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in the midst of attractive surroundings. Here is found convenient barns also for cattle and hogs, two large silos, ample sheds, in fact, everything one might expect to find on a well-kept twentieth century farm. At the present writing, Mr. Silverthorn has twenty-three head of thoroughbred Belgian horses, which are regarded as having few peers and no superiors in the state, much time and money having been used in securing the best that the world offers and owing to their superior qualities they find a very ready market. Among them is Count de Beyant, a two thousand pound horse. Olive D. is a champion brood mare of Belgium. No finer . specimens than these are to be found in this country.
JOHN WILLIAM DUNK.
Among the citizens of Clinton county who have been contented to de- vote their active lives to agricultural pursuits is John William Dunk, of Ross ·township. He was in the merchandise business for three years, and, having been a close student of the soils, the climate, the crops and all the phases that contribute to husbandry he has profited by his observation and is today well abreast of the times as an agriculturist. Although he does not farm on so large a scale as some of our citizens, none do their work any better. The man who tills properly a small farmi often reaps larger results than his neighbor who carelessly manages a farm of large acreage.
Mr. Dunk was born in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, on December 7, 1864 .. He is a son of John William Dunk, Sr., who was born in Germany. He was brought to America when a child and here he grew to manhood and married Joanna Bach, whose parents were natives of Holland. Her death occurred when our subject was three years old. He is one of six children, four sons and two daughters, namely: John W., of this sketch; Albert, of Ross township; Charles C., lives in St. Louis; Jno. M., of Tippecanoe county and two others who died in infancy unnamed.
The death of John W. Dunk, Sr., occurred in 1880 in Perry town- ship, Tippecanoe county, Indiana, where he had removed with his family from Wisconsin a number of years previously. He was forty-eight years old. Politically, he was a Democrat, and religiously, was a member of the Reformed church.
John W. Dunk, of this sketch, was reared on the home farm and there he worked when a boy. He received his education in the common schools.
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In 1885 he married Laura E. Burkhalter, a daughter of Henry Burkhalter, a farmer of Perry township, Tippecanoe county, where she grew to woman- hood and received her education in the common schools. The following chil- dren have been born to our subject and wife: Jennie M., married Ernest Black; She taught school several years; Ray, owns a farm in this county which he operates, he also taught school several years; Earl E., was next in order and he also taught some, and Lawrence, nine years of age, now at- tending school.
Henry Burkhalter, father of Mrs. Dunk, died in 1872 at Edna Mills, Clinton county. He left two children, Mrs. Jennie Yost of Edna Mills, and Laura E., who married Mr. Dunk, of this sketch. Mr. Dunk has devoted his life to farming and is now owner of an excellent place of ninety-four acres in Ross township. He handles some good live stock from year to year and is making a comfortable living by his industry and good management. He has a good eight room house and convenient outbuildings, and his place is well fenced. Politically, he is a Democrat and is a worker for his party. He and his family are members of the Presbyterian church at Rossville.
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N. N. SMITH.
Among the young business men of Clinton county who have forged to the front through the exercise of sterling innate attributes is N. N. Smith, a man in whom the utmost confidence is reposed and who is deserving in every way of the large success he has attained and the esteem of his fellow men.
N.'N. Smith was born February 24, 1877, spent his boyhood at Ander- son, Indiana, where he learned the cigar trade. He came to Frankfort and started a cigar factory in 1894 and remained there for five years and then went to Flora, Indiana, where he conducted a cigar factory for thirteen years. In 1912 he returned to Frankfort, where he is now in a three-story brick building, erected for his trade; here he makes a popular cigar, whose trade mark is the Bankable. The business is prosperous and growing rapidly. Re- cently he made an addition to the building; in all, he has more than one hun- dred skilled cigar makers who are making this fine cigar which supplies a ready market. This factory opened in Frankfort July, 1912. The Bankable cigar, noted for its fine flavor and superior quality, is made of the domestic and foreign tobacco the scientific preparation of which renders the Bank- able superior to any other cigar selling for ten cents. Its quality, workman- ship and cleanliness are all combined to make it a very popular brand. Mr.
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Smith has organized his factory so as to attain the best results of the labor and skill employed. His factory is a model of efficiency and good manage- ment.
The men and women in his employ are highly skilled ; he pays them good wages. Their work is subject to the closest scrutiny and inspection and nothing is put upon the market unless it is perfect ; each box of cigars made at this factory is uniformly superior, for nothing imperfect is allowed to go out. This factory will continue to grow until the Bankable cigar brand will be known all over the great Middle West as the best and most saleable cigar ever offered to the public.
CHARLES E. WINKS.
Charles E. Winks was born in Warren county, Indiana, October 20, 1858. He is the eldest son of Jolm Quincy and Sabra (Cheezem) Winks, na- tives of Jackson county, Ohio, and Parke county, Indiana, respectively ; a grandson of Joshua and Deborah (Crag) Winks, natives of Maryland and Pennsylvania, a great grandson of Joseph and Sophia (Marsh) Winks, and a great great grandson of George Winks, who emigrated from Wales to Cecil county, Maryland, in 1730.
He was married in Warren county, Indiana, August 21, 1878, to Julia A. Tyler, daughter of George Clinton and Harriet (Swank) Tyler, and who is the seventh in descent from Job Tyler, one of the founders of Andover, Massachusetts, in 1631 ; eighth in descent from Lieut. Abel Wright, who set- tled in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1635; eighth in descent from Daniel Galusha, who settled at Chelmsford, Massachusetts, in 1638, and ninth in 'descent from Richard Warren, who came over in the Mayflower in 1620.
