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Mr. Case was twice married. Three sons and a daughter, viz., John S., James S., Recd and Josephine (Mrs. B. F. Schermerhorn), were the fruits of the first union. By his second wife, who was the sister of his first wife, he had one son -- Charles G. Case. They are all living. John S. is farming near this city, James is in the commission business in Chicago, Recd in the same business at Indianapolis, and Charles in the same at Cincinnati. His widow, who survives him, makes her home in Cincinnati with her son Charles.
John S. Case, Sr., a brother of Recd Case, Sr., came to this county in 1843, and now resides with his nephew, John S. Case, Jr., near this city. The family, and especially the subject of this sketch, has figured largely in the development of the county, and has, individually and in its entirety, enjoyed the confidence and highest regard of the people. No higher tribute can be paid to the living, or to the memory of the dead.
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sie, is a recent graduate of the Delphi High School. Mrs. Cart- wright is a member of the Methodist Church, a woman with the fondest attachment for home life, and an ngrecable and dignified lady in society.
In politics, Mr. Cartwright is an active member of the Demo- cratic party, one of the leaders of the party in Carroll County. und the present Chairman of the County Central Committee. For years he has attended as a delegate its State conventions.
He is also a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity.
As a citizen, Mr. Cartwright stands high in the esteem of his fellow-men, his temperate life, quiet demeanor and close atten- tion to business commanding respect und gaining for him the re- gard and confidence, not only of the comumnity, but of the entire county.
HENDERSON DUNKLE.
Henderson Dunkle was the fifth sou in a family of eleven children (seven boys and four girls) born to George Dunkle and Elizabeth (Boggs) Dunkle, in Fannettsburg. Franklin Co .. Pen.
His immediate ancestors on the paternal side were of (forman descent. and hailed from Lancaster County. Penn .. while on the maternal side troy were of Anglican birth. Grandfather Boggs was a soldier of the American army in the Revolutionary war.
'The subject of this personal narrative, although approach ing the s adows of threescore years, has resided iu but two localities - Fanuettsburg. Poun .. where he was born on the 5th day of April. 1826, and Delphi. Ind .. whither Le came in 1837. at the youthful age of eleven years. in the company and protection of ; William Dunkle, au older brother.
Before arriving at the age of citizenship. he had mastered. in the office of R. C. Green. the compositor's craft. and from 1844 to 1848 engaged in the publication of the Carroll Express, a weekly newspaper devoted to the interests of the Whig party. In 1851 and 1852. he worked as compositor in the office of Apple. gate & Graham, who had begun the publication of the still extant Delphi Times.
Subsequently, and as a proof of his reliability. Mr. Dunkle was for sixteen successive years a faithful and efficient clerk in the hardware store of Dunkle & Kilgore- a term of sere : which might have been prolonged had not the citizens of " Old Carroll " interrupted it, and attested their appreciation of the man and his character, by electing him. in 1871. their County Treasurer -a position so creditably filled by him as to bring about. in 1873. his re-election to the same office. A few years of rest. and his popularity as a county official takes form: in 1878, in his election to the office of Anditor of Carroll County, which position he holds to-day.
In 1847. he married Mary Dewey, the first white child boru in Delphi. and daughter of Aaron Dewey, who taught the first school and built the first brick houses in Carroll County. Five children have been born to thom, three of whom -- Enna C .. Charles H. and Lizzie D. - are vet living. Mrs. Dunkle has always been recognized as a thoroughly consistent Christian wo- nian. full of sturdy domestic qualities, which ondear her to her family and to the commonnity in which she lives.
Mr. Dunkle bas been a member of the Delphi Lodge of I. O.' O. F. since the age of twenty-one years, filling all the offices of : sided. this order, and being a member of the Grand Lodge. He is to-day the oldest continuons living member of Delphi Lodge. In politics, he is an ardent Republican. yet his private and official | Natural Bridge. life has been characterized by such integrity of purpose and ;
affability of manter that. whenever a candidate, he receives a generons support from citizens of all political denominations, without regard to party affiliations.
There is no better citizen in Carroll County than the subject of this biographical sketch. Charitable, genial. public-spirited. his record of half a century in this community deserves the high est commendation.
JAMES P. DUGAN.
