History of Cass County Indiana : From its earliest settlement to the present time with biographical sketches and reference to biographies previously compiled, Volume II, Part 61

Author: Powell, Jehu Z., 1848-1918, ed; Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago (Ill.), pub
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 662


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Howard H. York was educated in the public schools of Hendricks county, following which he entered Asbury University (now DePauw), receiving excellent advantages for his day and locality. He secured a teacher's license, which, however, he never made use of, as his time was devoted to the work of the home farm until he reached the age of twenty-three years. At that time he left the parental roof and came to Indianapolis, and during the next ten years acted in the capacity of


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fireman and assistant engineer in the Central Indiana Hospital for the Insane, then becoming chief engineer of the Northern Indiana Hos- pital for Insane. He has continued to be connected with this institu- tion to the present time, during which he has been in the active dis- charge of his duties with the exception of ten months, when he was superintendent of the construction of the Hospital for the Insane at Evansville, Indiana. He has made his home in Logansport since 1888, has made many friends, and is known as a man who regards the dis- charge of his duties as a sacred trust. He and his wife are popular members of the Order of the Eastern Star, and Mr. York is also well known in Masonry, having attained to the R. and S. M. degree. In political matters, his inclinations have led him to support the principles and candidates of the Democratic party, to which the members of both his and his wife's families have always given their aid. These families have been well represented in military life, Mr. York having seven uncles who served as soldiers during the Civil war, while Mrs. York's stepfather and one brother also participated in that struggle.


On November 8, 1882, Mr. York was married to Miss Mary J. Dent, who was born in Knightstown, Indiana, April 8, 1847, and educated in the common schools there. To this union there has been born one son : George D., born August 27, 1886, in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was educated in the public schools of Logansport, and after his graduation from the high school became connected with the Northern Indiana Hos- pital for the Insane, where he is now acting in the capacity of assistant engineer.


DEWITT DORAN ... In the life of DeWitt Doran, of Adams town- ship, there is presented a lesson for the youth of any land; something to be found in it of a nature encouraging to the young aspirant who, without friends or fortunes, is struggling to overcome obstacles in his efforts to acquire a comfortable competence, if not absolute wealth. Some twenty-seven years ago, Mr. Doran came to Adams township with a capital of fifty dollars in money, poor but ambitious, unknown but determined. Today he is the proprietor of the noted Old Virginia Stock Farm, a tract of 300 acres, and is known throughout his part of Cass county. Probably no better example of what may be accomplished through a life of industry, perseverance and strict integrity could be found, and a brief review of the height by which he has risen to his present position will no doubt prove interesting to those who are ad- mirers of self-made manhood.


Mr. Doran is a native of the Old Dominion state, and was born January 22, 1864, a son of Liza Ann Doran. His parents were in humble circumstances and he was only able to attend school several months out of each year, as his services were needed in assisting in the support of the family, but he was an alert, intelligent and am- bitious lad, and made good use of his opportunities, gaining thereby a good rudimentary education. Moreover, he was reared to habits of industry, economy and thrift, and thoroughly trained in all the details of farm work. When he first came to Cass county, in November, 1886, his cash capital was represented by the sum of fifty dollars but his stock of ambition, energy and determination was beyond estimation. His


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limited pecuniary circumstances forced him to rent the poorest farm on the Taber Seven Sections, but his success on this property soon at- tracted the attention of Mr. Taber, the owner, who subsequently rented him the best property he had, and there he continued to carry on oper- ations for sixteen years. His success was commensurate with his faith- ful labor, and in 1902 he was able to purchase his present property, a finely-cultivated tract of 300 acres, which he named the Old Virginia Stock Farm, in honor of his birth state. He has cleared this land, has erected substantial buildings, and now devotes the greater part of his attention to the raising of thoroughbred stock, for which he finds a ready and lucrative market. From earliest boyhood, his life has been one of continuous and well-directed industry, and his success is all the more satisfactory in that it has been self-gained, without outside assistance. Mr. Doran has been too busily occupied with his private affairs to engage in political matters and when he votes he recognizes no party lines, believing in voting for the man whom he deems best fitted for the office rather than the organization which he represents. With his family, he is a consistent member of Hoover Methodist Epis- copal church.


