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date for the city council of Indianapolis for the twelfth ward, and, although a very young man, he made so vigorous a fight that he was defeated by only forty-four votes in a ward that was largely Republican. In the following year he was appointed by the Marion County Commissioners attorney for the poor. His able defense of Samuel Marley, who was charged with the murder of John A. Lyon, and the acquittal of his client, added to his growing reputation as a lawyer. This position he resigned in the month of November, 1886, to accept the position of chief assistant prosecuting attorney under Maj. James L. Mitchell. Mr. Holtzman served in that capacity until November, 1890, when he was elected prosecuting attorney over his opponent, Maj. Charles L. Holstein, by a larger majority than was ever before given to any Marion County candidate. He was re-elected in 1892, when he again led his ticket. Mr. Holtzman has always taken an active and prominent part in politics. He is an efficient organizer, and a forcible speaker. His allegiance to the faith and princi- ples of the Democratic party has been constant and enthusiastic. But, although a consist- ent and aggressive Democrat, Mr. Holtzman is too liberal and progressive to be a narrow partisan. Mr. Holtzman is a prominent Scottish Rite Mason, and a K. of P. Still a young man the future is before him bright and promising. Greater honors no doubt await him.
JOHN E. HEAD. In the person of John E. Head is found a scion of Kentucky who is a successful and enterprising agriculturist of Marion County, Ind. He was born in Daviess County, Ky., November 23, 1860, where his parents, J. A. and Louisa (Payne) Head, still reside, being among the leading farmers of that section. To them a family of four sons and two daughters were given: George A., John E., Eugene, Oscar, Susie and Anna Belle, the latter becoming the wife of Elisha Adams, of Daviess County. Mr. Head, Sr., and his entire family are devout Catholics, and the head of the family is a supporter of Democratic principles, but is not an aspirant for political prominence. Mr. Head wisely gave bis chil- dren good educational advantages, and John E. received a sufficient amount of schooling to fit him for the practical duties of life. He is a man of fine physique, is a fluent and inter- esting conversationalist, and having been quite an extensive traveler, and a wide, yet dis- criminating reader, he makes a pleasant and entertaining companion. After visiting many sections of the country he decided to locate in Marion County, Ind., and in 1884 commenced his labors in a clothing store in Indianapolis, styled the "Model." Previous to this he had . been actively and successfully engaged in school teaching, but on account of ill health he gave up this calling, and for the same reason left the mercantile arena, and engaged in the more healthful and invigorating occupation of farming, his experience in this line being gained as a farm laborer for a Mr. Rowney for one summer, during which time he wooed and won for his wife Miss Mary Bowser, daughter of Henry and Mary A. Bowser, a notice of whom is given in this volume. Their marriage was celebrated October 18, 1887. Mrs. Head was born September 11, 1851, and was reared on the farm on which she is now living, her education being obtained in the neighboring schools. She is a woman of fine mental powers, interesting and entertaining in her conversation and attractive and agreeable in
manners. (For further notice of the Bowser family see sketch of E. T. Bowser.) To Mr. and Mrs. Head a son has been given, William H., who was born September 13, 1892, but who only lived three months, dying a victim of pneumonia December 18, 1892. The farm of Mr. and Mrs. Head is located four miles east of Indianapolis on Section 15, and consists of eighty-one acres of fine land well adapted to general farming and stock raising, to which uses Mr. Head puts it. He is a wide-awake and progressive agriculturist, keeps pace with all improved methods in his operations, and is a useful citizen of his section. He belongs to no fraternal or church organizations but says: "I am a Democrat by birth and occupation." However, he is conservative in this respect and is by no means an aspirant for political honors, his highest aspiration being to be a useful and law-abiding citizen, to which he has without doubt attained.
A. LINCOLN LEATHERMAN, M. D. Nothing is more true than that men grow from accre- tions from without and that association of kindred minds results in the expansion of ideas and enlargement of the horizon. This being true, what a magnificent field is afforded the physician in Indianapolis, where is gathered so large a number of men eminent in the pro- fession. This city is celebrated for the loyalty of the brethren to the traditions of the pro- fession and at the same time for the progressiveness of the members in the noble science.
