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CHARLES MILO GIBBS, M. D., AND FATHER, JOHN S. GIBBS
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Ethel E., May 18, 1885, who married Charles S. Davis, of Clinton county. this state.
Charles M. Gibbs was reared on the home farm and received his ele- mentary education in the Bethel school house in Center township, which he left at the end of his eighth year and began teaching school, continuing to assist his father on the farm during the summers and was thus engaged for five years, during which time he attended one term at the Central Normal College at Danville and one term at the State Normal School at Terre Haute. On July 29. 1896, he then being twenty-three years of age, he entered the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons at Indianapolis and was grad- uated from that excellent institution in 1900. Thus equipped for the practice of his profession. Doctor Gibbs returned to this county and in April of that. same year formed a partnership with Dr. J. M. Larimore, of Greenfield, and entered upon the practice of medicine in that county, being the first physician in the county to begin practice under the law requiring a full four-year course at a medical college for all practitioners. For four years Doctor Gibbs con- tinned in partnership with Doctor Larimore and then in 1904 opened an office of his own in the Gates block at Greenfield and was located there until in October. 1913, at which time he moved his office to the Dudding-Moore block, where he ever since has been located and where he is successfully en- gaged in the general practice of medicine and surgery.
Doctor Gibbs is widely known among the medical fraternity throughout central Indiana and holds a high position in the regard of his confreres. He is past president of the Hancock County Medical Society, having filled all the offices in that organization, and is a member of the Indiana State Medlicat Association, in the deliberations of which he takes much interest. He has served the public as coroner of Hancock county, to which ofice he was elected on the Democratic ticket, and for three years served as secretary of the city board of health at Greenfield and four years as health commissioner of Han- cock county. Doctor Gibbs is the owner of a fine and well-cultivated farm of one hundred and twenty acres in Jackson township, six miles northeast of Greenfield, to the upkeep of which he devotes considerable attention, and is the owner of several good pieces of real estate in Greenfield besides his fine home at 403 East Main street, being considered one of the substantial citizens of that city.
On March 29, 1900. Dr. Charles M. Gibbs was united in marriage to Idla M. Hamilton, who was born in Center township, this county, May 3. 1874. daughter of Cicero J. and Mary E. ( Sample) Hamilton, both natives of this county, members of pioneer families and prominent residents. Mrs.
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Gibbs was educated in the Greenfield high school and is a competent and valuable helpmeet in her husband's busy professional career. Both take a warm interest in the general social and cultural activities of their home town and of the country at large and are held in high esteem by their many friends hereabout. Dr. Gibbs is a Mason, a member of the local lodge of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he has been the financial secretary since 1905, and a member of the Improved Order of Red Men, in the affairs of all which organization he takes an active interest.
WILLIAM H. ALBEA.
William H. Albea was born on March 4, 1862. He is the son of William and Elizabeth (Hayse) Albea. William Albea was born on Apri 11, 1828. and died on May 14. 1871. He was the son of Zaccheus Albea, who was born in Maryland and who later moved to North Carolina, where he lived on a farm for the remainder of his life. He died in 1860. William Albea was twice married, his first wife, who was the mother of the subject of this sketch. was Elizabeth Hayse, who was born on Jamiary 13. 1831, and who died on July 23. 1863. She was a daughter of Charles and Martha (Rutledge) Hayse, who were farmers in Iredell county. North Carolina, but who later moved to Davy county, North Carolina. William Albea lived his entire life in North Carolina. He was a slaveholder and owned a tract of four hun- dred acres of land. At the time of the Civil War he was a soldier in the Southern Army. To his first marriage were born the following children : Joseph W., who was born on June 9. 1849. and who died on June 23, 1849; R. A., July 27, 1850: Mary B., October 20, 1852: Martha, August 3, 1855 ; Charles. November 18, 1857: James. November 30. 1859, and William H .. March 4. 1862. . All of these latter are living. and R. A., the ellest of the family, came first to this state and county, and then the other brothers and sisters followed. After the death of Elizabeth ( Hayse ) Albea in 1863. William Albea married Jane West, who was born on December 24. 1843. and who died on June 16, 1883. To this union were born the following children : A. C., born on December 5. 1864; Thomas M., October 2, 1866. and John W., October 2, 1870.
