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He was a staunch republican and one of the prominent members of the Knights of Pythias in Indiana, serving on the board of managers of the Knights of Pythias Build- ing at Indianapolis. He was active in the Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce and for
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forty-seven years was a member of the Cen- tennial Methodist Episcopal Church. On January 20, 1888, he married Miss Mar- garet M. Miller, whose father, Daniel Mil- ler, was one of the early and highly re- spected business men of Terre Haute. Their one daughter, Mallie B. Miller, is now the wife of John Lewis, and they reside in Los Angeles, California.
COL. CHARLES ARTHUR CARLISLE. In- diana has a few rare men whom it is super- fluous to mention in any publication of contemporary biography. Their names and personalities and most of their achieve- ments need no index or cataloging in Who's Who. One of them is Colonel Carlisle of South Bend. The following paragraphs are not designed to honor him in his own generation and state, but to perform the duties of reference when these volumes are prized as a record of the past.
His lineage is that of one of the oldest and most ancient families of Great Britain. All the way back to the time of the Norman conquest genealogy deals only with sure and authentic facts when the Carlisles are concerned. Despite the variety of spell- ings, all members of the family are of the same extraction. The surname of Carliell or Carlisle was unquestionably assumed from the City of Carlisle, the capital of Cumberland, England. This ancient city was an important Roman town, destroyed by the Danes in 875 A. D., rebuilt by Wil- liam II. Mary Queen of Scots was im- prisoned there in 1568. The word Carlisle, or Carlile or Carlyle or Carliell, is defined as from "Caer," city, and "Liel," "a strong people."
The founder of the family was Sir Hil- dred de Carliell, 1060 A. D., who lived and died at Carlisle, England. He was a man of great importance, receiving possessions from successive monarchs and leaving his honors and estates to posterity. How well the family supported their dignity will be seen from their holding so frequently the high office of "Guarantees of Truces," be- tween the two kingdoms, and of being so honorably associated with the splendid ret- inue of Margaret of Scotland on her mar- riage with the Dauphin of France. In the different generations loyalty and patriotism have been predominant virtues, and they have contributed brave and valiant leaders in war, upholders of civic righteousness, Vol. V-24
strong and zealous churchmen, and many distinguished names to the domain of art and literature.
When England was invaded by Scotland, Sir Hildred's oldest son, Sir William de Carlisle, then head of the family, sold all his lands and removed into Scotland, seat- ing himself at Kinmount. Other members of the family followed Bruce, the "Lion" King of Scotland, settling themselves in Annandale between 1170 and 1180, and later we find the names of Bruce and Doug- las, two of Scotland's noble leaders, inter- woven in marriage with that of Carlisle. Sir William Carlisle, the valiant supporter of King Robert Bruce, was rewarded for his loyalty and bravery by receiving in mar- riage the hand of King Bruce's favorite niece, Lady Margaret, in 1329.
The names of John and Andrew followed through the several branche's of the orig- inal Scotch branch of the families, and the coat of arms is found to be the same in all. John Carlisle, second surviving son of Wil- liam, the son of Edward, third son of Lord Carlisle of Torthorwald, who was raised to the dignity of a peer by James III in 1470,-settled in Virginia and married Miss Fairfax, a niece of Thomas, Lord Fairfax. Miss Fairfax's sister married Gen. George Washington.
Robert Carlisle, also a lineal descendant of Lord Carlisle, was the first to settle in the north of Ireland during the planting of Ulster and in 1611 was established in the neighborhood of Newry in the County of Down. Of this branch of the family came Andrew Carlisle, the father of John Car- lisle, the father of Meade Woodson Carlisle, who was the father of Col. Charles Arthur Carlisle.
Colonel Carlisle feels, as an American, a special pride in those of his ancestors who marched with the "Loyal Legion" down through the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and over the mountains to the northwest frontier, locating at Chillicothe, Ohio, then an advanced military post and fort and afterwards the first capital of the State of Ohio.
Charles Arthur Carlisle was born at Chil- licothe, Ross County, Ohio, May 4, 1864, son of Meade Woodson Clay and Emma V. (Barr) Carlisle. He attended the pub- lic schools of his native city, but to his mother he gives all credit for her persever- ing tutoring at home. In 1884, at the age
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of twenty, he was employed with the Ohio State Journal at Columbus, and in 1886 entered the railroad service with the Nickel Plate (N. Y. C. & St. L. R. R.) at Cleve- land, beginning at the bottom but quickly getting the recognition his talents and in- dustry deserved, and by 1890 he was a high official in the management of the Ohio Central lines at Toledo.
