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institution, in 1874, Charles McCulloch was elected president. The merging of the institution into the Hamilton National bank took place in November, 1879, and the final reorganization occurred in 1899. The institution was blessed with a history of prosperity and soundness which gave it a high place among the banking institutions of the middle west. On the 7th of April, 1917, the Hamilton National bank was merged with the First National bank, the combined institution assuming the name, First and Hamilton National bank. Mr. McCulloch has always been interested in public affairs. Independent in politics, he has given the weight of his support in all instances in which his judgment pointed to a man or a principle which would best serve the people. He served as a member of the board of trustees which established and constructed the original municipal waterworks plant which has developed into the present valuable property. The city council took initial action in the matter of the waterworks plant in the spring of 1876, when a lively controversy raged over the proposition to secure the water supply from the abandoned Wabash and Erie canal feeder, connecting with the St. Joseph river. The plans prepared by J. D. Cook, of Toledo, Ohio, in 1879, were adopted by a popular election of 3,094 to 561, and the application of these plans formed the foundation of the present system in which Mr. McCulloch took a prominent part. The initial cost of the system was $236,865. The first deep wells were sunk in 1888. At later periods Mr. McCulloch served two terms as a member of the city council. Mr. McCulloch is a member of Fort Wayne lodge of Masons and a Thirty-second degree member of the Scottish Rite body. He is a member of the Commercial Club and of the Fort Wayne Country Club. On the 20th of June, 1865, Mr. McCulloch was united in marriage with Miss Sada F. Ross, daughter of John and Clara Ross, of Vincennes, Indiana. To this union was born one son, John Ross McCulloch, now vice-president of the First and Hamilton National bank. Some time following the death of Mrs. McCulloch Charles McCulloch was united in marriage with Miss Ada Willison, of Beloit, Wisconsin. One son Fred H. McCulloch, treasurer of the Elec- trical Supply and Fixture Company, was born of this union. The present Mrs. McCulloch was formerly Mrs. Lucy L. Phillips. The family home, located at the corner of West Wayne and Ewing streets, was secured a few years ago by the congregation of the First Church of Christ, Scien- tist, after which Mr. McCulloch established a new modern home imme- diately adjoining the property on the north.
Fred H. McCulloch, treasurer and manager of the Electric Supply and Fixture Company, Fort Wayne, is a popular representative of one of the old and honored families of this city, where his paternal grand- father settled about three-fourths of a century ago, when the future metropolis of Allen county was but a village in the midst of a section of Indiana that was in the pioneer stage of civic and material develop- ment. He whose name initiates this paragraph was born at what is now 336 East Berry street, Fort Wayne, and the date of his nativity was July 22, 1884. He is a son of Charles and Ada (Willison) McCulloch, the former of whom was born at Fort Wayne on September 3, 1840, and the latter at Massillon, Stark county, Ohio, in 1850. On other pages of this work is entered a review of the career and genealogy of Charles McCul- loch, and thus it is unnecessary to repeat the data in the present article. Fred H. McCulloch is indebted to the public schools of Fort Wayne for his early educational discipline, and he took a five-year course in the
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Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania. At the age of nineteen years he entered the Sheffield Scientific School of historic old Yale University and in this institution completed a thorough course in mechanical engi- neering. He was graduated as a member of the class of 1907 and received the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. His initial experience of a practical order was gained in the Fort Wayne machine shops of the Western Gas Construction Company and later served as a mes- senger in the Hamilton National bank of this city. Upon leaving this position he became treasurer of the Wayne Steel Refrigerator Company, with which he continued his connection until 1909, when he assumed his present position of treasurer and manager of the Electric Supply and Fixture Company, of Fort Wayne, which has developed under his able and progressive supervision into a substantial business that makes it a valuable addition to the industrial and commercial activities of Fort Wayne. Mr. McCulloch naturally takes lively and loyal interest in all things pertaining to the welfare and advancement of his native city, is a Democrat in his political allegiance and is an active member of the local Commercial Club and the Rotary Club. In a professional way he holds membership in the American Illuminating Engineering Society and in his fraternal relations is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Rejuvenated Sons of Jove, and the Loyal Order of Moose. He is a member of the Fort Wayne Country Club, and his wife holds membership in the First Presbyterian church, in which he is a member of the Men's Club. On October 16, 1907, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McCulloch to Miss Alice Foster, daughter of Samuel M. and Margaret (Harrison) Foster, of Fort Wayne, and the one child of this union is Betty Foster McCulloch, born September 5, 1908.
