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bank, was F. C. Horner, and the cashier, Jesse V. Bright. The directors were, Reuben Bright, F. C. Horner, Jesse V. Bright, Van C. Blue, James Thompson, M. W. Eaton and George E. Voorhees. The present officers of the institution are, Reuben R. Bright, president; John F. Wickard, vice- president, and Jesse V. Bright, cashier. The directors are, A. W. Eiken- berry, George Wagoner, James Thompson and Warren Knapp. ..
Some time after the death of his first wife, Mr. Bright was married to her sister, Americus Ewing, and to them have been born two children, Jesse V. and Lola M. Jesse V. was educated in the public schools of Flora, Indiana, and the high schools at Frankfort, Indiana, and Chattanooga, Tennessee. He also took a commercial course at Fitzgerald, Georgia. He served as bookkeeper in the Colony Bank at Fitzgerald until he came to Flora, Indiana, and became cashier of the local bank. On November 19, 1901, he was married to Theresa Cloidt, who died on October 9, 1902. She was a graduate of the Valparaiso Normal School and also of the Con- servatory of Music at Chicago. She had a beautiful voice and was a popu- lar young woman in this community. Lola M. Bright married Warren Knapp, and is now deceased.
Mrs. Americus (Ewing) Bright died at Fitzgerald, Georgia, on June 9, 1898, and Mr. Bright was married to Mrs. Martha M. Webster. She was born in Carroll county, Indiana, July 8, 1855, and is the daughter of Rev. O. H. P. Hannah, a minister in the Methodist Episcopal church. Her mother, whose maiden name was Rachel Gillam, became the mother of fourteen children, of whom Mrs. Bright is the youngest. The latter was educated in the common schools and had married William H. Webster on June II, 1884. Mr. Webster died on September 30, 1894, leaving no chil- dren. They had lived in Missouri for fifteen years and there Mr. Web- ster died.
Jesse V. Bright is a thirty-second-degree Mason, a member of the Knights Templar and of Fountain City Lodge No. 263, Knights of Pythias, in which he is a past chancellor and a member of the grand lodge. He is a Republican in politics and prominent in the affairs of the Presbyterian church. Reuben R. Bright is a member of Samuel Stewart Post No. 557, Grand Army of the Republic, and is past commander of the post. Mrs. Bright is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Flora. She is a member of the Woman's Relief Corps, being a charter member of the organization.
Mr. Bright and his son, Jesse V., own the controlling interest in the Flora Telephone Company, Warren Knapp and Dr. Frank P. Lyons being
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the other stockholders. Doctor Lyons is president and Warren Knapp is manager of this company. Notwithstanding his extensive commercial and financial interests, Reuben R. Bright is a modest and unassuming man, who lays no claim to greatness. He is a man of charitable impulses, and has gone about quietly doing good in the community where he lives.
LEANDER DAVIS BOYD.
There are individuals in nearly every community who, by reason of their pronounced abilities and force of character, rise above the heads of the masses and win for themselves an unbounded measure of popular esteem. Such men always make their presence felt. The vigor of their strong per- sonalities serves as a stimulus and an incentive to young men who model their lives after them. To the energetic and enterprising class of self-made men, who have made the great Hoosier state what it is today, Leander Davis Boyd, a member of the firm of Boyd & Julien, lawyers of Delphi, Indiana, very properly belongs. Because of Mr. Boyd's personal worth and accom- plishments he is entitled to rank as one of the representative lawyers and citizens of Carroll county.
Leander Davis Boyd was born near Stilesville, Hendricks county, Indi- ana, June 12, 1853. His parents, William T. and Elizabeth A. (Boswell) Boyd, were natives of Ohio and North Carolina, respectively. Although William T. Boyd was engaged in driving a stage coach, when a young man, on the old National road from Indianapolis to Stilesville, he later settled in Morgan county, now a part of Hendricks county, purchasing a farm of eighty acres, where he died on January 2, 1865, at the age of forty-five years. His son, Leander D., who was then a lad of twelve years, grew up in the healthful and wholesome environment of the farm, sharing both the advan- tages and disadvantages of life in the country. The mother died on March 9, 1889, at the age of sixty-three years. Both William T. and Elizabeth A. (Boswell) Boyd were devout members of the Baptist church and Leander D. Boyd was fortunate in having been reared in a home of deeply religious parents.
