History of Tipton County Indiana, Part 33

Author: M. W. Pershing
Publication date: 1914
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Number of Pages: 701

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Raphael Charles, the father, is now living in Tipton at the age of seventy- seven years. His wife died in 1885. They were originally Catholics, but afterwards united with the Christian church. Fraternally, Mr. Charles has been a member of the Masonic order for several years. He now belongs to Austin Lodge No. 128,. Free and Accepted Masons, and to Tipton Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. He has always been a Republican and as such was elected to the town board in the early history of Tipton and later became a member of the school board.

The maternal grandfather of the two brothers was named Warner. He and his wife died in Germany. They had a large family : Anthony. Reming- ton (familiarly known as Charley). Benedict, Helena, Sarah and three others.

A. W. Charles was seven years of age when he came to Tipton and has lived here ever since. He attended the Tipton public schools, and the Central Normal College at Danville, Indiana. He then went to work for his father and learned the carriage and buggy-making business under him. In politics he has always been a Republican, and in fraternal circles he belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

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William Charles was born in Tipton and has lived here all his life. He attended the public and high schools and the St. John's parochial school and St. Joseph's Academy. With his brother, he also attended the Central Normal College at Danville, Indiana. Later he took an extended course at the normal school at Dixon, Illinois. He then went to work for his brother at Tipton and learned the carriage and buggy-making business under him. After this he farmed for six years in Cicero township, this county, and still owns an eighty-acre farm in that township. In 1907 he started in the buggy business with his brother, Anthony W. On the 26th day of January, 1902, he married Retta Fielding, daughter of A. J. and Caroline (Schall) Fielding. They have one child, Ruth Fielding Charles. Mrs. William Charles is a member of the Christian church. She was born in Cicero township, and her father is still living in this county.

Mr. Charles has always been a Republican, and is also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

The Charles Brothers have risen steadily in their business relations through merit, close application and commendable conduct. The story of their lives can be measured by their usefulness to the community in which they have lived.

ANDREW S. DICKEY, M. D.

There is no class to whom greater gratitude is due from the world at large than the self-sacrificing, sympathetic, noble-minded men whose life work is the alleviation of suffering and the ministering of comfort to the afflicted, to the end that the span of human existence may be lengthened and a great de- gree of satisfaction enjoyed during the remainder of their earthly sojourn. There is no standard by which their beneficent influence can be measured; their helpfulness is limited only by the extent of their knowledge and skill, while their power goes hand in hand with the wonderful laws of nature that spring from the source of life itself.

. Andrew S. Dickey was born in Fayette county, Indiana, September 7, 1850, the son of Hugh and Hannah ( Manlove) Dickey, both native Hoosiers. The father of the subject was a farmer and was reared in Fayette county, removing to Tipton county in 1852 and locating in Cicero township, six miles southeast of the city of Tipton, where he cleared and improved a farm and reared his family. In 1865 he came to the city of Tipton, having been sheriff

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of the county during the Civil war, afterwards being elected treasurer. After a residence of four years in this city, in 1869, the subject's father located on what is now known as the Appleton farm, a mile and a half west of town, and resided there for ten years. after which he went back to his old farm, and later to a farm two and a half miles east of town, his death occurring on the last named place in June, 1891, in his seventy-second year. His wife sur- vived him until July, 1905, when she died in her eighty-third year. They were members of the United Presbyterian church, and in his political belief the subject's father was a Democrat. To them were born two children, George A., who died March 14, 1912, and Andrew S.

Doctor Dickey's paternal grandfather was William Dickey, and his wife Margaret (Spence) Dickey, he a native of the Keystone state and she of Kentucky. They were among the early pioneers in Fayette county, Indiana, and came to Tipton county in 1851. He was one of the first surveyors and his services were much in demand in laying out claims. Both died in Jeffer- son township at the home of Joseph C. Manlove, he at the age of eighty-four and she at seventy-nine. They were the parents of nine children : Andrew, William S., Hugh, Nancy, Elizabeth, Margaret. Sarah, Martha and two others who died young.

