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In 1907 occurred the marriage of Mr. McCullough to Miss Char- lotte Gedge, a daughter of Burton H. Gedge, one of Anderson's well known business men. The two children born to Mr. and Mrs. McCul- lough are Carroll Kay and Burton . Gedge. Mr. McCullongh is a prominent Mason, affiliated with Mt. Moriah Lodge, No. 77, A. F. & A. M., of which he is the treasurer; with Anderson Chapter, No. 52, R. A. M .; Anderson Council, No. 62, R. & S. M .; and Anderson Com- mandery, No. 32, K. of T. He also has fraternal relations with the Royal Arcanum and the order of Ben Hur. The Mccullough home is a substantial brick residence at 424 West Tenth street.
JAMES M. LARMORE. Born near Arcola, Douglass county, Illinois, September 26, 1874, the youngest son of Matthew T. and Mary ( Wild- ridge) Larmore. The father was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, August 15, 1832, the mother in Franklin county, Indiana, January 1, 1834.
The son attended the common schools of Indiana and graduated in 1891, after which he spent some years on the farm, reading law in the winter, and one year in the office of Lovett & Holloway, Anderson, Indi- ana, up to 1898, when he engaged in the insurance business, locating in Pendleton, Indiana. He continued there for a period of about three years, after which time he moved to Anderson, Indiana, and engaged in the same business with the old firm of Jackson & Burr, it being known after his connection therewith as The Jackson-Burr Com- pany, which continued in the insurance business from the time of his connection to the first day of January, 1913, when the company was con- solidated with the Farmers Trust Company, of which Mr. Larmore is now a stockholder and on its Board of Directors. He is also State Agent for Indiana and Illinois for the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society, having held this position since 1904.
He was married to Laura A. Lewis, October 16, 1901. Laura A. Lewis was the daughter of James M. and Eliza M. Lewis of Markle- ville, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Larmore have three children, two daugh- ters and a son, Eliza Agnes, Mary Louise and James Matthew. The father of Mr. Larmore is still living at the age of eighty-one, the mother having died at the age of seventy-seven years. The home of the Lar- more family is at 300 West Thirteenth Street, Anderson, Indiana.
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SANFORD M. KELTNER. Eminently entitled to specific recognition in this history of Madison county is Mr. Keltner, who was one of the repre- sentative members of the bar of this section of the state for twenty-six years. He is president of the Anderson Trust Company and vice-presi- dent of the Anderson Computing Scale Company, two of the important corporations of the county, and he is known and honored as a citizen of substantial worth of character and marked loyalty and public spirit.
Mr. Keltner claims the Buckeye state as the place of his nativity and is a son of one of its sterling pioneer families. He was born in Preble county, Ohio, on the 10th of July, 1856, and is a son of Joseph and Rachel (Paulus) Keltner. He gained his rudimentary education in the schools of his native county and was about nine years of age when, in 1865, the family removed to Darke county, Ohio, where his mother's death occurred when he was eleven years of age. Shortly afterward Mr. Keltner came to Indiana and found a home with James P. Burgess, an old gentleman who was then living two and one-half miles south of Richmond, Wayne county. Mr. Keltner remained in this kindly home until he had attained to the age of fifteen years, and in the mean- while he had duly availed himself of the advantages of the local schools. At the age noted he went to Pierceton, Kosciusko county, this state, where his father had established a home after contracting a second mar- riage. At Pierceton the subject of this review continued his educational discipline in the public schools and he soon proved himself eligible for pedagogic honors. For some time he served as an able and popular teacher in the schools of Kosciusko county and in 1875 he entered the Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute, where he continued his higher academic studies for two years. For several years thereafter he divided his time between teaching and attending school, and in Septem- ber, 1881, he came to Anderson and assumed the position of principal of the public schools. He was most earnest and successful in his work in this connection. After devoting three years to teaching and execu- tive duties in the city schools Mr. Keltner initated the work of preparing himself for the exacting profession in which he has achieved much of distinction and precedence. In June, 1884, he began the study of law in the office and under the able preceptorship of the firm of Robinson & Lovett, and he made rapid progress in his absorption and assimilation of the science of jurisprudence, with the result that he was admitted to the bar in 1886. After having been for three years identified with the activities of the firm mentioned, its members showed their appreciation of his character and ability by admitting him to partnership, where- upon the title of the firm was changed to Robinson, Lovett & Keltner. This effective alliance continued until Colonel Robinson, the senior member of the firm, was called to the bench of the appellate court, after which the firm of Lovett & Keltner continued the business. The firm of Chipman, Keltner & Hendee, of which Mr. Keltner subsequently be- came a member, was formed on the 1st of June, 1893, and gained pres- tige as one of the leading law firms in this part of the state. On the 1st of June, 1910, Mr. Keltner severed his connection with the law firm of Chipman, Keltner & Hendee, of which he had been an honored and valued member for a period of seventeen years, and thereupon he assumed the active management of the Anderson Trust Company, of which he is now president and to the affairs of which he gives all of his time and attention. He is one of the alert and liberal men of Madi- son county and has contributed in generous measure to the civic and
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material progress and prosperity of his home city, where it may well be said that his circle of friends is coincident with that of his acquaint- ances. As a lawyer he has been concerned in much important litigation in the courts of this section of the state and his reputation in his chosen profession is on a parity with his recognized ability and success as one of its prominent representatives in Madison county.
