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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. ITis 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 probity 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 loyal 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 busy, 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 liis 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 polities. 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 public 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 Andersou, 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 seliools of Anderson, this being supplemented by an attendance of two years at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana. Early exhibiting a pre- dilection for medieine, 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 ereditable 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 surgeon, and a close and assid- nous student, and his standing among his professional brethren is de- servedly nigh. 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 elcetrical engineer. Dr. Hunt's first wife died in 1900, aid 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 Cora- 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.
HORACE E. JONES, M. D. It is eminently fitting that the career of Dr. Horace E. Jones be presented in this volume, for he has been a prac- titioner of medicine for upwards of forty years and his entire profes- sional career has been passed within the borders of Madison county. During his long and honorable career in Anderson he has been success- ful not only in a material way, but has established himself firmly in the esteem and affection of a wide circle of sincere friends, and as a man who has always had the welfare of his community and its people at heart is accounted one of Anderson's most valued citizens. He was born in Henry county, Indiana, July 2, 1845, a son of Dr. Thomas and Mary C. (Conwell) Jones.
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Thomas Jones, M. D., was born in Wayne county, Indiana, in 1823. and early in life decided upon the medical profession as the medium through which he should strive for success. Accordingly, after prepa- ration, he entered the Ohio Medical College, and after his graduation therefrom settled in Henry county, where he continued in practice until 1846, when he came to Madison county and established his home and practice at Pendleton. In about the year of 1854 he came from there to Anderson, and this city thereafter continued his home and the field of his activities until his death, in October, 1875. He became widely and favorably known in his locality and had many friends both in and outside of the medical profession. He married Mary C. Conwell, whose father. Isaac Conwell, was one of the pioneer settlers of Union county, and her death occurred in November. 1911, at the advanced age of eighty-eight years. Her parents were formerly from Maryland.
It is not unusual for the men in a family to follow similar vocations, and especially is this true in the field of medicine, where son follows father, showing the same abilities and inclinations. At any rate such
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was the case with Dr. Horace E. Jones, although he first had some mili- tary experience. When sixteen years of age he enlisted as chief bugler of the Second .Indiana Cavalry, and, with it, participated in numerous engagements, including the Battle of Shiloh and the Siege of Corinth. He was then appointed a midshipman at the U. S. Naval Academy in 1863 from which he graduated in 1867 and served in the navy till 1871. Having rounded out nearly nine years of continuous military service, he resigned his commission in the navy, returned to his home, and took up the study of medicine in his father's office. After some time spent under the elder man's preceptorship he entered the Ohio Medical Col- lege, his father's alma mater, at Cincinnati, Ohio, and was graduated from that institution in 1873, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He at once returned to Anderson, and since then has been in the enjoy- ment of an excellent professional business. The Doctor has the ability, the ready sympathy and the natural inclination for all the branches of his profession, and may indeed be said to be one who has chosen well. He possesses a fine medical library, and with this and the leading medi- cal periodicals, keeps hinself abreast of the discoveries and advance- ments which so prominently characterize the science of medicine. He has made a number of wise business investments, and is the owner of much valuable eity and farm property, including his modern residence at 138 West Tenth street, one of the leading residence thoroughfares of Anderson. A Democrat in politics, for three years he was a member of the school board. His fraternal connections are with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows, in the latter of which he is a past grand master, and he also enjoys membership in Major May Post, No. 244, G. A. R.
In 1873 Dr. Jones was married to Miss Mary C. Cockefair, of Cam- bridge City, Indiana, and a son and daughter have been born to this union. Thomas M., the son, is a graduate of the Indiana State Univer- sity and of the Johns Hopkins University, medical department, and is now engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery at Anderson. The daughter, Nellie, is the wife of Ralph Clark, of Chicago.
