Progressive men and women of Kosciusko County, Indiana : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography, Part 24

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Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Logansport, Ind. : B. F. Bowen
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ERAM S. MAXIM, the famous inventor, was born in Sangersville, Maine, February 5, 1840, the son of Isaac W. and Harriet D. Maxim. The town of his with was bar a small place, in the Wuchs, on the confines of civilization, and the family endured many hardships. They were without means and entirely dependent on themselves to make out of raw haderials all they needed. The mother was at. expert spinner, Weaver, dyer and schirastress and the father a trapper, tanner,

Maxim gave early promise of remarkable aptitude. With the universal Yankee jack- witte the products of this shit excited the wonder and interest of the locality. I parents did not encourage Lis mtent genius but apprenticed him to a coach bullden Fost yours he labored at this uncommon. trade but at the end of that tiene ho forsook it and entered a machine shop at Fitchburg. Massachusetts. Soon mastering the details of that business and that of mechanical drawing, he went to Boston as the foren.an of the philosophical instrument manufactory. From thence he went to New York and with the Novelty Iron Works Shipbuilding Co. he gained experience in those trades. His inventions up to this time consisted of improvements in steam engines, and ar automatic gas machine, which came into general use. In 1877 he turned his attention to electricity, and in 1878 produced an incandescent lamp, that would barn I, ooo hours. He was the first to design a process for flashing electric carbons, and the first to "standardize" carbons for electric light- ing. In ISSo he visited Europe and exbibit- ing, at the Paris Exposition of ISSi, a self- regulating machine, was decorated with the Legion of Honor. In :883 he returned to London as the European representative of the United States Electric Light Co. An incident of his boyhood, in which the recoll of a rifle was noticed by him, and the apparent loss of power shown, in ISS1-2 prompted the invention of a gun which utilizes the reco !! to automatically load and fire seven hundred and seventy shots per minute. The Maxin- Nordenfelt Gun Co., with a capital of nine million dollars, grew from this. In 1883 3s patented his electric training gear for larg . guns. And later turned his attention to fly-

.. ·mag The took out over me hundred MOMS DE SMOKELESS gunpowder, and for pe-

VAN DENNISON ROCKEFELLER, y one of America's very greatest in reicht's and ymdrogas, was born In Richmond,

those of theent work, he entered the com .- Master of Cleveland, combining with the fast satte years, and then began business @ Mail, forming a partnership with Hors D. Clark. Mr. Rockeller was then I'm nineten years of age, and caring the Har INGO, in Connection with others, they sorted the ol welding business, under the Han while of Andrews, Clark & Co. Mr. Rockdiehar th. i Mr. Andrews purchased the interest of their associates, and, after taking Within Ducketther Into the firm, established Mices in Cleveland under the name of WAt Rockefeller & Co. Shortly after ud's the house of Rockefeller & Co. was es- holsted in New York . for the purpose of riding a market for their products, and two pats inter all the refining companies were bohselCated under the firm name of Rocke- eher, Andrews & Flagler. This Arma was Haceuded in 1870 by the Standard Oil many of Ohio, said to be the most Salle business corporation of modern ..... es. john D. Rockefeller's fortune has ien variously estimated at from one hun- Wed million to two hundred million dollars. Rockefeller's philanthropy mani- liesel principally through the American import Educational Society. He donated

Atlanta, Georgia, techool for the instruction vimgives. His other gifts were to the University of Rochester, Cook Acting, Module Medlite, and Vassar College, be- sites smaller gifts to many institutions. throughout the country. His princely do- nations, however, were to the University of Change. His first ght to this Restitution Was a conditional offer of six Weundred the .- san i Ables ih fray, and when this amount

Methattime magregated between seven and cight millions of dollars.

" OWN M. PALMER. - FOR Over a Girl of a century this gentleman occupied a : ruminent place in the political world, both. in the state of Whois and on the broader plativeta of national issees.

Mr. Rather was born at Eagle Creek, Scott county, Kentucky, September 13. idi7. The family subsequently removed to Christian County, IN the same state, Where be acquired a common-school education, and made his home antil 1831. His father Was opposed to slavery, and in the latter year removed to INMois and settled near Anton. In 1834 John entered Alton College, Or- ganized on the manual-labor pian, bat his funds failing, abandoned it and entered a cooper shop. He subsequently was en- saged in peddling, and teaching a district school near Canton. In 1838 he began the study of law, and the following year re- moved to Carlinville, where, in December of that year, he was admitted to the bar. He was shortly after defeated for county clerk. I: 1843 he was elected probate judge. In the constitutional convention of IS47, Mr. Palmer was a delegate, and from 1849 20

