son when he was himself summoned from the scene of life's activities and laid to rest in this same beautiful cemetery, with whose development the family name has thus been identified during the entire period of its existence.
John Chislett, to whom this article is dedi- cated, was seven years of age at the time of the family removal from Dubuque, Iowa, to Indianapolis, in whose public schools he secured excellent educational advantages, after which he was a student in the Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. He left this institution in 1873. In 1876, he became first assistant su- perintendent of Crown Hill cemetery, of which his father was superintendent, and upon the death of the latter, in 1899, he was appointed successor in the office of superintendent, of which he has since continued incumbent and in which he has shown the same zeal and ability that were so signallv manifested during the regime of his honored father. He is a liberal and public-spirited citizen, is a stanch adherent of the Republican party and holds membership in the Second Presbyterian Church. He is a member of the Columbia, University, Contem- porary and Commercial clubs and the German House. Mr. Chislett is a bachelor.
EMIL WUI.SCHNER long played an impor- tant part in the business, musical and social activities of Indiana's capital city, where his circle of friends was limited only by that of his acquaintances. He did much to advance the standard of musical taste and interpreta- tion in Indianapolis, and the city has had few citizens his equal in matters of musical talent.
Emil Wulschner was born near Weisenfels, kingdom of Saxony, Germany, on the 27th of March, 1847. He showed marked musical talent in his youth and was afforded excellent advantages in this'line, as well as in a gen- eral educational sense. He was sent to the conservatories of Leipsic and Dresden, where his development was rapid and substantial. At the age of twenty-four years, in competition with thirty-eight other candidates, after a rigid examination, he was chosen kapellmeister (bandmaster) of the personal regiment of the king of Bavaria. This monarch was a dis- criminating lover of music and a patron of the Wagnerian school. Young Wulschner at- tracted his attention and friendship by his ef- fective rendering of Wagner's music. In this position Mr. Wulschner served for a period of cleven years in the Bavarian army. He went through the Franco-Prussian war, and in the memorable battle of Sedan he received a saber cut, from which he ever afterward carried a scar on his face. He was present at the siege of Paris, and his reminiscences of the great conflict between Prussia and France were most graphic and interesting.
In 1875, in the City of Munich, Mr. Wulsch- ner became acquainted with Mrs. Flora Sulli- van Stewart, widow of Colonel Robert Stew- art. Mrs. Stewart was at the time continuing her musical studies in Munich. She was born in Indianapolis and was a daughter of Will- iam Sullivan, one of the early settlers of this city, where he served for a few years as civil engincer of the city and made the first map of Indianapolis and laid out most of the out- lying districts on the North End. During this time Mr. Sullivan was a very young man and was studying to become an attorney, which vo- cation he followed until death. Mr. Wulsch- ner and Mrs. Stewart were married in Munich, on the 16th of September, 1875, and in the following year they came to Indianapolis. Here Mr. Wulschner established a music store in the old Bates House, on the site of the present Claypool hotel. and later he removed to more eligible quarters on North Pennsylvania strect, where the firm name was changed to Wulsch- ner & Son. Alexander M. Stewart, son of Mrs. Wulschner by her first marriage, was admitted to partnership at this time. Con- cerning him individual mention is made on other pages of this work.
Mr. Wulschner's musical talent soon brought him into prominence in local musical circles. He served as director of the Choral Union and the Lyra Society. He was director of both of the great benefit concerts given for the widows and orphans of the firemen who lost.their lives in the Bowen-Merrill fire. These concerts were
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held simultaneously, at the English and the Grand opera houses, and Mr. Wulschner alter- noted between them. He became a member of the Roberts Park Methodist Episcopal Church and there organized a choral society of seventy voices, which became one of the strong musical associations of the city.
In the late '90s Mr. Wulschner's health be- came much impaired and he sought relief in Enrope and in California, but with temporary effect only. He died of heart failure, at In- dianapolis, on the 9th of April, 1900, widely and sincerely lamented. Mrs. Wulschner's death occurred April 16, 1909.
