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profession until 1861, when he organized Company H, Thirty- eighth Indiana volunteer infantry, and was made captain of the company. At the end of six months he was promoted to the rank of major, but he was severely wounded at the battle of Murfreesboro, which compelled his resignation. Major Glover is one of the best-known men in Indiana, where he has been on the stump in several campaigns, and is one who can number his friends by the number of his acquaintances. He is a great reader and keeps himself well informed on the world's prog- ress. He married Mary Carrie May, a daughter of Prof. James G. May, one of the most celebrated teachers in Indiana, His school work aggregated forty-seven years, during which time he equipped and molded the character of hundreds of young men who afterward made their mark in the business and professional life of the country. The paternal grand- father, Thomas Gaddis Glover, owned a farm on the famous "Lost river," in Orange county, Ind., and died there at the age of eighty-nine years. The children of John B. and Mary C. Glover were: Nannie B., now Mrs. J. W. McClain, of Indianapolis; Lulu C., wife of W. B. Holton, an Indianapolis broker; Claude W., died in France, in 1881, at the age of fourteen ; the fourth child died in infancy; Charles Morton. the youngest of the family and the subject of this sketch. He was educated in the Bedford schools until his parents went to Havre. There he attended the Lysee, and afterward a govern- ment school at Stuttgart, Germany. After the return to America, he was bookkeeper for the Arthur Jordan Poultry and Produce Company, of Indianapolis; the Indianapolis Gas Company, the Dietrich syndicate of gas companies, and in December, 1903, came to LaFollette and accepted his present position. Mr. Glover has few equals as an accountant. and has won an enviable reputation in financial circles for his ability and conscientious performance of duty. He is a Knight of Pythias and has passed through the chairs of his lodge. In July, 1901, he was married to Miss Edith May Fowler. daughter of Kelly M. and Mary E. (Holliday) Fowler, of Franklin, Ind. Their seven children were: Charles West. Alice Maud, Pear!, Edith May, Bess B., Gertrude and Ray-
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mond. Mr. and Mrs. Glover are both popular in the social life of LaFollette. She is a member of the Methodist Epis- copal church.
HON. HARVEY MARION LA- FOLLETTE, president and general manager of the LaFollette Coal, Iron and Railway Company, and founder of the city of LaFollette, the county seat of Campbell county, Tenn., is of French extraction. A few years before the beginning of the Ameri- can Revolution three brothers, Joseph, George and William LaFollette, came from near Tours in Touraine, France, to America, and afterward fought with the Marquis de La Fayette in that historic war. Jesse LaFollette, a son of Joseph, and grandfather of the sub- ject of this sketch, fought with the famous Kentucky Rifles in the war of 1812, and afterward settled in the Indiana Ter- ritory, first in Harrison, then in Putman county. There Harvey M. LaFollette, the father of the subject, was born, in 1832, the youngest of a family of eleven children. About three years later Susan C. Fullenwider was born, in the ad- joining county of Montgomery. She is of German and Hol- land lineage, her mother being a Van Nuis. This couple were married and lived for a while in Wisconsin, where Harvey M. LaFollette was born, in Dane county, near the city of Madi- son, Sept. 8, 1858. Gov. Robert Marion LaFollette, of Wis- consin, his first cousin, was born and reared upon an adjoin- ing farm. The father was a merchant and miller, and met his death by an accident, Sept. 4, 1865, while hauling some heavy machinery from the railway station to his mill. The mother is still living, residing at Thorntown, Ind. H. M. LaFollette received his earlier education in the Thorntown schools and at Wabash college, Crawfordsville, Ind. In the fall of 1876 he went to Paris and attended the Ecole Polytechnique and College de France. Before returning to his native land he
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also attended the University of Göttingen, and the Collegio Romano, at Rome. He returned to the United States in the fall of 18So; became the principal of the high school at West- field, Ind .; later he had charge of the Farmers' institute, near LaFayette, Ind .; was superintendent of the Boone county schools from 1883 to 1887; was elected state superintendent of public instruction in 1886, and re-elected two years later. While serv- ing in that office he collected over half a million dollars of un- reported and misplaced school funds, and introduced methods that helped to place the public schools of that state upon a high plane. Much of this work was done during his first term, which so endeared him to the honest people of the state that he led his ticket by more than 5.000 votes in 1888-the largest lead of a party ticket ever made in the state. Upon retiring from this office he took up the profession of civil and mining engi- neer; purchased about 35,000 acres of finely timbered and mineral lands in Campbell county, Tenn .; organized the La- Follette Coal, Iron and Railway Company to develop these lands, and constructed the Tennessee Northern railway from LaFollette Junction to the little city bearing his name, subse- quently selling it to the Southern Railway Company. The company, of which he is president and manager, now owns, at LaFollette, the largest blast furnace in the South, having a capacity of 300 tons of pig-iron daily ; 342 coke ovens; a daily capacity of 3.000 tons of coal from its mines; mines 1,000 tons of iron ore daily; besides rock and sand quarries, etc. It has six locomotives, sixty cars, extensive mechanical equipments. and one-third of the taxes of the county, excluding railways. are paid by this company. In the development of this great industry Mr. LaFollette has shown himself to be a man of indomitable energy and possessed of a high order of executive ability. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight Tem- plar and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a Knight of Pythias. On June 1, 1898, he was united in marriage to Miss Katharine, daughter of the late Evan T. and Elizabeth (Hocker) Warner, of Lexington, Ky. They have one son, Marion Warner. Mr. LaFollette is a member of the Society of Friends, and his wife belongs to the Christian church !.