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withestate your was it designed to the working one of the war entered the service ... conad of the Fourteenth. Ilinois man- ry, Dat Way shortly after brevetted brigadier- ... One Hundred and Twenty-second Iti- ... Infiltry, CHE in September he was Feel in command of the first division of The Army of the Mississippi, afterward was promoted to the rank of major-general. In 1865 He was assigned to the HAMBURG tu- Ministration In Kentucky. In asoy General Inter was elected St venom . Mais served for yours. h roze he went with We Went Republicans, who Supported Horade Greding, aller which die he Was Trval. IWhois, and served as such for six yours. Th . 5,6, on the adoption of the sil- vor plank in the platform of the Democratic party, Gout. Rather consented to lead, as presidential candidate, the National Dem- otrats, of Gold Democracy.

un nest paintings was a small picture cane . the National Academy Of exMORIon. Among He Best productions are " Raining Cats and Dies" "The Dance of Stents," "Bears Una onder,"Dulis and Bears, " " Wiso!" " Grimalkin's Dream, " a Little Red Riding Hood," The Guardian Of the Flag." Is watkinal pictures convey the most ludicrous and satirical ideas, and the intelligent, human expression in their faces is most comical. Some artists and critics have ro- Based to give Me. Board a place among the first circles in art, solely on account of the class of subjects he has chosen.

W. CORCORAN, the noted philan- throphist, was both at Georgetown, District of Columbia. December 27, 1798. At the age of twenty-five he entered the banking business in Washington, and in time bocathe very wealthy. He was noted for his magnificent donations to char- Ny. Can will cemetery was donated to Georgetown in 1847, and ten years later the Corcoran Art Gallery, Temple of Art, was presented to the city of Washington. The uncompleted building was attized by the government as quartermaster's Headquar- ters during the war. The building was completed after the war at a cost of a mit- lion and a half dollars, all the gift of Mr. Corcoran. The Louise Home 16: Women is another noble charity to his credit. Its object is the care of women of gentle breed- ing who in declining years are without means of support. In addition to das he of learning and charity. He died at Wasa-

: WILLIAM H. BEARD, the humorist trong American painters, was born Minsvine, Ohio, IM 1821. His father, James M. Board, was also a painter of na- con raduation. William M. Beard be- gull his career as a traveling portrait When the pursued his studies in New gave liberally to thany worthy institutions Yon, and after removed to Buffalo, where stagnation. He then went to ington February 24, 1888.

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BRIANERSTAUNT, the noted padat- made him a fortune. At the code of the Fare st American landscape, was born in wat he quit business and went to New York. For two years he did not enter any active business, but seemed to be simply an on-looker in the great speculative center of America. He was observing; keenly the methods and financial machinery, however, and when, in 1867, be formed a partnership with the popular Charles J. Osborne, the firm began to prosper. He never had an office on the street, but wandered into the various brokers' offices and placed his orders as he saw fit. In 1873 he dissolved his partnership with Osborne and operated alone. He joined a band of speculative conspirators known as the "Twenty-third party, " and was the ruling spirit in that or- ganization for the control of the stock mar- ket. He was always on the " bear" side and the only serious obstacle he ever encon- tered was the persistent boom in industrial stocks, particularly sugar, engineered by James R. Keane. Mr. Cammack fought Keane for two years, and during the time is said to have lost no less than two million dollars before he abandoned the Agit. Breschel, Germany, in 1829. and Was Ir ant to timeden by his parents at the " as yours. He received his early mention here, but retarded to DasseMorf Mistudy painting, ahol also went to Rome. ow cas actara to America he accompanied Latte's expedition across the continent, in 1855, and soon after produced his most pop out work, " The Rocky Mountains- Vander's Peak." Its boldness and grandeur Were so unusual that it made kin fantous. The picture sold At twenty-five thousand wars. In 1877 Me. Bierstadt went to B .. . e. with a government commission, ind fathered materials for his great historic- ! work. " Discovery of the North River ly Tendit. YTaison." Others of his great Works were . Store in the Rocky Mount- ."" Valley of the Yosemite," North Burk of the Blues," " Diamond! 200," . The Sierra Nevada Mountains." His .Estes Park" said for Alteen thousand colors, and Monnt Rosalie" brought Marty-five thousand dollars. His smaller Rocky mountain scenes, however, are vast- y superior to his larger works in execution And coloring.

TA TALT. WHITMAN .- Foremost aniong the lesser poets of the latter part of the nineteenth century, the gentleman whose name adorns the head of this article takes a conspicuous place.