The subject of this biographical sketch was born in Cham- paign County, Ohio, Inne 9. 1812. His father was a native of Treland and his mother of Pennsylvania. After spending his boyhood in the counties of Campaign. Darke and Madison, and receiving what might be deemed a liberal education, he went to Cincinnati at the age of twenty-three and accepted a situation in a wholesale dry goods store. In 1832. he accepted the respon- sible position of Discount Clerk in the Commercial Bank of C'in- cimati. It was under the former banking system, a bank of issue, and one of the strong financial institutions of the West. In 1835, after having spent the summers of 1833 and 1834 in Delphi. he conchided to make this place his future home. Arriv. ing in the spring of 1835, he engaged in the dry goods trade. and pursued that line of business for about six years. In IST. he entered as the junior member of the firm of Spears. C'ase & Co .. and conducted a banking, grain and packing business. The fim maintained a large business until 1872. when it was dis. solved by the death of Mr. Case. In IS73. Mr. Dugan became the President of the First National Bank of Delphi. organized under the national banking laws, and remained in that situation until the bank went into lignidation in 1877. Since that period. he has devoted his time to closing up the old firm business. Mr. Dugan. though a zealons Republican, bas never held or sought any position of public trust other than that of Conneihnan in the umnieipal government of Delphi.
He was married. June 30. 1836, to Miss Miranda M. Crooks. One child. Jennie L., was born to this nion April 16. 1538. She died February 28. 1859. She was a graduate of the Wos. leyan Female College, located at Cincinnati.
Mr. Dugan was initiated into the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in Franklin Lodge at Cincinnati. in 1833. and was one of the charter members of Delphi Lodge. No. 25. of Delphi, also holds membership in the Blue Lodge and Chapter of the Masonic fraternity. Mr. Dugan has at all times proven a liberal, public- spirited citizen, and has had the confidence and regard of the community in which he has so long rosided.
JOHN W. FAWCETT.
John W. Fawcett was born near Hamilton. Butler Co., Ohio. on the 15th day of May. 1829. In 1851. with his widowed mother. Jane ( Walker) Fawcett. he came to Indiam. locating in Cass County, where, in the course of a political demonstration arising out of the Pierce-Scott Presidential campaign m 1852. he had the misfortune to lose his right arm by the premature dis. charge of a camion. Later in this year. he elmuged his location. removing this time to Carroll County, where he has since ro-
His father. David Fawcett, thongb of English descent, was n native Virginian, having been born in Angusta Conuty, near the
While n boy, Mr. Fawcett attended, when opportunity per
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mitted, the district schools, but his edneation is chiefly the result of individual effort since arriving at the age of maturity. aided. doubtless, by the character of the work in which his ambition led him to engage. Incapacitated. by the loss of his arm, from pur- suing a line of business-that of practical mechanics --- which he preferred. he turned his attention. in 1853. to school-teaching. ana contiuned in this landable vocation until 1862. in which year he was chosen Surveyor of Carroll County. To this latter position he was re-elected four successive terms, serving. in all. eight years-from 1862 to 1870.
In the meanwhile. and in connection with his duties as County Surveyor. the people attested their confidence in Mr. Fawcett by imposing on him the additional duties of School Ex- aminer of Carroll County. this latter term of service running a period of five years-from 1865 to 1870. Again. m 1870. he is the successful recipient of the suffrages of the people in his elec- tion as a candidate of the Democratic party to the office of Re- corder of Carroll County. Two official tertus. from 1871 to 1879. in this position consumed eight more years of his life.
During his inciunbency of the Recorder's office. he prepared an abstract of the titles of real estate in Carroll Conuty, and. since 1879. has been mainly engaged in his business as abstract- or. In the meantime. however. he has lent valuable assistance to the advancement of two public enterprises. As President of the association having in charge its construction. he materially aided in pushing to a rapid completion the magnificent new Odd Fellows' building. As engineer and Superintendent of several gravel roads being made in the county he has been instrumental in furthering these much-needed improvements.
He is a prominent member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (Delphi Lodge), having connected himself with that society in 1866. and having, in the course of his membership. filled all the chairs in the subordinate lodge of that order.
