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ternal organization to claim him as a member is the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In 1899 Mr. Dilger was united in marriage to Miss Annie L., daughter of Christopher and Elizabeth Meyer, of Clark county. To this marriage there has been born one son, Frank H., now four years old. Mr. Dilger owns a beautiful home in Jeffer- sonville, and is one of the substantial and progressive citizens of the city.
THOMAS J. BROCK, a prominent attorney and representative citizen of Jeffersonville, Ind., was born at Borden, Clark county, Ind., July 9, 1876. His parents, Francis Marion and Abigail (Brown) Brock, are both natives of In- diana, the father having been born at Martinsburg, Washington county, July 22, 1849, and the mother near Borden, Nov. 7, 1854. Francis M. Brock is a minister of the Christianchurch. Their family consists of two sons, Thomas J., the subject of this sketch, and John B. Thomas J. Brock was educated at the Borden institute, graduating in the normal, scientific and academic courses in 1892. He then studied law in the same institution and in 1898 was admitted to the bar. He established an office in the city of Jeffersonville and began the practice of his profession, soon acquiring a good clientage and win- ning a high standing at the bar. Upon reaching his majority Mr. Brock cast his political fortunes with the Democratic party, and in every campaign since that time he has been an active factor in shaping the destinies of the Clark county Democracy. In September, 1900, he was elected to the office of city attorney, and held the position until he was succeeded by Henry F. Dilger, who was elected in May, 1904. Mr. Brock is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons and the Knights of Pythias, in both of which societies he is deservedly popu- lar because of his high social attributes and sterling qualities. He was married on Dec. 23, 1894, to Miss Ada Littell, a native of Clark county, and daughter of Milburn and Rachel (Thomas) Littell. To this marriage there have been born two boys, Howard Curtis, aged eight years, and Byron Jennings, aged six.
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CHARLES ZOLLMAN, of Jefferson- ville, Ind., one of the leading lawyers of the Clark county bar, was born at Charlestown, in that county, March I, 1875. His father, William Zollman, was born in Prussia, Nov. 7, 1842. When he was twelve years of age he came with his parents to America, and after a long and tedious voyage on a sailing vessel landed at New York in 1854. The fol- lowing year the family came West and settled at Charlestown, where William Zollman grew to manhood and married Elizabeth, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Bohmer. She was born at Charlestown in December, 1850. To this marriage there were born two sons, Charles and Christopher. The parents still live near Charlestown, where the father is a well known farmer. Charles Zoll- man received his primary education in the public schools, after which he attended a normal school in Scott county, and in 1898 entered the law department of the University of Louisville. He graduated from this institution in 1900 and the same year was elected on the Demo- cratic ticket to represent Clark county in the state legislature. He began the practice of law in 1901 at Jeffersonville, and in 1903 formed a partnership with Burdette Lutz. In 1902 he was again elected to the legislature. During both terms as representative he served on some of the important house committees and was always alive to the interests of his constituents. When the Clark county Democratic convention met in March, 1904, he received the nomination for prose- cuting attorney, and was elected the succeeding November. Mr. Zollman is a member of the Improved Order of Red Men. As an attorney he has a high standing at the bar, as a politician he is rec- ognized as a good organizer and a mixer, and as a man he enjoys the respect and esteem of his acquaintances because of his intel- lectual and social qualities.
GEORGE W. McKINLEY, of Borden, Ind., county assessor of Clark county, was born in that county, March 3, 1855, his parents being Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Packwood) Mckinley. The father was born in Kentucky in 1800, and came with his parents to Clark county when he was but six years of age. . There he grew to man- hood and was for many years one of the best known farmers in the
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county. He died March 3, 1883. The mother was born in Virginia on New Year's day, 1807, and died in Clark county on her seventieth birthday. George W. is the youngest of a family of thirteen chil- dren. He received a good common school education in the schools of Wood township, and upon reaching his majority adopted the life of a farmer, in which he has been successful. Mr. Mckinley has always taken an active interest in public affairs, and in 1895 was elected assessor of his township. In this office he served for five years, or until 1900, when he was elected assessor for the county. His term expires Jan. 1, 1907. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of the World, and is popular in both of these well known societies because of his genial disposition and his many sterling qualities. He was married in 1877 to Miss Carrie M., daughter of J. B. and Isabel Miller, of Floyd county. Four sons and two daughters have been born to this union, viz .: Evart M., Tollmer, Bertha B., Hattie Z., Jacob and Morris. Their ages are respectively twenty-six, twenty-four, twenty-two, nine- teen, seventeen and twelve years.
