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teachings and patriotism of his party, and has worked earnestly for the success of his party in numerous campaigns since the war. As a lawyer he has won a well deserved reputation, having had a number of very important cases, one of which began in 1858, three years before the war, and which had been pending twenty years before he went into the case, and which was appealed four times to the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois. He gives the cause of his clients close attention, and vigorous and determined effort. Our subject was married in 1866 to Miss Lizzie V. Root, of Rush County, Ind., who has borne him two chil- dren, Mary and Florence, both graduates of the Indianapolis High School. Mr. Spahr was commissioned by Gov. Grey, of Indiana. a member of the committee authorized by act of the General Assembly of Indiana, to mark the places on the battle-field of Gettys- burg, occupied by the several regiments from Indiana in that great battle and to erect suitable monuments on the places thus marked, commemorating the part taken by Indi- ana troops in that engagement. When the committee was called together Mr. Spahr was elected chairman, and in his report to the Governor he designated Gettysburg as the turning point in the war, the battle marking the high tide of the slave holder's rebell- ion. Mr. Spahr believes that the influence and presence of religious societies, checks and restrains the evil tendencies of the people, gives us better society, better laws, and better government, lifts the people up in to a higher and better life, and to that end he has worked and contributed of his means. Thus he has lived and is living a life of usefulness, with the motto ever in view that the purpose of the life of man is to be good, and to help one another.
LEWIS C. CLINE, of Indianapolis, Ind., was born near Cloverdale, Putnam County, that State, October 16, 1851. He is the sixth son of Nicholas Cline and is of German and English descent. His early life was divided between labor on a farm during the "crop " seasons and the attendance of short terms of school in the winter. At the age of sixteen young Cline, by the consent of his mother and older brothers (his father having died three years previous), resolved to leave the farm and begin the battle of life by a reliance upon his own resources. He soon found employment, and by careful planning and economy accumu- lated means to continue his education and eventually to take a course of study in Asbury (now DePanw) University, after which he was engaged for two years in teaching public schools. In 1876 he began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. E. B. Evans, of Greencastle, Ind. On completing the required period of study he attended the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Penn., from whence he received his medical degree in 1879. He then returned to his native county and began the practice of medicine at Putnam- ville, where he at once acquired the respect and patronage of the best people of that vicinity and in November of the same year was married to Joanna C. Stevenson, a daughter of the late Dr. A. C. Stevenson, of Greencastle, one of Indiana's greatest pioneer physicians and surgeons. In the spring of 1880 Dr. Cline entered into a partnership with Dr. R. F. Stone, at Bainbridge, a flourishing town in the northern part of his county. This pleasant association continued until the following autumn, when, after an extensive acquaintance and a thorough introduction into the practice of the community, assisted by the good will and courtesy of Dr. Stone. this partnership was by mutual consent dissolved and the latter phy- sician removed to Indianapolis. After six years of active professional work at Bainbridge the subject of this sketch also removed to the city of his present residence, where he con- tinned in general practice until he had by a course of study fitted himself for that line of work which he intended to adopt as his future specialty. During the winter and spring of 1887-88 he attended the post-graduate school and hospitals of New York, where he took a course of study with special reference to diseases of the throat, nose and ear. He supple- mented his studies during the following year by taking a course in the Mackenzie Throat Hospital, London, and also attended the cliniques in the hospitals of Vienna. Since his return from Europe to Indianapolis he has limited his practice to the medical and surgical treatment of diseases of the throat, nose and ear, in which branch of practice he is recog- nized as one of the most popular and successful practitioners of Indiana. In 1889 he was appointed to deliver a course of lectures on his specialty in the Medical College of Indiana, and in 1890 he was elected professor of laryngology and rhinology in the same institution, which chair he still holds, having filled the position with credit to himself and the school.
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Dr. Cline is a member of the staff of the Indianapolis City Hospital and City Dispensary and has performed the work appertaining to rhinology and laryngology in the latter institu- tion for the last three years. He is also a member of the Indianapolis Surgical Society, the Marion County Medical Society, the Indiana State Medical Society, the Mississippi Valley Medical Society, the American Rhinological Association and the American Medical Associa- tion. He has contributed papers, on various occasions, to all these societies, and has read papers before many of the county societies throughout the State.
