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In the spring of 1892 Mr. Haywood was nominated by the Republican state convention as reporter of the supreme court, but he met defeat with the
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balance of the state ticket in the election of that year. In the spring of 1894 he was appointed city attorney by the city council of Lafayette, and was re- appointed from time to time, holding this office for a period of twelve years, handling its affairs in such a manner as to reflect credit upon his natural ability as an able and far-seeing attorney, and at the same time being of incalculable good to the city, his record being one of which anyone might be justly proud. He was called upon to serve as chairman of the Republican county central committee, which he did for a period of two years, 1894 and 1895, when he won the hearty approval of all concerned for his conscientious work in behalf of the Republican ticket.
Mr. Haywood is a stockholder and vice-president of the Burt-Haywood Printing Company, publishers of the Lafayette Daily and Weekly Journal, the plant being a very extensive and complete one, equipped with modern ap- pliances for doing all kinds of up-to-date publishing. The Journal wields a strong influence in the moulding of public opinion in this part of the state.
On October 1, 1879, occurred the wedding of Mr. Haywood to Mary Marshall, at Montmorenci, this county. Mrs. Haywood is a native of Spring- field, Ohio, a talented and cultured lady, who has been a favorite in Lafayette social circles since coming here. She is the daughter of Solomon and Mary J. (Wright) Marshall, the former an honored and influential resident of Tippecanoe county, the latter deceased. The beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. Haywood has been blessed by the birth of three children, namely: Leona, the wife of Roy E. Adams, of Indianapolis, was a student at Smith University, one of the most noted institutions for young ladies in the east ; Marshall E., who is the secretary and treasurer of the Burt-Haywood Printing Company, graduated from Princeton University in the class of 1907: George P., Jr., is a student at Princeton.
In his fraternal relations Mr. Haywood is a member of Tippecanoe Lodge, No. 492, Free and Accepted Masons ; Knights Templar Commandery, No. 3. Lafayette: Scottish Rite, and the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at Indianapolis; he also belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Lafayette. Mrs. Haywood is a member of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal church, and is very active and influential in church and charitable work in the city.
In all the relations of life Mr. Haywood has been true to every trust reposed in him and he takes first rank among the representative, loyal, public- spirited and broad-minded citizens of Tippecanoe county, where he is known and respected by all classes, rightly deserving the high esteem in which he is r
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held, although he is himself of a very unostentatious nature, straightforward and genial. One of the best things that can be said of any man can be said of Mr. Haywood, that is, that he is always loyal and true to his friends.
WINTHROP ELLSWORTH STONE, PH. D., LL. D.
Winthrop Ellsworth Stone, Ph. D., LL. D., president of Purdue University and distinctively one of the eminent educators of his day, is a native of New England and an honorable representative of one of the oldest families in that section of the Union, being of the tenth generation in descent from Simon Stone, who immigrated to the New World in 1630 and located at Cambridge, Massachusetts. This ancestor, who was one of the first promi- nent settlers of Massachusetts Bay Colony, early became interested in the development and growth of the country and being a man of sound practical intelligence and much more than ordinary force, it was not long until he rose to a position of prominence and influence among the people, and in various ways rendered efficient service in directing their affairs. Lauson Stone, the Doctor's grandfather, was a native of Chesterfield, New Hampshire, and by occupation a farmer. He spent the greater part of his life at or near the place of his birth, but for many years has been sleeping the sleep of the just in the old cemetery at Chesterfield, where also reposes the dust of a number of his ancestors, as the family lived for several generations in that old historic town.
Among the children of Lauson Stone was a son by the name of Frederick L .. whose birth occurred at the ancestral home in Chesterfield, New Hamp- shire, and who, in his young manhood, contracted a marriage with Anna But- ler, of the same place. Like many of his antecedents, Frederick Stone became a tiller of the soil, which vocation he followed in his native commonwealth for a number of years, and then removed to Amherst, Massachusetts, where he and his good wife are now living in honorable retirement. Interesting to a marked degree were many of the sterling characteristics of the family, and he, too, achieved considerable local distinction, and during the years of his prime was one of the leading Republicans of the community. Fred- erick L. and Anna Stone have always been held in high esteem in their differ- ent places of residence. Imbued with the New England idea of education. they spared no pains nor expense in providing the most thorough intellectual dis- cipline obtainable for their children, all four of whom, three sons and one
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WINTHROP ELLSWORTH STONE, PH. D., LL. D. PRESIDENT PURDUE UNIVERSITY.
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daughter, are college graduates and filling honorable stations in life, Winthrop Ellsworth, the oldest, achieving distinction as an educator and Harlan, a younger brother, being a member of one of the leading law firms of New York city.
