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The Rev. Mr. Sargent, a friend of Mr. Bliss for twenty-five years, in the funeral address spoke of the sterling qualities of the man, his tenderness and spirit of willing- ness to aid those in need of help, and the great esteem which all who knew him had for his friendship. "My one great tribute," said the minister, "is that in all our years of friendship I never heard him use a harsh word to anyone or of anyone. He was a friend worth having, a man of men."
The remains of Mr. Bliss were taken to his old home at Rushville for interment and were there laid to rest in East Hill cemetery, near those of his father, mother and other members of the immediate family.
At Rushville, this state, on the 22d of April, 1880, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Bliss to Miss Harriet Denning, who was there born and reared and who is a daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Frances) Denning, both natives of New England and representatives of staunch old colonial families. The parents of Mrs. Bliss established their home at Rushville, Indiana, in an early day and there passed the residue of their lives, secure in the high esteem of all who knew them. Mrs. Bliss retains her home in Indianapolis and has long been a popular factor in the representa- tive social activities of the capital city. Of the two children Mary is the wife of John C. Sage, of Indianapolis, and George W. (II), who is now filling his father's former position and is a traveling representative for Joseph Feiss & Company, of Cleveland, Ohio. He married Miss Eleanor Bookwalter, daughter of Charles A. Bookwalter, former mayor of Indianapolis.
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harry O. Thudium
N THE domain of newspaper enterprise in Indianapolis and the I state of Indiana, Mr. Thudium attained to a position of special prominence and influence, and as president of the Gutenberg Company, publishers of the Indianapolis Telegraph-Tribune, he made this paper one of the leading and model American representatives of journalism in the German language. He was a man of fine intellectual attainments and broad and posi- tive views; his personality was such as to win to him the high regard of those with whom he came in contact; his loyalty and public spirit as a citizen were of the highest type; and he made a splendid record of achievement in his chosen field of endeavor. His death was a distinct loss to Indianapolis and to Indiana jour- nalism, and at the time of his death, which occurred on the 10th of October, 1907, he was, in point of consecutive identification with this line of enterprise, one of the oldest newspaper men in the capital city. His circle of friends was coincident with that of his acquaintances and he was specially prominent in the social activities of the representative German-American citizens of Indianapolis.
Harry O. Thudium was born in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 16th day of May, 1854, and there he was reared and educated, his advantages having included the curriculum of the public schools and also those of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania. His parents were natives of Germany,-his father having been born in Würtemberg and his mother, whose family name was Seidensticker, having been born in Göttingen. The father was long and prominently identified with business activities in the Pennsylvania metropolis and there both he and his wife continued to reside until their death,-folk of sterling attributes of character and of superior mentality. In his native city Harry O. Thudium learned the prac- tical details of the printing business, and there he finally opened a small job- printing office. He conducted this enterprise somewhat more than one year, at the expiration of which he disposed of the same, in order to avail himself of an oppor- tunity offered him in connection with newspaper activities in Indianapolis. He came to this city in the year 1874 and though he was but twenty years of age at the time, his thorough education and excellent poise and judgment well qualified him for the position tendered him. His uncle, the late Adolph Seidensticker, was at the time proprietor of the daily German paper known as the Indianapolis Tele- graph, and of this representative journal Mr. Thudium became editor, through the consideration and at the request of his uncle, who was long one of the honored and prominent citizens of Indianapolis. Within a short period Mr. Thudium assumed the practical management of the newspaper business, and he developed great strength and versatility in this field of enterprise. After the death of his honored uncle, Mr. Seidensticker, he not only assumed entire control of the business but also effected the organization and incorporation of the Gutenberg Company, which purchased the other leading German daily, the Indianapolis Tribune, and consoli-
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dated the same with the Telegraph, under the title which has since been retained, -the Indianapolis Telegraph-Tribune. Under the progressive and energetic regime of Mr. Thudium, who was president of the company from its organization until his death, the business of the paper was brought to the maximum of prosperity; the journal was made a most effective exponent of local interests and a conser- vator of the best in governmental economics, with the result that its influence be- came most emphatic and benignant. Mr. Thudium continued to give his active supervision to the large and important business controlled by his company until his health became so precarious that he was compelled to lay aside his heavy and exacting responsibilities. This action, however, he consented to take only when absolutely imperative, as is evidenced by the fact that his death occurred about two months later.
