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Fogarty, John W.
703
Foley, Andrew N. 942
Foley, M. E. 1209
Fraley, Samuel W. 1211
Frantz, William M.
1027
Fullenwider, Chalmers E.
950
G
Galey, Samuel W. 1240
Gerard, David W. 1145
Gilkey, Squire M.
724
Godard, G. O.
989
Goff, Charles M.
1168
Gohman, Charles 917
Goldberg, Joseph
903
Goltra, Charles
1268
Goodbar, Henry H.
1237
Gott, William T.
744
Grantham, Charles W.
918
Gray, John S.
617
Graham, George W. 1276
Graham, John L. 981
Gray, Thomas W.
1068
Graybill, Josephus
1189
Gregg, Orpheus M.
1161
Gregg, Samuel H.
1217
Griffith, Ephriam
835
Griffith Family, The
832
Griffith, Thomas J.
832
Griffith, Thornton 833
Grimes, Lawson C.
679
Grimes, S. E.
700
Grimes, William Clark.
645
H
Ham, William S. 991
Hamilton, Nathaniel 1024
Hamilton, R. T. B. 791
Hampton, S. A.
962
Hankins, Theodore
996
Harding, John A. 964
Harding, William S. 963
Harper, Richard C.
966
Harrell, Hezekiah F.
723
Harshbarger, George W. 1030
Harvey, Frank W. 1234
Harwood, John T. 783
Haywood, Charles
1040
Hatton, William M.
1167
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Heighway, John G.
1013
Hernly, Abraham H. 898
Herron, Capt. Willlam P.
1201
Hester, Elmer
1144
Hester, James M.
1094
Hicks, Charles
1078
Lane, Hon. Henry S.
576
Larrick, Robert H.
959
Lawrence, Ed.
1126
Layne, P. M.
847
Layton, Aaron
642
Lee, Maurice J. 1206
Lidikay, Jacob E. 1225
Lidikay, M. H. 965
Linn, Asbury
1176
Llewellen, Thomas 610
Long, Luther R. 820
Long, Oath 1230
Loop, Andrew
721
Loop, William C.
720
M
MeBee Walter H.
1056
McCabe, James 1254
MeCain, Arthur A. S73
McCain. Fred T.
875
McCarty, Col. W. M. 578
MeCay, Carter D. 710
McClamroch. L. B. 737
McClamroch, William B. 736
MeClaskey, Capt. E. P. 712
McClure, David F.
1275
McCrea, Ed. T. 1121
McDowell, Grant 68-1
McGaughey, Henry C. 1133
MeIntire, Forgison G. 840
Mackintosh, George L. 704
MeLoed, Leslie M. 1200
MeLoed. Oliver C. 731
MeMains, Robert 670
McWilliams, W. E. 814
Mahoy, George 978
Martin, William H. 1076
Martin, William K. 1232
Martz. Jerome B. 1251
May, Bertrand E. 933
Meharry, Isaac N. 1129
Merrell, Basil T.
803
Merrell, Daniel
804
I
Irwin, Obed A.
591
J
Jarvis, William 1062
Jeffries, Robert D. 1208
Johnston, William H.
926
K
Kelly. James S. 958
Kesler, Nathan G. 1139
Kirkpatrick, Charles 1228
Kirkpatrick, James W.
632
Kostanzer, Anthony
567
Kostanzer, H. P.
568
Kostanzer, John E. 565
Kritz, Francis W.
1247
Kyle, Silas F.
1037
L
Hicks, Martin
1088
Hicks, Robert F.
1007
Hicks, Samuel
1084
Hill, Clifton G.
1107
Hines, Linnaeus N.
748
Hitchcock, James S. 827
Hodgkin, Charles V.
916
Hodgkins, Robert H.
1179
Holland, John D. 1099
Hopping, John B.
1015
Hornbeck, Jasper
886
Hostetter, David
1003
Hovey, Edmund O.
848
Hovey, Horace C.
864
Howell, Gilbert
1059
Hughes, David W.
