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M MCBRIDE, JOHN RANDOLPH: 1842-?
John Randolph McBride was born in Morgan County, Ind., in 1842. He enlisted in the 33rd Indiana Volunteer Infantry on Sept. 16, 1861, with the rank of quartermaster sergeant. He served throughout the war, being promoted to adjutant on Oct. 1, 1864, and mustered out on July 21, 1865.
Information from the Indianapolis Public Library and the Indiana State Library.
- History of the Thirty-Third Indiana Volunteer Infantry,
During the Four Years of Civil War ….
Indianapolis, 1900.
MCBRIDE, ROBERT WESLEY: 1842-1926.
Robert Wesley McBride , son of Augustus and Martha Ann Barnes McBride, was born on Nov. 25, 1842, in Richland County, O. He attended Ohio public schools and, after the removal of his family to that state, schools of Iowa and the Kirkwood Academy. He served in the Civil War as a member of the Union Light Guard of Ohio (President Lincoln's bodyguard).
He was admitted to the Iowa bar in 1867. The next year he married Ida S. Chamberlain and they made page: 197[View Page 197] their home in Waterloo, Ia., where McBride practiced law and served as circuit judge until 1890, when they removed to Indianapolis .
At Indianapolis McBride served as a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from 1890 to 1893 and practiced law in that city from 1893 until his death in 1926.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- Lincoln's Body Guard, the Union Light Guard of Ohio;
with Some Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln.
Indianapolis, 1911.
- Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln; with Introduction
by Albert J. Beveridge. Indianapolis, 1926.
MCCAIN, THOMAS HART BENTON: 1839-1898.
T. H. B. McCain , son of the Rev. Hugh B. McCain, was born on a farm near Frankfort, Ind., on Nov. 24, 1839. He attended local schools, with an additional year or two at the Thorntown (Ind.) Academy.
He began work in a Frankfort printing office in his twelfth year, while attending school, and, except for four years in the Union Army during the Civil War, spent his entire life in the printing and publishing business.
After the war he married Miss Salome Snow, came to Crawfordsville, Ind., and purchased an interest in the CRAWFORDSVILLE JOURNAL on Apr. 16, 1868. Within the next few years he acquired full possession of the paper. He died on May 1, 1898.
Information supplied by the McCain family.
- The Eighty-Sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry
…. (withBarnes and Carnahan). Crawfordsville, Ind., 1895.
MCCARTER, MARGARET HILL (MRS. WILLIAM A.): 1860-1938.
Margaret Hill , daughter of Thomas Thornburg and Nancy Davis Hill, was born in Charlottesville, Ind., on May 2, 1860, and graduated from the State Normal School at Terre Haute. She also received honorary degrees from Baker and Washburn universities and from the College of Emporia. She married William Arthur McCarter.
Mrs. McCarter taught in the Indiana schools and was later head of the English department of Topeka (Kan.) High School. In addition to her books she contributed short stories to magazines and was a lecturer on literary and educational subjects.
She died on Aug. 31, 1938.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- The Cottonwood's Story. Topeka,
Kan., 1903.
- Cuddy's Baby, Story of Kansas Folks.
Topeka, Kan., 1907.
- Cuddy, and Other Stories. Topeka,
Kan., 1908. (4th ed.).
- In Old Quivira. Topeka, Kan.,
1908.
- The Price of the Prairie: a Story of Kansas.
Chicago, 1910.
- The Peace of the Solomon Valley.
Chicago, 1911.
- A Wall of Men. Chicago, 1912.
- A Master's Degree.
Chicago, 1913.
- Winning the Wilderness. Chicago,
1914.
- The Corner Stone. Chicago, 1915.
- Vanguards of the Plains, a Romance of the Old Santa F6
Trail. New York, 1917.
- The Reclaimers. New York, 1918.
- Paying Mother; the Tribute Beautiful. New
York, 1920.
- Homeland. New York, 1922.
- Widening Waters. New York, 1924.
- The Candle in the Window.
Chicago, 1925.
MCCARTY, IDA HELEN DOUTHETT (MRS. MARSHALL B.): 1876-
Ida Helen Douthett , eldest of the four children of William and Alice Ida Howard Douthett, was born on a farm in Hocking County, O., on June 19, 1876. Her mother died in 1882.
Receiving her early schooling in a log school house, she later attended the public schools of Nelsonville, O., and graduated from the Athens (O.) High School. She taught school at the age of sixteen. After completing a course at Manns' Business College in Columbus, O., she entered Ohio State University as a special student in journalism. She then returned to Athens, taught school, and at the same time pursued studies at Ohio University.
All during her years in high school and while teaching and doing college work, she was writing for publication –verses, stories, sketches for newspapers, magazines, and church periodicals.
She married Marshall B. McCarty and after January, 1900, was a resident of Pennville, Jay County, Ind., where she continued to write short stories, historical sketches, and features.
page: 198[View Page 198]Information from the Portland, Ind., Public Library.
- Mariam'ne of the Cedars. New
York, 1911.
MCCAUGHEY, MARETTA ROBISON (MRS. GEORGE B.): 1852-1907.
Maretta Robison , daughter of John A. Robison, was born at Findlay, O., on Aug. 13, 1852, was educated in the public schools, and taught in the Findlay schools for eight years. On June 4, 1878, she was married to George Bruce McCaughey.
In 1887 they moved to Frankfort, Ind., and the following year moved to a farm west of Frankfort. Mrs. McCaughey was active in church work and in a literary club until her health failed. For several years before her death, on Nov. 7, 1907, she suffered from tuberculosis.
She began writing verse when she was a young girl, and her poems were published in various periodicals. After her death these poems were collected by her family and published.
Information from the Frankfort Public Library.
- When Lilacs Bloom and Other Poems.
Cincinnati, n.d. [1909].
MCCLAIN, WILLIAM THOMAS: 1845-1937.
Born in Scott County, Ind., on May 31, 1845, William Thomas McClain was the son of the Rev. Matthew and Emily A. Swincher McClain. He was educated in Scott County schools, in an academy at Madison, Ind., and took a commercial course in an Indianapolis business college.
The McClain family moved to Marion County, Ind., about 1865 and settled on a farm in Pike township. William married Frances A. Case on Feb. 6, 1867. She died in 1920.
McClain was organizer and for many years secretary -treasurer of the Farmers Mutual Insurance Company of Marion County. He died at the home of a son in Indianapolis on Apr. 28, 1937.
Information from Memoirs of Indianapolis and Marion County and the INDIANAPOLIS STAR for May 1, 1937.
- Life and Labors of the Rev. Matthew McClain, with
Recollections and Events Through a Life of Seventy Years.
Indianapolis, 1876.
McCoY, ISAAC: 1784-1846.
Isaac McCoy , friend of the Indian, crusader for his rights and gentleman of God, was born in Fayette County, Pa., on June 13, 1784. Six years later the McCoy family moved to Shelby County, Ky.
In Kentucky young McCoy acquired an adequate education. (There were probably more educated men, capable and willing to teach their own and their neighbors' children on the seventy-five miles of the lower Kentucky River in the 1790-1810 period than in all the rest of the Ohio River country combined.) Before his twentieth birthday he married Christina, one of the daughters of Capt. Polls, and the young people began forty-two years of the most gruelling hardships ever suffered by a frontier couple.
Isaac had become interested in the Baptist ministry and he had been preparing himself for the pulpit: unlike his fellows of the day he took no interest in sectarian squabbles. In 1804, shortly after their marriage, Isaac and Christina set out for Vincennes, in the Indiana Territory, where Isaac hoped to be assigned to a church.
Naturally they expected to serve among the whites: at that time they probably despised the Indians, as most frontier couples did, and especially since Christina and her mother had been captives of the Ottawas for some time in her childhood.
In 1805 Isaac was called to Clark County, Ind., where he was licensed to preach in the Silver Creek Baptist Church, and in 1810 he was called to the famous Maria Creek Baptist Church in Vigo County– probably the best pastorate in the state at the time.
He visited St. Louis on a preaching tour and, impressed by the depravity of the remnants of the French and Indians and the dissolute trappers and adventurers who made it their home, decided to take up missionary work. He made this decision known to the Baptist Board of Missions, and the Board agreed, asking him to report as to the places in Indiana and Illinois "most destitute of preaching."
Isaac replied, naming those un-Godly spots as requested but adding what was then a new note for a Baptist–especially a Kentucky or Indiana Baptist. He asked, he says, "… that I might extend my labors to the Indians." On Oct. 17, 1817, he received a commission which permitted him to labor among the Indians for one year: one way or another, with or without page: 199[View Page 199] salary, Isaac McCoy extended his one year to thirty- nine–until his death.
The following June he introduced himself to the Miamis, Weas and Kickapoos at their annual meeting to receive treaty goods. They were mostly drunk–as they always were when white traders came among them at treaty payment–but McCoy thought he saw encouraging signs. He wrote and distributed a circular in Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois and toured these states soliciting funds for his projected mission school and church.
On his return from one of these trips he found that his eldest daughter, thirteen, had died: "We afterwards believed the event was sanctified," says McCoy, "in inducing us to let go the hold … upon … civilized society … We had felt great anxiety on account of this daughter; our other children were small, but she was of an age to make it particularly desirable that she enjoy the benefit of a good school in the midst of good society." The death of this daughter was not to be their last sacrifice: the McCoys were to bury ten of their children during their joint missionary labors.
In November, 1818, they began construction of their first mission on the Wabash, near the mouth of Raccoon Creek on land only recently taken from the Indians by the "New Purchase."
They began cabins, secured a teacher (he was an infidel but McCoy later converted him–and he was an enthusiastic aid, even in his Godless state) and McCoy began making the rounds of the Indian villages in search of pupils. Difficulties were great: the interpreters were mostly French-Canadians and Catholics, some traders were not particularly interested in the preaching of temperance to their customers and the Indian agents were, as a rule, uninterested in either missions or Indians. Finally, however, school was opened on Nov. 6, 1819, with six white pupils and one Indian boy.
Isaac McCoy began to study the Miami language–no small task since most interpreters were French-Canadians, speaking neither good Miami, good English nor good French–and he finally gave it up and learned Delaware from Christmas Dashney (properly Dagnett), a Delaware who had been educated at a Catholic mission.
Pressure from the white squatters very soon became intolerable, and in 1820 the school was removed to Fort Wayne .
Here it prospered moderately, and some conversions were made among the Indians and part-Indians, but now a new trial came to plague the McCoys: members of the Baptist Mission Board, many of whom had been reared on the frontier, began to harass their Indian missionary over money matters–expenditures were too high, it was senseless to operate a school, it was better, in short, to shoot Indians than to minister to them.
In this emergency McCoy turned to Lewis Cass, governor of the Michigan Territory and a friend of the Indians. Cass helped and, better still, he secured federal aid. At his advice the McCoy mission was removed to the St. Joseph River, in Michigan, among the Potawatomis.
It was these people whom McCoy thereafter considered his own. When in 1830 it became obvious that they must move west of the Mississippi, he got himself appointed surveyor and agent to help them locate their new homes; he did what he could to aid them on their death-march to the west. Later, with his sons, Dr. Rice McCoy and John McCoy, he performed similar service for other tribes, surveying or directing the surveys of most of the reservations in Kansas and in the Cherokee Outlet.
He hoped for an Indian state; he was constantly in touch with Washington, trying in every way to ameliorate the condition of the Indians and to protect their interests. Between times he preached, prayed, taught and counseled.
By 1842 the white Christians were twenty-five years further from the bloodshed of the frontier than they had been at the beginning of McCoy's labors, and even the most narrow of them had been forced to acknowledge his zeal, his spirit and his ability: they appointed him first corresponding secretary of the Indian Mission Association at Louisville, Ky.
It must have cheered his last years to head such an organization, but he had but few of these years ahead: constant hardships and killing labor had made him an old man at fifty-eight, and at sixty-two, on June 21, 1846, he died.