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CHARLES E. CROWTHER, superintendent of the furnaces of the LaFollette Coal, Iron and Railway Company, at LaFollette, Tenn., was born in Newport, Ky., May 30, 1877. For three generations his family have been actively identified with the iron industry in the United States. His grand- father, Joseph J. Crowther, came from England in the early part of the nineteenth century, and while still a young man became one of the stockholders in the Newport Iron Works. He was a pioneer in the blast furnace business in this country, and is still living, at the age of eighty-four years, having for the last twelve years been retired from active business life. He makes his home with his daughter, Mrs. Dr. J. F. McGarney, at Lorain, O. His wife died in 1900, aged seventy-five years. E. C. Crowther, son of Joseph J. and father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Newport, in 1850. As he grew to manhood he learned the iron business with his father, and has followed this occupation all his life. He has superintended furnaces at Marquette, Mich .; Pittsburg, Pa .; Cleveland and Ironton, O .; Newport, Ky., and Hamilton, Canada, and is now in charge of the blast furnaces of the LaBelle Iron Works, at Steubenville, O. He is known to iron manufacturers all over the country, and is a Scottish Rite Mason. While living in Newport he married Miss Harriet Hall, daughter of Isaac and Harriet Hall, of that city, and to this marriage were born the following children: Mae G., now Mrs. P. H. McQuillette, of Cleveland, O .; Charles E., the subject; Bessie M. and Joseph. Mrs. Crowther's father is deceased, and her mother makes her home with Mr. and Mrs. Crowther, at Steubenville. Charles E. Crowther attended the common schools and finished his edu- cation in the Kingsbury high school at Ironton, O. After leav- ing school, he learned the blast furnace business with his father, and began life for himself as superintendent of the Emma and Newburg blast furnaces, at Cleveland. Here he was employed for about a year and a half, when he took charge of the furnaces belonging to the late United States Senator M. A. Hanna, at Buffalo, N. Y. Later he was with the National Steel Company for two years, and one year with the Alabama Coal. Iron and Railway Company, at Talladega. In December, 1903,
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he came to LaFollette and took his present position. Although: a young man, Mr. Crowther is master of his trade, fully under- stands the blast furnace and its construction, and keeps in touch with all the improvements introduced into iron manufacture. He is a stockholder in the Niles Car and Manufacturing Com- pany. of Niles, O. On March 1, 1903, he was married to Miss Dorie Dorn. a native of Pittsburg, Pa., though her parents now reside at St. Louis, Mo. Both Mr. Crowther and his wife are church members, and are popular in the community. Recently Mr. Crowther and his partner, Mr. Whaley, have secured a patent on a steel cross-tie for railroads. Practical railroad men who have examined it say it is entirely feasible and is des- tined to do away with wooden ties.
