History of Dearborn County, Indiana : her people, industries and institutions, Part 95

Author: Archibald Shaw
Publication date: 1915
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Number of Pages: 1123

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Mr. White's paternal grandfather, James White, died in his native land at an advanced age. A stock-drover by occupation, he and his wife, Johanna White, lived to rear a family of several children: Kate, who lives at Mon- treal, Canada; Thomas, who lives at North Vernon, Indiana; James, two unmarried daughters, who were lost at sea, and other children who died early in life in Ireland. Mr. White's maternal grandparents were farmers in Ireland, where they died at advanced ages. They were the parents of three children : Catherine, Patrick, of West Garden, Massachusetts, and Richard, who died in Ireland.

Born and reared at Cochran, Indiana, and educated in the public schools there, Richard White later attended the parochial schools of Aurora for two years. He then began clerking in a grocery store at Cochran, where he was employed two more years. After this he worked in the Cochran chair factory for nine years and then began working for the Cincinnati, Lawrenceburg & Aurora Electric Railway Company. He was conductor on the first car which crossed Tanners creek bridge, running into Aurora. He worked for the electric company for seven years.

While Mr. White was acting as conductor he was nominated in May, 1906, for sheriff of Dearborn county, and in November of that year was elected, taking office on January 1, 1907. The first time he was elected by a majority of nine hundred and seventy-five, and the second time, in 1908, by a majority of one thousand and twenty-five.

In May, 1911, Mr. White was appointed assistant sergeant at arms of the National House of Representatives at Washington, and while holding that position traveled through every state east of the Mississippi river, serv- ing various kinds of papers. He held this position for two years, until August

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I, 1913. One month later he was appointed as inspector under the Indiana state board of health and still holds this position.

Richard White has lived all his life, thus far, in Dearborn county and has been active in politics since he was fifteen years old. He is a member of Dearborn County Council No. 1231, Knights of Columbus. He believes there is no place so well situated for a home and a place to live as Indiana and, being popular with the rank and file of the Democratic party in which he has a keen and abiding interest, he can naturally be expected to give many more years of service to the success of this party. Few men in southeastern Indiana are so well known as Richard White, and few more deserve the popularity which he enjoys among the people of this section of the state.

REUBEN M. RICHMOND.

In the interesting biographical sketch relating to Prof. Nathan L. Rich- mond. proprietor of the business college at Aurora, this county, presented elsewhere in this volume, the genealogy of the Richmond family in this sec- tion of the state is set out in full, and the reader is respectfully referred to that sketch for further details in connection with this sketch of Professor Richmond's brother, well-known throughout Dearborn county as the affable assistant cashier of the Aurora State Bank.

Reuben M. Richmond was born near the village of Aberdeen, Ohio county, Indiana, August 17, 1875, son of Peter and Melissa (VanOsdol) Richmond. the former of whom was the son of Orrin Richmond, native of New York state, son of a soldier of the American Revolution, who with his wife immigrated from the neighborhood of Chautauqua, New York, in an early day in the settlement of this section of Indiana and located in Ohio county, where they reared a large and useful family.

Reared on his father's farm in Ohio county. Reuben M. Richmond received his elementary education in the public schools of that neighborhood, which he supplemented by a course in Moores Hill College and in the Central Normal College. at Danville. Indiana, following which he took a thorough course in his brother's business college at Kankakee. Illinois. During his school course he spent several years teaching in the public schools of Ohio county and also in the schools at Dillsboro, this county. He was elected county superintendent of Ohio county, in which form of public service he gave such excellent satisfaction to the school authorities of that county that

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he was re-elected, but before completing his second term resigned to accept his present position as assistant cashier of the Aurora State Bank, of Aurora. Indiana, in which position his services have proved most satisfactory, not only to the directors of that sound financial institution, but to the despositors and the general public, whose business is transacted through that bank.

On June 12, 1912, Reuben M. Richmond was united in marriage to Gertrude Marble, who was born in Ohio county, Indiana, on May 23, 1876, daughter of Ephraim P. and Elizabeth (McHenry) Marble, both of whom were born in this state. Mrs. Richmond's mother died in 1904, but her father is still living, at the age of eighty-eight years. He and his wife were the parents of five children, namely : Rev. Mitchell S., C. McHenry, Frank, Lida, wife of Scott Mendell, and Gertrude, who married Mr. Richmond. Mrs. Richmond's paternal grandfather was Nathan Marble, an early settler in Ohio county, and her maternal grandfather was James McHenry, a pioneer of the same part of the state. To the union of Reuben M. and Gertrude (Marble) Richmond, one child has been born, a son, Nathan Ernest.

