Progressive men and women of Kosciusko County, Indiana : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography, Part 23

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Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Logansport, Ind. : B. F. Bowen
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settlea fist in Pemisylvain. He graduated the " State Journal, " at Madison. At the in medicine at the University of Paladel- outbreak of the war he enlisted in the pala, in .836, and for three years following , Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry as a private, and wa professor of chemistry and physiology para don-Sluney Conege. He then be- The professor of chemistry in the New York University, with which institution he was pribinently connected for many years. it s stated on excelent authority that Pro- ResFor Draper, in 1839, took the first photo- graphie picture ever taken from iffe. he was a great student, and carried on many portant and intricate experiments along -cientific lines. He discovered many of the Aindamental facts of spectrum analysis, which he published. He published a number of works of great merit, many of which are . Recognized as authority upon the subjects of which they treat. Among his work were: " Human Physiology, Statistical and Dyna- Heat of the Conditions and Cause of Life . Man," " History of Intellectual Develop- i s.ent of Europe, " " History of the Ameri- :an Civil War, " besides a number of works chemistry, optics and mathematics. Pro- hueso: Draper continued to hold a high place sheng the scientific scholars of America wat his death, which occurred in January, after serving four years returned a second lieutenant. He then started the . Ripon Representative, " which he sold not long after, and removing to New York, was on the staff of Mark Pomeroy's "Democrat." Going to La Crosse, later, he conducted the La Crosse branch paper, a half interest in which he bought in 1874. He next started ". Peck's Sun," which four years later he removed to Milwaukee. While in La Crosse he was chief of police one year, and also chief clerk of the Democratic assembly in 1874. It was in 1878 that Mr. Peck took his paper to Milwaukee, and achieved his first permanent success, the circulation increasing to So,ooo. For ten years he was regarded as one of the most original, versa- tile and entertaining writers in the country, and he has delineated every phase of country newspaper life, army life, domestic experience, travel and city adventure. Up to 1890 Mr. Peck took but little part in politics, but in that year was elected mayor of Milwaukee on the Democratic ticket. The following Angust he was elected gov- ernor of Wisconsin by a large majority, the " Bennett School Bill" figuring to a large extent in his favor.

EORGE W. PECK, ex-governor of the state of Wisconsin and a famous Mr. Peck, besides many newspaper arti- cles in his peculiar vein and numerous lect- ures, bubbling over with fun, is known to fame by the following books: "Peck's Bad Boy and his Pa," and " The Grocery Man and Peck's Bad Boy." ourindist and humorist, was born in Jeffer- FOR county, New York, September 28, 18.40. When he was about three years of age his Ments removed to Wisconsin, settling near Whitewater, where young Peck received his ducation at the public schools. At fifteen he entered the office of the "Whitewater C HARLES O'CONNOR, who was for many years the acknowledged leader of the legal profession of New York City, was also conceded to be one of the greatest winter, " where he learned the printer's ". He helped start the "Jefferson County publican" later on, but sold out his terest therein and set type in the office of | lawyers America has produced. He was

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born ih New York Chy in iso4, his father being an educated Irish gentleman. Charles received a common-school education, and e .. . look up the study of law, being ad- Hotel practice in 1824. Mas cose ap- pacation and untiring chergy and industry soon placed him at the front rank of the profession, and within a few years he was handling many of the most important cases. One of the first great cases he had and which gained him a wide repatation, was that of " Jack, the Fugitive Slave, " in 1835, in which his masterful arganiche before the supreme court attracted wide attention and com- ment. Charles O'Conor was a Democrat an his Me. He did not aspire to office- holding, however, and never held any ofice except that of district attorney under Presi- dent Pierce's administration, which he only rorained a short time. He took an active interest, however, in public questions, and ! was a member of the state (New York) con- stitational convention in 1864. In 1868 he was nominated for the presidency by the ". Extreme Democrats. " His death occurred i in May, 1884.

