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THOMAS J. CLAYTON.
The well-remembered gentleman whose name heads this brief review was a man well liked by a coterie of loyal friends in the city of Lafayette and vicinity, and, since no small part of his success was due to the encour- agement and wise counsel of his wife, the biographer takes pleasure in pre- senting her life record in the paragraphs that follow.
Mrs. Emeline Clayton was born in North Carolina, June 27, 1833, the daughter of Benjamin and Martha (Rapel) Jackson, both natives of the old Tar state, where they spent their useful and honorable lives on a farm. Of their family of five children but two are now living, namely: John Jack- son, now in his eighty-second year (1909), who resides with his sister, Emeline (Jackson-Miller) Clayton in Lafayette. The latter was educated in her native state and was married December 19, 1850, to Benjamin T. Miller, which union resulted in the birth of five children, all boys, of whom but three are now living, namely : Alonzo B. Miller, who was born January II, 1852, is a mechanic and lives in Lafayette, being regarded as an expert in his line; Mortimer C. Miller, who was born February 28, 1858, is also a very capable workman, living in this city: Herbert E. Miller, who was born October 15,
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1863, is also a good tradesman and makes his home in Lafayette. After the death of her first husband, who was known as a man of thrift and honorable principles, Mrs. Miller was married to Thomas J. Clayton. No children were born to this union.
Mrs. Clayton was reared a Methodist, but being a deep student and a woman of contemplative mind, she has become a Spiritualist, as are also her sons and her brother. She has lived in Lafayette since 1869, and she has lived to note the wonderful growth of the municipality from a small village to its present populous and prosperous condition. She has always shown an abiding interest in the welfare of the town and county of her adoption. and her influence and judicious counsel have often been sought in the promulgation of worthy enterprises relating to the church and charitable undertakings, as well as socially. She is well preserved for one of her advanced years, her mind being alert and active, and she is an interesting and instructive con- versationalist. She has always been a close observer of the trend of the times and has kept well abreast of the procession. She has been an excellent mother and neighbor and her friends are limited only by her acquaintance.
JUDGE CHARLES HASKELL HENDERSON.
No representative in this biographical compendium can claim worthier ancestors than he whose life record is briefly outlined in the following para- graphs, for they were pioneers of the most sterling attributes, typical repre- sentatives of that class of patriots that laid the foundation of our present great commonwealth, leaving to us a more glorious inheritance than we are often prone to properly consider. We first hear of Jones Henderson, who was born in Augusta county, Virginia, in 1785. When he was seven years old his parents, splendid types of old-time southern chivalry, moved to Mont- gomery county, Kentucky, where they established a new home amid primitive conditions. In 1816 Jones Henderson married Margaret Smith, a native of Montgomery county, Kentucky. She was of German descent, her mother having been born on the Atlantic ocean while on a voyage to America. Mar- garet Smith was born in 1800. Jones Henderson was of Scotch-Irish par- entage. While he resided in the state of Kentucky, he was the owner of slaves, but in time he became an abolitionist, freed his women slaves and sold the men. He moved to Indiana in 1834, making the trip overland in wagons while the country was still covered with woods and swamps and the roads in
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marked contrast to our present turnpikes-in fact, the roads became impas- sible at Jamestown, Boone county, Indiana, and the wagons were abandoned, the parents and their ten children coming on to Tippecanoe county on foot and horseback. Thus, footsore and weary, they made their advent into this county in wintry weather when the outlook was anything but encouraging ; but, being people of heroic mould, they regarded hardships in a different manner than we of the present generation, and they set to work with a will, soon having the nucleus to a home, which they later made comfortable and prospered by reason of hard toil and good management. After their arrival here they spent the following winter in a cabin on the Conly farm, living there until March, 1835. In the meantime they purchased the farm west of the county poor farm, containing two hundred acres, which is now owned by Judge Charles Haskell Henderson, the old pioneer's grandson. Jones Henderson and wife became the parents of twelve children, namely: Addi- son, Martha, John M., Joseph W., Louisa E., Susan M., Mary G., Andrew C., Henry O., Lewis M., James M., and Alexander H., the three last named having been born in Indiana. Descended from these there are forty-two grand- children living, one hundred and forty-six great-grandchildren, and ninety- three great-great-grandchildren, also three great-great-great-grandchildren.