WILLIAM A. OWENS, of La- Follette, Tenn., is one of the leading attorneys of Campbell and the sur- rounding counties. He was born at Well Spring, Campbell county, Feb. 4, 1860, and is a son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Woodson) Owens. The father was born in Claiborne county, near Old Town Creek, May 10, 1810. In 1844 he removed with his family to Well Spring, and there followed his vocation of farming until his death, in January, 1886. The paternal grandfather, Jacob . Owens, fought with Jackson in the war of 1812, and with Taylor in the Mexican war, and died at the age of eighty- three years. The maternal grandparents, John and Elizabeth (Dickinson) Woodson, came from Virginia to Tennessee in the early thirties. He lived to be 100 years old and his wife died at the age of eighty-five. The Woodsons came originally from England, and the Dickinsons were of Scotch extraction. William A. Owens is the ninth of a family of eleven. Har- riet N. is the widow of George W. Petree; Jane M., died in 1876, as Mrs. W. R. Mars; Elizabeth is the widow of Camp- bell Edmondson; Mary E. is the widow of John Webb; George
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W. and Robert are both deceased; John, a farmer, in Haw- kins county, died in August, 1904; Bedie O. is Mrs. George WV. Moree, of Hawkins county; William A. is the subject of this sketch; Josie died when sixteen years old; James M. re- sides in Phoenix, Ariz. Mr. Owens acquired his education in the common schools and at Powell's Valley academy, at Well Spring. After leaving school, he followed farming until 1889, when he read law under Judge D. K. Young, and the same year, at Jacksboro, obtained his license to practice law from Judges Henry R. Gibson and J. P. South. In 1890 he located at Tazewell, and began the practice of his profession. In April, 1902, he came to LaFollette, where he has built up an excellent business. He is attorney for the LaFollette Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, and has a practice that ex- tends to all the state and Federal courts. He is a diligent stu- dent and has one of the finest law libraries in the county. Mr. Owens is a Democrat, and has always taken an active part in politics; was a delegate to the Kansas City convention in 1900; has attended all of the state conventions since he was sixteen years of age. On Sept. 5, 1897, he was married to Miss Lucy Epps. daughter of E. E. and Kate (Fugate) Epps. of Tazeweil. Both Mr. and Mrs. Owens are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
L. M. SCOTT, M. D., a prominent physician of Jellico, Tenn., was born in Franklin county, Ky., Jan. 19, 1862, and is a son of Levi and Louisa (Du Vall) Scott, both natives of that county, where they still reside, and where the father has been engaged all his active life in farming and merchandizing. He is, and has been for years, a deacon in the Baptist church. The maternal grandmother of Doctor Scott was a Marshall, and was related to the family of Marshalls that has played so prominent a part in the history of Kentucky. Doctor Scott is the fourth in a family of ten children, eight of whom are still living. His early education was obtained in the common and private schools. He then attended the Franklin seminary, a private institution, where he took a special course, preparatory to the study of medicine. Upon leaving school, he read medi-
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cine with Dr. Daniel Gober, one of the most eminent physi- cians of Memphis. During the yellow fever epidemic in that city, Doctor Gober contracted the disease, but recovered and afterward had a chair in the Memphis Hospital College of Medicine. In 1885 Doctor Scott graduated from the medical department of the University of Louisville. In a class of eighty-five, he was one of ten selected to share the class honors, and stood fourth in the select ten. For two years he prac- ticed at Frankfort, Ky., and during the whole time was the city physician. He then went to Omaha, Neb., and practiced there for about a year. after which he located in Jellico, where he has practiced continuously ever since. Although his prac- tice is of a general character, he gives special attention to diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, in the treatment of which he has been highly successful. Doctor Scott is the local physician and surgeon for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, and, besides his professional work, is interested in a number of business enterprises, being president of both the Jellico Coal Company and the Jellico Ice Company. He has served the city in the capacity of alderman, and is regarded as one of the most progressive men in the town. He is a meniber and worshipful master of Boston lodge, No. 593, Free and Accepted Masons, and belongs to the chapter and commandery at Richmond, Ky. He is also a member of Corsair temple. Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at Louisville. In Odd Fellowship he is a past noble grand. In 1888 he was married to Miss Clara B. Stafford, a native of Terre Haute, Ind., and daughter of Joseph R. and Fannie (Miles) Stafford, the father a native of Ireland and the mother of Kentucky. Both are deceased. The Doctor and his wife are members of the Christian church.