OSCAR B. HORD was born in Mason County, Ky., August 31, 1829, and died at Indian- apolis, Ind., January 15, 1888. He was the eldest son of Hon. Francis T. Hord, for many years judge of the Circuit Court of that county. He began the study of law at an early age in his father's office, and at the age of twenty years he came to Indiana and formed a partnership with James Gavin, at Greensburg. In 1852, being then only twenty-three years of age, he was elected prosecuting attorney of the circuit in which he lived, and discharged the duties of that office with zeal and efficiency. On November 1, 1859, he married Mary J. Perkins, of Indianapolis, the daughter of the late Samuel E. Perkins, for many years judge of the Supreme Court of Indiana. The fruits of this marriage were five children: Samuel E , Emma, Henry E., Francis T., and Ricketts, of whom only Henry E. and Francis T. survive. He was the Democratic candidate for attorney-general in 1860, and shared the defeat of the ticket on which he was placed. In 1862 he was again a can- didate for the same office, on the Democratic ticket, and was elected. Shortly after his election he removed to Indianapolis, and at the close of his official term be entered into partnership with the late Thomas A. Hendricks. Into this firm Samuel E. Perkins was received, and remained in it for a brief period. It was afterward enlarged by the admis- sion of Abram W. Hendricks and Conrad Baker. Mr. Hord was not only the partner of these men, but he was their trusted personal friend and ally. Their firm was more than an ordinary business arrangement, it was a brotherhood of wise and good men, and the rela- tions of its members to one another were close and affectionate. The bar of Indiana was greatly indebted to Mr. Hord for the compilation of the statutes. which was only superseded by the late revision of them under the authority of the Legislature, and is yet a monu- ment to his careful industry. For more than a quarter of a century Oscar B. Hord was known to the bench and bar of Indiana. He was eminent among his brethren at the bar for the accuracy and amplitude of his professional knowledge. and for his untiring indus- try in the practice of the law. Early in his career he mastered the statutes of this State. and it may be said be held them in his memory. He was acquainted with the history of almost every legislative act. No one was so entirely conversant with the course of judicial decisions from the days of Blackford and Dewey to the time of his death. He was recog- nized by his brethren throughout the State as the most eminent authority on State juris- prudence. Judges advised with him, and lawyers from every quarter sought aid of his profound acquirements. Of the many illustrious names enrolled upon the record of the Supreme Court of Indiana, none will be found recurring so often or leading in so great a number of important cases as his own. His profound knowledge and remarkable acquire- ments as to the rights of men were not limited to the State and nation; he was not less familiar with the laws of other States and England. His capacity and power of research were unequaled. Hardly any man of his time had a wider or more accurate knowledge of the laws of English speaking peoples. His investigation of cases was patient and thorough. and its results were exact. He valued only those opinions of law or facts that are based upon intelligent and painstaking inquiry, and be professed none other for himself. He made the cause of his clients his own, and deemed no labor too arduous or severe which was necessary to protect their rights. He loved his friends and freely gave himself for them. The ties which bound him to them were only strengthened by their misfortunes, for he was doubly a friend in need. He was grieved even more by their afflictions than by his own, and he had many sorrows. Under every stress of his personal fortunes he manifested to the world a serene fortitude, which was equally remote from passion or stoic- ism and was superior to either. His demeanor was marked by a geniality which never succumbed to private grief or disappointment, and always imparted some degree of itself to every one with whom he came in contact. He had a wide acquaintance with general
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literature, and sought and found an agreeable respite from his labors in the courts and at his office in the companionship of books. His literary culture and his powers of conver- sation made an acquaintance with him a liberal education. He was a man of scrupolous integrity, and his integrity was not of that sort which is the mere creature of favorable circumstances, but was of that indomitable kind which withstands the shock and strain of adversity. At the meeting of the Bar Association, called to take action on his death, ex-President Benjamin Harrison, among other things, said of Mr. Hord: "As a lawyer, he was not only his client's counsellor but his faithful friend as well. He laid bare all the facts in the case. He did more work than almost any other lawyer at the bar, of his stand- ing. I think his desk will reveal more memorandums of more citations than that of any other lawyer in the State. Mr. Hord tried his cases laboriously, and I cannot conceive how a lawyer can try a case well otherwise. The fact that with the death of Mr. Hord one of the greatest law firms that ever existed here is extinct, is certainly a sad one. I knew and loved Oscar B. Hord. He was always a courteous adversary and a true friend." To his boys he was a loved father and comrade.