Mr. Boyd's paternal grandfather, Thomas Boyd, was a native of Penn- sylvania and an early settler in Ohio. Both he and his wife died near Lewis Center, Ohio, comparatively early in life. The paternal grandmother, however, survived her husband for several years and married again, her
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second husband also being a Mr. Boyd. She had one child by the first union and five by the second. Those born to the second union were David, William, Luther, Margaret and Dyene.
The maternal grandparents of Mr. Boyd were Davis and Catherine (Westmoreland) Boswell, who immigrated from North Carolina to Salem, Washington county, Indiana, in pioneer times and from Washington county to Stilesville, Hendricks county, Indiana, where they were early settlers. Davis Boswell was a blacksmith by trade but afterward engaged in the mer- cantile business. He died at Stileville in Hendricks county at an advanced age, after having reared a number of children, among whom were Elizabeth A., Catherine Cosner, William, Charity, Ellen, Davis, Margaret and several who died early in life. The maternal great-grandfather of Mr. Boyd, Will- iam Westmoreland, whose wife was Catherine Westmoreland, was a native of North Carolina and a farmer. He and his wife immigrated to Indiana and were pioneers in Morgan and Hendricks counties.
Reared on his father's farm in Hendricks county, Indiana, Leander D. Boyd was educated in the common schools of the county and in the Indiana State Normal, at Terre Haute, which he attended about two years. Mr. Boyd then taught school for about three years, when he took up the study of law, being admitted to the bar in 1880. He began practicing at Delphi in 1881 and, for three years, was engaged in the practice with N. J. Howe. The next seventeen years he practiced alone and, . since 1901, Mr. Boyd has been associated with George W. Julien. They have a large legal business in the county court. In fact, their practice frequently extends to the state and federal courts.
On November 27, 1889, Leander D. Boyd was married to Josephine Lyon, the daughter of John L. and Sarah A. (Cox) Lyon, and who was born near Delphi, August 4, 1868. Mrs. Boyd's parents were early settlers. in Carroll county and reared a family of four children, Lillie, Belle, Frank, and Josephine. Lillie married George Robbins. Belle married Dr. Stacey T. Nolan, and both are now deceased. Josephine is the wife of Mr. Boyd. Mrs. Boyd's maternal grandfather, Joseph Cox, was a native of Kentucky, who settled in Carroll county, Indiana, in 1829. He was a farmer by occu- pation and died well advanced in years.
To Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Boyd have been born two children, Mary Frances and Josephine. The former married Frederick C. Martin and now lives in Delphi, and the latter is a graduate of the Delphi high school as was also her sister, Mary Frances. Josephine enjoys the honor of having been the youngest member of the freshman class in Franklin College.
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Mr. and Mrs. Boyd are members of the Baptist church, of which Mr. Boyd is a trustee. Fraternally, he is a member of Delphi Lodge No. 516, Free and Accepted Masons; of Delphi Chapter. Royal Arch Masons; and Delphi Commandery No. 40, Knights Templar. He is also a member of Carroll Lodge No. 174, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Politically, Mr. Boyd is a Republican. In addition to the practice of law, until a year ago, Mr. Boyd operated a farm in Carroll county.
WILLIAM T. HINDMAN.
There is no positive rule for achieving success, yet in the life of the successful man there may be found lessons which may serve as examples to others. The man who succeeds is the man who can foresee his opportunity, since the essential conditions of life are always the same. The surround- ings of individuals differ but little and, when one man passes another on the highway of life and reaches his goal before another, who perhaps started out before him, it is because he has the capacity for using the advantages which fall to his lot. Among the prominent citizens and successful busi- ness men of Carroll county, Indiana, is William T. Hindman, a prosperous merchant and the president of the Burlington State Bank. He is possessed of a keen discrimination, of sound judgment and of an extraordinary degree of executive ability, which have contributed to his large success in life.
William T. Hindman is a native of Butler county, Ohio, born on June 19, 1848, the son of John and Theodosia (Grant) Hindman, the former of whom was born and reared in Butler county, and the latter in the same neighborhood. After their marriage they came, with a small family, to Carroll county in 1865, and located in Burlington township. Later they purchased a farm in Carrollton township, where, for many years, they were engaged in farming. Subsequently, they moved to Burlington, where John Hindman died in April, 1911. He was a member of the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War and was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic . His wife had died previously in 1887. They were the parents of three children, all of whom are living, Sarah, the wife of F. W. Woodruff, of Burlington, Indiana; William T., the subject of this sketch; and Martha, the widow of Sampson Cassady, of Logansport, Indiana.