MICHAEL A. WALL, of Jeffersonville, Ind., deputy sheriff of Clark county, was born in the city where he now resides, April 16, 1870. His parents, John and Elizabeth (Cook) Wall, were both na- tives of Ireland. They came to America in 1863, and located at Jeffersonville, where the father followed his trade of blacksmithing until his death in 1883. The mother died on the day that Michael was one year old. Michael A. Wall received a good practical edu- cation in the Jeffersonville public schools, after which he learned the trade of bolt maker and worked at that occupation until 1895. He was then for about two years in a commission house. In 1897 he was appointed to a place on the police force and served for about six years. When Sheriff Pernett took charge of the office on Jan. I, 1904, he appointed Mr. Wall to the position of deputy, a position for which his long service with the police department gave him especial qualifications. He was married in 1899 to Miss Lula Gobin, daughter of Adam and Maggie Gobin, of Henderson, Ky. Three children have been born to this marriage: Henry Edward, twelve years of age; Margaret Evelyn, aged seven, and Helen Louise, aged four.
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JOSEPH H. WARDER, city clerk of Jeffersonville, Ind., was born in that city, June 17, 1878, and is a son of Luther F. and Eliz- abeth (Lewis) Warder. The father was born in the State of Ken- tucky, Dec. 2, 1841, and came to Jeffersonville when he was about twenty years of age. There he was employed in the railroad shops and government work until his death, which occurred June 12, 1902. He took an active interest in public matters, and was for several years mayor of the city. He served one term in that office in the early eighties, and again from 1887 to 1891. His wife was born in Clark county, Ind., Feb. 23, 1842, and is still living. Joseph H. received his education in the public schools, graduating from Jeffer- sonville high school in 1897. From 1899 to 1901 he was a student in the Louisville, Ky., law school, and in the latter year was ad- mitted to the bar. He began practice at Jeffersonville, and soon won a high standing in his chosen profession. Mr. Warder has always taken an active part in political contests, and is a splendid example of the younger school of Democrats. In 1904 he was chairman of the city central committee, being elected city clerk the same year. Notwithstanding his political activity he has many warm personal friends among the opposition, because of his genial disposition and general good fellowship. He belongs to the Improved Order of Red Men, which is the only fraternal society to claim him as a member.
PORTER C. BUTTORFF, secretary and treasurer of the Indiana Chain Company, and manager of the Indiana Manufacturing Com- pany, Jeffersonville, Ind., was born in Nashville, Tenn., April 12, 1866, and is a son of Henry W. and Mary E. (Nokes) Buttorff. The father was born in Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 18, 1837, and the mother in Virginia in 1845. She died in 1891. Their children were Porter C., Lucy, Ethel, Mary, Lizzie, Hattie, Alice, Henry, Ella and Isabel. Henry W. Buttorff was educated at Carlisle and at the age of twenty, after learning the trade of tinner, went to Nashville. There he worked for a time at his trade, forming a partnership with W. H. Wilson. After a time he bought out Mr. Wilson and formed the firm of Phillips, Buttorff & Co. In 1881 this concern was incor- porated under the name of the Phillips & Buttorff Manufacturing Company, with a capital stock of $400,000. Annual dividends of ten per cent were paid up to 1890, when a stock dividend of twenty-five per cent was declared. From that time until Jan. 1, 1904, the annual dividends amounted to eight per cent. At that time a cash dividend
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of twenty per cent was paid. The stock now amounts to $500,000 and the undivided profits to $850,000 more. Porter C. Buttorff re- ceived a high school education in Nashville, and in 1884 graduated from a technical school at Worcester, Mass. For about a year he was engaged with the National Sheet Metal Roofing Company, of New York City, after which he returned to Nashville, where he was associated with his father's company until 1901. About the begin- ning of the present century he built the works of the Indiana Chain Company, and in 1901 was made secretary and treasurer. Mr. But- torff's training has been of that character that makes strong and successful business men. Under his direction his company has come rapidly to the front as one of the leading manufacturing industries about the Ohio Falls. He is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias. Some years ago he led to the altar Miss Cornelia Johnson, daughter of Stephen Johnson of Nashville. She was born in that city June 20, 1870. To this mar- riage there have been born two sons: Henry, aged thirteen years, and Gordon, aged six.
