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WILLIAM H. SMYTHE, now a prominent figure in the affairs of American Freemasonry, is a Hoosier by birth, born in Putnam County, near the city of Greencastle, July 2, 1846. His grandparents were born in Virginia, and were industrious and enterprising citizens of that grand old mother of States. One branch of the family, however, at a later day emi- grated to Kentucky, in which State the father of our subject was born. The mother was a native of Indiana. When William was about nine years of age he was left fatherless, and when twelve years of age he received an injury to the knee that threatened to and did make him a cripple for life. Realizing that he must learn a trade for his own subsistence, as well as to aid his mother support her large family, he entered a shoemaker's shop at the age of sixteen. From the age of twelve until he had reached his sixteenth birthday he saw but few idle moments, devoting the time spent by other boys in amusement to sawing wood and in other occupations suitable to his age and strength. In this way he earned sufficient means to support himself and to obtain the learning he so much coveted. From the time he commenced his trade he labored at it for sixteen years, but to a mind like his the work of the bench was not sufficient, though it brought him a comfortable maintenance. The desire for a better education was strong in this Hoosier youth and followed him into manhood. Many times the midnight oil was consumed while he struggled with subjects that would benefit him in coming years, and the very best books were eagerly devoured by him. Some time after attaining his majority he became interested in the Masonic fraternity and received the degree of Master Mason in Applegate Lodge, No. 155, at Fillmore, Ind., June 1, 1869, serving as master of the lodge in 1878 and 1879. The year 1871 he was made a Royal Arch Mason and served as high priest of his chapter for four years. In 1874 he became a royal and select master and presided over his council for six years. He was made a Knight Templar in 1876, and two years later was made eminent commander. His marked promi- nence in the craft at this writing consists in the fact that he occupies the positions of grand recording officer of all the grand bodies of the Ancient York rite in Indiana. He was elected grand secretary of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons in May, 1878, and re-elected at each succeeding annual meeting; was appointed grand secretary of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, grand recorder of the Grand Council of Royal and select Masters, and grand recorder of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar, respectively, on November 10, 1888, and has been elected to these several positions at each succeeding annual meeting since held by them. . He has also served as grand secretary of the Grand Chapter of the O. E. S., of Indiana, the system of Adoptive Masonry in Amer- ica, continuously from 1876 to 1893, and has been treasurer of the Masonic Mutual Benefit Society of Indiana for a period of five years. The discharge of the duties thus confided to him necessitated his removal to Indianapolis, where he has long resided. These positions are a part of what is known as the York Rite of Masonry, but his affection for and interest in every branch of Free Masonry led him to seek and attain the mysteries of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and he received its degrees up to and including the thirty-second degree, at Indianapolis, in 1881 and 1884. He was honored by the Supreme Council for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction with the degree of sovereign grand inspector general, thirty-third degree, the last degree of the rite at Chicago, in September, 1886. Mr. Smythe is a man of spotless reputation and absolute integrity. The hard training of his early life was the thorough school in which he learned the importance of punctuality in all engage- ments and fidelity to every trust; and also mental discipline and self reliance. These at once mark his success in life, his high standing in his community, and universal respect and esteem of all who know him. His ever thoughtful and constant care of his family, as a husband and father; his prompt and most efficient discharge of the duties of the high stations he is occupying; his undeviating courtesy toward all who approach him in business relations; his kindness, consideration and accommodation to those who seek his counsel or assistance, by private request of every character; have made him innumerable admirers
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and friends in all portions of the State, and indeed in numerons localities throughout the country.
