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The oldest photographers in the city are Wilkins & Co., and never once in the fourteen years of their existence have they occupied any other than the first ranks; a splendid verdict of the puplic's approval of high art, and an ever present desire to give the latest and best effects in photographic art.
This fact is attested by the liberal patronage they enjoy from the most prominent citizens of the city. The firm's specialties of crayon, water colors. pastel and India ink pictures are a triumph of true art, showing the natural adapitude of the artists, coupled with fourteen years of experiments and experience.
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James L. Burns was born September 18, 1870, in Putnam county, Ind .; removed with his parents to Clay county at the age of three years. Remained at home and assisted on the farm, attending district schools and Crown Point public schools in the winter months, until eighteen years of age, save spring and summer months of 1887 and 1888, during which time he was employed as clerk in D. N. Barnett's general merchandise store at Hoosierville, Ind. At eighteen he engaged in !caching a terin in the district school, followed in the spring by a term in the Central Normal College. He also taught the following winter. After this he attended DePauw university and the North- ern Indiana Normal school and business college, at which latter institution he was pursuing ; he scientific course of study, when appointed county sur- veyor of Clay county to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John J. Hayden. Previous to his appointment he was nominated by the Democratic county convention for County Surveyor and elected in November, 1892. In January. 1893, he accepted the position as deputy clerk of the Clay county Circuit Court and in April, 1893, resigned the Surveyor's office. He was re- tained as deputy clerk until the death of J. M. Wehrle, clerk, July IS. 1895. After the appointment of a new clerk he became deputy Auditor, which position he now occupies. He contemplates the profession of law.
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On Thanksgiving day, 1888, Robert Henkel landed in Brazil with a great amount of hustle and a small amount of cash, his bank account aggregating
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$1.60. Despite discouraging advice on all sides the Daily Times was con- ceived. E. M. Henkel and S. M. Grimes quickly followed and four days later the first number of the Daily Times was issued from the old New Era office, the type that was leased bearing the resemblance of disappointed ten penny nails, which was enameled with subscription apple butter and ground out on a cider press. All these discouraging obstacles were cast aside with the firm conviction that they would create a want and make it felt. Non- partisan in politics and non-sectarian in religion, it had naught to recommend it save its honesty of purpose. It claimed to be a newspaper pure and simple. It traveled that stormy road to success that is one dense mass of struggling, surging, scething humanity at the start, and so very nearly de- serted at the close. No political party put its hand into its private pocket or the purse of the people to aid it in its struggles. Success was won by hon- est efforts, constant labor and a true desire to please. In seven and one-halt years it has grown from a frail, hungry infant to stout, robust manhood-from the smallest newspaper in the city to the most influential and most widely circulated medium of news and printing establishments in the county. In 1891 they erected a substantial two-story office building on South Meridian street. On February 1, 1896, E. M. and Robert Henkel purchased the one- third interest of S. M. Grimes, and the firm name was changed to the Henkel Publishing company. The plant is now valued at $7,000.
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Samuel Baldwin Riley was born in Wayne county, Ind., May 19, 1836. His carly youth was spent upon a farm. At eighteen he leit his mother's home. When nearly eighteen, unable to read, he worked on the farm, going to school in the winter until he could teach; then he taught and attended school alter- nately until 1857, when he went to Lebanon, Ill., entering McKendree college, where he remained four years, when he entered the law school taught hy ex- Gov. A. C. French, graduating with the degree of LL.B. In October, 1861, he commenced the practice of law in Martinsville, Ind., with C. C. Nave, where he remained one year, removing on the t4th day of August, 1863, to Bowling Green, entering the law office of George W. Wiltse. as partner. He soon established an office of his own, and at the end of ten years, by his prac- tice and otherwise, he had accumulated $30,000. On the third day of April.
1893. he purchased the Brazil Miner, editing and publishing it for eighteen years, selling it March, 1891. In October, 1891, he purchased the New Era, clranging the name to The Orthonomic Fra, of which he is now the editor and publisher. The Orthonomic Era means an era of right governmem. It advocates the goat and catholic principles of equal and exac: justice to all men: first announced by the poor Nazarene; reiterated by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence; reaffirined by James Madison in the Constitution of the United States. The editor advocates and believes these principles will never die so long as a true devoice of liberty lives. When the tides of ocean cexse to ebb and flow, when the winds of heaven are hushed into perpetual ssence, when the clouds no longer thunder, when earth's electric bolts are no longer felt nor heard, when her eternal fires go out, then. and not before, will these principles cease to animate and move the liberty loving people of his country.
