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In 1901 Mr. Faust married Miss Julia Kline, of Lebanon, Ohio, a daughter of William and Iva (Perrin) Kline. The two children who have come into their home are: Byron and Mary Louise. Mr. Faust is a public-spirited citizen, always willing to help along any worthy cause, but has no aspirations for political office. However, he was drafted to fill the office of trustee of Pipe Creek township and held that office for a time, until he felt that he could resign without detriment to duties entrusted to his care. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Mod- ern Woodmen of America.
BARNEY FLANAGAN .. The calling of auctioneering is more a profes- sion than a business, and the qualifications necessary to be possessed by those who would become successful in this line are indeed numerous. It has been said that good auctioneers are born, not made; a person can learn to be a doctor, a lawyer, or a minister, but there have never been institutions in which the student could learn this fascinating vocation. An excellent judge of values, with the ability to give an intelligent and elaborate description of the thousands and thousands of different arti- cles that pass through his hands, with that peculiar and most necessary faculty of expressing his thoughts extemporaneously, and above all with the quickness and responsiveness, imagination, sympathy and humor which have come as a heritage from his Irish forefathers, Barney Flan- agan has beeome almost a national figure in auctioneering cireles, and is one of the few who are successfully engaged in this occupation today. In addition, he is the owner of a well-cultivated farm of 138 acres, located in Lafayette township, and has the added distinction of being a self-made man, having worked his way up from humble and obscure boyhood to a recognized position of prestige among his fellow-citizens.
Mr. Flanagan was born in 1849, on a sailing vessel on the Atlantic ocean, the day that land was sighted. This ship was afterwards lost in a storm at sea. He is a son of Michael and Mary (Nester) Flanagan, the former born in County Dublin, Ireland, about twenty miles from the city of Dublin, where he was a farmer and leased land before com- ing to the United States. After landing at New Orleans, the little fam- ily made its way to Cineinnati, Ohio, where the father died of sunstroke, leaving the widow with her infant son. Barney Flanagan received a somewhat limited education, and as a lad with his mother in Cincin- nati he drifted around the city, living precariously until she married Michael Dolan. Later, his step-father, Mr. Dolan, having worked out and made enough to buy a farm of 114 acres in Henry county, Indiana, Vol II-23
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Barney joined him and continued to reside on the farm until 1881. In that year Mr. Flanagan came to Madison county, where he settled on an eighty-acre farm on Stony creek, and here he continued to live nineteen years and then sold out and bought 135 acres in Lafayette town. ship. He is a successful farmer, but also devotes largely of his time to auctioneering, his services being in constant demand in this and other sections of the state.
In 1871 Mr. Flanagan was married to Miss Mary Anderson, and to this union there were born fourteen children, namely: Eddie, W. A., Charles, Mary, Rose, James, Julia, Cora, Pearl, Maud, Howard, Jessie, Hazel and Barney, Jr., of whom Eddie, Charles, James and Jessie are deceased. Mr. Flanagan's second marriage was to Mrs. Victoria 1. (Davis) Hartzell, widow of Henry Hartzell, by whom she had six chil- dren : Dallas, Ethel, Eva, Lorin, Howard and Albert. Mr. and Mrs. Flanagan have had no children. Her parents, John S. and Nancy (Scoot) Davis, were natives of North Carolina, who spent their latter years in Madison county, Indiana, and were the parents of nine children, as fol- lows: Harvey, Mrs. Martha Peiky, Miles, Elisha, Mrs. Lavina Titus, Victoria, Olive M., Mrs. Mary Sullivan and John A.
S. J. STOTTLEMYER, M. D. The medical profession of Madison county is ably and worthily represented at Linwood by Dr. S. J. Stottlemyer. widely known as a physician and surgeon and as a citizen who has been a prominent factor in the development of his community's interests. Dr. Stottlemyer was born near Pendleton, Indiana, December 27, 1879, and is a son of James and Mary (Gaver) Stottlemyer.
James Stottlemyer was born in Frederick county, Maryland, and was twenty-two years of age when he came to Madison county, Indiana. He has spent his career in agricultural pursuits and is now one of the substantial citizens of Anderson township, owning a valuable farming property south of the city of Anderson. He and his wife Lave had a family of eleven children : Mollie, now Mrs. Preston; Roy: Ida. who is deceased; Dr. S. J .; William; Ira; Claude; Lillian, now Mrs. Jarvis: Fannie, now Mrs. Russell; Ruby, now Mrs. Button ; and Frank.
