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CALVIN SYLVESTER MILLER has for a num- ber of years been a factor in the business affairs of Elwood as manager of the Jay Grain Company. He has developed a large business and has brought Elwood to the front as a grain market in Eastern In- diana.
Mr. Miller was born at Mulberry, Clin- ton County, Indiana, April 11, 1873, son of John and Marie (Karb) Miller. The Millers are originally of German stock but have been in America for many genera- tions. Their home before coming to In-
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diana was in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. John Miller was born in Lehigh County November 15, 1834. When he was four years old his family moved to Clinton County, Indiana, where they were among the pioneers. He grew up there, learned the trade of carpenter, and followed car- penter work and general building most of his active career. He also owned a farm of 100 acres in Clinton County, and it was the home where he died February 9, 1895. His wife died there in May, 1899.
Calvin S. Miller was the fourth child of his parents, his early years were sur- rounded with a rural environment, and his early education was obtained in a country school in Madison Township of Clinton County. As his strength permitted he helped his father during the summer seasons, and in 1893, at the age of twenty, entered Purdue University for the purpose of pursuing a course in mechanical engi- neering. He was in the university until February, 1895, when after the death of his father and having inherited the home place he returned to take active charge and re- mained a farmer until September 1, 1899. At that date he arrived in Elwood, and has since been manager of the Jay Grain Com- pany. This business has always had one location, but since Mr. Miller became man- ager its facilities have been greatly im- proved, including the construction of a thoroughly modern elevator. The company buys grain over all the surrounding terri- tory about Elwood and ships largely to the eastern markets of Baltimore, New York and Buffalo. Mr. Miller is a stockholder and director in the Jay Grain Company and is also a stockholder and director of the Citizens State Bank of Elwood. While these interests tax all his time and atten- tion he has never failed to respond to pub- lie spirited calls upon his service for some object of general and mutual benefit. In 1915 he was appointed a member of the County Council of Madison County, and has also done committee work with the El- wood Chamber of Commerce. He is a democrat, is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge at Elwood and Lodge No. 166 of the Knights of Pythias in the same city. He and his family are Methodists.
The only son of Mr. and Mrs. Miller is now with the American forces in training for the great war. Mr. Miller married in 1896 Iva Peters, daughter of Robert and
Anna (Elliott) Peters of Clinton County. Their son, Marlston J., was born July 9, 1897. He was given good school advan- tages, and was pursuing a mechanical en- gineering course in Purdue University, as a sophomore, when he volunteered at In- dianapolis in November, 1917, and is now a private in the Six Hundred and Sixty- Fifth Aero Squadron at Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas.
HON. CHARLES J. MURPHY. The com- munity that has longest known Mr. Charles J. Murphy is White County, In- diana, which sent him to the Legislature a number of years ago and has come to ap- preciate his activities as a banker, farmer and one of the practical and fancy stock raisers who have given fame to the Brook- ston locality. Mr. Murphy is also a fa- miliar figure in the state capital, has a num- ber of interests at Indianapolis, and main- tains an office in the Merchants National Bank Building in that city.
Mr. Murphy was born at Brookston in White County December 29, 1872, a son of Jerre and Harrietta (McIntyre) Murphy. He comes of a prominent pio- neer family of White County. His grand- father, Jerre Murphy, brought his family from County Kerry, Ireland, first locating in Dover, Delaware, and in 1832 emigrated to Indiana. After a brief residence in In- dianapolis he moved to Brookston in White County, and for a period of eighty years the family name has been identified with the history and development of that section. Mr. Murphy's father was twelve years of age when the family came to Indiana, and he achieved a remarkable success as a far- mer and stock raiser, and was also vice president of the Brookston Bank.