Mr. and Mrs. Richmond are members of the Methodist church, in the various beneficences of which they take an active interest, Mr. Richmond having for years served the congregation of that church as a member of the board of stewards. He is a Republican and though never having been included in the office-seeking class, ever has given his warm support to all measures having as their object the advancement of the common interest. Mr. Richmond is a member of Chosen Friends Lodge No. 13, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of Bethlehem Encampment and is much interested in the affairs of the order. He takes a warm interest in the general business inter- ests of the city of Aurora and of Dearborn county and possesses the highest confidence and respect of the leaders of the financial and commercial life hereabout.

MORTON C. MULFORD.

One of the well-known citizens of Dearborn county, Indiana, is Morton C. Mulford, now a United States storekeeper-gauger, of the sixth Indiana revenue district, but formerly connected actively for many years with the educational development of this section of Indiana. It is a distinct personal credit to Morton C. Mulford that he has been able to surround himself with all the comforts of life out of the careful and economical management of his business and the savings from his earnings as an instructor and school super-

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visor in Dearborn county. He is a man of well-rounded personality, well- known in Dearborn county and popular among the citizens. His home, which is located near the Moores Hill depot in Dearborn county and which com- prises an estate of thirty-six acres, is the most pretentious to be found any- where along the Baltimore & Ohio railroad between Cincinnati and St. Louis. This is a most tangible evidence of its owner's foresight, vision and planning. The Mulford family has been intimately associated with the various stages of progress in Dearborn county for at least three generations.

Reared on a farm in Sparta township. Dearborn county. Indiana, and educated in the district schools of this county and in Moores Hill College, from which he was graduated after completing the normal course in 1898. Morton C. Mulford was a teacher in the schools of Dearborn county for thirty-one years. After serving as principal of the Moores Hill public schools for a number of years he entered the internal revenue service as storekeeper- gauger and has devoted the past four years of his life to the service of the federal government in the various distilleries of the sixth Indiana district and principally in Lawrenceburg. , Indiana. During all of this time Mr. Mulford has resided on his country estate near Moores Hill.

Born on September 15, 1863, near Chesterville, in Sparta township, Dearborn county, Indiana, Morton C. Mulford is the son of John L. and Mary J. (Chance) Mulford, of whom the former is a native of Ohio and the latter of Indiana. John L. Mulford was reared at Cold Springs, Indiana, and was a farmer and stockman. Although his home farm comprised fifty- eight acres of land in Sparta township, he owned at the time of his death. in 1895, when he was sixty-five years old. some two hundred acres of farm land in different parts of the county. He and his wife were the parents of three children : Morton C .. of Moores Hill; Laura A., the widow of Henry Holtegal, of Louisville, Kentucky, and Emma E., the wife of David B. Staf- ford, of Louisville, Kentucky. The mother of these children died in 1913. at the age of seventy-seven years. Both she and her husband were members of the Presbyterian church and charter members of the congregation at Cold Springs, Indiana. The paternal grandparents of Morton C. Mulford were Benjamin Mulford and his wife, a Miss Legg, he a native of Ohio and she of Scotland. They were among the first settlers in Dearborn county, having followed farming in Sparta township. He died at the age of seventy- three, but his wife was some years younger at the time of her death. They were the parents of five children : Oliver S., John L., Clarissa Ann, William C. and Benjamin F. The Mulford family was established in America by

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Daniel Mulford, the paternal great-grandfather of Morton C., who came from England to the state of Ohio, where he died.

Among the early settlers of Sparta township, Dearborn county, Indiana, were Robert and Ann (Smith) Chance, natives of New York and Indiana; and the maternal grandparents of Mr. Mulford. The Chance family originally came to America from France and the Smith family had come to this country from England. Robert and Ann Chance had a large family of children, five sons and four daughters : John Wesley, Robert, Joseph, Levin P., Frank, Mary J., Phoebe, Catherine and Isabelle. The parents of these children died in Sparta township, Dearborn county, after having passed the age of eighty years.

