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Fox was reared on a farm, receiving the scholastic training afforded by the common schools in the vicinity of his home, and then con- tinned his studies in Whitewater College, in Centerville, Ind. In 1860 he removed from Preble county to Centerville, which was then the county seat of Wayne county, and began the study of law under the direction of George W. Julian. After pursuing a thorough course and largely familiarizing himself with the under- lying principles of jurisprudence, Mr. Fox was admitted to the bar in 1861, but, instead of devoting his energies to building up a practice, he put aside all personal considerations and offered his services to the government, becoming a member of Company C, Fifty-seventh Indiana infantry. He was made first lieutenant and served thirteen months, at the end of which time he was forced to resign on account of failing health. During that time, however, he participated in the hard-fought battle of Pittsburg Landing. After his return home Lieutenant Fox began the practice of law, and for that purpose formed a partnership with Judge Nimrod II. Johnson, under the firm name of Johnson & Fox. In 1875 Judge Fox removed from Centerville to Richmond and has since made his home in this city. He opened an office and successfully en- gaged in practicing law. In 1862 he was elected district attorney for the common pleas district, composed of the counties of Wayne, Union, Fayette and Franklin. In 1864 he was re-elected, serving in all four years in this office. In the year 1878 he was elected judge of the Wayne Superior Court, which position he held until the office was abolished. On Aug. 25, 1892, Governor Chase ap- pointed him a judge on the appellate bench of Indiana, and he was nominated for the same position in that year by the Republican party, but at the regular fall election he was defeated with the bal- ance of the Republican ticket. In the year 1896 he was elected judge of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit of Indiana, which position he has filled to the present time by repeated re-elections. In poli- tics the Judge has been an ardent Republican all his life, uncom- promising in his political views. For forty-eight years he has been a member of the Masonic fraternity, his present membership being with Richmond Lodge at Richmond, Ind. In May, 1861, was sol- emnized Judge Fox's marriage to Miss Helen S. Linsley, of Trum- bull county, Ohio, and of Scotch and Welsh descent. At the time of her marriage she was a teacher of music, and she and her hus- band first met in the town of Seven Mile, Butler county, Ohio, where Miss Linsley was teaching music for the celebrated Pro- fessor Hanby, the author of the well known song, "Nellie Gray," and other popular ballads. Three children were the issue of the union of Judge and Mrs. Fox-Francis L., Frederick H., and Flor- ence J. The daughter is an artist of rare ability, her specialty being in oil painting of animals, and she also excels as a painter of portraits. She was for some time a pupil under Professor Bell, of New York. The Judge has also had some experience in literary matters, having a very fine library of miscellaneous books. As a matter of recreation he has indulged in some literary work, prin- cipally of a humorous character, and has won considerable repu-
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tation by the publication of a book entitled "The Adventures of a Philosopher, a Dun Mule and a Brindle Dog," of which two edi- tions were quickly sold ; and another production of his pen, "Uncle Zeek and Aunt Eliza," has received favorable comment from a large number of readers. In the preparation of the historical vol- ume of the "Memoirs of Wayne County and the City of Rich- mond," he has given the benefit of his long residence in and inti- mate knowledge of Lenawee county by acting in the capacity of editor.
