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On November 1, 1849, Mr. Gladden married Barbara A. Ellis, a daugh- ter of Thomas Ellis, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work. To them were born two children, Walter Owen, and Ellis Fremont, who was born November 30, 1855, and died September 24, 1893. William Gladden was a strong Republican in politics. His death occurred on May 5, 1896, while
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his wife passed away September 25, 1893, and both are buried in the Concord cemetery.
Walter Owen Gladden was born October 11, 1853, and secured a fair education in the common schools. He was for a time engaged in teaching school, but after his marriage he went to Illinois, locating on farming land near Rossville, where he remained until 1895, when he returned to his present farm in Lauramie township. He owns eighty acres of land here, three hundred and sixty acres near Juddville, eighty acres in Illinois and also a tract in California. In 1901 Mr. Gladden erected the beautiful house in which he now resides, and he has in many ways beautified and improved his prop- erty, until today it is considered one of the best farms in this township.
On December 29, 1875, Mr. Gladden married Uszas Hunter, a native of Warren county, Indiana, and a daughter of John P. Hunter, one of the pioneers of that county. Both of her parents are living. being upwards of ninety years of age. Being denied any children of his own, Mr. Gladden has been the foster father of two girls whom he took to raise, the first one in 1898 and the second in 1906. After seeing his own country, he made a trip abroad, visiting Jersusalem, Jericho and Bethlehem and most of the foreign countries. Mr. and Mrs. Gladden are popular among their acquaint- ances and because of their many sterling qualities of character they enjoy the confidence and respect of all.
A. M. MAYFIELD, M. D.
Dr. A. M. Mayfield was born in Clark county, Indiana, in the year 1871, the son of William H. and Julia M. (Fitspatrick) Mayfield. The father of the Doctor, a native of Kentucky, of German lineage, came to Indiana when a boy and settled in Washington county, moving to Clark county in the sixties, where he remained the balance of his life, dying when fifty-six years of age. He was a man of much sterling worth and made a success as an agriculturist. In his family were six children, all boys. An older brother of Doctor Mayfield was a soldier in the Civil war, having served gallantly through that sanguinary struggle. Mrs. William H. Mayfield lived to be sixty-one years old. She had one brother who was a captain in the Union army during the Civil war and who is now a physician in Kansas City, Missouri.
The early education of the subject of this sketch was obtained in the public schools of Clark county, having spent his summer months working on
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the home farm. He attended the teachers' institute one year, after which he taught school during the winter months, continuing to attend the institutes during the summer months, having kept up this method until he began the study of medicine. He was successful as a teacher, but he decided that his true calling was in another direction and, entering the work with his accus- tomed energy, made rapid progress. He was then twenty-two years of age. He attended the Kentucky Medical College at Louisville, from which he graduated in 1894 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, having made a very commendable record in the same. Since that year he has been engaged in general practice, first for one and one-half years at Chestnut Hill, Indiana ; later at Salem, Washington county, for three years; then he came to Mont- morenci, this county, where he actively engaged in his profession.
The domestic chapter in the life of Doctor Mayfield began in 1896 when he was joined in wedlock with Cora C. Smith, daughter of W. A. Smith, who was of German extraction. Mrs. Mayfield's father served in the Fed- eral army, Company C. Forty-ninth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and he still bears the scar of one wound. He is now a member of Dr. May- field's household. One child, a son named Ambrose Richter, has been born to the Doctor and wife, the date of his birth being December 23, 1907.
The Doctor's father and mother were always devout members of the Christian church, William H. Mayfield having been a deacon in the same. Mrs. Mayfield's people also belonged to the same church, and both the Doctor and his wife are members of this congregation.
Doctor Mayfield in his political relations is a Democrat, and in his fraternal relations he is a Mason, a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, also the Court of Honor.
REV. SILAS O. GOODRICH.
Rev. Silas O. Goodrich is a native of Steuben county, Indiana, born April 22, 1880. He is the son of George B. and Maggie J. (Twiford) Goodrich, both of Irish descent. Upon coming to this country the Goodrich family settled in the state of New York, but the birthplace of George B. Goodrich was Steuben county, Indiana. George B. Goodrich is a licensed veterinary surgeon and has been in the practice in Steuben county, this state, for many years, during which time he has built up an extensive patron- age and has been very successful in his work. To George B. Goodrich
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and wife five sons and one daughter have been born, all of whom received a fairly serviceable education in the common schools.