Morton C. Mulford has served the county of his birth and the county which has always been his home with the vision and sense of responsibility of one who understands the importance of educational work, and since his retirement from the educational field has conscientiously served as an agent of the United States government in the revenue service. He was married at the age of twenty-three, August 19, 1886, to Josephine Downton, the daughter of Thomas and Alwilda (Stockwell) Downton. Mrs. Mulford was born in Washington township, Ripley county, Indiana, December 27, 1863. To this union have been born two children, Beulah, who died at the age of three years, and Mildred C., a graduate of the music department of Moores Hill College and a teacher for one term in the public schools of Sparta township. She is an accomplished young woman and one of the most popular students now attending Moores Hill College. An adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mulford, Carrie A., is now a stenographer and teacher of music in Cincinnati, Ohio, having been taken to be reared after the death of her mother when she was an infant. She was educated by Mr. and Mrs. Mulford and is a graduate of the Conservatory of Music of Moores Hill College.

Mrs. Mulford's father, Thomas Downton, who was a native of Pontypool. Wales, died in Moores Hill at the age of seventy-seven years. Her mother is also deceased. They had one other daughter besides Mrs. Mulford, Carrie O. Her paternal grandfather, also a native of Wales and the operator of a rolling mill in his younger days, settled in Cincinnati and died there. He and his wife had a large family of children: Thomas, Celia, Charles, William, James, Susan and Martha. His wife also died in Cincinnati. Her maternal grandfather was Joseph Stockwell, who was of German descent, and who came from Pennsylvania to Kentucky in pioneer times and settled in Boone county. after which he moved to Ripley county, Indiana. He lived in this county

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the remainder of his life, dying at an advanced age. He and his wife had three daughters, Alwilda, Kate and Ann. His first wife having died Joseph Stockwell married again and by this second union had three children, George, Lucilda and John H.

Mr. and Mrs. Mulford are charter members of the Cold Springs Pres- byterian church. He is a member of Allen Lodge No. 165, Free and Accepted Masons; of Milan Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; of Madison Council, Royal and Select Masters; and of Aurora Commandery No. 17, Knights Templar. He is also a member of Moores Hill Lodge No. 127, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Mulford is an ardent Republican in politics.

The career of Morton C. Mulford is well-rounded in the various phases of human endeavor. His educational, religious and political interests in the natural avenues through which the normal man finds an expression of his instincts, his talents and his energies have never been neglected. He is a worthy citizen of Dearborn county, honored and respected by all of its people.

JULIUS POLLOCK CARTER.

For three generations the Carter family have been influential citizens in the commercial life of at least three states, Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia. By marriage, the family has also taken a leading part in the industrial and agricultural development of two or three other states. Samuel Hunter Bell Carter, the paternal grandfather of the generations of which Julius Pollock Carter is a representative, owned a vast tract of land in West Virginia, a part of which is now the site of the city of Wheeling. Mr. Carter is one of those men who has thoroughly mastered the business. with which he is connected. He is the vice-president of the Greendale Distilling Company and has held this office in the firm since 1914. Mr. Carter's residence is at 2221 Park ave- nue, Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio, but his business interests are largely in the city of Lawrenceburg, where he is very prominent and very popular in the commercial and financial life of the city.

Julius Pollock Carter was born on September 22, 1876, at Petersburg, Kentucky. He is the son of Richard and Catherine (Smith) Carter. Although Richard Carter was a native of Virginia, he was reared at Wheeling and edu- cated there. Mrs. Catherine Carter was a native of Kentucky. She was the mother of four children : Julius Pollock, the subject of our sketch; Elizabeth, who married Nathaniel E. Squibb, of Lawrenceburg; Richard, of Chicago, Illinois ; and Ethel, who is the wife of H. L. Hodell, of Norwood, Ohio.

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It is a fact that the fortunes of individuals, as well as the fortunes of families and nations, sometimes turn upon small events. It is an interesting fact that Richard Carter received his introduction into the distilling business, which he afterwards followed until his death, by making apple brandy out of the apples which he gathered from his father's orchard. He was also consid- ered an expert in the manufacture of compressed yeast. Mr. Carter passed away in his forty-sixth year in 1885. His widow is still living and is now sixty years old. Mr. Carter was a member of the Presbyterian church. His widow is a member of the Christian church. He was a soldier in the Civil War and served valiantly as a private in a battery of heavy artillery recruited in West Virginia, or in that portion of the state of old Virginia which, during the war, was set apart from the eastern section and which became West Virginia.