HENRY M. CASS, M.D., a physician and surgeon, of Morristown, Tenn., was born near Elizabethton, Carter county, Tenn., Nov. 24, 1874. His father, William Cass, was born in North Carolina, in 1820, and there grew to manhood. During his early manhood he engaged in the iron manufacturing busi- ness, owning and operating a furnace on Stony creek, near Elizabethton. Later he sold the furnace and engaged in farm-
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ing. He served as captain in the militia and as trustee of Car- ter county for one term. His death occurred in 1889. While living in North Carolina he was captain of a company that was sent to Florida to suppress an Indian outbreak. The Cass fam- ily came from two brothers of that name who came from Wales during the colonial days. One went to Michigan and the other settled in Pennsylvania, and this latter was the founder of the North Carolina and Tennessee branch of the family. William Cass married Ruth E. Cox, a daughter of Caleb and Annie (Carriger) Cox and a native of Carter county. To this mar- riage were born eight children: Charles P., bookkeeper for a wholesale grocery house at Bristol, Tenn .; Samuel P., ranchman and trustee of El Paso county, Tex .; Lucy A., Mrs. P. H. Pou- der, of Morristown; Joseph W., a merchant, at Johnson City. Tenn .; James M., a Methodist Episcopal minister, at Lake George, N. Y .; Edwin C., a grocer, at Elizabethton; Lewis W., a first lieutenant in the Twelfth United States cavalry, in the regular army, and Henry M., the subject of this sketch. Doctor Cass attended the public schools of Elizabethton and Grant uni- versity to the senior year, when he entered the medical depart- ment of the University of Louisville. Ky. While attending this institution the Spanish-American war came on, and he enlisted in the Sixth volunteer infantry as hospital steward. During the summer the regiment was in camp at Chickamauga park, and the winter of 1898-9 was spent in Porto Rico. On March 15, 1899, he was mustered out, and soon afterward entered the medical department of Vanderbilt university, graduating the following year. He at once began practice at Morristown and has been located there ever since. In 1903 he took a special course in bacteriology and pathology in the Columbia hospital. Doctor Cass is a member of the State Medical Association of Tennessee; the East Tennessee Medical society; the Medical Society of Hamblen County, of which he is secretary and treasurer; is examiner for the New York Life Insurance Com- pany and for the Woodmen of the World. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and holds the offices of steward in the lodge and principal sojourner in the Royal Arch chapter. He is also a member of the Kappa Sigma chapter, at Vanderbilt
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university, and is first lieutenant and battalion adjutant in the Third battalion. Third regiment, Tennessee National Guard.
PLEASANT L. HENDERSON, A. M., M. D., of Morristown, Tenn., one of the leading physicians and surgeons of Eastern Tennessee, was born in Scott county, Va., Jan. 15, 1866. He is a son of Guy L. and Rosanna (Tarter) Henderson, the former a native of Tennessee and the latter of Virginia. During the Civil war the father served in Company A, Twelfth Tennessee cavalry, under General Vaughn, in Wheeler's divi- sion. Most of the time he was in the Army of Northern Vir- ginia, and though several times wounded, he is still alive and engaged in merchandizing at Surgoinsville, Tenn. After the war, he lived for a while in Scott county, Va., coming to Ten- nessee in the fall of 1883. The paternal grandfather, P. L. Henderson, was for ten years the chairman of the county court of Hawkins county, Tenn. Of his children, five survive: Guy L., Wenton, Samuel, Neal G. and Elizabeth, now Mrs. Isaac Parvin. On the maternal side, the great-grandparents were among the pioneers of Wythe county. Va., and the grand- parents, Andrew and Alpha ( Houndshell) Tarter, married in that county and afterward removed to Scott county, Va., where they reared a family of twelve children, all of whom are yet living. Andrew Tarter died in 1881, at the age of seventy- six years, and his wife met her death by accidental drowning when she was in her ninety-fifth year. Doctor Henderson is the eldest of seven children. Grace T. graduated in the musical department of the Martha Washington college, Va., in 1898, married John J. Wolfe, a prominent lawyer, the same year, and died December, 1901, at Joplin, Mo .; Gaines C. died in July, 1903, aged twenty-eight ; Emma L. married J. F. Masen- gill, a farmer, near Surgoinsville; Andrew T. married Helen Turner and resides at Lynchburg, Va .; Minnie L. is at home
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with her parents, and Maude F. graduated from the literary and music departments of Centenary college, of Cleveland, Tenn., in 1904. Doctor Henderson graduated from Emory and Henry college, of Virginia, in 1889, with the degree of A. B., and later received the degree of A. M. He was the valedictorian of his class, the highest honor that could be con- ferred. For four years he was the principal of Churchill academy, Churchill. Tenn., where he had five of his brothers and sisters as pupils. In 1893 he entered the medical depart- ment of Vanderbilt university, and attended there two years. He then went to New York, where he took a course in bacteriology and pathology in the Carnegie laboratory, and graduated with the degree of M. D. from Bellevue Hospital Medical college with the class of 1896. On the 19th of May of that year he opened his office in Morristown, where he has built up a lucrative practice and is looked upon as one of the progressive physicians of Hamblen county. Doctor Henderson is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in which he has been a steward for eight years. He has also been superintendent of the Sunday school. president of the Ep- worth league and the Young Men's Christian association, at different times and places. He is a member of the Royal Ar- canum and the Knights of Pythias, and has passed through the chairs in both orders. He is also a Royal Arch Mason and a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon college fraternity, also president of the Hamblen County Medical society. He is a member of the East Tennessee Medical society, also of the Tennessee State Medical society. On April 29, 1896, three weeks before he located at Morristown, Doctor Henderson was united in marriage to Miss Bertie May Masengill, daughter of Jamcs W. and Elizabeth (Warren) Masengill, of Hawkins county. The doctor and his wife have three children: Paul Robertson, Ruth and Agnes Deborah. Mrs. Henderson is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and an ardent supporter of her church.