- (Circular Requesting Funds for a Mission; Published July,
1818.) No copy located.
- Remarks on the Practicability of Indian Reform, Embracing
Their Colonization; with an Appendix. Boston,
1827.
- Address to Philanthropists in the United States, Generally
and to Christians in Particular, on the Condition and Prospects of the
American Indians. n.p., 1831.
- Annual Register of Indian Affairs within the Indian
Territory, 1835-1838. (Published serially)
- History of Baptist Indian Missions: Embracing Remarks on the
Former and Present Condition of the Aboriginal Tribes; Their Settlement
within the Indian Territory, and Their Future Prospects.
Washington, D. C., 1840.
McCULLOCH McCoY, WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON: 1837-1918.
William Henry Harrison McCoy , son of Spencer Collins McCoy and his first wife, Nancy Delilah McDaneld, was born in Clark County, Ind., on Apr. 26, 1837.
He graduated from Franklin College in 1861 with the degrees of A.B. and A.M. and in 1863 married Elizabeth Amanda Potter. In the ten years following Mr. McCoy's graduation from Franklin he served as principal of the public schools at Seymour, then as professor of mathematics at Moore's Hill College and Eleutherian College, and later as principal of schools at Dupont and Vernon. The next eighteen years he alternated between farming and merchandising. In 1889 he was appointed industrial teacher and clerk at the government school for Indians at Fort Lapwai, Id. Returning to Indiana in 1893, he became superintendent of buildings and grounds at Franklin College, a position he held until his retirement from active life in 1915. He died in the state of Washington, at the home of a son, on Christmas Day, 1918.
From 1871 to 1873 and again from 1877 to 1884 Mr. McCoy was a member of the board of directors of Franklin. In addition to his books, he was the author of articles on the college which appeared in newspapers and Baptist periodicals.
Information from Elizabeth Hayward, granddaughter of Mr. McCoy.
- History of the Oldest Baptist Church in Indiana by One of Its
Members. Louisville, Ky., 1880.
- Notes on the McCoy Family, 1915. (Edited byElizabeth Hayward.) Rutland, Vt., 1939.
MCCULLOCH, HUGH: 1808-1895.
Hugh McCulloch was born at Kennebunk, Me., on Dec. 7, 1808, the son of Hugh and Abigail Perkins McCulloch. Hugh, senior, was a ship-owner in the West Indies trade.
Young McCulloch attended Bowdoin College for two years, with the class of 1829, but left school to study law. He was admitted to the bar in Boston, Mass., in 1832. The next year he came to Fort Wayne, Ind., where he opened a law office but devoted most of his attention to the Fort Wayne branch of the State Bank of Indiana, which he served as cashier and manager from 1835 to 1856. In the latter year he became president of the bank and next year saw it through a panic in which only one or two other state banks of any size survived in the entire country.
The old state banking system being abandoned in 1863 in favor of the national system, McCulloch was, properly, put in charge of the organization of the new system as U.S. Comptroller of the Currency. At the end of the Civil War he was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President Lincoln. He served through the first of the difficult reconstruction years but retired in 1869 to enter private banking. Once more, during the last months of President Arthur's administration, he served as Secretary of the Treasury, filling out the term of Walter Q. Gresham.
Hugh McCulloch spent his last years in Prince George's County, Md. He had married Susan Mann at Fort Wayne in 1838, and their four children survived him. He died on May 24, 1895.
Information from the Dictionary of American Biography and Who Was Who in America.
- Our National and Financial Future. Address of …
Secretary of the Treasury, at Fort Wayne, Indiana, October 11, 1865.
Fort Wayne, Ind., 1865.
- Bi-Metallism: a Lecture Delivered at Harvard University, May
8, 1879. New York, 1879.
- Men and Measures of Half a Century: Sketches and
Comments. New York, 1888.
- Addresses, Speeches, Lectures and Letters Upon Various
Subjects. Washington, D. C., 1891.
MCCULLOCH, HUGH, JR.: 1869-1902.
Hugh McCulloch, Jr. , son of Fred H. and Carrie Riddle McCulloch, was born in Fort Wayne, Ind., on March 9, 1869. He was the grandson of Hugh McCulloch, secretary of the treasury under Lincoln and other presidents.
Mr. McCulloch was educated at Harvard University, where he was class poet of his graduating class. After graduation he left for Italy and spent the remainder of his life in that country, in reading and study and in the writing of poetry.
He died in Italy of typhoid fever on Mar. 27, 1902.
Information from The Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana .
- The Quest of Heracles, and Other Poems.
Cambridge, Mass., 1894.
- Written in Florence: the Last Verses of Hugh
McCulloch. London, n.d. [1902].
McCUTCHEON MCCULLY, CHARLES HARVY: 1868-1941.
Charles Harvy McCully was born in Idaville, Ind., in 1868. He attended Cincinnati Eclectic Medical School and Indiana Medical College. In 1901 he went to Logansport, Ind., where he became a practicing physician. He married Florence M. Vernon of Huntington, Ind., in 1909. His death occurred in Logansport in 1941.
From Powell–History of Cass County, 1913.
- Chemistry of Embalming. 1899.
- Shadows of Futurity. 1899.
- Sanitation and Disinfection.
Chicago, 1906.
MCCUTCHEON, BEN FREDERICK: 1875-1934.
Ben Frederick McCutcheon , son of John Barr and Clara Glick McCutcheon and brother of John T. and George Barr McCutcheon, was born in Lafayette, Ind., on May 31, 1875. He was educated at Purdue University, where his father was director of the university farms, and after leaving college entered newspaper work in Chicago .
For many years he conducted a daily column in the CHICAGO TRIBUNE, Of which he was commercial editor after 1905, and he was later head of a publishing company.
He married Anna Barnes on June 5, 1900, and died in Chicago on Aug. 27, 1934. He wrote under the pen name of "Benjamin Brace."
Information from Who Was Who in America and the INDIANAPOLIS STAR, Aug. 28, 1934.
- Sunrise Acres. New York, 1905.
- The Seventh Person. New York,
1906.
MCCUTCHEON, GEORGE BARR: 1866-1928.
George Barr McCutcheon , eldest of the three distinguished McCutcheon brothers (see sketches of Ben Frederick and John Tinney McCutcheon), was born in Tippecanoe County, Ind., on July 26, 1866. His parents were John Barr and Clara Glick McCutcheon. John Barr McCutcheon was a farmer and stock raiser. He had literary tastes (he is said to have written a play which he cast from among his neighbors and produced locally), but he was primarily a follower of agriculture, and a follower good enough to be selected, from among all those eligible on the good black earth of Tippecanoe County, to take charge of the first farm owned by Purdue University after it was opened as Indiana's "agricultural and mechanical" educational institution.
George Barr McCutcheon attended rural schools and, after the family had moved to town, those of Lafayette, Ind. He and his brothers all wrote and drew for amusement–probably not discouraged by their father–and the first remembered literary effort of George Barr is an unfinished narrative entitled "Panther Jim": it is to be feared that dime novels had somehow been introduced into the McCutcheon household.
George Barr–and in due time his brothers–entered Purdue University, that institution harboring in that period, besides the McCutcheons, George Ade and Booth Tarkington–strange worshippers at the shrine of agriculture and mechanics.
During his brief enrollment (1882-83) George Barr reported student activities for the LAFAYETTE JOURNAL and, soon finding more glamour in the newspaper world, left education to take full-time employment. In 1893 he left the JOURNAL for the LAFAYETTE DAILY COURIER, where he acted as city editor until 1901.
After his establishment as a novelist, McCutcheon moved to New York . He married Mrs. Marie Van Antwerp Fay on Sept. 26, 1904. He died on Oct. 23, 1928.
Summarizing McCutcheon's literary career, S. G. B., writing in the Dictionary of American Biography, says:
"McCutcheon's first published story was 'The AnteMortem Condition of George Ramor,' which appeared in the NATIONAL MAGAZINE, October 1896. His letters in dialect, 'Waddleton Mail,' had previously had newspaper publication. In spare moments at the editorial office he wrote a romance, Pootoo's Gods, which at first sold poorly, but later, under the new title, Nedra (1905), became a season's success. Graustark (1901), written in the same way and sold for $500, brought McCutcheon his first fame and is said to have cleared over $250,000 for publishers and theatrical producers. The publishers later voluntarily paid him royalties. This tale of a mythical Balkan country, whose name was a combination of the German words Grau and Stark, with its capital Edelweiss and its princess Yetive, actually deceived many readers who wrote to ask McCutcheon for the best route to Graustark. His next romances were Castle Craneycrow (1902), Brewster's Millions (1902), and The Sherrods (1903). To test the sales value of his name he page: 202[View Page 202] published Brewster's Millions under the pseudonym Richard Greaves. It became a best seller when The Sherrods had only moderate sales …
"McCutcheon wrote with zest and lived for the time in his own romances. For Graustark he prepared a complete geographical and genealogical plan. He wrote only one draft, with pencil, from an elaborate outline, and produced about a thousand words a day. He worked best in the afternoon, but he frequently wrote in the evenings. Though his success was in the realm of romance, he much preferred realism. With an output of almost two books a year, he published much that was hasty and slight. Even at his best, he can hardly be called a great romanticist, but he furnished wholesome, not too extravagant, romances to a public weary of extreme realism and materialism. One editorial at the time of his death said that he supplied innocent happiness for 'many college boys, kitchen maids, and daughters of millionaires' (NEW YORK TIMES, Oct. 24, 1928) …"
Condensed from S. G. B., Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. XII.
- Pootoo's Gods. (Reissued in 1905 as
Nedra.)
-
Graustark: the Story of a Love Behind a
Throne
. Chicago, 1901.
- Castle Craneycrow. Chicago,
1902.
-
Brewster's Millions
. (Richard Greaves, pseudonym.) Chicago, 1903.
-
The Sherrods
. New York, 1903.
-
The Day of the Dog
. New York, 1904.
-
Beverly of Graustark
. New York, 1904.
-
Nedra
. (A reissue of Pootoo's Gods.) New York,
1905.
-
The Purple Parasol
. New York, 1905.
-
Cowardice Court
. New York, 1906.
-
Jane Cable
. New York, 1906.
-
The Flyers
. New York, 1907.
-
The Daughter of Anderson Crow
. New York, 1907.
- The Husbands of Edith. New York,
1908.
- The Man from Brodney's. New
York, 1908.
- The Alternative. New York, 1909.
- Truxton King. New York, 1909.
- The Rose in the Ring. New York,
1910.
- The Butterfly Man. New York,
1910.
- Brood House: a Play in Four Acts.
Chicago, 1910.
- Mary Midthorne. New York, 1911.
- What's-His Name. New
York, 1911.
- The Hollow of Her Hand. New
York, 1912.
- Her Weight in Gold. New York,
1912.
- A Fool and His Money. New York,
1913.
- Black Is White. New York, 1914.
-
The Prince of Graustark
. New York, 1914.
- Mr. Single. New York, 1915.
- From The Housetops. New York,
1916.
- The Light That Lies. New York,
1916.
- Green Fancy. New York, 1917.
-
The City of Masks
. New York, 1918.
-
Shot with Crimson
. New York, 1918.
- One Score and Ten; a Comedy in Four Acts.
New York, 1919.
- Sherry. New York, 1919.
-
Anderson Crow, Detective
. New York, 1920.
-
West Wind Drift
. New York, 1920.
-
Quill's Window
. New York, 1921.
- Viola Gwyn. New York, 1922.
- Yollop. New York, 1922.
- Oliver October. New York, 1923.
- East of the Setting Sun. New
York, 1924.
- Romeo in Moon Village. New York,
1925.
- Kindling and Ashes. New York,
1926.
- The Inn of the Hawk and the Raven. New
York, 1927.
- Blades. New York, 1928.
- The Merivales. New York, 1929.