EDISON CAMMACK, a famous mili- . batirs Wall street speculator, was Whitman was born at West Hills, Long Island, New York, May 13, 1809. In the schools of Brooklyn he laid the foundation of his education, and early in life learned the printer's trade. For a time he taught coan- try schools in his native state. In 1846-7 he was editor of the .. Brooklyn Eagle, " but in 18;8-9 was on the editorial staff of Fh in Kentucky. When sixteen years old which away from home and went to New cleans, where he went to work in a ship- big house. He cutlived and outworked the partners, and became the head of the wat where the opening of the war. At it Aihe he atted out small vessels and en- tota running the blockade of southern i the .. Crescent, " of New Orleans. He " and carrying ammunition, merchan- made an extended tour throughout the " etc., to the southern people. This ; United States and Canada, and returned to

" Breath. " Got's the yours succeeding dis .. . www .mangerdus carpetaof und builder. viantver wurse in the Los hans at Wiestation and vierity and from the close SI AUSTINROS the 1873 de was Employed in various derkslips in the government sitiens in the nation's cephal. In the latter year he was stricken with paralysis as al result of his Labors in the hospital, it is said, and being partialy disabled lived for mand of a battery in the campaign of THEY yours at Chuaden, New jersey.

The first edition of the word . & was to bring him fate, "Leaves of Grass, " was Honshu in 1855 and was but a small where of about alhoty-four pages. Seven of eight editions of "Leaves of Grass" have been issued, each enlarged and chriched with new poems. "Drain Taps," at first a rophie publication, has been incorporated with the others. This volume and one prose writing entitled . Specimen Days and Collect, constituted his whole work.

Walt. Willunan died at Camden, New Jersey, NAMECH 20, 2802.

ing the Home Guards. He Med Attat . 1889. His son, Heury A. Dupont, Mo was " nativen. Delaware, and was born july 30, 1838. After graduating from. West Point i. : 861, he entered the aring as second straat of engineers. Shortly after he Was treaderred to the Fifth Artillery as des Mentenant. He was promoted to the ram of captain in 1864, serving in camry and garrison most of the time. He was in com- .863-4. Aschief of truthery of the army of West Virginia, he figured till the close of the war, being in the battles of Opeghan, Bisher's Hill and Cedar Creek, besides many minor engagements. Me afterward acted as instructor in the artillery school at Fortress Monroe, and on special duty at West Point. He resigned from the army March 1, 1875.

TY WILLIAM DEBRING, one Of the i- mous thanticturers of America, an ! also a pullanthropist and patron of elu . - tion, was born in Maine in 1826. His on- cestors were English, having settled is New England in 1634. Early in life it was W .- iam's intention to become a physician, and after completing his common-school educa- tion, when about eighteen years of age, he began an apprenticeship with a physician. A short time later, however, at the request . of his father, he took charge of his father's business interests, which included & wouldn mill, retail store and grist mill, after which he became agent for a dry goods commission house in Portland, where he was married. Later he became partner in the firm, and removed to New York. The business pros- pered, and after a number of years, on ac- count of foiling health, Mr. Deering sold his

TE ENRY DUPONT, who became cele- - I France as America's greatest manufact- arer of gunpowder, was a native of Dela- ware, Born August 8, 1912. He received His education in its higher branches at the Cilteu States Military Academy at West Polit, from which he graduated and entered The army as second lieutenant of artillery in .033. In 1834 he resigned and became proprietor of the extensive gunpowder Rubufacturing plant that bears his name, . nehr Wilmington, Delaware. His large basiness interests interfered with his tak- ing any active participation in political Me, although for many years he served is adjutant-general of his native state, and interest to his partner, a Mr. Milner. The

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. inite tillay titles over. A few years der Me. Meeting Created In Olengo. Las . winning in the mundfacture of reapers, watch ats since made his name Rumnoas, was somewhat of an accident. He had Rowed money to a man in that business, :. ES78 was compelled to buy out the Awitness to protect his interests. The basi- sose developed stupidly and grow to intense reportions, The factories now cover sixty- fixo acres of ground and employ many thou- Hands of Bien.