Charles J. Murphy was born and reared on a farm, was educated in common schools, the Brookston High School and Purdue University, from which he graduated in 1893 with honors in the Civil Engineering Department. He thus had a thorough technical training to supplement his nat- ural talents and the practical experience he had gained at home. Into the quarter of a century since he closed his college career he has compressed a life of strenuous and important activity. He turned primarily to farming on the old Murphy homestead, and farming from first to last has repre- sented one of his real and deep abiding
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interests. in life. His present farm, three miles west of Brookston, is considered one of the finest examples of intensive and extensive agriculture and stock husbandry in Indiana. It comprises 760 acres, and besides what the soil produces it is the feed- ing ground for hundreds of cattle and other livestock. His "play thing" and chief pleasure is his famous herd of fancy bred Shorthorn cattle. Stockmen are be- coming aware that not even in the home haunts of this famous breed in England are found better specimens than have been bought and acquired by Mr. Murphy for the foundation of his herd at Brookston.
However, early in his career as a farmer Mr. Murphy's interests branched out into other affairs. He took up contracting and has built miles of roads and ditches and has also constructed schoolhouses, churches and other buildings. As a banker he is a director of the Farmers Bank at Brookston, and director and first vice president of the State Savings & Trust Company of Indian- apolis.
For a long period of years Northwestern Indiana has considered him one of its lead- ers in the democratic party. For a time he was a member of the State Democratic Central Committee and has constantly used his influence to promote the best inter- ests of his party in the state. He was elected from White County to the Legisla- ture in 1899 and 1901, and rendered a splendid service to his constituency. By appointment from Governor Ralston he served for a time as a member of the Public Service Commission of Indiana. When he was selected as a member of this Commis- sion to take over the functions of the older railroad commission of the state the In- dianapolis News said of him in reviewing the work of the Commission that "its uni- form success and general efficiency were due in great measure to the untiring efforts of Mr. Murphy. The state has been par- ticularly fortunate," declared the News, "in gaining the services of Mr. Murphy as a member of this important body. His judgment and foresight are exceptionally keen and his ability and efficiency have manifested themselves in practically every decision that has been rendered by the Commission."
He accepted this public service at great sacrifice of his own private interests, but lost no time in regretting this fact and gave
the full benefit of his wide experience and ability to the work at hand. Before the bill creating the Public Service Com- mission had passed both Houses of the Legislature in 1915, Mr. Murphy's name was selected as a possible member of the body. He had no desire to enter public life or assume the responsibilities which such an office would entail. When Gov- ernor Ralston selected his name among the first to be considered for the Commission, Mr. Murphy felt the call of duty and ac- ceded to the will of the Governor.
The duties that now compel his residence part of the time in Indianapolis and the maintenance of an office here are in con- nection' with the Ocotillo Products Com- pany of Indianapolis, a $3,000,000 corpora- tion of which he was one of the promoters and organizers. He is secretary-treasurer of this corporation. An Indiana organiza- tion, it has its plant at Salome, Arizona, and is engaged in converting the ocotillo plant of the desert region into various use- ful and essential products, chief of which is a gum resembling rubber and having many of the uses of rubber.
Mr. Murphy married Miss Margaret Beckman, of Crown Point, Lake County. They have one son, Charles B. Murphy.
JUDGE MILLARD Cox was born near Noblesville, Indiana, February 25, 1856. He received his literary and professional training in Indiana, and was admitted to the bar in 1880. He served as judge of the Criminal Court of Indianapolis in 1890-94, and was afterward nominated for the Su- perior Court judgeship. He is also an author of well known ability.
FRANK D. HAIMBAUGH, of Muncie, has had and continues to have a busy life. The manifold tasks of the boy on the farm en- gaged his early years. A teacher in the public schools until near thirty, for twenty years he was an active and prominent fig- ure in the newspaper business of the state. A ready and forceful writer, he held a prominent place with the fraternity of the state and gained a wide and notable ac- quaintance with the leaders and workers of the democratic party of the common- wealth. Ever consistent in the advocacy of the doctrine of his political faith, he secured and held the friendship of those who were in opposition to him in politics,
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At present he is serving as postmaster at Muncie.