In 1884, Mr. Doran was united in marriage with Miss Frances Pur- due, the estimable daughter of Daniel Purdue, and they have had ten children, namely: Mark, Ora, James, Myrtle, Bertha, Minnie Belle, Arlo, Hugh, Katie and Wayne. The children have all been given good educational advantages, and have been reared to fit any position in life which they may be called upon to occupy.


WILLIAM M. SMITH has been a resident of Logansport for the past thirty years, and in that time has seen many changes in and about the city. He was born on August 23, 1849, in a log cabin near Kewanee, in Pulaski county, Indiana, and is the son of David and Elizabeth (Mitch- ell) Smith.


David Smith was a native of Southern Indiana, and a farmer and blacksmith by trade. When a young man, in the early forties, he came to what is now Pulaski county, and there built a log cabin, after which he returned to his old home, married his youthful sweetheart, Elizabeth Mitchell, native of Kentucky, and brought her with him to the cabin in Pulaski county. Here he worked with a will at his trade when he could spare the time from his regualr farm work, and under the most adverse conditions, succeeded in clearing up his farm. He and his wife passed through all the hardships and privations incident to pioneer life in those early days,-conditions which the present generation can have but the faintest conception of. They became the parents of seven children,-two only of the number now are living. The life of Mr. Smith was a quiet and uneventful one, barring the happenings incident to the formative period of the county, and he died on April 18, 1880, his widow surviving him until 1896.


William M. Smith was the oldest of his parents' children and much of the hard work in the carrying on of the regular farm work early fell upon his shoulders. He attended the country school in the winter seasons, and remained in the home until he had passed his twenty-first birthday. He rented land in Pulaski county which he farmed inde-


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pendently until the fall of 1880, when he came to Logansport. He secured work in a stave factory at which he continued for a time, but later went into the teaming business, still later engaging in the feed business. Subsequent to his experience in that respect he once more took up teaming, and for a considerable time after that was in the employ of various grocery concerns in the city. In August, 1902, he bought a lease and the building which stands on his present property, and at once opened up a general coal and fuel business. In 1911 he built his present building, and it is needless to add, he has prospered most agree- ably in the business. He has added cement to his stock, and cement blocks, in which he is now extensively and profitably engaged in manu- facturing. He handles more than one hundred and fifty car loads of coal annually and about four thousand barrels of cement, and the busi- ness is on the steady advance.


Mr. Smith is a Republican, a member of the Order of Ben Hur, and of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was married on March 16, 1871, to Miss Margaret E. Woods, of Cass county, and they are the parents of three children: Hugh, a druggist of Logansport; Jesse, who died in infancy, and Asa E., in the drug and jewelry business with his brother in Logansport.


ZUINGLESS U. LOOP, M. D. Industry and intellect have never been incompatible. There is more wisdom, and will be more benefit, in com- hining them than scholars like to believe or than the ordinary people of the world imagine. Life has time enough for both, and its happi- ness will be increased by the union. To this combination add these other important qualities-enterprise and energy, business tact and public-spirit-and the sum total is the make-up of that class of men in which Dr. Zuingless Loop, of Galveston, stands in prominent relief. Dr. Loop has long been a leading factor in the life of Galveston. He is known as one of the prominent physicians of his part of the county, has wide and varied interests in the business world, is the owner of a valuable farming property, and in public and social affairs holds recognized prestige. He was born July 9, 1851, in the village of Deer Creek, Carroll county, Indiana, about twelve miles from Galveston, and is a son of James C. and Sarah (Wertz) Loop. His father, a native of Clearmont county, Ohio, was educated in the common schools, read medicine, and subsequently became a country physician, following his profession in conjunction with farming operations on his property in Deer Creek township, near the Abraham Smith farm. He and his wife had five children, namely : William M., deceased, who married Laura Hyman, and had two children, Luna and Wade, and Luna married Frank Brown, auditor of Carroll county; Zuingless; Kate; Charles C .; and Pearl. The mother of these children still survives, and although now in her eighty-fourth year, is hale and hearty and in full possession of her faculties.