- Books Once Were Men: an Essay for Booklovers.
New York, 1931.
MCCUTCHEON, JOHN TINNEY: 1870-
John Tinney McCutcheon , son of John Barr and Clara Slick McCutcheon, was born near South Raub, Tippecanoe County, Ind., on May 6, 1870. (See sketches of Ben Frederick and George Barr McCutcheon.) He lived on a farm until 1876, when the family moved to Lafayette, Ind., where the elder McCutcheon became first director of the Purdue University farms.
John T. McCutcheon was educated at Purdue University, graduating with the B.S. degree in 1889, and he went to Chicago , where for the next two years he worked for the CHICAGO RECORD. From 1901 to 1903 he was associated with the CHICAGO RECORD-HERALD and after 1903 with the CHICAGO TRIBUNE.
He is best known for his political cartoon work, which he began in the campaign of 1896. During his newspaper career he was sent to Asiatic countries and the Philippines following the Spanish-American War and to South Africa during the Boer War. He made another trip to Africa in 1909-10, to Mexico in 1914, and to Europe in 1914-16. He won the Pulitzer prize for his cartoons.
He married Evelyn Shaw on Jan. 20, 1917.
Information from Who's Who in America.
page: 203[View Page 203]- Stories of Filipino Warfare. 1900.
- Boy Calendar. Chicago, 1903.
- Cartoons: a Selection of One Hundred Drawings; Including the
famous "Boy in Spring Time Series," Etc.; with an
Introduction by George Ade. Chicago, 1903.
- Bird Center Cartoons: Chronicle of Social Happenings at Bird
Center. Chicago, 1904.
- The Mysterious Stranger and Other Cartoons.
New York, 1905.
- Congressman Pumphrey, the People's Friend.
Indianapolis, 1907.
- What Does Christmas Really Mean? (withJ. L. Jones). Chicago, 1908.
- Doing the Grand Canyon. [New
York, 1909].
- In Africa: Hunting Adventures in the Big Game
Country. Indianapolis, 1910.
- T. R. in Cartoons. Chicago,
1910.
- History of Indiana.
Indianapolis, 1911.
- Dawson 'II, Fortune Hunter. New
York, 1912.
- The Restless Age. Indianapolis,
1921.
- An Heir At Large. Indianapolis,
1923.
- The Island Song Book, Being a Small Collection of Our
Favorite Ballads, Anthems, Lullabies and Dirges of this Particular Section
of the Bahama Islands …. Chicago,
1927.
MCDONALD, DANIEL: 1833-1916.
Daniel McDonald , newspaper editor and writer on Indiana history, was born near Connersville, Ind., on May 6, 1833. His parents moved to Marshall County, Ind., in 1836, and there Daniel McDonald spent most of his life.
He was editor of the PLYMOUTH DEMOCRAT for thirty years and was elected to the Indiana Legislature in 1889 and 1905. He retired from business in 1902 and died on Jan. 10, 1916.
Information from the INDIANA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY, Vol. 12.
- History of Marshall County, Indiana, 1836 to 1880.
Chicago, 1881.
- The Big 4 Wonders of America. Plymouth,
Ind., 1893.
- Indiana Newspaper Reminiscences; a Paper Prepared for
… the Democratic State Editorial Association, June 11,
1897. n.p., 1897.
- A History of Freemasonry in Indiana from 1806-1898.
Indianapolis, 1898.
- Removal of the Pottawattomie Indians from Northern
Indiana. Plymouth, Ind., 1899.
- History of Lake Maxinkuckee.
Indianapolis, 1905.
- A Twentieth Century History of Marshall County,
Indiana. Chicago, 1908.
2 vols.
MACDOUGAL, DANIEL TREMBLY: 1865-
Born at Liberty, Ind., on Mar. 16, 1865, Daniel Trembly MacDougal graduated from De Pauw University in 1890. He received the A.M. degree from De Pauw in 1894 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue in 1893 and 1897, respectively. On Jan. 24, 1893, he married Louise Fisher.
From 1890 to 1892 he was an instructor in biology at Purdue University, in 1892-93 a special agent of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and from 1893 to 1895 he taught at the University of Minnesota. In 1899 he was appointed director of the laboratories of the New York Botanical Garden, and in 1904 was made assistant director of the New York Botanical Garden.
After 1906 he was connected with the department of botanical research, Carnegie Institution of Washington, D. C. He published a great many textbooks and scientific articles in learned journals and serials which are not listed here.
Information from De Pauw University's Alumnal Record, 1920.
- Experimental Plant Physiology. New
York, 1895.
- Living Plants and Their Properties: a Collection of
Essays. Little Rock, Ark., 1898.
- A Practical Text-book of Plant Physiology.
New York, 1901.
- Elementary Plant Physiology. New
York, 1902.
- Green Leaf: the Major Activities of Plants in
Sunlight. New York, 1930.
- Tree Growth. Waltham, Mass.,
1938.
MACE, WILLIAM HARRISON: 1852-1938.
William Harrison Mace , son of Ira and Nancy Johnson Mace, was born near Lexington, Ind., on Nov. 27, 1852, and graduated from the State Normal School at Terre Haute in 1876. He also received degrees from the Universities of Michigan, Indiana , Syracuse, and Jena and was a graduate student at Cornell. He married Ida Dodson on Sept. 10, 1878.
He held administrative positions in the public schools of Logansport and Winamac, Ind., and of McGregor, Ia. From 1885 to 1890 he was professor of history at De Pauw University Normal School, and from 1891 to 1916 he was professor of history and political science at Syracuse University.
In addition to the books listed below, Dr. Mace was the author of several textbooks.
He died on Aug. 10, 1938.
page: 204[View Page 204]Information from Who Was Who in America.
- American Revolution: Outlines and References.
Albany, N. Y., 1891.
- American Constitution: Outlines and References.
Albany, N. Y., 1892.
- Development of the Nation: Outlines and References.
Albany, N. Y., 1893.
- American Colonial Institutions: Outlines and
References. Albany, N. Y., 1898.
- History of the United States.
Chicago, 1903.
- Civil War and Some of Its Problems: Outlines and
References. Albany, N. Y., 1905.
- American Revolution: Syllabus.
Philadelphia, n.d.
- Stories of Heroism. Chicago,
1911.
- Lincoln, the Man of the People.
Chicago, 1912.
- Story of Old Europe and Young America (withEdwin P. Tanner). Chicago, 1915.
- Washington, a Virginia Cavalier.
Chicago, 1916.
- History of the United States (withFrank S. Bogardus). Chicago, 1921.
- Notebook by Cloyce B. Ulery.
Chicago, 1929.
- My Country, the Men Who Made It (withW. A. Hannig). Chicago, 1930-31.
- Lincoln and Douglas. Syracuse, N.
Y., 1933.
- Stories of Great American Explorers and Pioneers.
Chicago, 1941.
- Stories of Great American Heroes.
Chicago, 1941.
- Stories of Great American Leaders.
Chicago, 1941.
McGOVERN, JOHN: 1850-1917.
" John McGovern (Feb. 18, 1850-Dec. 17, 1917), journalist and author, was born in Troy, N. Y., the eldest of three children of James and Marion (Carter) McGovern. In 1854, when his father and sister died of cholera, his mother took him to Ligonier, Ind., where she died four years later. The boy then lived with Judson Palmiter, a printer, in Ligonier, where he attended school and worked during the summer months on the farm of his uncle, Henry Carter, at Lima, Ind. In 1862 when Palmiter moved to Kendallville, Ind., to publish the NOBLE COUNTY JOURNAL, McGovern began his journalistic career by working in the printing office … He worked as a printer in Sturgis, Mich. , in 1866, returning the following year to Kendallville, and thence going to Kalamazoo to join the stag of the MICHIGAN TELEGRAPH. In 1868 he moved to Chicago , became a typesetter on the CHICAGO TRIBUNE, and gradually advanced to proof-reader, telegraph editor, and night editor. In these years he began to write poetry, some of which was published in the TRIBUNE. In 1877 he was married to Kate C. Van Arsdale of Philadelphia , who bore him two sons and a daughter. For two years (July 1884-July 1886) he was associate editor and for a few weeks (July-October 1886) sole editor of the CURRENT, a literary magazine, which printed poems, essays, and editorials by him, and from 1887 to 1889 he was chief editorial writer for the CHICAGO HERALD.
"Encouraged by his growing literary experience, he gave up newspaper work to devote his time to literature… His novel, David Lockwin; The People's Idol (1892), is of interest because McGovern accused the British novelist, Gilbert Parker, of taking its plot for his novel, The Right of Way … In 1899 McGovern served as literary expert for Samuel Eberley Gross in his plagiarism case against Edmund Rostand, and studied texts of Cyrano De Bergerac and the Merchant Prince of Cornville for similarities. His testimony and evidence won the case for Gross (May 21, 1902). After 1902 he became an occasional lecturer on literary and biographical subjects. He was a genial person, was referred to as the 'grand old man' of the Chicago Press Club, where he gave many lectures, and was the leading spirit of the Old Printers Club. The last two years of his life were dark with sickness. He died in Chicago …"
Condensed from R. W. B.–Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. XII.
- The Golden Censer; or, the Duties of To-day and the Hopes of
the Future. Chicago, 1881.
- A Pastoral Poem and Other Pieces.
Chicago, 1882.
- Memories for Decoration Day.
Chicago, 1886.
- Daniel Trentworthy; Tale of the Great Fire of
Chicago. Chicago, 1889.
- Jason Hortner. 1889.
- Burritt Durand. Chicago, 1890.
- David Lockwin, the People's Idol. 1891.
- Golden Legacy. Dream City. 1894.
- American Statesmen. 1898.
- Famous Women of the World. 1898.
- The Toiler's Diadem; for Thinkers, Workers and
Believers. Chicago, 1898.
- The Fireside University of Modern Invention, Discovery,
Industry, and Art; with Complete Indexes.
Chicago, 1898.
- John McGovern's Poems. Evanston,
Ill., 1902.
- The Right of Way. 1903.
- Shakespeariana (Trees, Woman's Hair, My Lord
Hamlet) (withJessie Edson Hall). 1907-09.
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- Hospitality; Mine Host, from the Time of Babylon to the Age
of the Aeroplane. Chicago, 1910.
- Empire of Information. Chicago,
n.d.
- Lord of Como.
- Joan of Arc.
- Patrick Henry.
- King Darwin.
- Goeffrey.
- The New Fireside University for Home Circle Study; or,
Familiar Talks About Common Things. Chicago,
1917.
McGOVNEY, DUDLEY ODELL: 1877-
Dudley Odell McGovney , son of Samuel Taylor and Florence Louisa Wright McGovney, was born at Huntington, Ind., on June 23, 1877, and graduated from Indiana University in 1901. He received the A.M. degree from Harvard in 1904 and the LL.B. from Columbia University in 1907. On Apr. 22, 1902, he married Laura Woodburn.
From 1901 to 1903 he was an instructor in government at the Insular Normal School, Manila, and in the summer of 1907 he was an instructor in political science at Indiana University. He then taught law at the University of Illinois, Tulane, the University of Missouri , and the State University of Iowa. In 1925 he became professor of law at the School of Jurisprudence of California.
During the Spanish-American War Mr. McGovney served as a corporal in the 159th Indiana Volunteers.
Information from Indiana University, 1820-1904, and Who's Who in America.
- Civil Government in the Philippines.
Chicago, 1903.
- Stories of Long Ago in the Philippines. New
York, 1906.
McGUIRE, ULYSSES MELVILLE: 1856-1939.
Ulysses Melville McGuire , son of William Edward and Nancy Violetta Deputy McGuire, was born in Jennings County, Ind., on Apr. 7, 1856, and was educated at Hanover College and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He received the D.D. degree from Franklin College in 1921. On Mar. 7, 1880, he married Elba Graham, who died in 1914.