Charles E. Winks received a common school education, supplemented with a course in the State Normal School at Terre Haute, Indiana. At the age of seventeen he began teaching in the schools of Warren county, and so continued until April, 1889, when he took the civil service examination and received an appointment in the railway mail service, on the Lake Erie & Western railroad, between Lafayette, Indiana, and Peoria, Illinois, where he served one year, then was transferred to the Clover Leaf railroad, where he lias served since 1890.
Mr. and Mrs. Winks are the parents of three children: Alma, who mar- ried Arthur Mckinsey, son of Nehemiah, grandson of Urban, and great
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grandson of Nehemiah, one of the pioneers of Clinton county; Elma, who married James A. Blinn, son of George D. and grandson of Jacob Blinn, one of Clinton county's pioneers; Charles E., Jr., who married Miss Mabel Nichols, daughter of Albert Nichols, and a great granddaughter of Rev. Charles Stafford, one of the pioneer Methodist preachers of Clinton county.
Mr. and Mrs. Winks are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Also members of the Masonic and Eastern Star lodges. Mrs. Winks is also a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, having proof of five ancestors who served in the Revolutionary War.
The family resides at 556 East Boone street, Frankfort, Indiana.
DEWITT C. SMITH.
Member of the firm of Smith & Scripture, veterinary surgeons, of Frank- fort, and one of the best known men of his profession in northern Indiana, is a native of Franklin county, this state, and dates his birth from the 28th day of May, 1859. His father, Joseph A. Smith, a Virginian, was born in 1816, and when a mere child came to Indiana with his parents, and in due time entered a store in Greensburg, where he clerked for a number of years, becoming familiar with basic principles of commercial life the meanwhile. In 1861 he embarked in the dry goods trade at the above place and after conducting a successful business during the nine years ensuing, disposed of his stock in 1870 and moved to a farm on which he resided until his death, in 1884. He was a Democrat of the old school though by no means a politician or office seeker. A member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and in every relation of life a useful citizen and most estimable and influential gen- tleman. Sarah DeArmond, who became the wife of Joseph Smith in 1884, and in the month and year indicated above, the mother of the honored sub- ject of this sketch, was born in Butler county, Ohio, in 1844, and is still living in the city of Greensburg, Indiana, where she has spent the greater part of her life.
Dewitt C. Smith enjoyed excellent educational advantages in his youth, attending for some years the public schools, later a Normal school and finish- ed his intellectual training with a collegiate course. After spending nine years as a teacher, he decided to continue educational work and prepare himself for a more permanent and satisfactory , calling. Accordingly, he entered the American Veterinary College in New York, where he made a creditable rec-
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ord as a student and from which he was graduated in the year 1892. In looking about for a favorable field in which to practice his profession, he located at Frankfort, Indiana, the year in which he finished his course and since that time has built up a large and lucrative business in his adopted city, being, as already stated, a partner of Dr. I. E. Scripture, and a man of much more than ordinary ability and influence in the line of his calling.
Politically he wiclds a strong influence for the Democratic party, and fraternally, is identified with the Woodmen, Odd Fellows and Masonic or- ganizations. In matters religious he has sound convictions, being an active member of the M. E. church of Frankfort, to which body his wife also be- longs. The Doctor was happily married in 1886 to Miss Eudora Russel, a most estimable and popular lady whose birth occurred in Franklin county, Indiana, December, 1858.
ISAN ENOCH SCRIPTURE, D. V. S ..
Isan Enoch Scripture is a native of Indiana, born in Decatur county, February 7, 1868. His father, Alfred Scripture, whose birth occurred in the same county May 30, 1835, was a son of John and Elizabeth Scripture, the former a native of New York but an early resident of Indiana, having accom- panied his parents to this state as long ago as 1803, locating on a tract of public land, a part of which is still in possession of the family. John and Elizabeth Scripture were typical pioneers of the period in which they lived and bore their full share in the development of the section of county where they settled, the former departing this life some time in the sixties, the mother several years later. Their son, Alfred, who hecame a leading farmer, a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and an influential local politician of the Democratic party, married in 1857 Miss Mary E. Mitchell, who was born on December 2, 1841, in Illinois, and who was called to the Unscen World in April, 1907, her husband having preceded her to the grave February 24, 1891.
Dr. Isan Enoch Scripture, their son, spent his early life in the county of his birth and received his educational training in the public schools. Hav -. ing decided to fit himself for some useful vocation and finding that veterinary surgery afforded a fine opening for a young man of ability and energy, he finally entered the American Veterinary College, New York City, where he prosecuted his studies and investigations until completing the prescribed
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course and receiving his degree in 1893, since which time he has practiced his profession at Frankfort, where he has an extensive and constantly growing patronage, being among the best known and most successful men of his call- ing in the state. The Doctor is a friend and admirer of the horse, man's most faithful and obedient servant, and spares neither pains nor expenses in famil- iarizing himself with the diseases to which the animal is subject, and to treat successfully any accident with which it may meet. By reason of this, his services are required in other and distant places. He has been as fortunate financially as professionally and occupies today a conspicuous place among the leading men of his adopted city, owning two valuable tracts of land of 75 and 80 acres respectively, besides valuable property on South Columbia street, all the result of strict attention to his vocation and the exercise of a judicious economy which have earned him a competency and made him prac- tically independent.
Dr. Scripture is still in the prime of manhood and a most estimable and popular gentleman. He is a Republican in politics, a meniber of the W. O. W. and as a communicant of the M. E. church, exemplifies in his daily walk and conversation the beauty and worth of the religious faith to which he yields allegiance.
On the 8th day of September, 1892, he entered the marriage relation with Miss Caroline I. Ketchum, whose birth occurred in Decatur county, Indiana, September 20, 1868, and who has borne him one child-a daughter- . Lucy, who is still a member of the home circle and her mother's able assist- ant in the management of the household.
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