Mr. Thudium was loyal and enthusiastic in furthering the claims of Indianapolis as a commercial and industrial center and as one of the most attractive residence cities in the Union. He advocated in his paper and in a more personal or private way the carrying forward of such enterprises and measures as tended to advance the material and civic welfare of the city and his influence in public affairs of a local nature was of no uncertain order. He was a stalwart Democrat in his poli- tical proclivities and did much to foster the interests of the party. From an appre- ciative article appearing in the Indianapolis Telegraph-Tribune at the time of his demise are taken, with but minor paraphrase, the following statements:
"It was with great sorrow and regret that the German population of Indianapolis heard of the death of Harry O. Thudium, president of the Gutenberg Company. He was a member of the Indianapolis Maennerchor, the Indianapolis Song Circle, the German House, and the Independent Turnverein. His funeral was held from the family home, 810 North New Jersey street, and his remains were interred in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Thudium was treasurer of the Federation of German Societies of Indiana. He worked heart and soul in everything pertaining to the best interests of the community at large and especially in affairs for the betterment of the German citizens. Rev. I. C. Peters, pastor of the German Zion's church, conducted the funeral services, and Mr. Joseph Keller, president of the Federation of German Societies of Indiana and vice-president of the Federation of German- American Societies of the United States, made a short but appreciative address at the cemetery."
Mr. Thudium had the genial nature, the abiding sympathy and the kindliness that denote the true gentleman, and he valued his fellow men for their true worth rather than for their wealth and influence. He was specially considerate in his association with his employes, a number of whom had been with him for twenty years, and this was repaid him in loyalty, confidence and affectionate regard. He ever manifested his appreciation of faithful service, and his employes knew that he was their true friend when such friendship was merited.
On the 5th of June, 1878, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Thudium to Miss Julia Mueller, who was born and reared in Indianapolis and who is a repre- sentative of one of the oldest and most honored German families in this city. She is a daughter of Edward and Louisa (Stieglitz) Mueller, both natives of Ger- many. The marriage of the parents was celebrated in the city of Philadelphia, both having come to America when young. Soon after their marriage they came to Indianapolis, where they passed the residue of their lives and where Mr. Mueller
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was long and actively identified with the grocery business. They were numbered among the pioneer German citizens of the Indiana capital and both were held in high esteem in the community which so long represented their home. They became the parents of four children, of whom two sons and one daughter are living. Mr. and Mrs. Thudium became the parents of two children,-Harry O., who was born on the 10th of January, 1881, and who died on the 10th of October, 1888, and Miss Hattie, who remains with her widowed mother. Mrs. and Miss Thudium are popular factors in the best social life of the German circles of Indianapolis and here their friends are in number as their acquaintances.
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Marcus L. Mare
ATIVE born to the state of Indiana and for fifty years a resident N of the capital city of the state, Marcus Lafayette Hare was one of the most widely known men in his section. Among his many interests chief of them all was his well-known stock farm known as Grasslands, consisting of 800 acres in Hamilton county, where he devoted his time to the breeding of a fine strain of horses. Previous to his more active connection with the live-stock business Mr. Hare was prominent in the mercantile business, being widely interested in the establishment which his son, Clinton L., opened up in Indianapolis, and which is still in existence under the name of the J. C. Perry Company, the original promoter of the company being deceased. These interests claimed the major part of his time and attention until the time of his death, which occurred in 1911, August 29th.