John B. Dougan has gained prestige as one of the able and popular men of affairs of Wayne county and is at present occupy- ing the position of president of the Second National Bank at Rich- mond. Ile is a member of one of the prominent families of Wayne county, with whose annals the name has been identified for more than half a century. He was born at Niles, Mich., Dec. 14, 1847, a son of William and Anna (Gray) Dougan. The father was born in the north of Ireland, in 1809, and with his brother, George Dougan, came to the United States about the year 1820, locating at Pittsburgh, Pa., where he learned the carpenter's trade, follow- ing that occupation in the Keystone State seven years. Ile also mastered cabinet making and became an expert mechanic. Ile later removed to Niles, Mich., where he engaged in carpentering and contracting, erecting the greater number of the buildings of that city during his residence there. He became not only one of the substantial men of that place, but was also a citizen to whom was ever accorded the fullest measure of popular confidence and esteem. He was a man of forceful individuality, guided his life according to the strictest principles of integrity and honor, and wielded much influence in public affairs of a local nature. He married Anna Gray, a native of the north of Ireland and a daughter of Isaac and Martha (Bartley) Gray. Her mother was an English lady, but married Mr. Gray in the Emerald Isle, and they emigrated to America in the early '20s, their daughter, Anna, who remained in Ireland, joining them in America a few years later. Their first home was in Rockbridge county, Virginia, but after a short resi- dence there they came to Richmond, Ind., Mr. Gray being one of the leading pioneer merchants of that city. His last days were spent in Niles, Mich., where his death occurred in 1831. William and Anna (Gray) Dougan became the parents of six children : Isaac G. is a retired farmer of Spring Grove, Wayne county ; Wil- liam is a practicing physician at Niles, Mich .; George B. is of the firm of Dougan & Company, insurance, of Richmond; David is a banker at Denver, Colo .; John B. is the next in order of birth ; and Martha is the wife of I. T. Foster, of Richmond. The father of this family died in August, 1849. Eight years later, in 1857, the mother became the wife of Daniel Reid and by this union had two chil- dren : Daniel G., president of the American Tin Plate Company ; and Virginia, who became the wife of O. H. Bogue, of Wabash, Ind., and died Nov. 28, 1911. Mrs. Reid died in September, 1898, at the advanced age of eighty-three years. John B. Dougan spent the first ten years of his life in Niles, Mich., and in 1858 came with his
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family to Richmond; and he passed the remainder of his boyhood days under the helpful influences and discipline of the home farm where the family resided. There he became familiar with all the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist, and in the intervals of farm work improved the educational advantages afforded by the district schools of the neighborhood. In the fall of 1865 he returned to Niles, Mich., where he attended school for a year, and, thus equipped for the practical and responsible duties of a business career, again came to Richmond, in September, 1866, and entered the First National Bank, as "messenger boy." For six vears he remained with that institution, and his close application, his faithfulness and his ability won him promotion from time to time until he was made general bookkeeper. In 1872, when the Second National Bank of Richmond was organized, he was ten- dered and accepted the position of cashier of that institution, con- tinuing in that capacity until Jan. 1, 1898, when he was elected vice-president, and in August, 1901, he became president, in which position he still continues. He is a close student of the banking business, in all departments of which he keeps in close touch with the advances made from year to year. In politics Mr. Dougan shows an abiding faith in the principles of the Republican party, of whose cause he is a zealous supporter, and in a fraternal way is identified with the Masonic order, being a member of Richmond Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; King Solomon's Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Richmond Commandery, Knights Templars; and Indianapolis Consistory, Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret. In October, 1876, Mr. Dougan was united in marriage to Miss Helen L. Scott, a daughter of William G. Scott, deceased. They hold membership in the Presbyterian church, and for many years Mr. Dongan has served as one of its trustees.
Isaac Jenkinson, deceased, for many years prominent in public life and the last surviving Indiana member of the Electoral Col- lege that chose Abraham Lincoln for President in 1860, was born at Piqua, Ohio, April 29, 1825. He was a son of John Jenkinson, a tanner by occupation. When a small boy he moved with his par- ents to Deerfield, Randolph county, Indiana, a town now extinct. He was appointed postmaster at that place by President Tyler when only seventeen years old, and when twenty-one was elected justice of the peace. During his young manhood he moved to Fort Wayne and became identified with that growing town's in- terests. In 1856 he was one of the organizers of the Republican party in Allen county and made his first Republican speech in Fort Wayne, then a hotbed of Democracy. When the Civil war came on, Governor Morton made him a recruiting officer in the State, and he devoted all of his time to the cause. In 1863, in partnership with David W. Jones, he founded the Fort Wayne "Gazette," now the "Journal-Gazette," and continued its publication several years. Jones did not remain long in the journalistic harness. The "Ga- zette" had a stormy voyage, but survived. Mr. Jenkinson's next journalistic effort found him in Richmond, where he became a pub- lisher of the "Palladium," already being printed weekly and now
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the second oldest paper in Indiana. It was founded in 1831, but was preceded several years by the "Western Sun," of Vincennes. Mr. Jenkinson established the "Palladium" in the daily field and continued to be its editor twenty years, during which time he served as postmaster at Richmond. It is a matter of local history that every editor of the "Palladium" has, with the exception of the present editor, Rudolph G. Leeds, been at some time or other the postmaster at Richmond. Mr. Jenkinson was assigned to an impor- tant post by President Grant in 1869, that of consul to Glasgow, Scotland, and remained there until 1874. But it was in educational affairs that Mr. Jenkinson made what he termed his happiest rec- ord. Prior to 1908, when he retired, he was thirty-five years a member of the board of trustees of Indiana University at Bloom- ington. 'He was the president of the board for seventeen years. Ile was also a member of the first board of trustees of Purdue University at Lafayette, having been present when the site for the first building of that now magnificent institution was selected. One feature of his educational work held first place in his pride-that of having first advocated making Indiana University a co-educa- tional institution. He fought long for that cause and finally tri- umphed, in 1867, when he succeeded in getting the other trustees to vote to admit Miss Sarah Parke Morrison as a student in that institution. Miss Morrison was the first woman gradnate, receiv- ing her diploma in 1869. She now lives in Knightstown. Mr. Jenkinson was also instrumental in the purchase of the beautiful campus of Indiana University. After his retirement from the duties of active life he resided in his beautiful home at Richmond until the time of his demise, Oct. 25, 1911. He is survived by a widow, Mrs. Narcissa ( Lewis) Jenkinson, whom he married at Williams- burg, in 1854.