FORN MCALLISTER SCHOFIELD. an American general, was born in Chautau- quit County, New York, September 29, 1831. Hegraduated at West Point in 1853, and was for live yours assistant professor of nat- aral patosophy in the institution. IM 18GI Le chtered the volunteer service as major of So Biest Missouri Volunteers, and was ap- printed chief ofstaff by General Lyon, under whom he fought at the battle of Wilson's Check. In November, ISOT, he WAS ap- pointed brigadier general of volunteers, and was placed in command of the Missouri

and joined General Sherman at Colaboro Maren 22, 1665. He executed the detalis of the capimation of General Johnston to Sherman, which practically closed the war. in June, 1868, General Schofield suc- ceeded Edwin M. Stanton as secretary of war, out was the next year appointed major- geben of the United States army, and order- of. to the Department of the Missouri. From 1870 to 1870 he was in command of the De- partment of the Pacific; from 1976 to tool superintendent of the West Point Miltary Academy; in 1883 he was in charge of the Department of the Missouri, and in 1836 of the division of the Atlantic. in idad he became general-in-chief of the Chited States army, and in February, 1855, was appoint- ed lieutenant-general by President Cleve- land, that rank having been revived by con- gress. In September, 1895, he was retired from active service.

" EWIS WALLACE, an American gen- W cral and famous author, was born in Brookville, Indiana, April 10, .827. He served in the Mexican war as arst Heutenant callitia until November, 1862, and of the , of a company of Indiana Volunteers. After way of the frontier from that time until ! his return from Mexico he was admitted to .Sige de 1802 de was made major-general the bar, and practiced law in Covington. and Crawfordsville, Indiana, undi 1861. Atthe opening of the war he was appointed ad- jutant-general of Indiana, and soon after be- canie colonel of the Eleventh Indiana Vel- unteers. He defeated a force of Confeder- ates at Romney, West Virginia, and was made brigadier-general in September, Iso1. At the capture of Fort Donelson in 1862 he commanded a division, and was engaged in the second day's night at Shiloh. In 1863 his defenses about Cincinnati saved that city if we lo heers, and was placed in command of Gas Department of the Missouri, and in 186 .! Ithe Department of the Ohio. During the ttopaign through Georgia General Scho- Geht was in command of the Twenty-third tracy Corps, and was engaged in most of the rating of that famous campaign. Novem- wer 30, 1864, he defeated Blood's army at Franklin, Tennessee, and then joined Gen- rt Thomas at Nashville. He took part in the battle of Nashville, where Hood's army Was destroyed. In January, 1865, he led ; from capture by Kirby Smith. At Monoc- Is corps into North Carolina, captured pacy in July, 1864, he was defeated, but

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to Resisthade menyed the advance of Cien- istration. The questions for adjustment at und Baby and thus saved Washington from that time between the two governments were the Behring Sea controversy and the Veneziolan boundary question. He was very popular in Budand because of his und views, an I because of His criticism of the protective policy of the United States . It's publie speeches delivered in London, Sumburgh and other places, he received, in March, 1896, a vote of censure in the lower house of congress. Genen ... Wallace was a member of the Find the ... . men de mat boltre whoma Cap- w Mary With who had charge of the Man wrotethe prison, was anlad. In ISS! General Withice was sult as minister to Turkey. When not in official service he covoted much of his time to Meritare. Med mais weare known works are Mis " Far Gos," " Ben Har," "Prince of India, " and a " Life of Benjamin: Harrison."

THOMAS FRANCIS BAYARD, an Ameri- - Min statesman and diplomat, was born 4. Willington, Delaware, October 29, 1828. He collael his education at an Episcopal Academy at Flushing, Long Island, and ther a short service in a mercantile house in New York, he returned to Wilmington and unverca his father's law office to prepare Minsell for the practice of that profession. So Was aumitted to the bar in 1851. He was appointed to the office of United States district attorney for the state of Delaware, arving und year. In : Seg he was elected to The Calted States senate, and continuously represented his state in that body until 1885, alla in isst, when Chester A. Arthur entered the presidential chair, Mr. Bayard was chosen president pro tempore of the senate. He had diss served on the famous electoral contraission that decided the Hayes-Tilden Contest in 1876-7. In 1885 President Clove- wand appointed Mr. Bayard secretary of site. At the beginning of Cleveland's sec- un. turn, in 1893, Mr. Bayard was selected for the post of ambassador at the court of Su. james, London, and was the first to hold that frank in american diplomacy, serving with The beginning of the Mckinley admin- , died September 26, 1884.

LOHN WORK GARRETT, for so many J years at the hen 1 of the great Baltimore & Ohio railroad system, was born in Bakti- more, Maryland, July 31, 1820. His father, Robert Garrett, an enterprising merchant, had amassed a large fortune from a smah beginning. The son entered Lafayette Coi- lege in 1834, but left the following year and entered his father's counting room, and in 1839 became a partner. John W. Gar. rett took a great interest in the develop- ment of the Baltimore & Chio Railroad. He was elected one of the directors in 1857. and was its president from Is58 until his death. When he took charge of the road it was in an embarrassed condition, but within a year, for the Arst time in its exist- ence, it paid a dividend, the increase in its net gains being $725, 385. After the war, during which the road suffered much damage from the Confederates, numerous branches and connecting roads were built or acquired, until it reached colossal proportions. Mr. Garrett was also active in securing a regular line of steamers between Baltimore and Bremen, and between the same port and Liverpool. He was one of the most active trustees of johns Hopkins University, and a liberal contributor to the Young Men's Christian Association of Baltimore.