Mr. Haimbaugh was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, September 24, 1856, son of David and Margaret (Leonard) Haim- baugh. In 1863 his parents removed to Fulton County, Indiana, locating on a farm, which continued to be the home of the father until his death in 1898. It was the ambition of David Haimbaugh and his good wife to do well the task of each day and rear their children in habits of industry and to be citizens of integrity. These sturdy pioneers were willing to un- dergo the hardships incident to day and environment, so that those who were de- pendent on them might have a few of the meager comforts of life and better advan- tages than was the lot of the parents. Those who knew these hardy toilers of the soil all agreed that they were God fearing people, industrious, patient and, above all, honorable citizens, the kind of people to merit and command the respect of neigh- bors and friends. David Haimbaugh was a democrat of the old school. Such were the parents and such the heritage that was left to the subject of this sketch. Mr. Haimbaugh says the dearest memory of his mother is the fact that he never heard her utter an uncomplimentary word of any one.
Frank D. Haimhaugh, the fourth in a family of six children, grew to manhood on the farm in Fulton County and attended the common schools prevalent in that day, which at best were but meager avenues of learning, with terms of three months in each twelve. After completing the work in the district school he was dependent on his own resources for a higher education. This he secured in the high school of Roch- ester, Indiana, being a member of the first graduating class of the year 1878. In 1880 he completed the scientific course at the Northern Indiana Normal School, now Val- paraiso University, receiving his degree. For ten years pending his seeking an edu- cation Mr. Haimbaugh taught in the rural and village schools of his county, and served as principal of the Brookston, In- diana, High School for four years. In the year 1885 he was elected county superin- tendent of schools of Fulton County, serv- ing two years. During the encumbency of this office he advanced the schools of the county to a higher standard than pre-
viously attained. His position among the educators of the state was sufficiently emi- nent that he was prominently mentioned for the nomination of state superintendent at the hands of the Democratic State Con- vention in 1890, but having just recently engaged in the newspaper business he would not permit the use of his name be- fore the convention. From 1887 to 1889 the business of life insurance engaged his attention in Iowa and his home state.
In November, 1889, in association with a consin, he purchased the Miami County Sentinel at Peru, and thus began a long career in the newspaper business, ending in 1909. In June of 1891, having sold his interest in the paper at Peru, he purchased an interest in the Muncie Daily and Weekly Herald. He continued as editor and busi- ness manager of the Herald until March, 1905, when he founded the Muncie Press by merging the Daily Herald and Daily Times, one democrat and the other republi- can, establishing the Press as an independ- ent publication. From 1909 to 1913 Mr. Haimbaugh was engaged in the business of job printing. In the latter year he was solicited to accept a position as a field ex- aminer with the State Board of Accounts, serving with credit to himself and the . state to the end of 1915. On the last day of February, 1916, he became postmaster at Muncie, and has been giving the best energies of an active personality to this work. During this period the Muncie post- office has become the supply office for five adjacent counties and the central account- ing office for Delaware County, and during his occupancy of the office the business has materially increased, while the parcel post material handled has practically doubled.
Mr. Haimbaugh has the distinction of being the first man ever elected twice in succession as principal doorkeeper of the House of Representatives of the State Leg- islature, serving in the office in 1889 and 1891.
Under appointment of Governor Durbin he served four years as a member of the Board of Police Commissioners of Muncie. He was also a member of the first Board of Park Commissioners of his home city. For ten years he was secretary of the Mun- cie Commercial Club, and was the first of its members to occupy the chair of presi- dent two years. He served ten years as president of Post R, Travelers Protective
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Association of America. For more than thirty years he has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In 1893 he was elected to the office of secre- tary of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association, revised and re-wrote its consti- tution and by-laws and rounded out his services to the association by serving one term as its president.
Mr. Haimbaugh has always been inter- ested in all the things that make for com- munity welfare. In 1896 he was largely instrumental in founding the Eastern In- diana Normal University, and served as secretary of its Board of Trustees, and was a member of the same until the board ceased to exist. This institution is now under the management of the State of In- diana.
On May 14, 1890, he was united in mar- riage to Miss Emma F. Elginfritz, of War- saw, this state.
The world war found earnest workers in the persons of Mr. and Mrs. Haimbaugh, with a son in the service over seas, Mrs. Haimbaugh was a constant and valiant worker in the services of the Red Cross and was selected as chairman of the Delaware County contingent of the War Mothers' Association, with an eligible mem- bership of more than 2.000.