William T. Hindman was reared principally on a farm in Carrollton
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township and there attended the rural schools in the winter, working on his father's farm during the summer months. When Mr. Hindman had attained his majority, he went into business for himself. On June 19, 1869, when he was twenty-one years old, he was married to Margaret Smith, a daughter of the late James C. Smith. Mrs. Hindman was born on June 19, 1851, in Burlington township and was the only child born to her parents. She was educated in the common schools of Carroll county and is an active worker in the Methodist church. Both her father and mother were born in Muskingum county, Ohio. They came with their respective parents to Indi- ana and located near Burlington. There they grew up in the same neigh- borhood. They were married on December 2, 1849. The late James C. Smith was a soldier in the Mexican War and was also a first lieutenant in the Twenty-fourth Indiana Battery during the Civil War. He enlisted in 1862 and served until the close of the war. He was captured at Macon, Georgia, in a severe engagement and was held a prisoner for seven months. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and a member of the Methodist church. The father of James C. Smith was William Smith, who served in the War of 1812, and the father of William Smith served in the War of the Revolution. James C. Smith died on July 5, 1904, and his wife about five years later on February 2, 1909.
After his marriage, William T. Hindman purchased a farm in Burling- ton township and there lived for several years. During that period Mr. Hindman bought live stock in connection with his farming. In 1885 he moved to Burlington, Indiana, and established a general store. On August 4, 1914, when the State Bank of Burlington was organized, Mr. Hindman was elected president. The other officers are, H. L. Huddleson, cashier; Nellie Everman, assistant cashier; and the directors, William T. Hindman, H. L. Huddleson, Daniel W. Rodkey, H. L. Summers, Willis Polk, Monroe Medsker and Elias Patty.
Mr. and Mrs. Hindman have been the parents of two sons, Ambrose C. and E. E. The former is a graduate of the Burlington high school and attended. the normal school at Terre Haute, the literary course at Ann Arbor and is a graduate of the law department of the University of Mich- igan. He is an attorney at Grand Rapids, Michigan. E. E. Hindman is a graduate of the local high school and of the literary department of Indi- ana University, as well as the law department of the University of Michigan. He is an attorney at Jackson, Mississippi. Both sons are married.
Mr. and Mrs. William T. Hindman are members of the Methodist church and are liberal supporters and regular attendants of this church. Mr.
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Hindman is a member of Burlington Lodge No. III, Free and Accepted Masons. He is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, having joined the lodge on January 17, 1870, and now the oldest member of the lodge. He is a past grand of this order and a member of the grand lodge. He is also a member of Burlington lodge No. 179, Knights of Pythias, of which he is a past chancellor and a member of the grand lodge. Mr. Hindman is a Republican in politics, but has never been active in political affairs. Among his other financial interests he is president of the Burlington Telephone Company, an important local institution.
MARSHALL D. CALLANE, M. D.
Professional success results wholly from merit. Although in com- mercial life one may come into possession of a lucrative business through inheritance or gift, in the learned profession advancement is gained almost altogether through painstaking and unceasing effort. Prestige in the med- ical profession is the outcome of a close application of native talents to the science of medicine and surgery. Splendid training, by means of which he has acquired a thorough professional knowledge, and native ability, have combined to make Dr. Marshall D. Callane one of the leading physicians of Flora and vicinity. He is a man who is well known in this part of Car- roll county, not only as a successful physician but as a reputable and hon- orable citizen.
Born in Monroe township, Carroll county, Indiana, February 22, 1871, Marshall D. Callane is the son of Richard and Mary (Cunningham) Callane. Dr. Callane's mother has been dead for a number of years, but his father is still living and is a resident of Flora, now being a retired farmer.
Richard and Mary (Cunningham) Callane were the parents of five children, three of whom are now living, Dr. Waldo E., a graduate of a dental college, is now a manufacturer of cream separators at Lebanon, Indi- ana; Ida, the wife of Otto Sines, of Monroe township; Dr. Marshall D., the subject of this sketch.