He was ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1881 and was pastor of various village churches until 1892, after which time he held pastorates in Anderson, Sullivan, Washington, Lawrenceburg, Princeton, and Greencastle, Ind. For five years he served as editor of THE BAPTIST OBSERVER and was editor of THE BAPTIST until 1931. In 1931-32 he engaged in organization and relief work among the unemployed in Chicago .
He died on July 5, 1939.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- The Church as an Educational Institution.
Philadelphia, 1897.
McKAIG, ROBERT NEWTON: 1842-?
Aside from the facts that he was born in Logansport, Ind., in 1842 and that he received the A.B., A.M., and D.D. degrees from De Pauw University, no information on the Rev. Robert Newton McKaig has been located.
Information from Federal Writers Project–Indiana Authors, 1937.
- The Life and Times of the Holy Spirit.
Chicago, 1908. 2 vols.
McKAY, MARTHA NICHOLSON (MRS. HORACE): 1843-1934.
Martha Nicholson was born in Warren County, O., in 1843. She married Horace McKay and came to Indianapolis in 1866. She and her husband were among the founders of the Unity Church in Indianapolis in 1868–the church formed at that time later became the All Souls Unitarian Church. Mrs. McKay was also one of the founders of the Indianapolis Woman's Club and was active in work of the Indianapolis Public Library and in campaigns for women's suffrage.
Mrs. McKay's history of literary clubs of Indiana is still considered a reliable source of reference for the period prior to its publication in 1894. In 1929 she published a book, When the Tide Turned in the Civil War. The original manuscript for this book was written in 1897. It dealt with the attack of Col. Robert Gould Shaw and his regiment of Negroes, the 54th Massachusetts, on Fort Wagner.
She died at her home in Indianapolis on Mar. 4, 1934.
Information from the INDIANAPOLIS STAR for Mar. 5, 1934.
- Literary Clubs of Indiana.
Indianapolis, 1894.
- When the Tide Turned in the Civil War.
Indiaanpolis, 1929.
McMASTER MCKEE, THOMAS HUDSON: ?-?
" Thomas H. McKee , son of Robert McKee, was born in Washington County, Pa. He served in a West Virginia regiment in the Civil War and moved to Cass County, Ind., in 1868. He married Nancy M. Funk of Cass County in 1869. For many years he was Clerk of the House of the U. S. Senate and edited and compiled many books, mostly of political nature."
From Powell–History of Cass County, 1913.
- Forty Thousand Questions Answered. 1875.
- McKee's Hand Book of U. S. Government.
Washington, D. C., 1885.
- A Manual of Congressional Practice.
Washington, D. C., 1892.
- Text Book of the National Republican Committee. 1896.
- Views and Reviews of the Civil War.
Washington, D. C., 1906.
- Edwin MacMasters Stanton, the Great War Secretary.
Washington, D. C., 1908.
- The Test of Loyalty in the State of Virginia in 1861.
Washington, D. C., 1912.
MCKNIGHT, LEVI ADOLPHUS: 1846-?
Born in 1846 and a long-time resident of Benton County, Ind., L. A. McKnight is believed to have been a teacher and school executive during most of his life, serving as superintendent of Benton County schools from 1907 to 1916. During this time he was active in preparing school exhibits, showing the progress and development of the Benton County Schools, and in starting oratorical work in high schools. He was at one time editor of the FOWLER ERA.
Information from the Indiana State Library.
- Progress of Education in Benton County, Indiana.
Indianapolis, 1906.
- Indiana, a Drama of Progress: History in a Play.
Fowler, Ind., 1908.
MCLEAN, WILLIAM E.: 1832-1906.
William E. McLean was born in 1832, resided in Terre Haute, Ind., served in the Civil War as a member of the 43rd Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and died in 1906.
Information from the Emmellne Fairbanks Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana.
- Forty-Third Regiment of Indiana Volunteers.
Terre Haute, Ind., 1903.
MCMANUS, SILAS BETTES: 1845-1917.
Silas Bettes McManus was born in Rootstown, O., Sept. 17, 1845. Coming to Indiana as a young man, he was graduated from the Medical College of Fort Wayne and had one year of post graduate work at the University of Michigan. He married Mary Hillegass of Huntertown, Ind., in 1880.
During most of his adult life he contributed to leading magazines, and from 1876 to 1882 he was connected with the Fort Wayne JOURNAL GAZETTE. Beginning in 1892 he served a term as state senator. Dr. McManus died suddenly on Apr. 15, 1917, at his home near Howe, Ind.
Information from the LaGrange Public Library.
- 'Lijah, Delivered August 5th, 1896, at Island Park,
Rome City, Indiana, at the Tri-State Meeting–Ohio, Michigan and
Indiana–of the Knights of Pythias, and with Hale and Fraternal
Regards, Dedicated to the K. of P's, Their Mothers, Wives, Sisters
and Sweethearts. Toledo, n.d.
- Fot Would You Take for Me; and Nine or Ten Other
Rhymes. LaGrange, Ind., n.d. [1894].
- Rural Rhymes. Cincinnati, n.d.
[1898].
MCMASTER, ERASMUS DARWIN: 1806-1866.
Erasmus Darwin McMaster , son of the Rev. Gilbert McMaster, was born in Mercer, Pa., on Feb. 4, 1806, and graduated from Union Theological Seminary in 1827, receiving the D.D. degree in 1841. He then studied theology under his father and in 1831 was ordained pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Ballston, N. Y.
In 1838 he came to Indiana as president of Hanover College, a position he held until 1845 when he became president of Miami University. In 1849 he returned to Indiana and was professor of systematic theology in New Albany Theological Seminary until 1866. For a few months before his death, on Sept. 11, 1866, he taught in the Theological Seminary of the Northwest at Chicago .
Information from Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. IV.
- A Discourse Delivered November 7th, 1839, on the Occasion of
the Author's Inauguration as President of Hanover College,
Indiana. Hanover, Ind., 1838.
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- Address Delivered to the Candidates for Degree of Bachelor of
Arts, in Hanover College, Indiana … September 25, 1839.
Cincinnati, 1839.
- Speech in the Synod of Indiana, October 4, 1844, in Relation
to Madison University. Madison, Ind., 1844.
- The Relations Between Religion and Academic Education: an
Address at the Author's Inauguration as President of Miami
University. Oxford, O., 1845.
- An Address on the Occasion of the Author's Resigning
the Office of President of Miami University, August 9, 1849.
Cincinnati, 1849.
- Address at Laying the Corner Stone of the Third Presbyterian
Church in Indianapolis, September 7, 1853.
Indianapolis, 1853.
- The True Life of a Nation; an Address Delivered …
July 2, 1856. New Albany, Ind., 1856.
- The Nation Blessed of the Lord: a Sermon Preached in the
First Presbyterian Church, New Albany, 6 July, 1856. New
Albany, Ind., 1856.
MCNUTT, CYRUS F.: 1837-1912.
Born in Johnson County, Ind., in 1837, Cyrus F. McNutt studied law at North Western Christian (now Butler) University and practiced in Franklin and Martinsville, Ind. From 1874 to 1877 he was professor of law at Indiana University but resigned in 1877, moved to Terre Haute, and resumed his practice there. He died in 1912.
Information from the Barry Ms. and the Emmeline Fairbanks Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Ind.
- Broken Lives. Chicago, 1888.
- The Trial of Jesus.
- The Daughter of a Drab.
MACNUTT, FRANCIS AUGUSTUS: 1863-1928.
Francis Augustus MacNutt was born in Richmond, Ind., on Feb. 15, 1863. He was educated in the Richmond public schools and in the Friends' Academy at that place. Later he spent two years in Phillips Exeter Academy and one in the Harvard Law School, followed by travel and study in Europe.
In 1887 he entered the Accademia Ecclesiastica at Rome, an institution of the Catholic Church for training in the diplomatic administrative function of the church. Eventually he became a diplomat of the church and from 1898 to 1906 he occupied the post of High Chamberlain at the Pontifical Court in Rome. He married Margaret Van Cortland Ogden in Jan., 1898, and died in 1928.
Information from the Richmond Public Library.
- Bartholomew de Las Casas, His Life, His Apostolate and His
Writings. New York, 1909.
- Fernando Cortes and the Conquest of Mexico,
1485-1547. New York, 1909.
- Three Plays. New York, 1916.
- Six Decades of My Life. Brixen
[Austria], 1927. 2 vols.
- Papal Chamberlain, the Personal Chronicle of F. A.
MacNutt. London, 1936.
MCSHEEHY, HENRY JAMES: 1852-1911.
H. J. McSheehy was born in Ireland and brought to New York and later to Lafayette, Ind., in which places he attended the local schools. He returned to New York , worked on the NEW YORK HERALD and came to Logansport in 1875, while accompanying Robert Ingersoll on a lecture tour. Seeing an opening for another newspaper, he stayed there and founded the LOGANSPORT CHRONICLE, which he edited and published until his death in 1911. He married Minnie Maurer and they were the parents of three sons. His one book describes his experiences while on a hunting trip in Colorado.
Information supplied by the Logansport Public Library.
- A Hunt in the Rockies ….
n.p., 1893.
MCTURNAN, LAWRENCE: 1874-1945.
Born in Rigdon, Madison County, Ind., Nov., 1874, Lawrence McTurnan was graduated from Indiana State Teacher's College in 1897. He was Madison County school superintendent from 1897 to 1902, acting superintendent of city schools in Alexandria from 1902 to 1903, and assistant state superintendent of schools from 1903 to 1909. He engaged in educational publication work for Laidlaw Brothers, Inc., of Chicago from 1909 to 1935, acting as corporate secretary of the firm, and as joint author and editor of some of its textbooks. From 1937 until his death he held an executive position on the board of the National Rock Wool Corporation, Indianapolis. He died Sept. 26, 1945.
page: 208[View Page 208]Information from the Indianapolis Public Library.
- The Personal Equation; with an Introduction by James L.
Hughes. New York, 1910.
- Guide Books to Literature (withJ. O. Engleman). Chicago, 1925-1926.
MACY, ALBERT WILLIAM: 1853-
Born in Randolph County, Ind., in 1853, Albert William Macy was educated in the Mooresville, Ind., schools and at Earlham College, from which he graduated in 1877 with the A.B. degree. For several years he held the position of literary reader with the publishing firm of S. C. Griggs & Co. of Chicago, and later became western manager of the Macmillan Publishing Company, with residence at Western Springs, Ill.
Information from Parker and Heiney–Poets and Poetry of Indiana.
- Short-Cut Philosophy, Home-Made and Hand-Turned.
New York, 1909.
- Curious Bits of History. New
York, 1912.
MACY, JESSE: 1842-1919.
Jesse Macy was born near Knightstown, Ind., on June 21, 1842. His parents were William and Phoebe Hiatt Macy.
Quakers, the Macys were active in the Underground Railroad work which assisted slaves to escape from Kentucky to Canada .
In 1856 the family moved to Lynnville, Ia., and young Macy attended school at Grinnell and at the Friends' Institute near Oscaloosa. He joined the Union forces as a non-combatant hospital orderly and served throughout the Civil War. He graduated from Grinnell College in 1870 and joined the faculty of the school, acting as professor of political economy until 1912. After 1912 he traveled and lectured in England and the eastern states, finding himself, perhaps to his surprise, a man of wide reputation in his field.
On July 25, 1872, he married Mary Maude Little. He died on Nov. 3, 1919.
Information from Who Was Who in America and the Dictionary of American Biography.
- Civil Government in Iowa. Grinnell,
Ia., 1881.
- Institutional Beginnings in a Western State.
Baltimore, 1883.
- Our Government; How It Grew, What It Does, and How It Does
It. Boston, 1886.
- The English Constitution, a Commentary on Its Nature and
Growth. New York, 1897.
- Political Parties in the United States, 1846-61.
New York, 1900.
- Party Organization and Machinery. New
York, 1904.