SI SIMON BOLIVAR BUCKNER, a noted American officer and major-general in the Confederate army, was born in Ken- tucky in 1823. He graduated from West Point Military Academy in 1844, served in the United States infantry and was later as- signed to commissary duty with the rank of captain. He served several years at fron- tler posts, and was assistant professor in the military academy in 1846. He was with General Scott in the Mexican war, and ch- Haged in all the battles from Vera Cruz to the capture of the Mexican capital. He was wounded at Cherubusco and brevetted Best lieutenant, and at Molino del Rey was brevetted captain. After the close of the

Mexican war he returned to West Point as assistant instructor, and was then assigue 1 to commissary duty at New York. He re- signed in 1855 and became superintendent of construction of the Chicago custom house. He was made adjutant-general, with the rank of colonel, of Illinois militia, and was colonel of Illinois volunteers raised for the Utah expedition, but was not mustered into service. In 1860 he removed to Kentucky, where he settled on a farm near Louisville and became inspector-general in command of the Kentucky Home Guards. At the opening of the Civil war he joined the Con- federate army, and was given command at Bowling Green, Kentucky, which he was compelled to abandon after the capture of Fort Henry. He then retired to Fort Don- elson, and was there captured with sixteen thousand men, and an immense store of pro- visions, by General Grant, in February, 1862. He was held as a prisoner of war at Fort Warren until August of that year. He commanded a division of Hardee's corps in Bragg's Army of the Tennessee, and was afterward assigned to the third division and participated in the battles of Chickamauga, and Murfreesboro. He was with Kirby Smith when that general surrendered his army to General Canby in May, 1865. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the vice- presidency on the Gold Democratic ticket with Senator John M. Palmer in 1896.

S IMON KENTON, one of the famous pio- neers and scouts whose names fill the pages of the early history of our country, was born in Fauquier county, Virginia, April 3, 1755. In consequence of an affray, at the age of eighteen, young Kenton weilt to Kentucky, then the " Dark and Bloody Ground," and became associated with Dan- iel Boone and other pioneers of that region.

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Por .. . one time de heted as a scout and pointed him secretary of State, which posi- : Das wird Dannvic, the British governor tion ne resigned to accept that of minister (. Virginia, but afterward taking the side ' to France. During the Franco-Prussian the struggling colonists, participated in war, including the siege of Paris and the the war for indipendence west of the Alle- ' reign of the Commune, Mr. Washburne re- manios. In 178; he returned to Virginia, what did not remain there long, going back with his family to Kentucky. From mained at his post, protecting the lives and property of his countrymen, as well as that of other foreign residents in Paris, while the that the unth 1793 he participated in all the wombats and battles of that time, and and . Mad Anthony" Wayne swept the ... y of the Ohio, and settled the suprem- hey of the whites in that region. Kenton ministers of all other powers abandoned their posts at a time when they were most needed. As far as possible he extended protection to unfortunate German residents, who were the particular objects of hatred of Mid claim to large traces of land in the new . the populace, and his Afrinness and the suc- country he had helped to open up, but cess which attended his efforts won the ad- miration of all Europe. Mr. Washburne died at Chicago, Illinois, October 22, 1887. through ignorance of law, and the growing value of the land, lost it all and was reduced to poverty. During the war with England i 1812 15, Kemon took part in the inva- son of Camila with the Kentucky troops and participated in the battle of the Thames. He finally had land granted him by the legislature of Kentucky, and received a pen- sion from the United States government. He died in Logan county, Ohio, April 29, . 1836.

LIHU BENJAMIN WASHBURNE, an American statesman of eminence, was born in Livermore, Maine, September 23, 12.6. He learned the trade of printer, but abandoned that calling at the age of eight- w and entered the Kent's Hill Academy at Kolding, Maine, and then took up the study co tw, reading in Hallowell, Boston, and at The Harvard Law School. He began prac- dos at Galena, Illinois, in 1840. He was cetted to congress in 1852, and represented I's district in that body continuously until March, 1869, and at the time of his retire- icht he had served a greater number of consecutive terms than any other member of the house. In 1873 President Grant ap-

W ILLIAM CRAMP, one of the most extensive shipbuilders of this coun- try, was born in Kensington, then a suburb, now a part of Philadelphia, in 1806. He received a thorough English education, and when he left school was associated with Samuel Grice, one of the most eminent naval architects of his day. In 1830, hav- ing mastered all the details of shipbuilding, Mr. Cramp engaged in business on his own account. By reason of ability and excel- lent work he prospered from the start, until now, in the hands of his sons, under the name of William Cramp & Sons' Ship and Engine Building Company, it has become the most complete shipbuilding plant and naval arsenal in the western hemisphere, and fully equal to any in the world. As Mr. Cramp's sons attained manhood they learned their father's profession, and were admitted to a partnership. In 1872 the firm was incor- porated under the title given above. Until 1860 wood was used in building vessels, al- though pace was kept with all advances in the art of shipbuilding. At the opening of