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C. M. Mofford councilman of the second ward, was born in Clermont county, Ohio, Outober 28, 1862; came to Brazil, Ind., March, 1886; married Miss Manila Jackson, September 26, 1889. There was born to this union the following abddren: Helen, Edith and Lester. Mr. Mofford came to Brazil penniless, clerked a few months in a general store, thence with Kru- zan's dry goods. sore eight years, was a traveling salesman during 1895, and in the spring of' 1896 entered the grocery business for himself; was elected to the city common council in March, 1894.
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Thomas Ilendersson, city treasurer, was born in Holmes county, Ohio, Sep- tember, 1831; remained on his father's farm until the age of nineteen, learned the wagonmaker's trade during his early life; entered the civil war in 1863 and served one year in Co. G 28th Ills. V. I. Came to Brazil in 1854. Married Miss Nancy L., dhanghter of Robert and Lavina Stunkard, Apr :!. 1856, and :he following childrere were born to the union: Alva D., Stewart, (deceased), Mary E., Lola, Robert, William T., Annie, and Harley IL Mr. Henderson was elected and served four years as trustee of Brazil township-1SS1 :0 1885- and in 1888 was dected city treasurer, which office he has since filled.
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John Z. Macdonald, city clerk, was born in Saltcoats, Ayrshire, Scotland, June 13. 1860. A miner for seventeen years, on August 11, 1881, he landed in New York. Married Miss Cuthbertson, September 14, 1882. There were born to the union the following children: James, William, Archibald, John V., Louis Francis and Anna. Mr. Macdonald was elected city clerk in 1891. and since re-elected. Our subject during May, 1890, had one of the most difficult surgical operations ever performed in the history of the medical fra. ternity in the United States, Dr. J. F. Smith being the operator. In various medical journals can be found its history.
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Dennis C. Gillfillan, son of John Gillfillan, M. D., was born at Center Point. Clay county, Ind., December 22, 1862. In his boyhood days he attended the Center Point public schools and later the Bowling Green schools, until 1878, when he entered the state university at Bloomington For a number of years he taught in the public schools of the county and was principal of several of the home graded schools for the years 1886, 1887 and 1888. In November, 1888, he was elected County Recorder, serving four years, and at the expiration of his term returned to the old family homestead at Center Point, and has since been engaged in farming and teaching. In July, 1888, he married Miss Nannie Miller, daughter of Nicholas Miller, of Clay county, to whom there have been born four sons. . Solon, Nicholas and Donald (twins) and Cyde. Mr. Gillfillan is a young man of good ability. both native and acquired, and is held in high esteem by his fellow citizens.
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Thomas Gross, police, third ward, was born in Breckinridge county, Ky., December 29, 1862; came to Brazil 1881; married to Miss Anna DeBruler in 1882. The following children were born to this union: Blanchce, Nolia and George Anna. Since the death of his first wife, Anna, he married Miss Annie McFarland, March 3, 1896. He was appointed police for the second year December 8, 1894.
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William Henry Bubb was born December 20, 1844, at New Berlin. Union county, Pa., but his boyhood days were spent in Lebanon county. In 1862 Mr. Bubb's parents sent him to the Pennsylvania Agricultural college to prevent his enlisting in the army, he remaining there until 1864, when the senior and junior classes of the college enlisted in a body. Mr. Bubb first served as an infantryman, but later as a member of Company C, 15th Penn- sylvania cavalry, doing duty as a bugler. He was mustered out of the service at Nashville. Tenn., in 1865, when he returned to his native state and again entered the Pennsylvania Agricultural college, taking a partial course in engineering and chemistry, and graduated in 1866. In the spring of 1867, his father having secured the contract to build the Brazil furnace, Mr. Bubb came here and assisted in the work. He was also employed on the Masten, Knightsville and Planet furnaces. In 1868 our subject went to Kansas and was a cowboy on the frontier for a time. In 1869 he was in Brazil again and served with an engineering corps in surveying the North and South railroad. January 10, 1870, Wi.Fam H. Bubb was married to Millicent Plumb, of Bra- zil. For many years. Mr. Bubb has been identified with the coal business, having been with the Jackson Coal and Mining company three years as weighboss. seven years as night bill clerk in the Vandalia freight office, then became head bookkeeper for the Jackson Coal and Mining company, which position he now fills. In May, 1894. Mr. Bubb wns elected councilman from the First ward, and Jeme 20, 1895, he was chosen mayor of Brazil to fi'l the vacancy caused by the resignation of A. T. Hert. As a member of the council Mr. Bubb displayed great zeal looking after city affairs, and as the head of our municipal government he is making a record that all citizens are proud of.