S. J. Stottlemyer obtained excellent educational advantages, but he worked his way through and is a self-made man. His early training was secured in the country schools, following which he took a course in the Marion Normal College, graduating therefrom in August, 1001. He then studied pharmacy at the Valparaiso schools till 1904. At this time he adopted the profession of educator, and for nine years was engaged in teaching school in Madison county, ending as principal of the Markle- ville schools; in the meantime he had prepared himself to enter medi- cine. His studies in this science were prosecuted in the Illinois Medical College, and the medical department of Loyola University, Chicago, and upon his graduation from that institution he became an interne in the Jefferson Park Hospital, Chicago, and also did special work at the Cook County Hospital, Chicago. Doctor Stottlemyer entered upon the prae- tice of his profession at Linwood, in 1911, and this place has since been his field of endeavor. He engages in a general practice, but has special- ized in children's diseases and is widely known in this branch of his calling. A close student, a careful practitioner and a steady-handed surgeon, he has taken advantage of the various inventions and discor- eries which have marked the history of the medical and surgical sciene-'s during recent years, and has assisted in advancing the interests of his
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vocation in Madison county by his active work as a member of the various medical organizations. His success has been due to no adventitious cir- cumstanee, but has come as a direct result of years of preparation and devotion to his profession.
On August 11, 1908, at Anderson, Doctor Stottlemyer was united in marriage with Miss Ethel V. Stinson, who was born in Illinois, but moved to Madison county in early childhood. She is a member of an old and honored family of this section. Doctor Stottlemyer is a Demo- crat in his political views, but has never cared for public office though he has been nominated for coroner. He has co-operated with other earnest citizens in securing benefits for the city of his adoption, especially along the lines of education.
HEZEKIAH TAPPAN. Although now living retired from active pur- suits Hezekiah Tappan, of North Anderson, is still the owner of a hand- some property of one hundred acres in Anderson township, where for a number of years he was extensively engaged in pursuits of an agricul- tural nature. He belongs to one of Madison county's old and honored families, and is a native son of this county, having been born on the old David D. Tappan farm in Richland township, December 8, 1852, born to David D. and Elizabeth (MeNear) Tappan.
James Tappan, the great-grandfather of Hezekiah Tappan, was born and raised in Woodbridge, Middlesex county, New Jersey, from whence his son, Isaac, and the latter's wife, Eleanor (Dunham) Tappan, moved to Madison county, Indiana, at an early period in the history of the state. Isaac Tappan was an agriculturist throughout his life, and became one of the substantial men of his day in Richland township.
David D. Tappan was born October 19, 1821, and was reared on the old home place, being trained in agricultural pursuits and assisting his father and brothers to clear the greater part of the farm. His death occurred on the 28th of April, 1890. His wife was born August 24, 1832. Their long residence in this section gave them a wide acquaintance, and everywhere they won and retained, the esteem and respect of those who knew them. They became the parents of ten children: Eleanor C., who married James M. Foukner ; Hezekiah, of this review ; Mary M., deceased, who was the wife of J. M. Watkins; Emma, who married the Rev. Jack- son; Nora, now Mrs. Kirk; Eliza J., the wife of Mr. Heritage; and Wil- liam, Isaac, Edward and Elmer, who are all deceased.
Hezekiah Tappan was reared on the farm on which he was born, and secured his education during the short winter terms in the old Dillon school, which was located on the Tappan homestead. On reaching man- hood he followed in the footsteps of his forefathers, adopting farming as his vocation, and during his active years was successful in developing a handsome and valuable property. For some time he specialized in young stock, and still has an interest in ventures along this line. Sinee his retirement he has resided in his comfortable modern residence located at No. 49 Honey street, North Anderson. Mr. Tappan is known as a man who is alive to all the important issues of the day, and who takes an active interest in the welfare of his community. In business cireles he bears an excellent reputation for integrity and honorable dealing, and everywhere he has the respect and esteem of those who know him.
