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Charles W. Hartloff was born in Coun- cil Township, Perry County, Indiana, in 1870, and in 1887 graduated from the Evansville High School. He took the full academic course at the University of In- diana, graduating A. B. in 1892. Later he entered the medical department of the Uni- versity of Michigan, from which he re- ceived his diploma and degree in 1897. After a year of practice in his home city he entered Johns Hopkins University, and then went abroad, spending two years in travel and study, chiefly at the University of Vienna, which then claimed some of the greatest figures in medicine and surg- ery in the world.
Doctor Hartloff returned to Evansville a few months before his father's death, and at once took up his large practice, respon- sibilities for which his talents and excep- tional training admirably qualified him. For the past twenty years he has had a very busy career. In addition to his pri- vate practice he has served as secretary of the city board of health and of the board of pension examiners, and is now chief med- ical inspector of the Evansville schools. He is a member of the County and State Medical Societies, also of the Ohio Valley, the American Medical Association, and the American Public Health Association.
In 1896 Miss Annie Marie Kaiser, of Port Huron, Michigan, became his wife. They have one daughter, Maryland Eliza- beth, who is a graduate of the Evansville High School, spent one year in Penn Hall at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and is now a student in the University of Michi- gan. Doctor Hartloff and family are mem- bers of the St. John Evangelical Church. He is affiliated with Reed Lodge, Free and Ancient Masons, Evansville Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Simpson Council, Royal and Select Masons, LaVallette Commandery, Knights Templar, Evansville Consistory, Scottish Rite, and Hadi Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is also an Elk, and is a member of the Evansville Chamber of Commerce and the Country and Crescent Clubs.
WILLIAM FRANKLIN CLEVELAND, M. D. The responsibilities of a busy practitioner have been the lot of Dr. William Franklin Cleveland of Evansville for more than a quarter of a century. At the same time he has managed to take an active interest in local affairs, and has been connected with the management of municipal govern- ment, and made a fine record during his term as a state senator.
Doctor Cleveland was born in Johnson Township, Gibson County, Indiana, No- vember 23, 1855. His grandfather, Charles Cleveland, was a native of Virginia, born in 1800, and he moved from that state to Kentucky and came to Indiana about 1832, locating in what is now Johnson Township of Gibson County. He made the journey" with a pair of oxen and six head of horses. He crossed the Ohio River at Louisville and completed the journey through the' woods to what is now Johnson Township. .
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He was a pioneer there and settled in the midst of the woods, when wild game of all kinds abounded. He bought a tract of timbered land and built a log house, which was the first home of the Cleveland family in Indiana. He cleared up a large tract and spent the rest of his life as a prosper- ous farmer. He and his wife had eleven children.
John T. Cleveland, father of Doctor Cleveland, was born in Kentucky and was brought to Indiana when about six years old. At that time there were no railroads, not even canals, and the entire journey was made with wagons and teams. For several years Evansville, twenty-one miles away, was the nearest market and supply point. John T. Cleveland therefore had a pioneer environment until he was well to- ward his middle age. He grew up on a farm, later bought eighty acres of timbered land in Johnson Township of Gibson County, and also provided for his family the typical log house. It was in this house that Doctor Cleveland was born. His energies sufficed to bring a considerable area under cultivation, and he was both a. farmer and stock raiser and did much to improve his property, planting fruit trees, and he eventually lived in a good frame house. He died there in his seventieth year. He married Mary Jane Davis, who was born in Montgomery Township of Gib- son County, a daughter of William Ross and Sally (Johnson) Davis, pioneers in that section of Indiana. She died in 1865, and four of her children reached ma- ture years, being named James Marshall. William Franklin, Joel Davis, and Thomas Monroe.
William Franklin Cleveland has always been glad that his early youth was spent in the wholesome rural environment, though his early ambitions caused him to seek advantages and opportunities in a larger field. He attended rural schools, also the Fort Branch High School, and at the age of twenty began teaching in his native county. Altogether he was con- nected with school work for about fifteen years. While teaching he also took up the study of medicine and in 1890 entered the Louisville Medical College, where he was graduated and received his diploma in 1892. In the same year he came to Evans- ville, and has been busied with a large and growing practice ever since. During the Vol. V-16
world war he served as the medical mem- ber of Draft Board Division No. 3 at Evansville. Doctor Cleveland represented the Sixth Ward of Evansville in the City Council for ten years and nine months, constituting three terms. He was elected a member of the State Senate in 1912, and gave much of his time to the duties of that office during the two following sessions.