BURDETTE C. LUTZ, a popular and successful attorney of Jeffersonville, Ind., was born on a farm near that city, June 28, 1875. His paternal grandfather, Joseph Lutz, was a native of South Carolina, who came to Clark county, Ind., in his early manhood, and there followed the occupation of a farmer for many years. Henry J. Lutz, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Clark county in 1845. He married Rhoda B., daughter of William Gibson, one of the old settlers. She was born in 1850. To this marriage there were born seven children, five sons and two daughters. Burdette C. Lutz was educated in the public schools, the Charlestown high school, and in 1900 graduated from the State Uni- versity of Indiana, at Bloomington, with the degree of LL.B. He first began the practice of law at Sellersburg, in 1901, but in March, 1903, he formed a partnership with Charles Zollman and located in Jeffersonville. Notwithstanding both members of this firm are young men a good clientage has been built up, few firms in the city occupying a higher standing at the bar. On the election of Mr. Zollman as
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prosecuting attorney of Clark county Mr. Lutz was appointed his deputy on Jan. I, 1905. Mr. Lutz is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees, which is the only fraternal organization to claim his membership, and he belongs to the Christian church.
GEORGE S. ANDERSON, founder, Jeffersonville, Ind., was born at Port Fulton, in that state, Feb. 1, 1840, his parents being Charles C. and Mary (Lanciscus) Anderson. The father was born in New York in 1811. In early life he came to Cincinnati, where he worked in a foundry until its removal from the city, when he went to Port Fulton. That was in 1832. A few years later he came to Jeffersonville, where he became the head of the firm of Anderson, Robinson & Goss, founders, and continued in that line until his death in 1890. The mother was born in Pennsylvania in 1818, but came to Jeffersonville in her childhood. She died in 1880. George S. Anderson is the second in a family of eight children. After an education in the public schools he began his business career in his father's foundry. In 1884, in company with his brothers, Charles and Robert, he succeeded to the business. Upon the death of Robert in 1903 his interest was taken by W. H. Lang. The foundry is one of the oldest and best estab- lished in the city and has an extensive patronage. Mr. Anderson was married in 1862 to Miss Kate S. Watson. Of their family but one son, William, is living. Mr. Anderson is a member of Advent Chris- tian church.
GEORGE H. D. GIBSON, of Charlestown, Ind., is one of the best known lawyers in Southern Indiana. He was born at Charlestown in September, 1851, his parents being Thomas Ware and Mary (Good- win) Gibson. The father was born in the city of Philadelphia in 1815. When he was six years of age he came with his parents to Indiana, the family locating at Lawrenceburg. He was educated at West Point, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1837, and from 1851 to 1876 practiced his profession at Louisville, Ky. He was a member of the Indiana constitutional convention of 1851 and was two terms in the state senate. At the beginning of the Mexican war he raised a company in Clark county, and served through the contest, holding a commission as captain. His wife was a daughter of Amos and Amelia Goodwin, of Clark county. She was born May 20, 1820. George H. D. Gibson is one of a family of three children now living, two sons and a daughter. He was educated at the Kentucky Military institute, at Frankfort, and in 1874 was grad-
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uated from the law department of the University of Louisville. He practiced at Charlestown from 1874 until 1876, serving as prose- cuting attorney of Clark county during the year 1875. From 1877 to 1892 he practiced in Louisville, but resided in Indiana all the time. In 1880 he was elected a member of the Indiana legislature and re- elected in 1882. In 1892 he was elected judge of the Fourth judicial circuit of Indiana, consisting of Clark county, and held the office for a full term of six years. Since his retirement from the bench he has devoted most of his time to agricultural pursuits, especially the raising of Hereford cattle. For many years Judge Gibson took an active interest in political matters. As a Democrat he was called upon to take the stump in every campaign, and few speakers in his section of the state could better hold an audience or make a more instructive speech on public issues. He is a member of the Benev- olent and Protective Order of Elks. In 1896 Judge Gibson was married to Miss Virginia C. Van Hook, daughter of William and Martha Van Hook, of Charlestown.