On the 3d of October, 1894, Mr. Tappan was married to Miss Ger- trude V. MeCarty, and to this union there have been born six children : Herbert L., Mildred E., Marjorie M., Olive P., Vera L. and Robert Whit-
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comb. In political matters Mr. Tappan is a Progressive Republican, bu: his interest in public matters has been confined to that taken by cr:, good citizen, and he has never sought or desired public office. He is - consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
WILLIAM MELVILLE CROAN. Professor Croan is one among the f ... who can boast of spending his life in Madison county. With the excep tion of a brief residence in Nebraska and Iowa he has lived his thre: score years within a few miles of his birthplace.
Professor Croan was born near Anderson on the 23d of July, 185 ;. a son of the Hon. David E. Croan, who was one of Madison county's progressive, intelligent and successful farmers. The old Croan hour :- stead in Richland township is yet pointed out as a model farm residence. The Hon. David E. Croan was to some extent a politician as well as a farmer, and in 1864 he was elected as a Democrat to membership in ti :. Indiana legislature, where he took a prominent part in the proceedings of that body and served on important committees. His wife, Rebecca A., was a daughter of the late Hon. Uriah Van Pelt, one of the early associate justices of the Circuit court, whose family has always beld prominence in this county.
Professor William M. Croan was from his boyhood a student, and after mastering the rudiments of the common schools he was placed under the tutorship of Professor Joseph Franklin in a private school at Anderson, where he fitted himself for the vocation of a teacher i. the schools of his native state, and was a district teacher, principal. superintendent and county school superintendent in Madison county. Afterward he was president of the Western Normal College at Shenan- doah, Iowa, and Lincoln, Nebraska, for ten years. He is also a graduate of the North Western Christian University, of Indianapolis, Indiana, now Butler College, of Irvington, Indiana.
Professor Croan has the distinction of having inaugurated the sys- tem of graduation from the district schools in Indiana, and under his direction the first graduating exercises in the common schools of Indi- - ana took place in Madison county. It was while Professor Croan was county superintendent of schools that he ferreted out the nefarious practice of selling state board questions and brought the guilty parties to justice.
As a local correspondent for the Anderson papers over the nom-de- plume of "Killbuck Crane," Professor Croan developed a taste for jour- nalism. He became the editor and half owner of the Anderson Democrat in 1877, and continued in this capacity until elected county school super- intendent. The Democrat under the management of Professor Croan was decidedly one of the best weekly publications in Indiana. Professor Croan also has the distinction of being the first person to give James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier poet, literary employment, as Mr. Riley was the local editor under Professor Croan's management of the Demo- crat.
. On the 16th of October, 1878, Professor Croan was married to Jessie Fremont Myers, a daughter of Samuel Myers and sister of Cap- tain William R. Myers, a prominent politician, a member of Congress. and secretary of the state of Indiana. They were blessed with three children : David, who died in Anderson in October, 1899, aged twenty years; Margaret, who died at Shenandoah, Iowa, in May, 1888, at four years of age; and Katharine, who was married to Walter Sidney Green
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ough, of Indianapolis, at the Croan home in this city, July 6, 1912. Mrs. Jesse Myers Croan is a native of the city of Anderson, and is one of the progressive, intellectual and philanthropic women of this com- munity. She takes pride in the fact that she is the namesake of Jessie Fremont, the wife of the great American "path finder." Her father, Samuel Myers, was one of the early settlers of Anderson township. He served for many years as a township trustee, and had advanced ideas of education and did much in the upbuilding of the distriet schools of his locality. Mrs. Croan is one of the literary, philanthropic and society leaders of Anderson, and belongs to many literary and social clubs, and was one of the first women to be appointed on the Library board of Anderson.
Professor Croan has been engaged in the life insurance business for several years, in which he has been signally successful, and he is now vice president and superintendent of agents of one of the great life insurance companies of the country. He has been a life-long Democrat, and has always followed the flag of his party. When it has gone down to defeat his slogan has been "Up and at 'em again." He is an admirer of Hon. William Jennings Bryan, and during a residence of several years at Lineoln, Nebraska, was in elose personal relations with and formed a warm friendship for the Great Commoner.
Professor Croan stands high as a Mason, having passed all the chairs in the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Council and Commandery. He is a past eminent commander of Anderson Commandery, No. 32, Knights Templar, and has also erossed the desert over the hot sands at Indian- apolis, and is a Noble of the Mystic Shrine.