September 17, 1891, at South Bend, Mr. Carlisle married Miss Anne, only daughter of Hon. and Mrs. Clem Studebaker. The children born to their happy union have been : Anne, Mrs. Lafayette L. Porter; Charles Arthur, Jr .; Kathryn; Woodson S .; Alice, who died June 9, 1901; Richard M .; and Eleanor.
Mr. Carlisle became a director of the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Com- pany and served as an officer of that cor- poration for more than a quarter of a cen- tury, and in like manner with the South Bend Fuel & Gas Company and the South Bend Malleable Iron Company he served as a director.
He was president and helped organize the Harrison Republican Club of St. Joseph County. He was vice president and a mem- ber of the executive committee and one of the founders of the National Association of Manufacturers, and if the will of that or- ganization had been heeded he would doubt- less have been a member of President Mc- Kinley's cabinet as head of the new De- partment of Commerce. For many years he served as member of the executive com- mittee of the Carriage Builders National Association. He was at one time vice presi- dent of the Scotch-Irish Society of Amer- ica. He is a Knight Templar and thirty- second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner.
He served four years on Governor Mount's military staff and in like manner under Governor Durbin. In speaking of him Governor Durbin said : "Colonel Charles Arthur Carlisle has won recogni- tion throughout the state as one of the most active, enterprising and successful business men of Indiana, widely known not onlv because of his connection with large husiness enterprises but because of his public spirit."
He was a personal friend of President McKinley, and there was much correspond- ence between the two. One cherished au- tograph letter from that martyred states-
man contains the following : "For your un- selfishness I have nothing but the highest praise. Mrs. McKinley says you must not forget to send the children's pictures, and with love for Mrs. Carlisle, we remain sin- cerely your friends."
Colonel Carlisle might well be envied for the friends he has made, who have admired him for what he is, for what he has done, and especially for the sincere spirit, evident in every phase of his experience and char- acter, in striving to serve constructively and helpfully. Some of the notable men who have directly expressed their apprecia- tion of Colonel Carlisle's services have been the late Bishop John H. Vincent, Hon. Charles W. Fairbanks, Hon. Albert J. Beveridge and Judge Stevenson Burke of Cleveland, and Hon. D. M. Parry, then president of the National Association of Maufacturers. Thomas A. Edison once said: "Carlisle is a typical American, sanguine, pushing and bright; a man of the 'Wooly West' where everybody hustles and business is limited only by nervous prostration."
Colonel Carlisle's grandparents, as Pres- byterians, helped largely to build the First Presbyterian Church at Chillicothe and among the first in the new world, and em- ployed as its pastor the grandfather of Woodrow Wilson, now President of the United States. Mr. Carlisle is a member of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, Memorial Church, of South Bend, and places the church first among his interests. He is also a member of the Young Men's Christian Association, the Indiana Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Knife and Fork Club, the Rotary Club, all of South Bend; the Columbia Club and Marion Club of Indianapolis; the Chicago Club; the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the American Institute of Civics, and various other organizations which in- dicate his deep and thoroughgoing interest in all problems affecting the local, state and national welfare and progress.
In 1912 Mr. Carlisle was a republican candidate for governor, and withdrew be- fore the state convention in favor of his friend Colonel Durbin. While absent from home the Thirteenth Indiana District Con- vention nominated him for Congress, and he was drafted into service and made a hard unsnecessful fight with the normal strength of his following divided among
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the old-line republicans and the new pro- gressives.
A peculiarly interesting and grateful part of this record is that concerned with the period of the World war, in whose vari- ous causes Colonel Carlisle, Mrs. Carlisle and all the Carlisle children took an active part, Colonel Carlisle serving as food ad- ministrator of his community.
Mrs. Carlisle was selected by Governor Goodrich to serve as the woman member of the State Council of Defense for Indiana and as chairman of the Woman's Council of all war activities in the state. Under the leadership of Mrs. Carlisle each of the ninety-two counties in the state was organ- ized, and no greater efficiency of patriotic co-operation is found in all the annals of history than that developed by the loyal women of Indiana. It was Mrs. Carlisle's first effort in a state-wide organization, but she never counted cost in time or funds to co-operate in each county for the purpose of giving all possible aid to the boys "with the colors." The detailed work of this or- ganization is now part of the essential his- tory of Indiana in the World war.