GEORGE W. BADGER, clerk of the Clark circuit court, Jeffersonville, Ind., was born at Charlestown, in that county, Dec. 29, 1860, his parents being Christian G. and Lereen M. (Green) Badger, the former a native of Prussia, and the latter of Clark county. Christian G. Badger was a tool-maker by trade. He came to America when he was eight- een years of age and located in Clark county. There he served as auditor of the county for eight years and as county treasurer for two years. He died in 1887, aged sixty-eight years. His widow is still living with her son, the subject of this sketch, and is eighty-one years of age. George W. Badger was reared in Charlestown and received his education at the Barnett academy and the public schools of that town. At the age of nineteen years he commenced teaching and followed that occu- pation for about three years, when he began to learn the printers' trade, but later changed to that of wheelwright, learning the latter trade in Indianapolis. After working awhile at his trade in Indian- apolis he entered the employ of the Central Ohio Wheel Company, at Galion. After a short period in their shops as a mechanic he
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entered their office, and from this position became their traveling salesman. In 1886 he left the road and came home, and in the year 1888 was elected trustee of Charlestown township on the Demo- cratic ticket. He served one term of two years and six months. In 1892 he was assistant doorkeeper of the National house of representa- tives at Washington; from 1895 to 1899 he was superintendent of the Clarksville public schools, near Jeffersonville; was elected county auditor in 1898, taking the office the following year; served one term of four years and two months, and in 1902 was elected clerk, taking office Feb. 27, 1904. Mr. Badger is well calculated by nature for a political leader, and in all the councils of his party he stands high, because of his quick discernment, his sound judgment and his readi- ness to assist in the execution of any plan proposed for the defeat of the enemy. Few Democrats in Southern Indiana are better known or more generally trusted. The Masonic fraternity is the only secret organization of which he is a member. On Nov. 6, 1887, he was married to Miss Jennie Campbell, of Charlestown, and they have four children living: Amelia, Karl, Maurice and Mildred, aged respectively fifteen, twelve, eight and four years.
GEORGE B. PARKS, auditor of Clark county, Jeffersonville, Ind., was born in that city, Nov. 16, 1876, and is a son of Floyd and Barbara Ella (Lutz) Parks, both natives of Clark county. On the paternal side the ancestry is of Eng- lish and Scotch origin. William Parks, the great-grandfather of George B., was at one time an extensive land owner on Manhattan Island. His son, Lyman, who was born in New York, married Rachel Lavinia Lewis, a native of Virginia, and this couple came to Indiana, settling in Clark county. They are the grandparents of the subject of this sketch. Floyd Parks is a well known druggist of Jeffersonville. On the maternal side the grandparents, Henry and Mary Lutz, of German descent, were both natives of South Carolina. Floyd and Barbara Parks had seven children: Flora, now deceased, was the wife of F. M. Coots, of Jeffersonville; Lyman, a wholesale coal dealer and alder- man of the same city; George B., the subject; Emma, wife of Herbert C. McMillin, a Clark county farmer; Floyd, Jr., a clerk in his father's
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drug store; Ella, and William, the last named dying in infancy. George B. Parks graduated from the Jeffersonville high school in 1894; spent the years 1894-95 in taking a mechanical course at Purdue university; entered the State university in the fall of 1895; took the four years' course there in three years, graduating with the degree of A.B. in 1898; was elected president of his class in his senior year-a class of 187 members; entered the law department of the University of Louisville in 1898 and graduated in 1900; was imme- diately afterward admitted to the bar and began practice as the senior member of the firm of Parks & White; took an active part in Demo -. cratic politics, and was elected auditor of Clark county in November, 1902, at the age of twenty-six years, receiving a majority of 460 over his opponent. He took charge of the office on Jan. I, 1904, and enjoys the distinction of being the youngest county auditor in the state. The success of Mr. Parks is due to his intelligence, his thor- ough training, his indomitable energy and his genial disposition. He is a member of the Improved Order of Red Men and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In the Red Men he is chairman of the committee on by-laws in the Great Council. On the occasion of the celebration of Jeffersonville's centennial in 1902 he was grand marshal. In politics he has frequently served as delegate to state and congressional conventions, and was a delegate to the national convention at St. Louis in 1904.
