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The founder of the business was the late Michael Clune, who was in fact one of the
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pioneers to enter the field of manufactur- ing at Indianapolis. He was born in County Clare, Ireland, and all his people were of the farming class. When he was five years of age his parents came to the United States and located near Browns- burg, Indiana, where he attended school and grew to manhood. In 1864 he came to Indianapolis and began the manufacture of mattresses. He had a very small shop, and his industry was not one calculated to attract much attention. Gradually he took up the upholstering of furniture, lounges, and davenports, and gradually developed a general furniture manufacturing estab- lishment, the growth of which kept pace with the development of Indianapolis as a city. For many years the establishment has been located at 1402 South Meridian Street. Michael Clune seemed to have the faculty of making all his business affairs prosper. The surplus from his manufac- turing he invested in real estate, and as a rule all his investments were made with a view to permanency, so that he could hardly be called a speculator. His business interests and his character made him a nat- ural leader in public affairs and much con- cerned with everything that affected the welfare of his home community. For many years he was prominent in the democratic party. The old Twenty-Fourth Ward prac- tically regarded his word as law and gos- pel for many years. When the democratic party went astray, as he believed during Brvan's time, he turned from his allegiance and was an equally fervid supporter of republican success after that. While he was a man of very positive character, he was regarded by all his friends as liberal in views and extremely generous and chari- tahle. The death of this worthy old time citizen of Indianapolis occurred in June, 1914, when he was seventy-one years of age. He married Cecilia Curran, who was born in Ireland and is still living. The family were active members of Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral. They were the parents of the following children : William J .; Anna, wife of John R. Walsh, of Detroit ; Cecilia, wife of Martin McDermott, treasurer of M. Clune & Company; Mary, wife of Walter R. Shiel, of Indianapolis; Tim, who died in 1912, at the age of twenty-nine ; Dan, liv- ing in New York; and Joseph, of Indian- apolis.
William J. Clune was born at Indian- Vol. V-17
apolis April 11, 1870, and finished his edu- cation at St. Viator's College at Kankakee, Illinois, graduating in 1887. He returned home to help his father in business and was actively associated with him until the close of his life. He learned furniture manufacturing in every detail, and was well qualified to succeed his father as presi- dent of M. Clune & Company. The output of this factory is distributed over many of the eastern states as well as throughout the Central West.
Mr. Clune is a democrat and he and his family are members of Sts. Peter and Paul's Cathedral. He married Miss Clare Langsencamp, daughter of William Lang- sencamp. To their marriage have been born four children: Elizabeth, Dorothy, Rose Mary and Clarence.
JOHN H. DELLINGER represents the sturdy and progressive agricultural ele- ment in Southern Indiana, his family were pioneers in Clark County, and he gave practically all his active years to farming until he was called to the duties and re- sponsibilities of the office of sheriff of Clark County, a position in which he is now serving.
The Dellinger family originated in Ger- many, but were identified with some of the early emigrations from the German states to America. A number of generations ago the family located in North Carolina. Sheriff Dellinger's grandfather was Capt. John Dellinger, a native of North Carolina. He served with the rank of captain in the War of 1812. Later he joined the pioneer settlers near Utica in Clark County, In- diana, and followed farming there the rest of his life. He married Barbara Bolinger, who was also a native of North Carolina and died in Clark County, Indiana.
Henry Dellinger, father of the present sheriff, was born near Jeffersonville, In- diana, in 1824. He spent all his life as a farmer, and died on his farm three miles east of Jeffersonville January 16, 1903. He became a republican in politics and was a member of the Baptist Church. Henry Dellinger married Claudine M. Clark, who was born at Fulton, Ohio, in 1843, and is now living with her son John. She was the mother of two sons, John H. and William. The latter was a farmer and merchant and died at Solón, Indiana.
John Henry Dellinger was born near
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Jeffersonville December 29, 1861. He had a country school education, graduated from the Jeffersonville High School in 1884, at- tended Hanover College one year, and in 1886 took a business course at New Albany. He then took up the vocation to which he had been trained as a boy, and for thirty years was a practical farmer. He still owns the old homestead three miles east of Jeffersonville, comprising 155 acres, a well improved grain and stock farm.
