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health to take them on an extended tour of 15,000 miles, through the Southern States, Cal- ifornia, Mexico, Utah, Colorado and other Western States and Territories, and on his return visiting the World's Fair at Chicago. Dr. Barnes has all the zeal and energy and studious and investigating spirit that inspired him a quarter of a century ago. While conservative and prudent, he is at the same time progressive and active in promoting measures calculated to keep the profession in full touch with the spirit and genius of the age. Blessed with good health, and in possession of an active and vigorous mind, and enjoying a very lucrative practice, Dr. Barnes may be truly said to have made a most decided success of his life, as well as having good reason to look forward to many years of further usefulness in his profes- sion. The Doctor"s only living sister, Mrs. Virginia A. Williams, is residing at Indianap- olis. She is a lady of much dignity and personal beauty, and possessed of many accom. plisbments. He has two brothers, J. D. and William A. Barnes, worthy gentlemen respect- ively of Abilene and Olcott, Kan.
HON. DAVID TURPIE, one of the present senators from Indiana in the United States Con- gress, is justly recognized as a man of superior ability and one of the foremost lawyers of the State. After receiving a good practical education he studied law, was admitted to the bar at Logansport, Ind., in 1849, was appointed judge of the Common Pleas Court in 1854 and in 1856 was elected to the bench of the Circuit Court. In 1853, and again in 1858, he was elected to the lower house of the State Legislature. In 1863 he was elected United States senator to succeed Gov. Joseph A. Wright, and after the expiration of his term was engaged in the practice of his profession in Indianapolis. He also served Marion County in the State Legislature several terms, and the session of 1874-75 was elected speaker. In 1878 he was appointed one of the three commissioners selected to revise the laws of Indiana, and as such served three years. In 1886 he received the appointment from President Cleve- land of United States district attorney for the State of Indiana, serving as such until March, 3, 1887. He was elected to his present seat of United States senator February 2, 1887, and the day following his retirement from the United States marshalship witnessed his induc- tion to a membership in the highest legislative body of our land. Judge Turpie is not only a Democrat in the highest political sense of the word, but is a Democrat in the widest acceptation of the term. Of unquestioned ability, a ready debater, a fluent orator, he stands to-day among the foremost men of the State.
MILTON H. DANIELS. One of the most positive truths taught by modern science is that mental and physical qualities are hereditary in man and this statement of fact is as old as Moses, who declared that the generations to come should feel the influence of the father's actions. The subject of our sketch is descended from a worthy ancestry and owes his vigor of body and his strong mentality to his parents and his parents' parents. He was born in Grove, now called Groveland, Allegany County, N. Y., August 3, 1837; being the son of Dr. William and Betsy (Baldwin) Daniels. of Germantown, N. Y., and of Woodbridge, Conn., respectively; the father being of Welsh and the mother of English descent. The great-grandmother of our subject on the father's side was the sister of that sturdy philoso- pher and august statesmen, Benjamin Franklin. This family settled in Massachusetts at an early day, some of them also going to Vermont. The great-grandfather on the father's side was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and was killed near Worcester, Mass., toward the close of that protracted struggle. The maternal grandmother was a cousin of Gen. Wooster. The paternal grandfather, George Daniels, was a farmer, who lived at German- town Flats, where he also died. The maternal grandfather, Maj. Baldwin, was a soldier of the War of 1812, and died at the age of forty. He was a carpenter by trade and a very skillful user of tools as well as a very good manager. The father of our subject was a phy- sician and graduated at the Fairfield Medical College of New York; was married in 1836, located at Grove, N. Y., and two years after moved to Warehouse Point, Conn., where he died January 11, 1842. . The mother of our subject died at the age of fifty-three while the Civil War was in progress. She and her husband were the parents of four children, two of whom are living, namely: Milton H., our subject, and William L., of Minneapolis. Milton H. Daniels was reared in Warehouse Point and Danbury, Conn., until he was twenty-one years of age, receiving his education at the Academy. He was brought up in the mercantile busi- ness and proved himself a very level headed young man, with decidedly enterprising meth-