Zuingless Loop received his early education in the public schools of Jackson township, and was reared in Galveston, where he worked until he was nineteen years of age. He read medicine with his brother, Dr. W. M. Loop, who was at that time practicing in Deer Creek, Carroll county, Indiana. He entered a drug store in Galveston and by


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economy managed to save enough money to enter college. He entered Louisville (Ky.) Medical College, where he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1882. He at once located at Galveston, where he has since been engaged in practice with the exception of the time he spent in taking post-graduate courses at Chicago and New York. In 1875 Dr. Loop entered the drug business and has been con- tinuously engaged in the business up to April, 1912, and at the same time he was practicing medicine. He has built up a large and representative practice, which covers Galveston and the contiguous terri- tory, is widely known in his profession as a man of the highest ability, and has the full confidence of his patients. He belongs to the Cass County and Indiana State Medical Societies and the American Medical Association, in the work of which he takes great interest, and keeps him- self thoroughly abreast of the advances and discoveries of his profession by subscription to the leading medical periodicals of the day. His fraternal connections are with the Knights of Pythias, in which he has passed all the chairs, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. With his family, he attends the Methodist Episcopal church. Dr. Loop has various financial, business and realty interests, and is the owner of a valuable eighty-acre farm, located on the county line in Jackson town- ship, to which he devotes a good deal of his attention. He is president of the First State Bank of Galveston, organized June 7, 1913, and was a member of the county council of Cass county for three years.


In September, 1875, Dr. Loop was married first to Mary E. Atchley, who died a short time thereafter without issue. In 1882 he formed his second union with Miss Laura Darragh Wilson. She died in 1900, leaving three children: Clarence, who married Pearl Cook; Glen R., who is employed at Kokomo, Indiana, but makes his home with his parents; and Florence died in infancy. Dr. Loop married for his third wife Miss Ella Metcalf. He has been loyal and active in his support of all measures that have promised to benefit his community, and for a period served as town treasurer.


DR. MILTON B. STEWART has been a practicing physician at Logans- port for the past sixteen years, and has taken front rank among the members of his profession in Cass county. He was born March 14, 1873, at Virgil, Kansas, and his youth was passed in attending the schools where his father, a pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, happened to be stationed. When six years old the father was transferred to the North Indiana conference, and while living at Columbia City, he was graduated from the high school. In 1890, when but sixteen years old, he began teaching in the public schools with the ultimate object of making that his permanent work in life. Through the influence of Dr. Barnhill, of South Whitely, he was induced to alter his plans and take up the study of medicine. He matriculated at the Cleveland Medical College, Cleveland, Ohio, from which he was graduated with the spring class of 1897. He at once located in Logansport, which has ever since been his home, and where his skill as a practitioner is evidenced by a large and increasing pat- ronage.


Dr. Stewart was married on April 24, 1901, to Miss Alice H. Lari- mer. He is a member of the Methodist church, and one of the greatest


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pleasures he has is his association with this body, with which he became connected at the age of nine years, since when he has endeavored at all times to live the life of a Christian gentleman. His citizenship is of a high order, his unostentatious benefactions being freely bestowed where, in his judgment, the most good will follow. Dr. Stewart is a member of the Masonic order, the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Loyal Order of Moose, the I. O. R. M., and other fraternal and benevolent organizations of a similar nature.


JOHN E. SUTTON. In preparing such a historical and biographical work as this publication is intended to be, it is as essential that specific mention be made of those who have been identified with the best in- terests of a given community and have finished their earthly labors as of those who are yet active in their chosen spheres of labor. It is therefore consistent with the spirit of this work that somewhat extended place be given to the life of the late John E. Sutton, who for eleven years gave the best that was in him to the publication of a wholesome, honest and capable newspaper in the city of Logansport. In his ca- pacity as proprietor and business manager of the Daily and Weekly Reporter, one of the most efficient journals that Cass county has ever known, he made a lasting imprint upon the minds of his readers and upon the entire county in effect, and his influence is yet alive in the community which knows him no more. He was born on October 21, 1863, and died on the 6th of January, 1900.