William H. AAlbea, the subject of this sketch, was educated in the com- mon schools. He married Effie J. Murphy, who was born in Hancock county on February 18, 1860, and who was the daughter of John P. and Clara
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( Wilson ) Murphy, who were farmers in Hancock county. They are members of the United Brethren church. John P. Murphy was a soldier in the Civil War and was wounded in the leg. Mr. and Mrs. Albea are the parents of the following children : William P., who lives in this township and who married Dora Fuqua : Clara E., who married Ott Bolander, and to them two children have been born, Pauline, who died aged nine months, and Henry H. and Lillie May, at home. Mr. Albea is a Mason and also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Improved Order of Red Men of America. He is a Democrat in politics and has been county commis- sioner for four years. He is the owner of a farm of one hundred and thirty- seven acres. He lived for nineteen years in Mohawk, where he ran a general store, which he sold and moved onto the farm in 1903.
GEN. ALBERT L. NEW.
Gen. Albert L. New, one of Greenfield's best-known and most influen- tial citizens, a prominent capitalist and miller of that city: a former Green- field merchant, who later became connected with the United States govern- mont service and for years was actively identified with the work of the de- partment of the interior in the West, later becoming connected with the gen- eral land office of the Union Pacific Railroad and still later with the work of installing wireless telegraph equipments on the vessels engaged in the revenue service in Pacific waters, is a native son of Hancock county, a circumstance to which he ever points with pride. He was born on a farm not far from Greenfield, in Blue River township, this county. November 21, 1857, son of William and Margaret ( Sample) New, the former a native of Indiana and the latter of Virgina, both now deceased.
William New was one of Hancock county's early school teachers, later becoming a farmer in Blue River township. Upon retiring from the farm he moved to Greenfield, where he opened a general merchandise store on South State street, later moving to the building now occupied by the Capital State Bank, where he remained in business for some years, at the end of which time he sold his store and engaged in the flouring-milling business. He also oper- ated a coal vard and grain elevators and was very active in the business life of his home town. Ile was a Democrat and took an energetic part in local politics, but the only office to which he ever aspired was that of county com- missioner and he served in that capacity for several terms, during which time
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he rendered admirable service in behalf of the public. He was commissioner at the time of the construction of the new county jail and when the county infirmary was constructed. He was a mason and was ever active in the affairs of that organization. To William New and wife twelve children were born, of whom the subject of this biographical sketch is the sixth in order of birth and all of whom grew to maturity. the New family thus being largely repre- sented throughout this county.
General Albert L. New is a man of varied accomplishments and has led a singulary active life. He received his early education in the district schools in Blue River township and when fourteen years old entered his father's store at Greenfield, remaining thus connected for about thirty years. He then was appointed registrar of the United States land office at Evanston, Wyo- ming, and was located at that place for five years and six months, at the end of which time he transferred his services to the land department of the Union Pacific Railroad and for two years was engaged in checking up land grants for that company. The territorial governor of Wyoming then ap- pointed him as a special agent to go to Washington to create a proper interest in Congress in behalf of Wyoming's claims to statehood and when these claims finally were recognized and Wyoming was admitted to the general sisterhood of states, General New's admiring friends in the new state unani- mously tendered him the nomination for a seat in Congress. General New however, felt that his field of greater usefulness lay in another direction and he respectfully declined the high honor. In 1892 he conducted the campaign and was chairman of the Democratic state central committee of Wyoming and on the assembling of the Legislature was the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate. For some time thereafter General New further served the government as a collector of internal revenue and when wireless telegraphy was proclaimed an assured fact he took up that new department of the govern- ment's work and in that capacity installed the first wireless-telegraph station erected in the United States, that historic station between Catalina Island and the mainland in California. For six years thereafter General New was en- gaged in that interesting department of naval equipment and during that time equipped nearly all the revenue cutters with wireless outfits. Upon returning to his old home in Greenfield, General New purchased the interests of the other heirs in the mill, coal yards and elevators established by his father and has since owned the same, his two sons being practical managers of the ex- tensive interests thus represented. General New is a Democrat, but has never been a candidate for local public office.