WILLIAM H. KENDRICK, M. D. The physician is a man who inspires confidence because he is worthy of it. His humanity is expressed in the interest he takes in his patient's wel- fare as well as for the experience lie may gain while pursuing the paths of this arduous profession, in order to benefit future sufferers. Dr. Kendrick is a physician who has always loved knowledge and as a physician is devoted to his profession, careful in his investigations and gives all the time he can find in his busy life to books and periodicals devoted to medicine and surgery. He is built upon a broad gauge and he has always labored under the belief that it was his duty to gain knowledge from whatever source it came, so that it was reliable and valuable. He has always despised charlatanry and deceit in all its forms and believes in deserving the confidence of patients by pursuing strictly open and honorable methods. His range of information is broad and during the many years that he has pursued the calling of Esculapius he has won a wide reputation and a large practice. The Doctor is now in his eightieth year, for he was born in Knox County, Tenn., near Wrights Ferry on the Holsten River on December 21, 1814, and there resided until he was five years old. He was then taken to the State of Ohio and until he attained manhood he gave his father his assistance on the home farm in Preble County. He was an attendant of the common schools during his youth, and in early life was converted to the Christian religion and soon after began speaking in the cause of Christ. Some time after he was ordained to preach in the United Brethren Church, the Laying on Hands being performed by Senior H. Coombs, presiding bishop, after which Dr. Kendrick became a traveling minister and thus labored in his Master's vineyard for several years. Owing to his health giving way he gave up this work and turned his attention to the study of medicine in the office of Drs. Myers & Hammond, of Richmond, Ind., and upon leaving them he went to Washington, Wayne County, where he practiced his profession for two or three years. At the end of that time he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and graduated from the Eclectic Medical College, after which he returned to Washington and resumed his practice. After a short time spent in Pendleton, he came to Indianapolis in 1851, and in this city has made his home ever since. During the great Civil War he was made assistant surgeon of the Nineteenth Indiana Regiment but after a time was taken from the field and placed in charge of the patent office hospital, which position he retained until he was taken with a severe spell of typhoid fever, which so undermined his health that he resigned his position and returned home. He was very shortly after made professor in the . Medical Eclectic College, of Chicago, where he delivered lectures until the great fire of 1871 swept the college away. He then returned to his home in Indianapolis where he has remained ever since and assisted in establishing the Eclectic College of Physicians and Surgeons and was made Dean of the Faculty, continuing as such three years. Although he is now much broken in health, and is quite advanced in years, yet he is possessed of a wonderful consti- tution and his mind is as clear and active as in the days of his youth. He is a member of the Indiana Eclectic Medical Association of Marion County and was chosen a delegate to the Eclectic Medical Congress held at Chicago during the Columbian Exposition, but ill health prevented him from attending. In the field of politics Dr. Kendrick has been honored by his party and in 1861 he was elected to the State Legislature and after his return from the war was re-elected, serving in all three terms. He introduced several bills whch after- ward became law, and during his first term when an objectional bill was introduced relative to the secession of Indiana from the Union the Doctor was one of the majority of Republicans who left the legislative hall to prevent the passage of the same. He was married on March 19, 1842, to Jeannette Meredith, a native of North Carolina, and a cousin of Gen. Meredith. To them two children were born: Robert and Minerva J. Originally he was a Jacksonian Democrat in his political views but assisted in the formation of the Republican party and has ever since been a stanch supporter of the same.
HIRAM MOORHOUS. This successful farmer was born in Warren Township, Marion County, Ind., July 4, 1834, on the farm belonging to his father, Andrew Moorhous, who was born in Tompkins County, N. Y., in 1796, and came to Indiana in 1824, entering, soon after, 220 acres of land in Warren Township of the county in which his son now resides. Before his death, which occurred in 1864, he had cleared 100 acres and made many improve-