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Frame Faltando from Princeton in 2007. I Rechten a business education in the Tagliate of this luther, and in 187; getthe president of the Valley Railroad Ca Vagida. He was made third vice-presi- doit of the Baltimore & Ollio Railroad in Happy and first vice-president in Tod .. Le gand His father as president in 1884. Matt Garret diew july 29, idyo.

CARLSCHURZ, a Hotel Gorman -.... On- Al, March 2, 1829. Herhalde at The Ch- Besity of Bonn, was in 1849 was engaged in an attempt to excite an insurrection at that face. After the surrender of Rastade by the devant valsts, in the defense of which Schutz took part, he decided to emigran. co Neuca. de resided in Philadelphia twice Fis, and then settled in Watertown, Wis- asin, and in 1359 removed to Milwaukee, Here Re practiced law. On the organiza- um of the Republican party he became a index of the German clement and entered Le campaign for Lincoln in . 860. ile was profited minister to Spain in 1861, but re- signed in December of that year to enter Ne array. He was appointed brigadier- eneral in 1862, and participated in the second battle of Bull Run, and also at Chancelorsville. At Gettysburg he had weinporary command of the Eleventh. Army Corps, and also took part in the battle of Chattanooga.

Machine eller Of the " New York Prolling Post." and the dos was prominent M M; opposition to james Q. Blaine, and became lowver of the " Megwimps," thas assist- " in the election of Cleveland. In the presidential campaign of tego lis, fordible patches in the interest of some money wicked ta hamnense influence. Ma. Schurz wrow a "life of Henry Clay," said to be the best biography ever published of that eminent statestaat.

BORGE F. EDMUNDS, an American statesman of national reputation, was born in Richmond, Vermont, February i, 1828. His education was obtained in the public schools and from the instructions of a private tutor. He was admitted to the war, practiced how, and served in the state legislature from 1854 6 1659, caring three years of that time being speaker of the lower house. He was elected to the state sendte and acted as president pro tempore of that Jolly in 1861 and 1802. Hebecame promi- nent for his activity in the impeachment proceedings against President Johnson, and was appointed to the United States senate to fill out the unexpired term of Solomon Foot, emering that body in 1866. He was re-elected to the senate four times, and served on the electoral commission in 1877. He became president pro tempore of the senate after the death of President Garde! i, and was the author of the bill which pat an end to the practice of polygamy in the tor- ritory of Utah. In Novelliber, 1891, owing to impaired health, he retired from the sea- ate and again resumed the practice of law;

Nfor the war he located at St. Louis, 4.d in 1869 was elected United States sona- or troth Missouri. He supported Horace Freddy for the presidency in 1872, and in me canpalet of 1876, having removed to T UCIUS O. C. LAMAR, a prominent L political leader, statesman and jurist, New York, he supported Hayes and the Re- .when theket, and was appointed seere- was born in Putaum county, Georgia, Sep-

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Where he section employment in a printing vlive, and from there he went to Demerara, China, where he was employed as a com- Nagy. He moved to Oxford, posicor in 1835 -- 37. I. 1840 he became connected with the "Boston Post," and Alp in the State University. He acquired quite a reputation as a humorist Jagna ale next year and returned to Cov- .. Congia, and resumed the practice 1 855 de was decided to the

by his "Sayings of Mrs. Partington." He remtlaed as e for of the paper enth 1650, when he printed and edited a paper of mis oh called the " Pathfinder, " which he con- Cannot handle 1852. che candor ald proprietor & the .Carpet Bag," which he conducted during 1850 52, ... then returned to the Women R'us." with when he was connected with 1856. Mizing the stand tilne ho, Was one of the editors of the "Saturday Evening Gazette," and continued in this line after he several his connection with the "Post" for ten years. After 1866 Mr. Shillaber wrote for various newspapers and periodicals, albi during his He published the following books: "Rhymes with Reason and Without," "Rooms," "Life and Sayings of Mrs. Part- ington," "Knitting Work." and others. His death occurred at Chelsea, Massachu- sotts, November 25, Tego.

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Progressive men and women of Kosciusko County, Indiana : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography, Part 24

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