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lected, for he spent the summer months in assisting his father and brothers in the work of the home place and in gaining the training necessary for his life vocation. On reaching manhood he embarked in general farming and stock raising, in both of which lines he has made a decided success, and in addition, with his brothers, he has taken up threshing, and they now control the majority of the work of this nature in their section. An earnest, industrious and energetic agriculturist, Mr. Busby has allowed no other interests to claim a part of his atten- tion, being satisfied to follow the vocation which his forefathers made their life work. His property of 120 acres is under an excellent state of cultivation, his machinery is of the latest manufacture, his stock shows the beneficial effects of careful breeding, and his products find a ready market at top-notch prices. While he has not entered public life as a seeker after office, he has always taken an intelligent interest in those things which make for progress in his community, and can be depended upon to support good men and measures.
The members of the Busby family have always belonged to the Christian church.
JOHN J. GIBSON, M. D. Twenty years of practice at Alexandria as a physician and surgeon have brought Dr. Gibson special distinction and success as an able and skillful doctor and as a man who devotes himself conscientiously to the duties of professional life.
Dr. Gibson is a native of Canada, and a product of one of the best medical schools of that nation. He was born in Perth, Lanark county, Ontario, February 3, 1866, a son of John and Mary (Scott) Gibson. The partenal grandfather was John Gibson, who married Agnes Murray. On both sides the family is of Scotch ancestry. The grand- father was a merchant in Scotland, in the town of Dumfries, and after transferring his home to Canada followed farming. Both he and his wife attained a good old age before their death, and in their family were the following named children : William, James, Andrew, John, Mary, Elizabeth, Mary Ann and Maggie. Andrew Gibson, of this family, after graduating from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, practiced medicine successfully for several years in Clinton, Ontario. He then took a post graduate course in London, and Edinburgh and then set- tled in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he enjoyed for about fifteen years a very lucrative and extensive practice. His death was caused by typhoid fever. . William and Annie (Harkness) Scott, the maternal grand- parents of Dr. Gibson, had the following children: Edward, Matthew, James, John, Thomas, Mary, Mina, Maggie and Annie. The parents both lived to between seventy and eighty years of age.
Both John and Mary (Scott) Gibson spent most of their lives in Lanark county, Ontario, on a farm. John Gibson was of age when he left his native land of Scotland, and he located on a farm in Lanark county, where he maintained his home until his death, at the age of forty-nine. His wife survived him and is now sixty-nine years of age. Their church was the Presbyterian, and the father during his life time held various township offices. Their family of children numbered ten, eight of whom reached maturity and are mentioned as follows: Dr. John J. Gibson, of Alexandria; William, of Atlanta, Georgia; Mary, of Lanark county ; Jessie, who died in the spring of 191_, the wife of Charles Grant, of Kenora, Ontario; Samuel, of Lanark county; Edith, who is married and resides in the state of New York; James, of Lanark
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county ; Jean, of Lanark county, on the old homestead and living with her mother.
Dr. John J. Gibson was reared on his father's farm, in Lanark county, and as a boy attended the country schools and the Perth Col- legiate Institute, where he was graduated in 1882. The profession of medicine was the goal toward which his ambition centered, but he had to pass through some years of independent effort before he could secure the means to prepare himself for practice. He was engaged as a teacher for six years, and then entered Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, where he studied until graduation with his medical degree in 1893. In the same year, on the 1st of June, he located in Alexandria, and has enjoyed in later years the best practice in the city.
Dr. Gibson is a member of the Presbyterian -church, and his frater- nal affiliations are with Alexandria Lodge, No. 235, F. & A. M .; Alex- andria Chapter, No. 99, R. A. M .; and Alexandria Council, No. 85. He also belongs to the Knights of Pythias, the Odd Fellows, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Alexandria, and in the line of his profession is a member of the County and State Medical Societies and the American Medical Association. His politics are Republican. Dr. Gibson in graduating from Queen's University was valedictorian of his class, and his subsequent successful career has fully justified the prom- ise and hopes raised by his under graduate work.