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ments in the way of buildings. He was married in March, 1825, to Miss Theresa White, and to them were born eight children, as follows: Louisa (wife of Capt. John A. McLaugh- lin, who served throughout the Civil War as a member of Company A, Forty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, became lieutenant-colonel, commanding that regiment, and by his wife the father of five children-Mary (wife of J. L. Penny), Ida (deceased), Emma (Mrs. Everett), James A. and John G.); Albert (who died May 10, 1890, was a corporal in Company D, Fourth Indiana, during the Mexican War and was captain of Company L, Ninth Indiana Cavalry, during the Civil War; was badly wounded at Nashville and his death resulted from these wounds); Clarissa; Indiana (married Isaac H. Shriner, by whom she bas one child); Thomas; Hiram (the subject of this sketch); Sarah (who died unmarried), and Robert (who served as sergeant in Company L, Ninth Indiana Cavalry, was captured in northern Alabama and lost his life in the terrible explosion of the steamer "Sultana "). The father of these children was a Democrat politically, and a member of the Baptist Church, as was his wife. He was a private in Capt. Redding's company, organized in Indiana for the Black Hawk War, and went from Indianapolis to Chicago on horseback, but the war was over when he arrived. His wife died in 1889 at the age of ninety-one years. The paternal grandfather, Nathaniel Moorhous, was born, lived and died in the State of New York, and was a farmer all his life. He was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, being a member of Capt. Bell's company of scouts. His children were Andrew, Silas, Sylvanus, Mary and Wilbur. The immediate subject of this sketch was brought up on a farm of 260 acres, belonging to his father, one of the patents for which bears the signature of John Q. Adams, another having the signature of Gen. Andrew Jackson. In the subscription schools of his boyhood days Hiram Moorhous was educated, but he attended only about two months out of the year up to the age of fourteen years. He remained on his father's farm until about twenty-eight years of age, and in the spring of 1861 enlisted in Company K, Eleventh Indiana Regiment Zouaves, of which Col. Lew Wallace was the commander. He entered as a private and served as such for three months; then, having served bis term of enlistment, he became a member of Company A, Forty-seventh Indiana, and was made first duty ser- geant and six months later was promoted to second lieutenant, which rank he held up to the time of his discharge, which occurred at Helena, Ark., in November, 1863. He was in the following battles: Romney, Va. ; Island No. 10; a gunboat fight at Riddle's Point, below Island No. 10; New Madrid, Mo. ; Brown's Plantation, Miss., where his company lost thir- teen out of twenty-one men. Although Mr. Moorhous' health was always poor during his service, with the exception of the first six months, he remained faithfully with his company and was always ready to report for duty. Upon receiving his discharge he returned home, and for a year thereafter was an invalid. He remained at home until 1868, then bought 160 acres of land in Warren Township, Marion County, Ind. December 3, 1868, he was mar- ried to Elizabeth, daughter of John Ellenberger, and they settled on the tract of land men- tioned. Since then he has increased his holding to 260 acres, of which 220 acres are cleared. He raises the usual farm products and about fifty head of hogs yearly, in fact is a thrifty and industrious farmer. To himself and wife five children have been given, of whom one, John A., died in infancy. Those living are: Ella E., Charles H., Frank F. and Theresa A. Mr. Moorhous was a Democrat in his political views until the firing on Fort Sumter, since which time he has been an ardent Republican.
THOMAS M. McKEE. In the early stages of American history necessity goaded the wits of the handful of individuals from which the people of the United States sprung, and its imprint has been left upon their descendants in the shape of great mental activity and ingenuity, which characterizes them as a race. Among those who are known as representa- tive American citizens the name of Thomas M. McKee, an inventor of considerable note, takes a prominent place. He was born in Shelby County, Ind., in 1858, and is a son of Felix L. and Melissa (Jones) McKee. The father was also a product of Shelby County, Ind .; born in the year 1822, and is to-day the oldest white man living who was born in that county. The mother was a native of the Blue-Grass State and was born in the year 1833. She died in March, 1893 but the father is still living and finds a comfortable home with his son, our subject. He and wife were the parents of four children, two sons and .two daugh- ters. The daughters died in infancy and the son, Jasper N., now resides in Brightwood,
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Ind. T. M. McKee came to this county in the fall of 1887, from Shelby County where he was reared and educated, and he first engaged in the work of contracting and building. He is a cabinet maker by trade and a man of remarkable genius in the way of inventing new machinery. Finding the building and contracting business overdone he began inventing a churn which he has recently patented and put on the market. His churn is made to run like a clock and when the drum is wound up it will run for one hour and will churn a batch of butter every few minutes. A company has been organized and the new churns are to be put on the market in large numbers for the next season's trade. In matrimony, as in other ventures, he has been very successful. He was married to Miss Alfaretta Johnson, at Greens- burg, Ind., in 1880, and by her has one child, a bright little girl named Elsie May, whose birth occurred July 31, 1881. Mrs. McKee's parents, David L. and Sarah (Tucker) John- son, were Indiana people and are both dead. Mr. McKee is a gentleman of kind disposition and pleasant manners and has a host of warm friends.