Charles Haskell Henderson is the son of Addison and Nancy (Clark) Henderson. Nancy Clark was born in Guernsey county, Ohio. With her parents, Joseph and Elizabeth (Albin) Clark, she moved to Blackford county, Indiana, where the parents spent the remainder of their lives. Joseph Clark was a native of Pennsylvania. Elizabeth Albin was born in Virginia, her father having served in the Revolutionary war and was the owner at his death of over four hundred acres of good land.
Addison Henderson was a hard-working and prosperous farmer. He was for many years a justice of the peace, but, unlike many who have held that office, he nearly always remitted his fees and endeavored to settle most of his cases amicably if possible. He was an honorable and highly respected citizen in his community.
Charles Haskell Henderson grew up on the home farm, where he laid the foundation for a robust manhood by assisting with the work about the place. Being ambitious to secure an education, he entered Purdue University when seventeen years of age, taking the scientific course, in which he made an excellent record, graduating from that institution in 1883. He early in life began the study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1885 and has been practicing in Lafayette ever since, holding high rank among the members of the local bar. He was city judge of Lafayette from 1888 to 1902, during
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which period he very ably and satisfactorily attended to the duties of this important office, winning the approbation of not only his constituents but also many of other political affiliations. The Judge is a Republican in politics. He gives considerable attention to his fine farm, which is kept highly improved and from which no small part of the Judge's recreation and pleasure is de- rived. Personally, he is sociable, generous and obliging, consequently is liked by all classes.
THOMAS W. HOGAN.
The people of this name in Lafayette are descended from a good old Irish family of the kind well known in the first age of internal improve- ments and who proved great factors in the development of the nation's natural resources. The founders of the Indiana branch of Hogans left their native county of Limerick. Ireland, about 1840 and became contractors in building the Erie canal. Following the line of internal improvement toward the West, they eventually reached Indiana in 1845, when the rage for develop- ment was at its height. In fact, the T. Hogan & Company Boat Line was well known to all who patronized the canal system from the Ohio to the Wabash. James Hogan, son of the original immigrants, was about eight years old when they came to America. He was an active business man, among his other ventures being that of a grain buyer, and he died August 25, 1865. In early manhood he married Helen McCardle, by whom he had seven children. Thomas W. Hogan, one of the three of these children that is still living, was born at Lafayette, Indiana, January II, 1850. He attended the old Southern public school and was sufficiently proficient to reach the eighth grade at the age of fifteen. After his father's death he went to work for the E. T. McFarland Drug Company at three dollars a week. He was, however, too bright and industrious a boy to remain long at that figure and it was hardly six months before we find him getting an increase in salary. When McFarland sold his store to Tinney, Mr. Hogan continued with the latter as travelling salesman at one hundred dol- lars per month until 1887, when he bought the business. In 1905 The Hogan Drug Company was organized, with Thomas W. Hogan, president; W. J. Hogan, vice-president, and John T. Hogan, secretary and treasurer. Mr. Hogan is active in many ways in the social and industrial life of Lafay- ette, influential in political and religious movements, and altogether a citi- zen of value in all the walks of life. He is one of the self-made men who
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has a right to be proud of the job and the jump from three dollars to pros- perity, and even affluence, fully displays his energy, industry and indomit- able resolution to succeed. In politics he is an independent Democrat, and was chairman of the gold Democratic committee for the tenth district in 1896. He is one of the few Democrats chosen to represent the fourth ward in Lafayette, which is usually overwhelmingly Republican, and it was a flattering recognition of his business ability that caused him to be made chairman of the finance committee. Mr. Hogan is a stockholder in the Lafayette Loan and Trust Company, the Merchants' National Bank, the Henry Taylor Lumber Company, the Rexal Drug Company of Boston, the Lafayette Horse Sales Company and is developing a ranch which he owns in the West. Twenty-three years ago he built a residence at 313 Perrin avenue, in which he has ever since made his home. He is a charter member of the Indiana Travelling Men's Association, a member of the Lafayette lodge of Elks and of St. Mary's Catholic church.