1196
Hughes, George H.
1253
Hulet, Walter F.
910
Hulett, Nathan 1008
Hulett, Nathan
1043
Hunt, Walter L.
870
Hunter, Clyde H. 802
Hurley, George D.
1213
Huston. Thomas E.
1090
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Merrill, Willlam S. 626
Miles, William J. 1219
Miller, Edward S. 1123
Miller, John W. 1091
Miller, John W.
1132
Miller, Leroy L. 793
Milligan, Frank C.
637
Milligan, James R.
637
Milligan, Samuel J. 1137
Mills, Caleb 648
Minnich, Andrew
1106
Minnich, Charles A. 1104
Mix, Robert F.
676
Morin, Fielden E.
956
Morris, Sylvester C. 622
Mount. Gov. James A.
56S
Mount, Atwell
569
Mullen, Albert
668
Munhall, Samuel
825
Munhall, Thomas T.
824
Myer, David 974
Myers, Ben S. 810
Myers, Daniel A. 1022
Myers, Franz O.
1180
Myers, George F.
934
Myers, William D.
1066
N
Nash, Omer D. 984
Nees, Milton L. 941
Nicholas, James M., Jr. 1174
Nicholson, Thomas B.
1231
Nutt. Jonathan
1057
0
Olin, Leveritt W. 1016
Osborne, James H. 1273
Osburn, Othel L.
1000
Otterman, James M.
1034
Otterman, Lewis
1035
Otterman, Samuel H.
1046
Otto, Louis W.
885
Owen, Lewis W.
634
P
Paddack, John A.
972
Peacock, Samuel R.
998
Peck, Dumont M. 948
Peebles, Benjamin 686
Peebles, Robert W. 685
Peterson, Clifford V.
1238
Peterson, James A.
994
Pope. Bruce C.
1262
Pugh, Frank D.
729
Q
Quillin, Charles N.
734
R
Ramsey, George P.
815
Ream, Elmer W.
823
Remley, Ambrose 600
Remley, Daniel
806
Remley, Fred S.
611
Remley, Harry C.
1160
Remley, James 60S
Remley, John
912
Remley, John E.
608
Remley, John W. 1220
Rice, Edgar A. 930 1 1
Rice, Isaac 1224
Rice, John W. 743
Rice, J. N. B. 706
Rice, Jonathan
706
Roach, Henry J. 846
Robinson, Fred B. 1245
Rosebaum, John O. 1069
Ross, Charles W. 828
Royalty, Jobn F. 1048
Rusk, John H. 1244
Rusk, Squire
920
Russell, Byron R.
914
S
Sanders, James N.
844
Schenck, Faye O. 879
Schoen, Walter
1259
Schwindler, Dr. C. G. 694
Schwindler, Henry
695
Scott, Harry L. 925
Servies, Henry D. 932
Servies, William T. 1081
Shanklin, Fred M.
599
Shanklin, T. C.
599
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Shotts, Arthur R.
1071
Simpson, Alfred L. 719
Small, John W. 715
Smalley, Alfred
1191
Smith, Alaric M.
1221
Smith, Daniel
1120
Smith, David C. 861
Smith, Floyd L.
727
Smith, George W.
582
Smith, Samuel
681
Suow. William
975
Snyder, Redden B.
616
Stackhouse, Frank
976
Steele, George W.
954
Stipe, John
936
Stipe. Joseph W. 936
Stoddard, James M. 624
Stoddard, Orin
625
Stoner. Samuel D.
1223
Stuckey, Milton H. 1072
Switzer, Abraham C. 629
Switzer, Benton 1275
Symmes, F. M.
888
Symmes, Samuel D.
888
T
Talbot, Henry H. 1124
Taylor, James 952
Taylor, James F. 1019
Taylor, John 1019
Teague, James F.
740
Templeton, Samuel P.
953
Tennant, Henry E. 1172
Thayer, Caleb 992
Thomas, Judge Albert D. 688
Thomas, James Ray 631
Thomas, Oscar D.