- Government of Iowa (withKarl Frederick Geiser). Boston, 1905.
- Comparative Free Government (withJ. W. Gannaway). New York, 1915.
- Jesse Macy: An Autobiography. (Edited byKatherine Macy Noyes.) Springfield, Ill., 1933.
MAGEE, B. F.: ?-?
B. F. Magee was a resident of Lafayette, Ind., who served in the Civil War as a sergeant in the 40th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry.
de Hart–Past and Present of Tippecanoe County, 1909.
- History of the Fortieth Regiment (with Rev.W. R. Jewell).
MAJOR, CHARLES: 1856-1913.
Charles Major was one of the Indiana novelists who dominated the field of American best sellers from 1900 to 1905.
And dominated is the word, for there were Major's Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall and A Forest Hearth (his first and greatest success, When Knighthood Was in Flower, had been published in 1898). There were also Thompson's Alice of Old Vincennes, McCutcheon's Graustark and Brewster's Millions, Tarkington's Monsieur Beaucaire and The Two Fan Revels (his Gentleman from Indiana, published in 1899, was still going strong). Dreiser's Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt came out to shock the prudish. David Graham Phillips was represented by The Great God Success, The Deluge and eight less successful novels. It was a great period for royalties paid to Hoosiers–a source of revenue then, apparently, second only to corn and hogs to the citizens of the state of Indiana .
Charles Major was born to Stephen and Phoebe Gaskill Major in Indianapolis on July 25, 1856. When he was thirteen the family removed to Shelbyville, Ind., where Charles spent his entire life. He attended page: 209[View Page 209] local schools, read law in his father's office, attended the University of Michigan law school, and was admitted to the bar in 1877. His chief interest, even above his profession, was the Tudor period in English history, and by constant reading he became, with no advanced academic guidance in the field, a fairly competent authority on the period. Later he became interested in local Indiana history, and this also furnished subject matter for some of his books.
On Sept. 27, 1885, he married Alice Shaw of Shelbyville, Ind. According to a contemporary, he accepted only enough law business in the years before the success of his first novel, When Knighthood Was in Flower, to make a respectable living; after the remarkable success of that work he maintained an office only in order to have a quiet place to work.
Mr. Major died on Feb. 13, 1913.
Information from Esarey–A History of Indiana and the Dictionary of American Biography.
- When Knighthood Was in Flower; or, the Love Story of Charles
Brandon and Mary Tudor, the King's Sister, and Happening in the
Reign of King Henry VIII (pseudonym,Edwin Caskoden). Indianapulis, 1898.
- The Bears of Blue River. New
York, 1901.
-
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
. New York, 1902.
-
A Forest Hearth, a Romance of Indiana in the
Thirties
. New York, 1903.
-
Yolanda, Maid of Burgundy
. New York, 1905.
- Uncle Tom Andy Bill. New York,
1908.
- A Gentle Knight of Old Brandenburg. New
York, 1909.
- The Little King: a Story of the Childhood of Louis XIV, King
of France. New York, 1910.
- The Touchstone of Fortune; Being the Memoir of Baron Clyde,
Who Lived, Thrived, and Fell in the Doleful Reign of the So-Called Merry
Monarch, Charles II. New York, 1912.
- Rosalie. (Revised and published posthumously by Mrs. Major,
assisted by Test Dalton.)
New York, 1925.
MAJOR, DAVID R.: 1866-1936.
David R. Major , son of Thomas and Almeda Allen Major, was born at Frankfort, Ind., on Mar. 26, 1866, and graduated from Wabash College in 1890, receiving the Ph.D. degree from Cornell University in 1896 and the LL.B. from Indiana University Law School in 1916. On Jan. 8, 1901, he married Mary Randolph Campbell.
From 1890 to 1898 he served as a superintendent and principal of various public schools, in 1899-1900 was professor of pedagogy at the University of Nebraska, in 1900-01 was professor of pedagogy at Columbia University, and from 1901 to 1914 was professor of the psychology of education at Ohio State University. Following his graduation from law school, he practiced law at Columbus, O., until his death.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- Teleology in the Critical Philosophy of Kant.
Ithaca, N. Y., 1897.
- First Steps in Mental Growth. New
York, 1906.
- The Elements of Psychology. Columbus,
0., 1913.
- Introduction to Philosophy. Garden City, N.
Y., 1933.
MAKEEVER, IDAEL CHILDERS (MRS. ?):?-
Idael Childers , daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Childers of Kouts, Porter County, Ind., as a young woman contributed verse to newspapers, and after her marriage and removal to Stormsburg, Neb., she published two volumes of selections from her works.
Information from Cutler–History of Porter County, Vol. I.
- Goldenrod.
- Prairie Flowers.
MAKER, HUGH ANTHONY: 1864-1946.
Hugh Anthony Maker , son of Seth R. and Nancy J. Hamble Maker, was born on July 21, 1864. He grew up on his father's farm, attended Noblesville ( Ind. ) High School and Central Normal (now Canterbury) College, and taught school for a time. Later he returned to the farm.
He served as justice of the peace for a number of years and was a member of the Western Association of Writers.
He died on Aug. 23, 1946.
Information from the Noblesville Public Library.
- Odd Odes. Indianapolis, n.d.
[1901].
MANN, CHARLES WESLEY: 1862-1909.
Charles Wesley Mann was born in Huntertown, Ind., in 1862. He attended De Pauw University, receiving page: 210[View Page 210] the A.B. and A.M. degrees, and died in Chicago in 1909.
Information from Federal Writers Project–Indiana Authors, 1937.
- Fort Dearborn, Its Place in the History of the
Frontier.
- School Recreations and Amusements. New
York, 1896.
MANN, MARY L. RIDPATH (MRS. CHARLES WESLEY): 1867-
Mary L. Ridpath Mann , daughter of John Clark and Hannah R. Smythe Ridpath, was born in Lawrenceburg, Ind., on Sept. 19, 1867, graduated from De Pauw University in 1887, and received the A.M. degree from that institution in 1891. On Sept. 12, 1888, she married Charles Wesley Mann of Chicago , who died in 1909.
In addition to her books, she was a contributor to magazines and newspapers and, after 1909, a lecturer for the Chicago Historical Society.
Information from Who's Who in America and De Pauw University's Alumnal Record, 1990.
- The Building of a Nation (withMay E. Hoss). Chicago, n.d. [1911].
- The Unofficial Secretary.
Chicago, 1912.
- Royal Women, Their History and Romance.
Chicago, 1913.
MARINE, SARAH CATHERINE KING (MRS. WILLIAM ALBINES): 1855-1940.
Sarah Catherine King , daughter of Robert F. and Eliza T. King, was born in Boone County, Ind., on Oct. 19, 1855. She received her schooling in the country schools near her home north of Pittsboro, Ind., and later taught school in the same vicinity. Four years after the death of her father in 1878, the family moved to Mooresville, Ind. In 1887 she married William Albines Marine, of Mooresville, a first cousin of James Whitcomb Riley, who was a carpenter by trade and also a writer.
The Marines lived in Mooresville until 1923, when they moved to Indianapolis to live with one of their sons. Here Mr. Marine died in 1934. In 1940 Mrs. Marine went to Chattanooga, Tenn., where she died a few weeks after her arrival.
Mrs. Marine was a Bible student, taught for many years in the Methodist Church, and wrote mainly on religious subjects. Several of her poems were published in books of sacred music.
Information from Clarence M. Marine, of Indianapolis .
- The Garland (withElvira Nelson). Indianapolis, 1883.
- Who Was It? Plainfield, Ind.,
n.d. [1910].
- The Virgin Mary; a Careful and Authentic Study of the Life
and Character of Mary, the Mother of Christ. Louisville,
Ky., 1912.
- A Story of Two Soldier Boys. Franklin,
Ind., 1923.
MARTIN, MARTHA EVANS (MRs. ?): ?-1925.
Martha Evans was born in Terre Haute, Ind.
She graduated from De Pauw University, taught school for a year and served as court reporter for Wayne County, Ind., for three years before she took up writing as a profession. Having married (her husband's given name is unknown) she became associated with her husband in editing the RICHMOND ( Ind. ) DAILY TELEGRAM. She eventually left newspaper work to become editor of DEMOREST'S MAGAZINE.
Her chief interest was nature study and her books deal with popular astronomy. She died Nov. 6, 1925.
Information from Emmeline Fairbanks Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Ind.
- The Friendly Stars. New York,
1907.
- The Ways of the Planets. New
York, 1912.
MARTIN, WILLIAM ALEXANDER PARSONS: 1827-1916.
" William Alexander Parsons Martin (Apr. 10, 1827-Dec. 17, 1916), missionary, educator, and author, was born in Livonia, Ind., the son of William Wilson Martin and Susan Depew, both of frontier Scotch-Irish stock. His father was a Presbyterian minister … He was graduated from Indiana University in 1846 and for three years thereafter studied theology in the Presbyterian seminary at New Albany, Ind. In 1849, the year of his graduation, he married Jane Vansant (who died in 1893) and was ordained to the ministry by the Presbytery of Salem, Ind … In the spring of 1850 he and his brother Samuel Newall and their wives arrived in China . He was assigned to page: 211[View Page 211] Ningpo and early proved himself both energetic and able. Before he had been six years in China he had worked out, through public lectures and discussions before Chinese audiences, a series of studies on evidences of Christianity which sought to present the Christian gospel convincingly to Chinese. These he put into the literary language and had published. They became very popular, and went into many editions in both China and Japan .
"Martin learned not only the local dialect and the literary language, but Mandarin, and it was his knowledge of the latter colloquial which helped to open to him the opportunity which led him away from Ningpo and into the region where the major part of his life was to be spent. During the second war between Great Britain and China , he was appointed, on his own application, as an interpreter to William B. Reed …, who obtained for the United States the treaty of 1858 with China . Martin had a share in the negotiations … For a short time [he] was connected with the Presbyterian Mission Press in Shanghai. While there he translated into Chinese Wheaton's Elements of International Law. The following year he removed to Peking, founding in that city a mission of his denomination which later grew to large proportions.
"In Peking his contact with officials, begun during the negotiation of the Treaty of Tientsin, continued, and his interest increased in the diplomatic relations with Western powers into which China was so reluctantly and awkwardly entering. In 1868, accordingly, he accepted a position as teacher of international law in the T'ungwên Kuan, a school which had recently been formed by the government to train in Western languages and learning Chinese youths who were to serve in intercourse with foreign countries … in 1869 he assumed his duties, not only as teacher, but as head of this institution. In these positions he continued until 1894, and through his translations and original works in Chinese, his contacts with officials, and his teaching, he had a significant part in introducing Western learning to China . In 1898 he was made president of the imperial university which the reform movement of that year had brought into existence. The Boxer outbreak (1900) caught him in Peking, and, although then past seventy years of age, he was active in the defense of the legations. After the raising of the siege he was in the United States for a time, lecturing on China , and then, at the invitation of the Viceroy Chang Chih-tung, he once more returned and lectured on international law in an institution which that dignitary was attempting to establish in Wuchang. With the transfer of Chang Chih-tung to Nanking, Martin deemed it advisable to withdraw. Most of the remainder of his life was spent in Peking. Here he taught individual Chinese students, wrote, and, about 1911, rejoined the staff of the Presbyterian mission, serving on it until his death.
"Martin's literary output was voluminous. It included many works in Chinese on international law, natural science, and Christianity, and a number of works on China in English … He received many honors, both in China and in the United States …"
Condensed from K. S. L.–Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. XII.
- Evidences of Christianity. 1855.
- The Three Principles. 1856.
- Religious Allegories. 1857.
- Natural Philosophy. 1866.
- Hanlin Papers. Shanghai, 1880. (Republished as The Chinese. Their
Education, Philosophy, and Letters. New York, 1881.)
- Mathematical Physics. 1885.
- Hanlin Papers: Second Series.
Shanghai, 1894.