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Among those whose skill is destined to make his name a popular household word, may be men- tioned Dr. A. Lincoln Leatherman, who was born at Versailles, Ohio, September 30, 1864, a son of Godfrey and Emily (Atwood) Leatherman, the former a native of Maryland and the latter of England. The father followed the callings of a farmer, architect, contractor, and builder and was a man of many noble attributes of heart and head. He was reared to man- hood in the State of his birth, but about 1853 became a resident of Ohio, where he wooed and married his wife. He is still a resident of Versailles. The maternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, Edwin Atwood, was an engine builder by profession, and was a member of the old Atwood family of England. Several of his brothers were military men, and one brother, Eli Atwood, was vice-admiral and commanded a fleet of vessels for Great Britain in the War of 1812, being stationed at Halifax. Edwin Atwood; in 1848, sold his engine plant in England and with his family started for Springfield, Ill., but upon reaching the city of New Orleans he sickened and lingering until they reached Memphis there died of yellow fever. After his death his widow took up her residence in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she purchased some fine property, which is now known as Walnut Hills, but she afterward sold this property and located in Covington, Ohio, where she made her home until her death. The early life of Dr. A. Lincoln Leatherman, was spent on a farm in Ohio, and in the public schools of his native county be was prepared for college, and in 1881 entered the Ohio Wes- leyan University, in which he took a five years' classical and scientific course. He then entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the medical department of Columbia Col- lege of the city of New York in 1888 and was graduated in 1893, after baving taken a thorough course of four years. Dr. Leatherman is essentially a self-educated and self-made man in every particular, and has spent fully $17,000 in securing an education, every cent of which he earned himself during his vacations by teaching school and acting as salesman for various business houses; in fact he was not too fastidious to turn to labor at any honorable employment that offered a compensation. Previous to graduating in medicine and during his course there his ability was recognized by the faculty of Columbia College and he was made prosector of anatomy to Prof. Huntington for three years and also assisted Dr. Dela- field, professor of the practice of medicine for two years. He also was an assistant to Dr. Starr, professor of nervous diseases. At the time of his graduation as a reward of merit, he was accorded a trip to the Columbian Exposition at Chicago, at the expense of the college. He immediately afterward came to Indianapolis, opened an office, and entered upon the practice of his profession, where he gives every promise of making both fame and fortune for himself. He is a member of the Indiana State and Marion County Medical Societies and Mississippi Valley Medical Association and the American Medical Association. July 27, 1893, he was married to Miss Dora L. Harter, the only child of Dr. Jacob H. Harter, of Anderson, Ind. Dr. Leatherman is also a member of the K. of P. and in politics is a Re- publican. The Atwood family of England were Episcopalians in religious belief, but in this country they all became Methodists, of which church the Doctor and his wife are regu- lar attendants and members. A brother of the Doctor, Rev. W. H. Leatherman. is a minis- ter of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the Central Ohio Conference, and is a young divine of great brilliance and prominence, destined to make his mark in the religious world.