WILLIAM SCOTT has wielded no little influ- ence in connection with the industrial, com- mercial and civic interests of the City of In- dianapolis, and he is today numbered among its essentially.representative business men and influential citizens. He is one of the interested principals in the Daniel Stewart Company, wholesale druggists, and the concern of which he is thus the head represents one of the old and important commercial enterprises of the capital city, perpetuating in its title the name of its honored founder, the late Daniel Stewart, who was long one of the city's most honored and influential citizens.
Mr. Scott was born in the County of Done- gal, Ireland, on the 6th of April, 1850, and is a son of Rev. William and Charlotte (Craw- ford) Scott, both representatives of stanch old families of the fair Emerald Isle, where they passed their entire lives. The father was a man of fine intellectual attainments, having been a classical scholar, and he served with all of zcal and consecration as a clergyman of the Presbyterian Church, of which he was one of the influential representatives in Ireland.
William Scott, the immediate subject of this review, received a classical education at Lon- donderry, Ireland, and in April, 1868, when eighteen years of age. he came to America. He took up his residence in the City of Phila- delphia, where he entered the employ of Stew- art Brothers, importers of and wholesale deal- ers in dry goods. Later he passed two years in the employ of Samuel Macky & Company, general produce and commission merchants in Philadelphia, and in the interest of this con- cern he traveled through various portions of the central west, in which connection he visited Indianapolis. where, in 1870, he formed the acquaintance of Col. Samuel F. Gray, agent of the Union Line, at whose suggestion, in June of the following year. Samuel Macky & Com- pany started a branch house in Indianapolis with Mr. Scott in charge. A few months later he secured control of the Indianapolis business. and the same was thereafter continued under
the firm name of William Scott & Company until 1890, Mr. Scott having continued as the head of the firm during the intervening period, within which the business had been developed to large proportions. In the year last men- tioned, Mr. Scott retired from this line of business and became associated with his father- in-law, the late Daniel Stewart, in the wholesale drug business, with which he has since been identified. Some time after the death of Mr. Stewart, in February, 1892, Mr. Scott and John N. Carey, another son-in-law of Mr. Stewart, with their wives united in the organization of Daniel Stewart Company, as a firm in which the two were the managing principals. On the 1st of October, 1908, Mr. Carey withdrew from association with the wholesale drug department of the enterprise and assumed control of the glass department, to which he has since given his attention. Of him specific mention is made on other pages of this work. After the disso- lution of the firm, a corporation was organized with Mr. Scott as president, which continued the drug business, and the house controls a trade extending throughout the wide territory normally tributary to Indianapolis as a com- mercial and distributing center. This is one of the largest houses of its kind in the state and it has ever maintained the highest standing in effectiveness of service and in reliability.
Mr. Scott is one whose mental ken is too broad to permit him to hedge himself in with purely personal interests and thus he has ever stood exponent of loyal and public-spirited citizenship, doing all in his power to further such measures and enterprises as would tend to promote the civic and industrial advancement of his home city. He has been a member of the board of governors of the Board of Trade since its reorganization, in 1882, and is the only one who has thus served continuously during the intervening period. In 1887 he was elected vice-president of the Board of Trade and in the following year was chosen president.
In 1891, he was elected a member of the board of school commissioners, in which posi- tion he served continuously until 1900. In 1896-7, he was president of the board.
In politics Mr. Scott is aligned as a stalwart supporter of the principles and policies for which the Republican party stands sponsor. He has been affiliated with the Masonic fra- ternity since he was twenty-one years of age and in the same has attained to the thirty- second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottiah Rite, and both he and his wife hold member- ship in the Second Presbyterian Church.
On the 29th of March, 1880, Mr. Scott was united in marriage to Miss Martha Stewart, daughter of the late Daniel Stewart, previously
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mentioned in this context, and the only child of this union is Miss Charlotte, a young lady who is prominent and popular in connection with the representative social life of the capital city.