- A Cycle of Cathay; or, China, South and North, with Personal
Reminiscences. New York, 1896.
- The Siege in Peking: China Against the World, by an
Eyewitness. New York, 1900.
- The Lore of Cathay, or the Intellect of China.
New York, 1901.
- The Awakening of China. Garden City, N.
Y., 1907.
- Chinese Legends, and Other Poems.
- Understand the Chinese. New
York, 1934.
MARTINDALE, ELIJAH: 1793-
Elijah Martindale was born in South Carolina on Nov. 10, 1793, and moved with his parents to Ohio when he was a child. In 1811 they emigrated to Indiana and settled in Wayne County .
In 1815 he married Elizabeth Boyd–they became the parents of fifteen children, fourteen of whom lived to adulthood–and in 1818 he became a minister. He moved to Henry County, four miles southeast of New Castle, Ind., in 1832, where he helped build the first schoolhouse and the first church in the county.
Information from the New Castle Public Library.
- Autobiography of Elder Elijah Martindale … also
Pioneer History of the Boyd Family, by Belle Sanford.
Indianapolis, 1892.
MARTINDALE, JAMES BOYD: 1836-1904.
James Boyd Martindale was the son of Elijah and Elizabeth Boyd Martindale, residents of Indiana since territorial days. Born on a farm in Henry County, Ind., in 1836, he was educated in the public schools and the New Castle Seminary, studied law, and was admitted to the bar. He then established, in Chicago , the Martindale Law and Collection Agency. In addition to his legal writings, he wrote poetry. He died in 1904.
Information from Parker and Heiney–Poets and Poetry of Indiana.
- Indiana Executor's Guide. New
Castle, Ind., 1871.
- Unclaimed Money, Lands, and Estates.
Chicago, 1884.
MARTLING, JAMES ABRAHAM: 1825–1880.
James Abraham Martling , born in 1825, lived in Mishawaka, Ind., for many years. He was educated at Oberlin College and taught there for a time. He was also superintendent of schools in St. Louis, Mo.
Information from South Bend Public Library.
- London Bridge; or, Capital and Labor: a Poem for the
Times. Boston, 1881.
- Poems of Home and Country.
Boston, 1885.
MASON, AUGUSTUS LYNCH: 1859-1939.
Augustus Lynch Mason was born on Feb. 10, 1859, at Bloomington, Ind. He was the son of William Fisher and Amanda D. Lynch Mason. From 1873 to 1875 he was a student in Northwestern Christian (now Butler) University in Indianapolis, and in 1879 he received the Ph.B. degree from De Pauw University. He married Annie D. Porter on June 25, 1893.
After studying law from 1879 to 1882, he became a member of the firm of McDonald, Butler and Mason, then for three years acted as dean of the De Pauw University Law School. He served as president of the Citizen's Street Railroad Company of Indianapolis from 1893 to 1897, and from 1899 to 1905 he was a lecturer for the Indiana Law School, University of Indianapolis . In 1910 he retired from law practice and died Feb. 13, 1939.
Information from Who Was Who in America; De Pauw University's Alumnal Record, 1920; and the Indianapolis Public Library.
- The Romance and Tragedy of Pioneer Life. A Popular Account of
the Heroes and Adventurers Who, by Their Valor and War-Craft, Beat Back the
Savages from the Borders of Civilization and Gave the American Forests to
the Plow and Sickle. Embracing the Legend of Powhatan; the Trials of
LaSalle; the Fate of Philip, Etc. With an Introduction by John Clark
Ridpath. Cincinnati, 1883. (Reissued in 1904 as Indian Wars and Famous
Frontiersmen.)
- Pioneer History of America. 1884.
- Trusts and Public Welfare.
Indianapolis, 1901.
- Duties of Citizenship.
Indianapolis, 1902.
- Our Pioneers. Springfield,
Mass., 1904.
- Corporations and Social Changes.
Indianapolis, 1908.
- Government of Indianapolis.
Indianapolis, 1910.
- Guiding Principles for American Voters. An Introduction to
the Study of Elementary Americanism.
Indianapolis, 1920.
- True Stories of Our Pioneers; with Introduction and Special
Contributions by J. C. Ridpath; with Additional Chapters by T.
White. Chicago, n.d.
MATHEWS, FRANCES AYMAR: ?-
Frances Aymar Mathews , daughter of Daniel A. and Sara Webb Mathews, was born in New York City and was educated at home by private tutors. She was a granddaughter of Mathew Livingston Davis, Aaron Burr's biographer. A novelist and playwright, she resided in Indianapolis .
Information from Who's Who in America.
- His Way and Her Will. Chicago,
1888.
- To-night at Eight: Comedies and Comediettas.
Chicago, 1889.
- A Married Man. Chicago, 1899.
- The New Yorkers and Other People. New
York, 1900.
- My Lady Peggy Goes to Town.
Indianapolis, 1901.
- A Little Tragedy at Tien-tsin. New
York, 1904.
- Pamela Congreve. New York, 1904.
- The Marquise's Millions. New
York, 1905.
- Billy Duane: Novel. New York,
1905.
- Staircase of Surprise. New York,
1905.
- Undefiled: a Novel. New York,
1906.
- Allee Same. New York, 1907.
- If David Knew: a Novel. New
York, 1910.
- Flame Dancer. New York, 1910.
- All For Sweet Charity: Comedy. New
York, n.d.
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- American Hearts: Drawing Room Scene. New
York.
- Apartment: Flat-apartment Scene. New
York.
- Stronger Spell.
- Under The Mistletoe.
- Barbara.
- The Prima Donna.
- Knight of the Quill: Play. New
York.
- New Professor: Comedy. Chicago.
- On the Staircase: Hall-stair-case Scene.
New York.
- Paying the Piper: Play. New
York.
- Proposal: Play. New York.
- Scapegrace: Newport Drawing-room Scene. New
York.
- Six To One: Comedietta. Boston.
- Snow-bound: Country Hotel Parlor Scene. New
York.
- Teacups: Theosophic Farce. New
York.
- Title and Money: Play. New York.
- War to the Knife: Play. New
York.
- Wedding Tour: Play. New York.
- Woman's Forever: Hotel Private Parlor Scene.
New York.
- Wooing A Widow: Sketch. Boston.
- At the Grand Central: Railroad-station Scene.
New York.
- Both Sides of the Counter: Store Scene. New
York.
- Charming Conversationalist: Ball-room Scene.
New York.
- Courier: Hotel Private-parlor Scene. New
York.
- Cousin Frank: Farce. Boston.
- En Voyage: Ship-deck Scene. New
York.
- Finished Coquette: Country-house Reception-room
Scene. New York.
- Honeymoon: Fourth Quarter: Apartment Drawing-room
Scene. New York.
- Christmas Honeymoon. New York,
1912.
- My Lady Peggy Leaves Town. New
York, 1913.
- Fanny of the Forty Frocks.
Philadelphia, 1916.
- Joan D'Arc.
- Pretty Peggy.
- Mamzelle.
- The Red Swan.
- Stranger Passing By.
- Up To Him.
- Miss Carliney.
MÄTTER, JOHN: 1883-
John Mätter , son of Philip and Lile Harter Mätter, was born in Marion, Ind., on June 19, 1883, and graduated from Princeton University in 1905, receiving the A.M. degree in 1914. In addition to engaging in manufacturing, advertising, and farming, he published various articles and verse in magazines, was the author of numerous short stories, and contributed newspaper features to the CHICAGO DAILY NEWS, CHICAGO TIMES, and CHICAGO JOURNAL OF COMMERCE.
Information from the Marion Public Library.
- Once. New York, 1910.
- Three Farms. New York, 1913.
- The Amateur Vagabond (withRobert Mütter). New York, 1918.
- The Country Banker. Chicago,
1932.
MATTHEWS, JAMES NEWTON: 1852-1910.
Born in New Castle, Ind., in 1852, James Newton Matthews left the state while young but returned to attend and graduate from De Pauw University. He then practiced medicine in Mason, Ill. He has been called "The Poet of the Prairies."
Information from Parker and Heiney–Poets and Poetry of Indiana.
- Temple Vale and Other Poems.
Chicago, 1888.
- Lute of Life. Cincinnati, 1911.
MAYNARD, JACOB BECKWITH: 1819-1902.
Jacob Beckwith Maynard , son of Andrew and Athalinda Beckwith Maynard, was born in New York City on Feb. 19, 1819, and was educated in a private school in Brooklyn and at Essex Academy in Connecticut.
In 1835 he came west to Illinois , where he worked on an uncle's farm and in a country store for four years before moving on to St. Louis. In 1842 he became connected with the American Cannel Coal Company at Honesville, Ky. The company was moved to Cannelton, Ind., in 1843, and Mr. Maynard then became a resident of Indiana .
In 1847 he married Elizabeth Archer, who died in 1874. He went into the mercantile business at Cannelton in 1848 but in 1852 returned to the American Cannel Coal Company, remaining with that firm until 1857, when he purchased the Cannelton REPORTER.
In 1862 he removed to Louisville and spent the next twelve years working for various newspapers–the LOUISVILLE DEMOCRAT, the COURIER, the COURIER- JOURNAL, and the LEDGER. In 1874 he purchased an interest in the St. Joseph, Mo., GAZETTE, becoming page: 214[View Page 214] its editor-in-chief. Two years later he sold his interest in this paper and returned to Indiana , where he was commercial editor of the Indianapolis SENTINEL and later chief editorial writer.
Information from Representative Men of Indiana, Vol. 11.
- Men of Progress (withWill Cumback). Indianapolis, 1899.
MEACHAM, ALFRED B.: 1826-1882.
Born in Orange County, Ind., on Apr. 29, 1826, Alfred B. Meacham emigrated with his family to Iowa in 1841, settling near Iowa City .
In 1845 the young man aided in the work of moving the Sac and Fox Indians to the reservations assigned them after the Black Hawk War. In 1850 he and his brother went to California in search of gold. They engaged in mining for several years, then finally founded Meacham's Station on the trail from Idaho to Oregon. They built a tavern and a toll road.
In 1852 Meacham had returned to Iowa to marry Orpha Ferree.
From 1869 to 1873 he served as superintendent of Indian affairs for Oregon, and in 1873 he was seriously wounded by the Modoc Indians, who left him for dead. He represented Oregon in the Electoral College in 1872.
He was a leader in the temperance movement, but his principal interest was the Indian cause. Besides his books written in defense of that race, he published the COUNCIL FIRE, a paper devoted to their interests.
He died in Washington, D. C., in 1882.
Information from Representative Men of Indiana, Vol. I, and the Barry Ms.
- Wigwam and Warpath. Boston,
1875. (2nd. ed.)
- Wi-Ne-Ma (The Woman Chief) and Her People.
Hartford, Conn., 1876.
- Tragedy of the Lava Beds. n.p., 1877.
MEAD, ELWOOD: 1858-1936.
Elwood Mead , son of Daniel and Lucinda Mead, was born in Patriot, Ind., on Jan. 16, 1858, and graduated from Purdue University in 1882, receiving the M.S. degree in 1884 and the E.D. in 1904. He also received degrees from Iowa State University and the University of Michigan. He was twice married– first to Florence Chase, then to Mary Lewis.
Mr. Mead was an engineer for the U. S. government and for the state of Wyoming and taught at Colorado Agricultural College and the University of California. After 1924 he was U.S. Commissioner of Reclamation. In addition to the titles listed below, he was the author of many government publications.
He died on Jan. 26, 1936.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- Irrigation Institutions: a Discussion of the Economic and
Legal Questions Created by the Growth of Irrigated Agriculture in the
West. New York, 1903.
- Government Aid and Direction in Land Settlement: an
Address. Denver, Colo., 1916.
- Progress Report on the Production and Distribution of
Milk. Berkeley, Calif., 1917.
- Helping Men Own Farms. New York,
1920.