Rev. Silas O. Goodrich received his primary education in the district schools of Steuben county, Indiana, having completed the common-school course in 1896, where he received sufficient education to enable him to teach in the common schools, attending school during vacation months at the Tri-State Normal at Angola, Indiana. He was principal of the Pleasant Lake school for one year, made an excellent record as a teacher, and if he had chosen to remain in that profession he would have, no doubt, achieved a wide reputation as an educator. Turning his attention to the life insurance business, he became general agent for the John Hancock Life Insurance Company. He was then only twenty years of age, but he proved to this company that he possessed the right qualifications in this line of work, and he was placed in charge of four counties, remaining with the company two years, and giving entire satisfaction.
Feeling impressed that he was called to spread the gospel of the Master, he left the allurements of the successes in material things and was licensed to preach in the United Brethren church when nineteen years of age, having taken regular work in connection with his teaching. He also took a veter- inary correspondence course, given by a Detroit (Michigan) school, gradu- ating April 8, 1908: also graduated from the Veterinary Science Associa- tion on May 2, 1908, at London, Ontario.
Rev. Silas O. Goodrich was sent to Colburn, Indiana, in 1903. as a regular United Brethren minister, filling regular appointments at Colburn, Buck Creek, Ockley and Fairview. He is now completing his sixth year in this work.
Reverend Goodrich was married to Imogene Philips, a native of La- Grange county, Indiana. After passing through the common schools she attended the Angola Normal School, and is a woman of marked intellectual attainments as well as of refined personality. To this union two children have been born, namely : Clela A. and Pearl I.
Reverend Goodrich is a member of the Transitville Lodge, No. 425. Free and Accepted Masons; Buck Creek Lodge, No. 497, Knights of Pythias; the Uniform Rank at Delphi, being chaplain of the Eighth Regi- ment of this order. He also belongs to the Ancient Order of Gleaners. In politics he is a Republican.
As might naturally be expected, Reverend Goodrich is a lover of horses and other livestock, and he is something of a horse trainer, being an excel- lent judge of this animal. He and his estimable wife are held in the highest esteem by members of the congregations which they seek to serve.
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CHARLES B. STUART.
Charles Benedict Stuart was born in Logansport, Indiana, April 21, 1851, and died February 20, 1899, at his home in Lafayette, Indiana. He was a son of Hon. William Z. Stuart, the distinguished lawyer and jurist. whose name stands pre-eminent in the judicial history of the state of In- diana, and Sarah Scribner Benedict, of Verona, New York. Judge William Z. Stuart was a native of Dedham, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, born December 25. 1811. His parents were Dr. James and Nancy (Alli- son) Stuart, Scotch Presbyterians, who emigrated from Aberdeen to America. Charles B. Stuart's elementary education was obtained in the Logansport schools, then preparing for college at Williston Seminary, East Hampton, Massachusetts, he entered Amherst College and graduated in the class of '73 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then attended Columbia Law School in New York, graduating therefrom with high honors in 1876. It was Mr. Stuart's intention to practice law in New York City and make that city his residence.
On the death of Judge Stuart, May 7, 1876, Charles B. was appointed on the legal staff of the Wabash Railroad Company, a responsible position which his father had held for eighteen years, and to him was intrusted the duty of looking after the interests of this great corporation in Indiana. He devoted his life to this duty, making the welfare of the road his study by day and by night. He brought all his energies to the protection of the com- pany's interests, as it was the nature of the man to do well whatever he undertook. The legal affairs of the road were so well managed that he continued in the capacity of legal counsel up to the time of his death, nearly a quarter of a century. He had a wide reputation of being one of the best corporation lawyers in the state.
Mr. Stuart opened his law office in Lafayette, Indiana, on January 2, 1877, having moved it from Logansport. In 1882 his brother, William V. Stuart, became associated with him. After the dissolution of the firm of Coffroth & Stuart the firm was, on January 21, 1890, composed of the Stuart Brothers, Charles B., Thomas A. and William V. Soon death broke the link and bore to the grave Thomas Arthur, then in the prime of life. On August 23, 1892, Hon. E. P. Hammond became associated in the firm, and the law firm of Stuart Brothers & Hammond was as familiar to the court records of Indiana, and in the United States courts, as any in the West. Mr. Stuart, in conjunction with his father-in-law, Mr. Adams Earl, be-
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came deeply interested in the importation and breeding of Hereford cattle soon after the breed first came into prominent notice in the West, and to the very last was one of the leading supporters of that breed as well as one of the most powerful single factors in the business affairs of the American Hereford Breeders' Association.