September 18, 1877, Mr. Hogan married Anna Shaughnessy, a descend- ant of Irish parents, by whom he has four children; John T. served as a member of Company C, One Hundred Sixtieth Indiana Regiment, during the Spanish-American war. He attended the Purdue School of Pharmacy and is now a partner of his father in the drug company. Alice M., Mr. Hogan's eldest daughter, graduated in the high school and married Walter Hunzicker. William J. was graduated in the Purdue School of Pharmacy in 1906 and is a partner of his father in the drug company. Harriet B., the youngest of the family, is a student of domestic science at Purdue.
SAMUEL THOMAS STALLARD.
For a number of years an honored citizen and representative business man of Lafayette, Samuel T. Stallard belongs to that class of public-spirited men, who, while advancing individual prosperity, promote the public good and give a hearty and generous support to those measures and utilities which make for the progress of the community, the county and the state. A member of one of the leading law firms of Tippecanoe county and with a reputation far beyond the circumscribed limits of the field to which in the main his practice is confined, he has stamped the impress of his individuality upon the minds of those with whom his business has brought him into re- lations and made his influence felt as a leader of thought and moulder
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of opinion at a bar which has long been distinguished for the learning, pro- fessional ability and high personal standing of its members.
Mr. Stallard is a native of Monroe county, Indiana, born in the city of Bloomington, November 7, 1841, being a son of Rev. Jacob M. and Maria L. (Beswick) Stallard, the father a Tennessean by birth and one of the ablest and best known Methodist divines of his day in the Central West, the mother, a native of Indiana and likewise of Methodist parentage and training. Rev. Jacob M. Stallard was brought to Indiana when a child and continued a resident of same during the remainder of his life. Entering the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church in his young manhood, he made rapid advancement in his sacred office, served a number of circuits and stations in different parts of the state and by reason of his ability in the pul- pit and remarkable success as an organizer he was in due time promoted to the important position of presiding elder, being up to the time of his ap- pointment the youngest minister in the state to be thus honored. As a preacher Rev. Stallard had few equals and no superiors in the West during the years of his activity and usefulness and today among the most flourish- ing and aggressive churches in Tippecanoe and other counties are the ones he planted during his early ministerial labors. He came to Lafayette in 1843, from which time until his death he was intimately associated with re- ligious work in this section of the state, and few Methodist divines became as widely known or accomplished as much in disseminating the principles and doctrines peculiar to the church of which he was long regarded as one of the strongest and most popular representatives. He had a passion for the cause in which he was engaged, labored unselfishly and enthusiastically for the good of his fellow men, hundreds of whom, through his able and elo- quent ministrations, were induced to abandon the paths of sin and seek the nar- row way that leads to life and happiness. Rev. Stallard is remembered as a preacher of remarkable ability and power, clear and explicit in statement, logical and convincing in reasoning and, possessing to a marked degree the talents and graces of oratory, he frequently rose to the heights of impas- sioned eloquence and never failed to hold the attention of the most critical and exacting audiences, being in his prime a master of assemblages and the peer of any of his contemporaries in all that constituted forensic ability and force. After a long and useful career, devoted to the service of his Master, this able and fearless champion of the cross laid down the weapon of warfare and entered into the rest which is prepared for those who persevere to the end, dying in Lafayette, in 1893, at the ripe old age of eighty years, his first wife preceding him to the Silent Land in 1850. Of
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their family of seven children, but two are living at this time, Robert J., a resident of Lafayette, and Samuel T., whose name introduces this review; James P., Cyrus O., William A. and Robert J., the deceased members of the family, grew to maturity. By a second marriage there were five off- spring, four of whom survive, a daughter, now Mrs. Ann Davisson, be- ing the only one living in Lafayette.