In 1882 he married Mary E. Pritchett. .She was born in Montgomery Township of Gibson County, a daughter of William H. and Martha (Gudgel) Pritchett. She is a sister of another well known Evansville physician, Dr. W. S. Pritchett. Doctor and Mrs. Cleveland have one son, Walter R. Cleveland, who is a graduate of the Evansville High School and the medical department of the University of Indiana, and is now a rising young physician in Evansville. He married Anita Richards, and they have one daughter, named Helene Frances.
WALTER OLDS, of Fort Wayne, is round- ing out a career of fifty years as a member of the legal profession. He was a Union soldier, studied law after the war, began practice in Indiana, achieved the dignity and honors of the Circuit and Supreme Bench, afterward was for some years a leading member of the Chicago bar, and for over eighteen years has been a resident of Fort Wayne and is one of the chief railway attorneys and counsels in the state.
Judge Olds was born on his father's farm in Morrow County, Ohio, August 11, 1846, a son of Benjamin and Abigail (Washburn) Olds. His father was a na- tive of Pennsylvania, born in 1795. His mother was born in Jefferson County, New York, in 1805. Of their large family of eleven children, nine sons and two daugh- ters, two are now living, Lester and Walter Olds. Benjamin Olds, though a farmer, having developed and improved 240 acres in Morrow County, was also a regularly or- dained minister of the Methodist Church and successfully combined both vocations. In politics he was a whig and later a repub- lican, and had a record as a soldier of the War of 1812. A more intensely patriotic family it would be difficult to find. Five of his sons were soldiers in the Civil war: James, who served as major of the Sixty- fifth Ohio Infantry in Gen. John Sher- man's Brigade; Sanford, who was a mem-
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ber of the One Hundred and Twenty-First Ohio Infantry and died as a result of wounds received in the first battle of Chick- amauga; Lester, who was in Company D of the One Hundred and Twenty-First Regiment. Chauncey, who was in the Third Ohio Cavalry and at Munfordville, Kentucky, was shot through the left lung and shoulder and died seven weeks later because of the wounds.
The first sixteen years of the life of Wal -. ter Olds were spent on his father's Ohio farm, and nothing out of the ordinary dis- tinguished that period. He was educated in the public schools, and was seventeen years of age when, in June, 1864, he fol- lowed the example of his older brothers and enlisted in Company A of the One Hun- dred and Seventy-Fourth Ohio Infantry. He was with that regiment in all of its campaigns in the Middle West until finally taken ill in North Carolina when on the march to join General Sherman's army, and was sent to the army hospital. He received his honorable discharge at the close of the war while still in the hos- pital. This useful military service was a prelude to his long career of useful- ness in civil life. Returning home he at- tended the Capital University at Colum- bus, Ohio, and read law with his brother James at Mount Gilead, Ohio. In 1869 he was admitted to the Ohio bar be- fore the Supreme Court, and on April 2d of the same year located at Columbia City, Indiana, where he began practice in part- nership with A. Y. Hooper, who was at that time state senator. That partnership con- tinued six years, until the death of Sena- tor Hooper. In 1876 Judge Olds was elected a member of the State Senate on the Republican ticket, and served with that body during 1877-79. In the meantime his practice had steadily grown, but he prac- tically resigned it to accept a place on his party's ticket as candidate for circuit judge for the District of Kosciusko and Whitley counties. He was elected in 1884, and served until 1888, when he resigned. From the Circuit bench he was promoted to the Supreme Court of Indiana, and began his duties as an associate justice January 7, 1889. He was a member of the Supreme Court until June 15, 1893, when he re- signed. Two of the decisions he wrote and handed down while in the Supreme Court were appealed to the United States
Supreme Court and both upheld by the higher tribunal.
From 1893 until 1901 Judge Olds was identified with an important corporation and railway practice in Chicago, but in 1901 returned to Indiana and located at Fort Wayne. Judge Olds is Indiana attorney for the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Rail- way Company and the Lake Shore & Michi- gan Southern, is local attorney for the Lake Erie & Western and the Ohio Electric Com- pany, and represents a number of other large interests. He is one of the most prominent trial lawyers of Indiana.