JOHN KLUMPP, SR. Practically all the business career of John Klumpp, Sr., has been passed in the employ of the Macbeth-Evans Glass Company, one of the most widely known coneerns of its kind in the United States today, if not, indeed, the most famous. He was ten years of age when he first identified himself with the glass business in Pittsburg, and continued there with the main plant until 1902, when he came to Elwood, Indiana, to take charge of the plant at this place. and he has continued as superintendent at this point without interrup- tion since that time. His identification with the glass business has been of a most interesting eharacter, and has brought him into prominence as an expert glass-blower in the largest cities of this country.
Born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, on November 3, 1865, John Klumpp is the son of Charles and Barbara (Hoffman) Klumpp, both natives of Baden, Germany. They came to Ameriea in 1841. Five children were born to them, as follows: Barbara, who died unmarried at the age of nineteen years; Catherine, who married Gust Bodenhagen, and is now deeeased; Charles, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; John, of this review ; and Frank, also a resident of Pittsburg. The father of this family settled in Pittsburg soon after his arrival in this country and engaged in various activities. He fought in the Civil war as a member of what was known as "The Fifth Heavy" regiment and gave faithful service for something like three years. He died in Pittsburg in 1882 at the age of fifty-five years, and his widow survived him until 1906, when she passed away at the advanced age of seventy-six years. Both were members of the German Lutheran church during their lives.
John Klumpp was born and reared in Pittsburg, and attended the public schools of that city for a few years, but his education was cut short in his boyhood by his advent into the commercial world when he was ten years of age, after which he attended school but little. He began work in the plant of the Macbeth-Evans Glass Company at that age, and has been connected with them for the greater part of his life
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up to the present time, principally in Pittsburg, and coming to Elwood in July, 1902, to assume the superintendency of their mammoth plant at this place.
Concerning this magnificent organization, it may be said briefly here that it was organized in Pittsburg in 1874, being known first as the George A. Macbeth Glass Company. It was reorganized in 1897 as the Macbeth-Evans Glass Company, and now has branches and factories in numerous cities throughout the United States. The Elwood branch was established here in 1892, when the country hereabouts was in the heights of the gas excitement. The plant went into operation with a force of about four hundred persons, a number that has since been increased with the demands of the business until today a force of between five and six hundred people are on the pay rolls of the company here, the same aggregating some $18,000 a month. The principal output of the factory is lamp chimneys, lantern globes and lamp shades, and the products of the plant are shipped all over the world. About sixty- five thousand globes and chimneys is the average daily output. The company maintains branches at Marion, Indiana; Toledo, Ohio; and Charleroi, Pennsylvania, in addition to their mammoth plant at Pitts- burg, and they employ about twenty-six thousand people in their com- bined factories and offices. The Elwood plant is a fine brick building, admirably suited to the business, and under the able direction of Mr. Klumpp is able to make a fine showing among the various factories of the company.
Mr. Klumpp began to learn glass-blowing as a boy, and has advanced through all the stages of knowledge connected with the business, so that he is known to be one of the most capable men connected with the industry today. He has long been known for an expert glass-blower and was chosen as one of the blowers of America to blow glass at the World's Fair in Chicago, in 1893. He also blew glass on exhibition for three years in Pittsburg, and has accomplished some wonderful feats in that line. For' a year, in about 1897, he traveled for the Thomas Evans Glass Company, and when the Macbeth-Evans Company came into existence as a result of the consolidation of the Macbeth people with the Evans', Mr. Klumpp took charge of the Pittsburg plant as manager, following which he became superintendent of the Elwood business.
During the years 1895-1896-1897 Mr. Klumpp was president of the United Labor League of Western Pennsylvania, representing seventy- five thousand organized workingmen. Upon entering the duties of salesman for the Thomas Evans Company he severed his connections with this organization, having received an honorable withdrawal card.
On October 23, 1883, Mr. Klumpp was united in marriage with Miss Ida McCurry, the . daughter of Henry and Margaret (McKelvey) MeCurry, and they have three children,-John, Helen, and Gladys. John is assistant superintendent of the plant, under his father, and is one of the capable young men who are identified with the business of the Macbeth-Evans Company here. He married Miss Gladys Moore, and they have two children,-John III, and Dorothy. Helen and Gladys Klumpp are attending school and still share the parental roof.