JACOB B. CASKEY, the most efficient engineer on the Bee Line division of the Big Four Railroad is a native of the Buckeye State, born in Wayne County, September 22, 1845, to the union of John and Mary (Young) Caskey. The parents were married in Ohio about 1844 and still live in Bellefontaine, that State. To their union were born five children, three sons and two daughters, the subject of this sketch being the eldest. The other children were named in the order of their births as follows; James married Miss Alice Hinch and became a railroad engineer, and was killed in Kansas while acting in that capacity, and his widow now resides in Brightwood, Ind. ; John, married Miss Mattie Merrick and resides in Bellefontaine, Ohio; Maggie, married Edward Slone, and is also a resident of Bellefontaine, Ohio, and Laura, married James Powers and makes her home in Findlay, Ohio. Jacob B. Caskey, the subject of this sketch, passed his youthful days in his native county, and there received a fair education. In 1861 he enlisted in the Forty-second Ohio Regiment under Col. James A. Garfield, and served until cessation of hostilities. He participated in twenty-seven battles and was slightly wounded at Vicksburg on May 22. At the close of the war he returned to his native State and engaged in former duties of engineer on the railroad and still pulls the throttle on the Bee Line division of the Big Four. In the year 1868 he was married to Miss Emma Bramwell, daughter of John M. and Mary (Dorsey) Bramwell, who were among the earliest settlers of Indianapolis. This union has been blessed by the birth of six children, three sons and three daughters: Albert, is now living in Watertown, S. D., and like his father is a railroad engineer, and is married to Miss Laura Wilson, of Nichols, Iowa; Gracie, married James Ackworth and resides in Brightwood; Walter, single, makes his home with his parents and carries on a large drug store for his father, is an expert druggist, and is blessed with excellent business qualifications; Effie, is at home with her parents; John is also at home, as is the youngest child, Stella. Mr. Caskey became a resident of Indiana in 1866, and has ever since made it his home. For two years he was trustee of Brightwood and for the same length of time was president of the board of trustees of this place. He is a member in good standing in the G. A. R., the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and of the K. of P. He has always been one of the foremost citizens in all matters of public improvement, and is in every way a most worthy and respected citizen.
EDGAR M. OUTLAND, M. D. Health is the most precious gift of nature, and how to retain it and how to regain it when lost are matters of vital moment. Some obtain health in travel, others in physical recreation and both are beneficial but they do not always accomplish the object in view. Medical science must be resorted to and a good physician employed. Indianapolis is especially favored in this respect, for she numbers many excellent physicians among her professional men. Prominent among those who have won golden laurels in this respect stands the name of Dr. Edgar M. Outland. He is a product of the State, born in Parke County October 12, 1861, and although young in years has already a knowledge of medicine that many older men might envy. His father, John T. Outland, is a native of North Carolina and came to Parke County, Ind., with his parents when ten years of age. He has been a resident of that county ever since and is one of its most substantial farmers. He married Miss Mary Newsom, a native of Bartholomew County, Ind., and they now reside on the homestead in Parke County. Dr. Edgar M. Outland, the only child born
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to this worthy couple, passed his youthful days in assisting his father on the farm and in attending the common schools where he secured a good practical education. Later he entered Earlham College at Richmond and in 1888 began the study of medicine with Dr. Woodard, of Indianapolis. Later he entered the Physio-Medical College of Indiana from which he was graduated in 1890, and he immediately began general practice. Shortly after- ward he was appointed to the chair of physical diagnosis in the college, and held this until the fall of 1892 when he was promoted to the chair of general and descriptive anatomy. This position he fills at the present time with credit to himself and to the evident satisfaction of the college. He is a member of the American Medical Association, also the Indiana State Association, and has been president of both. He is also a member of the Indianapolis Med- ical Society and has been presiding officer of the same. On October 23, 1884, he was mar- ried to Miss Tacy J. Allen, a native of Parke County, Ind., and the daughter of Joseph and Mahala (Stalker) Allen, natives of Indiana and Ohio respectively. Dr. and Mrs. Outland are the parents of two children: Louverne and Raymond. He and wife are members of the Friend's Church, and in politics he adheres to the principles of the Republican party.