John E. Sutton, who claimed Fulton county, Indiana, as his native place, was the son of Andrew J. and Barbara (Horn) Sutton. The father was born in Fayette county, Ohio, and the mother in Washing- ton county, Pennsylvania. . For some years they were residents of Logansport, but their residence in Cass county covered a much longer . period. Andrew Sutton was a son of Ferdinand and Mary (Shellen- ' berger) Sutton, natives of West Virginia and Pennsylvania, and were of Scotch and German ancestry. Andrew Sutton was young in years when he accompanied his parents to Clark county, Ohio, and there he received his education, which was complete enough to permit him to engage in teaching at the age of nineteen. His pedagogic work found him employed in the counties of Miami, Cass and Fulton, in Indiana, having taken up a residence in this state in 1844. For twenty winters he gave himself to educational work, and he was known to be one of the most successful teachers of his day, his services always being in de- mand from season to season.


In 1870 Mr. Sutton gave up his teaching activities and turned his attention to the business of merchandise in Logansport, to which he added operations in real estate. He was a man who gave considerable at- tention to the duties of public life, and served in varied capacities in the years of his residence here. In 1882 he was elected a member of the Board of Commissioners of Cass county, serving a three year term in a most capable and efficient manner. In the latter nineties Mr. Sutton, then well advanced in years, retired from active business in a large measure. He was for many years an active member of the Methodist church, and he was a life-long Democrat. He married Barbara Horn


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in May, 1850, and five children came to them. It is to their son, John E., that this sketch is dedicated.


In Fulton county, Indiana, John E. Sutton was reared in the wise and loving care of his devoted parents. His father gave to the boy especial attention in an educational way, and he grew to manhood well fortified in his studies, which had, since he was six years old, been pur- sued in the city of Logansport. He was graduated from the high school of this city in 1882, and then gave some little attention to school- teaching in which work his father had for many years previous been occupied, but he soon changed his activities to other fields. Journalism attracted him strangely, and he entered the office of the Logansport Pharos, where he served for three years as city editor of that paper. He was ambitious, and, discontented with such experience as he might gain in that position, he gave up his work in Logansport and went west, finding employment readily with any of the metropolitan dailies he chanced upon from Indianapolis to San Francisco. In Los Angeles he became the publisher of the Real Estate Reporter, a paper, which though short lived, had a most prosperous career and a phenomenal circulation. The southern California Bubble of 1886 went the way of all such, and the Reporter shared in the general collapse of inflated values that had prevailed in that region. Two years of experience in independent journalism served to convince Mr. Sutton of his ability, and returning to Logansport, he founded the Reporter, although contrary to the ad- vice of the wiseacres who predicted failure for any such project. Nothing daunted, however, Mr. Sutton went ahead with his plans and it is significant of his perspicacity and general good judgment that the paper proved a distinct success, from every possible view point. The first issue of the paper bore the date of October 1, 1889, and from then until the time of his passing, it maintained a high standard of excellence in the county, owning a popularity second to none in the field. It is a fact worthy of record here that Mr. Sutton also founded and pub- lished papers in other parts of the state, among them the Galveston Sun, and another of his Logansport enterprises was the Advance, which also proved a successful venture. Mr. Sutton assumed an Independent at- titude in politics, and his papers ever reflected that attitude, being con- ducted entirely upon neutral lines.


While Mr. Sutton was a resident of Los Angeles, he met and married Miss May Stanley, the ceremony being solemnized in that city in Jan- uary, 1887. Two children, Psyche and Lindley, were born to them.


Mr. Sutton was a member of the Presbyterian church, as is also his widow and children who survive him. They maintain a high place in the best circles in Logansport and enjoy the esteem and friendship of a select circle which widens with the passing years.