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Jonathan M. Fast was born in Ashland county, Ohio, IS39; married Miss Vernelia Shannon, 1820, to whom the following children were born: Elvig D. and William. Mer_ Fast came to Brazil in IS72, and has since been in charge of one of the finest restaurants in the state; also has a fine line of groceries, ect .; has sezved two terms in the common council, Second ward, and at present is serving his third term.
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Elias S. Holliday was born in Aurora, Dearborn county, Ind., on March 5, 1842. While quite young he moved with his parents to Iowa, and resided in that state at the beginning of the war of the rebellion. On July 5, 1861, he enlisted as a private in a Kansas regiment of infantry, and served for more than three years in the ranks, participating in several hard fought engagements. On leaving the army he came to Indiana, where he has since lived. As a farm laborer and school teacher he managed to save enough means to acquire a partial college course. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1873. In 1874 he located in Brazil, and has been practicing his profession in that city ever since. He was three times elected mayor of Brazil, and has also been its city attorney for one term. He is now a mem- ber of the common council and county attorney. He is a stalwart Republican and takes an active interest in politics. He was married to Lina Gregg on March 5, 1873. Three sons are the fruit of that union, which has been in every respect a happy one.
ARTICLE 142.
William W. Risher was born in Westmoreland county, Pa., December 28, 1831. He married Miss Jane Kyle, February 15, 1853, to whom there were born four children, two, Media J. and William B., living, and two deceased. He married for his second wife Cornelia Mitchell, June 19, 1896, to whom there was one child born, which died in infancy. Mr. Risher came to Brazil September, 1864, after having worked in a mine from 1848 to 1854, at which time he became an operator, the first coal operator in Brazil. He is at pres- ent superintendent of the Crawford Coal company, better known as the B. B. Coal company, Brazil, Ind.
ARTICLE 143.
Dr. Joseph C. Gifford was born in Williamsburg, Clay county, Ind., Sep- tember 27, 1842. Served in the 10th, 71st and 133d Ind. Vols. during the rebellion. Graduated at Rush Medical college, Chicago, February, 1870. Elected councilman 1871, 1877, 18,9, 1881 and 1885, for two years cach, 1892 for four years. Served as president of board of pension examiners 18So to 1893. Politics, Republican.
ARTICLE 144.
William Travis was born April 25, 1838, in Tuscarawas county, Ohio; cam to Clay county iin 1859; taught in the public schools a number of years; wa School Examiner six years, and organized the public school system of th county; engaged in the newspaper field at Bowling Green in 1870, to which h has devoted the major part of his subsequent life and efforts, and is now edtic of the Brazil Mimer, the oldest, most widely circulated and popular paper i the county. For the past twenty years the family has resided at Middlebury
ARTICLE 145
John C. Moss was born October 15, 1843, on the farm near Ashboro. H: parents, Jacob 33. Moss and Zorada J. Moss, migrated from Kentucky at very early day and were among the first settlers of the county. At th breaking out of the rebellion, in 1861, at the age of seventeen years, he en listed in the 12th Illinois volunteers, for the three months' service. I September, 1861%, he re-enlisted in Company G, 43d Indiana, participated in a the battles and' skirmishes of his regiment, having been wounded whil ascending White river, Ark., took a prominent part in the battle of Mark' Mills, in which. twenty-three of his company were killed and wounded, an held a prisoner six months at Camp Ford, Tyler, Texas, from which b made his escape and was forty-three days in reaching the Federal lines a Little Rock, duwing all of which time he subsisted on acorns and grape December 14, 11964, he was discharged from the service. After returning home he attended college for a term at Westfield, Ills.