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ods. The sound of war stirred him to the very soul and his whole being was exercised on behalf of the Union. At the very outbreak, in April, 1861, he enlisted in Company I, Third Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, as a corporal, serving three months. He took part in the disastrous battle of Bull Run, and in August, 1861, at the expiration of his term of enlistment he re-enlisted, entering Company E, of the Seventh New York Northern Black Horse Cavalry, under Col. A. J. Morrison, of Troy, N. Y., and served until the following March, when the company was mustered out. In July, 1862, he and Capt. James E. Moore raised a company known as Company C, of the Seventeenth Connecticut Infantry, and our sub- ject went out as a first lieutenant. At the battle of Gettysburg Capt. Moore was killed and Lieul. Daniels was commissioned captain of the company, serving as such until March, 1864, when he resigned on account of suffering from the effects of a wound received at the siege of Charleston by the explosion of a shell. Going to Florida he remained until July, 1874, being employed as a bookkeeper there for M. W. Drew, of Jacksonville. Previous to this, however, he had served as clerk of the court at Enterprise, Volusia County, Fla. Dur- ing the latter part of his stay in Florida he was engaged in the boot and shoe business, but he finally became dissatisfied with the South, and July 29, 1874, he came to Indianapolis and for two years was agent for the Protective Life Insurance Company of Chicago. At the expiration of this time he engaged in the real estate business at No. 163 East Washing- ton Street for a period of two years, after which for four years he was with the Sun and Globe and was secretary of the State Central Greenback Committee. During the next eight
years he was in the pension business, or pension attorney. In April, 1892, he was elected a justice of the peace, and is serving in that capacity at the present time. Capt. Daniels is a lover of social life and the companionship of his fellows, being a member of a number of organizations, among which are the Masonic order, the order of Chosen Friends, the Grand Army of the Republic and the Golden Chain. He was married in 1858 to Amanda M. Hos- kins, of Clarksville, Otsego County, N. Y., who died at Port Orange, Fla., February 2, 1869, leaving one child, William Hoskins Daniels, who lives near Cooperstown, N. Y. Capt. Dan- iels was married again June 13, 1877, to Charlotte S. Warren. of Marlboro, Mass., who is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church and a most popular member of the large circle of estimable people among whom she moves. Capt. Daniels is a man of strong convictions upon all the leading social and political issues of the day and has the courage to voice his sentiments when the occasion demands it. At the same time he has great respect for those who differ with him, and among the number of his hosts of particular friends are men of all religious and political views.
BENJAMIN C. SHAW. The subject of this sketch is a worthy and highly esteemed citizen and an ex-soldier, who made for himself a most enviable record during the war between the States of the Federal union. Benjamin C. Shaw, adjutant general of that noble organization, the Union Veteran Legion, is a native of the Buckeye State, having been born at Oxford, Ohio, February 3, 1831. He comes of a most worthy stock, being the son of Joseph and Saralı (Serring) Shaw, the father being a native of North Carolina and the mother of Cin- cinnati, being the first female child born in that place. The grandfathers of our subject were patriots and soldiers of the Revolutionary War, the paternal grandfather being a native of Ireland, who settled in the Old North State and married a Graham, a member of the family which has supplied so many illustrious public men of that name in North Carolina. The Serring family came from England and settled in New Jersey, locating at Cincinnati in 1795, where they lived in peace and enjoyed the confidence and esteem of their neighbors and friends. The father of our subject was a hatter by trade, having learned it in the celebrated "Beard's" factory in his native State. At the outbreak of the War of 1812 he enlisted in the Light Horse Cavalry and was one of the heroes of that devoted band. When the war was over he, with five others, rode on horseback from his mountain home in Carolina to the then struggling village of Cincinnati, where he followed his trade for a short time and then became a contractor on the Miama Canal; afterward building a part of the Codrein pike, from Oxford to Cincinnati. Finally he gave up the business of a contractor and his last years were spent upon a farm near Oxford, Ohio, where he died in 1845; his wife surviving until November, 1884. He was the father of ten children, only two of whom are living, namely: Mrs. Mary A. Woodard and Benja-