663
Thompson, Henry T. 1029
Thompson, Nehemiah 702
Thompson, Samuel H. D. 70
Thompson, Taylor
1112
Thornberg, H. H. 728
Todd, Isaac S. 1184
Todd, John W. 1188
Tribby, Leander
1114
Turnipseed, Nathan C. 979
U
Utterback, Albert J.
628
V
Vail, James A.
904
Walkup, B. F. 697
Walkup, Ward B. 696
Wallace, Gen. Lewis 562
Walts, Edgar
747
Warbritton, John F.
822
Warbritton, Samuel N.
800
Warfel, Jacob F.
1005
Warner, Lee S.
895
Washburn, William W. 1074
Waugh, Frank W.
969
Welty, George B.
661
Wert, Asher 939
Wert, Martin V.
896
White. George R. 882
White, Israel H.
1101
White, Michael D. 883
White, John M.
1116
White, William S.
1102
Whitlock, Ambrose 574
Williams, Charles N 781
Widener, Clarence A. 738
Williams, George T.
876
Williams, Henry
781
Williams. Robert H. 946
Willis, Ahner D.
1241
Willis, Nathaniel P 1212
Wilson, George W. 588
Wilson, Henry Lane 777
Wilson, Hon. James 592
Wilson, John L. 787
Wilson, James D. 1134
Wilson, Hon. John 584
Wilson, Samuel M. 588
Wilson, Col. W. C. 587
Wingate, John C. 1192
Woods, Michael 639
Woody, William C. 678
Wright, James
718
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BIOGRAPHICAL-Continued
HENRY LANE WILSON.
Henry Lane Wilson, present American Ambassador to Mexico, was born in Crawfordsville in 1857, his father being James Wilson, who was born in the same place and whose ancestors came to Indiana through Kentucky from Virginia, and his mother, Emma Ingersoll, of a New England family. James Wilson, the father, graduated at Wabash College at the age of seventeen in 1842 and from the Indiana Law University in 1844. He later served two terms in Congress, winning his election the first time over Daniel W. Voor- hees, the Democratic candidate, on the issue of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill and State Sovereignty. In that day the joint discussion between these two young leaders of opposite political opinions attracted attention throughout the North and is still remembered by some of the older people in Indiana. At the outbreak of the War of the Rebellion, James Wilson entered the ranks of the Union Army and went to the front, from whence he was recalled by President Lincoln and commissioned to defend the Emancipation Proclama- tion throughout all New England, Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio. At the close of the war he was brevetted Brigadier General. Some time after he took an active and high part in the councils of the Republican party and would undoubtedly have been sent to the Senate or made Governor but for his oppo- sition to negro suffrage without educational preparation. He was appointed Minister to Venezuela by Andrew Jackson and died in that country at the early age of forty-two, at almost the beginning of what would undoubtedly have been a distinguished career.
Henry Lane Wilson passed all of his earlier years, with the exception of two years in Venezuela, in Crawfordsville, receiving a primary education in the public schools, and entered Wabash College in 1875. At that time Joseph F. Tuttle was President of the College and Edmund O. Hovey, Caleb S. Mills, John L. Campbell and Samuel S. Thompson were yet in the full vigor of their usefulness and affording splendid examples of rugged piety and devotion to duty and of dignity and profound learning, and it is to the deep impressions made by these men that he owes in a considerable measure for
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whatever success he has achieved in life. During his college years he divided his time and interest between extensive and thorough reading and politics and political discussions, never missing a political speech that he could possibly hear and listening with eagerness and profit to the homely discussions of the farmers and odd characters for which Crawfordsville used to be famous. His education and equipment for the world did not come easily, as at the thresh- hold of his college career the family fortune was largely swept away. To the devotion, energy and self-sacrifice of his mother, he ascribes all of his suc- cess in life as well as the inculcation of those principles of morality, honesty and truthfulness without which no man can attain lasting success.