Samuel T. Stallard spent his childhood and youth at the various places where his father preached and after receiving a preliminary education in the public schools, entered the Danville Academy, which he attended until the breaking out of the great Civil war interfered with his studies. Actuated by the patriotic motives which moved the loyal sons of the North, he dis- continued his scholastic work in April, 1861, and enlisting in Company A, Fifteenth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, with which he gave three of the best years of his life to the service of his country. During this period he shared with his comrades all the duties and dangers through which his regiment passed, taking part in a number of noted engagements and skirmishes, including the battles of Rich Mountain, Elk Water and Green Brier in western Virginia, and later was with his command at Murfrees- boro, Champion Hill and Missionary Ridge, in the Tennessee campaign, receiving a gunshot wound in the right thigh in the engagement last named, which caused him great suffering. Upon his recovery, in June, 1864, he was discharged from the service, with a record for brave and meritorious conduct of which any soldier might well feel proud, and returned to Lafay- ette immediately thereafter.
Mr. Stallard, on April 30, 1867, entered the marriage relation with Mary Littleton, whose birth occurred at Middletown, Ohio, but who was brought to Indiana by her parents when quite young, the family settling in Tippecanoe county about the year 1846. Of the three children born of this union, two, a son and a daughter, are living, the older, Charles T., being a practicing attorney of Lafayette and associated with his father under the firm name of Stallard & Stallard, one of the best known and successful law partnerships in the city. Sadye, the daughter, married Harley A. Johnson, master mechanic of the Metropolitan Elevated Railroad of Chicago, and resides in that city, both being graduates of Purdue Univer- sity.
Mr. Stallard has been an honored citizen of Lafayette nearly all of his life and it is needless to state that his interest in the growth of the city and the promotion of its various utilities and enterprises has brought him prominently to the front as a public spirited man of affairs. For twenty-
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five years he was attorney of West Lafayette and, in connection with his profession, he has from time to time been identified with various measures making for the material progress of the city and the best interests of its populace, including among others, the West Lafayette Building and Loan Association, in the organization of which he took a leading part and for twenty-eight years he has held the office of secretary and treasurer. In politics he is a Republican and has long been a power in local and general affairs, contributing to the success of his party by his wise and judicious advice, as well as by his activity as a worker and leader. The family of which he is a creditable representative is a prominent and long-established one in Lafayette and has ever stood for honorable manhood, sterling citi- zenship and all that makes for correct living and high social status. His own life record is unclouded by wrong or suspicion of evil and, having always clung to whatever is of good repute, his name is regarded by those with whom he mingles as a synonym of upright and straightforward conduct.
Charles T. Stallard, junior member of the law firm of Stallard & Son, the older of the two living children of Samuel T. and Mary E. (Lit- tleton) Stallard, was born in Lafayette, Indiana, June 28, 1872. He re- ceived his early educational discipline in the city schools, later attended Pur- due University until completing the course and having decided to enter the legal profession, prepared himself for the same by close and critical study under the direction of his father. Mr. Stallard was admitted to the bar in 1893 and the same year became associated with his father, under the name of Stallard & Son, a firm as widely known in legal circles as any other in the city of Lafayette and eminently successful, as indicated by the large and steady growing practice. In his professional work, Mr. Stallard is careful and painstaking, loyal to the interests of his clients, a safe and reliable counselor, and in the trial of causes he has sustained his high repu- tation as an attorney when opposed by some of the oldest and strongest mem- bers of the Lafayette bar. His career thus far presents a series of successes and, judging from his advancement in the past, his friends are justified in predicting for him a future of still greater promise and usefulness. For five years Mr. Stallard has been attorney for the incorporated town of West Lafayette and for a period of ten years he held the office of town clerk, discharging the duties of both positions with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of the public. He is also the secretary and treasurer of the West Lafayette Loan Association, the success of which is largely due to his efforts, and for some time past he has been a member of the board of trustees of the Young Men's Christian Association, besides serving the same
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very acceptably as general secretary and physical director, having been con- nected with the association and one of the most active and influential men- bers of the association since 1889. He belongs to Purdue Grove. No. 18. United Ancient Order of Druids, having passed all of the chairs of the local lodge and served as an officer in the grand lodge of the state. He is also a member of the Masonic order. He is a Republican in politics and in reli- gion he subscribes to the Methodist creed, holding membership with the West Side Methodist Episcopal church of which he is a trustee.