In politics. he is a conservative Democrat. uever actively par- ticipating in political labor. It is due to him to say that. wheu- ever a candidate for office, his majority has always been greater than the average party majority.
In religion. he is a member of the Christian Church.
On the 20th of July. 1856. he married Miss Mary Howland. the daughter of a veteran school teacher from Orange County. N. Y., and a teacher herself. Miss Howland. although born in Paterson. N. J .. subsequently came to Logansport. Ind .. with her father. and received her education in her father's school. Four children -- David A .. Eva. John and Emma-have been born to them. Mrs. Fawcett is a member of the Christian Church. and an active member of the order of Daughters of Re- bekah. She is a woman of more than ordinary intelligence. and a bright and affable member of society.
The best testimonial to Mr. Fawcett's social and business standing in this community is the fact of his long and successful official life. His excellent qualities were recognized and repeat- edly rewarded by the people. and he never betrayed their conft- donce or abused the trusts which were placed in his keeping. There is no other man in this community more thoroughly re- spected, more orderly or more law-abiding than is the subject of this sketch.
CAPT. SAMUEL D. GRESHAM.
Capt. Samuel D. Gresham, one of the pioneers of this county. was of English extraction. The family records develop the fact that he was a lineal descendant of Sir Thomas Gresham. born in
London in 1519. who was a man of great wealth. liberal culture and high attainment in public affairs. He was the founder of the Royal Exchange of London. an advisory friend of Queen Eli- zabeth, and contributed largely to placing the financial affairs of England on a sound basis.
Capt. Gresham. the subject of this sketch. was born in King and Queen County. Va .. in 1808. While yet a lad. he emigrated. in company with his father. to Shelby County. Ky. : thence to Harrison County. Ind .. where he lived for several years. In 1828. he visited Carroll County. seeking a permanent home, and. after some observation. returned to Harrison County to make the necessary arrangements for his removal to this place. In 1830. he returned to Delphi in company with the late Dr. James H. Stewart. He at once engaged in farming. and also did a good business in flat-boating ou the Wabash and Ohio Rivers. It was in the latter pursuit ho received the familiar title of Captain. November 5. 1833. he was commissioned as Constable, and re- commissioned April 12. 1834. May 4. 1835. under an old law of the State. he was appointed Collector of Revenue. which posi- tion he held until May 6. 1840. In pursuance of the voice of the voters of Carroll County. he assumed the duties of Sheriff August 9. 1836. and was re-elected in 1838. He served as Post- master in the city of Delphi under the administrations of Presi- dents Polk. Pierce and Buchanan. From that service until the time of his death. which occurred July 22: 1874. he was engaged in the livery business.
He was united in marriage to his last wife. Miss Sarah Burt. in 1841. Four sons and three daughters were born to them. viz. : Edward H .. Mattie C .. Emna C .. George D. and Will A. all now having reached the years of maturity.
Until age and infirmity weighed heavily upon him. Capt. Gresham was numbered among the leading men of the county in such questions and enterprises as from time to time arrested the attention of the public. and was a valued citizen. His wife, a most estimable lady. full of years and beloved by all who know her. is at this date still surviving him. and is gratefully cared for by her sons and daughters.
EDWARD H. GRESHAM.