The subject's maternal grandparents were George and Margaret (Cald- well) Manlove, early settlers in Fayette county, they having once been driven out by the Indians, but later returning to their place. . The grandfather died there in his forty-ninth year and his wife in Rush county, Indiana, at the age of sixty-four, at the home of her son, George W. Their children were John. William; Joseph, who died young; Joseph C .. David, George, Lydia and Hannah, the subject's mother. The Manlove family came from the north of Wales about the seventeenth century.

Andrew S. Dickey grew to manhood on his father's farm, attending the district schools and later the public schools of Tipton, supplementing this with a two-years course in the academy at Waveland, Indiana, then entering the classical course in Indiana University, from which he was graduated in 1877 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. After completing his course at the university, Doctor Dickey taught in the Tipton high school for a year, at the end of which period he took up the study of medicine. In 1881 the Doctor graduated from the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons at Indianapolis (now the Indiana School of Medicine connected with Indiana University). He immediately engaged in the practice of his profession at Tipton, and has followed it continually since, enjoying a spendid patronage

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and meeting well deserved success, his constant study of the latest and best in his profession's literature giving him a breadth of view and soundness of principles that have won him the respect and admiration, not alone of his brother practitioners, but of the public at large.

On June 12, 1901, Doctor Dickey was united in marriage to Anna Lila Shupe, daughter of David and Emma (Merriman) Shupe. This union has been blessed by the birth of two children, Andrew David and Joanna Merri- man Dickey. Mrs. Dickey was born in Bellaire. Ohio, her mother, the sur- viving parent, now living at Moundsville, West Virginia. The parents of Mrs. Dickey had three children, Mrs. Dickey, Jonathan Earl and Phillip D.

Doctor Dickey is a member of the United Presbyterian church, while his wife holds membership in the Christian denomination. Politically, the sub- ject gives his support to the Democratic party. Professionally, he is affiliated with the county, state and American medical associations.

CYRUS N. PARKER.

It is with pleasure that the biographer avails himself of the opportunity to place before the readers of this work the life record of the gentleman whose name initiates this paragraph, for he is deemed eminently worthy of repre- sentation along with the best and most industrious citizens of Tipton county, owing to the fact that he belongs to the energetic and enterprising class that has made this favored section one of the most desirable in the great Hoosier commonwealth. Enjoying distinctive prestige as a business man, Mr. Parker has achieved marked success, while his practical intelligence, mature judg- ment and sound business principles have had much to do in molding public sentiment in the community in which he has lived so long.

Cyrus N. Parker was born four miles west of Tipton, Tipton county, Indiana, on November 15, 1866, the son of Noah and Deborah (Williams) Parker, he a native of Ohio and she of Pennsylvania. The subject's parents had eight children, six of whom lived to maturity : Abraham P., of Kirklin, Indiana, is a physician: Victoria J., deceased, was the wife of Joseph G. Kemp. of Kempton. Indiana: Noah died in Iowa in 1897; Margaret Ann is the wife of Henry Miller, of Tipton; Charity E. is the wife of M. G. Katon, a farmer near the old homestead: Cyrus N. : the others died young. Isaac at the age of fourteen, being killed in the Nash gravel pit, and Etta died in

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infancy. The father of the subject and an older brother, Dr. Isaac Parker, were bound-out boys in Ohio, their father having died while they were yet young. Before the county was organized they came to what is now Tipton county, where the Doctor practiced medicine and ran a general store and grain elevator, becoming a very prominent man and at one time a member of the Legislature, his death occurring in this place. Noah began life here at common labor and followed various pursuits, first being in the livery busi- ness and then for a number of years conducting a saw-mill at what is known as Old Independence. Eventually he took up farming on a small tract of four acres four miles west of town, where he remained until his death in 1898, his wife surviving him two years. The subject's mother was a devout Presbyterian, and the father, while not identified with any church, held to the Baptist faith. The paternal grandparents of the subject were Abraham and Charity (McVey) Parker, natives of Ohio. The grandfather died when but a young man and was the father of but two children, Isaac and Noah. The grandmother was married a second time to Mr. McIlhaney, and they were the parents of several children, only one of whom is living, Ethelda Bowlin, grandmother of the present county surveyor. The subject's maternal grandparents were John and Susan (Cameron) Williams, who were born in Pennsylvania, and they were very early settlers in Tipton county and cleared the farm which they afterwards improved in Jefferson township. They lived and died here and were buried in the family graveyard on the farm. They had the following children: John C., Levi, Deborah (subject's mother), Melinda Bouse, Maria, Jefferson, Elizabeth and Benjamin.