Henry Rayburn Robinson .- Among those to whom the thriv- ing little city of Richmond is indebted for its business and civic prestige is Henry Rayburn Robinson, a native son of the city and one of its most honored and progressive citizens. He was born in Richmond, Ind., Feb. 13, 1874, a representative of one of the ster- ling pioneer families of this favored section of the State. He is a son of the late Henry E. and Emma (Brown) Robinson (see sketch of IIenry E. Robinson). He was afforded the advantages of the excellent public schools of Richmond, including the high school, in which he graduated with the class of 1894, after which he became a student in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass., and soon afterward entered the establishment of Robinson & Company, at Richmond, which his grandfather had founded. He was literally reared in the business, as was also his brother, Wil- liam P. Robinson, the efficient secretary of the concern, and started in the shops as a workman, continuing so employed until the death of his grandfather. He then successively filled the positions of foreman, assistant superintendent, and superintendent, until 1908, when he was made vice-president and superintendent of the com- pany. He has contributed his due share in making the enterprise a distinctive success. Mr. Robinson is a man of much initiative
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power and progressive ideas, his business affairs are handled with discrimination and ability, and he has so ordered his course in all the relations of life as to maintain the confidence and good will of the people of his native county and all others with whom he has had business or social relations. He is a member of the Commer- cial Club and of the Tourist Club of Richmond, president of the Richmond Lake and Park Company-a corporation organized to purchase and preserve 100 acres of land known as the Hawkins and Marmon Estates, situated in the river valley between Tenth street and Glen Miller Park-and he is a communicant of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, in which he has officiated as super- intendent of the Sunday school for about twenty years. On July 12, 1890, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Robinson to Miss Olive M. Kaminski, born near Steubenville, Ohio, a daughter of Mrs. Anna E. Kaminski, of Richmond. Mrs. Robinson is a grad- uate of Earlham College in the class of 1896. Of the union of Mr. and Mrs Robinson have been born two sons-Charles K. and Fran- cis W. The family resides at 832 National Road.
Henry E. Robinson, deceased, for many years prominent as a manufacturer, was born in Richmond, Ind., Oct. 10, 1839. Ile was a son of Francis W. and Susan B. Robinson (see sketch of Francis W. Robinson). He received the educational training af- forded by the schools of his native city and remained at home until the breaking out of the Civil war. Then, when twenty-two years old, he enlisted as a private in the Fifty-seventh Indiana infantry. This regiment was recruited in the Fifth and Eleventh Congressional districts and was organized at Richmond, in No- 'vember, 1861. It was mustered in, Nov. 18, and left the State Dec. 23, reporting to General Buell at Louisville, where it was assigned to the Sixth division, Army of the Ohio, and ordered to Bardstown, Ky. It moved to Lebanon, and on Feb. 12, 1862, to Munfordville, and thence to Nashville. It started for Pitts- burg Landing, March 21, and was actively engaged at Shiloh. It participated in the siege of Corinth and moved from there to Northern Alabama, where it remained until July, and was then ordered to Tennessee. It was on duty near Tullahoma and Mc- Minnville until September and then took an active part in the campaign against Bragg in Kentucky, being in the battle of Perryville. Mr. Robinson participated in all of the services of his regiment up until this time, but soon thereafter was forced to retire on account of illness, and his discharge from the service was received after his return home. Ile recovered after a severe illness and then went to Indianapolis, where he became identi- fied with an express company. Later, he returned to Richmond and became a partner with his father in the Robinson Machine Works. He was made vice-president of the company when it was incorporated, in 1889, as Robinson & Company, and when his father died, in 1897, Mr. Robinson was chosen president, con- tinuing in that position until his death, Jan. 9, 1909. While liv- ing at Indianapolis, Mr. Robinson was happily married to Miss Emma Brown. Mrs. Robinson died as the result of a railway