Judge Olds has always taken an active part in republican polities and has served as district committeeman and county chair- man. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Order of Elks and the University Club.
July 1, 1873, at Mount Gilead, Ohio, he married Miss Marie J. Merritt, who was born in Morrow County, Ohio, December 4, 1850, daughter of Z. L. Merritt, a promi- nent business man of Mount Gilead. Judge and Mrs. Olds have one son, Lee Merritt Olds, who has attained a successful position in his father's profession and whose biography follows.
MAJ. LEE M. OLDS, a "native son" of Indiana, was born at Columbia City Octo- ber 21, 1874. He is the son of Walter and Marie J. (Merritt) Olds. He was educated in the public schools of Columbia City and took a two-year course at Wabash College. He then entered Michigan Military Acad- emy at Orchard Lake, Michigan, graduat- ing from that institution in 1893. He then took a one-year literary course at North- western University, Evanston, Illinois, and having completed that, entered the law de- partment of the same university, graduat- ing from that department in 1896. At the time. of his graduation he was president of the Law Students' Association of the three law schools then in Chicago, comprising about 2,500 students. He immediately en- tered into the practice of law with his father, Judge Walter Olds at Chicago.
He enlisted during the Spanish-Ameri- can war and was elected captain of Com- pany A, One Hundred and Sixty-First Indiana, of which regiment ex-Governor Winfield T. Durbin was colonel. He was afterward promoted to major of that regi- meut, serving until the close of the war,
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having been in Cuba several months. It is said of him by the historian of the One Hundred and Sixty-First Indiana Regi- ment that "he was a born commander."
At the close of the Spanish-American war Major Olds did not feel that he wanted to at once take up indoor work again, therefore he took employment with a rail- road construction company for about a year, after which he went to Korea with a mining company and was engaged there for another year. While engaged in rail- road construction work and mining he had a large number of men under his supervi- sion.
After his experience in mining he re- turned to this country and located in San Francisco in 1902, re-entering the practice of law, devoting all his time and energy to his profession. He immediately established a practice which by reason of his strict in- . tegrity, energy and ability has steadily grown until he is now enjoying a lucrative practice and is one of San Francisco's lead- ing lawyers.
Major Olds was married to Miss Wini- fred L. Keogh, a native of San Francisco, in 1902, and to them have been born three sons, Walter K., Merritt R., and Winfield L.
WILLIAM E. HORSLEY, lawyer, present prosecuting attorney of the Forty-Third Indiana Circuit and former sheriff of Vigo County, has a personal record that is not less noteworthy than the competent and able services he has rendered in public of- fice, all of which have been duly appre- ciated by the people of Terre Haute and his native county.
There are a number of people in Terre Haute who remember William E. Horsley when as a boy he blacked boots and sold papers on the streets of that city. It is a case in which a youth with limited oppor- tunities and unlimited determination has gained some of the prizes of life which arc everywhere valued as the signs and sym- bols of substantial success.
He was born in Honey Creek Township of Vigo County September 29, 1873, a son of General and Fannie (Russel) Horsley, the former a native of Indiana and the latter of England. The mother came to Canada with her parents when nine years of age. General Horsley was a brick ma- son by trade, and died at the age of thirty- eight and his wife at thirty-nine.
Thus when a small boy William E. Horsley was left an orphan and had no other means of support except what was created by his own labor. When only nine years of age he was working in a brick yard, and at the age of eleven found em- ployment in the Wabash Rolling Mills. At thirteen he entered an apprenticeship at the brick layer's trade, and this was his consecutive vocation for a period of eight- een years. Realizing his deficiencies of education, he made every effort to supply it by study at home, and he also bought a scholarship in the International Corres- pondence School and finished a technical course. He finally developed his trade into that of a building contractor, and for two years did a very successful business in that line.
Mr. Horsley has for many years been one of the influential men in the republican party of Vigo County. In 1904 he was elected on that ticket to the office of sheriff, and was re-elected for a second term. This re-election in itself constituted a nota- ble incident in local politics, since he was the first republican sheriff to secure a re- election in the annals of the county. In 1909 he was nominated on the republican ticket for mayor of Terre Haute, but was defeated.