Mr. Dellinger was elected sheriff of Clark County in 1916 and entered upon the duties of his office for a term of two years in 1918. He is a republican and was elected on that ticket, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is affiliated with Utica Lodge No. 331, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and for the past fifteen years has been clerk of Ivanhoe Camp No. 3951, Modern Woodmen of America, at Utica. He is also a member of the college fraternity Phi Delta Theta.
Mr. Dellinger married in Clark County in 1887 Miss Mary E. Lentz, daughter of Lewis Lentz. Her father was born at Utica in 1831, but spent most of his life in Kentucky as a farmer. He was also a local magistrate there twenty-five years and was president of a roads corporation. He died at St. Matthews, Kentucky, in 1893. Lewis Lentz married Mary E. Parks, who spent all her life at St. Matthews, Ken- tucky. Mr. and Mrs. Dellinger are the parents of four children: Emily May is the wife of George Schlosser a farmer near Jeffersonville ; John Sherman now manages the homestead farm; Clark and Mildred Leone are both at home, the former a sophomore and the latter a junior in the Jeffersonville High School.
JAMES M. STODDARD, M. D. For the past dozen years the City of Anderson has had no more capable and thoroughly qualified physician and surgeon than Dr. James M. Stoddard, and it was both with regret and patriotic pride that the community saw him leave his private practice to accept service with the United States government. On August 30, 1917, he was commissioned a captain in the medical section of the Offi- cers Reserve Corps, and on January 2, 1918, he began a preliminary course of training in the treatment of infected wounds at the Rockefeller Institute at New York.
He is a native of Indiana, born at Lin- den, Montgomery County, May 6, 1878, son of Orren and Arminta (Montgomery) Stoddard. His father was also a physi- cian, but prior to that time nearly all the generations of which there is record were substantial farming people. The Stoddards are English and the Montgomerys also, and it was for this branch of the Montgomery family that Montgomery County, Indiana, was named. Doctor Stoddard's great- grandfather in one of the lines was George Pogue, the first settler at Indianapolis, for whom the noted Pogue's Run was named, and a son of General Pogue, a leader and officer in the Revolutionary war. Doctor Stoddard has a most interesting memento of this pioneer Indiana ancestor in a pair of wrought iron scissors which were ham- mered out by the sturdy blacksmith Pogue in his own forge.
Doctor Stoddard grew up and received his early education at that picturesque town on the banks of the Wabash in Sullivan County, Merom, and in 1896 he graduated from the Union Christian College of that town. From there he entered Wabash Col- lege in the junior class, graduating Bache- lor of Science in 1898. He spent a year in post-graduate work and in the preparatory medical course, and was Baldwin prize ora- tor at Wabash. He was also assistant in the biological laboratory. In 1900 he en- tered the Indiana Medical College at In- dianapolis, where he was graduated M. D. in 1902. He served one year as interne in the Protestant Deaconess Hospital, and for a year was also laboratory and surgical assistant to the noted Dr. W. W. Wishard of Indianapolis.
With the thorough training and qualifi- cations implied in the above outlined pre- liminary work, Doctor Stoddard began private practice in 1903 at Kennard, Henry County, Indiana, but in 1905 removed to Anderson, where he soon built up a very gratifying general practice as a physician and surgeon. In 1912 he served as coroner of Madison County, having been appointed by the Board of Commissioners to succeed Dr. Charles Trueblood. Doctor Stoddard owns a farm of eighty acres in Sullivan County, Indiana, but has never been able to give it any of his personal supervision. He is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America and is a member of the Central Christian Church.
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In 1904 he married Ruby E. Palmer, daughter of John M. and Addie M. (Jes- sup) Palmer. Her father for many years was an Anderson merchant. Doctor and Mrs. Stoddard have one child, Palmer, born in 1911.