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accident, near Bay View, Mich., where she was spending the summer months, Sept. 14, 1899. While alighting from a passen- ger train she stepped in front of another one, which she did not see, and the fatal accident caused deeply felt grief among a large circle of friends. She and her husband are buried at Crown Hill cemetery, in Indianapolis. Mr. Robinson was a leading manu- facturer of Richmond and was one of the most prominent busi- ness men in the community, having served for some time as president of the County Council. For many years he was identi- fied with St. Paul's Episcopal Church. He was a congenial man, had a large circle of friends, and was recognized as one of the most systematic and thorough business men in the city. His interest in local affairs was always manifested and his time for private matters was not so valuable as to prevent him from de- voting a portion to the public welfare. lle is survived by five children : Frank B., a locating engineer in the West ; Mrs. Frank Vaughan, of Richmond; William P. Robinson, secretary of Rob- inson & Company; Henry Rayburn Robinson (see sketch) ; and Mrs. Harry Genuett, of Richmond. Mr. Robinson is also sur- vived by five sisters: Mrs. Emily Yeo, Mrs. S. E. Swayne, Mrs. George Barnes, and the Misses Elenora and Frances Robinson.
Fielding Gaar was born in Richmond, on South Front street, now South Fourth street, Jan. 1, 1827. He was the youngest son of Jonas and Sarah ( Watson) Gaar (see sketch of Gaar Family, page 277). From the age of fifteen years he was actively con- nected with the old firm of A. Gaar & Company and afterwards with Gaar, Scott & Company until about twenty years before his death, which occurred at his residence, 206 North Fifteenth street, in Richmond, Nov. 19, 1900. He was a stockholder in the firm of Gaar, Scott & Company from the time of its organiza- tion. In November, 1865, he was married to Mary J. Gallagher. Their children are: Jonas, the eldest, who resides in Richmond; Charles, a machinist with Gaar, Scott & Company ; Indiana, who married Il. W. Gilbert, manager of collections for the firm of Gaar, Scott & Company ; and Earl, who resides with his mother in Los Angeles, Cal.
William Dudley Foulke, lawyer, writer, journalist, and one of the leading citizens of the State of Indiana, was born at No. 76, Rivington street, New York City, Nov. 20, 1848, a son of Thomas and Hannah (Shoemaker) Foulke. Ile is a descendant of Edward Foulke, who emigrated from North Wales in 1698 and was among the colonists brought by William Penn to America, settling at Gwynodd. Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. The ancestry of Edward Foulke was set forth in one of those long and luxuriant pedigrees so common in Welsh genealogies and after- ward formed the subject of a satire by Mr. Foulke, entitled "The Economical Acquisition of Royal Ancestry," which appeared in his "Protean Papers," published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, in 1903. Mr. Foulke's father and grandfather (Joseph Foulke) were both ministers in the Society of Friends. His father, Thomas Foulke, was for a long time principal of Grammar School No. 45, then'
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the largest school in New York City, and to that school the boy was sent for his education; but owing to ill health his attendance was intermittent, and his early education was acquired mostly at home. When his father afterwards became principal of Friends' Seminary at Rutherford Place, New York City, Mr. Foulke at- tended school there for some years, and then, after a few months' preparation under a private tutor, he entered Columbia College, in the fall of 1865, graduating in 1869, at the head of his class and delivering the Greek Salutatory. A year later he was ad- mitted to the bar in New York, and in 1871 graduated at Colum- bia College Law School, commencing the practice of the law in New York City, in partnership with Frank Molocsay. In Octo- ber, 1872, he was married to Mary Taylor Reeves, daughter of Mark E. and Caroline M. Reeves, of Richmond, Ind. He continued the practice of the law in New York until 1876, when he re- moved to Richmond and formed a partnership with Jesse P. Sid- dall, one of the solicitors of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway Company, and he remained for fifteen years one of the attorneys of this company, as well as being engaged in general practice. In 1882 he was elected upon the Republican ticket as a member of the Indiana State Senate from Wayne county and served four years. During his term he refused to support Mr. Blaine for the Presidency. He became interested in the reform of the civil service and introduced a bill to establish this reform in Indiana, but public opinion was not yet ripe for the matter and it failed by a close vote to pass the Senate. He subsequently became president of the Indiana Civil Service Reform Associa- tion and conducted a series of investigations