CHARLES E. Cox, the worthy deputy prosecuting attorney of Marion County, Ind., is yet quite a young man but this is neither a crime or misdemeanor and when it goes hand in hand with great natural ability polished to an unusual degree by wide reading and close observation, it is as worthy of acknowledged respect as is the head covered with the crown of gray. This representative young attorney first saw the light of day on a farm in Hamil- ton County, Ind., February 21, 1860, and when six years of age he moved with his parents to Noblesville, Ind., when he first attended school. Upon their removal to Tipton, six years later, he was a student in the schools of that town for four years. With a brain always
active and a perception always clear he made very rapid progress in his books and when only fifteen years of age mastered the curriculum of the Tipton High School. A year later he was employed as deputy auditor of Tipton County, and filled that position very credit- ably for one year. After that he went to the Sunflower State and worked his father's farm for two years. In 1879 he returned to Indiana and began the study of law in Indianapolis. Soon afterward he became assistant law librarian of the State Law Library and con-
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tinued in that position until September, 1883, when he was appointed librarian by the judges of the Supreme Court, in recognition of his services and his well demonstrated fitness for the office. He filled that position in a very satisfactory manner until September, 1889, when, for political reasons, he was displaced. In November of that year he began practic- ing law in Indianapolis, and in September, 1891, he was appointed deputy prosecuting attorney. Although still in the dawn of the success which has attended his efforts in a pro- fessional way, Mr. Cox has already given abundant evidence of the ability which qualifies him for a high place in the legal profession. Thoroughly master of himself, with an inti- mate knowledge of his case, of quick perceptive faculties, ready to take advantage of any error, master of any principle of the law involved in the case, an accurate reader of human character, of inexhaustible resources, he is a formidable antagonist. On June 10, 1884, he married Miss Emma M. Cooley, of Indianapolis, and they have two interesting children: Nellie, aged six years and Samuel L., aged three years.
HENRY BRISTOW is one of the oldest native-born residents of Marion County, Ind., and a member of a family whose history was identified with the State in days of earlier and simpler style of living. He was born in Perry Township, within a quarter of a mile of where he now lives, February 28, 1825, on a farm of 160 acres that was entered by his father, Peyton Bristow, in 1821, and occupied by the latter in 1822. When the tract was entered it was all in green timber, not a bush having been cut down. The father was a native Vir- ginian, born August 29, 1778, and when about eleven years of age he with his widowed mother moved to Kentucky, making the entire trip on horseback and carrying all their worldly belongings in the same manner. The mother settled on Green River and there young Peyton Bristow grew to mature years. On September 16, 1802, he was married to Miss Mary Price and about two years later be emigrated to Eaton, Ohio, where he worked at the shoemaker's trade and in a store until 1822. He then came to Indiana where he entered 160 acres in Perry Township, Marion County, and there passed the remainder of his days, his death occurring on February 10, 1869. He enlisted in the War of 1812 from Eaton, Ohio, served all through the war and was granted a land warrant for his services. He was a Democrat in politics and cast his first vote in 1799. For many years he was jus- tice of the peace in Perry Township, and was postmaster at Olive (now abandoned) for about five years. In his religious views he was a Universalist. To his marriage were born thirteen children and what is most unusual is the fact that all of them grew to mature years and mar- ried, despite the unlucky number. They were named as follows: William H., born 1803, deceased; James, deceased, was born in 1805; Lucy, deceased, born in 1806; Margaret E., born 1808, deceased; Evans, deceased, born in 1810; Sarah, deceased, born in 1812; Cor- nelius V., born 1814; Mary P., deceased, born in 1817; Eliza B., born 1819; Peyton P., born 1821; Martha, born 1823; Henry, our subject, and Alfred H., deceased, born in 1828. The mother of these children died January 23, 1870. Their paternal grandfather, Powell Bristow, was probably born in Wales about 1748 and was brought to America by his parents soon afterward. Henry Bristow grew to manhood on bis father's farm in Perry Township and his scholastic training was received in the primitive log school-house of those early days. Most of the farm was cleared by the time our subject was old enough to assist in such work and he only assisted in clearing about six acres. He was married in 1846 to Miss Sarah Sinks, daughter of Noah Sinks, a native of Ohio, and nine children were born to them, seven of whom reached manhood and womanhood, as follows: Nancy A., deceased, married Charles Harrier; Mary Adeline married Charles Sharpless; David H., married Clara Cotton, and they have two children, Nettie and Pearl; Noah C. married Alice Landfair and they have three living children, Clarence, Carl, and Hattie; Anthony Peyton Bristow married Hester Fowler; Emily, deceased, married Simon Grube and they have one child, Ona; Harriet J. married John Copsey and they have two children, Jessie and Grace; Frances E. Bristow married William Webb and they have three children, Agnes B., Richard T. and Virgil; and Susan B., who married Albert List and is the mother of four children, Walter H., Wilbur, Harry and Homer. Our subject was married the second time in 1881, to Mrs. Margaret K. Pogue, daughter of James Little, and two children were the fruits of this union, Maud A. and Mel- ford M. Our subject has served as school director in Perry Township for a number of years and for eight years was supervisor of roads in that township. Like his father he is a stanch
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Democrat. His first presidential vote was cast for James K. Polk in 1848 and he has not missed voting for a Democratic presidential candidate since. He attends the Methodist Episcopal Church but is not a member and he does not belong to any secret organizations. His wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Bristow was one of three children born to her parents, James and Betsey (Rosier) Little. These children were named in the order of their births, as follows: John married Mary E. Walls and both died leaving two children, James, deceased, and Hattie, who married Manuel Landfair and became the mother of three children, Florence, Lawrence and Edith; Charles Little died in infancy; and Margaret K., wife of subject. Mr. Little was born in Virginia but of Irish parentage. He was a successful tiller of the soil and followed that occupation until his death in 1851, when forty-five years of age. His wife died in 1848 and after her death he married Hester Crunk, who is also deceased.