ALONZO M. OSWALT. One of the most satisfactory business enter- prises of Anderson is the Oswalt Printing Company, at whose plant 713- 723 Meridian street they do a general printing business and also manu- facture paper boxes. This business was established in 1907, and in 1912 was incorporated. It is a well equipped establishment, does all the grades of composition work and the best of press work, and in its various departments is a business which has a more than local patronage. The firm does printing on contract for many business and stationery houses over a broad territory, and in the manufacture of paper boxes it sends its goods to all parts of this and neighboring states.
The organizer of this important business concern was Alonzo M. Oswalt, in his lifetime one of Anderson's most prominent men. He was born at Mount Sterling, Kentucky, February 2, 1862, and he was reared and educated in that commonwealth. Moving to Indiana and locating at Indianapolis, he was in business there for a time, and in 1893 came to Anderson. In this city he was for a number of years identified with the wholesale candy and grocery trade. Later, however, he engaged in printing, and in 1907 established the Oswalt Printing Company, a con- cern of which he continued as the head until his death on April 27, 1911. He was one of the active workers and promoters of the Young Men's Christian Association, and gave much of his time and energy to that organization. He served as a trustee and deaeon in the Congre- gational church, and fraternally was one of the first members of Anderson Lodge, No. 1, Loyal Order of Moose, and was also a member of Indian- apolis Lodge, No. 56, Knights of Pythias. His death occurred in Harold Hospital at Noblesville after an unsuccessful operation for appendicitis, and his body was laid to rest in Maplewood cemetery on the 30th of April, 191.1.
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On the 14th of April, 1881, Mr. Oswalt was married to Miss M ... Morgan, of Brazil, Indiana, and their four children are: Mrs. II. 6 Wilcox, Mrs. Harry W. Crull, and Ernest and Ben Oswalt, both sons living in Anderson.
ERNEST M. OSWALT, the manager of the Oswalt Printing & Pay. : Box Company, is recognized as one of the enterprising and capable you: ; business men of Anderson. He has been the manager of the enterpr.> since the death of his father, the founder. He was born at Bra i !. Indiana, October 2, 1887, and he has lived in Anderson since les ;. receiving his education in the grammar and high school of this city. From the Anderson High School he entered the Winona Technical Insti. tute at Indianapolis, where he was graduated in 1907. In leaving tila: school of learning he joined his father in the printing business, a !. : is an expert not only in business management but in the technical details of all departments.
Mr. Oswalt is also the owner of "The Springhouse," a modern cui .. fectionery store, and incidentally one of the finest stores of its kind i :. the Central States. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Liberal Life Assurance Company and while not actively engaged in the management of the Farmers Trust Company, it is understood is is one of the prominent stock-holders.
On November 4, 1910, Mr. Oswalt was married to Miss Hazel Beck a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Beck. Mrs. Oswalt is one of the: accomplished younger members of the Anderson social circles, and both she and her husband are very popular in the county seat. Mr. Oswalt is one of the best known Masons in eastern Indiana. His various con- nections with the order include Fellowship Lodge, No. 681, F. & A. M ; Anderson Chapter, No. 52, R. A. M .; Anderson Commandery, No. 32. K. T .; Murat Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Indianapolis. He has also attained the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite, belongs to the Valley of Indianapolis, and is a widely read and thoroughly informed member of the ancient craft. His other fraternal affiliations are with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Loyal Order of Moose.
HARRY D. MARIS. Madison county has a creditable number of suh- stantial business men who began their careers at the bottom and by force of individual ability and studious application have become Diili- bered among the group of business leaders and foremost merchants. Mr. Harry D. Maris, president of the R. L. Leeson Company at Alexandr !!. · is an example of such a man. He is at the head of one of the largest and best equipped department stores in the county.
Harry D. Maris was born in Orange county, at Paoli, Indiana, os October 3, 1872. He was one of the children in the family of Thomas and Anna (White) Maris, both of whom were natives of Indiana. The paternal grandfather was Aaron Maris, who married Mary Farlo :. They were both born in North Carolina, and were among the pioneer farmers in Orange county. Indiana, where they died when comparatively young. Their large family of children were as follows: Mary White of Billings, Montana; Thomas; Sarah Hubbard of Muskogee, Oklahoma: Ruth Montgomery of Paoli; Aaron of Paoli. On the mother's side the grandfather was Abraham White, whose wife was Mary (Lindley) White. They were also natives of South Carolina, and pioneers in
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Orange county, Indiana, where they died, the father when passed middle age and the mother at seventy-nine years. Their five children were Thomas L .; Robert; Eliza; Anna, and Amy. Abraham White was for many years a merchant at Paoli.