Marcus Lafayette Hare was born at Noblesville, Indiana, in Hamilton county, on December 7, 1838. He was the son of Daniel and Sarah (Wise) Hare, and a grandson of Jacob Hare, a native Pennsylvanian who migrated to Indiana in early life, making the journey by wagon, as was the approved mode of travel in that primi- tive time. He was a pioneer farmer of Hamilton county, and there he spent the closing years of his sturdy and vigorous life. Daniel Hare was born in Ohio and with his parents he came to Indiana, Hamilton county, as a young child. His early life was passed in like manner with the average country youth, and as a lad he was sent to the country schools and supplemented the labors of his father on the new and unbroken farm with his own boyish but willing endeavors. As a young man he prospered sufficiently to permit him to open up a general store in Nobles- ville, and in that place he built up a reputation for integrity and fair dealing that was an index to the splendid character of the young merchant. His promising life was cut short in the thirty-seventh year of his career by the same blow which took his wife and one son, leaving the subject of this review orphaned indeed. The father was the owner of three farms at the time of his death, together with some other property. He and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. When the sad occurrence of the death of Marcus L. Hare's parents occurred he was but a lad of twelve years. He went to live with an uncle, Wesley Hare, a carriage maker of Noblesville, and when he was eighteen years old he went in business for himself, choosing the hardware line. He conducted that business in Noblesville until he was twenty-three years of age, when he sold out and moved to Indianapolis, and he was engaged throughout the Civil war period in rearing and furnishing mules and horses to the government. He was so successful in that venture that with the close of the war he devoted his entire time to that business, gradually acquiring a valuable property of eight hundred acres where he carried on an extensive breeding business. When Mr. Hare passed away on August 29, 1911, he was the owner of a considerable estate, which he left in trust to his grand-
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children, to be divided among them when they shall have reached the age of thirty years, his widow retaining a life interest in the property.
Mr. Hare was a man of kindly instincts and the possessor of many worthy qualities which marked him among his fellow men. He never manifested any en- thusiasm in the matter of clubs or fraternities of any kind, but was deeply inter- ested in the welfare of the Republican party, to which political faith he adhered. Of his death the Indianapolis News of August 30, 1911, says: "Marcus L. Hare, for many years among the best known and most noted breeders of fine horses, died at his home at noon yesterday after a long period of invalidism. His ill health followed an accident in 1903, when he was struck and severely injured by a run- away horse. For the last six months he has been confined to his home. He was born at Noblesville, Indiana, December 7, 1838, but for many years made his home in this city, where he had large property interests. He owned the well- known stock farm, Grasslands, consisting of eight hundred acres in the southern part of Hamilton county, and there he bred many fine horses, the most famous of which was the noted Hambletonian Mambrino, the sire of a long line of speedy animals."
On September 13, 1859, Mr. Hare married Miss Julie A. Haines, a daughter of the well known Dr. Israel and Lydie (Wren) Haines. Dr. Haines was a na- tive of Stark county, Ohio, while the mother was born in Virginia. The doctor was a Quaker in his religious faith. He located in Westfield, Indiana, in early life, and after a few years of practice there removed to Noblesville, where he passed the remainder of his life. The mother passed away when her daughter Julia was but a small child. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hare: A daughter, Sarah Helen, who died in July, 1870, and one son, Clinton L., who was born on November 7, 1864, at Noblesville, Indiana. His active business career was de- voted to the carrying on of a successful wholesale grocery business which he es- tablished, and which is now conducted under another name than his. He married Marea Fletcher Ritzinger in his young manhood and six children were born to them. They are Helen, John M., Clinton L., Robert R., Myla and Laura. The father died on June 4, 1909, leaving his young family to the care of their widowed mother.
Mrs. M. L. Hare still occupies the handsome residence built by her husband on the corner of St. Joseph and Penn avenues. She is a member of the Tabernacle Presbyterian church, in whose cause she is earnest and active. Mrs. Hare was born in Westfield, Indiana, and has been a resident of Indianapolis since 1863, possessing as a result of her continued residence here an ever widening circle of friends and acquaintances.
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Clinton I. Dare
NE of the best known and loved men in Indianapolis was Clin- O ton L. Hare, a native of Indiana and a resident of the capital city of the state from his young boyhood until the hour of his untimely death, which occurred at his home on North Penn avenue on June 4, 1909. Brilliant, accomplished and success- ful in every venture he undertook, Mr. Hare was a worthy son of worthy parents, and the great pity is that he was not spared to assist in the rearing of his young family, left fatherless by his passing.