HON. WILLIAM HACKER, (now deceased), one of the prominent and pronounced Free Masons of Indiana, was born December 5, 1810, near Urbana, Ohio. He was brought to Indiana by his parents, John and Susanna (Smith) Hacker, when the country was yet an unbroken forest filled with Indians and wild animals, and under the discouraging circumstances attend- ant to backwood's life, he was reared and educated. His early life was passed in working at his trade, farming and merchandising. Failing health caused him to abandon active business pursuits, and for years he was engaged at different periods as secretary of a rail- road company, justice of the peace, Masonic lecturer and organizer of different lodges of the Masonic order. In 1832 he became a Master Mason, a Royal Arch degree Mason in 1846, and the same year became a council degree member. In 1848 he took his commandery degrees, and in 1866, at Indianapolis, the Scottish Rite branch of Masonry, making in all a total of forty degrees. During this time Mr. Hacker held some of the most important official posi- tions of the order, among them being grand master and grand secretary of the Grand Lodge; grand high priest and grand secretary of the Grand Chapter; for twelve years was an officer of the General Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of the United States, attaining the exalted station of general grand king; was grand recorder, and for six years the first presiding officer of the Grand Council of the State; helped organize the grand commandery of the State in which he served as grand recorder and grand commander. Mr. Hacker was also one of the leading Odd Fellows of the State, having served as conductor in the Grand Lodge, and junior warden in the Grand Encampment. He belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church, was an ardent advocate of the temperance cause, and after the disruption of the Whig party became a Republican. Mr. Hacker has served as mayor of the city of Shelbyville, was happily married, and blessed with a fine family. .
THEODORE LOVETT SEWALL was born in Germantown, Ohio, September 20, 1853. His mother, Louise K. Lovett, belongs to the old and substantial Lovett family, of Beverly, Mass. His father, Edmund Quincy Sewall, Jr., belongs to a family that has been distin- guished in Massachusetts annals for two centuries and a half, including in its direct line, Chief Justice Samuel Sewell, the Diarist (died 1730), Rev. Joseph Sewall of the Old South Church, Boston (died 1796), and a second Chief Justice Samuel Sewall (died 1814). The family is of English stock. Mr. Sewall received his early education in a private school at Wilmington, Del. He entered Harvard College in 1870, and graduated in 1874, being the seventh Sewell in a direct line to receive his education and his degree from this institution. Mr. Sewall remained in Cambridge two years longer taking the course in the Harvard Law School, receiving the degree of LL. B. in 1876. Spending the summer of 1876 in Indi- anapolis, Ind., he was invited by prominent citizens of that place to open a preparatory school for boys, which he did in September, 1876, naming it the Indianapolis Classical School. In 1880 Mr. Sewall married May Wright Thompson, a lady descended from the Wright and Brackett families of New England, and who is well known for ability in educational and reform movements, especially, such as affect women (see May Wright Sewall). In 1882 Mr. and Mrs. Sewall opened a Girls' Classical School, with a course of study conforming to the Harvard requirements for admission. These schools were among the first private schools in the West, to meet fully the highest collegiate requirements for admission, including Greek and mathematics for girls; and to introduce the systematic work of the gymnasium, under competent teachers, in connection with the other school work. A girls' boarding 21
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department was opened in 1886. Both institutions have had more than a local influence. The girls' school, especially, draws pupils from all sections of the country, and has gradu- ates in all the prominent woman's colleges in the country. In 1889 Mr. Sewall transferred the boys' school to other hands, and Mr. and Mrs. Sewall have since then devoted their entire time to the school for girls. Mr. Sewall received the degree of A. M. from the Indi- ana University, in 1887. He has done considerable literary work, and has lectured fre- quently on social and literary subjects. For ten years he was the secretary, and, later, the president, of the Indianapolis Literary Club. Mr. and Mrs. Sewall have spent four sum- mers traveling in Europe.