HON. GEORGE BENNETT CARD- WILL, ex-judge of the circuit court of Floyd county, Ind., deputy clerk of the United States court for the Southern dis- trict of Indiana, and United States com- missioner, was born in the city of Cin- cinnati, O., Sept. 17, 1846, his parents being John H. and Caroline B. (Mont- gomery) Cardwill, the former born in Rutland county, Vermont, May 18, 1814, and the latter in Sussex county, N. J., born July 14th, of the same year. The father was reared in Central New York, where he learned the trade of tanner and currier, and about 1836 or 1837 he came West. After visiting a number of places, among them Chicago and Indianapolis, then mere villages, he decided to locate at Cincinnati. For some time he pursued his trade there, but later
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became connected with the firm of A. M. Taylor & Co., wholesale dealers in leather and findings for the shoe and harness trades. In 1850 this firm sent him to Louisville as their representative, and it was in that city that Judge Cardwill received his first schooling. In 1856 the family removed to New Albany, where the husband and father formed a partnership with W. S. Durbin, father of ex-Governor Durbin, of Indiana, for the purpose of conducting a tannery and grist-mill at New Philadelphia, in Washington county, not far from New Albany. This partnership lasted for several years, and the firm carried on a successful business. John H. Cardwill continued to reside in New Albany until his death, Sept. 5, 1899, being at the time one of the oldest and most highly respected citizens of the city. His widow and four children are still living, the eldest being the subject of this sketch; Ann Eliza and Mary E., of New Albany, and John H., of St. Louis, Mo. Mary E. Cardwill is the regent of Piankeshaw Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, which chapter she organized. The Cardwill ancestry can be traced back to the middle of the eighteenth century, to William Cardwill, who came from England in 1747, to New London, Conn., where he married Elizabeth Burch, and became the founder of the family in America. His son William married Sybil Griswold, a daughter of Elisha and Susanna (Merrill) Griswold, related to the same family as Governor Griswold of Connecticut. Coming down to the next generation, John Griswold, a son of William and grandfather of the subject, married Rachel Train, the daughter of Isaac Train, an old Revo- lutionary hero, and a member of the family from which the celebrated George Francis Train descended. William Cardwill, the great-grand- father, was a soldier in the Revolution. On the maternal side the grandparents were William and Ruth (Swezy) Montgomery, both natives of Orange county, N. Y., where the family. were among the early settlers. In 1817 William Montgomery left Sussex county, N. J., came West and located on the present site of the Cincinnati zoological gardens, where the girlhood of Judge Cardwill's mother was spent. Judge Cardwill was educated in private schools at Louis- ville and New Albany and at Wabash college. Owing to his father's financial reverses he was thrown on his own resources in early life. For a time he tried merchandizing, but finding it uncongenial he entered the office of Stotsenburg & Brown at New Albany, read law and was admitted to the bar. His youth kept him from joining the army in the Civil war, but he took part in the famous Morgan raid. Ever since reaching his majority he has been an enthusiastic Repub-
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lican. He organized and was the first president of the local Lincoln league; was secretary of the Republican county central committee in 1886; represented his district as an alternate to the presidential convention in 1888; nominated for prosecuting attorney the same year, but was defeated owing to the immense majority to overcome; appointed by Governor Chase in 1892 to fill out the unexpired term as judge of the circuit court, the vacancy being caused by the death of Judge George V. Howk; nominated for the legislature as the joint representative of Floyd, Harrison and Crawford counties ; elected by a majority of 264 votes, although each of the counties in the district was ordinarily Democratic; appointed deputy clerk of the federal court at New Albany in December, 1897; about the same time appointed United States commissioner; has been active in building up the public library of New Albany; was one of the organ- izers and third president of the Commercial club; member of the Indiana chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution; also of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity; one of the promoters of the New Albany Charity organization, and one of the executive committee. A glance at his long and honorable career shows that he is a worthy son of an ancient and honorable ancestry, and a typical American citizen, whose example is worthy of the highest emulation.
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