GEORGE W. SLOAN, PHAR. D., M. D. One of Indianapolis' most prominent druggists is Dr. George W. Sloan, who was born at Harrisburg, Pa., June 28, 1835, a son of John and Mary (White) Sloan. His father was a native of New York city, his mother of Philadelphia. His paternal ancestors were of that stanch Pennsylvanian stock which has stamped the impress of its thrift and enterprise upon nearly all sections of our country, and his maternal relatives were Quakers, better known around Philadelphia as members of the Society of Friends. His father, who was a cabinet maker, moved to Indianapolis in the spring of 1837, and became an active and well-known business man of the city where he resided until his death in 1873. Dr. Sloan was reared in Indianapolis from the time he was two years old, and here obtained his primary education in the public schools. At the early age of thirteen years he found employment in a drug store, and there remained until 1856, when he entered the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, and there took the course of that institution. The panic of 1857 made it impossible for him to continue his studies, and he returned to Indian- apolis and resumed work as a drug clerk. In 1862 he became a member of the drug firm of Browning & Sloan, and so continued until 1887, since when he has conducted a drug business of which he has been the sole proprietor. Meantime (May 16, 1864) he enlisted in Company B, Thirty-second Regiment Indiana Infantry, and was made first lieutenant. His regiment saw four months' service doing guard duty between Louisville, Ky., and Chatta- nooga, Tenn., keeping railway communication open during Sherman's famous "March to the Sea." As a druggist, Dr. Sloan ranks with the best pharmacists in the city or State. carrying a stock averaging from $12,000 to $15,000 in value, and doing an extensive and profitable trade. He is one of the oldest active members of the American Pharmaceutical Society, his connection with that body dating from 1857, and was its president in 1879-80. He was one of the charter members and organizers of the Indiana State Pharmaceutical Society and has served on several of its most importantcommittees. The degree of doctor of pharmacy was conferred upon Dr. Sloan by Purdue University, and the degree of doctor of medicine by the Medical College of Indiana, and he is an honorary member of the Marion County Medical Society, and of the Indiana State Medical Society. In Masonry Dr. Sloan has been specially prominent, having been treasurer of his lodge of Free and Accepted Masons for more than twenty years. He is a thirty-third degree Scottish Rite Mason, and also a Knight Templar of the York Rite, and is a member of the Chosen Friends. Dr. Sloan has been a member of the board of trade since its organization, and has, during all the time that has since elapsed, been a member of the board of governors, and is at present vice presi- dent. He is also prominently identified with the Commercial Club, and is a member of George H. Thomas post, G. A. R., and Indiana Commandery, L. L. In 1866 Dr. Sloan married Miss Caroline, daughter of Hiram and Mary A. (Blair) Bacon, her parents being natives of Massachusetts, and among the early settlers of Marion County, Ind. Three children have been born to their union, named: George B., Mary A. and Frank T. The first named, who is a graduate of pharmacy from Purdue College, his father's alma mater in the same science, has been for some years connected with his father's business. Dr. and Mrs. Sloan are members of the Protestant Episcopal Church and the former has been a mem-
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ber of its vestry for more than a score of years. The Doctor is a Republican in his polit- ical affiliations, but has always been too busy with, and too entirely devoted to his business, to take any prominent or more than ordinary active part in politics.