Hugh McFadden has won for himself definite vantage-place as one of the successful exponents of agricultural and live-stock industry in Allen county, where he is the owner of one of the well-improved farms of Aboite township. He was born in Sandusky county, Ohio, on Sep- tember 24, 1860, a son of John and Elizabeth (Reinic) McFadden, the former of Irish birth and the latter of German lineage. John McFadden was born and reared in Ireland and was a young man when he came to the United States. He landed in the port of New York city and within a short time thereafter made his way westward and established his residence in Sandusky county, Ohio, where for several years he was engaged in farming. About the year 1882 he came with his family to Allen county, Indiana, where he identified himself with lumbering oper- ations and became the owner of a sawmill. He operated the mill several years and during the closing period of his life lived retired, in the city of Fort Wayne, where both he and his wife died, his political support having been given to the Democratic party and his religious faith having been that of the Catholic church. Of the children the eldest is James Henry, who is now living virtually retired at Roanoke, Huntington county. this state; Alvina is the wife of Henry Smith, a farmer in Lafayette township, Allen county; Hugh, of this review, was the next in order of birth ; and Elsie is the wife of John K. Smith, of Huntington county. Hugh McFadden was reared to adult age in the old Buckeye state and received his early education in the Ohio public schools. He gained famil- iarity with the work of the home farm and initiated his independent career as a farmer on rented land. In 1884 he came to Allen county and became a teamster in connection with his father's sawmill. Later he
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passed eighteen months on the Bass farm, and after that followed various occupations until about the time of his marriage. He then resumed farming operations and, in 1904, purchased his present excellent farm, which comprises one hundred and sixty acres and upon which he has made substantial improvements, including the erection of modern farm buildings. He gives his attention to diversified agriculture and to the raising of good live stock, in which latter department of his vigorous farm enterprise he gives special attention to the raising of Duroc-Jersey swine. His political allegiance is given to the Democratic party and he is affiliated with lodge No. 275 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Roanoke, Huntington county. April 8, 1887, recorded the marriage of Mr. McFadden to Miss Alice Fisher, daughter of Samuel and Hannah A. Fisher, concerning whom specific mention is made on other pages of this work. Mr. and Mrs. McFadden have nine children: Edith is the wife of Alvin J. Stauffer, of Aboite township; Anna is the wife of Carl Jennings, of Ontario, Canada; Russell is associated in the work and management of the home farm; Otis is now a resident of Essex, province of Ontario, Canada ; and the other children are still at the parental home- Mode, Elizabeth, Fay, Lester and Wilma.
Reuben S. McFarren has been identified with farm life in the states of Ohio, Illinois and Indiana, and has found more of success and advance- ment in his Indiana years than in any of the others. He is a native of Ohio, born in Stark county on August 26, 1837, son of William and Polly (Ritter) McFarren. The family moved from Stark county to Noble county, Indiana, and after a brief residence there went to Illinois, where they spent five years and then returned to Indiana and settled in Wabash county. The later years of the parents were spent in the home of the son Reuben, after he had acquired independent means. They were mem- bers of the United Brethren church, and Mr. McFarren was a Republican in politics. Reuben S. was one of nine children born to his parents. Jeremiah, William and Jacob are deceased. Matilda lives in Lagrange county. Jane is deceased. Reuben S. was the next born. Franklin died in infancy. Sanford is located in Oregon, and Julia Anna, the youngest of the nine, died in infancy. Reuben S. McFarren had his schooling in the old log schools that served in his boyhood days, and he farmed with his father in the family moves from Ohio to Indiana and thence to Illinois and back to Indiana. He married, June 20, 1862, and then branched out for himself, settling on a farm in Sparta township, Noble county, which was his home until he came to Allen county, Lafayette township, his present home. His place, which is limited to one hundred and twenty- three acres, is one of the well-kept and highly improved ones of the township and has yielded a satisfactory return to its owner for the labors expended on it. At the present time Mr. McFarren is living retired, but he is nevertheless closely identified with the civic life of his town and township. He has taken a prominent part in local politics and is counted among the best-informed men of his community on topics of the day. His marriage to Miss Serena Sholty took place on June 20, 1862. She is a native Ohioan like himself, and it was while a resident of Stark county that he made her acquaintance. They are the parents of five children, four of whom are living, and all filling places of usefulness in their respective communities today. They are Oliver P. Morton, a resident of Roanoke; Lily May, living at home; Delphy, the wife of Harry Brock,
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of Huntington county; and William H., living in Lafayette. Rosa E., born August 10, 1875, died in June, 1876.