HART F. FARWELL, president of the Citi- zens Independent Telephone Company of Terre Haute, is one of the most prominent men in the independent telephone move- ment of the United States today, and has been identified with that movement from its inception. An interesting bit of statis- tics regarding the telephone industry is afforded by Mr. Farwell's statement that when he undertook to organize his first in- dependent telephone company in Illinois there were only 400,000 telephones in the United States, while today the number of instruments in use over the United States approximately is 13,000,000. One of the principal causes of that growth has of course been the normal development of the telephone industry, the appreciation of its indispensable services to business and social needs, and the increase in population, but aside from that those who have any first hand knowledge of the development of the telephone during the past twenty-five years appreciate that the biggest single stimulus was the so-called "independent movement" which shook the old established telephone interests out of their sloth and conserva- tism and actually made the telephone pop- ular and a thing of the people instead of a rather exclusive adjunct of business and the densely populated cities.
Mr. Farwell, though a native of Illinois, and a resident of Terre Haute only since 1906, has an interesting connection with the city going back to pioneer times. His maternal grandfather, Hart Fellows, is said to have arrived in Terre Haute about the year 1823. Two sisters also came with him at the same time. Hart Fellows re- mained only a brief time in Terre Haute before he moved over the line into Illinois. Hart F. Farwell was born at Frederick, Illinois, March 17, 1861, a son of Maro and Ann (Fellows) Farwell, the former a na- tive of New Hampshire and the latter of Illinois. Hart F. Farwell was their only child. He spent his boyhood in his native village and attended grammar and high school at Farmer City, Illinois.
His father was a merchant and the boy
gained a thorough knowledge of merchan- dising by work in the store until he was about twenty years old. He then removed to Astoria, Illinois, where he engaged in the hardware business for himself and where he remained until 1895. It was in that year that he sold out his store and entered the independent telephone field, or- ganizing a company at Astoria and extend- ing the lines to Peoria. where he organized another company to put in a local exchange in that city. After that Mr. Farwell did a general telephone brokerage business. He then bought the independent telephone in- terests at Bloomington, Illinois, and with the growth and development of this com- pany, which has since bought out several other companies, he is still identified and is vice president of the Bloomington corpora- tion. In 1912 he became president of the Citizens Independent Telephone Company of Terre Haute. He is now one of the prominent officials in three of the larger independent telephone companies, the Wabash Valley Kinloch, the Bloomington and the Terre Haute. He is also a director in the United States Independent Tele- phone Association. As head of the Terre Haute company he has about 400 people di- rectly under his management and supervi- sion.
Mr. Farwell is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Mystie Shriner, and is affiliated with Terre Haute Lodge No. 86 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In 1883 he married Miss Belle Bonnell, daughter of Henry Bonnell of Griggsville, Illinois. They have three children, Maro, Hubert and Kate.
HON. ARTHUR R. ROBINSON, prominent lawyer and present state senator at In- dianapolis, has had that kind of career which is most significant of American man- hood and virility, and is not only a credit to him but is a source of enlightened citi- zenship to the community and state.
A native of Ohio, Mr. Robinson was born in the Village of Pickerington, Fairfield County. His father, John F. Robinson, and his grandfather, Jacob Robinson, were blacksmiths by trade. Jacob Robinson fought as a soldier in the Mexican war.
Losing his father early in life, Arthur R. Robinson became the chief support of his widowed mother, who is still living in the house where Mr. Robinson was born.
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He managed to attend the high school at Pickerington, but at the same time was working for a living by selling papers, clerking in a store and accepting every other employment that promised an honest dollar.
His proficiency and progress in his studies are amply testified to by the fact that at the age of fourteen he passed the examination for a teacher's certificate. At sixteen he was teaching a term of district school. Unable to see a future in teaching, he returned to clerking and was in a local store about four years. At the age of nine- teen he entered the Ohio Normal, now the Ohio Northern University, at Ada, and a year later was granted the degree Bachelor of Commercial Science.
One of the important events of his life occurred at Ada, where he met Miss Frieda Elfers, also a student at the University. On December 27, 1901, when she was seven- teen and he twenty, they were married.
After his marriage Mr. Robinson went to Columbus, Ohio, and was a resident of that city four years. Having considerable origi- nality and a sense of practical artistry, he became a window decorator, and for the last two years of his stay at Columbus had charge of the advertising, show card writ- ing and nearly all the management of one of the large stores of that city.
The direct outgrowth of his experience at Columbus was an opportunity to em- bark in general publicity work for an edu- cational institution. His services were ac- quired by the International Textbook Com- pany of Scranton. His work was so much appreciated that he was made division su- perintendent at Indianapolis, and was ad- vanced in both a monetary and official way until when only twenty-five years of age he was being paid over $5,000 a year.