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min C., our subject; the sister living in Jasper County, Ind. Our subject was reared upon a farm until he was eighteen years old, attending the public schools of the district, where he received such instruction as they were able to afford, which was somewhat primitive. He now felt the necessity of doing something on his own account and, in February, 1848, went to Greensburg, Decatur County, Ind., where he began the trade of wagon-making, which he learned and followed until the outbreak of the Civil War, when, fired with prtriotic zeal, he was in the ranks with the first of the volunteers, enlisting April 18, 1861, in Company F, Seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry. This was the first regiment that made an assault upon the Confederates, and our subject made the detail which carried the first wounded officer of the command, Col. B. F. Kelley, off the field, the colonel being in command of the First Virginia Regiment. He and his men captured the Confederate Gen. Porterfield's baggage wagon, including his personal effects, and also his official papers. Immediately after this engagement our subject was appointed provost marshal and with his company was detailed to take charge of Philippi, the first town captured during the war, and being in Barbour County, W. Va. Col. Shaw, our brave subject, captured all of the baggage and other wagons of the enemy at the battle of Carrick's Ford, with a force of but thirty men, in July, 1861, the colonel being at this time a lieutenant. The first company that tendered its services to Jefferson Davis was composed of cadets, students at a college at Augusta, Ga., and of these our subject captured thirteen, and for his services in this battle he received the warm thanks and praise of Col. E. Dermont, of the Seventh Indiana. These events transpired in the three months' service, the enlistment being for that period, and our subject being a lieuten- ant at that time. At the expiration of his term he promptly re-enlisted in the Seventh Indiana, and went out for three years as captain of Company G, and was promoted to the rank of major, after the battle of Greenbrier, in November, 1861, in which he bore a very brave part. During the first battle of Winchester, March 3, 1862, at a crisis in this hot and fierce contest he was requested to command the Third Brigade of Shields' Division. Acting with the promptness that the occasion demanded, Col. Shaw ordered the First Virginia Infantry to move by right flank and forward to a stone fence; then ordered the Seventh Ohio and the Seventh Indiana to deploy column and assault the Confederate battery immediately in front. During the giving of these orders his horse was shot five times, and being a powerful animal it struggled violently and dashed Maj. Shaw against a tree, lacerating his left lung, which formed a cicatrice and from which he has not fully recovered. Falling upon some " nigger head" stones at the base of the tree his spinal column was wrenched, causing a total paralysis and he was supposed to be dead for more than an hour. At dusk, however, two soldiers passing among the heaps of dead and wounded discovered him, when one said to the other: "This is Maj. Shaw, of the Seventh Indiana; let's get him out of these stones," at the same time seizing him by the shoulder and drawing him into shape. Our subject aroused by this friendly action, declared he was not hurt much and directed that his horse be caught and he be placed upon it, for that if the Seventh Ohio and the Seventh Indiana did not capture the Confederate battery the day was lost. Poor fellow, while he lay there unconscious the two regiments had done the very thing he spoke of; but he was delirious and for twenty-four hours did nothing but rave, giving orders rapidly and in his fever tight- ing the enemy over and over again. His illness was near unto death and in June, 1862, he resigned and came home, when he organized the Sixty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, composed of more than 1,000 men and went out with this splendid command as lientenant- colonel; having been tendered a colonel's commission, but declined it on account of his physical condition. In fact, he was a very great sufferer and nothing but the most sublime patriotism could have nerved him up to the endurance of the fatigues and hardships of service. As it was he was compelled to resign in 1863, June 1, the injuries received at the battle of Winchester rendering him incapable of further active work of any kind. Col. Shaw was a prisoner in the body of Bragg's army for three days, when he was paroled and exchanged. In this brief time he got well acquainted with a number of the enemy and was known to them as the "protesting officer," who always would have his own way and would say what he pleased in the interests of his men. It was evident that his manner pleased them, for he was placed by Gen. Bragg in charge of the 4,200 paroled Union prisoners. After the regiment was exchanged and sent to the front it was made the infantry guard