* MRS. MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, the chairman of the committee on a World's Congress of Representative Women, convened under the auspices of the World's Congress Auxiliary of the World's Columbian Exposition, is a native of Wisconsin; her parents, however, were both from old New England families .. After graduating from the Northwestern University at Evanston, Ill., Mrs. Sewall taught public schools in Michigan and was soon made the principal of the high school in Plainwell, in that State. She became, later, the principal of the high school in Franklin, Ind., and teacher of English and German in the high school of Indianapolis. From this position she resigned in 1880, upon her marriage with Mr. Theodore L. Sewall, principal of a private school for boys in that city. In 1882 Mr. and Mrs. Sewall opened a private school for girls, known as the Girls' Classical School, whichi was immediately successful and has become widely known. Mrs. Sewall's profession is thus that of a teacher, her specialty being English literature; her school duties occupy the first and highest place in ber attention and demand and receive a large share of her time. From her infancy Mrs. Sewall was trained to a strong belief in the right of women to wider oppor- tunities for education and to a fuller share in the honors and the profits of business, pro- fessional and industrial activity than they have hitherto enjoyed. Her energies were enlisted in these reforms soon after reaching womanhood and for twenty years she has been a strong ally of every cause that promoted the advancement of women. She was first act- ively connected with National Woman Suffrage Association, in which her power was imme- diately recognized and in which she held for many years the arduous and responsible office of chairman of the executive committee. She was one of the promoters of the International Council of Women, which convened in Washington in 1888, and conceived the idea of per- petuating its influence through permanent international and national councils of women. In the organization of both of these bodies she subsequently aided. Mrs. Sewall was one of the committee that formulated the plan for the general federation of women's clubs. She is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Women, an honorary member of the Union Internationale des Sciences et des Arts, of Paris; a member of the American Histor- ical Association, of Sorosis, etc. In her own home Mrs. Sewall has played a most active part in the work of organization for social reform and other purposes. Thus she was one of the founders of the Indianapolis Woman's Club, of the Indianapolis Art Association, of the Indianapolis Equal Suffrage Society, of the Indiana State Suffrage Society, of the Indian- apolis Ramabai Circle, of the Indiana branch of the Association of Collegiate Alumna, of the university extension work in Indianapolis under the auspices of this latter society, of the Indianapolis Local Council of Women; of the Indianapolis Woman's Exchange, and of the Indianapolis Contemporary Club. She also originated the plan of the Indianapolis Propylæum, an incorporated joint stock company of women, whichi lias erected a handsome building for social and educational purposes. Mrs. Sewall was appointed by Gov. Hovey a member at large of the Board of World's Fair Managers for Indiana, and is chairman of the committee on women's work and a member of the committee on education in that body. Being president of the National Council of Women and acquainted with many of the leading women of Europe from several summers spent in England, France, Germany and Italy, Mrs. Sewall was made the chairman of the committee on a World's Congress of Rep- resentative Women, to the success of which she has devoted her energies and her time for the past twelve months, spending the summer in Europe for the purpose of explaining to foreign women its importance and its scope. In Berlin Mrs. Sewall held many conferences
*[Reprinted from the Chicago Woman's News of Saturday, February 13, 1892. ]