Among the members of his class who still remain in Indiana are: Albert B. Anderson, United States District Judge, Arthur B. Milford, Professor of English Literature at Wabash College, and James H. Osborne, Professor of Latin in the same institution. Others who were in college at the same time, though not classmates, were: Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall, Charles B. Landis, Albert Baker, James Daniels, Harry J. Milligan and Harold Taylor.
In his earlier days he listened to the political speeches of Oliver P. Morton. Thomas A. Hendricks, Benjamin Harrison, Joseph E. MacDonald, and the gifted, but erratic, Thomas H. Nelson, one of his predecessors in Mexico. He also received valuable political instruction from Col. Henry S. Lane and from his uncle, William C. Wilson, of Lafayette, a distinguished lawyer and orator. He made his first political speech at the age of twenty at Waveland, in Montgomery county, in company with James A. Mount, who afterwards became Governor of Indiana. From that time on he was engaged in politics, and his public speaking has been carried on with greater or less success until the present day.
Following his graduation from college he secured a position as en- grossing clerk in the State Legislature at Indianapolis and later entered the law office of MacDonald & Butler. He soon purchased the Lafayette Daily Journal, and, as it did not prove a successful venture, sold it a year later without loss. In 1885 he married Alice Vajen, a daughter of John H. Vajen, a prominent and well known citizen of Indianapolis, and moved to the town of Spokane, in the eastern part of the state of Washington. There he re- sumed the practice of law, making a specialty of land practice. In this he made a pronouced success and his fortunes improved rapidly.
About this time Spokane began the marvelous growth which has now made it one of the great cities of the Union, and he commenced investing in real estate with immediate and astonishing success. In the course of a few
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years he amassed a large fortune and became interested in banks, buildings, real estate and promoting companies. In the panic of 1893 all of this fortune was swept away, not through unwise investments or inability to meet his own debts, but through the failure of two banks in which he was heavily in- terested and by reason of being called upon almost simultaneously to bear the burden of the failure of other men for whom he stood as endorser or surety. He gave up all of his property and afterwards paid more than one hundred thousand dollars to clear his name and credit. During this period he was largely identified with the development of the state of Washington and with its politics, and his name was connected with a majority of meas- ures of a public character in that section of the country. Politics to him at that time was simply a diversion or perhaps a practical method of being of service to his brother, John L. Wilson, who was then, and continued to be until his death, an active figure in that state.
When Benjamin Harrison was elected President, our subject had been living some time in the state of Washington, and he, with his brother, managed to create a sentiment favorable to Harrison's nomination, which resulted in his having a third of the state delegation. When Harrison was elected, he spontaneously offered Mr. Wilson the post of minister to Vene- zuela, but, as he had no ambition in the direction of the diplomatic service at that time, he declined the offer. When William Mckinley was elected President, Mr. Wilson took a large part in the management of the campaign in Washington, Idaho and Montana, and also spoke continuously for forty days in the face of generally hostile and sometimes boisterous free-silver audiences. Early in 1897, President Mckinley offered him the post of min- ister to Chile, and he accepted, going to that country with his mother, wife and three children. He remained at that post for eight years, his services being in every way successful and useful to his government. He came in time to exert great influence-an influence born of confidence and faith with the Chilean people, and was able not only to render substantial aid to the business and political interests of his own country, but to contribute in a large measure on two occasions to prevent war between Chile and the Argentine Republic. Mr. Wilson's respect and liking for the Chilean people was very profound and this feeling was reciprocated, and the Chilean government has never ceased to follow him with marks of respect and esteem. Only recently the University of Chile, the oldest in America, conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Humanities and Literature, a degree that has never before been conferred on an American. During Mr. Wilson's residence in
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Chile he was twice transferred to other posts, once to Portugal and once to Greece, but was allowed to remain in Chile upon his own request. In 1905 President Roosevelt promoted him from Chile to Belgium and upon an- nouncing the appointment to the Associated Press along with those of two other gentlemen, said, "These appointments are not made for political con- siderations but solely for meritorious service performed." This was surely true in Mr. Wilson's case, since his appointment was opposed by both Sena- tors from Washington.