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to convoy thirty seven boat-loads of provisions from Louisville to Nashville, up the Cumber- land River, Col. Shaw having charge of the left wing, rear guard, on the steamer, Fort Wayne. At Harpeth Shoals the rear boats were attacked by Gen. Forrest, and two of these signaled they were disabled, when Col. Shaw ordered them to prepare to lash themselves to the Fort Wayne, at the same time ording the remaining boats to proceed to Nashville, where they arrived at 10 p. M., he arriving fourteen hours later with the crippled ones and finding Gov. Andrew Johnson and Gen. Mitchell anxiously awaiting him with other officers, their fears being that he was captured. Col. Shaw made a brief verbal report that he had taken the disabled boats from Forrest and ran away with them safely; but his arrival was hailed with great delight by the officials. On leaving the service onr subject did so with a heavy heart, because his whole sonl was wrapped up in the Union cause, and he burned to be at the front. By a special order Gen. Rosecrans detailed a chaplain to take care of him and bear him to his home. He went to Greensburg, his home, and sold out his business interests. being warned by his physicians that he could not possibly live. With deliberation and the courage that comes of duty honestly and faithfully discharged, he made all his preparations for the great change that must come to all. He arrived at Greensburg on the day of the county convention and was tendered the unanimous nomination for county auditor, but he declined it, although deeply impressed with the testimonial of the kind feeling of his neigh- bors and friends. In the fall of 1863 after he had, to the surprise of himself and friends, gained some strength he came to Indianapolis and engaged in the manufacture of carriages, a business he conducted for some time, but which he was finally compelled to retire from on account of the great depreciations from the 1873 panic. Col. Shaw was chairman of the Republican county committee of Decatnr in 1860, and in 1867 was the nominee of the Workingmen's party for mayor of Indianapolis, but was defeated. Again, in 1870, he was a candidate of his party, this time for State senator, but was again defeated, the opposing party being too strongly in the majority. In the year 1874 he was nominated on the Demo- cratic ticket. for State treasurer and was elected by over 17,000 majority, and was re-elected in 1876, serving two terms. He was made chairman of the Democratic State Central Com- mittee in 1878 and served one term, since which time he has not taken any active part in politics. During the past few years he has spent his time very quietly, endeavoring to recover from a very serious attack of the grip. Col. Shaw takes a most lively interest, as all good citizens should, in all public affairs, and is a man of great public spirit and loyalty-to city, county, State and country. His time is now given chiefly to the management of the Union Veteran League. Beside being connected with this organization Col. Shaw is a Knight Templar, a member of the G. A. R. and of other bodies, in all of which he is recognized as a man of decided ability and a gentleman of refined and courteons manner, being just toward all and charitable in all things. He was married happily in 1850 to Elizabeth A. Coy, who bore him ten children, but three of whom are living, namely: Fannie, Ida and Edna. The life of Col. Shaw has been a very busy and useful one, notwithstanding his most serious bodily afflictions, which would have killed outright any man of less vital energy. He was a trustee of the Purdue University from 1873 to 1875. and served on the building committee of the same; was a director for two years on the City Belt Railway, and was a member of the Citizens' Executive Committee to arrange for the Twenty-seventh National Encampment of the G. A. R., and selected one of the seven citizens to expend the $75.000 donated for encampment purposes. In 1876 he was selected and appointed one of three expert judges on carriages, but the board expecting him to remain in Philadelphia through the six months of the Centennial Exposition be resigned the honor. Whatever Col. Shaw has been called npon to do he has always done it well and has received the approval of all for the fidelity with which he discharged the trusts and honors. Widely known throughout Indiana and else- where, he is held in the highest esteem and is regarded as a man of unimpeachable integrity, honest in all his convictions and true to himself and his neighbors and everybody. He has been called upon to endure great bodily suffering, but he has borne his yoke uncom- plainingly and has gone ahead meeting the duties of life with a stout heart, unfalteringly doing whatsoever his hands found to do, in a sublime faith that all things work together for good to those who lead righteous lives.