Reared principally in Flora, Indiana, and educated in the public and high schools of Carroll county, the latter of which he is graduated from, Dr. Marshall D. Callane entered the Medical College of Indianapolis in 1898, and four years later was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In the same year he began the practice of his profession in Flora
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and has been located here ever since. In the meantime, he has built up a prosperous and well-selected practice. He is widely known to the people of Flora and vicinity and is popular with all classes of people. Dr. Callane is a member of the Carroll County, the District, the Indiana State and American Medical Associations.
In September, 1909, Dr. Marshall D. Callane was married to Ora Myer, the daughter of Frank Myer. To them have been born one son, Richard, who was born in 1911.
As a Republican, Doctor Callane was elected as a member of the Flora school board and is now serving as president of the board. Fraternally, he is a member of Fountain City Lodge No. 280, Knights of Pythias.
ANDREW W. WOLEVER.
Forty-one years of continued success as the proprietor of Delphi's lead- ing photographic studio, is the record of Andrew W. Wolever, a native of Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, who learned photography at Lafayette, after coming to Indiana in 1867, and shortly thereafter, in 1874, established a gallery in the county seat of Carroll county. He has achieved eminent success as a photographer and has won for himself an enviable place among the leading professional and business men of the county honored by his residence.
Andrew W. Wolever was born in Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, on August 12, 1852, and is the son of Peter and Catharine (Weidel) Wolever, who were natives of the Keystone state. Peter Wolever was a butcher by trade. In 1873 he emigrated from Pennsylvania to Tippecanoe county, Indiana, and settled in Lafayette, where he died, at the age of seventy-three years. His wife had died several years previously, in 1859, at the age of forty-five. Both were members of the Lutheran church. They had a family of ten children, as follow: Andrew W., of Delphi; Peter, of Lafayette; Elias, of Brookston; Kate, deceased, who married William Wetzel, both of whom died in North Dakota; Susanna, deceased, who married Franklin Steiner; Mary, deceased, was the wife of Christopher Summerstadt; Lavina, deceased, was the wife of George Apple; Edward died in Macon county, Missouri; two died early in life.
Mr. Wolever's paternal grandparents had only one son, Peter, and two daughters, one of whom was Elizabeth, who died in the Keystone state.
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The maternal grandparents reared a large family of children, Daniel, Cath- arine, William and others whose names are lost. The history of the maternal grandparents is also missing.
On November 16, 1880, Andrew W. Wolever was married to Mary A. Tutwiler, the daughter of John and Clarissa (Dewees) Tutwiler. Four children have been born to this union, Florence, Larrey, Lucy and Gertrude. Florence married John L. Dawson. They live in Peru and have one child, Mary Louise. Larrey is a fireman on the Wabash railroad and lives at Fort Wayne. He and his wife have one child, Marjorie. Lucy married J. R. Starks. They live in Taylor, Texas, and have one child, Mary Thelma. Gertrude married Stewart Walker. They live in White county, near Bernard's creek, and have five children, Harry, Emma, Catherine, Ruth and Mary Belle.
Mrs. Andrew W. Wolever was born in Delphi, Indiana, on February 2, 1851. Her father, John Tutwiler, was a native of Pennsylvania, born near Gettysburg, and died on October 6, 1860. Mrs. Wolever's mother, Clarissa P. (Dewees) Tutwiler, died on Friday, November 11, 1892. In her death the community lost a noble woman, one who had spent almost sixty years in this county. She was born in Guilford county, North Caro- lina, on January 1, 1829. When she was four years of age, her parents, Elijah and Elizabeth Dewees, moved to Marion county, Indiana. In April, 1834, they removed to Carroll county and settled at the mouth of Mitchell creek. Two years later her mother died, leaving seven children. The family scattered, the father going to Arkansas, where he died in 1846. Clarissa found a home with Dr. J. N. Ewing and here grew to womanhood. She was married to John Tutwiler on March 25, 1847, and eight children were born to this union, three boys and five girls, one boy dying in infancy. Three of the children survive, namely: Mrs. Inglee, Mrs. Andrew W. Wolever and Mrs. John K. Kerlin. Shortly after her marriage, Mrs. Tut- wiler united with the Methodist Episcopal church. She was by nature timid and retiring in her disposition, but grace had wrought such a perfect work in her heart that she was bold for Christ. Her pastor, the Rev. John A. Maxwell, paid her this tribute: "I do not think it will detract from the faithfulness or usefulness of any member of the church to say that no one will be missed like Sister Tutwiler. If she was absent from the prayer- service, I always said to myself, 'Mrs. Tutwiler is either sick or absent from town or attending someone that is sick or needy.' Hers was a warm heart and a willing hand. For the first two years that I was her pastor
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she was seldom absent from any service. But during the past year she has been rapidly failing in health. Her last sickness has been long and severe. But one day before her death, as I stood by her bedside and as I knelt in prayer, she prayed for her children and grandchildren and quoted the scriptures and praised her Savior. We shall greatly miss her. While we mourn, she rejoices. God has taken His own. She fell quietly asleep on Friday, November 11, 1892, at one o'clock a. m. She was the kindest of neighbors, the most helpful of friends, a faithful wife and a devoted mother. More and more will her children think of this-and withal an earnest Christian."