In politics Mr. Keltner has been found a staunch and effective exponent of the cause of the Republican party, and while he has not been imbued with ambition for political office he has served in local positions of trust and in the same has shown himself animated by the utmost civic liberality and progressiveness. He was for seventeen years a valued member of the Anderson board of education and he has been most zealous and enthusiastic in advancing the standard of the schools of the county. During the administration of Mayor John H. Terhune Mr. Keltner served as president of the board of public works of Anderson, and in this position he made his labors inure greatly to the good of the city and its people. He is affiliated with the local organ- izations of the Masonic fraternity, the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, and the Knights of Pythias.
On October 20, 1886, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Keltner to Miss Alice May Cockefair, who was born in Union county, this state, and who is a daughter of Sylvanus and Mary A. Cockefair. The two children of this union are Ruth and Mary. The family are members of the Presbyterian church.
DANIEL L. BOLAND, Clerk of the Court of Madison county since Jan- uary 1, 1911, and for a number of years engaged in the insurance and loan business, is one of the more prominent and popular men of the city and county in which he has long been located. Born in IHenry county, Indianh, Daniel L. Boland is the son of Patrick and Ellen (Tierney) Boland, the father a native of County Tipperary, Ireland, and the mother of the same place.
Patrick Boland was educated meagrely in the schools of his native land and passed his boyhood days on a farm. His marriage to Ellen, daughter of Daniel and Katherine (Kiley) Tierney, took place in Janu- ary, 1845, and some five years later Mr. Boland determined to try his fortunes in America. He left his wife and three small children in the care of his parents and hers and accordingly set forth, reaching New Orleans in 1850 and soon after coming to Dearborn county, Indiana. Two years later his wife left the Island home to join him here, accom- panied on the long journey by her only surviving child, two others hav- ing died in the absence of the husband and father. In Dearborn county the little family, re-united after two years of separation, settled down, there remaining until 1855, when they removed to Middletown in Henry county, Indiana. While there Mr. Boland was employed as a section foreman on the railroad, and was a much trusted and faithful employe. In 1883 the family removed to Anderson where the father died on March 21, 1884, aged sixty-six years. He was a staunch Demo- crat, taking a true Irishman's interest in the politics of his community, and being ever the loyal supporter of his Democratic friends in their political aspirations. He was a Catholic, as was his faithful wife, and they reared their family of twelve children in the faith of their fathers. At the time of the death of Mr. Boland seven of the children were living A man well known for his many excellent traits of character, he was
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universally admired and esteemed, and he still lives in the memory of many friends who knew him as he was.