Samuel Hunter Bell Carter, who was the paternal grandfather of Julius Pollock, married Martha Bishop. They were both natives of old Virginia but died in West Virginia, he at the age of sixty-eight and she at the age of sixty-five. He owned a tract of land of two thousand acres in West Virginia, a part of which is now the site of the city of Wheeling. in fact, it was his father who established the city of Wheeling. Samuel H. B. and Martha Car- ter had a large family of children, including the following: John, James. Richard, William, Sarah, Elizabeth. Emma, Abigail. Samuel and Eva. Will- iam Wallace Smith was the maternal grandfather of Mr. Carter. He married Mary McNeely. He was a native of New York state and she of Kentucky. For many years he was engaged in the grocery business at Petersburg, Ken- tucky, and there built up a large and flourishing trade. He was well known in that community. His children were William, John, Harry. Benjamin, Sue. Ida and Catherine.

When Richard and Catherine Carter left Petersburg. Kentucky, and moved to East Millstone, New Jersey, their son. Julius P., was an infant two years old. Here they lived for seven years and during this period, Mr. Car- ter's father died. Julius P. then came to Lawrenceburg. Indiana, and grew to manhood in this state. He was fourteen years old when he came from New Jersey to Lawrenceburg and had not finished his education at the time. After leaving the Lawrenceburg schools. he engaged in the distilling business and has been engaged in this business ever since.

Julius C. Carter was married on December 9, 1897, to Florence Squibb. the daughter of the late William P. and Frances (Plummer) Squibb. They have had two children, Julian and Catherine.

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Mrs. Carter was born in Aurora, Indiana, and her parents' family history is given in the biographies of George L. P. and Nathaniel E. Squibb, her brothers, presented elsewhere in this volume. It may be said, however, at this point that Mrs. Carter's father and grandfather were prominent citizens in southern Indiana during a period of more than three-quarters of a century.

As vice-president of the Greendale Distillery Company, Mr. Carter has filled a large place among the business men of Dearborn county. Although he lives in Cincinnati, his business interests are in this county and here he is well known. Mr. Carter is especially well liked by the business men of this community with whom he has cast fortune and here, with many distinguished business men, he is devoting the best labor of his life.

EZRA PHILIP HAYES.

While nothing perhaps is to be gained by the worship of one's ancestors, yet one is scarcely human if he fails to take a just pride in what they have accomplished, or at least more than a passing interest in what manner of people they were. Ezra Philip Hayes is a representative of the third genera- tion of the Hayes family in Dearborn county. Both his father and his grandfather, the former of whom was a pioneer in this section, were identified with every enterprise which might call forth the best talent and the best energies of the respective generations in which they lived. The Hayes family have always been foremost in business, banking and agriculture in Dearborn county. Ezra Philip Hayes from the time of his youth has been especially interested in public affairs, and not only has he served his home city for several years -as postmaster, but he has been a striking and influential figure in all public enterprises of his time. He is a good citizen and is popular among his fellow townsmen.

Born on November 23, 1869, in Greendale, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn county. Indiana, Ezra Philip Hayes is the son of Ezra G. and Laura M. (Morgan) Hayes, natives of Dearborn county, Indiana, and the former a banker for many years in the city of Lawrenceburg and one of the principal organizers of one of the prominent banks of this city. At one time it was one of the very strongest financial institutions in the state of Indiana, and Ezra Hayes, Sr., was connected with that bank for many years. He was a pork packer, a distiller, and was largely interested in the real estate transac- tions which took place during his life in Dearborn county. During his active

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career he was recognized as one of the leading and influential business men of Lawrenceburg. It is a matter of good fortune that he has been able to live to see the full fruition of his labors, being now past eighty-eight years old. He held a number of prominent appointive offices. He has always lived either in Greendale or Homestead. Mrs. Laura M. (Morgan) Hayes, having died in 1874, her husband was married to Caroline Major, who passed away in 1914, leaving no children. By the first marriage there were nine children, only four of whom are living, as follow: Ezra Philip, of Lawrenceburg ; Arthur L., of Nashville, Tennessee; Mrs. Jacob M. Bauer, of Lawrenceburg ; and Mrs. R. M. Duvall, of Lawrenceburg, whose husband is deceased. The deceased children are Laura, who was the wife of O. T. Ludlow, of Lawrence- burg; Martha E., who married Jaspar Guarst; Joseph, and two who died in infancy, Scott and Theresa.

