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On the 28th of April, 1904, Dr. Belden was married at Memphis, Tennessee, to Miss Frances Payne Gano, daughter of Dr. A. J. Gano, of Georgetown, Kentucky. To this union has been born one son, Albert
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Goodrich Belden, born August 14. 1905. Dr. and Mrs. Belden are active members of the Central Christian church and enjoy an extensive acquaint- ance throughout the state.
The Gano family, of which Mrs. Belden is a cultured representative. has an interesting and highly honorable history in both the old and the new worlds. The family tree is rooted in that sturdy and martial character known to fame as William the Conqueror, but the direct descent is from Francis Gerneau, an exiled French nobleman, who, in 1686, escaped from the Island of Guernsey and joined the Huguenot colony at New Rochelle, New York, where he died at the age of one hundred and two years. On reaching America he changed the family name from Francois Gerneaux to Francis Gano. His grandson, John Gano, was the famous "Fighting Chaplain" of the Revolutionary war, who at the beginning of the struggle for independence was pastor of the First Baptist church of New York City. He married the widow of Louis H. Bryan, great- grandfather of William Jennings Bryan. The genealogy of the Gano family shows that more than fifty near relatives descended from the three branches which were offshoots of Francis Gerneaux-the Ganos, Stites and Benedicts, who distinguished themselves in the Revolution in the armies of the patriots. Certain of their members figured conspicu- ously in the capture of Major Andre, the British spy. The record also shows that more than four hundred representatives of the family par- ticipated in the Civil war, all but one being enrolled on the Union side. The exception was the Confederate General Gano. Capt. Daniel Gano was a noted officer in the Revolutionary war in 1775. having served as a lieutenant with Montgomery in the memorable winter campaign against Quebec and being near the hero when he fell on the Heights of Abraham. He was a member of the Order of Cincinnati, and Mrs. Frances Belden, wife of our subject, has the original diploma of membership bearing the signature of Washington. A noted living member of the Gano family is Col. James Talmage Benedict, a resident of New York City, who, during the Civil war. acted as special agent for the state of Rhode Island, with headquarters in Washington. Thus from the time of William the Con- queror until the present various members of the Gano family have been creditable participants in the great events of two worlds.
WILLIAM JACOB HUDSON .- Seelyville numbers William J. Hudson among its most prominent business men. Starting out in life at the age of twenty-two years, he learned the barber's trade at Riley, Indiana, and was employed in that city for three years, coming at the close of that period to Seelyville and at once identifying himself with its business in- terests. He has ever since been the proprietor of a barber shop here, 56
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and is now in partnership with John Schwinda, while in addition he owns and conducts a livery barn. He purchased his stable in the spring of 1907, and as there is only one other livery barn in Seelyville he enjoys a large patronage, and his stable is now equipped with five horses. Mr. Hudson is also extensively interested in a pool and billiard hall in this city.
Although so extensively identified with the business interests of Vigo county Mr. Hudson is a native son of Clay county, Indiana, born March 14, 1880, to John and Leora ( Parker) Hudson, natives respectively of Clay and Vigo counties, and they are now living on a farm in Riley township, of Vigo county. The father has been a life-long agriculturist and stock buyer, and his political affiliations are with the Democracy. In the family of Mr. and Mrs. Hudson were six children, namely : Alonzo, a resident of Riley, Indiana : Laura, the wife of Thomas Jack- son, of Vigo county; Eva, the wife of Charles Bryant, a resident of Clay county, Indiana ; William Jacob, of this review; Ray, who resides in Kansas, and Elzin, a merchant in Riley.
William J. Hudson attained to years of maturity and received his educational training in his native county of Clay. On the 16th of March, 1903, he married Hollie Green, born in Vigo county in 1884, to Thomas and Eliza (Hamilton) Green, both now living in this county. Mr. and Mrs. Hudson have two children, Norma and Donald. Mrs. Hudson is a member of the Methodist church and he has fraternal relations with the order of Red Men at Riley. His political affiliations are with the Demo- cratic party.