Mrs. Anne Porter and Miss Kathryn Car- lisle took up the Red Cross work, and the lot fell to Miss Kathryn to go to the front, where she spent over a year on the fighting lines in France. The Indiana Society of. Chicago in honoring Miss Kathryn spoke with pride of the wonderful services ren- dered by this brave "Hoosier Soldier Girl" in charge of the American Red Cross Can- teen Service, who was back of the firing line and encouraged the troops just before going into battle and was among the first to greet them when they came out. She was in Paris when the Germans made their unsuccessful attacks.
Lieut. Woodson S. Carlisle, a student at Yale College, and under draft age, offered his services and entered the United States Naval Reserves, beginning at the bottom and coming out with the commission of lieutenant (j. g.) won through loyal, de- voted and consistent service. He was an officer on the Agamemnon-formerly the Kaiser Wilhelm II-one of the great trans- ports interned by the American government and used in carrying our troops overseas.
Charles A. Carlisle, Jr., an efficiency en- gineer, devoted his exceptional talents with the Savage Arms Company at Utica, New
York, where the government took over the production of the Lewis Machine guns.
CHARLES W. SMITH, lawyer, was born on his father's farm in Washington Township, Hendricks County, Indiana, on February 3, 1846. His father, Morgan Lewis Smith, was a native of the State of New York, of English descent, who in 1832 came to Indi- ana and located on the land which was to be his farm when the forest was removed. In 1834, having made the beginnings of a home, he went East and married Miss Mar- garet Iliff, a native of Pennsylvania, of Welsh descent, then living in New Jersey. Charles was the sixth of their eight chil- dren, the first four dying in their infancy, and he grew up on the farm, attending the common schools of the vicinity and Dan- ville Academy, at Danville, Indiana. He then entered Asbury, now DePauw Univer- sity, for a collegiate education. The Civil war was on, and young Smith had very pronounced Union views, so in April, 1864, he enlisted, for a term of 100 days in Com- pany F of the 133rd Indiana Volunteer Infantry. At the expiration of his term he re-enlisted, and later was transferred to a command in a regiment of colored troops. At the close of the war he was mustered out as first lieutenant and adjutant of the 109th United States Colored Infantry. He returned to Asbury and finished his college course, graduating in 1867. He had al- ready decided to study law, and at once went to Indianapolis and began reading in the office of Barbour & Jacobs, Lucian Barbour, the senior member of this firm, being one of the foremost lawyers of In- diana. He had been United States district attorney under President Polk but had gone over to the new-born republican party in 1854, and had been elected to Congress in that year from the Indianapolis district. Smith pursued his studies so vigorously that he was enabled to graduate from the Indiana Law School in Indianapolis in 1868. He was admitted to the bar in the same year, and after managing an office of his own for more than two years became a member of his preceptor's firm, which now took the name of Barbour, Jacobs & Smith. He retained this relation for one vear, and then withdrew to take the posi- tion of special counsel for the Singer Manu- facturing Company. After two years in
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this position he formed a partnership with Roscoe Hawkins, which continued until 1877, when Mr. Smith became a member of the firm of Duncan, Smith & Duncan.
Robert Duncan, the senior member of this firm, was one of the pioneers of central Indiana as a youth. He played with the Indian boys before they were removed from the state, and entered the office of the coun- ty clerk of Marion County as deputy when that office was first opened, in 1822. He continued in that position until 1834, when he was elected county clerk, and held that office until 1850. He then entered the prac- tice of law devoting himself chiefly to pro- bate work. His son, John S. Duncan, the junior member of the firm, had been ap- pointed prosecuting attorney for Marion County in 1867, when he was only twenty- one years old, and held that office for three years, winning his spurs in the trial of Nancy Glem and others for "the Cold Springs murders," one of the most notable criminal cases ever known in Indiana. He was twenty-three days older than Mr. Smith, and they two were practically the firm, the elder Duncan retiring from active practice. This partnership continued until the death of John Duncan, more than thirty-eight years later. The firm was em- ployed in nearly every notable criminal case in Indiana during that period. What is rather unusual, the civil practice was even larger than its criminal practice, and of as importanat a character. The member- ship of the firm varied occasionally, John R. Wilson, a brother-in-law of Mr. Duncan, and one of the most accomplished of Indi- ana lawyers, being a member for several years, and later Henry H. Hornbrook, Mr. Smith's son-in-law, a lawyer of the highest standing, and Albert P. Smith, Mr. Smith's son, were members. After John Duncan's death his place was taken by Judge Charles Remster, and the firm is now Smith, Rem- ster. Hornbrook & Smith.