EDWIN B. BRIGHAM, M. D. An able and successful exponent of the physio-medical school of practice, Dr. Edwin B. Brigham is recog- nized as one of the representative physicians and surgeons of Indianapolis, where he has been engaged in the work of his profession since 1895 and where he is a valued member of the faculty of the Physio-Medical College of In- diana, which is his alma mater. He has built up a large and representative practice and his success is well demonstrated by this fact.
Dr. Brigham is a scion of stanch colonial stock, his ancestors in both the agnatic and maternal lines having settled in New England in the early history of that section, where was cradled so much of our national history. The lineage on both sides is traced back to sterling English origin. Dr. Brigham himself finds no small meed of satisfaction in reverting to the fine old Green Mountain State as the place of his nativity. He was born at Moretown, Wash- ington County, Vermont, on the 1st of October, 1857, and is a son of Elisha A. and Celia (Bax- ter) Brigham, the former of whom was born at Fayston, Vermont, on the 22d of December, 1821, and the latter of whom was born at Morestown, that state, on the 16th of March, 1826. Their union was one of idyllic order. marked by the deepest mutual affection and sympathy, and their wedded life was prolonged to nearly half a century. They removed from Vermont to Michigan in 1867 and became pioneers of Mecosta County, where they passed the residue of their long and worthy lives. Mrs. Brigham was summoned to eternal rest on the 17th of January, 1897, and her husband. deprived of her loved companionship, survived her by only a few years, having passed away in December, 1899. Both were devout and zeal- ous members of the Methodist Church. Con- cerning Elisha A. Brigham the following perti- nent statements have been written and are well worthy of perpetuation in this volume: "Mr. Brigham owned a mill in Vermont and was a manufacturer until his removal to Michigan. where he became a prosperous farmer. During the Civil War he passed two years in the west, assisting in guarding and convoving trains across the plains. He was a rugged and fear- less man, typifying the 'strength of the hills' of his native state, and he spent much of his time in the west in Indian fighting, hunting and trapping."
The mother of Dr. Brigham was a woman of signally noble and gracious personality and
one of high intellectual and artistic attain- ments. As a young woman she had been a suc- cessful and popular teacher in the schools of her native state, and during practically her entire mature life she gave no little attention to literary work, in which connection she com- posed a large number of poems of noble and beautiful sentiment, breathing the deepest Christian faith, the deepest patriotism and the most enduring human sympathy. She bore with her to the new home in the comparative wilds of Michigan the generous elements of re- finement and culture, and she won to herself the reverent affection of all who came within the sphere of her gentle and gracious influence. It has well been said that many of her poems were literary gems, showing the trend of pub- lic thought and sentiment. Among them is an appeal for the freedom of slaves, written in 1844 and designated by the simple title, "An Appeal". Many of her literary productions were written under the strenuous tension inçi- dental to the progress of the Civil War and these are instinct with lofty patriotism, chaste and effective diction and noble sentiment.
Elisha A. and Celia (Baxter) Brigham be- came the parents of three sons and one daugh- ter, and the subject of this review is the young- est of the number. The only daughter, Rosa M., inherited much of her mother's intellect- uality and her death, at the age of nineteen years, was directly attributable to over-study and close devotion to literary work. Ziba W., the eldest of the three sons, occupies the old home- stead in Mecosta County, Michigan, where he is a representative farmer and influential citi- zen, and Elisha K. is successfully engaged in the lumber business at Bay View, Michigan.
Dr. Edwin B. Brigham was reared under the sturdy discipline of the home farm, receiving his rudimentary education in the schools of his native state and having been a lad of ten years at the time of the family removal to Michigan.
In the public schools of the latter state he continued his academic studies, and the while he was favored in being compassed with the surroundings and influences of a home of dis- tinctive refinement and culture. As a young man he was for a time associated with his brother, Elisha K., in the lumber business, and he began the study of medicine in 1886. while living on his fine farm in Mecosta County, Michigan. He was prompted to indulge in this line of study more by a desire to further his general knowledge and culture, and as he was in independent financial circumstances he con- tinued to devote much of his time to well di- rected generic study and reading after attain- ing to manhood, having at the time formulated no definite plans for a future career. Finally,
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