Dr. Winthrop Ellsworth Stone was born in the old town of Chester- field, New Hampshire, June 12, 1862, and spent his early life pretty much after the manner of the majority of New England lads. During the summer months his employments were such as are common to farmer boys, and when not at work in the fields he attended the public schools, where he made rapid advancement in his studies, and in due time gave promise of the intellectual development for which he afterwards became noted. To these early years under the tutelage of parents whose highest ambition was to engraft upon the minds and hearts of their children such principles as would insure careers of usefulness, Dr. Stone is largely indebted for the integrity of character and honorable ambition that pre-eminently distinguish him not only in his pro- fession, but as a citizen in every walk of life. The frugalities of the farm- er's home, the chaste purity of its influence, the fields, the forest, the orchard and meadow, hill and dell-all the wealth and beauty that nature spreads out with lavish hands-were teachers whose lessons he never forgot. It was amidst such scenes and surroundings that the early years of the future edu- cator were spent and their influence was such that he is still a lover of nature and a student of its mysteries.
Applying himself closely to his studies, young Stone, at the age of six- teen, was sufficiently advanced to take a higher grade of work, accordingly in 1878 he entered Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst, which he attended during the four years ensuing, when he was graduated with an honorable record as a student. Receiving his degree of Bachelor of Science in 1882, he spent the following two years as scientific assistant and observer on a private experimental farm, which had been established some time before at Mountainville, New York, by a wealthy man desirous of arousing an inter- est in advanced methods of agriculture. At the expiration of the period indi- cated, he returned to Massachusetts and after devoting the succeeding two years to scientific study in the chemical laboratory of Massachusetts Agricul- tural College, went abroad in 1886, from which time until 1888, inclusive, he studied chemistry in the University of Goettingen, Germany, receiving from that institution the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the latter year.
Returning to the United States upon the completion of his course, Doctor Stone, in August of the same year, entered upon his duties as chemist to the experimental station of the University of Tennessee, to which position he had been appointed a few months previously and which he continued to fill with
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ability and credit until his resignation one year later to become professor of chemistry in Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. Doctor Stone's repu- tation as a chemist had preceded him to the latter institution and upon the beginning of his work, in October, 1889, he was received by officials and pro- fessors as well as students with every mark of approbation and confidence. Fortified with superior professional training under some of the most dis- tinguished scientists of Europe, he infused new life into his department, popu- larized the study of chemistry and was soon surrounded by a large number of enthusiastic students, who, profiting by his instructions, in due time carried their knowledge to other fields, where many of them are now filling places of honor and usefulness in various lines of industry. Doctor Stone filled the chair of chemistry with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of the officials of the university and all others concerned until June, 1900, in the meantime, 1892, being appointed vice-president of the institution, which position he held in connection with his other work for several years, discharging his official duties with the same interest he manifested in the class-room, and proving an influential factor in attracting students and putting Purdue on the way to become what it has since become, one of the most thorough and popular tech- nical schools in the West. During the absence of President Smart, in 1899, he was acting president, and when it became necessary to appoint a successor to the former gentleman, Doctor Stone, appearing to meet every requirement of the position and being the unanimous choice of the board, was duly chosen president in July, 1900, and has since held the place, discharging his official functions with the best interests of the university in view and forging rapidly to the front among the distinguished educators not only of Indiana but of the country at large.
Dr. Stone has been identified with Purdue for a period of twenty years, ten as a member of the faculty, and ten as chief executive of the institution. While professor of chemistry, he did much scientific work, made many impor- tant researches and discoveries, and gave the results of his investigations to the world in a number of scholarly papers and treatises, published in this country and in various periodicals abroad. As an instructor he easily ranked among the most thorough and efficient in the land and, as already indicated, students from his department have achieved distinction as teachers, and in various other lines of usefulness, the demand for their services attesting the thoroughness of their training and their ability to fill worthily the positions to which they have been called. As a faculty member, he was active in the work of committees, being for several years chairman of the committee on athletics, and in this connection had much to do with the organization of the Inter- collegiate Athletic Conference, which has had an important bearing and
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influence on athletics not only in western colleges and universities but wherever such organizations were in existence.
The growth of Purdue since Doctor Stone became president is the high- est testimonial that could possibly be paid to his ability and foresight as an executive and to his eminent standing as a broad-minded, scholarly and enter- prising educator. Since taking charge of the responsible position which he now so worthily holds and so signally honors, the advancement of the uni- versity has kept pace with the leading institutions of the kind in the United States, the attendance increasing from eight hundred and forty-nine in 1900 to one thousand, nine hundred and thirty-six in 1909, the number and capacity of the buildings having more than doubled during the interim, while the value of the university property has advanced from seven hundred two thousand dollars to one million, two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars, and the annual income, which was about one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars the former year, now amounts to considerably in excess of four hun- dred thirty thousand dollars. The faculty, which formerly numbered sixty- five professors and instructors, now contains the names of one hundred and fifty, among whom are some of the leading educators of the country, in their special lines of work, no pains nor expense being spared in securing the best ability obtainable in order to keep the institution at the high standard to which it has been raised since the present administration has directed and controlled its policies and affairs. As a technical school, admittedly the equal of the best in the land, its work is so thorough and its reputation so high that hun- dreds of students are attracted to its walls every year from other and distant states, satisfied that a degree from the institution affords the best and surest passport to a successful and honorable career in this world of industry or scholarship.