Mr. Smith was married October 12, 1869, to Miss Mary E. Preseton of Greencastle, Indiana, and in addition to their son, Al- bert D., they have three daughters: Mar- garet, wife of Prof. Wilbur C. Abbott, of the faculty of Yale; Mary Grace, wife of Mr. Hornbrook, and Kate P., wife of S. P. Mincar, a prominent merchant of Greens- burg, Indiana. While devoting his atten- tion very closely to his profession, Mr. Smith has had three other passions. He
has never lost his interest in Civil war af- fairs, and is prominent in Grand Army and Loyal Legion circles. In 1915 he prepared a paper entitled "Life and Services of Brevet Major General Robert S. Foster," which was published as No. 6 of Vol. 5, of the Indiana Historical Society's Publica- tions. He has been a regular attendant at the weekly meetings of the Indianapolis Literary Club, an institution of which near- ly every really prominent man in Indian- apolis in the last forty years has been a member. He has for more than forty years taught the Bible class in the Sunday school of the Meridian Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is one of the leading members. Mr. Smith was a member of the faculty of Indiana Law School 1895-8, and lectured on "Evidence."
LUTHER VINTON RICE is a native of In- diana, who in his professional career during thirty years has become a recognized expert and authority as a civil and mining engi- neer.
Mr. Rice was born on a farm four miles southwest of Ladoga, Montgomery County, Indiana, in 1861, son of Jasper and Sarah Margaret (Gill) Rice. Most of his youth was spent in the rural community where he was born, with the exception of twelve years when he resided with his parents in Dallas County, Iowa. In 1883 he gradu- ated from the Central Indiana Normal School, and later entered Cornell Univer- sity, where he prepared for his profession, and from which he received his degree as civil and mining engineer in 1889.
His first work in the engineering pro- fession was with the late George S. Mori- son, on a bridge over the Missouri river at Nebraska City, Nebraska, and one over the Mississippi river at St. Louis, and with George W. G. Ferris as resident engineer on a bridge over the Ohio river at Cincin- nati. Later he became bridge engineer and chief draftsman for the Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad, after which he returned to St. Louis to take up the construction of the Union Station at St. Louis, where he was made resident engineer. At the time this was built it was the largest and costliest railroad station in the United States, and it still remains one of the notable structures of its kind. He left this work for a position as construction engineer on the great Ferris Wheel at the World's Columbian Exposi-
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tion in Chicago in 1893. Mr. Rice not only had charge of the construction of this new wonder of the world, but also had charge of the operation of same, and during the four months and ten days of its operation at the World's Columbian Exposition over a mil- lion and a half passengers were carried safely without a single accident. Mr. Rice afterward had charge of moving the Wheel to the North Side of Chicago, and again to St. Louis for the St. Louis Fair in 1904.
The president of the Ferris Wheel Com- pany was Robert W. Hunt, of the firm of Robert W. Hunt & Company, with which firm Mr. Rice has been associated for about twenty-five years. This company is one of the largest engineering organizations in the United States, with headquarters in Chi- cago and branch offices in all of the prin- cipal cities of the country. Mr. Rice has charge of the civil engineering and mining department of this firm, and in this position has had charge of some large and respon- sible development and construction opera- tions, among other things the Leiter coal mining property at Zeigler, Illinois, the lowering of the tunnels in the Chicago river, the designing and construction of cement plants at Fenton, Michigan, Superior, Neb- raska and St. Louis, Missouri, superintend- ing the erection of many large buildings in Chicago and several of the largest build- ings in Indianapolis. He has also had charge of the development and operation of zine and lead mines in Wisconsin for the Field Mining & Milling Company and . the Galena Refining Company, and for the Whitebird Mining Company, the Producers Company, the Zinc-Lead Corporation, the Chicago-Miami Lead & Zinc Company, and the Pittsburg-Miami Lead & Zine Company in Oklahoma, and for the Embree Iron Company and the Tennessee Zinc Com- pany, Embreeville Tennesee. He has also been engaged on the exploration of coal properties in Canada for the British Col- lieries Brazeau, Ltd., and coal mines in northern British Columbia for the Grand Trunk Railway, and the exploration of coal properties in southwestern Indiana for the Steel Corporation. He has also reported upon a number of copper properties throughout the west, and iron properties in Minnesota, Michigan, Ontario, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina and Missouri. He has examined and reported upon manga- nese ores in several states and upon clay
and phosphate deposits and stone and mar- ble quarries in various parts of the United States and Canada.