On December 19. 1878. Gen. AAlbert H. New was united in marriage to
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Maud E. Hammel!, who was born in Greenfield, and to this union two sons have been born, Frank H. and Fred W., who are actively engaged in pushing their father's varied business interests in and about Greenfield. The News have a handsome home on Grant street, pronounced by many discriminating judges to be the finest house in Greenfield, and are very pleasantly situated. General and Mrs. New are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and the General was one of the office bearers in the church. He is a thirty-second- degree Mason : a charter member of Albert Pike Commandery No. 4, Knights Templar, at Evanston, Wyoming; a member of the Indianapolis Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and a member of Murat Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at Indianapolis.
FREEMAN BRADDOCK.
Freeman Braddock was born in Center township, Hancock county, on October 15, 1865, and is the son of Henry F. and Sarah E. (Thomas) Brad- dock.
Henry F. Braddock was a native of Braddock, Pennsylvania, and was born on March 28, 1833, being the son of Moses and Nancy (Ringland) Braddock. Nancy Ringland was a native of England, while Moses Braddock was of Irish descent. Moses Braddock was a farmer in Pennsylvania, where he owned a farm on which the coal cropped ont on the surface in many places and all that was needed by the family to get their fuel was to pick it up. The soil was very thin and in order to possess land that was more fertile, he came West and left the Pennsylvania farm as not worth bothering with. But since that time the city of Braddock has grown to large proportions and covers the old farm, due largely to the coal deposits being developed.
On his arrival in Indiana, Moses Braddock bought fifteen hundred acres from the goverment in Center and Jackson townships. He hired men to build him a cabin while he went back to get his family and all returned to their Indiana home in 1835. On their arrival they found a three-faced camp. one side of the cabin had not been enclosed. The trees of the forest met over- head. At night the panthers and wolves made the night a terrible one to the women, who had left good homes in the East. It was a hardship many of the carly pioneer women found in their new homes. Here in the wilder- ness the family lived for four years at which time the father was taken with the milk sickness and died, leaving a family of eight children. It was said
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that whiskey would cure such sickness, but he would not use it. The children of the family are : John, Mrs. Nancy Alters, Mrs. Hannah Smith, William. Henry, Sarah, Richard and Noah. All of the original fifteen hundred acres of land purchased by Moses Braddock are in the possession of the family with the exception of eighty acres.
Henry F. Braddock was less than one year of age when the family came to the county and here he grew to manhood in pioneer surroundings. He farmed all his life on the farm where the son. Freeman, now lives in the north part of Center township. At the time he came here the farm was one vast woods. Here he made for himself and family a home, but his life was for the most part a pioneer one. He was active in the work on the farm until old age compelled him to quit. He had developed a most beautiful farm and had a woods pasture where it is said that not a weed was allowed to grow for twenty years. The farm consists of two hundred acres and was a model in many respects. In 1890 Mr. Braddock built the present home in which he and the son, Freeman, lived. Henry F. Braddock died on January 19. 1910. at the age of eighty-two years, nine months and twenty-one days. His wife was Sarah E. Thomas, a native of. Brown township, and was the daughter of Alfred Thomas and wife. To Henry F. Braddock and wife were born four children: Elmer, who died at the age of eight years: John lives in Brown township on the old Thomas homestead : Alfred is a dentist at Port- land, and Freeman is on the home place.
Freeman Braddock grew to manhood on the farm and attended school in the township and the high school at Greenfield. After completing his education he engaged in farming, which occupation he has followed all his life. He has been most successful at farming and stock raising. He began to raise Shorthorn cattle when he was but sixteen years of age. He is one of the pioneers in the cattle business in this locality. His stock is full- blooded and much of it is registered. Besides his cattle Mr. Braddock has been inter- ested in heavy draft horses. To his cattle and horses he owes much of his success in life. He now owns nearly seven hundred acres of land in Center and Jackson townships.