Doctor Stone has always stood for the highest grade of work in the class- room. Economy in the use of the public funds and thoroughness in all mat- ters coming within the sphere of his authority. He exercises the greatest care over the buildings and grounds, looks after the comfort and welfare of students, and, being proud of the university and jealous of its good name and honorable reputation, it is easily understood why he enjoys such great pop- ularity with all connected with the institution, and is so well and favorably known in educational circles throughout the country. Though still a young man, he has achieved success such as few attain, but not satisfied with past results, he is pressing forward to still wider fields and higher honors, although his place among the eminent men of his day and generation is secure for all time to come. Doctor Stone has ever pursued a straightforward course and his manly, independent spirit commands for him universal approbation. He
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has proven himself equal to every emergency in which he has been placed and to every position with which honored, and as a ripe scholar and gentleman of cultivated tastes and high ideals he fills a large place in the public view and enjoys to a marked degree the esteem and confidence of all with whom he comes into contact. In addition to his professional duties, he served one term as chairman of the school board of West Lafayette and for a number of years has been identified with the American Association of Agricultural Col- leges, being at this time a member of the executive committee of this organiza- tion. Since becoming a citizen of Indiana he has been active and influential in the work of the State Teachers' Association, also with the affairs of the state board of education, of which he is an ex-officio member. Though first of all an educator and making his work as such paramount to every other consideration, Doctor Stone has not been remiss in his duty to the community in which he resides, nor unmindful of his obligations as a citizen. A Repub- lican in politics and thoroughly abreast of the times on the leading questions and issues concerning which men and parties divide, he is not a partisan and in local affairs gives his support to the best qualified candidates, irrespective of party ties. He also manifests an abiding interest in the growth and wel- fare of his adopted city, is a stockholder in the Merchants' National Bank of Lafayette and aims to keep in close touch with every enterprise and movement which has for its object the social advancement and moral welfare of his fel- low men.
Doctor Stone, on June 24. 1889. contracted a matrimonial alliance with Victoria Heitmueller, a native of Prussia and the daughter of Ferdinand and Bertha Heitmueller, who also were born in that country. Mrs. Stone was reared and educated in her native land and has presented her husband with two sons, David Frederick, born April 2, 1890, and Richard Henry, whose birth occurred on September 25. 1892. Doctor Stone and wife are members of the Second Presbyterian church of Lafayette, he being one of the elders of the society. They are actively interested in all work under the auspices of the church, besides contributing of their means and influence to the furtherance of various charities and humanitarian enterprises in their own and other cities.
MARTIN LUTHER PEIRCE.
Words of praise or periods of encomium could not clearly convey the personal characteristics of the noble gentleman of whom the biographer now essays to write in this connection, for only those who had the good fortune
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to know him personally could see the true beauty of his character and indi- vidual traits, which were the resultant, very largely, of a long life of devotion to duty, a life filled with good deeds to others and led along worthy planes, for during his long business career, he having been for some time the oldest business man in Tippecanoe county, the late Martin L. Peirce endeavored to be an advocate of the Golden Rule. He was born in Portsmouth, New Hamp- shire, June 26, 1806, in which city he received his education in the common schools. He was descended from the family of Peirces that located at Kit- tery, Maine, nearly one hundred and fifty years ago, where his father, Dr. Nathaniel S. Peirce, was born during the last days of the American Revolu- tion. When the latter was twenty-three years old he edited and published the New Hampshire Gazette at Portsmouth for several years. The paper was then fifty years old and in 1889 it was the oldest newspaper in the United States.
In March, 1821, Martin L. Peirce, as a clerk, entered the counting room of C. & C. W. Peirce, commission merchants of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1828. Then he came to the middle West to grow up with the new country where he deemed greater opportunities existed for one of his temperament, and, having a rare executive ability and keen foresight, he soon got a foothold and became prosperous. From 1836 he was an active business man in the city of Lafayette. Taking an interest in public affairs, he was elected sheriff of Tippecanoe county in 1840 and again in 1842 on the Whig ticket. He afterwards refused two nominations, one for county treasurer and one for county clerk. For the seven years following he was the directing member of Hanna, Barbee & Company, grain and commission dealers.