During 1918-19 Mr. Rice has been en- gaged in the development of the largest coal mining property in the State of Illi- nois, near Carlinville, Macoupin County. This is a great project being carried out by the Standard Oil Company of Indiana as a fuel conservation measure. Mr. Rice's experience has also included the appraisal of various mines, railroads and other prop- erties.
He is a member of the Western. Society of Engineers and the American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers.
Mr. Rice married an Indiana girl, Miss Huldah Jane Neal, of Lebanon, Indiana, daughter of Judge Stephen A. Neal, long a prominent Indiana judge and lawyer.
F. T. REED, secretary and treasurer of the Guthrie-Thompson Company of Indi- anapolis, was a teacher during his young manhood in Jefferson County, afterward entered public office and business, and has been a well known resident of the capital city for a quarter of a century. The Guth- rie-Thompson Company, whose offices are in the Lemeke Building, is a corporation capitalized at $375,000, whose special serv- ice is the building of homes, or, as the com- pany expresses it, "builders of houses to live in." Mr. C. N. Thompson is president of the company and W. A. Guthrie is vice president.
Mr. Reed was born in Switzerland Coun- ty, Indiana, December 29, 1857, a son of James K. and Hester M. (Rodgers) Reed. His grandfather, Henry Reed, was a Penn- sylvanian, moved to Virginia and Ken- tucky, and was an early settler iu southern Indiana. James K. Reed was born in Jef- ferson County, and is still living there at the advanced age of eighty-one. He had an interesting service as a Union soldier. He was in the Third Indiana Cavalry, in Com- pany A, and was with his command three and a half years. For a time the Third Indiana Cavalry was with the Army of the Potomac, and participated in twenty- five battles and thirty skirmishes. The regiment was at Antietam, the Wilderness, Gettysburg and many other great battles. One time James K. Reed was called upon by his captain to inspect a suspicious dwell- ing house across the river. He rode over .
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only to find the house filled with Confed- erates, who compelled him to surrender. While he was being marched to a prison camp he managed to make his escape, and subsequently returned home to nurse a wound received in a shell explosion. It happened that his captain was also home on a furlough. His captain supposed that he had been killed, and their meeting brought about an expression of great sur- prise and then congratulation. James K. Reed was dicharged in 1864 and since then has been a farmer. He is a republican, a Methodist, and has long been prominent in Jefferson County, where he served two terms as county commissioner. He is affili- ated with Moores Hill Lodge of Masons.
Mr. F. T. Reed was one of a family of four daughters and two sons. He was edu- cated in the public schools of Jefferson County and attended Moores Hill Acade- my. As a teacher his work in Jefferson County occupied him most of the time for thirteen years. He also served four years as assistant in the county treasurer's office. On coming to Indianapolis in 1893 Mr. Reed became connected with the Southern Surety Company as auditor, and he held that position seven years. Since 1910 he has been secretary-treasurer of the Guth- rie-Thompson Company. 3 Various other business enterprises have had his co-opera- tion and association in Indianapolis.
Mr. Reed is affiliated with North Port Lodge of Masons, and with Lodge No. 56 of the Knights of Pythias. Outside of home and business his chief interest has been church and Sunday school. Since early youth he has been a close student of the Bible and for many years has conducted a large adult class in the Sunday school. He is an active member of both the church and Sunday school of the West Side Meth- odist Church. Mr. Reed married for his first wife Miss Mary Paris, who died in 1902, the mother of two sons: James R., born September 30, 1893, and Robert T., born May 1, 1900. In October, 1905, Mr. Reed married Nerina Whitehall.
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