Mr. Klumpp is fraternally identified with the Masonic order, hav- ing membership in Quincy Lodge No. 230, A. F. & A. M., as well as with the Maccabees. He is a stanch Republican, and is one who has given honest service to the party all his life. Mrs. Klumpp was born and
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reared in Pittsburg, where her parents passed the best years of their lives, and died. They were the parents of seven children, as follows : Charles, James, William, Hugh, Ida, who became Mrs. Klumpp, and Margaret.
The Klumpp family is one that is highly esteemed in Elwood, where the various members are known and appreciated for their many excel- lent qualities, and where they take prominent places in the leading social activities of the community.
CHARLES G. DICK, M. D. There is no profession to which men devote themselves more dignified in its ethics or more reasonably helpful to the world than that of medicine. Similar claims are made by the church and by the law, but they, while essentially true enough, are based on other foundations. The healing art demands of its real followers that natural reverence for the dignity of the human body that commands the exercise of all the skill that years of training and study have brought them, to cure its ills, even though they know that their services will receive no pecuniary reward. Where or when does a real physician refuse to give help, and to what other body of men does the world owe so much ? The medical profession's scientific discoveries have not only eased the bed of former torture, but have found the cure for almost every bodily affliction. Justly is this noble profession in the forefront. Methods may differ, systems may not be quite alike, and personality counts for much, but the aim and principle remains the same. Among the members of the medical profession well known in Madison county, Indiana, is Dr. Charles G. Dick, of Elwood, whose skill and faithful- ness, together with his determined hopefulness and cheerfulness, have made his presence valued in many households during the past, sixteen years, which period covers his residence in this city.
Charles G. Dick, M. D., was born in Winona county, Minnesota, November 5, 1866, and is a son of Samuel C. and Elizabeth (Young) Dick, natives of Ohio. His paternal grandparents were natives of the North of Ireland, of Scotch parentage, and were early settlers of Ohio, while on the maternal side he is descended from grandparents who were natives of the Buckeye State and spent their entire lives in the vicinity of Steubenville.
Samuel C. Dick was born in Steubenville, Ohio, April 19, 1816, and was the son of William and Jane Mcclintock Dick, the former a native of Ireland and the latter of Scotland. Crossing the Atlantic to America, William Dick took up his residence in Steubenville, where he died in 1849. Samuel C. Dick was reared in Steubenville, and as a young man learned the trade of millwright, and in 1848 removed to Daven- port, Iowa, where he followed his vocation for some time. Subsequently, he removed to Richmond, Minnesota, early in the 'fifties, and was inter- ested in a gristmill there, but later turned his attention to farming in Winona county, where his death occurred in 1892, when he was seventy- two years of age.
Samuel C. Dick was married May 9, 1850, to Miss Elizabeth Young, who was the daughter of Hercules and Anna (Chandler) Young, both of whom were natives of Pennsylvania. In their family were eleven children : Mrs. Rachel Chandler, born September, 1806; Mrs. Sarah Stockton, born March 8, 1808; James; Dinah; Eli; Mrs. Ann Baker; Morgan ; John; Mrs. Hannah Craft ; Mrs. Margaret Carroll, and Mrs. Elizabeth Dick, who was born July 25, 1824.
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To Mr. and Mrs. Dick were born ten children, eight of whom are yet living : Thomas C., the eldest, was born March 10, 1851; Margaret E., August 4, 1853; Anne E., November 13, 1855, wife of William Foote; a daughter born July 12, 1858, died in infancy ; Mrs. Emma L. Geddes, born July 23, 1859; Clarence F., November 18, 1861; William W., May 24, 1864; Charles G., November 5, 1866; Ulysses S., October 19, 1868; and Mrs. Elizabeth M. Davis, April 15, 1871. The Dick family resided in Winona county, Minnesota, from 1855 to 1898.
. Mrs. Dick survived her husband for a period, and was seventy-nine years of age at the time of her demise. Originally Quakers, they later transferred their support to the faith of the Presbyterian church, in which they both died.
Charles G. Dick was reared on the home farm, and received his early education in the district schools, subsequently graduating from the State Normal School in 1890. During the several terms that fol- lowed, he was engaged in teaching school in Minnesota, and he then entered Keokuk Medical College, Keokuk, Iowa, where he was gradu- ated with his degree in 1895. Succeeding this he spent two years in the hospital at Marquette, Michigan, and in 1897 came to Elwood, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. It was not long after his arrival that his talents were recognized, and he has been in the enjoyment of a constantly increasing professional business, his remarkable success in a number of complicated cases having firmly established him in the confidence of the community. Dr. Dick is a close and careful student, and has kept fully abreast of the advancements that are constantly being made in the field of medicine. He is a strict observer of the unwritten ethics of the profession, and enjoys marked popularity among his confreres of the fraternity in Madison county.