The great importation of English royal winners and high class breed- ing animals brought out by the firm of Earl & Stuart when they visited England in 1880 has always been regarded as one of the most valuable ship- ments of "white-faces" ever made by one man or firm at one time from Herefordshire herds. Upon that great foundation was built up at their beautiful Shadeland farm, four miles from Lafayette, one of the most cele- brated collections of cattle the world has ever known.
Mr. Stuart had a genius for mastering the details of any subject to which he gave his attention. He became not only an expert judge of Here- fords. but as a student of blood-lines and combinations he was confessedly one of the best informed men on either side of the Atlantic. When abroad recently ( 1895) he again visited many of the noted herds of Herefords in the old world. Almost the last act of his life was the purchase of two fine specimens of Herefords to head his stock farm on the Wea.
Mr. Stuart was greatly interested in Lafayette. Anything that would push forward this city had his cordial support, both in influence and purse. He was one of the organizers of the Lafayette Club; was one of the orig- inators of the Merchants National Bank, in which he was a stockholder and director ; his influence and money aided in bringing natural gas to Lafayette; he was an earnest supporter of the Monon shops project, now the pride of the city : took an active part in the county fair for years, and was one of the board of directors; was a director of the Belt Road enterprise; was for fifteen years a trustee of Purdue University, and for ten years presi- dent of the board. He always took a great interest in Purdue. It was the child of his mature years, and he saw its rapid progress with all the pleas-
ure that a fond parent sees the growth of a favorite son. He gave his time liberally to the cause of education, and his influence was ever on the side of the right and against the wrong. He was a man of action rather than words. His opinion on all public questions was freely expressed, but his differences with men and measures were so courteous that one always left him with the feeling that his positions were the result of mature thought and not of haste. Politically he was a Democrat-a Gold Democrat-and that party had no truer supporter. Possessed of great influence, he never sought preferment himself. He was a delegate to the national conven- tion which nominated Mr. Cleveland at St. Louis.
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December 20, 1876, Mr. Stuart married Alice J. Earl, daughter of the late Adams Earl and Martha J. Hawkins, of Lafayette, Indiana, who sur- vives him. Socially he was the prince of liosts. His friends were welcome at all times and his nature was so genial and hospitable that it was always a pleasure to be in his company. He was devoted to his home, and here, after the labors of the day, he loved to spend his leisure hours. Most hap- pily married, surrounded by those he loved, he was the ideal husband and son.
When such a man dies the community suffers an irreparable loss. His industry and business sagacity placed him beyond the reach of want, and he was looking forward to years of unalloyed happiness with those who were near and dear to him. His life was an example to the youth of Lafay- ette, and those who follow in his footsteps closely will leave behind a name that will live and be forever cherished in the hearts of all.
From an editorial which appeared in the Lafayette Sunday Leader at the time of Mr. Stuart's death we quote the following :
"It is seldom that the press is called upon to chronicle the passing away of one who was so universally loved and honored, and whose death so saddens an entire community, as is the case with Charles B. Stuart. He was a man largely interested in the affairs of our city. He was identified with its growth and progress. He was an active factor in promoting its inter- ests. A man of clear, keen penetration, he seemed to grasp the situation at a glance, and time verified the soundness of his judgment. If Charles Stuart had an enemy on earth the fact is not known. He was a man of the strict- est honor. He made no promises that he did not fulfill to the letter. He was a man of clean speech; the coarse jest had for him no charm. He was a man whose invariable custom was to speak well of all men, or not at all. His life was an open book with no dark pages; there were no shad- ows on his name or on his conduct. The writer was privileged to enjoy his friendship for a long term of years. During those years there is not re- called a single unkind utterance he ever made concerning any human being. His record as a son, husband, brother, citizen, friend and business man is an enviable one. In the midst of his legal battles, many of them neces- sarily fierce, in the social circle, in the office, on the street or at his fire- side, his greeting was always cordial, his welcome sincere. In his death the bar has lost a conscientious pleader ; the community an upright citizen ; his family a devoted husband and brother; humanity a noble, pure-minded rep- resentative."