James Marshall Mckay .- Among the distinguished men of Indiana who have left the impress of their individuality upon the mercantile and industrial life of the country, none are more worthy of mention in the history of Fort Wayne and Allen county than the late James M. Mckay, president of the wholesale grocery firm of G. E. Bursley and Company, of this city. His labors not only constituted a potent factor in the com- mercial and industrial interests of Fort Wayne, but were an inspiring influence, and, even though he has passed from the scene of earthly activ- ities, his work remains as a force for good in the community. He not only achieved notable success in business, but in his home, in social and public life, he was kind and courteous, and no citizen of this city was more respected or enjoyed to a greater degree the confidence of the people, or more richly deserved the regard in which he was held. Mr. Mckay was born in Ingersoll, Canada, January 21, 1856, a son of Neil and Nancy (Young) McKay, and he fully exemplified the sturdy, enter- prising character for which the people of that country have always been noted. He came to Fort Wayne at the age of thirteen years, and thence- forward his life and enterprises were blended with the growth of this city. While a young man he was engaged with his father in the railroad contracting business and later in the retail grocery trade. In 1887 he associated himself with the late Gilbert E. Bursley in establishing the wholesale grocery firm of G. E. Bursley and Company, of which he remained an active factor until the time of his demise. For thirty years his time and energy were devoted to the building up of the enterprise with which he was associated, and his name in connection with any trans- action was always a guaranty of straightforward and honorable dealing. This great concern is one of the largest enterprises of its kind in northern Indiana and is not only a leader in the wholesale grocery trade both at home and abroad, but is the wonderful outgrowth of a small business established three decades ago. The success of the firm in a large measure has been due to Mr. Mckay's superior merchandising ability and execu- tive judgment, and a just portion of the present prosperity of the house may be attributed to his quiet faithfulness and untiring efforts. Fort Wayne is indebted to her many keen business men for her prosperity and the place she occupies among the leading cities of the state, and to none more than James M. McKay. A man of unusual public spirit, inter- ested in local affairs and proud of the city in which much of his activities and mature manhood were passed, he was a strong factor in the further- ance of any measure which had for its aim the advancement of the people or the betterment of existing conditions. He was a man of strong con- victions of what is right and wrong and was unfaltering in his opposition to a course which he deemed inimical to the best interests of the country, and he was entirely fearless of criticism and public opinion when he believed he was right. He was actively identified with nearly every movement that had for its object the welfare and advancement of civic interests, and no worthy projects were attempted during his residence in Fort Wayne to which he did not contribute largely of his time and financial support. He was active in church and Sunday School work and for many years was a ruling elder in the First Presbyterian church of this city. He was also especially interested in the Y. M. C. A. and gave freely to its support. On October 1, 1885, Mr. Mckay was united in
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marriage with Miss Elizabeth J. McFee, of Fort Wayne, a daughter of William and Margaret (Christy) McFee, pioneers of this city, and they became the parents of three sons: Neil Aldrich, William Thompson and James Marshall, Jr. The first two named are associated with the firm of G. E. Bursley and Company and the last is in the officers' reserve training camp at Indianapolis. Although unostentatious in manner, Mr. McKay had many warm friends and was everywhere recognized as a man of the highest type of character. Though prominent in social circles, he was devoted to the pleasures of home life and his happiest moments were always spent at his own fireside. He found a pleasure in promp: the welfare of his family and was a kind and indulgent husband and father. His career was one that redounds to his credit and places his name high in the estimation of his fellowmen. It was also one of which his family has a just reason to be proud, for never was a