CLEMENT WARREN HOOVEN. When most men die the ranks close up, the community moves on without a break, but a wide circle of ac- quaintances will long continue to miss the splendid personality of Cle- ment Warren Hooven, who was unexpectedly called from earthly cares and trials on the 28th of August, 1913. He was in all the word implies a man-a man honorable in business, just in his dealings and one who maintained the highest standard of citizenship. Local publications truthfully said of him that his life was not only gentle and pure, but that nature had so mixed its good elements in him that every one pro- nounced him a noble man. He was a leader in this community, and belped to build the city of Anderson. He was generous with his means, liberal with his time, wise with his counsel-all for Anderson, and he left the impress on this community of a successful, progressive and honest man.
· Clement Warren Hooven was born at Ansonia, Ohio, February 9, 1863, a son of the late Dr. Warren and Marrietta (Riley) Hooven, a Dayton, Ohio, where the mother still resides. He received a common school training, and upon reaching man's estate began his business career as a traveling freight agent for the Big Four Railroad Company. For a time he was also station agent for that company at Winchester, Vol. II-5
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Indiana, and in about the year 1893 he came to Anderson to represent the Big Four Railroad Company as general agent. But soon after locating in Anderson he became interested in gas and acquired the control of a gas plant in Hazelwood, while a few years later he effected the consolidations of all the gas plants in the city and sold them to a Cincinnati syndicate. When the Cincinnati company failed and the plants were sold at receiver's sale Mr. Hooven became the purchaser, although he soon afterward sold to the Dawes syndicate of Chicago, represented in this city by the Central Indiana Gas Company.
Mr. Hooven also purchased and developed the Anderson Tool Com- pany, which was one of the best known manufacturing coneerus m the city when it was destroyed by fire in 1911. He was also interested in the Remy Electric Company and had other business interests, including the ownership of several valuable pieces of real estate. In the summer of 1913 he was one of the directors of the "Made in Anderson" exhibit, and was active in promoting and advertising the novel exhibition of Anderson products. He was ever ready when Anderson called and was always first in her needed improvements.
In fraternal circles Mr. Hooven was well known as a member of the Masonie order and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. and he was the owner of two stories of the building on Main street in which 1863, a son of the late Dr. Warren and Marietta (Riley) Hooven, of the Elks' home is located. He was a member of the Anderson Club and the Country Club, and at the time of his death was one of the di- rectors of the latter. On the 18th of November, 1896, he was married to Miss Anna Cox, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Cox. of Anderson. Mrs. Hooven is a native daughter of Wayne county, Indiana, and with her two children, Sarah and Warren, survive the husband and father. She is a niece of N. A. and Charles Cox, merchants of Anderson, and she is the president of the Anderson Associated Charities, an institution in which her husband was deeply interested.
For some time prior to his death it was known to Mr. Hooven's tam- ily and a few of his intimate friends that he was afflicted with heart trouble, but no fears were felt until on August 18, 1913, when he -motored to Lake Maxineuekee with his family for an outing. Before reaching the lake he became so exhausted at times that he allowed his daughter to drive the ear, but upon arriving at the lake he appeared to improve until on Thursday, the 21st, he was stricken with a severe attack of indigestion, accompanied by hemorrhage of the stomach. and he was taken to a sanatorium at Battle Creek, Michigan. But the hoped-for recovery did not materialize, and on Thursday night. Au- gust 28, 1913, Clement W. Hooven laid down the burden of life and passed over to the silent majority. His body was brought to Anderson for burial, and the funeral on Monday, September 1, 1913, was attended by a large eoneourse of friends and acquaintances. "Columns of beau- tiful words," his community said, "could be written in memory of Clement Warren Hooven, but they are unnecessary. His life work, so successful, is ended, and his gentle spirit is beyond their message- enjoying immortality. And finally, in Valhalla, where the spirits of the blessed immortals assemble, when the roll-call of departed Ander- sonians is sounded and the name of Clement Warren Hooven is an- nounced it will be the dearest pleasure of the immortal souls of Colonel Milton S. Robinson, Captain W. R. Myers, James L. Kilgore, John R. Terhune, V. K. McCullough, Charles T. Doxey and others to pronounce
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