Joseph Hayes, who was one of the original three Hayes brothers who came from Pennsylvania to Dearborn county, Indiana, in pioneer times, was the paternal grandfather of Ezra Philip Hayes. He married a Miss Billingsly, and after a long and useful life in Dearborn county, when it was on the frontier of civilization, they passed away in this county, after rearing a large family of children, Nancy, Priscilla, Otha, Walter, Jacob and Ezra. They were very old people at the time of their death. Joseph Hayes was the son of Captain Hayes, a soldier in the Revolutionary War.

The mother of Ezra Philip, who before her marriage was Laura M. Morgan, was the daughter of Andrew Morgan, a native of Pennsylvania and a pioneer of Dearborn county. Andrew Morgan and wife, after rearing a family of five children, Laura M., Mrs. Martha Soper, Mrs. Rachel Probasco, John and William Morgan, passed away after having led useful lives. They had kept a hotel in Newton, which was a part of Lawrenceburg, and were pioneers in this vicinity.

Ezra Philip Hayes, who belongs to the family which is said to have given nine of its members to the cause of independence during the days of the American Revolution. and whose grandfather came to this region and made heavy investments in land when it was still an untraveled wilderness, was reared in Greendale. Lawrenceburg, and is what might be called a product of the Lawrenceburg public and high schools. Born in this county and edu- cated here, he began work early in life for the Bauer cooperage works, first as a foreman and later as assistant superintendent of the plant. Having served in this capacity for a period of twenty years, he received the appoint- ment as postmaster of Lawrenceburg during the second administration of President Roosevelt, in 1906, and being reappointed by former President

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Taft, served until 1914. Mr. Hayes held this office for eight years, and during the period won an enviable reputation for courtesy, efficiency and punctuality in the business of the office. Although the impression has been abroad for some years that the office of postmaster is a sinecure, this impres- sion has gained small color from the fact that only the most capable citizens of a community are considered eligible to the office. Moreover the impression has been pretty thoroughly dispelled by the very few cases where this office actually has been mismanaged. There was never a time during the adminis- tration of Mr. Hayes that the people of Lawrenceburg did not enjoy prompt and efficient service. He is said to have been one of the best postmasters that Lawrenceburg ever had.

Ezra Philip Hayes was married on November 18, 1896, to Mabel Fagaly, daughter of William S. and Matilda V. (Cottingham) Fagaly, and there have been two children born to this union, Ezra B. and Mildred.

Mrs. Hayes' father, William S. Fagaly, a native of Hamilton county, Ohio, and reared there on a farm, by occupation or profession was a farmer, school teacher, merchant and public official in Dearborn county. He is now living retired. He was deputy auditor of Dearborn county for eight years, and after that served eight years as auditor of the county.

To William S. and Matilda V. Fagaly were born six children, as follow : Dr. Arthur T .. of Lawrenceburg: Roy, of North Bend, Ohio; Mrs. Ezra P. Hayes: Guy N., of Burnside, Kentucky; Carrie, of Lawrenceburg, and Edward M .. of Cincinnati.

Mrs. Hayes' mother. Matilda V. (Cottingham) Fagaly, was the daughter of Thomas and Eliza (Stoms) Cottingham. Matilda was born in Dearborn county. Indiana. in 1849. The parents of Mr. and Mrs. Cottingham came from Maryland and were among the earliest settlers in Dearborn county. Thomas was a cousin of the late Mrs. Oliver Perrin, of Cincinnati. The grandmother of Thomas Cottingham was Frances Nelson, a relative of Lord Nelson, the hero of Trafalgar. Mrs. Matilda V. (Cottingham) Fagaly was a devout member of the Christian church. She died on October 20, 1912.

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History of Dearborn County, Indiana : her people, industries and institutions, Part 95

Author: Archibald Shaw Publication date: 1915 Publisher: Number of Pages: 1123

Author: Archibald Shaw
Publication date: 1915
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 1123