man's success due more to his own native ability and less to outward circumstances. Nothing came to him by chance. He reaped only where he sowed, and the harvest, with its valued aftermath, came to him alone through energy, industry and perseverance. In business life he was alert, sagacious and reliable. As a citizen he was honorable, prompt and true to every engage- ment, and his death, which occurred June 25, 1917, removed from Fort Wayne one of its most valued citizens. The originality and profound grasp of his intellect command respect, and yet these were not all of the man. In every relation of life were shown the light that comes from justness, generosity, truth, high sense of honor, proper respect for self, and a sensitive thoughtfulness for others. What a magnificent legacy such a man leaves to the generations who shall come after him! To sketch in detail Mr. Mckay's active business career would be a task of no small moment, however agreeable and interesting. It must suffice to say in conclusion that his labors were of the most earnest character, that they were exceedingly comprehensive, and that they contributed in an important degree to the development of the commercial and industrial prosperity and wealth of the city in which they were performed and in no slight measure to the material advantage of the entire country. Al- though making no claim to greater credit than that which belongs to one who, by wise and persistent effort, advanced his own fortune and at the same time that of many others, who shares in one way or another in his enterprises, a discriminating public sentiment will not fail to accord him a front rank among the commercial benefactors of the nation.
Robert B. McKeeman, M. D., has found in his native county ample field for successful achievement in his exacting profession and has won secure place as a representative physician and surgeon in the city of Fort Wayne. He was born near Hoagland, Allen county, on February 27, 1874, a son of David C. and Margaret (McConahey) McKeeman, natives of County Antrim, Ireland. David C. McKeeman was reared and educated in Ireland and came to America when a young man. He remained for a time in the vicinity of Albany, New York, and then came to Indiana and purchased a farm near Hoagland, Allen county. He became one of the prosperous exponents of agricultural and live-stock industry in this county and here he and his wife passed the residue of their lives-possessed of those sterling attributes of character that inva- riably beget popular confidence and respect. Mr. McKeeman was a Republican in politics and both he and his wife were lifelong members of the Presbyterian church. Of their children the first three-John,
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Catherine and Margaret-are deceased; Jennie is the wife of Henry Dauer, of Decatur, this state; Nancy is the wife of Robert Mercer, of Poe, Allen county; Belle and James are deceased; William Alexander, Ella and David C., Jr., reside in Fort Wayne; and Dr. Robert B., of this review, is the youngest of the number. Passing his childhood and early youth on the home farm, Doctor McKeeman made good use of the advan- tages of the public schools in the village of Hoagland and thereafter attended Taylor University, at Upland, this state, and the normal school at Marion. After two years of successful service as a teacher in the schools of Allen county he was able to follow the course of his ambition and to enter the Fort Wayne Medical College, which is now an integral part of the medical department of the University of Indiana. In this insti- tution he was graduated in 1897, and, after thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine, engaged in practice at Monroe, Adams county, where he remained until 1900, since which time he has been engaged in practice in Fort Wayne, where he has developed a substantial and representative professional business. The Doctor is identified with the Allen County Medical Society, the Indiana State Medical Society and the Tri-State Medical Society. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party, he and his wife are members of the Third Presbyterian church of Fort Wayne, and in the time-honored Masonic fraternity he has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. October 5, 1897, was made an eventful day in the life of Doctor McKeeman, since then was solemnized his marriage to Miss Susan M. Hocker, a daughter of Joseph and Jesteen Hocker, of Monroe, Adams county, and the four children of this union are L. Stanford, Lillian Theodosia,, Donald H. C. and Ruth Beatrice.