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THEODORE MCCABE.
Among those men of Tippecanoe county who, by the mere force of their personality, have forced their way to the front rank of that class of citizens who may justly be termed progressive, is Theodore McCabe, at present county commissioner, and a well-known citizen who has taken an abiding interest in the welfare of the community at large while advancing his own interests, thereby winning the esteem of all classes. He was born in Hock- ing county, Ohio, November 29, 1844, the son of Ezra and Adelia (Dillon) McCabe. Grandfather McCabe was born in Virginia and is remembered as a fine old Southern gentleman. The paternal great-grandfather was born in Ireland. The grandfather came from Virginia to Pickaway county, Ohio, where the family resided the rest of their lives. They are described as hardy pioneers, honest and hard workers, and many of their sterling traits have descended to the present generation of this name. Ezra McCabe married Adelia Dillon in Ohio and they emigrated to Indiana in 1854. set- tling in Washington township, Tippecanoe county, where they remained one year, then lived in Wea and Randolph townships. They developed a good farm from primitive conditions and spent the remainder of their lives here, the father dying in 1888 and the mother surviving until 1906. They were the parents of ten children, four of whom are living in 1909, namely : David is a resident of Randolph township; John, of White county, this state; Rebecca, who became the wife of Jasper Kious, lives in Momence, Illinois; and Theodore, of this review.
Theodore McCabe was nine years old when he was brought by his par- ents to Tippecanoe county. He was reared on the home farm and educated in the district schools, being the youngest of the sons born to his parents. He remained on the farm with his father, assisting with the various duties there until his marriage, on February 25, 1874, to Ella F. Kyle, who was born in Romney, this county, the daughter of James H. and Mary E. Kyle, a prominent family of that locality. She received a common school edu- cation.
Mr. McCabe started in life under very unfavorable circumstances, hav- ing very little capital, but he was possessed of the true grit that has charac- terized all men who have risen from humble environment to positions of responsibility and worth. He soon had a foothold and eminent success has attended his efforts, being now the owner of one of the finest farms in this favored section of the Hoosier state, consisting of two hundred and twenty acres in Shelby township. He accumulated his present handsome
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competency by judicious and skillful farming and stockraising. His farm has been improved and cultivated in such a manner as to render it equal to any in the county, and it is a very attractive place on which stands a beau- tiful and modern farm house, surrounded by commodious and substantial outbuildings, good orchards and gardens, and all necessary farming im- plements. Mr. McCabe also owns one acre of land in West Lafayette; be- sides this property he owns stock in the Merchants' National Bank of La- fayette.
Mr. and Mrs. McCabe are the parents of the following children: James Earl, born December 22, 1874, is a graduate of the Cincinnati Medical Col- lege and is engaged in successful practice at Buck Creek; Alma E., born August 9, 1876, is the wife of Thomas McKinnis, of Lafayette; Floyd C., born August 1, 1878, graduated in pharmacy at the Valparaiso University ; Winnie P., born October 5, 1880, is the wife of George Glaze, of Dayton, this county; William T., born May 2, 1885, graduated from the Lafayette high school and is a teacher by profession; Nettie May, born October 13, 1888; Harry W., born December 9, 1889, is a graduate of the local high school; Juanita, born July 25, 1896.
In his fraternal relations Mr. McCabe is a member of the Montmorenci Lodge, No. 534, Knights of Pythias. In politics he is a loyal Republican and he has long taken an active part in local politics, his counsel often being sought during campaigns, and he loses no opportunity to aid any worthy cause whether political or otherwise. As a reward for his valuable services in this direction and as a tribute to his genuine .worth, he was elected com- missioner from district No. 2 in 1905, and is very ably discharging the duties of the same at this writing, giving entire satisfaction to all concerned, irrespective of party ties. He has been instrumental in repairing many of the main bridges and erecting substantial concrete bridges. Since Mr. Mc- Cabe became a member of the board a splendid bridge over the Wabash river has been built at Granville, connecting Wayne and Shelby townships. It is a steel structure with a concrete floor, and was completed in 1908. It is beautiful in design and a most serviceable and substantial one.