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the Wall dalle ad thexpected command for following year, after putting his studies for war vessels, which they promptly met. "The a your under his friend Malbone at his home sex-going fronclad " New Ironsides" was in South Carolina. He became a student Pain by the 12 1862, Followed by & mm- ber of los adable fromcinus and the cruiser " Chattanooga." They subsequently built several war vessels for the Russian and other governments which added to their reputation. When the American steamship line was established in 1876, the Cramps were commissioned to build for it four Arst- class iron steamships, the .. Pennsylvania," ". Ohio," " Indiana " and " flinois, " which at the Royal Academy where the great American, Benjamin West, presided, and who became his intimate friend. Allston later went to Paris, and then to Italy, where four years were spent, mostly at Rome. In : bog he returned to America, but soon after returned to London, having married in the meantime a sister of Dr. Channing. In a short tithe his first great work appeared, .The Dead Man Restored to Life by the They turned out in rapid order, some of the finest specimens of the aval architecture of their day. Willen Chump remained ac the head of the great company he had founded until his death, which occurred January o, 1879. Bones of Elisha," which took the British Association prize and firmly established Mis reputation. Other paintings followed in quick succession, the greatest among which were "Uriet in the Center of the Sun," "Saint Peter Liberated by the Angel," and Charles AI. Cramp, the successor of his father as head of the William Cramp & Sons' Ship and Engine Building Company, was born in Philadelphia May 9, 1829, and , and he left London in ISIS for America. "jacob's Dream," supplemented by many smaller pieces. Hard work, and grief at the death of his wife began to tell upon his health, received an excellent education in his native ; city, which he sedaloasly sought to sup- Mentet .. by close study anth he became an authority on general subjects and the best naval architect on the western hemis- phere. Many of the best vessels of our new navy were built by this immense con- cern. The same year he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy. During the next few years he painted "Jeremiah, " "Witch of Endor, " and "Beatrice." In 1830 Alls- ton married a daughter of Judge Dana, and went to Cambridge, which was his home until his death. Here he produced the "Vision of the Bloody Hand," "Rosalie," and many less noted pieces, and had given one week of labor to his unfinished master- piece, "Belshazzar's Feast," when death ended his career July 9, 1843.

TASHINGTON ALLSTON, probably the greatest American painter, was born in South Carolina in 1779. He was sent to school at the age of seven years at Newport, Rhode Island, where he met Ed- ward Malbone, two years his senior, and who later became a painter of note. The friendship that sprang up between them un- doubtedly influenced young Allston in the choice of a profession. He graduated from Harvard in Isoo, and went to England the

WOHN ROACH, ship builder and manu- facturer, whose career was a marvel o! industrial labor, and who impressed his in- dividuality and genius upon the times in which he lived more, perhaps, than any other manufacturer in America. He was born at Mitchelstown, County Cork, Irc-

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...... ALwennder 25, 1815, the son of a waiting merchant. He attended school plant covered a large area, was valued at several millions of dollars, and was known was Hiteen, when his father be- was the Delaware River Iron Shipbuilding and Engine Works, of which Mr. Roach was the principal owner. He built a large percentage of the iron vessels now flying the American lag, the bulk of his business being for private parties. In 1875 he built the sectional dry docks at Pensacola. He, about this time, drew the attention of the government to the use of compound marine engines, and thus was the means of im- proving the speed and economy of the ves- seis of our new navy. In 1883 Mr Roach commenced work on the three cruisers for the goverment, the .. Chicago, " " Boston" and "Atlanta," and the dispatch boat " Dolphin." For some cause the secretary of the navy refused to receive the latter and decided that Mr. Koach's contract would not hold. This embarrassed Mr. Roach, as a large amount of his capital was in- volved in these contracts, and for the pro- tection of bondsmen and creditors, July 18. 1885, he made an assignment, but the financial trouble broke down his strong con- stitution, and January 10, 1887, he died. His son, John B. Roach, succeeded to the 1 ! shipbuilding interests, while Stephen W. Roach inherited the Morgan Iron Works at New York.