The subject of this sketch. whose portrait will be found in one of the groups of Carroll County officials which embellish this work. was the elder son of Capt. Samuel D. Gresham. He was born on the old McCain farm. just north of the city. August 29, 1842. The house in which he was born is yet standing. He re- ceived in his boyhood such an education as was imparted in our common schools, which was necessarily of a limited character, yet was of that practical type which fully subserved his aims in life. After his school days were over. he assisted his father in the livery business, where he gained the practical business infor- mation which has made him a successful man. In May. 1864. he enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Regiment of Volunteer Infantry. where he served as Corporal. and discharged his duties as a soldier with great satisfaction to his commanding officer. After that regimeat was mustered out of the service, he re-enlisted as a private in the One Hundred and Fiftieth Regi- ment. and. in the organization of the company. was commis- sioned as First Lieutenant of Company H. By reason of the detail of the Captain of the company on special service, he suc- ceeded to the command of the company. which position he filled with credit to himself and the service. After the war. he re-
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entered the livery business, which he conducted with great sue- cess. hood with the Democratic party, and in 1871 was elected to the office of Assessor of the city of Delphi. To this position he was re-elected in 1873. In 1876. he received the nomination from his party for the office of Sheriff, and was elected by a very do. cisive and highly complimentary majority. To the same respon- sible office he was re-eleced in 1878. It is worthy of note to remark that Mr. Gresham was the first person in this county elected to the same office once held by the father, and was also the first county officer born in the county. During his official service. he served to the satisfaction of his fellow-citizens, irre- spective of party prejudice, and their good will accompanied him as he resumed the pursuits of private life and business. In his relations to the community. he has always manifested a liberal spirit of enterprise, and has nover hesitated to contribute, to an extent commensurate with his means, to any scheme which prom- ired the promotion of the public good. For several years, he was actively identified as a Director. and in other relations, with the Carroll County Agrienltural Association. He has been for many years a member of the order of Odd Fellows: was a charter member of Delphi Lodge. No. 80. of the Knights of Pythias. instituted in this eity April 3. 1879. and was also a charter mem- ber of Boothroyd Post of the Grand Army of the Republic. hold. ing the office of Junior Vice Commander. He was married. December 21. 1881. to Miss Jennie D. Holmes, daughterof Will- iam Hohnes. Esq., one of our oklest and best citizens.
the term of service expired. he returned to Delphi and again en. In his political affiliations. he identified himself from boy- tered the store of C. & G. Moore. He found it impossible to pursue peaceful avocations while the nation was struggling in the thuroes of n great civil war. and. thus he was impelled to again enter the military service. He re-enlisted. July 16. 1862. in Company A. Seventy-second Indiana Infantry. He remained in service with the regiment until April 13. 1563. when he was com- missioned First Lieutenant and made Quartermaster of the regi- mont. In the terrible battle at Chickamauga. in addition to his duties as Quartermaster. he was, by special order. assigned to anty as ordnance officer. Up to this time, though he was on spo- cial duty and detached from his company. he was on the field at all the skirmishes and battles in which his regiment was engaged. December 4. 1864. after faithful and ardnons service as Regi- mental Quartermaster. he was duly commissioned and promoted to the command of his company. He led his company in the severe marches and skirmishes which preceded the battle at Eben. ozer Church. In this battle, and also at Selma. his command took a very active part. At the latter place. his company was as. signed to the honorable but vory hazardons duty of guarding the Chicago Board of Trade Battery, one of the best and bravest in the service. After the capture of Macon. in which campaign he participated. he was, by order of his commanding General as signed to the command of a picked dotaelmont detailed for spe cial duty to assist in the pursuit of Jefferson Davis. That the work was satisfactorily, done our national history abundantly showeth. Thus closed his military history. and on July 7. 1865. Delphi and re-entered the dry goods business with H. Gros & Co .. a position he held for fifteen years. Capt. Gros relatos an army incident that is worthy of mention. In June. 1864. the Federal army captured a large cotton factory at Roswell, and he was de tailed with a company of men to give the factory girls about two hundred safe guidance mid protection to Marietta. One LEWIS GROS. of these girls afterward married and lived awhile in this city. March 4. 1880, he engaged in the dry goods business for himself. and has thus far been highly successful.
Mr. Gresham has in every sense of the word been " the archi- . after being honorably mnstered out of the service. he returned to tect of his own fortune." His high standing in this community. and the very satisfactory business he has built up and now man- ages, abundantly attest the fact that he has planned and builded well in life. Of such men are prosperous communities produced. and by their efforts are such communities perpetuated.