Clinton L. Hare was the son of Marcus Lafayette and Julia (Haines) Hare, both natives of Indiana. The mother still resides in the family home in Indianapolis. Born in Noblesville, Hamilton county, Indiana, on November 7, 1864, Mr. Hare attended the schools of Noblesville as a small boy. When the family moved to Indianapolis he was a regular student in the public schools of that city and follow- ing his graduation from the high school of Indianapolis he entered Yale University in 1883, graduating from the literary department in 1887, with the highest honors in his class, being known as a "bones" man at Yale. Not only did he win distinc- tion in the class room, but he won honors in the athletic field. He was a noted oars- man, and he was offered a place on the regular crew of the university, but declined on the score that he could not afford the time from his classes. A little later, however, he organized a scrub crew, and with them defeated the regular crew in a matched race.
On his return to Indianapolis after his graduation Mr. Hare entered the law office of Harrison, Miller & Elam as a student, the firm being composed of Benjamin Harrison, W. H. H. Miller and John B. Elam, and in 1890 he was admitted to the bar of Marion county, after which he began the practice of law. When James W. Fesler was elected county clerk in 1894, he appointed Mr. Hare as his chief deputy, and he remained the incumbent of that responsible position throughout the term of Mr. Fesler's regime, which covered a four years' period. George B. Eliot, who succeeded Mr. Fesler to the office of county clerk, retained Mr. Hare as chief clerk, and he retired from that office in 1902. Very soon thereafter Mr. Hare became financially interested in the wholesale grocery firm of J. C. Perry & Com- pany, and he became active in the management of its business, continuing therein until his physical condition made it necessary for him to withdraw from the exac- tions of business life. Mr. Hare was a member of the board of trade, the Commer- cial Club, Columbia Club, Marion Club, German House and a number of other social and commercial organizations of note in and about Indianapolis, while he was president of the Wholesale Grocers' Association for a number of years. He was popular and prominent socially and in a business way, and perhaps no man in Indianapolis had a wider circle of admiring friends than did Clinton Hare.
While pursuing his studies in the offices of Harrison, Miller & Elam, Mr. Hare married Miss Marea F. Ritzinger, the daughter of Mrs. Myla Ritzinger of Indian- apolis. Of their union six children were born. They are: Helen, John M., Clin- ton L., Robert R., Myla and Laura, all of whom, with his widow, still survive him.
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Talilliam A. Herriott, D. D. S.
NDER the cloak of kindly charity it is not difficult to make prac- U tical application of the ancient aphorism, "De mortuis nil nisi bonum," but there is all satisfaction and consistency when such good words may be uttered legitimately and honestly concerning one who has passed away and has left the heritage of worthy thoughts and worthy deeds. The late Dr. William Mccluskey Herriott was a distinguished representative of the dental profes- sion, and in Indianapolis he built up a substantial business as a dealer in dental sup- plies. He was one of the early representatives of this important line of enterprise in this city and was ever active in advancing the profession. Particularly praise- worthy were his labors in bringing the Indianapolis Dental College into existence, an institution to which he gave much of his time and attention. The demands of the profession calling for the maximum share of his effort until the close of his life, his retirement from active work having been thus a matter of expediency. Dr. Herriott gained worthy success through his well directed endeavors in business, but his more enduring reputation rests upon his services as a philanthropist,-as the friend and helper of his fellow men and as an earnest and zealous factor in promoting religious advancement. He was a member of the Second Presbyterian church of Indianapolis and none could be more devoted to self-imposed service in the vineyard of the divine Master than was he. Both in precept and example his life was an inspiration, and he will be long remembered for his kindly and generous efforts in aiding and guiding young folk,-especially boys in need of direction and counsel. His was a sincere, genuine and fruitful life, and it is most consonant that in this memorial edition there be entered a tribute to one who thus proved himself worthy of the greatest of com- mendatory words: "Well done, good and faithful servant."