Mr. Stallard was married June 14, 1904, to Henrietta M. Cassman, daughter of Oliver H. Cassman, of Lafayette, the union resulting in the birth of two children, Oliver E. and Marietta E., both bright and interest- ing and adding greatly to the happiness and content of the domestic circle. Mrs. Stallard, like her husband, is a Methodist in belief and an esteemed member of the West Side church, being interested in the various lines of work connected with the organization and in charitable enterprises of what- ever name or order.
K. T. VYVERBERG, D. O.
The science of osteopathy has of recent years made rapid headway, and the practitioners of this somewhat exacting profession are finding them- selves in the front rank of men of science and the learned professions, with their patronage rapidly growing. The name that heads this biographical re- view is a well known one in this class and also one that stands for progress in all lines in Tippecanoe county.
Dr. K. T. Vyverberg, the noted osteopathic physician of Lafayette. Indiana, is a native of Sherrill, Iowa, having first seen the light of day there on September 27, 1877, the son of John and Caroline Vyverberg, being the third child in order of birth in a family of eight children. He was reared on the farm and assisted with the various duties incident to agricultural pur- suits in the great farming belt of the Hawkeye state, and there he laid the foundation for a healthful body and an active mind. He attended the district schools during the winter months until he completed the course. He then entered the high school at Dubuque, Iowa, from which he was graduated. He then returned to the farm and for several years devoted his attention to farm work, but on January 1, 1901, he gave way to a desire of long standing to enter the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri, and after pursuing a course of two years, during which time he made a very com-
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mendable record, he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Osteopathy.
Doctor Vyverberg at once located in Lafayette, Indiana, in the old Mil- ford block, at the corner of Fourth and Ferry streets, and later moved to No. 651 Main street, where he is now located. In the fall of 1906 he re- entered the institution from which he had graduated, taking a one-year post- graduate course, which placed him at the top of his profession. He now has a liberal patronage by the people of Lafayette and surrounding country.
The Doctor was happily married to Nellie Hubbard, daughter of George and Sarah Hubbard, the representative of an excellent family of Lafayette, and to this union two children have been born, namely: Margaret C., born January 15, 1906, and George H., born November 9, 1907.
In his fraternal relations, Doctor Vyverberg is a member of the Knights of Pythias, Lodge No. 72, Kirksville, Missouri, also the Atlas Club at Kirks- ville, Missouri, and in his church relations he supports the Presbyterian de- nomination, being a member of the local church and a faithful attendant upon the same.
Doctor Vyverberg passed an examination in accordance with state law in Iowa in February, 1903, and in September of the same year he passed a like examination before the state board of Indiana, he being the first osteo- path to pass the examination in Indiana. He is a member of both the Indiana and American Osteopathic associations, having served as secretary of the first named.
HARRY C. SENSE.
The well-known contractor and progressive business man whose name introduces this biographical review and who has for many years been one of the leading representatives of the building trades in Tippecanoe county, is a descendant of an old and highly honored family, members of which have figured effectively in the affairs of northern Indiana since the pioneer days, Harry C. Sense was born in Clinton county, Indiana, on July 16, 1866. He is the son of William H. and Susan (Guthrie) Sense, the former a native of Tippecanoe county, and the latter was born in Clinton county, this state. They were the parents of eleven children (living), one daughter dying in in- fancy, the family consisting of six sons and five daughters. Elmer F., the oldest son, was born in Clinton county, Indiana ; he married Eva Harvey, of Wabash township, and they are the parents of one son, Floyd. John E. married Lulu Carnes, of Lafayette, and they are the parents of two sons,
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