July 3. 1896, hive married Melissa C. Buckallew, a student of the state uni versity, Bloomington. In the spring of ISto he located on the farm ad joining Ashboro, which he now owns, and, by economy and thrift, has pro vided for the comfort of his family one of the finest rural homes in th county. There are five children in the family-fonr daughters and a son namely: Quincy, Quenet, Yonnie, Zorada, Xeoma and John C., Jr. In re ligion Mr. Moss- holds to no sect nor creed, accepting only the Golden Ru! as his ground of faithand duty. In politics he is a Populist and a leader i his party. Being of positive character and a strong and fearless advocate.o what he believes, to be right in politics and morals, he occupies a prominen position in society.
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John S. Donham is a native of Clay county, born in Perry township, where the town of Cory now stands, May 4, 1834. December 25, 1866, he married Calista A. Kesler, to whom there have been born five children -- three daughters and two sons-Laura M., Sarah Ellen, Robert A., Margaret Belle and George E. Mr. Donham was raised on the farm, his father, Abijah Donham, having migrated from Clermont county, Ohio, in 1833. By close application in his boyhood days he qualified himself for teaching and taught in the public schools of the county for fourteen years. He served his township one term as assessor, one term a trustee and seven years as justice of the peace, and is a member of the Clay county bar.
ARTICLE 147.
Rufus L. Kennedy was born in Center Point in 1847; worked on his father's farm and mill and attended common schools until July, 1862. Volun- teered in Union army. Upon his discharge September, 1865, went to New Orleans, La., and engaged in business. On account of failing health returned to Center Point in the spring of 1866. Graduated from Center Point Normal school; attended college a short time. Taught the Center Point school in 1868 and 1869. Read law with Carter & Coffey from 1868 to 1874; was admit- ted to the Clay county bar; never practiced. Always having a love for agriculture, he engaged extensively in general farming; has also been inter- ested in the general merchandise and milling business. MIT. Kennedy is an all-round successful business man, and a close student. He has one of the best libraries in the county. Mr. Kennedy is an active Republican, but would never accept the nomination for an office. Mr. Kennedy was married in 1874 to the only daughter of Rev. W. M. Givens; has three children, who now are at school. Mr. Kennedy has always been an active worker in the Sabbath school, was president of the Clay county Sunday school union for two years. He is generous to a fault, foremost in every enterprise that will elevate and better the conditions of the community in which he lives. Mr. Kennedy is now living happily with his family in his elegant home adjoining Center Point.
ARTICLE 148.
United Brethern «church of Center Point was organized as early as 1843. Worshiped in a log, house until about 1854, when they built a frame church, at a cost of $1,000. In 1876 a second house of worship was erected in the western part of towra, with a seating capacity of 500 persons. Including par- sonage the entire paroperty represents a capital of $3.500. The church has 200 members. It was largely through the influence of Mrs. M. H. Kennedy . that this church was built and maintained. Much of the high moral and religious sentiment of this community is due to this church, as it was the first in the community, and always progressive. Rev. W. M. Givens has been resident minister for thirty-six years. Rev. D. Spyker is the present pastor. Rufus L. FKennedy, N. A. Gibbons, D. W. Hays, Calvin Presnell John L. Williams, trustees.
ARTICLE 149.
Dr. J. K. Moss, son of George M. and Martha E. Moss, was born in Sugar Ridge townskup, Clay county, Indiana, October 14. 1859. He married Miss Katie L., daughter of Ryland B. and Elizabeth McAllister, May 2. 1878. Mr. Moss is a gradhuate of the medical college of Indiana. class of 1885, and has an extensive practice throughout the southern part of the county.
ARTICLE 150.
James Berry, the subject of this sketch, was born in Maskingum county. Ohio, February 10, 1845. His parents. Thomas and Anna, came fromn Vir- ginia in early days. He came to Clay county 1/4. He married Miss Lucinda J., daughter of J. C. Bevis, of Janesville. Ohio, November 21.1866. to whom the follwing children were born: Eli P., Lillie F., Leona G, Sylvia E., Maggie IL, Osie C. A., James W., deceased, and Mina F. Mr. Berry served in the civil war. For four years he was trustee of the town of Center Point. He was elected justice of the peace in ISSS, which office he still holds. He is a member of the G. A. R.