Thomas Maris, the father, was reared in Orange county, was a farmer by occupation, and now lives in Paoli. His wife died in January, 1913, at the age of seventy-five. The religious affiliations of both parents was with the Quaker church. Their family consisted of ten children, four of whom lived to adult life, namely : Oliver L., of DuFrost, Canada; Samuel L., who died in 1897; Harry D., of Alexander; aud Robert, of Paoli.
Mr. Harry D. Maris spent his youth on his father's farm in Orange county, and in the meantime attended the district school. At home up to the age of eighteen, he then began clerking in a store at Paoli, and during the next three years learned the fundamentals of mercantile business. Elwood, in Madison county, was the scene of his most impor- tant advance in business life, and there he entered the employ of R. L. Leeson. By his industry and attention to the work in hand he advanced himself rapidly in the confidence of his employer, and when Mr. Leeson established a branch store in Alexandria in 1903, Mr. Maris was selected as manager. He continued in that capacity until the first of Janu- ary, 1913, at which time a reorganization was effected and Mr. Maris became president of what is generally known as the Alexandria Store Company. This is a department store handling a large stock of dry- goods. carpets, shoes, groceries and novelties, and employs about forty people in all its branches. On June 17, 1903, Mr. Maris married Miss Noravine Stafford, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Sims) Stafford. Mrs. Maris is a native of Lebanon, Indiana, and her parents were also natives of this state and now living in Alexandria. Of the four chil- dren Mrs. Maris was the second and the others are Charles; John Staf- ford, of Fort Wayne; and Martha Reed, of Indianapolis. The three chil- dren of Mr. and Mrs. Maris are Robert, Roger, and Martha Ruth. Mr. Maris is a member of the Christian church. Fraternally he is affiliated with Alexandria Lodge No. 255, A. F. & A. M., Alexandria Chapter No. 99, R. A. M., Alexandria Council No. 85, R. & S. M., and also with the Lodge of Elks No. 478 at Alexandria. In politics he is a Republican.
W. H. FULLER. In Monroe township, Madison county, resides one of the long-time residents and highly-respected citizens of the county whose name should stand among those at the head of any list of honored pioneers who have done their duty, and more, in the develop- ment of the institutions of civilization in the state of Indiana. A native of Madison county, he has spent his entire career within its limits, and has not only won material success, being the owner of three hundred acres of valuable land, but has also gained what is far more worthy of attainment, the respect and esteem of his fellow-men. W. H. Fuller was born on the old Fuller homestead place in Richland township, Madison county.
The Fuller family was founded in Madison county by the grand- father of W. H. Fuller, John Henry Fuller, who brought his family to this county at an early day and settled on an uncleared farm in the woods in Richland township. There he removed the timber, broke his land, developed a farm, and experienced the various hardships which fall to the lot of the early settler in any undeveloped region, and
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eventually became a substantial agriculturist. Jacob Fuller was a lad of ten years when he accompanied his parents from Pike county, Ken- tucky, to Madison county, Indiana, and here he grew to manhood and was reared to agricultural pursuits. Educated in the hard school of practical experience to a realization of the value of thrift, industry and economy, he was able to make a success of his ventures and to attain a place among the substantial men of Richland township. He married Eliza Noble, and they became the parents of the following children: Tillman, W. H., Willard, Randolph, John and Catherine, of whom W. H., Randolph and John still survive.
Like other farmers' sons of his day and locality, W. H. Fuller divided his boyhood and youth between attendance at the district schools during the winter terms and work on the homestead in the summer months, thus receiving a good mental training and at the same time being taught the duties of the successful agriculturist. On reaching his majority, he embarked upon a career of his own, beginning agricultural pursuits in Richland township and subsequently moving to Monroe township, where he is now located. His first tract of land here was almost wholly un- cultivated, but by industry and perseverance he cleared it, doing most of the work with his own hands-grubbing, logging. fencing, ditching. etc. Subsequently he added to his original purchase, and as each piece of land has been bought it has been cleared and improved, and suitable buildings have been erected. The high rewards to be attained by a life of industry and integrity are shown in Mr. Fuller's career, this fact being evidenced by his valuable modern homestead.
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