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Joshua Tucker was born on a farm just a mile north of his present homestead iu Harrison township, on the thirty-first of March, 1850. His father's name was Abraham and that of his grandfather Michner. The maiden name of his mother was Margaret Witters, who was a daughter of David Witters. The grandfather came from Lafayette to Cass county about 1832, and was one of the first settlers who secured his land from the government. He cleared up a large tract, and his descendants still possess a considerable part of the land which he obtained direct from the government. The grandfather is buried in Noble township, and the father rests in Zion cemetery at Harrison township.
On September 28, 1873, Joshua Tucker married Miss Barbara Bailey, a daughter of Henry and Catherine (Mogle) Bailey. The children in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Tucker are as follows: Harry A. born July 7, 1874; William W. born September 24, 1876; Charles M. born December 28, 1879; Walter J. born July 12, 1883; Arthur T. born November 20, 1888; Elmer R. born May 17, 1893, and Russell L. born April 25, 1896.
Soon after their marriage, in 1873, Mr. Tucker and his wife moved to their present farm, where he is the owner of ninety-two and a half acres. This place, when he first took possession nearly forty years ago, was very little improved, and had poor buildings, and was not yet developed to a point of highly profitable cultivation. Since then Mr. Tucker has not
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only developed the land and the possibilities of the soil as a means of producing wealth, but has also made many improvements which increase the comforts of the place as a home, and now enjoys one of the best rural homes in the northern part of Cass county. During his youth in this county, Mr. Tucker had to walk a mile to school, and the term lasted for only about four and a half months out of the year. He thus came to know many of the deficiencies and difficulties of life in the early years of this county, and is in a position to realize and to appreciate the modern advantages. He and his wife are members of the Methodist church, and in politics he is a Progressive. He is also affiliated with the Knights of the Maccabees.
CAPTAIN DANIEL H. MULL, one of the most highly respected citizens of Logansport, died at his home in this city on January 12, 1903. After earning his rank and title by gallant service in the Civil war, he was for nearly forty years identified with the commercial life of Logansport, and his loss was not only a personal one, but also left a gap to be filled in the business world. Of a genial and generous disposition, he made friends wherever he was, and his undoubted ability and capacity for hard work made him a valuable man in the world of business and in the civic community. His father, Daniel Mull, was a German and his mother, Miss Anna Sites, of Irish descent, both of North Carolina ; soon after their marriage they settled in Indiana. The late Captain Mull was born December 27, 1821, at Spencer, Owen county, Indiana, being in his eighty-third year when death came to him. His trade was cabinet- maker, and carpenter, and it is interesting to note that he helped to build the original Methodist church on Eighth and Broadway in Logans- port. In the family were two other sons and three sisters, and John Mull of Spencer, Indiana, was the last to pass away of that generation of the family.
Daniel Hart Mull obtained a common school education in Owen county, and was a young man when he came to Cass county, being un- accompanied by any other members of the family but had a sister (Mrs. Richard Hensley) living here, with whom he made his home until his marriage. He enlisted at the outbreak of the Civil war, and rose to the rank of captain of Company H in the Seventy-Third Indiana Infantry.
He was taken prisoner May 3, 1863, and twenty-three months of his military experience were passed in Libby Prison. On the close of the war he engaged in the retail shoe business, and for many years was a leading member of the firm of D. H. Mull & Company, and also of the firm of J. B. Winters & Company. The late Captain Mull was a stanch Republican in politics, but never occupied official position. His fraternal affiliations were with Tipton Lodge of the Masonic order, and with the Grand Army of the Republic.
On May 28, 1846, Captain Mull married Sarah Simpson Jones, daugh- ter of Thomas Jones, who at one time served as sheriff of Cass county. Mrs. Mull died on July 30, 1904. Of their five daughters, two survive, namely : Mrs. Anna R. Clark of Indianapolis and Miss Fannie Mull of this city. The attractive homestead at 801 North street in Logansport was built by Captain Mull more than sixty years ago and is a landmark in the residence district and the center of many kindly memories and
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associations for the family. Captain Mull and family in early years worshiped at the Methodist church, and his body now rests in Mt. Hope Cemetery.