Daniel Boland received his primary education in the public schools of Middletown and afterward attended the high school at Anderson, Indiana. Leaving school in his teens, he entered the employ of his brother, who was a member of the firm of Boland & Burke, gas fitters, and for two years he continued with them. He then entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad as an operator, later came to be Super- visor's Court clerk holding the latter position for two years. He was then appointed deputy treasurer, serving under his brother, William Boland, county treasurer, and for two years was thus employed. Mr. Boland then formed a partnership on his own responsibility, engaging in the insurance business under the firm style of Cornelius & Boland. This firm lived for three years, during which time they built up a nice business, and it later came to be known as Heritage & Boland, and as such continued for five years. During the eight years he was thus con- nected he came to have a leading place in insurance circles of the city, and was reckoned among the substantial insurance men of the district. He afterwards became interested in the firm known as the Netterville, Boland & Dye Company, operating in insurance and loans, and for a space of two years was thus connected. During this latter period Mr. Boland had been acting as special agent for the German Insurance Company of Indiana and was rapidly gaining a position in insurance circles. In 1910 he was elected Clerk of the Court for a term of four years, receiving his election at the hands of the Democratic party with a most liberal majority, and assuming the duties of the office on Janu- ary 1, 1911. He has already demonstrated his splendid capability for the duties of the position, and will continue therein until January 1, 1915.
Mr. Boland is a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Ancient Order of Hibernians. He is socially a member of the Brownson Club and the Antler's Club. Other business associations that he continues to maintain are his position as a stockholder and director in the Columbian Insurance Company, of Indiana, and in the Farmers' Trust Company, with which he has long been connected. His acquaintance in Anderson and the county is a wide one, and his list of friends is one that is fairly coincident with that of his acquaintances. A man of splendid qualities, he enjoys the confidence and esteem of all who know him, and few are more worthy of the high regard accorded than is he. Mr. Boland is unmarried.
ANDREW ELLIS. One of the oldest railroad men now living in Madi- son county, spending his declining years in restful retirement at his comfortable home in Anderson, Andrew Ellis can look back over a faith- ful, honorable record of forty-one years and eleven months spent in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He was born at Econ- omy, Wayne county, Indiana, September 17, 1841, and is a son of Sam- uel and Abigail (Key) Ellis. His father, born in Greenfield, Tennessee, in 1798, removed to Wayne county, Indiana, in 1830, and settled in the woods where he purchased land, cleared it and made a home for his family. He was also a blacksmith, and later in life moved to Howard county, Indiana. locating on a farm of eighty acres, where he spent the remainder of his life in general farming and stock raising. Mr. Ellis married Abigail Key, who was born in 1810, in Blount county, Tennes-
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see. moved to Wayne county, Indiana, in 1833, and died in 1893, aged eighty-three years. They became the parents of three sons and three daughters, of whom but two children still survive: Andrew ; and Mahala, who is now Mrs. Barr and resides at Argos, Marshall county, Indiana.
Andrew Ellis secured his education in the primitive log schoolhouse in Howard county, Indiana, and subsequently went to the high school of New London, Indiana, the high school in Kokomo and Bryant and Stratton Commercial School at Indianapolis. In 1865 Mr. Ellis went to Missouri, and during that year and 1866 was engaged in teaching school, then reurning to Windfall. Indiana, where he pursued the voca- tion of educator in the winter months and spent the summers in farm- ing. In the summer of 1869 he studied telegraphy and did railroad office work, and in November of that year was appointed agent for the Pennsylvania Lines at Windfall, Tipton county, Indiana. In Decem- ber. 1881. he was transferred to Kokomo, where he was agent until 1885. then becoming agent for the same road at Anderson, a position which he continued to hold until July 1, 1905. He was then appointed freight and passenger solicitor for the same road with offices at Anderson, and on September 30, 1911, reached the age of retirement, and was pensioned by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
Mr. Ellis has been twice married. His first union was in 1863, when he was united with Miss Armina Jones, of Grant county, Indiana, and to this union there was born one daughter, now Mrs. Belle Lewellen, of Kokomo, whose husband was for years a telegraph operator. Mr. Ellis was married January 21, 1891. to Miss Laberta E. Stebbing, of And- erson, a much accomplished lady and a native of Maryland. They have had no children. Mr. Ellis is a valued and popular member of Mt. Moriah Lodge No. 77. Free and Accepted Masons. While well ad- vanced in years. a long life of sobriety and prohity has left him strong in body and intellect, and he continues to take a lively and intelligent interest in all matters pertaining to Anderson and its people. Widely known in railroad circles, he bears the reputation of an industrious, honest and conscientious gentleman, and the number of his friends is only limited by the extent of his acquaintance.