In 1912 Mr. Horsley entered the Indiana Law School, where he finished the course with credit and honor and graduated LL. B. in 1914. Returning to Terre Haute, he accepted the nomination for prosecuting attorney and made a good canvass but was unable to overcome the democratic ma- jority of that year. In 1916 another im- portant distinction in his career came when he was the only republican clected on the ticket in Vigo County. Since beginning his duties as prosecuting attorney he has justified his election and the confidence re- posed in him by his supporters.
Mr. Horsley is affiliated with the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Improved Order of Red Men, and the Loyal Order of Moose. In 1910 he married Miss Anna M. Dolan, of Paris, Illinois.
CHARLES K. ZOLLMAN. Though a law- yer by profession, Charles K. Zollman is best known over the southern part of In- diana by his capable services in public po-
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sitions, as a former representative, as pros- ecuting attorney of Clark County, and at present as clerk of the Circuit Court.
His family have been identified with Clark County for over sixty years. They represent some of the liberty loving ele- ments of Central Europe who broke away from the political and social conditions there during the middle of the last cen- tury and have shown their patriotism and worth as Americans. His great-grand- father, Christopher Zollman, was born in Nassau, Germany, in 1784. He served as a soldier in the first Napoleonic war in Europe, and was also a participant in the German revolutionary movement of 1848. By trade he was a weaver. When seventy years old he came with other members of the family to America and settled near Charlestown, Indiana, where he died in 1868. He and his family came to America on a sailing vessel called the Southampton, and were thirty-eight days in making the voyage.
The grandfather of Charles K. Zollman was John Zollman, who was born Novem- ber 1, 1813, in the province of Nassau, Ger- many. He was reared and married there, was a weaver by trade like his father, and for six years was a member of the German, army. He joined the rebellion of the Southern German states in 1848, and was a captain in the revolutionary army. In March, 1854, he came to America with his family, and settled near Charlestown in Oregon Township, Clark County, Indiana. He became a farmer and cleared up a large tract of land. He died on his home- stead near Charlestown, November 8, 1890. During the American Civil war he was a strong supporter of the Union, and though too old for active service himself he with other Union sympathizers of Oregon Town- ship hired a substitute. John Zollman mar- ried Jeannette Schwenk. She was born in Nassau, Germany, June 16, 1816, and died near Charlestown, Indiana, March 30, 1890. She was the mother of three children : Philip, who was a farmer and died near Lexington in Scott County, Indiana, in 1898; William; and Charles, a retired farmer in Jefferson County, Indiana.
William Zollman, father of Charles K., was born at Mansfield, Nassau, Germany, November 1, 1841, and was thirteen years of age when brought to America. He fol-
lowed farming as his occupation and died at Charlestown November 14, 1918. He was a democrat in politics and an active member of the Presbyterian Church. Wil- liam Zollman married Elizabeth Boehmer, who was born in Clark County, Indiana, December 1, 1852, and died at Charlestown January 12, 1914. Her father, Charles Boehmer, was born on the borderland be- tween Alsace and Bavaria June 7, 1809, and left his native country at the age of fifteen, spending six years in France, and about 1838 emigrated to America and be- came one of the pioneer settlers in In- diana. He was a saddler by trade and died January 5, 1882. His first wife was Miss Margaret Schleichter, who was born in Baden, Germany, in 1821, and died in Clark County, Indiana, August 26, 1849. Her only child, Freda, who died in Ala- bama in September, 1890, became the wife of Daniel Eyer, a real estate broker at Cullman, Alabama. Charles Boehmer mar- ried for his second wife Elizabeth Hacker in 1851. She also was born in South Ba- den, February 9, 1821, and died near Charlestown, Indiana, September 22, 1890. Mrs. William Zollman was the only child of that marriage. William Zollman and wife had three children: Charles K .; Ed- ward, who died at the age of three years; and Chris, a farmer near Otisco, Indiana.
Charles K. Zollman was born on his fath- er's farm near Charlestown, Clark County, Indiana, March 1, 1876. His early educa- tion was acquired in the rural schools, and he afterward attended the normal school at Lexington, Indiana, and in 1900 grad- uated LL. B. from the law department. of the University of Louisville, Kentucky. The year of his graduation he was elected to represent Clark County in the State Legislature, and was re-elected for a sec- ond term in 1902. In the sessions of 1901 and 1903 he served on state and penal in- stitutions committee and other important committees. Mr. Zollman was elected prosecuting attorney of the Fourth Judi- cial Circuit in 1904, and was also re-elected to that office, serving four years. After that he resumed the private practice of law, and in 1914 stood second in the pri- mary race for the office of circuit clerk. In 1918 he was nominated for that office and elected by a majority of 589.