DR. JOHN J. BURTON. A career of honorable and useful activity, largely devoted to the service of his fellow-men, has been that of Dr. John J. Burton, in Harrison township. Dr. Burton is now one of the oldest physicians in point of years of practice in his section of Cass county, and he is one of the best examples of that ideal type of the country doctor.
Dr. John J. Burton was born in Harrison township on the twenty- third of March, 1850. The family have been residents in this section since pioneer days, and as farmers and public spirited citizens, have always done their part in the community. The doctor's parents were John and Susan (Sagaser) Burton, the latter a daughter of Henry Sagaser. Dr. Burton's father was born in 1816, and died in 1868, while his mother was born in 1815, and died in 1876. The father was a native of York- shire, England, and was about two years of age when his family crossed the ocean, and settled in northern Indiana. The doctor's mother was a native of Kentucky, and the five daughters and three sons who com- prised the family of which the doctor is a member were named as follows: Sarah Jane, who married John Morphet; Amanda, who married Peter Montgomery ; Elizabeth and Emma, who died in infancy ; Elizabeth, who married Richard Brown ; Leonard R., whose first wife was Emma Baker, and whose second wife was Lena Batty; John J., the doctor, whose mar- riage is mentioned in the following paragraph; and William L., whose first wife was Priscilla Murry, and who married second, Jane Conn.
Dr. John J. Burton, when a boy, attended the district schools near the farm on which he was raised. Subsequently he studied in the high school at Logansport, and when his ambition has been set upon the study of medicine, and the privileges afforded him for preparation, he entered a medical college at Cincinnati, where he continued his studies until graduation, with his medical degree May 9, 1876. On returning from college, he began his practice in the vicinity of his old home, and has built up his patronage in the vicinity of people who have known him all his life, and who thoroughly esteem him for his ability and integrity of character. There is now only one physician practicing in this county, who was here at the time he began his practice. Dr. Burton has never held any office, though he is a Democrat in politics, and his family are members of the Christian church. He was married June 21, 1877, to Miss Mary B. Lumbirt, a daughter of Hiram and Maria ( Anderson) Lumbirt. The doctor and wife have no children.
REV. JOSEPH TODD. For many years a minister in the service of the Presbyterian church, but since 1904 engaged in the merchandise business in a general way, Rev. Joseph Todd has seen life from the viewpoint of the clergyman and the business man, and in these widely separated fields of activity has met with experiences that have rounded out his mentality and his entire nature in a most inclusive manner. As postmaster for nine years in Lucerne, appointed by President Roosevelt, he has seen something of service in the civil service department, and his fraternal
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relations in the popular organizations of the country have given him an acquaintance with men that he would never acquire, either in his churchly or business relations with fellows.
Joseph Todd was born in Home county, Ohio, on June 23, 1861, and is the son of William and Mary (Moorehead) Todd. The father was the son of another William Todd, and the mother was the daughter of James Moorehead. The father of the subject was a farmer in Home county, who died in 1889, but the mother yet lives. As a boy, Joseph Todd had the advantages of the schools of the community wherein he made his home, which schooling was later supplemented by four years' study in college in Wooster University in Ohio. He succeeded in preparing himself for the ministry, and served in his ministerial capacity in his native state, also in White county, Indiana. He preached three years in the Presbyterian church in Lucerne, that service completing fourteen years of work in his ministerial capacity. In 1904 he returned to Lucerne, and since has here been engaged in the general merchandise business, in which he has realized a substantial success. He has served as post- master of the place for nine years, but beyond that has held no other office of a public nature.
Fraternally Mr. Todd is a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellow societies, and has considerable prominence in both orders.
On September 29, 1893, Mr. Todd married Miss Cora Baker, the daughter of William P. Baker and his wife, who was Lydia Needham in her maiden days. Six children were born to them: Orville W. was born on December 31, 1896; Mildred A., born June 13, 1898; Louis I., born July 22, 1900; Forrest E. and Edna Fay, twins, were born on Octo- ber 27, 1907; and Thelma M. The family has made its home in Cass county since April 1, 1892, moving hence from White county, this state, and prior to that time had resided in the state of Ohio, where Mr. Todd and his wife were born. Both Mr. and Mrs. Todd were the children of fathers who fought for the preservation of the Union, the senior Todd having served throughout the war in the One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Ohio Infantry, while Mr. Baker served in the Eighty-seventh Indiana.