JOHN B. LONG, M. D. One of the best known physicians and professors of medicine and surgery in Indianapolis is Dr. John B. Long, who was born near Clermont, Marion County, Ind., August 20, 1854. His father, William P. Long, is a native of Hamilton County, Ohio, and is a prominent farmer of Pike Township. Dr. Long was reared on the home farm and received his primary education in the common schools. Later he was a student fer two years at the Northwestern Christian University (now Butler University) for a year at the Normal School at Valparaiso, and for a year (1878) at the Butler University. In the meantime he had read considerably upon medical subjects and having fully deter- mined to adopt the profession of physician and surgeon, he. in 1878, took up the study of those sciences systematically, and entering the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Indianapolis in 1880, he graduated therefrom with the degree of M. D in 1882. He lost no time in beginning the practice of his profession and located in Indianapolis, where he has since continued with increasing success. He was made assistant demonstrator of anatomy, at the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1882, and in 1885 was called to the chair of demonstrator of anatomy, which office he held until the fall of 1893, also professor of descriptive and surgical anatomy. He is a member of the Marion County Medical Society and of the Indiana State Medical Society. He was a member of the board of health of the city of Indianapolis for two years (1887-88) and was for six years a member of the staff of the city dispensary. He has acted as medical examiner for lodges of K. of P. and Uniformed Rank, Chosen Friends. and Golden Chain, etc., of which he is a member. August 20, 1879, Dr. Long married Margaret L. Hunt. a native of Rush County and a daughter of A. W. and Margaret (Stephens) Hunt, natives of Ohio, who were among the early settlers of Rush County. Dr. and Mrs. Long are the parents of children named in the order of their birth: Lulu E., William A., Frank E. and Mabel C. The family are members of and attendants upon the services of the Central Christian Church. In politics the Doctor is an active and influential Republican. but he seeks no political preferment and is not a politician for gain or for personal ambition.
PETER BOLLER is a prominent painter and contractor who has been established in busi- ness in Indianapolis for the past twenty-five years. In his line of work he possesses no ordinary ability and during his long residence here he has attained a popularity not sur- passed by any of his craft and a reputation which might well be envied by those less fortu- nate than himself. His personal supervision is given all work done by his employes and everything is guaranteed to be satisfactory. He owes his nativity to that country which has produced some of the best citizens of which this country can boast-Germany-his birth occurring in Hessen Darmstadt in 1838, his father being John Boller. who was a reasonably successful tiller of the soil and died in the old country when the subject of this sketch was a child. Peter was given the advantages of the common schools of his country up to the required age. but at the age of sixteen years, with characteristic energy and enterprise, he crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the United States and for some time thereafter resided in the city of New York where he learned the trade of a painter with John Hagner. Twenty-eight years ago he commenced working at his trade for John B. Osgood, of Indianapolis, and was later with Frank Fertig, of the same city, and at a still later period became a contracting painter on his own responsibility, and has thus continued up to the present time with the best success. Since coming to the United States a penniless boy and by hard work, business ability, and a wise and prudent economy. he has accumulated a comfortable competence and has made a name for himself in his line of work. He gives almost constant employment to ten or twelve men and has done the work on the female prison, the board of trade building, and many other notable pieces of work, of which he has every reason to be proud. He is a member of the Builders' Exchange, the I. O. O. F. and the K. of P. He was married in the State of New York to Miss Mary Friedrich, a native of Germany, and to their union three sons and five daughters were given. He and his wife are liberal patrons of the Zion Evan- gelical Church and he is also interested in the prosperity of the German Orphan Asylum
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and in all charitable and laudable enterprises, whether educational, social or religious. He is a useful citizen and his social and genial disposition predisposes every one in his favor.