calle Mancity embarrassed and failed wi sorty aller dio; john determined to sotto to America and carve out a fortune . .. Mascli. He landed in New York at the .cut Sixteen, and soon obtained employ- Wheat the Howell Iron Works in New Jer- Fakat twenty-Ave cents a day. He soon mais altasel a place in the world, and at ... end of three yours had saved some estive hundred dollars, which he just by .i allure of his employer, in whose hands : was left. Returning to New York he ws to learn how to make castings for atthe engines and ship work. Having wat accumulated one thousand dollars, in with three fellow workmen, he . aused a small foundry in New York, " soon bettine sole proprietor. At the over yours he had saved thirty thou- . dollars, besides enlarging his works. . isso his works were destroyed by a explosion, and being unable to collect Mamirauice, was left, after paying his

Ma, without a dollar. However, his mit tand reputation for integrity was good, .. he bilt the Etna Iron Works, giving it opacity to construct larger marine engines th any previously built in this country. Mhrs he turned out immense engines for sem tam Dunderberg, for the war ves- Whouski and Neshaning, and other

JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY, one of J the two great painters who laid the ...: ,,e Vessels. To accommodate his increas- i foundation of true American art, was born " business, Mr. Roach, in 1869, pur- in Boston in 1737, one year earl : than his ched the Morgan Iron Works, one of the , great contemporary, Benjamin West. His ... . In New York, and shortly after sev- others. In 1871 he bought the Ches- .. ship yards, which he added to largely, I

education was limited to the common schools , of that time, and his training in art he ob- tained by his own observation and experi- do thy, a rolling mill and blast furnace, and I ments solely. When he was about seven- Tovidin ; every facility for building a ship teen years old he had ma, ped out his future, dt of the ore and timber. This immense , however, by choosing wanting as his pro-

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Jessill. If he ever studied under any He went south in 1853 and established weather in his early efforts, we have no au- i press lines on various southern railways, and chemie account of it, and tradition credits :12 1861 organized the Southern. Express The young artist's wonderful success en- Co., and became it., president. In 1879 he Likely to his own talent and untiring &Mort. . purchased, with others, the Atlantic & Golf he is alinost incredible that at the age of ' Railroad of Georgia, and later reorganized twenty-three years his income from his ' the Savannah, Florida & Western Railroad, works aggregated fifteen hundred dollars per annum, a very great sulh in those days.

of which he became president. He pur- chased and rebuilt, in 1880, the Savannah In 1774 he went to Europe in search of ma- & Charleston Railroad, now Charleston & terial for study, which was so rare in his Savannah. Not long after this he orfan- native land. After some timespent in Italy " ized the Plant Investment Co., to control he finally took ap his permanent residence | these railroads and advance their interests i. England. In 1783 he was made a mem- generally, and later established a steamboat line on the St. John's river, in Florida. From 1853 until 1860 he was general superintendent of the southern division of the Adams Express Co., and in 1867 be- came president of the Texas Express Co. The "Plant system" of railway, steamer and steamship lines is one of the greatest business corporations of the southern states. ber of the Royal Academy, and later his sunt that the high honor of becoming lord chancellor of England and Lord Lyndhurst. Many specimens of Copley's work are to be found in the Memorial Hall at Harvard and in the Boston Museum, as well as a few of the works upon which he modeled his style. Copiey was essentially a portrait painter, though his Historical paintings at- tthed grena celebrity, his masterpiece TADE HAMPTON, a noted Confeder- ate officer, was born at Columbia, South Carolina, in ISis. He graduated from the South Carolina College, took an active part in politics, and was twice elected to the legislature of his state. In 1861 he joined the Confederate army, and command- being Lis .. Death of Major Pierson, " though that distinction has by some been given to his " Death of Chatham." It is said that he never saw a good picture until he was thirty-five years old, yet his portraits prior to that period are regarded as rare speci-

Y HENRY B. PLANT, one of the greatest .. . railroad men of the country, became . moted to brigadier-general. He command- Rtnous as president of the Plant system of railway and steamer lines, and also the Southern & Texas Express Co. He was born in October, 1819, at Branford, Connecticut, and entered the railroad serv- ice in 18.,4, serving as express messenger on the Hardford & New Haven Railroad until 153, during which time he had entire charge of the express business of that road.