No family in Lucerne enjoys a wider circle of friends than does the Todd house, and they are accounted among the more substantial people of the community.
CLAYTON C. CAMPBELL, M. D. Perhaps it is true that each individual is born with one natural gift, but not every one seeks to discover it, or, finding it, has the opportunity to nurture or develop it. History and biography prove, however, that many of the most brilliant professional men of our land have felt this natural bent from youth-in the direction of law, medicine, the church or literature, and, with enthusiasm, con- trolled by circumstances, have sought advancement along this line. Not so many, perhaps, have reached the cherished goal in their most recep- tive years, some, indeed not until middle life, but here and there are found those who, at the open door of manhood, find also the door open to their chosen field of effort. Respectful attention, in this connection, is called to Dr. Clayton C. Campbell, of Walton, Indiana, whose persist- ent devotion to the self-imposed duties of his profession have gained him
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a position among the medical practitioners of his section that might be envied by many men a number of years his senior. Dr. Campbell was born August 14, 1879, in Preble county, Ohio, and is a son of Rome and Jennie (Disher) Campbell. There were four children in the family : Clayton C .; Mrs. Isa Lairy; Mrs. Ethel McNeely ; and Leonard, who is a civil engineer of Cambridge, Ohio.
Clayton C. Campbell received his early education in the common schools of Eldorado, Ohio, and was still a lad when his father died, at which time the little family moved to Indianapolis, the courageous mother making it possible to keep her children about her by establishing herself in business as a milliner. In that city young Campbell accepted odd jobs at whatever honorable employment presented itself, carefully saving his money in the meanwhile, as he already had intentions of entering, if possible, upon a professional career. Finally he was able to enter the drug business, and after seven years spent therein had enough capital to pay for his first year's tuition in the College of Physicians and Sur- geons, Indianapolis, following which he took special courses on diseases of the eye with Dr. G. S. Row, of Indianapolis. He entered medical college in 1900 and graduated therefrom in 1904. He was president of the college Young Men's Christian Association, and was interested in all branches of its work, and when he entered the Deaconess Hospital was the first man of his college to become connected with that hospital. Thus thoroughly prepared, Dr. Campbell entered upon the practice of his profession in Indianapolis, but one year later went to Harrodsburg, Monroe county, and after two years in that town came to Walton, which has since been his field of endeavor. He is now in the enjoyment of a large and representative practice, and his success in a number of com- plicated cases has served to establish him firmly in the confidence of the people of his community.
In 1904 Dr. Campbell was married to Miss Mary I. Garvin, of Cam- bridge, Ohio, and to this union there were born three children: Clayton C., Jr .; Elizabeth, who died when three years of age; and Flora A. Dr. Campbell is prominent fraternally. He is a past master of the Masonic Lodge No. 723, Walton, and a member of the Knights of Pythias, the I. O. O. F., the Modern Woodmen of America and the Red Men. He is also a member of the County District and State Medical Societies. The family has always been prominent in the work of the Lutheran church, in which Dr. Campbell is serving as deacon. He has been act- ively interested in everything pertaining to the upbuilding of Walton.
AMBROSE ELLIOTT. A family which has been represented in Harri- son township and Cass county for the greater period of its history is that of Elliott, represented by Mr. Ambrose Elliott of Harrison town- ship, where he is one of the most prosperous and progressive farmers.