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JOHN R. HAYNES, M. D. The subject of this sketch is one of the brightest, most advanced and popular representatives of the school of homeopathy in Indianapolis, and is in the enjoyment of a most lucrative practice as the result of his skill and success in the practice of medicine. Dr. Haynes has enjoyed the advantages of superior education, is a close observer of men and things, and has especially applied himself to a broad and com- prehensive knowledge of all things pertaining to his profession. He was born in Otsego County, N. Y., March 13, 1823, of most worthy and patriotic ancestry. His paternal grandparents, George N. and Lydia Haynes, were of German and English descent, respect- ively, and came to this country prior to the Revolutionary War, settling in New York. George N. Haynes served in the Continental army throughout the memorable struggle under George Washington and was major of a New York regiment. Returning home after the war, he devoted himself unremittingly to farming until his death, which occurred about the year 1822, his wife preceding him a few months. Of the six children, Samuel Haynes lived upon a farm in his native county in New York until his death, in 1845. He was the father of nine children (his wife being Olive Danley), our subject being one of these, and another, James, served in the late war, participating in many of the leading battles, and after the battles were over and the war ended, he died from the effects of exposure, etc., incident to that war. Our subject was reared in his native county, remaining upon the farm and attending school, until he was seventeen years old, at Otsego, when he entered the New York City University, from which he graduated in the classical and scientific course in the year 1844. Three years later he began the study of medicine at New York City and took two courses of lectures at the University of New York and finally graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati in 1849. He then located at Newport, Ky., where he carried on a general practice for about twelve years. In the year 1869 he came to Indianapolis and has followed the practice of his profession ever since. He is a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy and is one of the originators of the Indiana Institute of Homeopathy, having been treasurer of the latter for fifteen years. The Doctor was one of the most active promoters of the Hahnemannian (International) Association. Dr. Haynes was married in 1847 to Miss Mary E. Ladd, a native of Pennsylvania, who had removed four years previously to Kentucky with her parents. The Doctor and his estimable wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, in which body they are held in the highest esteem. The Doctor and his wife have a wide circle of friends, and both of them display in the social circle those charms for which they are distinguished in the highest degree. The Doctor never takes a very active part in politics, but he is a sincere believer in the principles of the Republican party and always supports its candidates. He was one of the originators of the International Hahnemannian Association, where they admit nobody but pure and undefiled homeopaths.
HON. CALEB S. DENNY. The subject of this sketch was born on a farm in Monroe County, Ind., May 13. 1850. His father, James H. Denny, was a native of Mercer County, Ky., and his mother. Harriet R. Littrell, was born in Boutetort County, Va., in sight of the Natural Bridge. The parents of Mr. Denny lived for a number of years in Kentucky, but finally set- tled permanently in Indiana, being strongly opposed to slavery. When Caleb was three years old his father removed to Warrick County, Ind., where the family lived on a farm near the town of Boonville until the time of his father's death, in 1861. Mr. Denny received such education as the winter-term country schools of that locality provided up to the time of his father's death, when he was left alone with his mother on the farm, all of his brothers having gone to the war. When he was thirteen years of age the farm was rented and he was apprenticed to the tinner's trade, where he worked for one year. A select school having at that time been organized in Boonville by a teacher from the East, he got the consent of his mother and his boss to quit the trade and start to school. He succeeded in two years in preparing himself to enter the freshman class at Asbury (now DePauw) University, which he did in the fall of 1866. Here he remained for two years. completing his sophomore year, at which time he was compelled to quit for lack of funds to proceed further. He taught school for one year, hoping to return and complete his college course at the end of that time, but receiving a proposition to come to Indianapolis as assistant State librarian, he accepted, and at the end of the term found himself twenty-one years of age, which he considered too
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old to re enter college. He therefore took up the study of law in Indianapolis, which he had to some extent prosecuted while teaching and while in the State library. He was admitted to the courts of Marion County the following year, and in 1873 to the Supreme Court of the State and the Federal Courts, being then twenty-three years of age. After practicing one year he was appointed deputy attorney-general of Indiana, where he remained until the fall of 1874, the election of that year having changed the political complexion of the State offices. He re- entered the practice in Indianapolis and continued therein uninterruptedly until Janu- ary, 1882, at which time he entered upon the duties of city attorney, having been elected to that office by the joint convention of the Common Council and Board of Aldermen for the term of three years. He received the caucus nomination of the Republican members over the incumbent, John A. Henry, Esq., and several other prominent attorneys of the city, and at the election received twenty six votes, being all the Republican votes in said bodies, the Democratic members, being eight in all, casting their votes for Hon. Napoleon B. Taylor, now judge of the Superior Court of Marion County. At the end of this three years Mr. Denny was re-elected city attorney for another term, but at the end of one year was nominated for mayor of Indianapolis by the Republican convention held in the summer of 1885. The campaign of that year was the most remarkable in the history of the city. The Democrats nominated Thomas Cottrell, an old and well-known citizen, for mayor, on a "liberal " platform, which meant a lax enforcement of the saloon and gambling laws. The Republicans adopted a platform which declared in the strongest terms for a rigid enforcement of those laws and
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