William M. McKinnie .- The vital urge and inspiration of genuine ambition and talent marked the career of William Mark McKinnie, who was long numbered among the representative business men and best- known and most popular citizens of Fort Wayne, and who became a national figure in connection with the hotel business, in which line of enterprise his father also had achieved success and high reputation. Playing a strong and loyal part in connection with the civic and business life of Fort Wayne, generous, considerate and possessed of an affability that won to him the staunchest of friends, Mr. McKinnie was a man whose loss was felt with a sense of personal bereavement in the city that had long been his home, his death having occurred, July 1, 1913, and it is specially consonant that in this history be entered a tribute to his memory. Mr. McKinnie was born at Rochester, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, Sep- tember 5, 1858, and was a boy at the time of the family removal to Fort Wayne, where he was reared and educated and where he passed the remainder of his life, save for a few years' residence in the city of Pitts- burgh, Pennsylvania. He was one of the five children born to Captain Henry McKinnie and Malinda (Bean) McKinnie, whose marriage was solemnized at Rochester, Pennsylvania, on January 1, 1851. Concerning the other children it may be recorded that Emma died in infancy ; Frank H. was a resident of Sewickley, Pennsylvania, and is now deceased ; Esther was the wife of Dr. Charles F. Bingham, a representative physician in the city of Pittsburgh, where her death occurred; and George B. was assistant manager of the Hotel Anderson, at Pittsburgh, at the time of his death. Captain McKinnie died at his beautiful home in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, October 1, 1899, and his widow survived him by several years. He was born at Poland, Mahoning county, Ohio, December 26,
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1822, and his father was a pioneer tavernkeeper at Youngstown, the judicial center of that county, where also he served a number of years as postmaster. Captain McKinnie was reared and educated at Youngs- town, and it is worthy of note that in his youth he received instruction in penmanship from John Spencer, whose name is perpetuated in the Spencerian system of penmanship and also in the long famous Spencerian pens. The following quotations from an article published at the time of the death of Captain McKinnie are worthy of reproduction in this connection : "While still a youth Captain McKinnie became engaged as a clerk for Reed and Parks, a famous commission house that operated a chain of warehouses on the old Pennsylvania and Ohio canal, and he was given charge of the Youngstown warehouse and business of the firm, in the employ of which he continued a number of years. During one of his trips from Cleveland he brought Jennie Lind, the famous singer, to Pittsburgh, and in late years he often spoke of his horseback trips from Youngstown to Pittsburgh to deposit the firm's money in the banks of the latter city. In 1845 Captain McKinnie entered the steamboat business, running for many years between Pittsburgh and New Orleans as clerk on some of the largest and most famous packet-boats of the day. He was clerk of the Great Republic, the largest packet of the day on her first trip, and for a long time he was clerk and captain of the Sunny Side. During the early days of the Civil War he operated the Sunny Side as a government transport and as a hospital and supply boat. He was at Vicksburg, Pittsburg Landing and Fort Donelson during the famous engagements at these points, and his boat was burned by the Confederate guerrillas at Island No. 10, Captain McKinnie having a thrilling escape from the burning wreck. After the destruction of his boat he returned to Pittsburgh, and, in 1863, purchased the railroad eating house on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad at Fort Wayne, Indiana. He retained his interest in this business and the old-time McKinnie House at the railroad station until his death. In 1876 Captain McKinnie opened the Monmouth House at Spring Lake Beach, New Jersey; in 1877 he started the Manhattan Beach Hotel, on Long Island, and in 1879 the Oriental Hotel at the same beach. He operated both houses until 1892 and became personally acquainted with most of the prominent business men of the country and was a personal friend of Gen. W. T. Sherman. In 1879 Captain McKinnie became associated with Colonel Samuel Kiefer in assuming charge of the Grand Central Hotel in New York city, but they retired from the control of the same about eighteen months later. In 1880 Captain McKinnie and his son Frank H. opened the Neal House, Columbus, Ohio, and operated the same about ten years. In 1884 the Captain, in partnership with his brother-in-law, E. L. Bean, secured the lease on the Hotel Anderson, in Pittsburgh, and he retained the active management of the same until three years prior to his death; he relinquished the management to his oldest son, Frank H. He devoted his energies exclusively to his hotel interests, his only outside connection being as a stockholder of the National Bank of Western Pennsylvania. As a young man he became affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and in Pittsburgh he attended and supported St. Andrew's Episcopal church. William M. McKinnie, the subject of this memoir, well upheld the prestige of the family name both as a citizen and as a prominent exponent of the hotel business. He early became associated with his father in the operation of the old McKinnie Hotel at the Pennsylvania Railroad station in Fort Wayne,
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