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew W. Wolever are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Wolever is a trustee and has been a steward. Fra- ternally he is a member of Carroll Lodge No. 174, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, as well as the encampment and Rebekah branch of the Odd Fellows. He was made an Odd Fellow on January 7, 1875. Mr. Wolever is now district deputy grand master of district No. 8 of the Odd Fellows. He is also a member of Delphi Lodge No. 80, Knights of Pythias. A Republican in politics, Mr. Wolever served two terms as mayor of the city of Delphi, between 1887 and 1891. Few men are more widely known and certainly none is more highly respected in Delphi and Carroll county than Andrew W. Wolever.
WILLIAM A. ROACH.
No man in the ninth congressional district is better known to the people of this district than William A. Roach, familiarly called "Deacon," and no man is more popular. A lawyer by profession and a native of Carroll county, he was scarcely out of his teens before he had turned his attention to politics. Having served as city attorney of Delphi for five years and as secretary of the Republican county central committee during the campaigns of 1902 and 1904, he was elected chairman of the committee in 1910 and served throughout the campaign of that year and in the campaign of 1912. In 1912 he was also elected Republican chairman of the ninth congressional district and still holds this position as the responsible head of the party in this district. Popular as he is with the people of the ninth district, especially the rank and file of the Republican party, honored and admired by men of all parties, he is looked upon as a logical candidate for one of the highest
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offices within the gift of the people of the ninth district if ever he should seek political honors from his party.
The senior member of the firm of Roach & Roach, real estate and loan agents, William A. Roach was born in Delphi, Indiana, December 24, 1874. He is the son of William and Anna ( Morgan) Roach, the former of whom was born in Canada, and the latter born in the West Indies, while her par- ents were en route from England to America. William Roach, Sr., was reared near Toronto, Canada, and, after having received a liberal education in the Dominion schools, came to the United States at the age of nineteen, in 1865, and located at Delphi, this county, where he has ever since resided. Soon after coming to Delphi he engaged in the ice business, in which he continued for fourteen years. Afterward he farmed for four years and then engaged in the milling business with the firm of Montman & Company, which is now Roach & Rothenberger. His wife died several years ago. To them were born four children, Lillie J., the wife of Edgar L. Cox, of Ockley, Indiana; William A., the subject of this sketch; and two who died in infancy.
The paternal grandparents of William A. Roach were natives of Scot- land. His paternal grandfather was Patrick Roach, who married a Miss Head, and immigrated to Canada in pioneer times. In 1865 he settled in Delphi, where both he and his wife died at advanced ages. He was a teamster and lived to rear a family of nine children, four others dying in infancy. Those who grew to maturity were, John, Mary Ann, William, Sarah, James, Elizabeth, Edmond, Robert C. and George A. The maternal grandparents of Mr. Roach were natives of England, who left London for America and who, after reaching America, settled in White county, Indiana. Later they moved to Delphi, the grandmother dying at the age of ninety- nine years. The grandfather was killed when past sixty years old in a run- away. He was a farmer by occupation and had a large family of children, mong whom were William, Anna, Rachel, George, Allen, Thomas, Naomi and Mary.
William A. Roach was reared in the city where he now resides and which has always been his home. Having attended the public schools of Delphi, he entered the Indiana Law School and was graduated with the class of 1897, being admitted at once to the Carroll county bar, state and federal courts. For nine years Mr. Roach was engaged in the practice of law at Delphi in the office of Michael A. Ryan, now the senior member of the firm of Ryan & Ruckelshaus, of Indianapolis.
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