Ambrose Elliott was born in Montgomery county, Indiana, February 9, 1840. His parents were Joseph and Martha (Lincoln) Elliott. Both of them came to Cass county at an early date. The father, who was of English descent, was for many years a substantial citizen and gave his family the best advantages procurable at the time, and under the con- ditions of life as it was then lived in this section of Indiana. Mr. Ambrose Elliott was married, after growing into manhood in this county,
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to Miss Agnes Winn, a daughter of Richard and Alice (Battie) Winn. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Elliott located upon a farm in Har- rison township which contained one hundred and eighty-five acres, and which had been bought by his father. About forty acres of this land was cleared and a large part of the labor, during his early years as a farmer, was spent in clearing off the land and increasing the quality of cultivable soil. Mr. and Mrs. Elliott became the parents of five children whose names are as follows: Harvey, born December 6, 1867, married Susie Lovett, and they were the parents of two children, Floyd and Earl; Ida, the second child, born March 16, 1871, became the wife of Isaac Wilson and was the mother of four children, Ethel, Edna, and Roy still living, while Harvey died at the age of two years; Wilbert, born December 4, 1874, married Myrtle McCaughy, and they were the parents of two children, Lottie and Margaret; Elmer, born September 10, 1877, married, for his first wife, Viva Mahaffy, and for his second wife, Grace Burkell; Albert, the youngest of the family, was born March 30, 1880, and married Effie Brown, by whom he has two children, Forrest and Maud. For several years now, Mr. Elliott has lived retired, his earlier career having been prosperous to a high degree and giving him a competence with which he can enjoy his remaining years in leisure. In politics he is a Democrat, and has membership in the Methodist church.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN STUART. Though now a resident of Carroll county, Mr. Stuart had all his early associations with Cass county, and his family were identified with this county from 1856. He has had an active career, and is held in the highest esteem in old Cass.
Benjamin Franklin Stuart was born in Floyd county, Indiana, July 26, 1852, and is of Scotch descent on his father's side, and English on his mother's. Robert F. Stuart, his father, was born near Natchez, Missis- sippi, in 1818. When thirteen years old he came to Floyd county, Indiana. He married Susan Atkins, who was born in Floyd county in 1830. Neither of the parents had many advantages in the way of schooling, but were practical and substantial people, and did well for their family. They came to Cass county in 1856, locating two and a half miles west of Royal Center, in Boone township. While the father lived on a farm, he spent most of the time working at the cooper's trade. He was the first man to operate a cooper shop in Royal Center and shipped the first load of barrels from that place to Chicago. In politics he was a Whig, an Abolitionist and Republican. He voted and supported the Repub- lican ticket from 1856 till the time of his death. He never held any office and exercised his influence on civic affairs as a private citizen. He was a member of the Presbyterian church, and his death occurred on his farm in 1875. Benjamin F. Stuart had five brothers and two half-sisters and one half-brother, namely : Carolina, born in 1845; Maria, born in 1847; Stephen G., in 1849; Thomas J., in 1854; Robert A., in 1858; John M., born in 1860 and died in 1875; Warren E., born in 1863 ; Charles H., born in 1867, and died in the same year.
Benjamin Franklin Stuart, as a boy, attended school at the Burr Oak schoolhouse in Boone township, and the Herman school in Jefferson township. Later he was in the graded school at Burnettsville, and the State Normal school. For forty years Mr. Stuart has been interested
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in and connected with the public school system, as student, teacher, and as patron. He was four years old when the family came to Cass county, and many years of his life were spent in Boone and Jefferson townships, but at the present time he has his home on a farm in Carroll county. For eight terms he taught country school, and is still remembered by many of his old pupils. Later he took up farming as a regular occupa- tion, and has done quite a business as a dealer in live stock and as an auctioneer. His only noteworthy connection with public affairs to be mentioned was as trustee for the Seceder Cemetery Association, and outside of this has been content to exert his influence outside the medium of any public office. He is a Republican, and has been an admirer of the careers and personalities of Blaine, Harrison and Taft.
On June 2, 1880, Mr. Stuart married Miss Mary I. Love at Idaville, the minister performing the ceremony having been Rev. Gilbert Small. Mrs. Stuart's parents were William and Deborah Love, who were sub- stantial farming people, and for fifty-eight years lived on one farm, located two and a half miles south of Burnettsville. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart are mentioned as follows: Lucretia, born in August, 1881, and died February, 1893; William, born May, 1883, died July, 1883; Robert F., born June, 1884, now a student at Purdue University ; Pearl A., born June 18, 1887, a graduate in music, and formerly a teacher of that art, and now the wife of Larry Guthrie, a farmer in Carroll county ; Mary Love, born October, 1891, a former student of the State Normal school, and now engaged in teaching; John M., born August 18, 1894, now in the fourth year in the Burnettsville high school; Mason W., born September, 1896, and in the third year in the Burnettsville high school.