into the manage- ment of the State Insane Hospital, which resulted in revealing many abuses, including fraudulent contracts and the ill treatment of patients, due to the spoils system under the partisan manage- ment of that institution. This investigation and the publicity given to it had considerable influence in the election of 1886, as well as in the Presidential campaign of 1888, in which Benjamin Harrison was elected. In 1889-90, during Mr. Harrison's term, Mr. Foulke was the chairman of a special committee of the Na- tional Civil Service Reform League, consisting of Charles J. Bona- parte, Richard H. Dana, Jr., Wayne MacVeagh, and Sherman S. Rogers, which conducted a series of investigations into the con- dition of the Federal civil service, embracing the subjects of Congressional patronage, the administration of the Patent Office and Census Bureau, political changes in the Postoffice Department, removal of office-holders upon secret charges, and other matters, and severe strictures were made upon the administration of Presi- dent Harrison. It was while he was conducting this investiga- tion that a friendship began between Mr. Roosevelt, who was then Civil Service Commissioner, and Mr. Foulke, and which has continned uninterruptedly since that time. Mr. Foulke was also for many years president of the American Woman Suffrage As- sociation, until its union with the National Woman Suffrage As- sociation, in 1890. In that year he retired from the general `prac-
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tice of the law. In 1891 he was elected president of Swarthmore College, but was unable to accept the position, owing to the sud- den death of his brother-in-law, Arthur M. Reeves, which cast certain business responsibilities upon him and made a removal to the East impossible. Four years before this time he wrote "Slav or Saxon," a monograph, describing the growth of Rus- sian civilization and its rivalry to the civilization of English- speaking peoples. A second edition of this work, including an account of subsequent Russian aggressions, was published in 1808, and a third edition, subsequent to the war between China and Japan, was published in 1904 (G. P. Putnam's Sons). In 1899 he published in two volumes a biography of Oliver P. Morton, the war governor of Indiana ( Bobbs-Merrill Co., of Indianapolis), which is in fact a history of Indiana during the period of the Civil war, as well as a record of the subsequent career of Mr. Morton in the United States Senate. He was acting chairman of the Congress on Suffrage in the World's Congress Auxiliary of the Columbian Exposition in 1893, and in that year became presi- dent of the American Proportional Representation League. Mr. Foulke has devoted a considerable portion of his time to foreign travel in all the countries of Europe, in Cuba, Mexico, Yucatan, etc., and in 1900 published "Maya, a Story of Yucatan," being a romance of the period of the Spanish Conquest, the scene of which was laid in Uxmal and other places in that peninsula. Mr. Foulke has also taken an active part in every political campaign since 1876, and another book, issued by him in 1903, entitled "Protean Papers," is a collection of miscellaneous essays, the first one, "Spell-binders," enumerating the characteristic and amusing scenes in the career of a political campaigner. Other articles de- scribe "Mountaineering in Mexico," "The Frailties of Literary Criticism," "The Disadvantages of a University Education," and other subjects. Mr. Foulke has also been an occasional contribu- tor to various magazines. When Mr. Roosevelt succeeded to the Presidency, in 1901, one of his first appointments was that of Mr. Foulke to the National Civil Service Commission, and as such he served until 1903, most of the time as the colleague of John R. Proctor and James R. Garfield. Ile resigned, owing to ill health. and has since devoted much of his time to travel in Italy, Germany, Greece, Russia, Scandinavia, France, Spain, etc. In 1906 he wrote the first English translation of the "History of the Langobards, by Paul, the Deacon," with elaborate historical and critical notes. This work was issued by the Department of His- tory of the University of Pennsylvania. Ile has also been a con- tributor to the American Historical Magazine. In 1906, Earlham College, in his home city, conferred upon him the degree of Doc- tor of Laws. In November, 1910, he succeeded Charles J. Bona- parte as president of the National Municipal League, and in the same year wrote "The Quaker Boy," a tale of the ontgoing gen- eration, as it appears chronicled in the autobiography of Robert Barclay Dillingham, and which appeared a year later under the' title, "Dorothy Day" (Cosmopolitan Press, 1911). In the same
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