HON. FRANK P. FOSTER, Anderson's present mayor, has been one of the city's most progressive and loval citizens since locating here in 1879. Neither as a citizen nor as a representative in the lower branch of the State Legislature, at home or abroad, has he ever let a fitting oppor- tunity pass to add his mite to the sum total of praise in favor of Ander- son as a husy, enterprising city. A native of Orange county, Indiana, after receiving a common and high school education, he took a four years' course at the Indiana State University, from which he graduated in 1879, and immediately afterward located and began the study of law in Anderson. Recognizing his ability and integrity, the Democratic party nominated and elected him as representative to the State Legis- lature from Madison county in 1887, honoring him also with a second term in 1889. Although a young man. he took an active part in the shaping of legislation at that time, and was instrumental in procuring what were then some of the pioneer laws of the state, but which have proven to be most wholesome, for instance the Australian Ballot law and the School Book law.
While he has always acted in the support of its principles, Mr. Foster is not a partisan to the extent of being offensive to those who may
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hold contrary views as to men and measures of his party. This has incidental proof from the fact that in his race for the mayoralty he received the largest plurality ever given to any candidate for that office in the city of Anderson. He is thoroughly independent in every rela- tion of life and follows the leadership of no men or set of men against his better judgment. This well-known characteristic, with his unques- tioned reputation for personal honor, has contributed largely to his success at the bar and in politics. Mr. Foster for many years has been, and now is, the president of the Madison County Bar Association. He was city attorney for six years, and discharged the duties of that office with rare ability. He became mayor of Anderson in January, 1910, and is now in the last year of his service in this high position. It is, perhaps, a little early to sum up the work of his administration, and yet enough has already been done to warrant the statement that it is one which will loom, when completed, with distinct achievements.
When Mayor Foster took office, the city was full of "blind tigers," while there were continual and repeated violations in the sale of liquors. Gambling, prostitution, open dance halls and prize fights were indulged to a degree offensive to all good citizens. These have been abated, while the saloons which operate under the laws are required to strictly observe the laws. Vice and crime have both been curbed to a minimum in Anderson.
The economical and efficient service of the several city departments cannot be enumerated within the confines assigned to this all too brief sketch. But the virtues of Mayor Foster's administration may be gen- erally comprehended in the truthful affirmation that while the price of commodities produced by the plants controlled by the city have cheap- ened to the consumer, while taxes have been lowered, while great and valuable areas have been purchased for park lands, including the An- derson Fair Grounds, and publie drinking fountains and other helps to the public good have been installed, the public debt, with its heavy burden of interest and embarrassment, has constantly decreased, so that although that debt at the beginning of Mayor Foster's term was $228,000.00, it is now but $50,000.00, and before he leaves the chief executive's chair will have been wiped absolutely off the account. Also the tax rate which at the beginning of his term was $1.10 on the hun- dred dollars of assessable property will at its close be but 70 cents.
MASON V. HUNT, M. D. The roster of medical men of Madison county who have attained distinction in their profession would be decidedly incomplete did it not contain the name of Dr. Mason V. Hunt, one of the oldest practitioners of the city of Anderson, and a man widely known and highly respected not alone in the ranks of his profession, but in business, social and fraternal circles. For nearly a quarter of a cen- tury he has been ministering to the ills of the people of Anderson, and his unquestioned talent and sympathetic nature have drawn to him a large and representative practice. Dr. Hunt was born in the city of Greenville, Darke county, Ohio, January 27, 1848, and is a son of Dr. W. A. and Sarah (Wright) Hunt.
Dr. W. A. Hunt was born in North Carolina, and became an early settler of Darke county, Ohio, where as a youth he began reading medi- cine. Subsequently, he entered the Starling Medical College, Columbus, and after his graduation therefrom was engaged in practice in Green- ville for some time. Later, he came to Indiana and settled on a farm
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in Madison county, not far from Anderson, and while engaging in till- ing the soil continued to practice medicine and surgery. Dr. Hunt dis- posed of his farm in 1867 and came to Anderson, to devote his whole attention to his profession, and continued in active practice up to the time of his death, which occurred February 20, 1889. He was a Quaker by religion, as were his father and his grandfather, yet they came of a line of fighting men who participated in the various wars of this coun- try down to the struggle between the North and South, and many of the name held high rank in the Union army during the last-named war. Dr. Hunt married Miss Sarah Wright, who was born in Maryland, and was taken to Ohio by her father, William Wright, an early settler of Darke county, who was also of Quaker stock.