E. B. MARTINDALE is a native of Indiana. He was born in Wayne County, August 22, 1828. . His father, Elder Elijah, was a native of South Carolina, and moved to Wayne County in 1809. His mother was Elizabeth Boyd, a daughter of Samuel Boyd, a revolutionary soldier, who was wounded, losing his left eye in the battle of Lexington. He was a native of Virginia and moved to Kentucky, and Elizabeth Boyd was born in Mason County, Ky. In 1832 Elder Elijah moved from Martindale's Creek and the. Walnut level to a farm on Flat Rock, four miles east of Newcastle in Henry County, on which farm Judge Martindale lived with his parents until he was sixteen, learning the details of a calling which received the attention of many of the most eminent professional men of the country in their youthful days. He was then apprenticed to learn the saddlery business, but he fortunately was permit- ted to attend school during the winter months, for he worked at his trade at night and on Saturdays, and in this way at the age of twenty he had obtained a good English education and was also a good mechanic. He then began the study of law, and in 1850, on examination, was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court and began practicing his profession in the county of his adoption. During the twelve years that he resided in Henry County he held the offices of district attorney and prosecuting attorney for the counties of Henry, Randolph, Delaware and Wayne; and he was also appointed common pleas judge of the district composed of the counties of Rush, Henry, Decatur and Madison. In 1862 he took up his residence in the city of Indianapolis and at once entered actively upon the practice of his profession, since which time he has taken an active part in nearly all the enterprises calculated to redound to the city's interests. Not only is Judge Martindale possessed of sound judgment and good practical common sense, reasons from cause and effect, but he is one of the best read mem- bers of the bar and by close application and loyalty to his client's interests has won his way to the front rank of his calling. He is an excellent reader of human nature, a good judge of men and motives, and no man was better fitted to wear the judicial ermine than was he. He has been a very public-spirited citizen of Indianapolis, has added largely to its growth and prosperity, and has been ready, although his life has ever been a busy one, to respond to the calls made upon him in the cause of humanity. He purchased the Roberts Chapel at the northeast corner of Market and Pennsylvania Streets and converted it into a fine business block, also the lot east of it on which stood the first brick house ever erected in the city. This house he removed and in its place put up an elegant block of business houses, and in numerous other ways has added greatly to the city's prosperity. He has a palatial residence on North Meridian Street, in which he and his family reside, and where a refined yet gener- ous hospitality is extended to all who enter its portals. There are many private enterprises in which he has been engaged, which have remained unknown to the public, and the citizens of Indianapolis have every reasen to be proud to number him among their number. He was for a time the proprietor and publisher of the Indianapolis Journal, the leading Republican paper of the State, but it has been in the hands of others for a number of years past. Judge Martindale's father was one of the pioneer Christian ministers of Indiana, and in that church the Judge was brought up, but since he attained manhood he has been connected with the Presbyterian Church, is a member of the First Church of that denomination in the city.
JOHN A. LAMBERT, M. D. Among the popular, successful and rising young physicians and surgeons of Indianapolis Dr. John A. Lambert is one of the most prominent. Born at Rockville, Parke County, Ind., March 4, 1860, he is a son of James R. and Minerva (Green) Lambort. He remained in his native town until he was eleven years old and their received his early schooling. In 1871 the family removed to Indianapolis, where his father entered the drug trade, and there he was a student in the public schools and graduated from the high school in 1875. During the intervals in his school life he spent his time in his father's drug store learning pharmacy and gaining a practical knowledge of the drug business, and after leaving school he continued in his father's employ and as his father's partner until 1886. Meantime (in 1880) he had entered the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, gradu- ating from that institution in 1882. In 1886 he severed his business partnership with his father and opened an indopendent drug store, which he managed with considerable success until 1889, when he disposed of it in order to complete his studies in medicine and surgery,
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which, in his spare time, he had carried forward to such a stage that he was ready to take lectures. Entering the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons, he was graduated there- from in the class of 1891, with the degree of M. D., and immediately entered upon the prac- tice of his profession in the northern part of the city. His success has been most substan- tial financially and most flattering professionally, and he has attracted a large, influential and constantly-increasing patronage. Indeed, he at once took a position in the medical pro- fession of Indianapolis that of itself demonstrated the degree of faith reposed in him by his older professional brethren. In the very year of his graduation from the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons he was elected to the lectureship on pharmacy, a position in the faculty of that institution which he still holds, and he has also been assistant demonstrator of anatomy in that college. He is a member of the American Pharmaceutical Association, of the Marion County Medical Society, of the Indiana State Medical Seciety, and of the American Medical Association. When the Indiana State Pharmaceutical Association came into existence, in 1882, Dr. Lambert was one of its organizers and charter members. He has always taken an active and helpful interest in each of these several societies and is esteemed as a prominent and useful member by his associates in them. Great as are the profitable demands upon the Doctor's time lie has never yet refused his professional services to the deserving poor who have needed them and yet been unable to pay for them, and the instances when he has thus donated the benefits of his knowledge and skill in behalf of suf- fering humanity have been so numerous as to give him a warm place in the hearts of many grateful people. Dr. Lambert was married October 17, 1883, to Miss Sarah E. Brundage, a native of New York and daughter of Reuben N. and Ann (Sullivan) Brundage, and they have one child, a son, named Frank B., who was, born September 6, 1884. In politics the Doctor is a stanch Republican.
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