A. T. PAYNE, M. D., one of the leading physicians of Terre Haute, was born in Rossville, Clinton county, Indiana, July 25, 1849, a son of Samuel and Emily (Grenhalz) Payne. The mother is deceased, but the father is still living, a resident of Mulberry, Indiana, and has reached his eighty-sixth year. He served four years and seven months in the Union army during the Civil war, first with the Tenth and later with the Sixteenth United States Battery. He is a native of Maryland, but has lived in Indiana since thirteen years of age.
When a boy of six years Dr. A. T. Payne moved with his parents to a farm in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, where he was reared, and he attended the academy at Dayton, this state. He also spent two years in the old Asbury University, now DePauw, of Greencastle. Having formed a desire to become a member of the medical profession he then studied under Dr. R. Q. Wilson, of Kokomo, Indiana, who continued as his preceptor for four years, and at the close of that period entered upon a course of lectures and graduated from the Ohio Medical College of
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Cincinnati in 1875. During this time Dr. Payne had also taught school some six years to defray his college education, and when the time had arrived when he could begin the active work of his profession he located at Buck Creek, Tippecanoe county, Indiana, where he practiced for eight years. During the following seven years he was a practitioner at Russia- ville, this state, and it was at the close of that period, in 1890, that he came to Terre Haute and enrolled his name among the leading members of the profession in Vigo county. He is a member of the Vigo County, the Indiana State and the American Medical societies, and also of the Esculapian Medical Society of. the Wabash Valley. He has but re- cently resigned as a member of the staff of St. Anthony's Hospital after a fourteen years' connection therewith.
In 1876 Dr. Payne married Mary P. Black, of Greencastle, and they have had four children, but only two, Dayton C., a talented musician, and Lida R., are living. He is a Republican, a Master Mason and a member of the Odd Fellows fraternity in all its branches.
FRANK A. TABOR, M. D .- One of the best known and valued physicians of Terre Haute is Dr. Frank A. Tabor, who has been connected with the medical staff here since receiving his diploma from the Medical College of Indiana in 1898. He was born in this city December 18, 1872, a son of George A. and Anna (Eccles) Tabor, born respectively in Ohio, April 15, 1837, and in England, August 15, 1847. They were married in Terre Haute, where for about twelve years Mr. Tabor manufactured horse collars and nets, as a member of the firm of Tabor Brothers. But selling out he bought and has since lived on a farm in Lost Creek town- ship. He came from Ohio to Vigo county in 1860 in company with two brothers, Uriah C. and Harrison. He was a merchant in Urbana, Ohio, and came here a poor man, the three brothers being accompanied by their father, who had several times served as sheriff of Champaign county, Ohio. He died in Sullivan county, Indiana, in 1872. Mrs. Tabor was seven years old when she came with her parents to Vigo county. Her father was a highly educated man and was a private teacher in Terre Haute, but died soon after coming here. Five sons were born to Mr. and Mrs. Tabor, namely : William H., a lawyer of Terre Haute ; George M., a teacher in the public schools; Frank A., of this review; Herbert E., a merchant and farmer, and Mont E., a druggist at Seelyville. Mr. Tabor, Sr., was a Democrat, and both he and his wife are of the Presby- terian faith.
Dr. Frank A. Tabor was but a child when his parents moved to the farm, and there he grew to mature years and first attended the country schools and later the Indiana State Normal, after which he taught for
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three years. The time had then arrived when he was able to begin the preparation for his chosen life work, and pursuing a full three years' course in the Missouri Medical College of St. Louis, he graduated in 1897. In the following year he received a diploma from the Medical College of Indiana, and at once began the practice of medicine in Terre Hatte. He enjoys an extensive and remunerative patronage and fol- low's a general practice. For two years he served as the county physician, and as the Democratic candidate was elected the county coroner in 1902, and served for two years. He is a member of the Vigo County Medical Society, the State Medical Society, the Esculapian Medical Society of the Wabash Valley and the American Medical Association. He is also a member of the Union Hospital staff and of the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias fraternities. Dr. Tabor married, in 1903. Cloye Lane.
H. M. MULLIKIN, M. D .- The medical profession of Vigo county finds an able representative in Dr. H. M. Mullikin, who follows a general practice in Terre Haute. His alma mater is the well known Miami Med- ical College of Cincinnati, where he graduated on the 3d of May, 1903, and in the fall of the same year he regularly took up his profession in this city. He is a member of the Vigo County Medical Society, the Escula- pian Medical Society of the Wabash Valley and of the American Medical Association.