January 7, 1850, Mr. Peirce was married to Emma L. Comstock, of Hart- ford, Connecticut, the daughter of Deacon Comstock of that city, and to this union four children were born, two of whom died in youth. Charles H., and Lizzie P., who married Fred W. Ward, survived. Mr. and Mrs. Peirce also reared two other children, Oliver W. and Richard G. Peirce.
In 1854 Martin L. Peirce went into the banking business as a member of the firm of Spears, Peirce & Company, under the name of the Commercial Bank of Lafayette, and in 1863 the name of this thriving institution was changed to the First National Bank of Lafayette, of which Mr. Peirce was elected president, which position he held until his death, managing the affairs of the bank in such an able manner as to give it wide prestige and establishing it on as solid a basis as any bank in the state. This bank was reorganized June 1, 1882. This was among the first banks of its nature organized under
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the national banking law in the United States, its original number being twenty- six, all of which charters were issued the same day. Mr. Peirce was also vice-president of the Lafayette Savings Bank, which he was instrumental in organizing. He was treasurer of Purdue University from the date of its organization until his death. He was also a trustee of Franklin College and of the Chicago University, having always taken a very active interest in edu- cational affairs, and no small part of the success of the above named in- stitutions was due to his wise counsel in the management of their affairs. He was especially interested in the success of Purdue University from the first-in fact, he was its first treasurer. He is said to have been the first to suggest to John Purdue the founding of this university. The two men were closely associated and one day when they were riding together they passed a cemetery where a thirty-six-thousand-dollar monument stood. They commented on the useless waste of so large an amount of money, and Mr. Peirce suggested to Mr. Purdue that he leave a more useful monument to his memory by leaving a large sum to a college to bear his name. In this suggestion others urged Mr. Purdue in this matter, and the great Purdue University of today is the result.
Mr. Peirce, in his fraternal relations, was a Mason, having identified him- self with this ancient and honored order in 1840. In 1867 he visited the Paris Exposition as representative of the Scottish-rite Masons of the United States, and he attended the grand banquet of the Grand Orient of Paris, where eleven hundred delegates, representing every civilized country in the world, assembled. This was a distinction of which any one might well be proud. While abroad he visited the principal countries of Europe and the British Isles. He had the distinction of being the first member initiated into Tippe- canoe Lodge, No. 55, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in Lafayette. Since 1843 to the time of his death, December 28, 1889, he was an active and promi- nent member of the First Baptist church. At various times he made liberal donations to the church and to Purdue University, the fine greenhouse on the grounds of the latter being the result of his generosity. He was originally a Free Soiler, but ever since the organization of the Republican party he was a loyal supporter of the same.
At the national convention of bankers at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1887, he was a delegate, being the oldest of between three and four hundred bankers in attendance. He was held in highest esteem by the members of that association, by members of the lodges with which he was identified, in fact by all classes, for he had sterling traits of character which commended him to all, enjoying the unqualified confidence of his fellow citizens. His long
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and eminently useful life was replete with success because he worked for it in an honorable manner, his life work having been nobly planned and singular- ly free from blot or stain, or even the suspicion of evil, his entire career being marked by generous acts. The suffering, the worthy poor, the deserv- ing young man, the church, the cause of education, never appealed to him in vain. He gave liberally, ungrudgingly and unostentatiously, being prompted by the broad charity which he felt rather than by any desire to make a display, his only hope of reward being the consciousness of doing good. As a financier and banker-captain of industry, his sound judgment, unusual executive ability and fidelity to duty placed the institutions with which he was connected in the front rank of their kind. He was truly a consecrated Christian man, and it was in his home life that his character shone with peculiar luster-the tenderness in his nature created idols out of its loves and his wife, children and grandchildren were its loves. Truly he was a good man like that mentioned in Holy Writ "whose life was as a shining light."
CHARLES HOWARD ANKENY.
Though the dead are soon forgotten, few will linger longer in the memory of citizens of Lafayette than the late Charles Howard Ankeny. This is due to the fact that he had the qualities which impress men. Prominent and prosperous in business, he established a character for integrity, public spirit and the social amenities of life. Modest and unassuming, he was really a man of great force of character and usually found in the lead when any movement was on foot for the betterment of the city. Tenacious of his own rights, he respected the rights of others, and in the best sense of the term he was always a gentleman in social intercourse, as well as a model citizen in affairs affecting the public. There was no more active member of the Mer- chants and Manufacturers' Exchange and the Lafayette Commercial Club. He was a lover of his home and family, noted for gentleness and kindness and the "soft answer that turneth away wrath." The record he left will long be an inspiration to those who knew and loved him best and Lafayette has never had a worthier name on her roll of honorable citizenship. This well- known business man was a son of Peter and Sabra Ankeny, born in Wash- ington, Guernsey county, Ohio, October 2, 1844. At the breaking out of the Civil war, though only sixteen years old, he was anxious to become a soldier for the Union, but owing to his slight physique was not allowed to enlist. He
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