Mr. Stuart and family are members of the Presbyterian faith. What Mr. Stuart regards as the best remembered and most eventful day in his life, contains incidents which are of interest beyond their individual associations with his own career. He looks back to a day in the early history of Logansport, in the month of October, 1860, a day of great festivity, when Cassius M. Clay was the principal orator of the occasion. Young Stuart was then eight years old, just at the time when impres- sions are deepest, and the memory will persist throughout life. He then saw for the first time the flag of the country, and heard the fife and drum and the "wide-awakes" marching to the music. He also heard the roar of cannons for the first time. Then it was that he looked upon the dashing waters of the Wabash and the Eel rivers, and viewed the long covered bridges which existed at that time. He saw a grist mill- the forest mill, and marveled at the canal and its boats, and the old aqueduct and escaping waters. All those things were wonderful to the boy of eight years, and all of them are pictures of a past-time in Logans- port and recall some of the institutions which were once an intimate part of life and activity in this county.
CLAUDE C. BISHOP. A representative of one of the old families of Cass county which since early days has been prominently connected with the commercial development and substantial progress of this sec- tion of the state, Claude C. Bishop is now worthily sustaining the high reputation of the family by his honorable connection with the mer-
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cantile interests of Logansport. He was born at Walton, Cass county, June 13, 1869, a son of George W. and Sarah (Corbly) Bishop. His father, a native of Tiffin, Ohio, is a carpenter by trade, but for the greater part of his active career has been engaged in mercantile pur- suits, and at this time is residing at Walton, Indiana, where he is widely and favorably known among business men.
Claude C. Bishop was reared at Walton, and primarily educated in the public schools of that place. Subsequently this was supplemented by attendance at the National Normal School, at Lebanon, Ohio, at the age of nineteen years, and in 1890 he was graduated from the scientific course of that institution. From this date for three years he and his brother, George W. Bishop, Jr., conducted a store at Walton, which had been founded by their father, but in 1893 he decided to take up the study of law, and accordingly entered the legal department of the Uni- versity of Michigan, at Ann Arbor. He was graduated therefrom in 1895, and immediately thereafter came to Logansport and established himself in practice, but in 1897 returned to Walton and again took up merchandising. In 1906 he again came to Logansport, and with his brother bought the elevator formerly belonging to the Johnson Elevator Company. This the brothers conducted until May, 1911, when George W. Bishop, Jr., retired from the firm, and Mr. C. C. Bishop has since been the sole proprietor. In addition to running this elevator in a successful manner, Mr. Bishop has dealt in coal, flour, feed and tiling. By his honorable and upright business methods, he has gained and main- tained an enviable reputation, and among his business associates he is regarded as a shrewd, far-sighted man, whose judgment may be relied upon in matters of importance. In politics a Republican, he has been active in the support of his party's principles and candidates, and in 1912 was the candidate for the office of representative to the State Legis- lature. Fraternally, Mr. Bishop is connected with the Masonic order and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His career has proven that true success in life may be attained through the medium of personal effort and consecutive industry, and that the road to success is open to all young men who have the courage to tread its pathway, keeping ever in mind the rights of others.
On April 7, 1892, Mr. Bishop was married in Walton, Indiana, to Miss Lulu Minnick, of that city, daughter of Justus Minnick. Three children have been born to this union, namely : Ralph H., John H. and Helen M. Both Mr. and Mrs. Bishop have many friends in Logansport, and are well known in social circles.
MOSES L. PLUMMER. Practically all his life a resident of Cass county, Moses L. Plummer gave the active years of his career to the farming industry in this section of the state, and it may be said in all sincerity and truth that few men in Cass county held a higher place in public confidence and esteem than did Mr. Plummer when he died. His life was characterized by the highest integrity and usefulness, and it is to such men as he that the splendid reputation which the county bears for stability, progressiveness and prosperity, is in a great measure due.
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