In November of 1917 Mr. Haimbaugh was asked to serve as Federal fuel admin- istrator of Delaware County, and he served with such fidelity that his work was cited by the state federal fuel administrator for the efficient service rendered.
Mr. and Mrs. Haimbaugh have one child, Paul A., born in November, 1892. This son was educated in the schools of Muncie, completing the high school course, and in the State University. He was commis- sioned a lieutenant from the first officers training camp at Fort Harrison and de- tailed for special service in France, arriv- ing in that country in October, 1917. He served in divisions of heavy field artillery until June, 1918, when, by request, he was transferred to the tank division of the serv- ice. He was a lieutenant with the Three Hundred and First Battalion, Heavy Tank Corps, until the end of hostilities. The Three Hundred and First was the only Heavy Tank Corps that got into action. This battalion with the Twenty-Seventh and Thirtieth division of American troops, was brigaded with the British, and had a
part in the terrific bombardment that re- sulted in the smashing of the Hindenberg line.
A worker and a student, public spirited and cosmopolitan in his view of life, Frank Haimbaugh counts the things that he may have done for his friends and the com- munity he calls home as more worth while than self centered selfishness or the plaud- its of the thoughtless throng. He hopes he has learned the lesson of service and under- stands the creed of sacrifice, and that he has been in a small measure helpful to his fellow man. He believes that men should learn to be heroes of peace in no less de- gree than heroes of war, and that to each there is an appointed task and that to each will be given the guerdon of their sacrifice.
HENRY MOORE, M. D. A great and good physician, and one whose work had much wider range than that of the average prac- titioner, was the late Dr. Henry Moore of Indianapolis.
He was born March 15, 1841, sixth in a family of nine children of John and Lou- isa Moore. John Moore and wife in 1835 blazed their way through the forests from North Carolina and settled in Washington Township of Hamilton County, Indiana. Their first home was miles away from neighbors, and they lived in the midst of the heavy woods and endured all the pri- vations of the pioneer. They were wit- nesses and factors in that transitory period while Indiana was developing from a wil- derness to a populous and peaceful com- munity. John Moore died in 1879 and his wife in 1877. Dr. Henry Moore was the product of an environment that was little removed from the utmost simplicity of frontier. During his boyhood he attended rude subscription schools and trained his hand and eye by the practices and expe- riences of the farm and rural communities of Indiana of sixty or seventy years ago. His desire for a better education led him to attend two successive terms at Westfield. After getting a teacher's certificate he taught one term of district school. From there he entered old Northwestern Chris- tian University, now Butler College, at In- dianapolis, and in addition to his literary studies also carried on the study of medi- cine.
Doctor Moore was at college when the news came to Indianapolis of the fall of
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Fort Sumter. He enlisted immediately, first as a private. While dressing wounds of his comrades his knowledge and ability derived from his previous medical studies came to light and he was appointed hospi- tal steward of his regiment. Later he was detailed to act as assistant surgeon, a posi- tion he filled in General Sigel's department of the army for about two years. It should be mentioned that at the time of his first enlistment he was brought back by his father, being still under age, and he finally got into service with the Thirty-Fifth Reg- iment of Illinois Infantry. From the posi- tion of assistant field surgeon he was trans- ferred to the hospitals at Louisville, Ken- tucky, and to Albany, Indiana, with the rank of captain of cavalry. At the battle of Pea Ridge he received honorable men- tion in the official reports for his coolness and bravery in attending to the wounded under fire. While serving as attendant at the hospital at Louisville Doctor Moore con- tinued his medical studies, graduated from the Louisville University of Medicine and passed his examination.