MEEKER, EZP, A: 1830-1928.
While Ezra Meeker was latest to publish and least significant as a writer among the Indianians who wrote books promoting the settlement of the West Coastal country, he alone is linked with the Twentieth century and he took far more than a casual part in the development of the West. As late as 1910 or 1915 he was still campaigning, at his own expense, through the Middle West and East for trans-continental highways, for historical markings for the old Oregon Trail and for the greater glory of the Pacific Northwest. Since he lived until Dec. 3, 1928, he saw the highways, the historical markings and the consciousness of the importance of the great Northwest for which he had campaigned as accomplished facts–a boon seldom granted to crusaders.
Ezra Meeker was born in Butler County, O., on Dec. 29, 1830. His father, Jacob Redding Meeker, was a farmer and miller by trade; his mother was the former Phoebe Baker. In 1837 the family moved to Covington, Ind., stayed there for a few years, spent some time in Waveland and finally settled on a farm they had purchased near Plainfield, on the National Road.
By this time Ezra was twelve or fourteen years old, had had the conventional amount of schooling (he is known to have attended subscription schools in both Covington and Waveland) and he now took over the operation of the farm while his father followed his trade nearby.
page: 215[View Page 215]According to his own account in The Ox-Team; or the Old Oregon Trail, he had contracted the prevailing western fever early but his inclination was toward the Northwest, rather than the gold regions, and, besides, he had another project on his mind– the courting of Eliza Jane Sumner, a neighbor. Eliza finally accepted him, agreed to go to Oregon and they were married in May, 1851. In October they set out in Ezra's wagon (he was extremely proud of it, and of the quality of his oxen) loaded with Eliza's dowry, for Iowa .
They wintered in Iowa, Eliza had her first baby in due time, and in the spring they joined an emigrant train forming at Council Bluffs. The Meekers' preparations were most careful–Meeker stresses the plans they made, and the comfortable traveling as compared with that of some of the less provident of the party– and on Oct. I they arrived at Portland.
According to W. J. G. in the Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. XII:
"… Early the following year, in company with his brother Oliver, he journeyed to the north of the Columbia in search of a site for a home. He settled on McNeil's Island, in Puget Sound, later removing to the site of Puyallup, where he built the first cabin. For the greater part of fifty-three years he remained in this region as a farmer and hop-grower, though he spent four winters in London and made several prospecting trips to the Yukon.
"Well versed in the history of the Pacific Northwest and deeply impressed with the significance of the emigration movement, he resolved, in his seventy-fifth year, to devote the rest of his life to the commemorative marking of the Oregon Trail. On Jan. 29, 1906, with an ox-team drawing a covered wagon, he started from Puyallup, following such parts of the Trail as were still open, painting inscriptions on various landmarks and urging the citizens of the various settlements to set up inscribed stones and monuments. From the end of the Trail he continued on a tour of the East, everywhere attracting great attention. In 1910 he repeated this performance; in 1915 he traveled over a considerable part of the Trail in an automobile, and in 1924, at the age of ninety-three, he followed its course for 1300 miles in an airplane. Two years later he founded the Oregon Trail Memorial Association, Inc., with headquarters in New York City . From the Atlantic Coast, in the summer of 1928, he started in an automobile to follow the Trail again; but on the way he was taken ill, and after remaining for a time in a Detroit hospital, was conveyed to Seattle, where, two months later, he died.
"Below medium height, of somewhat slender build, his head and face framed in a luxuriant shock of hair and bushy beard, Meeker became, in his later years, a familiar figure throughout a great part of the country. He also became widely known as an author … During his last years he was engaged on a revision of his autobiographical writings, but the work was not finished. Despite his loose and disconnected style and his carelessness with dates and incidents, his work will remain valuable as a picture of the migration and settlement period …"
From W. J. G., Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. XII; Meeker–The Ox-Team; or the Old Oregon Trail; and from Ms. Notes of Elizabeth May Banta.
- Washington Territory West of the Cascade Mountains.
Olympia, Wash., 1870.
- Pioneer Reminiscences of Puget Sound.
Seattle, Wash., 1905.
- The Ox-Team; or the Old Oregon Trail, 1852-1896.
Indianapolis, 1906.
(Reprinted at other places and on other dates.)
- Ventures and Adventures of Ezra Meeker, or Sixty Years of
Frontier Life. Seattle, Wash., 1909.
- Personal Experiences on the Oregon Trail Sixty Years
Ago. St. Louis, 1912.
(Reissue of the Ox-Team.)
- Story of the Lost Trail to Oregon. Seattle,
Wash., 1915.
- The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra Meeker; Ventures
and Adventures, Sixty-Three Years of Pioneer Life in the Old Oregon Country;
an Account of the Author's Trip Across the Plains with an Ox-eam,
1852; Return Trip, 1906-7; His Cruise on Puget Sound, 1853; Trip Through the
Natchess Pass, 1854; Over the Chilcoot Pass, Flat-Boating on the Yukon,
1898. Seattle, 1916.
(A revision of Ventures and Adventures.)
- Seventy Years of Progress in Washington.
Seattle, 1921.
- Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail.
Yonkers-on-Hudson, N. Y., 1922. (A revision of The Ox-Team.)
- Kate Mulhall, a Romance of the Oregon Trail; Drawings by
Margaret Landers Sanford, Rudolf A. Kausch and Oscar W. Lyons, Map of the
Oregon Trail and Photographs. New York, 1926.
MERCER, HAMILTON: ?-?
Hamilton Mercer , one-time editor of the Greensburg, Ind., EVENING TIMES, was a student of sociology, a writer of scholarly editorials, and a physical culture enthusiast. He left Greensburg in 1916 and died in California a few years later.
Information from the Barry Ms.
page: 216[View Page 216]- The Reproach of Capital Punishment, a Brief.
Greensbury, Ind., 1915.
MERRILL, CATHARINE: 1824-1900.
Catharine Merrill , teacher and author, was born Jan. 24, 1824, at Corydon, Ind., then the capital of the state. Her father, Samuel Merrill, at that time State Treasurer, had been educated at Dartmouth College. When Mr. Merrill moved the treasury to the new capital of Indianapolis, his family accompanied him to the pioneer community, and there he added teaching to his other duties by opening a school.
Catharine studied under her father, then opened a primary school of her own. For a time she taught at the Female Seminary in Cleveland, O. From 1859 to 1861 she studied in Germany but returned to the U. S. to go into service as a nurse during the Civil War. Until 1885 she was professor of English literature at Northwestern Christian (now Butler) University in Indianapolis, and from 1885 until her death she taught privately. She died May 30, 1900.
Information from Dunn–Indiana and Indianans, Vol. III; The Man Shakespeare and Other Essays; and the Indianapolis Public Library.
- The Soldier of Indiana in the War for the Union.
Indianapolis, 1866-69. 2 vols.
- The Man Shakespeare and Other Essays (by Catharine Merrill
with Impressions and Reminiscences of the Author by Melville B. Anderson,
and with Some Words of Appreciation from John Muir. (Published posthumously
through the agency of friends and admirers.)
Indianapolis, 1902.
- Catharine Merrill, Life and Letters, Collected and Arranged
by Katharine Merrill Graydon. Greenfield, Ind.,
1934.
MERRILL, SAMUEL: 1792-1855.
" Samuel Merrill (Oct. 29, 1792–Aug. 24, Aug. 24, 1855), Indiana official, was the second of nine sons of Jesse and Priscilla (Kimball) Merrill of Peacham, Vt … Samuel Merrill attended an academy at Peacham and studied for a year, 1812-13, as a sophomore at Dartmouth College. He then taught school and studied law for three years at York, Pa. In 1816 he settled at Vevay, Switzerland County, Ind., in the next year was admitted to the bar, and soon took his place as an active member of the community … he was a representative of the county in the General Assemblies of 1819-20, 1820-21, and 1821-22. The General Assembly elected him State Treasurer on Dec. 14, 1822, and he held the office for four terms, till 1834. In 1824 he moved the state offices from Corydon to Indianapolis, one wagon sufficing for all the records and money. It took eleven or twelve days to cover the distance (125 miles by present highways); the road through the wilderness was impassable in some places, and a new way had to be cut through the woods.
"He lived henceforth at the capital … he personally conducted a school; he acted for a time as captain of the first military company, served as a commissioner for the erection of the state capitol building, which was finished in 1835, was an early president of the Temperance Society, a manager of the State Colonization Society, a trustee of Wabash College, and the second president of the Indiana Historical Society, 1835-48. He was active in the organization of the Second Presbyterian Church (New School) and an intimate friend of Henry Ward Beecher during his pastorate. On Jan. 30, 1834, the General Assembly elected him president of the State Bank of Indiana. In this capacity he personally examined each of the thirteen branches twice a year. An excellent law and the efficient service of officers such as Merrill, Hugh McCulloch, and J. F. D. Lanier combined to develop one of the best of all the state banks. After two terms in the office, Merrill was replaced by the choice of a Democratic Legislature. From 1844 to 1848 he was president of the Madison & Indianapolis Railroad, during which time it was completed to Indianapolis. He spent the next two years compiling a third edition of the Indiana Gazetteer and in 1850 he bought Hood and Noble's bookstore, which later, under the name of the Merrill Company, undertook some publishing and eventually entered into the Bowen-Merrill (now the Bobbs-Merrill) publishing company. He also, with others, constructed a mill on Fall Creek.
"On Apr. 12, 1818, Merrill married Lydia Jane Anderson of Vevay, daughter of Capt. Robert and Catherine (Dumont) Anderson. Ten children were born to them. After his wife's death in 1847, he was married, second, to Elizabeth Douglas Young, of Madison, Ind. Throughout his life he was the personification of traditional New England Puritanism; conscientious, industrious, and devout … A bitter, twenty-four-page pamphlet which he published in 1827 attacking Gov. James Brown Ray illustrates the thoroughness with which he performed 'an unpleasant task.' During the existence of the Whig party, he adhered to it–with a strong anti-slavery leaning–and was an active party worker. He died in Indianapolis .
page: 217[View Page 217]Condensed from C. B. C., Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. XII.
- To the Public. Defense Against Accusations Supposedly Made by
James B. Ray. Indianapolis, 1827.
- The Indiana Gazeteer.
Indianapolis, 1850. (3rd.
ed.)
MERRILL, SAMUEL: 1831-1924.
Samuel Merrill , son of Samuel and Lydia Jane Anderson Merrill, was born in Indianapolis , May 30, 1831. He was educated at Wabash College, receiving his A.B. degree in 1851 and A.M. in 1854. He started his career as a publisher and bookseller in Indianapolis in 1852, entering the business his father had purchased in 1850. During the Civil War he was an officer in the 70th Indiana Volunteer Infantry and from 1889 to 1893 he served as consul-general at Calcutta , India. His death occurred in Indianapolis on Sept. 3, 1924.
Information from Who Was Who in America and the Indianapolis Public Library.
- The Seventieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the War of the
Rebellion. Indianapolis, 1900.
MILLER, .ANNE ARCHBOLD (MRS. EUGENE HARPER): ?-
Anne Archbold , daughter of William Dana Archbold, was born in Fredonia, N. Y. On Aug. 10, 1896, she married Eugene Harper Miller, prominent banker, who died in 1940. She is now (1946) a resident of South Bend, Ind.
Information from the South Bend Public Library.
- Little Old Outlaws. Chicago,
1910.
- Huldy's Whistle.
Chicago, 1919.
- Little Bigs. New York, 1925.
- Square Dog and Other Stories. New
York, 1926.
MILLER, CINCINNATUS HINER (JOAQUIN): 1838-1913.
Although his residence in the state was brief, and his fame was gained as a Far Westerner, Cincinnatus Hiner Miller was an Indianian by birth and must be considered here, whether or not he was, as critic Van Wyck Brooks has said, "the greatest liar living … half a mountebank and all the time a showman."