In 1887 Freeman Braddock was married to Cora B. Cook, a native of Jackson township, and the daughter of Thomas and Nancy ( Wilson) Cook. Thomas Cook was a life-long farmer and was the son of Dr. Daniel Cook. Thomas Cook now lives in Oklahoma. His first wife, the mother of Mrs. Freeman Braddock, died when Mrs. Braddock was a little girl and she was reared by her grandparents, Peter Wilson and wife, of Jackson township, this county:
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Freeman Braddock and wife are the parents of five children: Emma is the wife of Charles Hutchinson, of Sugar Creek township, and they are the parents of two children, Lawrence and Willard F .; Amy, Hazel, Grace and Edwin. Edwin. the only son, was born on May 23, 1909. lle is at this time the only male descendant of Moses Braddock in Hancock county.
Mr. Braddock and family attend the Nameless Creek Christian church, the family all belonging to the church except Mr. Braddock.
CLINTON CAULDWELL.
Clinton Cauldwell was born in Marion county on December 7. 1870. ile is the son of Harvey and Prudence ( Cumins) Cauldwell. Harvey Cauld- well was born in Virginia on October 23, 1831, and died in Hancock county on January 2, 1910. He was the son of William and Sallie ( Crim) Cauld- well. William Cauldwell was a native of Rockingham and later a resident of Shenandoah county, Virginia. He came to Indiana in 1836, reaching Wayne county in October of that year. In February of 1838 the family came to Vernon township, Hancock county, and here William Cauldwell entered three hundred and fifty acres of land in the wilderness. William Cauldwell was born on May 13, 1804, and died on December 2, 1887. He was married to Sallie Crim on September 10, 1828. Sallie Crim was born on November 26, 1807, and died on November 12, 1889. They had the following children : Allen, born on August 27, 1829. and who died on August 29, 1835 ; Harvey, October 23. 1831, and who died on January 2, 1910; Martha, January II. 1834: Mary, October 28, 1835, and who died on November 8, of the same year; Jasper, April 14, 1837; Sanford, August 8, 1839, and who died on March 30, 1846: George. December 15, 18.11, and who died on March 1. 1866: Elizabeth, January 8, 1844: Evan, December 22, 1846, and Mark, September 26, 1849, and who died on August 3. 1803.
Harvey Cauldwell, the father of the subject of this sketch, lived on the home farm lintil he was twenty-one years old. In 1855 he began clerking for Nelson Bradley in MeCordsville. This position he held for thirteen years. He then bought a store at Castleton. Indiana, and engaged in the mercantile business for himself. He held this store for eight years and then sold out and came to MeCordsville, where he built a large two-story building and rented the upper floor and put in a big general store in the lower floor and ran a big business here for ten years. He was married on August 23.
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1860. to Prudence Ann Cumins, who was the daughter of William and Sarah Cummins, who reside near Pendleton, Indiana. To this marriage the following children were born: Della, who died when seventeen months old. and Clin- ton, who is the subject of this sketch and who was born on December 7. 1870.
Clinton Cauldwell was born at Castleton, Marion county, and was edu- cated in the public schools of the county. He was employed in the local tele- phone factory for about seven years and is now superintending the home farm. He was married on November 28, 1895, to Laura Hervey, who was born in Hancock county and who was the daughter of Dr. T. P. and Anna M. (Cory) Hervey. To this marriage the following children have been born : Harriett. Naomi and William.
Mr. Cauldwell has a fine farm of three hundred and sixty-five acres in Vernon township. He superintends this farm, but does not live on it. He lives in the village of McCordsville. He is a Mason, a member of McCords- ville Lodge No. 501. McCordsville Chapter No. 44, McCordsville Connci! No. 52. Greenfield Commandery, Knights Templar, No. 36. Indianapolis Consistory and Murat Temple, Ancient Arabic Order. Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
CHARLES KEEPERS BRUNER. M. D.
Dr. Charles Keepers Bruner, for years one of the best known and most successful physicians and surgeons at Greenfield, is a native of Penn- sylvania, born in the city of Connellsville, Fayette county, that state. August 23, 1857, son of Dr. Samuel G. and Sarah ( Keepers) Bruner, both natives of that same county and state.