It is impossible for a man like Senator Robinson to remain in the rut of routine performance. While working for the In- ternational Textbook Company he was studying law, and in 1908 entered the In- diana Law School, where he was graduated LL. B. and was valedictorian of his class in 1910. About the time of his graduation he was offered the position of assistant general manager of the company. To fill this place would have required his moving away from Indianapolis, but he had fully made up his mind to become a permanent resident of the capital City of Indiana. However, he
did accept conditionally the offer, but re- tained his home in Indianapolis. Mean- while he was finishing a liberal education in the University of Chicago, from which he has the degree Ph. B. given in 1913.
In 1910 Mr. Robinson organized the law firm of Robinson, Symmes & Marsh at In- dianapolis. Since 1915 this has been the firm of Robinson & Symmes, with a valu- able share of the law practice of the capi- tal city. Since 1913 Mr. Robinson has given his entire attention to the practice of law with the exception of the time spent in the World war. Those most familiar with him know Mr. Robinson as the liver of the strenuous life and a man who has never failed in any important undertaking. He enlisted in the first Officers' Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, May 10, 1917, was commissioned First Lieu- tenant of Infantry August 15, 1917, as- signed to the Three Hundred and Thirty- Fourth Infantry, Eighty-Fourth Division at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky, Au- gust 27, 1917, was promoted to Captain of Infantry, December 31, 1917, and sailed for France via Southampton, England, September 1, 1918. He was transferred to the . Thirty-Ninth Infantry, Fourth Divi- sion, November 10, 1918; joined the Thirty- Ninth Infantry at Commercy, France. and marched into the American Army of Occu- pation Area near Coblenz, Germany, with this organization. At present (May 1, 1919) he is a captain, commanding Head- quarters Company, Thirty-Ninth Infantry, American Army of Occupation, stationed at Rolandseck on the Rhine, Germany.
In 1914 he was elected state senator on the republican ticket. His abilities brought him into prominence in the Senate, and he was floor leader during the sessions of 1914- 15 and 1916-17. Senator Robinson has been continuously in demand as a public speaker. He has high and stimulating ideals of the responsibility of a capable citi- zen in political affairs, and feels that the great need of the times is an unselfish in- terest and working in politics. Senator Robinson is a Methodist, a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the Mystic Shrine,. and is also affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and various other fraterni- ties. 'He belongs to the Columbia and Mar- ion clubs and the Indianapolis and Indiana
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Bar associations. Senator and Mrs. Robin- son have three children, named Arthur Raymond, Willard Elfers and Catherine Caroline.
JAMES M. GOSSOM, present mayor of Terre Haute, has been active in business and politics in that city for a number of years. In politics he has never been a sel- fish seeker for the honors or rewards of office, and his work has been done largely to aid his friends and the cause of good government. Those who have known him longest and best speak of him as frank, fearless and ready to fight for any cause that he believes to be right and just.
Mayor Gosson was born in Edmonson County, Kentucky, July 24, 1875, a son of W. G. and Mary Emma (Jordan) Gossom. His father was a native of Warren County and his mother of Barren County, Ken- tucky, and both of them died in that state. Of their six children five grew to maturity, three daughters and two sons, James M. being the fifth in age.
Left an orphan at an early time, he re- ceived most of his education at the hands of Sisters of Charity in St. Columbia Acad- emy. On March 17, 1898, he left Ken- tucky and the following day arrived at Paris, Illinois, where he secured a job as a farm hand at $18 a month. In 1899 he re- turned to Kentucky and then for a year worked the old homestead, but soon re- turned to Paris and was again on a farm for several months. But farming did not offer advantages sufficient to keep him per- manently in that business. For about five months he was employed by a wholesale no- tion house of Chicago, later became assist- ant manager of a business, and then en- tered the services of the Nelson Morris Packing Company of Chicago. For this firm he came to Terre Haute, and for seven years was their city salesman. Mr. Gossom next entered the employ of the Indiana Milling Company, where for about four years he was foreman. While there he lost his right hand in the mill machinery. and this compelled him to seek a different branch of business.