Dr. Mullikin is the youngest of the seven children, four sons and three daughters, of James M. and Nannie (Kindle) Mullikin, and was born in Johnson county, Indiana, November 13, 1876. When he was but two years of age his parents moved to Wayne county, Illinois, and there. on the farm, he grew to mature years and attended the country schools and the Orchard City College of Flora, Illinois. He was then in readiness to begin the preparation for his future life's activities, and is fast working his way upward and gaining success, the reward of earnest labor and ability.
EDGAR L. LARKINS, M. D .. a well known member of the medical profession in Terre Haute, was born on a farm in Honey Creek town- ship. Vigo county, Indiana, September 13, 1855, a son of James and Mary (Mattox) Larkins. James Larkins was born in New York and came with his father, Sanford Larkins. to Vigo county when a child and now resides at Fourth and Hulman streets, Terre Haute. His mother died February 12, 1856. The early years in the life of Dr. Larkins were spent on the farm, attending the country schools and the Terre Haute high school, and he then taught two terms in the district. For two years after leaving the school room he read medicine under Dr. John E. Link,
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and then to still further perfect himself in his chosen calling entered the Medical College of Indiana and graduated in 1878. With his prepara- tion completed he began practice in Terre Haute, but after two years here went to Staunton, Clay county, Indiana, where he practiced medicine for five years, and at the close of that period returned to Terre Haute. Since 1885 he has been a permanent member of the medical profession in this city and has won success in his chosen field. He is a member of the County, State and American Medical societies, the Esculapian Medical Society of the Wabash Valley, is a member of the staff of surgeons of Union Hospital and is the physician to the Glenn Orphanage. He casts his ballot in favor of Republican principles, and for two terms has served as a member of the city council. In his fraternal relations he is a Master Mason and a member of the Odd Fellows order in all its branches.
Dr. Larkins married Miss Marium Sutliff in 1882 and they have one son, Ernest, a civil engineer.
GEORGE W. BEMENT .- In the history of Terre Haute and Vigo county the name of George W. Bement stands prominently forth, for he was one of the city's pioneer wholesale merchants and for over half a century was closely identified with the commercial and business interests of the county. He left the impress of his forceful individuality upon al- most every line of progress and improvement that has led to its substan- tial growth and advancement. His life's span covered many decades- years of purpose well directed, plans carefully formed and natured-a period altogether of fine achievement.
Mr. Bement began life at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, August 4. 1826, son of George W. Bement, a sturdy native of the Old Bay state and of Welsh parentage. As the son grew to mature years he received a good English education, in 1845 leaving his eastern home and journeying to Evansville, Indiana, where his older brother. Asa, was engaged in the wholesale grocery business, in partnership with Charles Veile. The firm also owned a similar business in Terre Haute, which had been established since 1840. After spending two years in Evansville the younger Bement removed to the latter city to take charge of the house there. and in 1854 was admitted to partnership, acquiring a major interest upon Mr. Veile's retirement. The firm of Bement & Rea was organized in 1875 by the admission of W. S. Rea, and the relation continued uninterrupted until Mr. Bement's death, December 18, 1903. Two years after the passing away of the head of the firm, the Bement-Rea Company was reorganized, the Bement interest remaining intact, although the active management passed to other hands. Mr. Bement was also interested in the banking affairs of the city and for many years was a director in several financial
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institutions. From the time Terre Haute was a struggling and unim- portant little village he was identified with its interests, and now her com- mercial and financial history is replete with his energy and spirit.
George W. Bement married Miss Helen Brotherton, a native of New York state, and they became the parents of Asa B. and Charles Russell Bement, the latter deceased. The first born, Asa Bruce Bement, is a native of Terre Haute, born September 16, 1872, and was educated in its public schools and at St. John's College, New York. He is a director in the Terre Haute National Bank, but he practically devotes himself to the care of his large property. He is a member of the fraternal order of Elks, the Country Club and other organizations. Mr. Bement married Anna, daughter of Judge Carlton, of Terre Haute.