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E. G. Shute, son of John and Ruthan Shute, was born in Ottawa, Ills., Dec. 23. 1856; was married to Miss Mary E. Ward, of Green county, Ind., October 27, 1889. To this union the following children were born: Zella P., May 17. 1891, and Hazel D., March 16, 1894. Mr. Shute has been a constant employe of the E. & T. H. R. R. as agent since 1888. Ile is situated at Saline City, where he has many friends.
ARTICLE 152.
Edwin A. Foulke, the third son of John and Sarah Foulke, was born June 8, 1844, in Guernsey county, Ohio; came to Clay county, Ind., 1852. He entered the civil war as a charter member of the 149th I. V. I., and served till the close of the war. He married Miss Pheba A., youngest daughter of Dr. Benjamin and Malinda Kester, February 8, 1866, who died October 20, 1885. Mr. Foulke is the father of seven children, six living and one dead. He married for his second wife Miss Margaret E.,. the youngest daughter of David and Margaret Kylander, November 14, 1888.
ARTICLE 153.
Dr. J. P. Sheperd, son of R. A. Sheperd, of Lockport, N. Y., was born October 19, 1865. Mr. Shepherd graduated at Chicago Medical college in 1895; has an extensive practice. Mr. Shepherd's father was formerly a gov- ernment physician in the Indian reservation. Ile came to Saline City in 1895 and died the same year.
ARTICLE 154.
The subject of this sketch, Mr. George O. Mliller, was born in Ceda- county, Mo., October 26, 1868. When quite young his father emigrated to Indiana and settled in the flat woods of Owen county, near Spencer, and became one of the pioneer teachers of that county. Young Miller received only a limited education, and at the age of twelve years began as an ap- prentice in the old stone water mill located at Eel River falls, near Cataract, Ind., to learn the millers' trade. Young Miller met with many disappoint- ments and discouragements, but, unlike many boys of that age, pos- sessed of a strong will power and a firm determination to accomplish his
end, he kept pressing on, applying himself very closely, receiving for his labors the magnificent sum of one dollar per week and boarded at home. He worked four years at Burr milling, and in 1884 first began his career in a roller mill. Siruce that time Mr. Miller has been prominently connected with some of the best mills in the state, and has had a varied experience in the west and southwest. He was married October 31, 1893, to Miss Mildred B. Glunt, of Wichita, Kan., the young couple coming to Indiana, where they have since remained. He now has charge as head miller, of L. C. Kennedy's mill at Center F'oint, Ind., which position he has occupied for the past two years. Mr. Miller, by his steady, sober habits and careful application to business, has gaïmed for himself a place in the foremost ranks of the practical millers of the dbay. .
ARTICLE 155.
S. T. Butt, som of William and Nancy Butt, was born in Jackson township, May 17, 1863. He spent the days of his childhood on a farm situated one and one-half miles northwest of Center Point. He married Miss Sarah, daughter of Gerorge MI. Moss, February 21, 1883. She died December 18, 1890. To this union there were born three children. Mr. Butt married To: his second wife Lyda A., daughter of William and Nancy Fisher, on Augus: 9, 1893. of whom Harry William is the only child, born March 31, 1895. Mr. Butt was electeel trustee of Sugar Ridge township during the fall of 1824
ARTICLE 156.
Clay County Infirmary .- Clay county has an excellent poor farm tha! may be said to be self-sustaining, but needs a new and modern infirmary. Notwithstanding many improvements have been made, much remains to be accomplished to make this institution all that it should be. The present infirmary is often overcrowded, having at this time some forty men, women and children as inmates, among them two pronounced as incurably insane. Under the excellent management of William 11. MeCullough as superin- tendent. the farm and infirmary have been conducted to the evident satisfaction of all the people of the county. The farm consists of a total of two hundred and forty-nine acres, of which one hundred and fifty-eight acres were purchased from the John Steed estate, forty acres from James and Smich
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Campbell, eleven acres from the John Cullin estate and forty acres from George Siegelin. The location is two miles southwest of Bowling Green. The first poor farm in Clay county was located two and a half miles north- west of Bowling Green and was known as the Blunk farm.
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