About that time he was elected county commissioner, but failed to qualify for the office. He was appointed to the office of city comptroller, and with the removal of ·Mayor Roberts from office he was appointed in his stead and has since had the execu-
tive direction of the municipal government of Terre Haute. In March, 1917, he was nominated for another term. He has al- ways been a stanch and active democrat.
Mr. Gossom married in 1900 Jessie Sal- lee. They have five children, four daugh- ters and one son : Allie Bell, Lita S., Lulu Muriel, Mary Emma and Don Roberts.
CHARLES ELMER GOODELL, a prominent educator, well known in Indiana and in other states, has his home at Franklin, and for a number of years was connected with Franklin College. He came to the city as a student of the college in 1885 and was graduated in the classical course with the degree of A. B., and also did post-graduate work. In 1889-90 he taught at Franklin College in the modern language depart- ment. Practically his entire life has been devoted to teaching and the broader phases of education.
Mr. Goodell was born at Washburn, Illi- nois, in 1862, son of Harrison and Mary (Taylor) Goodell. His father was a farmer near Peoria and died there in 1877, being a man of considerable prominence in his locality and holding several local positions. This is a branch of the Goodell family which has a number of prominent connec- tions. Some of the notable men who claim kin with the original Goodell stock are for- mer President Taft, Dr. Herbert John- son, a prominent Baptist clergyman of Boston ; Dr. C. L. Goodell, a well-known Methodist divine of Brooklyn, New York, and William Goodell Frost, President of Berea College in Kentucky.
Mary Taylor Goodell, mother of Doctor Goodell, was born in Kentucky in 1824, daughter of Thomas Taylor, a prominent Baptist clergyman in Illinois from 1830 to 1854. The Taylor family lived at Hart- ford, near Springfield, Illinois. She be- longed to the Virginia family of Taylors, including President Zachary Taylor in its membership. Mary Taylor Goodell is still living, nearly ninety-five years old, at Bed- ford, Indiana.
Professor Goodell acquired his high school education at Mankato, Minnesota. After leaving Franklin College in 1890 he entered Cornell University and pursued post-graduate courses in history and polit- ical science in 1892, and acquired the de- gree of Master of Arts from Cornell. In May, 1918, Colgate University honored him
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with the degree of Doctor of Laws. After completing his work in Cornell he returned to Mankato as principal of the high school, but two years later came again to Franklin College as professor of history. He held that chair until 1900. During a well-earned leave of absence until 1900 he was a Fel- low in Political Science at the University of Chicago. Following that he was for three years, connected with the faculty of the State Agricultural College at Manhattan, Kansas, and in 1903 took up his work at Denison University in Ohio. He was ac- tively identified with Denison fourteen years, being registrar and dean of the sum- mer school. In July, 1917, he was ap- pointed successor to Doctor Hanley, presi- dent of Franklin College. Thus he is again with the institution in which he has al- ways had a keen interest and from which he was graduated.
Along with teaching and school adminis- tration Mr. Goodell has done much public speaking, and there is a great demand for his services in this field. He is a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and was instrumental in securing a charter of the Phi Delta Theta for Denison University.
In August, 1890, he married Miss Laura B. Ogle, of Indianapolis, daughter of Rev. Albert and Mary (Cotton) Ogle. Her parents were both born near near Vevay, Indiana. Her father lives in Indianapolis. He held three important pastorates in the state and is best known for his work as general superintendent of State Missions for the Baptist Church of Indiana, a posi- tion he held for nineteen years. He is still active at the age of eighty, and for the last ten years has been superintendent of finances and treasurer of the First Baptist Church at Indianapolis. Mr. Ogle sprang from that famous English family of Ogle that gave two admirals to the fleet of the English navy and two governors to the State of Maryland. Mrs. Goodell's mother, Mary J. (Cotton) Ogle, who died in Janu- ary. 1919, was granddaughter of Judge William Cotton of Vevay, Indiana. Judge Cotton was a member of Indiana's first Constitutional Convention and was a mem- ber of fourteen of the first sixteen legisla- tive assemblies of the state, and was also the first federal judge of Indiana. Mrs. Ogle's grandfather on her maternal side was John Gilliland, a civil engineer, who
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