· tle of Bull Run, in July, 1861. He did meritorious service, was wounded, and pro- ed a brigade at Seven Pines, in 1962, and was again wounded. He was engaged in the battle of Antietam in September of the same year, and participated in the raid into Pennsylvania in October. In 1863 he was with Lee at Gettysburg, where he was wounded for the third time. He was pro- moted to the rank of lieutenant-general, and commanded a troop of cavalry in Lee's

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Forming Lama, and was in numerous on- rolls. in :8 5 He was in South Car- and comm .... ed the cavalry roar Wat before General Sherman on His ... Ne tware Richmond. of Languages at Prague and Bund-Penn, he berathe associated with M. Pushas, who h: I introduced the telephone into Ihungary. Ile invented several improvements, but being unable to reap the necessary benete from thent, he, in search of a wider fiend, went to Paris, where he found employment with one of the electric lighting companies as electrical engineer. Soon he set his face westward, and coming to the United States for a time found congenial employment with Thomas A. Edison. Finding it impossible, overshadowed as he was, to carry out his own ideas he left the Edison works to join a company formed to place his own inven .- tions on the market. He perfected his rotary field principle, adapting it to circuits then in operation. It is said of him that some of his proved theories will change the entire electrical science. It would, in an willy of that country. His father was a , article of this length, be impossible to ex- plain all that Tesla accomplished for the practical side of electrical engineering. His discoveries formed the basis of the at- tempt to utilize the water power of Niagara Falls. His work ranges far beyond the vast department of polyphase currents and

After the war Hampton took an active Wit politics, and was a prominent figure . .... Democratic national convention in ... which no.stated Seymour and Blair ; : apresident and vice-president. He was wagner of South Carolina, and took his in the United States senate in 1879, mit he became a conspicuous figure in national affairs.

NIKOLA TESLA, one of the most cele- 1 . batted electricians America has known, . work in 1857, at Smiljan, Lika, Servia. ... descended from an old and representative

Histor of the Greek church, of high rank, ne Ms mother was a woman of remarka- sal in the construction of looms, churns the machinery required in a rural home. i received early education in the Ha schools of Gospich, when he was i to the higher ". Real Schale" at Karl- | high potential lighting and includes many ... Where, after a three years' course, inventions in arc lighting, transformers, pyro and thermo-magnetic motors, new forms of incandescent lamps, unipolar dyna- mos and many others. raduated in 1873. He devoted him- to experiments in electricity and wiem, to the chagrin of his father, ..... destined him for the ministry, " Aring way to the boy's evident genius C HARLES B. LEWIS won fame as an American humorist under the name of "M. Quad." It is said he owes his celebrity originally to the fact that he was once mixed up in a boiler explosion on the Ohio river, and the impressions he received from the event he set up from his case when he was in the composing room of an ob- scure Michigan paper. His style possesses a peculiar quainthess, and there runs through was allowed to continue his studies in polytechnic school at Gratz. He in- Hed a wonderful intuition which enabled to see through the intricacies of ma- way, and despite his instructor's demon- Mich that a dynamo could not be oper- . without commutators or brushes, experiments which finally resulted in Harding feld motors. After the study

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it a von of philosophy. Mr. Lewie was miller, blacksmith, carunger, son . Cido. He was, However, raised in Lansing, Mentam, where he spent a year in at agri- composing room of the " Lansing Demo- ent." At the outbreak of the war he on- Hoved in the service, Remained during the cadre war, atto then returned to Lansing. The explosion of the toller that " brew bin. Into fire, "took place two years later, while he was on his way south. When he re- Covered physically, He brought sale for dam- azes .cuhst the steamboat company, which he gained, and was awarded a verdict of twelve thousand dollars for injuries re- ceived. It was while he was employed by the " Jacksonian " of Pontiac, Mich., that he set up his account of how he felt while being blown up. He says that he signed it . M Quad," because "a bourgeoise em quad is discuss except in its own line-it won't justify with any other type." Soon after, ichuse of the celebrity me attained by this serve, Ma. Lewis secured a place on the Half of the " Detroit Free Press," and made LE that paper a wide reputation. His sketches of the "Lime Kiln Club" and " Brueder Gardner" are perhaps the best Known of his humorous writings.

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Progressive men and women of Kosciusko County, Indiana : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography, Part 23

Author: Publication date: 1902 Publisher: Logansport, Ind. : B. F. Bowen Number of Pages: 1350

Author:
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Logansport, Ind. : B. F. Bowen
Number of Pages: 1350