Mr. Wilson remained in Belgium five years, and during that time saw King Leopold pass away and, as the special ambassador of the President, stood at the right hand of King Albert when he was enthroned. He had really only one important question to handle while in Belgium, namely : the Congo question, a most delicate and trying piece of diplomacy, which was managed to the entire satisfaction of the President and Secretary Root. The locality of the post gave him access to many opportunities for study, obser- vation and travel in France, Italy, Germany, Holland and England, and the experience was altogether a useful one.
In 1910 President Taft, after tendering Mr. Wilson two embassies in Europe which he could not accept for financial reasons, sent him as ambassa- dor to Mexico. Since he has been at that post, four Presidents have held office in that country : Diaz, De la Barra, Madero and Huerta. Three revo- lutions have been inaugurated, and the times have been troublous and dan- gerous. There are forty thousand Americans in Mexico; nearly ten thousand in Mexico City. There is a larger investment of American capital there than in any other country and there is double the amount of work in that embassy than in any other of our diplomatic posts. Mexico is, therefore, aside from the glamour of social precedence which surrounds a European post, the most important diplomatic post in the service. Mr. Wilson's work in Mexico always had the full approval of President Taft and his cabinet, the former saying a short time after his retirement from office, "What a misfortune it is that our rotten system of politics seems to require changes in our diplomatic service and thus bring about the loss of a man of the experience and ability of Mr. Wilson, who has served his country so faithfully for so many years and deserves the respect of his country's people. Men of his type should never be forced out of the field of usefulness."
Mr. Wilson has been sixteen years continuously in the diplomatic service, is in time of service the senior member of the diplomatic corps, and has served longer in these capacities than anyone else since the foundation of our government.
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CHARLES N. WILLIAMS.
In placing the name of Charles N. Williams in the front rank of busi- ness men who have at one time or another honored Montgomery county with their residence, simple justice is done a biographical fact, recognized by all who are familiar with his history. A man of rare soundness of judgment, wise discretion and business ability of a high order, he has managed with tactful success important enterprises, and is at this writing president of the Farmers Trust Company of Indianapolis. What of the man and what of his work? This is the dual query which represents the interrogation at least nominally entertained whenever that discriminating factor, the public, would pronounce on the true worth of the individual. The career of Mr. Williams indicates the clear-cut and distinct character, and in reviewing the same from an unbiased and unprejudiced standpoint, interpretation follows fact in a straight line of derivation. In this publication it is consistent that such a review be entered, and that without the adulation of ornate phrases, for he has stamped the mark of definite accomplishment on the highest plane of industrial activity.
Mr. Williams was born, April 10, 1856, on a farm in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, and his family moved, when he was two years old, to Crawfords- ville, Indiana, where his father purchased the northwest corner of Wabash avenue and Grant avenue, and there they lived until 1870. He is a son of Henry and Martha Barnum (Haight) Williams. The father was born on July 4, 1818 in Maryland, and his death occurred on February 17, 1904. The mother was born in Connecticut, on June 14, 1816, and her death occurred on May 27, 1884. These parents grew to maturity in the East, received good common school educations and were married in Connecticut, when they came west and located in Lafayette, Indiana, and in 1858, they located in Craw- fordsville, Montgomery county, having engaged in the mercantile business in Lafayette.
The mother of our subject was twice married, first, to John F. Caven, by which union six children were born, only one of whom, Eva Caven, who has remained single, is living; she resides in Crawfordsville, in the old home located at the northwest corner of Walnut and College streets. After Mr. Caven's death she married the father of our subject, and to this union two children were born, Laura, wife of Benjamin F. Crabbs, of Crawfordsville; and Charles N., of this review.
Charles N. Williams received a common school education and later at-
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tended Wabash College. On April 6, 1898 he married Margaret Lawrence Doll, who was born in New Albany, Indiana, and is a daughter of James A. and Marinda (Martin) Doll. She graduated from the high school at Lafayette, Indiana, later attended Purdue University there, also an art insti- tute in Chicago. She is a lady of culture, talent and refinement.