Lewis Gros is the descendant of a long line of German an cestry. His parents. yet living. were born in Prussia -- the fa ther. January 1. 1804: the mother. December 26. 1803 " As an item of general interest. rather than of family record. we state as an historical fact. abundantly established by the records of Christian missions, that the uncle of Mr. Gros' maternal great- grandfather. Christian F. Swartz. was one of the earliest mis- sionaries to India. and was the first to establish schools for the education of the natives. He spent his life in India, and died at Tanjore. February 13. 1798. aged seventy one yours. Over his tomb at Tanjore, a large memorial chapel was erected in 1829. The parents of Mr. Gros emne to this country and settled in Del- phi July 12. 1838. where he was born' September 28. 1840.' He attended the city school's until he was abont sixteen years of age. when he began his business career as clerk in the Delphi Post Office. In 1857. he went to Greencastle to accept a situation as clerk in a dry goods store. At the expiration of a year. he re- turned to Delphi and became employed in the store of Cameron Moore, where he remained until the war broke ont. On the 14th of April. 1861. he enlisted in Company A. Ninth Endimia Infun- try. as a private sollier. He served with his regiment through the West Virginia campaign of the three months troops, and par- ticipated in the battles at Philippi. Laurel Hill and Carrick's Ford. He was present at the death of Private Dyson Boothroyd. who was the first Carroll County soldier killed in the war. After
He is an active member in the benevolent orders, and was a charter member of Boothroyd Post. G. A. R. Ho served as Councilman from the Second Ward in 1870 -71. and was elected a member of the School Board in June. 1879.
June 1. 1869, he was nited in marriage to Miss Harriet Bar. nett. n daughter of the late William Barnett. An interesting lit- tle daughter. Julia. is living to bless their nion. Thus far in life. Mr. Gros has been successful in whatever he has undertaken. and gives promise of like snecess in the future.
DAVID R. HARLEY.
Mr. Harley was the eller member of a family of seven chil dren. He was born in Abingdon. Washington Co .. Va .. April 10. 18222. Cleland and Hannah Harley. his parents, were native Vir- ginians. His paternal meestry was of Irish, and his maternal of German extraction. While yot a lad. his parents moved to Franklin County. Ind. The family being of limited means. he was compelled to earn his bread by the " sweat of the brow." and was therefore unable to fully avail himself of the full measure of instruction then imparted in the common schools. This deficiency, however, has been happily overcome by liberal reading in later years In 1838. he left his home and came to Tippecanoe County. where he engaged as a farm hand to Jonathan Mount. the father
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of our fellow-townsman, Daniel : Monut. . He remained in his service until 1840. when he came to Delphi and entered a school conducted by Hugh Miller. After a timo thus spent, he clerked in the dry goods houses of Enoch Brown. William Bolles and George W. Pigman, respectively. until 1857. when he engaged in the lime business with E. W. Hubbard and the late Robert Mitchell. For several years .; he was the business manager of the company, and successful in building up a very large and corre- spondingly lucrative business. He is yet largely and actively in- terested in the lime trade as a member of the Delphi Lime Com. pany. Mr. Harley is a fine type of the modern American business man. During his service in clerical positions, he was ever on the alert to grasp everything that might be of service in fitting him- self for the independent business relations he sooner or later ex- pected to assume. Gifted with a keen perception of the charac- ters of men. and fully competent to measure results as they would inevitably follow given combinations of circumstances, observa- tion was to him what actual experience was to others. Added to these qualifications. he possessed nerve, prudence and economy- elements in themselves competent to serve successfully every man destined by condition of his youth to build for himself in life. Mr. Harley has been. in fact and in deed. the architect of his own fortune, and it is but simple justice to say that his comfort- able means abundantly establishes his skill as an architect and builder in this regard. As has already been intimated. his oppor- tunities for acquiring an education in early life were very limited. but he possessed the uncompromising desire to acquire a general information, and his leisure hours were speut in the careful pe- rusal of useful books, as well as the current literature of the day. He has always been an active man in politics-first a Whig. and then, as a matter of political sequence. a Republican. It is proper and just to say that he never interested himself in politics except as a matter of principle. He never sought nor wanted political preferment. He has always kept pace with the great questions of the hour, and has been able to grasp them in all their vital relations. His knowledge of public men is broad and compre- hensive. and these qualifications. together with a pleasant flow of language. renders him a highly entertaining conversationalist, and one competent to instruct. He was united in marriage. June 24. 1848. to Persus J. Hubbard. Two sons and a daughter are living, the fruits of the union. viz. : Charles H .. George P. and Ella (Mrs. Edward Rinehart). After years of happy wedded life. he was called to mourn the death of his wife. November 10. 1857. Mr. Harley, in all his relations, has been a highly esteemed and valued citizen. Though nearly sixty years of age. he has yet a reasonable expectancy of several years of useful. happy life.
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