Dr. Sammel G. Bruner, a dentist and an honored veteran of the Civil War. was descended from the first of that family to settle in this country in carly Colonial days. The family was established in Fayette county. Penn- sylvania, and on the original homestead there the grandfather of the subject of this sketch was born and there he spent his life, living to the great age of ninety-six years. Dr. Samuel G. Bruner was reared as a farmer, but later became a dentist and in 1863 moved to New Athens, Ohio, where he shortly afterward enlisted for service during the Civil war in the One Hundred and First Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he served for one hun- dred days and during which service he contracted typhoid fever, the effects of which kept him confined to his home for a year after the close of his service. In 1868 he moved with his family to Toledo, lowa, where he spent the rest
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of his life, engaged in the practice of his profession, his death occurring in 1887, he then being sixty-eight years of age. He had been twice married and by his first wife had six children, of whom three grew to maturity, Mrs. Henry Eicher, of Pennsylvania: Mrs. Lizzie Fisher, of Kokomo, Indiana, and Mrs. Kate Huston, of Somerset, Pennsylvania. He married, secondly, Mrs. Sarah ( Keepers ) Bogardus, who, by her first marriage, was the mother of one son, Benjamin S. Bogardus, now deceased. By her second marriage she was the mother of three children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the eklest, the others being Harry M. Bruner, of Greenfield, Indiana, and a son who died in infancy. Mrs. Sarah Bruner was the granddaughter of an Eng- lish physician, who came to this country shortly after the Revolutionary War and settled in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, where the Keepers family is still largely represented. Her father was a carpenter, who was accidentally killed, leaving a widow and two children, Mrs. Bruner having had a sister, Eliza J., who became the wife of William Miller, of Fayette' county, Penn- sylvania.
Dr. Charles K. Bruner received his early education at New Athens, Ohio, he having been but six years of age when his parents moved to that place from Pennsylvania. He was ten years old when they moved to Toledo. lowa, and at the age of fourteen he entered a printing office there, but two years later gave up "the art preservative of all arts" and then worked on farms until nineteen years of age, when he began teaching school and for ten years was thus engaged. In the meantime he began reading medicine in the office of Dr. C. H. Coggswell at Cedar Rapids, lowa, later pursuing his studies in the office of Dr. J. C. Joralemon, of Toledo, lowa, and during the winter of 1882-3 took a course in Rush Medical College at Chicago. Lack of funds prevented him from finishing the course at that time and he resumed teaching, after awhile returning to the medical college, from which he was graduated in 1886. Thus admirably equipped for the practice of his pro- fession, Doctor Bruner came to this county and set up an office for practice in Blue River township, where he remamed until 1888, in which year he moved to Greenfield, where he ever since has been engaged in the practice of his profession and where he has been very successful. Doctor Bruner is a member and past president of the Hancock County Medical Society, a mem- ber of the Indiana State Medical Association, of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association and of the American Medical Association. Ile is a Republican and during the Harrison and Mckinley adminstrations was a member of the board of pension examiners. He has ever taken an active and influential part in local political affairs and for some years served his
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party as a member of the county Republican central committee. He is a member of the Friends church, as is also his wife, the latter having a birth- right in the Society of Friends, and both take an active interest in the general good works of the community.
It was in 1885 that Doctor Bruner was united in marriage to Dr. Mary L. Binford, who was born in this county, daughter of Robert Binford and wife, and who had just graduated in that year from the Woman's Hospital Medical College of Chicago, after completing the course at Earlham College and in a training school for nurses at Chicago. Dr. Mary L. Bruner has not only been a valuable aid to her husband in the practice at Greenfield. but conducts an extensive practice apart from that of her husband, devoting her special attention to gynecology and diseases of children. They are the parents of four children, Dr. Charles Herbert, associated with his father and mother in the practice of medicine: John Philip, deceased, had taken the Master of Arts degree and was a sophomore in the medical department of the University of Indiana at the time of his death; Laura MI., deceased, and Ralph P.
CASSIUS MORGAN CURRY.
Cassius Morgan Curry, president and treasurer of the New Milling Com- pany, former city treasurer of Greenfield, for twenty-five years manager of the old Hart & Thayer store and since discontinuing that latter connection prominently identified with numerous enterprises hereabout, long having been regarded as one of Greenfield's most active and progressive citizens, is a native son of Hancock county. He was born on the old Curry farm in Center township, about four miles northeast of Greenfield, August 1, 1860. son of Isaiah A. and Mary C. (Thomas) Curry, both natives of this county and for many years considered among the most useful and influential resi- dents thereof.
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