JOHN D. BEAL, now living retired in Logansport at the advanced age of eighty-six years, was born on February 20, 1828, in Alsace- Loraine, then a part of France, but now a province of Germany. In the old country the family name was De Biehl, but after the removal to America the name was simplified and Anglicized into its pres- ent form. John De Biehl was the name of the father of the subject


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of this review, and his career was a notable one. He was one of the famous soldiers who fought under Napoleon at the battle of Austerlitz, participated in the Russian campaign against Moscow and in its disas- trous retreat, and was with Grouchy at the battle of Waterloo. He was born in 1787, married Elizabeth Coler who was born in 1801, and in the year 1830 emigrated to the United States. For the ensuing ten years he was employed in a distillery at New Lancaster, Ohio, and in the fall of 1840 he and his family came to Cass county, Indiana, making the journey in a wagon, drawn by a yoke of oxen. The first winter the fam- ily lived in a cabin on the present site of the Heppe Soap Factory, and the following spring he moved into a log house on a farm in Wash- ington township, where he passed the remainder of his days. He died in 1879, and his wife having preceded him four years.


After coming to Cass county, Mr. Beal, as he came to be known in this country, made two trips back to his old home in Ohio to collect sale notes, both trips to and from being made on foot. He and his wife became the parents of five children, of which number John D. Beal, whose name heads this review, was the only son, and is the sole survivor of the five. He was two years old when the family migrated to America, and twelve when they came to Cass county to live. His early years were passed in attending the neighboring schools in the intervals when his services were not in requisition in the work of the home farm, in which he early became proficient, his knowledge embracing all the various branches of agricultural life incidental to making a farm in a new country. He followed farming and farm life until 1896, when he moved to Logansport, where the evening of his life is now being passed in quiet and peace.


On October 29, 1859, John D. Beal married Katherene Long, whose people were also early settlers of Cass county, and to them were born eight children. Three of that number died in infancy, the others being: Joseph A .; John H .; Jeannette; William; and J. Adrian. The mother yet lives, at a ripe old age, and is a devout member of the English Lutheran church.


J. Adrian Beal, the youngest of the children of John D. and Kath- erene (Long) Beal, was born on the home farm in Washington town- ship, this county, on December 12, 1869, and was there reared to man- hood. He was educated in the district schools and on attaining his majority worked two years at railroading, and the next two years at farming. He came to Logansport in 1896, and from then until 1900 was deputy county surveyor. He was then elected to the office of county surveyor, and was re-elected to this office two years later. The succeed- ing two years he was employed by the county at bridge building and road work, but the fall of 1906 he was again elected county surveyor.


On January 1, 1909, Mr. Beal formed a partnership with Harry M. Bell, under the firm name of Beal and Bell, and they have since been engaged in the work of engineering and contracting. Between the years of 1906 and 1912 he was also in partnership with his brother, William V., under the name of Beal Brothers Coal Company.


Mr. Beal is a Democrat. He is high in Masonic circles, being a mem- ber of its various bodies, including the Knights Templar, the Scottish Vol. II-30


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Rite and the Shrine; he is also a member of the Benevolent and Protec- tive Order of Elks and the T. P. A.


On September 28, 1905, Mr. Beal was united in marriage with Miss Julia E. Grover, daughter of General John B. Grover, a veteran of both the Mexican and Civil wars. Mrs. Beal is also a granddaughter of the first mayor of Logansport.


AUGUST GRUBE. The A. Grube Company, of which Angust Grube is the leading spirit, was established in Logansport in 1910, its business being the handling of ladies' and childrens' ready-to-wear goods, ex- clusively. The firm is located at No. 427-29 Broadway. Its manager, Mr. Grube came to Logansport from Terre Haute, where he had been employed as the buyer and manager of the ready-to-wear department of a large establishment in that city, and he readily saw the splendid possibilities for such a concern in Logansport. An exclusive garment shop, catering solely to the wants of women and children, was a new departure for Logansport, and the success of Mr. Grube's venture here has been most gratifying. The corporation was here organized with a capital of $5,000, fully paid, in which Mr. Grube is the half owner. The first year the young concern did more than $60,000 in business, largely the result of a carefully planned advertising campaign. Since that time the business has had a healthy increase annually, and the establishment is now regarded as one of the standard business houses of the city.




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