Cyrus N. Parker was reared on his father's farm in Tipton county and attended the district schools. He taught for ten terms and was grammer teacher in the Sharpsville and Tipton schools. During his vacations he took up the study of law under Beauchamp and Mount, and was admitted to the bar in 1891, engaging in the practice of his profession at Tipton. In 1894 he was appointed deputy county clerk and served for four years. At the end of his term of office Mr. Parker took a well earned vacation of one year and was then appointed deputy postmaster, filling that office for two years. Fol- lowing this he was connected with the United States census bureau at Wash- ington, D. C., for a year, and then returned to Tipton and resumed his prac- tice, following it with marked success until 1903, in the spring of which year he embarked in the canning business, and since 1906 has been manager of the Fame Canning Company, established in 1893 and incorporated in 1903. During the busy season between. four hundred and five hundred persons are

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employed and goods of an exceptionally high order are shipped to a number of the states.

In November, 1900, Mr. Parker was united in marriage to Mary F. Conley, a daughter of Daniel and Mary (Lovett) Conley. This union has resulted in the birth of two children, Raymond N. and Mary F. Mrs. Parker was born in Jennings county, Indiana. Her mother was a native of Indiana and her father of Maryland, they being among the early settlers in Jennings county and both now living in Tipton. They are the parents of three chil- dren living : Isabel Brady, Thomas Leavett Conley and Mrs. Parker.

Mrs. Parker is a member of the Catholic church. In his political belief Mr. Parker supports the principles of the Republican party.

CLEO WADE MOUNT.

In placing the name of Cleo Wade Mount before the reader as one stand- ing in the front rank of the enterprising men of affairs and a leader of the bar at Tipton, Indiana, whose influence has tended to the upbuilding of the city of his residence and the advancement of the affairs of his native county of Tipton, simple justice is done a biographical fact. recognized throughout the community by those at all familiar with his history and cognizant of the important part he has acted in the circles with which he has been identified. His career presents a notable example of those qualities of mind and character which overcome obstacles and win success, and his example is eminently worthy of imitation.

Cleo Wade Mount is a native son of Tipton county, Indiana, having been born in Cicero township, about five and one-half miles southwest of Tipton, on the Ist day of January, 1880, and is the son of Judge Walter W. and Etta M. (Van Buskirk) Mount, who are referred to at length elsewhere in this work. Judge Walter W. Mount is a man of eminent standing in the legal profession, his reputation as an able and successful lawyer having far trans- cended the bounds of his own county. Cleo W. Mount remained on the home farm until about five years of age, when the family moved to the city of Tipton and here he grew to manhood. He attended the public schools, graduating from the high school in 1896 and in the following year took a post-graduate course in that school. On the 26th of April, 1898, Mr. Mount enlisted for service in the Spanish-American war and remained in the service until April 25, 1899, when he was mustered out at Savannah, Georgia, with

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the rank of sergeant. Upon his return home Mr. Mount entered Butler Col- lege at Indianapolis, where he remained a year and then became a brakeman on the Lake Erie & Western Railroad. He followed this pursuit about a year and a half and then was a student for a year in the normal school at Danville, this state, after which, having determined to make the profession of law his life work, he entered the Indianapolis College of Law, where he graduated . in 1904, being the valedictorian of his class. He had been admitted to the bar of Tipton county in 1903, and in February, 1904, he was the nominee of his party for prosecuting attorney for the thirty-sixth judicial district, to which position he was elected and served one term of two years. This active experience so soon in his professional career was of inestimable value to Mr. Mount and further qualified him for the successful practice of law, to which he now applies himself vigorously. His abilities and industrial methods were quickly recognized and he soon found himself in command of a representative clientele. In 1908 and 1909 Mr. Mount served as county attorney and in 1910 he became city attorney for the corporation of Tipton, retaining this position until October, 1913, when he resigned. Having never been seized with the wanderlust spirit that has led so many of Tipton county's young men to other fields of endeavor, Mr. Mount has devoted himself to his profession and to the public duties to which he has been called and because of his per- sonal work and his accomplishments, he is clearly entitled to representation among the successful professional men and enterprising citizens of his locality. In addition to the practice of his profession Mr. Mount has operated the Title Guaranty and Abstract Company of Tipton, and has been very successful in the conduct of this enterprise. He owns a complete set of abstract books and is a very careful and accurate examiner of titles. He is also interested in and manager of the Martz Theater, of Tipton, a popular amusement house.