Dr. William McCluskey Herriott was a native of the old Keystone state, was reared in Ohio and won prestige as a representative citizen and business man of In- diana. In the paternal line he was a scion of distinguished Scottish ancestry, and on the distaff side was of Irish lineage. He was a lineal descendant of George Heriot, a distinguished Scotch philanthropist, and he himself nobly upheld the prestige of the family name (which was originally spelled Heriot, as noted), as his benevolences and abiding humane spirit were practically exemplified in good works. There can be no inconsistency in entering in this article extracts concerning George Heriot, the honored ancestor of the subject of this memoir, and quotation is thus made, with cer; tain latitude in interpretation, from a sketch prepared by Rev. William Steven, D. D., of Edinburgh, Scotland.
"George Heriot, the benevolent founder of the magnificent hospital at Edinburgh which bears his name, was born in that city in June, 1563. The family from which he sprung, though not opulent, was very ancient and one of acknowledged considera- tion in the county of Haddington. 'Trabonne,' his patrimonial estate, a small prop- erty not exceeding four hundred acres, had been acquired by John Heriot for mili-
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tary service. King James I of Scotland confirmed the charter in the nineteenth year of his reign. Several members of the house of Trabonne were connected by marriage with the nobility and landed gentry of the country, while Agnes Heriot, one of the family, was honored in being the mother of George Buchanan, the historian and poet.
"George Heriot, the founder of Heriot's Hospital, was a goldsmith by trade, and on July 17, 1597, he was declared goldsmith to Anne of Denmark, the gay consort of James XI, who was extravagant in the matter of bestowing diamond rings and other valuable ornaments upon favorites. His Majesty, on the 4th of April, 1601, was pleased to appoint George Heriot as his own jeweler. So entirely did the royal household seem to require Heriot, in his double capacity of goldsmith and cashier, that an apartment in the palace of Holyrood was prepared in which he might reg- ularly transact business. When the Scottish monarch, on the death of Queen Eliza- beth, had been called by hereditary right to fill the vacant throne, King James com- menced his journey to England on April 5, 1603. Two months intervened before Queen Anne followed, and this period she spent in giving extensive orders to Heriot. It was not long until Heriot was called to his post in London by the King and Queen. It was about this time that Christian Marjoribanks, wife of George Heriot, died.
"After a lapse of five years, Heriot, abounding in wealth and high reputation, returned to Scotland and formed a matrimonial alliance with Alison Primrose, eldest daughter of James Primrose, grandfather of the first Earl of Roseberry. This mar- riage took place in Edinburgh. The bride was sixteen and the groom forty-five. In 1612 Heriot for a second time had the misfortune to find himself a widower. Alison Primrose, his beloved wife, was cut off in the flower of her days, April 16, 1612, at the age of twenty.
"Sir Walter Scott, in his well known work, "The Fortunes of Nigel,' awakened a deep interest in the public mind in favor of George Heriot. In the introduction to this historical romance he says: 'As worth of character, goodness of heart and rec- titude of principle were necessary to one who laid no claim to high birth, I made free with the name of the person who has left the most magnificent proofs of his benevo- lence and charity that the capital of Scotland has to display. Something, I hoped, might be done not altogether unworthy the fame which George Heriot has secured by the lasting benefits he has bestowed upon his country. Heriot's Hospital is one of the proudest ornaments of Edinburgh, and is equally distinguished for the purposes of the institution and the excellence of the administration.'
"In June, 1659, the Heriot Hospital was dedicated to the original purpose of its foundation, namely, for the education of boys of the poorer classes. The hospital is still in existence and continues to exercise most admirably its benignant functions."
In the nineteenth century Dr. William M. Herriott achieved a work that may be compared in its lesser beneficence with that of his honored ancestor of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and in view of this fact the foregoing quotations are of special interest in this connection.
Dr. Herriott was born on a farm in Washington county, Pennsylvania, on the 19th of April, 1832, and his death occurred in his home in Indianapolis on the 4th of November, 1884. He was a son of George and Mary Ann (Mccluskey) Herriott, both of whom were likewise natives of Pennsylvania and representatives of honored pioneer families of that commonwealth. There David Herriott, grandfather of the Doctor continued to be identified with agricultural pursuits until his death, and there his father, George Herriott, likewise devoted his attention to the same fundamental
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