On September 21, 1897, Dr. Dick was married to Miss Florence Clark, who was born in Winona, Minnesota, daughter of George and Jennie (Lockwood) Clark, natives of New York state, both of whom are deceased. George Washington Clark was born June 10, 1827, in Copenhagen, Lewis county, New York. His father, Orrin Clark, was a soldier in the War of 1812 and took part in the battle of Sackets Har- bor. After his death, which occured in 1848, his family was granted a land warrant in recognition of his services. This was located in 1855 by his son, George W., in whose family its possession still remains.
The Clark family is of Scotch-Irish origin. John Clark was born on the Emerald Isle in 1655, and in 1699 was married. In 1717 he came to America and took up his residence in Rutland, Massachusetts. His children were: Mathew, Thomas John, William Samuel, James George, Sarah and Elizabeth, all born in Ireland. Mathew married Jane Bothel. His children were: Jane, John Alexander, Agnes, Wil- liam, Hannah and Elizabeth, born in Rutland, and James, Margaret, Sarah and Mathew, born in Colerain, Massachusetts. James Clark of this family became a captain in the French and Indian war, serving from 1754 to 1763. His children were: John Scott, Royal, Silas, David, James, Orrin and Betsy.
John Scott Clark was the first white male child born in Chester, Massachusetts, 1762. He married Sarah Anderson in 1790. Their chil- dren were: Orrin, Asenath, Electa, John and Lucinda. Orrin Clark, father of George W., married Rebecca White Templeton. Their chil- dren were: Electa, Betsy, Sarah, Rebecca, Orrin, Nathan, Wayne, George W., and John Scott. George W. Clark was educated in the
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common school and Lowville Academy. He came west in 1851. On the 13th of November he landed in Winona county, where he spent the remainder of his life. On the 11th of February, 1857, he was married to Jennie Lockwood of Waupun, Wisconsin, who was born December 4, 1837. By this marriage were born seven children: Frank W., January 4, 1858; Adah L., January 27, 1860; Jay Scott, November 4, 1862; Florence E., July 28, 1868; Alfred H., March 26, 1870; Jennie A., January 25, 1874; and May, September 13, 1878.
Dr. and Mrs. Charles G. Dick have had four children, as follows : Margery C., born September 21, 1898; Charles C., born January 29, 1900; Jennie E., born January 9, 1904; and Ulysses, born June 9, 1907, died September 20, 1907.
Dr. Dick is a member of the Presbyterian church, while his wife is a Unitarian. His fraternal connection is with Quincy Lodge No. 230, F. & A. M., but while he appreciates the privileges of membership he has never sought official position.
JOSEPH A. ZETTEL is a newcomer in Madison county, having located here after a long and varied experience in business and trade in differ- ent parts of the United States, chiefly in. Minnesota. Mr. Zettel is now proprietor of an establishment at 112 West Church street in Alexandria for tin, galvanized and sheet iron work and hot air heating apparatus.
Joseph A. Zettel was born in Waterloo county, Ontario, Canada, May 12, 1852. The family originated in Germany, and after coming to America -moved into Canada. The paternal grandfather was Lucas Zettel, the maiden name of whose wife was Monica Straub, both of whom died in Waterloo county, Ontario, when in old age, Mrs. Zettel being ninety-two at the time of her death. Their family consisted of Joseph, Herman, Theresa, Mary and Regina. The maternal grand- father of the Alexandria merchant was Andrew Holrod, whose wife was Magdelana Holrod. They also were natives of Germany, whence they migrated to Canada and died in Bruce county, Ontario, he at the age of eighty-two and she at eighty-four years. Their five children were named: Magdelana, Mary, Anna, Joseph and Felix.