On January 2, 1905. Mr. Mount married Blanche R. Kelley, the daughter · of Albert H. and Aurilla ( Price) Kelley, her birth having occurred at Ber- rien county. Michigan, on August 6, 1884. Her parents now reside in Chi- cago, Illinois, and besides Mrs. Mount they have two children. Fannie May and Bessie Roy. To Mr. and Mrs. Mount have been born two children. Martin Gail and Walter Harvey, the latter dying at about the age of two years and four months.

Politically, Mr. Mount has ever since his majority been allied with the Republican party, being a supporter of the standpat element of that organiza- tion. Fraternally, he is a member of Austin Lodge No. 128, Free and Ac- cepted Masons: Tipton Lodge No. 1012. Benevolent and Protective Order

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of Elks; Tipton Lodge No. 51, Knights of Pythias, and to the Modern Wood- men of America. They reside in a pleasant and attractive home at No. 218 West Madison street, this city, which is a favorite gathering place for their many friends, for they possess to a marked degree those qualities of char- acter which win and retain friendship. Mr. Mount has always been deeply interested in whatever pertains to the welfare of his home town and county and to him is the community indebted for much of the development for which it has been noted. He has often used his influence for benevolent enter- prise which he believes to be for the good of the community, and has honestly won and retains the good will and regard of all who know him.

D. E. SHOOK.

Farming is becoming recognized as a profession and the future farmers of our country will be trained as carefully as are our ministers and phy- sicians. Purdue University now gives a four-year course in agriculture, leading to the Bachelor of Arts degree. The 1913 Legislature of this state created a new official known as the county agent whose duties are to give expert advice to farmers on all subjects pertaining to agriculture. The short courses given at Purdue every year are being attended by increasing thou- sands of farmers and their sons. The tendency of all this points to a new era in farming. Farmers' institutes are being held throughout the state and have been the means of keeping the farmers abreast of the times. Farming is becoming a science and the most successful farmer today is the man who studies his business. Such a farmer is the subject of this sketch.

D. E. Shook was born July 30, 1871, in Ripley county, Indiana, near Versailles. He is the son of Calvin and Keziah (Jackson) Shook. (See elsewhere in this volume for ancestral history of the Shook family.) D. E. Shook came to Tipton county with his parents when he was thirteen years of age, and attended the Tipton and Beech Grove schools. He worked on the farm during all of the time that he was attending school. He commenced renting land at first, and later, in partnership with his brother, Charles D., bought forty acres of land, which he later sold. He now has three hundred and ninety acres of fine land in this county.

On March 29, 1900, D. E. Shook was married to Ardella Hamm, and they have one child, Elsie Hamm Shook.

Mr. Shook has always affiliated with the Republican party and advo-

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cated the principles of that organization. He has never sought political office of any sort, but has directed all his energies to the management of his large farm, in which he has been very successful. Mr. Shook has always mani- fested excellent business judgment, and has always been an indefatigable worker. For this reason he has made a success of his life work, and at the same time he has the confidence and good will of a host of warm, personal friends. The home ties are strong in him and he and his good wife have made their presence felt for good in the community in which they have lived for so many years.

CLINTON T. BROWN.

If a resume were to be written of the successful and influential attorneys of Tipton county, the name of Clinton T. Brown would occupy a high posi- tion. In the legal profession he has supplemented the practice of the essen- tials with a wealth of common sense. In every profession theories and rules cannot be literally interpreted ; they act as guides alone ; the human equation is the force that impels decisions of merit. In judicious foresight, cool cal- culation and prompt initiative, Mr. Brown is unexcelled. He stands for the lawyer, in the true sense of the word: that is to say. the man who advocates a sympathetic reading of the law, and not a merciless, steely and unyielding interpretation. Clinton T. Brown has won for himself a reputation of high integrity, and his courteous, affable nature, savored with a brilliant fund of wit, has won for him countless friends.