HENRY E. VANNIER .- Among the prominent men of affairs of Terre Haute, few names are better known than Henry E. Vannier, the president and treasurer of the Keystone Roofing and Supply Company. He was born in Dover, Morris county, New Jersey, September 10, 1859, a son of Charles and Sarah (Knight) Vannier, the father a native of the province of Alsace-Lorraine, Germany, and the mother of England. They gave to their son an excellent educational training in his youth, sending him to a private school until he reached his eleventh year, and he was then sent to Europe to complete his studies. During three years he was a student at Darmstadt, Germany, during two and a half years studied at Geneva, Switzerland, and for six months was in France. It was while still pursuing his studies there that he was called home by the death of his father in 1877. and having not yet reached his majority he was placed by his guardian in the office of Miles & Gibb, of the large lace importing house of New York City, where he remained until he attained his ma- jority. He then went west and spent five years in northwestern Dakota, engaged in the raising of wheat and horses at a point twenty miles east of Dickinson. Following this he returned to New Jersey, and from there went to Virginia and was engaged in the lumber business until he again went to the west, in 1889, this time taking charge of the Key City Roofing Company, in Dubuque, Iowa. In 1902 he bought the interests of this company, and coming to Terre Haute formed the Keystone Roof- ing and Supply Company, which was incorporated in May, 1906, with Mr. Vannier as president and treasurer; J. M. Vannier, secretary, and B. W. Hamen, incorporator. Mr. Vannier is today numbered among the successful and prominent business men of Terre Haute and has proved himself in all the relations of life an earnest, honest, upright man, and a citizen of whom any community might justly be proud.
He married Jeannette M., the daughter of William Hamen, of Farm-
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ington, Minnesota, and they have three children, Charles Bertram, Harold Raymond and Helen Margaret. Mr. Vannier is a member of the Elks fraternity and of the Commercial and the Young Business Men's clubs of Terre Haute.
RICHARD DAIILEN .- The real estate man has more to do with the improvement, upbuilding and adornment of a city than is usually recog- nized by those who regard the business from the standpoint of superficial observation. The real estate man, however, exercises a strong influence over the city's development in the purchase and sale of property, and he who has a real interest in his city's welfare will always regard the uses to which the property is put, striving ever to improve the character of a district and thus enhance property values. Mr. Dahlen, as a real estate agent, has handled much valuable property in Terre Haute and also en- joys a good clientage in the field of insurance. He was born in Sauk county, Wisconsin, October 2. 1852, his parents being Herman and Mary (Sorg) Dahlen, who were natives of Germany and became early settlers of Sauk county. They were married in Wisconsin during the boyhood of their son Richard, removing from that state to Effingham, Illinois, while subsequently they became residents of Terre Haute. Here the father died in 1900, while the mother passed away in 1908.
Richard Dahlen was reared and educated in his native state and in Illinois, and came to Terre Haute in 1872, when a young man of twenty years. Here he accepted a position as money clerk with the American Express Company, with which he remained for three years. He then entered the employ of the Vandalia Railroad Company, with which he continued for five years as clerk in the office of the superintendent of motive power. He was next in the retail grocery business for a few years, while later he engaged in the music business and at the same time conducted a real estate and insurance office. Later, however, he with- drew from the music trade to give his undivided time and attention to the management of the office, and in 1904 he removed to his present loca- tion on South Seventh street, where he has one of the leading establish- ments in his line in the city. He is secretary of the Prairie City Building and Loan Association and of the Home Improvement Company. ITis sagacity and foresight enable him to make judicious investments, while his diligence, indomitable energy and undaunted perseverance are winning him prosperity that numbers him among Terre Haute's most substantial citizens.
Mr. Dahlen was married to Miss Louise Bianchy, a native of Terre Haute and a daughter of Philip Bianchy, one of the carly residents of this city. They have a son and a daughter: Herbert P., who resides in
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Indianapolis, and Charlotte H., the wife of Romeo M. Weinstine, of Terre Haute. Mr. Dahlen is a member of Euclid Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and has also taken the degrees of the chapter and council. He likewise belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, and is a representative of the Commercial Club.