The union of our subject and wife has been without issue.
After Mr. Williams left college he went into the post-office at Craw- fordsville as clerk, in which capacity he served for three years, and later went into the real estate business. He studied law, but was not admitted to the bar, finally deciding upon a business instead of a legal career. In 1881 he assisted in the organization of the Citizens National Bank of Crawfords- ville, and did much to make it a success. In 1888 he was appointed state correspondent for the Provident Life Insurance Company, of Phila- delphia. It was his business to invest the money of that company in farm and city properties in Indiana and Illinois, and he has continued, in a measure, at least, to fill this position to the present time or for a period of twenty-five years, his long retention being sufficient evidence of the implicit trust reposed by the company in his business ability and integrity, and during that period he has done much to increase the prestige of the company in these states.
In 1895, seeking a larger field for the exercise of his talents, Mr. Wil- liams removed to Indianapolis where he has since resided. Soon after arriv- ing here he opened a private banking house under the firm name of C. N. Williams & Company, of which he was sole owner and proprietor. It was a success from the start and continued with ever increasing popularity as a private bank until 1905, when he organized the Farmers Trust Company of Indianapolis, with which he consolidated his private bank, and since that time Mr. Williams has been president of the Farmers Trust Company, and his able, conservative and judicious management has made it a strong and rapidly growing concern, and it now ranks among the leading and most popular institutions of its kind in Indiana. It is incorporated at one hundred thousand dollars.
Mr. Williams is also state correspondent for the Prudential Life Insur- ance Company, and a number of private investors of New York City. He is president of the Marion Title & Guarantee Company, and under his able management it has been very successful from the start and its business now covers a wide field.
Fraternally, Mr. Williams is a member of the Masonic Order, including all the subordinate lodges in Crawfordsville, including the Blue Lodge, the Knights Templar and the Order of Eastern Star. Also belongs to the
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Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Murat Temple at Indianapolis. He is prominent in Masonic circles, having attained the thirty- second degree. Religiously, he is a member of the First Presbyterian church of Indianapolis, and is treasurer of the same. He belongs to the Columbia Club, the University Club and the Country Club, all of Indianapolis. He holds membership with the Sons of the American Revolution. Politically, he is a Republican.
JOHN THOMAS HARWOOD.
Few dealers in live stock in Montgomery county and western Indiana have ever been so widely known or done a more extensive business than John Thomas Harwood, of Crawfordsville, one of the enterprising, progressive and at the same time genial and obliging gentlemen who is deservedly popular with a very wide acquaintance.
Mr. Harwood was born in Brown township, Montgomery county, April 23, 1862, and he is a son of Jackson and Carolina ( Harrell ) Harwood. The father was a native of Ohio and he came to Brown township, this county, in an early day and became the owner of eighty acres, and here farmed until the winter of 1861 when he enlisted in Company C, Fortieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served faithfully for six months when he was sent home on ac- count of sickness. His death occurred here in August, 1862. He left a widow and seven small children, the oldest under fourteen years of age. The mother of our subject was also a native of Ohio. She was a woman of cour- age and fortitude and by a hard struggle managed to rear her family in com- fort and respectability, and she departed this life on the home farm in 1881.
John T. Harwood remained on the home place until he was nineteen years of age. assisting with the general work and attending the common schools during the winter months, then came to Crawfordsville and began working for a stock buyer, which he continued for a period of ten years, giv- ing his employer entire satisfaction, then, having learned the ins and outs of the business he branched out for himself, and has continued to the present day with ever increasing success. He operates in Montgomery and adjoin- ing counties, and his total average business by months runs over twenty thou- sand dollars. He is one of the best known stock men in western Indiana and it would be difficult to find a more excellent judge of all grades of live- stock. If all the stock purchased by him and shipped to the various markets during his business career were to be placed in one train it would reach over
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