Clinton Thomas Brown was born in Switzerland county, Indiana, near Bennington, October 28, 1877. the son of Hiram R. and Susan R. (Greyble) Brown, natives of Indiana, he of Dearborn county and she of Jefferson county, the subject being the only child of these parents. Mr. Brown's father . was reared in Switzerland county and was always a farmer there until within the last ten years, he now being engaged in the saw-mill and lumber busi- ness and residing in Ohio county, near Bear Branch. He is a member of the United Brethren church, while the subject's mother, who died in September, 1879, was of the Presbyterian faith. The father of the subject married for . his second wife India Cole, who died four months after the marriage. In May, 1909, Hiram R. Brown was married to Mrs. Jennie Riley, widow of John Riley, her maiden name having been Hinman.

The subject's paternal grandfather was John R. Brown and his wife's

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name was Christina (Pate) Brown. They were natives of Virginia and he was a farmer and stock raiser, settling in Dearborn county at an early date, her people locating in that community, in the Laughrey valley, in 1814. After their marriage, some time in the fifties, they moved to Switzerland county, and he died there in 1857, in his thirty-ninth year, the wife surviving him and reaching the advanced age of eighty-nine. They were the parents of four children : Mary married Z. T. Strepleton, a Civil war veteran; Hiram R .; America married Henry Graham, of Cleves, Ohio; one child died in in- fancy. John R. Brown had been married before and by his first wife was the father of one child, Eliza, who married Isaiah Ball.

The maternal grandfather of Mr. Brown was John Greyble, his wife's maiden name having been Wasson. They were natives of Pennsylvania, com- ing from near Chambersburg. In his early life John Greyble assisted in con- ducting a distillery and after the war he worked at the carpenter trade. In the Civil war he was a member of the Sixth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer In- fantry, and had the proud distinction for several years before his death of being the oldest Grand Army man in the United States, his death occurring in his ninety-seventh year, his wife having been past sixty at the time she passed away during the eighties. They were the parents of a large family: George Lambert, Luther, William, Freeland, Susan Rebecca, Maggje, Florence and Elizabeth, all of whom are now deceased except Luther, whose home is in Cin- cinnati. Ohio, and Florence Green, who resides in Wilmette, Illinois.

Clinton T. Brown was reared on his father's farm in Switzerland county, Indiana, near the village of Bennington in Pleasant township. He secured his education in the district schools of his neighborhood, and at the age of eighteen began teaching and was a successful educator for fifteen terms, hav- ing taught six terms in Ohio county. He remained under the parental roof until his majority, and began the study of law shortly after taking up his pedagogical work and was admitted to the bar on December 4, 1902, at Ris- ing Sun, Indiana, beginning the active practice of his profession at Sharps- ville, this county, in the fall of 1904, where he remained until the fall of 1912, when he came to Tipton. In November of that year he was elected prosecuting attorney and is now filling that important office to the eminent satisfaction of his constituents. He is a strong advocate of temperance and has proven a very successful prosecutor.

On December 5, 1897, Mr. Brown was united in marriage to Cora Land, the daughter of George W. and Lydia Ann (Hinman) Land, and to this

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union have been born three children, Willie O., Robert W. and Eva Hazel. Religiously, Mr. Brown and entire family are members of the West Street Christian church at Tipton. Mrs. Brown is a native of this county, her birth having occurred on March 4, 1876, her parents also being natives of the old Hoosier state. Her mother's death occurred in 1894, at the age of forty-six years, while her father still survives. They were the parents of eight chil- dren, Thomas, Willis, Jesse, Gamala, Frank, Mrs. Caroline Sander, Cora, the wife of the subject, and Mrs. Dora Ward. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Brown was George Washington Land, while her maternal grandfather was Andrew Jackson Hinman.

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History of Tipton County Indiana, Part 33

Author: M. W. Pershing Publication date: 1914 Publisher: Number of Pages: 701

Author: M. W. Pershing
Publication date: 1914
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 701