Andrew and Magdelana (Holrod) Zettel, parents of Joseph A., were born in Germany, the former in Wuertemberg, and the latter in Baden. Their nine children are mentioned as follows: Mary, wife of John Wechter, of Bruce county, Ontario; Felix, deceased; Ambrose, of Bruce county ; Monica, deceased, who was the wife of Henry Oldheiser of Lincoln, North Dakota; Joseph A., of Alexandria; Lucas, of Bruce county, Ontario; Theresa, wife of Charles Mickus of Scott county, Min- nesota; Regina, wife of Andrew Schwartz of Bruce county; Herbert, of St. Paul, Minnesota. The father of this family accompanied his parents from Germany to Canada, when he was eleven years of age, and he grew to manhood in Waterloo county. By trade he was a cooper, bnt subsequently followed farming. His death occurred in Bruce county, when he was seventy-eight years of age and his wife passed away when fifty-six. They were both members of the Catholic church.
Joseph A. Zettel was reared a farmer boy in Bruce county, and the years up to maturity were spent under the home roof. His education was such as could be furnished by the country schools. After school days he continued as a worker on his father's farm for eleven years and then went out to the western states, locating at Shakopee, Minnesota, in 1886. It was his distinction in that locality to establish and operate
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the first creamery, and in subsequent years he was in the same line of business in different places in Minnesota. He was also a hotel pro- prietor in Shakopee. While a resident at Montgomery, Minnesota, he served as the first mayor of the town. In November, 1912, Mr. Zettel came to Alexandria, where he bought out the tinning and sheet iron business of O. M. Hoover, and is now enjoying a prosperous business.
On September 29, 1874, he married Miss Mary Schumacher, a daugh- ter of Anthony and Mary (Kirsch) Schumacher. They were the parents of five children : Theresa, Lawrence, Joseph, Frank and Wil- liam. The daughter, Theresa, is now at home in Alexandria. Law- rence and Joseph both studied for the priesthood, but are now deceased. Frank and William are Franciscan priests. The mother of this family passed away March 12, 1887, at the age of thirty-four years.
On June 5, 1890, Mr. Zettel married his second wife, Sophia Koeper, daughter of John Koeper. She died January 1, 1912, at the age of fifty. She was, the mother of seven children, Albinus, Cyril, Ida, Irene, Sybilla, Leo and Regina. Albinus died at the age of eleven, and the other children are now at home. The family are all communicants of the Catholic church and Mr. Zettel is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus. In politics he is a Democrat.
THOMAS M. JONES, M. D. For three successive generations mem- bers of the Jones family have been identified with the profession of medicine and surgery, and Thomas Monroe Jones since beginning prac- tice at Anderson about seven years ago has emphasized surgery, for which branch of practice he has shown unusual aptitude and skill. His father before him is well known as a physician and surgeon in Madison county, and the grandfather at one time also practiced medicine in this county.
Few members of the profession in Indiana have entered upon active practice more generously endowed with the experience and training which come from association with the great readers in medicine and surgery and with observation in the foremost clinics and hospitals of the world than has Dr. Thomas M. Jones. He was born in the city of Anderson, August 9, 1877, the only son of Dr. Horace E. and Carrie E. (Cockefair) Jones. His literary education was obtained at the Uni- versity of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, at which institution he spent four years. Returning to this country in 1898, he entered the Indiana State University, from which institution he was graduated with the A. B. degree in one year. The same year after graduating from the Indiana State University, he entered the Johns Hopkins' Medical School of Baltimore, Maryland. From here he was graduated as Doc- tor of Medicine in 1902. Immediately after graduation he was ap- pointed a member of the staff of St. Marks hospital of New York city, which position he held for one year. From St. Marks hospital he ob- tained, by competitive examination, a position in the surgical staff of Kings County Hospital of Brooklyn, New York. This position he filled for two years during which time he was afforded abundant practical experience in surgery. After leaving the last named institution he returned to his native city of Anderson, Indiana, where he opened an office and entered upon the practice of medicine. In 1908 he gave up the general practice, devoting his entire time to that of surgery.
In 1910 he went abroad, to Vienna, Austria, where he spent a year in the surgical clinics of that great medical and surgical center.
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Dr. Jones is at present in the active practice of surgery and is affil- iated with the Madison County and Indiana State Medical societies. Also with the American Medical Association, the Mississippi Valley Medical Society and is a member of the Clinical Congress of Surgeons of North America.
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