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with small groups of prominent women, and later visited Homburg by appointment with the Empress Frederick, who granted her an hour's interview and who was deeply interested in the work as outlined by Mrs. Sewall. In Brussels Mrs. Sewall addressed the Woman's League of Belgium and in Paris she gave an address in the Mairie St. Sulpice before a large company of leading men and women. This address was widely noticed in the press of Russia, France, England and Italy, and the leading facts of the congress were thus widely disseminated. Mrs. Sewall devoted two weeks in Paris to conferences with individuals and organizations in the interest of the congress. Mrs. Sewall's public work is thus, it will be seen, devoted to the furtherance of organization among women. She has always labored with a broad view, careless of the letter if the spirit can be secured. Her work is all done above the plane of personalities and she cares little for the honors that it brings her in com- parison with the good of the cause. She has worked steadily for harmony and consolida- tion among conflicting interests, with an eye single to the permanent good. She labored earnestly and successfully, with others, to accomplish the union of the American and the National Suffrage Associations and of the eastern and the western branches of the Asso- ciation of Collegiate Alumna. She is widely known as a warm friend, a generous and fair opponent, sympathetic with all workers for the good of humanity and especially of women. Mrs. Sewall has many lectures on social, educational and reform topics and her services as a lecturer are widely sought for. She is perhaps at her best as an extemporaneous speaker, her style being clear, cogent and eloquent, with full command of her subject. As a pre- siding officer she is uniformly successful, being dignified, clear-headed, impartial and quick to seize a point. Mrs. Sewall is also a prolific writer, but her work is not of a character to be easily catalogued, consisting chiefly of newspaper editorials and correspondence, consti- tutions, programs, reports and addresses on educational, reform and social subjects. To the various activities outlines above Mrs. Sewall adds those of a housekeeper who oversees all the affairs of her household in minute detail. She is widely known as an entertainer and plays her full part in the social and even the fashionable life of Indianapolis, her Wednesday afternoon receptions being a feature of the intellectual and social life of the city. Among prominent western women of to-day few, if any, take a higher rank than Mrs. May Wright Sewall, of Indianapolis, Ind. She has gained this prominence, and national recognition as well, through her remarkable and rare executive ability. So sure-footed is she in all of her efforts that her name in connection with any undertaking is regarded almost as a talisman of success. She is one of those in whom action becomes unconsciously a synonym of leadership, and by instinct and by choice her attention has been turned largely to public matters, in which the interests of numbers are involved. This has made her a marked figure in nearly all public movements in her home city, in her State and in the nation. Yet the time she gives to those things is what for another woman would be her leisure hours. The usual working hours of each day she devotes conscientiously to her model school for girls. Mrs. Sewall is by birth and by her most noticeable characteristics and special sympathies a western woman. She was born in Milwaukee, Wis., then a fron- tier settlement, whence her parents had come from New England. She received her early education in the district schools; later she spent two years in a private academy. She was afterward for a time under the care of private tutors, who prepared her to enter, at an early age, the Northwestern University of Evanston, Ill., where she was graduated with the degree A. B. in 1867. The degree A. M. was conferred upon her three years later. She served her apprenticeship as an educator by taking private pupils and by teaching in differ- ent graded schools of Michigan. She was soon called to more advanced work and filled with success the position of principal successively in the high schools of Plainwell, Mich., and Franklin, Ind. In 1874 she became instructor in German in the high school at Indian- apolis. In 1880 she became the wife of Theodore L. Sewall, a prominent educator of Indianapolis, and for several years gave her chief attention to home and social duties. Domestic duties were then a comparatively unknown field to Mrs. Sewall, but with her characteristic energy and determination to master whatever work might be set before her she fitted herself for a model housekeeper by doing all of her own work until she had learned thoroughly all branches of housekeeping. As a result of this training her domestic affairs, to which she still gives her personal supervision, run like clock-work and her servants
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