After the war he returned to Hamilton County and for a number of years was in practice at Sheridan. About 1885 he moved to Indianapolis, and continued the work of his profession and its cognate un- til his death on December 4, 1913. Doctor Moore was for a number of years keenly interested in the work of the American Red Cross, was appointed special organizer for the Red Cross for Indiana, and effected organizations in every county of the state. He was one of the pioneers in the public health movement as devoted to the phase of tuberculosis. He was largely instru- mental in getting an appropriation from the State Legislature to build a tubercu- losis hospital at Rockville, and continued to be actively interested in the institution until it was completed. He was also an agent in the purchase of the site for the deaf and dumb asylum at Indianapolis. During his work in establishing the tuber- culosis societies in the various counties he maintained an office in the State Capitol at Indianapolis. Doctor Moore had finished dictating his final report when he died in his chair-an end which was well fitting a man of such action and service. He was affiliated with the Masonic Order, was a republican in politics and a member of the Methodist Church. Doctor Moore is
remembered by his old associates as a man who was deliberate in making up his mind, but when he had decided upon a course of action could not be swerved from the ob- jective. Affable, congenial and compan- ionable, he had a large circle of friends and everywhere he went he inspired confi- dence. His life and work and character well deserve the memorial that can be given in the written page.
April 15, 1864, Doctor Moore married Catherine Rebecca Padgett, daughter of William and Eliza D. Padgett. Mrs. Moore, who is still living, is a woman of high intellectual attainments. She became engaged to Doctor Moore before he went to the war. When he had charge of a hospi- tal at Evansville she became a nurse under his direction. After their marriage they continued lovers and companions, devoted to each other and to their home until the ties that so long bound them were loosed by the death of Doctor Moore. Mrs. Moore is now living in California. She was the mother of seven children, six still living, three of them in California and three in Indiana.
Otto N. Moore, a son of the late Dr. Henry Moore, and youngest of the six children, is a young business man of In- dianapolis and has built up a notable in- dustry within recent years.
He was born February 25, 1880, at Spice- wood, Indiana, was educated in the high school at Irvington and spent two years in Purdue University. He served an ap- prenticeship as a mechanic, and has devel- oped his own mechanical skill as the basis of his present business. When the great war broke out with Germany he was pro- prietor of a small tool shop at Indianap- olis. He has made it instrumental in sup- plying the heavy demands made upon American industry and has developed it to the Otto N. Moore Company, of which he is president. It gives employment to about 120 men. The company makes all kinds of tools, machine and small tool equipment for munition work, and has contracts for a maximum capacity of output for months to come.
Mr. Moore is a member of the Rotary Club of Indianapolis. September 8, 1907, he married Maude E. Jones, daughter of Rev. Levi and Lucy (Coggshell) Jones. They have two children, Catherine and Robert.
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GLEN WAYLAND GATES. A big business, well managed, still growing, is that of the G. W. Gates Cloak House, of which Mr. Gates is sole proprietor. The home office and headquarters are in Anderson, but he now maintains branch offices at Muncie and Fort Wayne, and also at Dayton, Ohio. Mr. Gates had experience and had demon- strated exceptional talent as a merchant but possessed very limited capital when he made his start as an independent merchant at Anderson, and the business as it stands today is very largely a reflection of his progressive management and tremendous energy.
Mr. Gates was born at Thorntown, Boone County, Indiana, in 1873, a son of F. W. and Amanda (McCoy) Gates. His great- grandfather and the founder of the family in America was Richard Gates, who came from Scotland and was a pioneer at Fre- mont, Ohio, where he cleared up and de- veloped a tract of government land. The grandfather, also named Richard Gates, moved from Ohio to Mount Carmel, In- diana, and was a prosperous farmer in that community. Of his three children F. W. Gates was the second son. He grew up as a farmer boy, followed farming for a num- ber of years, and finally engaged in the grocery business.
Glen W. Gates, the only son of his par- ents, the others of the family being three sisters, spent the first fifteen years of his life at Mount Carmel, Indiana, and there attended the common schools. When he was fifteen the family moved to Anderson, where he continued his studies in the An- derson High School for two years,
His business career began as a general workman in the shipping room of "The White House" conducted by Malott, Long & Company at Anderson. It was that old established mercantile firm that discovered and developed his talents in merchandising. He was in practically every department of the store at some time, and everywhere he constantly absorbed knowledge and grew to meet the responsibilities which were placed upon him in increasing measure. At the end of eight years he was manager of the cloak, suit, and carpet department of the store.
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