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J. WILL TAYLOR, a promising young lawyer of LaFollette, Tenn., was born in Union county, Tenn., Aug. 28, 1880, his parents being Hon. James W. Taylor and Sarah E. Tay- lor, nec Rogers, now residing at Stin- er, Tenn. His father was born Jan. 9, 1841, in Monroe county, but re- moved with his father to Campbell county in his childhood. He was liv- ing near the site of the present city of LaFollette when the rebellion broke Gut, and with four brothers joined the Union army. He was first sergeant in Company C, Fourth Tennessee cavalry, and took part in the engagements around Franklin and Nashville. Upon the suppression of the Confederacy, Mr. Taylor located in Union county, where he has since been engaged in mercantile and agricultural pursuits. He owns large interests in Union county, and has for many years been one of its most prominent and popular citizens. He has been justice of the peace for thirty years; was three times chairman of the county court ; was elected to the lower branch of the Tennessee legislature in I891. and to the state senate in 1895. He has been active in Repub- lican politics for the past thirty years, and has been remarkably successful. He has been twice married-first. to Miss Katherine Sharp, daughter of Nicholas Sharp, and the following children were born to the union: George. Emma, William, John F., Malinda and Sophia, all of whom are living except. William. The second and present wife is a daughter of F. H. Rogers. Esq., a prosperous farmer of Speedwell. Claiborne county, and the subject of this sketch and a brother, Thomas, who died in infancy, were the only children born to this marriage. His father is one of a family of nine children, seven of whom are still living; the mother is one of eight children, six of whom survive. J. Will Taylor was educated in the public schools of Union county, at Holbrook Normal college, the American Tem- perance university and the Lebanon Law school. At fifteen years of age, and before he had ever gone to college. he taught
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his first school, and from the pursuit of pedagogy he derived the means with which to complete his education. He graduated from the Lebanon Law school in the spring class of 1902, but one year before he had been admitted to the bar-just three months before his arrival at majority. On the occasion of his graduation, at Lebanon, he was selected to extend the gratitude of his class to the faculty-one of the most distinguished honors of the event. In September following his graduation, he located at LaFollette, Tenn., where he has succeeded beyond his most sanguine expectations. He is a Mason and an Odd Fellow, and takes much pleasure in his memberships. Possessed of a signal degree of self-reliance, he has made his own way in the world by his own indomitable industry. In his youth he was inocu- lated with the spirit of political discussion, and at fifteen years of age he had established quite a reputation as a stump speaker. He has been prominently identified with every campaign for the last eight years, and has contributed no little to the success of the Republican ticket in his district. Ambitious to a marked degree, a diligent student, blessed with a strong constitution and a genial disposition, it is safe to predict for him a brilliant and successful future.
EVAN T. WARNER, JR., post- master of LaFollette, Tenn., and son of Evan T. and Bettie H. (Hocker) Warner, was born at Lexington, Ky., June 19, 1876. John Warner, the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, came from Pennsylvania to Kentucky late in the eighteenth century. His son, Derwick Warner, grandfather of the subject, was for many years the grand master of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Kentucky. He was a wholesale iron merchant, in which his son, Evan T., Sr., was associated with him, and after his death conducted the business for some time. Evan T. Warner, Sr., was born at Lexington, April 7, 1847; was educated at the old Transyl-
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