HENRY DOLLMAN. Ability, when backed by enterprising business measures and progress- ive ideas, will acomplish more than any other professional or commercial requirement. An illustration of this may be seen in the career of Henry Dollman, who is one of the most successful, and busy contractors and builders of Indianapolis. He was born in Napoleon, Ripley County, Ind., December, 1866, a son of Gottleib Dollman, who came from his native land of Germany to this country when a young man. He first made his home in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, and having learned the carpenter's trade in the old country he worked at it as a contractor after locating in Cincinnati. He afterward moved to Ripley County, Ind., where he became a contractor and in 1873 became a resident of Indianapolis. Henry Dollman was placed in school immediately after his parents arrival in this city, and here he obtained a practical education which well fitted him for the busy life he has led. While growing to manhood Henry learned all the details of his father's business, and afterward worked under his competent and painstaking instruction, thus obtaining a knowledge of the trade which he could have secured in no other manner. Gottleib Dollman and his son Charles were for some time in partnership as contractors and builders, during which time they built the Spencer house, the St. Charles block, did the work on the Insane hospital and also on many other buildings of note in the city and also the county. Finally Charles Doll- man went south to Memphis, Tenn., and Henry Dollman accompanied him and while in that section acted in the capacity of superintendent for his brother who was doing an excep- tionally extensive contracting business. In 1890 Henry returned to Indianapolis and com- menced contracting on his own account and being a thoroughly good business man, as well as being up in his trade he has prospered both financially and in reputation. He is a mem- ber of the Contractors and Builders Association, and politically has ever been in sympathy with the Republican party. His father is still residing in Indianapolis, an honored citizen.
RICHARD SENOUR. This intelligent and substantial citizen was born in Warren Town- ship, Marion County, Ind., October 12, 1837, on the old homo place of eighty acres belong- ing to his father, Edward Senour, who entered it in 1825. Here Richard was brought up and received the principal part of his education in the subscription schools which were in vogue at that time, only attending the public schools for a year or two. He quit attending school when about twenty years of age but remained with his father and assisted him on the home farm until he was twenty-four years old, then began working at the carpenter's trade with his brother, William P. Senour, and for about two years was engaged in contracting. He then purchased forty acres of land and went to farming, and has followed this honorable employment ever since, being now the owner of 160 acres of land. Since about 1873 he has been raising, buying and selling live stock, which he has found to be quite a profitable source of revenue. His land is exceptionally productive. and usually yields about twenty bushels of wheat to the acre, and other grains in proportion. Politically he is a Democrat, and his first vote was cast for Stephen A. Douglas. He and his wife have had seven children, two of whom are dead, and the others are named as follows: Mary, Edward, Laura, Helen and Elizabeth. The maiden name of the mother of these children was Eunice Bar- nard, daughter of Reuben Barnard, her marriage with Mr. Senour being celebrated in 1869.
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The father of Richard Senour was Edward Senour, who was born in Boone County, Ky., in 1802 and was married there to Cassandra, daughter of Richard Wells, and about 1827 they came to Indiana, entering eighty acres in Warren Township in 1825, and the year after be walked to this section from his native State, carrying his axe on his shoulder, and here dead- ened a large amount of timber on his entry, then walked back to his native State, and the following fall moved thither with his family. He soon afterward entered 160 acres in Boone County, Ind., which he held until 1869, then sold. He lived on his eighty-acre tract until his death, in 1873, and there reared eight of the eleven children born to him: Joseph, who lives in Texas, married a Miss Powell, and by her has two children, Ira and Charlie; Rich- ard, the subject of this sketch; William P., who married Louisa Parrish, by whom he has one son, Frank; Mary, who married Luther Easterday, died, leaving three children, Gertrude, Walter, and Cozy; Nancy, who first married Leland Smith, by whom she had one child, de- ceased, and by her second husband, David Brumley, became the mother of two children, Frank and Jessie; Robert married a Miss Robinson and resides in Indianapolis, and James, who lives on the old home place in Marion County, is married to Allie Murphy, and has one daughter. The father of these children was always a Democrat and belonged to the Christ- ian Church, as did his wife, who now resides with her son-in-law, Mr. Brumley. The paternal grandfather, Philip Senour, was a Virginian, and at an early day emigrated to Ken- tucky. He married a Miss Glower, and to them ten children were born as follows: Edward, Adam, Timothy, Clara, and Sarah, and five other daughters whose names are unknown. The grandfather died about 1852, at about the age of seventy years.
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