HARRY B. LYMAN.
Harry B. Lyman has well earned the honor to be addressed as one of the progressive, public-spirited men of Tippecanoe county, a worthy descend- ant of an influential family, the exemplary reputation of which has been unas-
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sailable for several generations or since the first member of the family became known in this locality. He was born in Lafayette September 24, 1868, the son of Edwin and Clarissa H. (Lewis) Lyman. He grew to maturity in this city and attended the public schools and the business college here, receiving a very serviceable education. He early in life conceived the idea of becoming a merchant, and, accordingly, after he had finished schooling he engaged in the grocery business for a short time, but the business in which his father was engaged, that of coal and building material, seemed to offer greater advantages. He entered his father's office and gradually mastered the details of the business; and for a period of ten years prior to his father's death he practically managed the same. Edwin B. Lyman died in November, 1898, and then his son, Harry B., succeeded to the business. The latter's mother also died in 1898, the final summons coming for her in March of that year.
In addition to the extensive business which Mr. Lyman conducts in Lafayette, he owns over seven hundred acres of as fine farming land as Tippecanoe county can boast. It is very productive and well improved, being under a high state of cultivation. His valuable landed estates claim a large part of Mr. Lyman's attention, for he delights in overseeing agricultural work, and especially stock raising: for the past twelve or fifteen years he has been a breeder and importer of pure bred Percheron horses. They are of such fine quality that they are in great demand and sales are easily effected, Mr. Lyman being extensively known for the fine stock he handles. He is regarded as an extraordinary good judge of horses and his interest in them has done much to stimulate a general interest in good horses through- out the county.
Mr. Lyman is a director of the City National Bank of Lafayette, also a director in the State Bank at Oxford. He is president of the Tippecanoe County Agricultural Association, and much of the large success of the same is due to his enterprise and judicious counsel. He is treasurer of the Lafayette school board; also treasurer of the Lafayette Sales Company, and vice-president of the National Builders Supply Association, an organiza- tion of about sixteen hundred members. In all of the above-named enterprises Mr. Lyman is a moving force and he has his business so systematized that although the volume of the same would be sufficient to crush most men, he manages it all with ease and dispatch, being a man of keen discernment, quick of decision and able to see with remarkable accuracy the outcome of present transactions. His judgment is seldom at fault and he easily ranks among the
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leading business men in a community noted for the high order of its citizenship.
Mr. Lyman was married to Theresa E. Schele, of Lafayette, on October 14, 1901. She is an accomplished and cultured lady and the representative of an old and influential family. This union has resulted in the birth of one son, George Edwin Lyman, a bright and interesting lad, whose birth occurred June 3, 1903.
Mr. Lyman has a modern, attractive and beautifully located home in Lafayette, but, as already intimated, much of his time is spent at his country estates, one farm lying seven miles northeast of Lafayette where his horses are kept and the other nine miles east of the city
Personally, Mr. Lyman is a pleasant man to know, unassuming, approachable, genial and a good mixer, consequently he is popular with all classes.
EDWIN B. LYMAN.
The late Edwin B. Lyman, of Lafayette, Indiana, was a native of New England, having been born in Franklin county (now Lamoille), Vermont, July 26, 1828, the son of Simeon and Emma (Potter) Lyman, the former a native of Vermont, of Welsh descent, and the latter a native of Connecticut and of French descent. Edwin B. Lyman lived in Vermont until he was fourteen years of age when he removed with his parents to Orleans county, New York, and in 1851 his parents emigrated to Tippecanoe county, Indiana, and made their home in Lafayette where the father died in 1854. during the cholera epidemic, his widow surviving until 1857. Edwin B. Lyman was reared on a farm, and he made his home with his grandparents for two years after his parents came to Tippecanoe county, following them here in April, 1853, coming from Toledo on the canal. Starting in business here, he launched in the lumber trade with J. K. Snyder, a brother-in-law, with whom he was associated for about eight years. He was married in Lafayette in 1857 to Laura A. Cook, who was born in Orleans county, New York, and who died in 1861. In January, 1863, Mr. Lyman was married to Clara H. Lewis, a native of Indiana, born at North Bend. To this union three children were born, of whom only one is now living. Harry B. Lyman, a detailed sketch of whom appears on another page of this work.
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