Mason V. Hunt received his early education in the public and high schools of Anderson. this heing supplemented by an attendance of two years at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana. Early exhibiting a pre- dilection for medicine, doubtless inherited from his father, he began his medical studies under the preceptorship of the elder man, and after some preparation entered what is now known as the Cincinnati Medical University, where he was graduated after a very creditable examination in 1874. He at once entered practice at Janesville, Minnesota, where he remained one year, subsequently moving to Waseca, Minnesota, where he passed some eighteen years in a successful practice, and in 1890 made his advent into Anderson, which has since been his field of endeavor. He was not long in attracting a clientele, those who had known his father being ready to trust their health in the hands of the younger man, but he soon demonstrated such ability that he was able to build up a practice entirely apart from any influence that might be reflected upon him on account of the achievements of his sire. He is now known as an able practitioner, a steady-handed surgcon, and a close and assid- uous student, and his standing among his professional brethren is de- servedly high. In 1900, Dr. Hunt became medical director of the Liberal Life Assurance Company, with which he has been connected in the same capacity to the present time.
In 1887, Dr. Hunt was united in marriage (first) with Miss Adda Andrews, of Sherwood, Minnesota, and to this union" was born one son : Volney M., an electrical engineer. Dr. Hunt's first wife died in 1900, and he was later married to Mrs. Elizabeth J. Ross, a widow, daughter of G. W. Kidwell.
Dr. Hunt is a prominent Mason, being a member of Mt. Moriah Lodge No. 77, F. & A. M., Anderson Chapter No. 52, R. A. M., Anderson Com- mandery No. 22, K. T., Murat Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., Indianapolis, and has attained to the thirty-second degree. During his long resi- dence in Anderson, he has formed a wide acquaintance, and in this he numbers many sincere friends. The Doctor's comfortable modern resi- dence is situated at No. 1225 Jackson street.
WILLIAM C. PETTIGREW. A former trustee of Green township, Mr. Pettigrew is one of the leading farmers of the township where he has spent practically all his life and as the result of many years' industry and careful management now owns a splendid country home in section 35 of this township. William C. Pettigrew was born on a farm in his present home township November 8, 1858. His parents were John and Sarah (Jones) Pettigrew. The father was a native of Virginia, from which state he came to Madison county when a young man and followed
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farming. His death occurred in August, 1913, when 85 years old. Sarah Jones, the mother, was born in Green township, belongs to one of the oldest families settled here, and is now deceased. The eight chil- dren in the family were named James, George W., William C., Dora, Etta, Charles E., Lona, and Rachael.
William Cane Pettigrew was reared in Green township, and at- tended the district school near his home. He was a schoolboy, alternating his school work with employment on the farm until he was about eigh- teen years of age. He then continued at home with his father until twenty-one. He married Miss Sarah O. Edwards, who was born in Green township, and also educated in the district schools. Her parents were Robert and Rebecca (Gibson) Edwards. Mr. and Mrs. Pettigrew had five children, namely: Fred L., a graduate of the Pendleton high school, married, and a farmer in this county; Warren R., who grad- uated from the Pendleton high school, and who married Hazel Crist; Elsie, wife of Forrest Moore, now living with his father and farming on shares; Ruth, wife of Ed. Thompson; and Mildred, a student in the public schools. The family are members of the Methodist church at Ingalls. Mr. Pettigrew is a Democrat, has been active in his party and was honored by his fellow citizens with the office of trustee of Green township from 1904 to 1908. His home farm on section 35 comprises one hundred and fifty-four acres. This land he has improved accord- ing to the modern standards of Indiana agriculture, has a fine and com- fortable home, and an excellent frame barn for the shelter of his stock and grain, and keeps high grade stock.
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