JOIN HIANLEY, financially interested in and active in the manage- ment of one of Terre Haute's leading industrial concerns, is well known in the business circles of the city and his affairs are capably conducted. Those who know him recognize the fact that he possesses tireless energy. keen perception and honesty of purpose, joined to every day common sense. He has been watchful of all the details of his business and of all undertakings pointing to prosperity, and he well merits the confidence that has come to him with the passing years. A native of Vermont, he was born at the foot of the Blue Mountains, at Rutland, that state, January 27, 1846. His parents were John and Mary Ann ( Hanly) Hanley, natives of County Roscommon, Ireland. The father was born in the year 1818, while the mother's birth occurred in 1821. They were reared, educated and married in the old country, and in 1847 came to the United States, hoping to enjoy better business opportunities than could be secured in their native land. Upon reaching American shores they proceeded direct to Rutland, Vermont, where for some time the father worked in the celebrated marble quarries of that section. He aft- erward turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, which he followed in the same locality. In 1852, however, the family removed to Boston, Massachusetts, but only a brief period was spent in that city, whence they came the same year to Indiana, settling on a farm near Connersville. Later they took up their abode in Wabash county, Indiana, at Lagro, and there the mother died in the year 1873. Following her demise the father made his home in Washington, D. C., and surviving her for thirty years, passed away in 1903. They were both members of the Roman Catholic church. Their family numbered ten children, namely: Patrick, who was born in Ireland and served as a soldier in the Civil war as a member of the Eighth Vermont Cavalry, but is now deceased : John, whose name in- troduces this review ; Alexander, who also served in the Civil war, and is now a resident of Logansport, Indiana ; Thomas, who met death while serving as a railroad engineer ; Michael, a resident of Pueblo, Colorado; William, who died in youth ; Francis E., an engineer on the Panhandle Railroad, running between Logansport and Cincinnati: Mary A., who became the wife of John Lynch, and is now deceased ; Margaret A., who has also passed away, and Jennie, the wife of John Coughlin, a resident of Lagro, Indiana.
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John Hanley spent his boyhood days upon the home farm and as soon as old enough to handle the plow began work in the fields, aiding in other ways also, in the cultivation of the crops and in the care of the stock. He acquired a common school education, but his opportunities in that direction were somewhat limited, for at the comparatively early age of twelve years he began working at the trade of tent and awning making. He was employed in this way in Boston, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and other cities and acquired a knowledge of the business which has enabled him in later years to conduct a most successful enterprise of this char- acter on his own account.
On the 16th of April, 1870, Mr. Hanley located in Terre Haute and began his active career as a manufacturer. That was thirty-eight years ago, and since that time he has continued in business, being now vice president and general manager of the Hanley-Ruddell Company, controll- ing one of the most important and extensive industrial concerns of Terre Haute. They are engaged on a large scale in the manufacture of tents, awnings, flags and waterproof horse and wagon covers, with office and factory at No. 822 Wabash avenue. The first factory was located in a frame building at the corner of fifth and Mulberry streets on the site of the present German Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Hanley continued alone in business until 1886, when he was joined by J. M. Samuels in a partnership under the firm style of John Hanley & Company. In 1890 the business was incorporated under the name of the John Hanley Manu- facturing Company, with Mr. Hanley as president. At that time the com- pany crected a factory of its own at the corner of Third and Mulberry streets and the same year opened a branch establishment at Indianapolis, under the name of the Indianapolis Tent & Awning Company. They also located a branch house at Louisville, Kentucky, known as the Falls City Tent and Awning Company. Gradually the business had been enlarged in its scope and about that time the company began the manufacture of a line of upholstered furniture in connection with tents and awnings, oper- ating in this direction both at the factory in Terre Haute and at Louis- ville, Kentucky. In 1893 Mr. Hanley became so afflicted with facial neu- ralgia that he was incapacitated for business for a period of three years and as he was the only practical workman in the company the business fell away to such an extent that the financial panic of that period found the company casy prey. The business was forced to go into the hands of a receiver, but Mr. Hanley resumed active connection therewith as agent for the receiver, so serving for a considerable period. When his health had improved sufficiently he again began operations as a manu- facturer and in 1899 removed to his present quarters, where he operated under his own name, until 1906, when he incorporated the business under
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