Mr. Zollman is a democrat, a member of
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the Presbyterian Church, and is affiliated with Tell Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Jeffersonville, and is a member of the Clark Bar Association. He is unmarried. He owns a good home at Charlestown and also a farm in Clark County.
FRANKLIN M. ROSE has long been looked upon as one of the able and substantial business men of Jeffersonville, but his chief forte and experience has been in the coal industry. He is one of the oldest coal mer- chants of Southern Indiana.
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The Rose family has been identified with Indiana since territorial times. The fam- ily originated in Holland, and were early Dutch colonial settlers in New York. Mr. Rose's grandfather, Hubbell Rose, was born in Indiana when it was a territory, in 1814. He was one of the early day farmers in the vicinity of Jeffersonville, and died there about 1884.
William E. Rose, father of the Jefferson- ville merchant, was born in Clark County, Indiana, in 1844. He spent all his life in that vicinity, and as a boy enlisted with an Indiana regiment of infantry and saw ac- tive service throughout the War of the Re- bellion. Later he located at Jeffersonville, and during the last thirty years of his life he was shipping clerk for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He died at Jefferson- ville in 1914. He was one of the most pop- ular citizens, served as a member of the City Council, and at the time of his death was trustee of Jeffersonville Lodge No. 3, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and also trustee of Myrtle Lodge, Knights of Pythias. Much of the time outside of busi- ness he gave to the Methodist Church. He was a local minister and active in all phases of church work. He was identified with the Wall Street Church at Jeffersonville. In politics he was a republican. William E. Rose married Sarah E. Golden, who was born at Jeffersonville in 1846 and is still living there. Of their children the oldest, William, died in early youth. Charles H. is with the Car Service Bureau at Jeffer- sonville. The third is Franklin M. David H. is a merchant and a city trustee of Jef- fersonville. Jesse E. is in the men's fur- nishing goods business at Kokomo, Indiana. Herbert died in infancy. Nellie is unmar- . ried and living with her mother. Clar-
ence died at the age of twenty-one, and Ada V., the youngest, is the wife of Clifton B. Funk, a conductor with the Illinois Cen- tral Railroad Company living at Hodgen- ville, Kentucky.
Franklin M. Rose was born in Jefferson- ville January 15, 1869, and received his education in the local schools, including two years in the high school. He was be- tween fifteen and sixteen years old when he left school, and later had a business course in the Bryant and Stratton Busi- ness College at Louisville. For four months he worked in the Frank Brothers dry goods store at Jeffersonville, and on November 22, 1886, became an employe of W. S. Jacobs, one of the oldest coal mer- chants. He learned every phase of the business during the nine years he was with Mr. Jacobs. Mr. Jacobs sold out to the Jeffersonville Coal and Elevator Company. Mr. Rose continued with that organization for another nine years. In 1904 he and Thomas O'Neil formed a partnership as coal merchants, and on June 3, 1911, Mr. Rose bought out his partner and has since been sole owner. The business, a large and extensive one, is now conducted as the Franklin M. Rose Company, with vards at Eighth and Wall Streets, and the offices at 438 Spring Street. Mr. Rose also owns a business building on Spring Street and a modern home at 815 East Seventh Street.
In politics he has always been a repub- lican. He is ex-treasurer and now a mem- ber of the Board of Trustees of the Wall Street Methodist Church, and is affiliated with Myrtle Lodge, Knights of Pythias. Jeffersonville Camp, Modern Woodmen of America, and Jeffersonville Lodge No. 340, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Horeh Chapter No. 66, Royal Arch Masons, and Jeffersonville Commandery No. 27, Knights Templar.
In 1907, at Greencastle, Indiana, Mr. Rose married Miss Nettie Sellers. Her parents, Western and Margaret Sellers, live at Greencastle, her father being a farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Rose have three children : Margaret, born April 26, 1909; Laura Wood, born in May, 1912; and Alice Elizabeth, born in October, 1914.
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