Cincinnatus Hiner Miller was born, son of Hulings and Margaret Witt Miller, in Liberty, Ind., on Mar. 10, 1839. Hulings Miller was a Quaker; a school- master by profession and a wanderer by preference. The family had lived in Ohio before Cincinnatus was born and they moved on to the west as he grew up, stopping in various states and territories while the elder Miller taught a term or two of school. Finally, in 1852 the Millers reached their destination, the Oregon country. According to the Dictionary of American Biography, in Oregon, "At about the age of seventeen, his son 'Nat' as he was called, ran away from home in company with another boy. They found their way to one of the mining camps in Northern California where Miller obtained employment as a cook. Being a rather delicate lad, he fell seriously ill with the scurvy as the result of the bad food and his own cooking. He was nursed back to health by a Dr. Ream in Yreka, Cal., and was subsequently befriended by a gambler named James Thompson, who figures attractively in his writings as 'The Prince.' Despite Miller's lifelong assertion that he was wounded in the battle of Castle Rocks against the Modocs, on June 15, 1855, residents of that vicinity scouted the claim that he had taken part in the skirmish. Probably in 1856 Miller made the acquaintance of Joseph De Bloney, known as 'Mountain Joe.' According to Miller's story, the mountaineer proposed to establish an Indian republic at the base of Mount Shasta. If so grandiose a scheme was planned, it went no further than the building of a road-house in which Miller did the cooking. In the spring of 1857 he went to live with an Indian tribe, the Diggers, and married one of their women, who bore him a daughter, Cali-Shasta. His native associates were noted horse-thieves, and Miller, as a preliminary to establishing the republic, fell in with their ways. He was captured, after an exciting chase, on July 8, 1859, but was rescued the same night by a friend who sawed through the bars of the jail window. Although he had no share in the Pit River massacre of this year, the Shasta region became very unsafe for any Indian sympathizer, and Miller, soon after it, wisely returned to Oregon.
"He then for a time attended an academy named 'Columbia College' in Eugene, taught school for a while in Clarke, Washington Territory, studied law on the side, and was admitted to the bar in Portland, Ore., in 1861. Instead of practising, he established in 1862, in company with one Isaac Mossman, a pony page: 218[View Page 218] express between Washington Territory and ldaho. With its proceeds, he purchased in 1863 the DEMOCRATIC REGISTER in Eugene and became an editor. His first appearance in print had been a letter in defense of the Mexican bandit, Joaquin Murietta, which had resulted in his friends nick-naming him 'Joaquin;' the name pleased him better than his own more burdensome one and in time he adopted it as his pen name. Some verses of his attracted the attention of a poetically minded girl in Port Orford, Ore., named Minnie Theresa Dyer, who wrote to him enthusiastically about them. After some correspondence, Miller rode over to Port Orford and returned the same week with Minnie Myrtle, as he called her, as his bride. His newspaper being suppressed by the government because of its support of the Confederacy, the editor moved to Canyon City, Ore., where he soon won the favor of his fellow-townsmen by successfully leading a party of them against a band of hostile Indians. He was rewarded by being elected judge of the Grant County court in 1866. A little later his wife, now the mother of two children, separated from him. Miller solaced his loneliness by bringing out two volumes of poetry, Specimens (1868) and Joaquin et dl (1869). Those attracted some attention, and in 1870 he went down to San Francisco to enjoy his reclame and was there admitted to the circle which included Bret Harte, Charles Warren Stoddard, and Ina Coolbrith.
"Thence he started on a literary pilgrimage to England . After visiting the Burns and Byron shrines, he attempted to find a London publisher for a compilation of his own verse, some of which had already appeared in newspapers, under the title, Pacific Poems. Failing in this, he printed the book privately and succeeded in gaining the attention of the critics. William Michael Rossetti took him up and introduced him to London literary circles, where his striking appearance in chaps and sombrero, which he wore indoors and out, soon made him the sensation of the season. In 1871 Longmans published his Songs of the Sierras, which in spite of its cheap rhythms and Byronic imitations was loudly acclaimed by the British. Its reception in America was less favorable, critics refusing to accept its romanticism as a genuine expression of the Far West. Attention was also unkindly called to the author's lack of learning which had led him into sundry errors in his poems, such as riming 'Goethe' with 'teeth.' A brief visit to America convincing the poet of his unpopularity, he sought consolation in foreign travel. During the next few years he visited South America, Europe, and possibly the Near East. In 1873 he published Songs of the Sun-Lands, and, in prose, Life Amongst the Modocs (republished with variations under other titles), regarded by Stuart Sherman as 'his most interesting book.' These were followed by The Ship in the Desert (1875), The Baroness of New York (1877), Songs of Italy (1878), showing the influence of Browning, and a prose Indian romance, Shadows of Shasta (1881). He also published several dramas, of which The Danites in the Sierras (1881), a Mormon play, was the most successful. In 1884 appeared Memorie and Rime, an autobiographical miscellany, and in 1886 The Destruction of Gotham, an unsuccessful novel. His last prose works were An Illustrated History of Montana (1894), a typical subscription history, and The Building of the City Beautiful (1897), showing Miller as a Utopist. In 1897, also, he published the Complete Poetical Works of Joaquin Miller. His narrative poem, Light, which was published in 1907, was his last bid for fame and represents his closest approach to full maturity as a poet.
"Meanwhile, Miller had returned to America and tried living in New York, Boston, and Washington , all of which were too crowded for his taste. In 1883 he married Abbie Leland, and in 1886 he settled permanently in Oakland , Cal. There on the hills above the town he purchased an estate, known as 'The Heights' (in Miller's spelling usually 'The Hights'), which he adorned with trees and stone monuments to Fremont, Browning, and Moses, and with a funeral pyre to be used at his own death. For many years he was one of the landmarks of California. As a bearded sage and advocate of the simple life he was looked upon with a respect which was mingled with amusement at his eccentricities and horror at his theories of free love. In 1897-98 he found renewed adventures as correspondent of the NEW YORK JOURNAL in the Klondike. By the time of his death in 1913 the West that he loved had vanished. The best of his work remains of significance as an attempt, never wholly successful, to celebrate on a heroic scale its freedom and its beauty …"
E. S. B., The Dictionary of dmerican Biography, Vol. XII.
- Specimens. 1868.
- Joaquin Et A1. Portland, Ore.,
1869.
- Pacific Poems [privately printed in England]. 1871.
- Songs of the Sierras. Boston,
1871.
- Songs of the Sun-Lands. Boston,
1873.
- Life Amongst the Modocs. London,
Eng., 1873. (Published in America in
1874 under the title Unwritten
page: 219[View Page 219] History
and later reissued with slight variations under several titles.
- Arizonian. Baltimore, 1874.
- The Ship in the Desert. Boston,
1875.
- First Fam'lies in the Sierras.
Chicago, 1876.
- The One Fair Woman. New York,
1876.
- The Baroness of New York. New
York, 1877.
- The Danites in the Sierras, and Other Choice
Selections; Edited byA. V. D. Honeyman. New York, 1877.
- Songs of Italy. Boston, 1878.
- Songs of Far-Away Lands. London,
1878.
- Shadows of Shasta. Chicago,
1881.
- Paquita, the Indian Heroine. Hartford,
Conn., 1881.
- The Poetical Works of Joaquin Miller.
Boston, 1882.
- The Silent Man: a Comedy-Drama, in Four Acts.
New York, 1883.
- Memorie and Rime. New York,
1884.
- '49, the Gold-Seeker of the Sierras.
New York, 1884.
- The Destruction of Gotham. New
York, 1886.
- The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras.
Boston, 1886.
- Songs of the Mexican Seas.
Boston, 1887.
- Tennyson's Fairies and Other Stories (with
others). Boston, 1889.
- In Classic Shades, and Other Poems.
Chicago, 1890.
- My Own Story. Chicago, 1890.
- Songs of Summer Lands. Chicago,
1892.
- The Building of the City Beautiful. A Poetic Romance.
Cambridge, 1893.
- An Illustrated History of the State of Montana.
Chicago, 1894.
- The Battle of Castle Crags. San
Francisco, 1894.
- Songs of the Soul. San
Francisco, 1896.
- The Complete Poetical Works of Joaquin Miller.
San Francisco, 1897.
- Chants for the Boer: a Series of Stirring War Poems.
San Francisco, 1900.
- True Bear Stories; with Introductory Notes by David Start
Jordan; Together with a Thrilling Account of the Capture of the Celebrated
Grizzly "Monarch." Chicago,
1900.
- As It Was in the Beginning: Poem: Dedicated to the Mother of
Men. San Francisco, 1903. (Reissued as Light in 1907 and later as A Song of
Creation.)
- Happy Days: Stories and Poems (with others).
Akron, O., 1906.
- Columbus; a Short Cantata for Mixed Voices; Music by E. S.
Hosmer. Boston, 1917.
- Columbus, a Study of Joaquin Miller's Great
Poem. Lansing, Mich., 1919.
- Autobiography and Favorite Poems. San
Francisco, 1919.
- Trelawny with Shelley and Byron. Pompton
Lakes, N. J., 1922.
- Overland in a Covered Wagon; an Autobiography; Edited bySidney G. Firman. New York, 1930.
- A Royal Highway of the World. Portland,
Ore., 1932.
- Joaquin Miller: His California Diary Beginning in 1855 and
Ending in 1857; with an Introduction by John S. Richards.
Seattle, 1936.
- The Great Discoverer.
- The Life of Christ.
- An Oregon Idyl.
- The Whitewater Canal.
- Exodus for Oregon.
- Cuba Libre, with Other Selections. New
York.
- Tally-Ho.
- Songs of the American Seas.
MILLER, FREEMAN EDWIN: 1864-
Born in Fountain County, Ind., in 1864, Freeman Edwin Miller graduated from De Pauw University in 1887 and received his A.M. degree in 1890. He was admitted to the bar in 1886, went to Texas the following year, where he was attorney for Hemphill County in 1888 and district attorney in 1889, and in 1890 moved to Oklahoma .
From 1894 to 1898 Miller was professor of English at Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College.
Information from the Barry Ms.
- Oklahoma and Other Poems. Buffalo, N.
Y., 1895.
- Songs from the Southwest Country. New
York, 1898.
- Oklahoma Sunshine. Stillwater,
Okla., 1905.
MILLER, GEORGE MOREY: 1808-?
George Morey Miller was born in Hope, Ind., in 1868 and graduated from the Franklin, Ind., high school. He received the A.B. degree from Indiana University in 1892; A.M. from Harvard in 1898 and the Ph.D. from Heidelberg in 1911.
Miller taught in the Peru and Noblesville, Ind. , high schools from 1892 to 1897; was an instructor in English at the University of Cincinnati in 1898-99; at Radcliffe, 1899-1900; Washington State College, 1900-1901; University of Wisconsin, 1901-02; University of Cincinnati, 1902-13; Wabash College, 1913-17; and became head of the English department at the University of Idaho in 1917.
Besides his other writing, Miller is the author of several successful textbooks.
Information from Who's Who in America.
- The Dramatic Element in the Popular Ballad.
Cincinnati, 1905.
- page: 220[View Page 220]
- Suggestions for Teachers of English in Elementary and
Secondary Schools. Cincinnati, 1905.
- Alt Heidelberg. 1911.
- The Historical Point of View in English Literary Criticism
from 1570-1770. Heidelberg, 1913.
- An Exaltation of Education in Indiana. 1916.
- State Course of Study in English for the High Schools of
Idaho. 1920.
- South African Harvest, and Other Poems.
Oxford, Eng., 1939.
- Thudding Drums; an Anthology of English and South African
Poetry. London, 1942.
MILLER, SADIE LOUISE: 1870-
Born in Honesdale, Pa., in 1870, Sadie Louise Miller was educated in the local schools and at Taylor University, in Indiana , where she graduated, majoring in music. A resident of Upland, Ind., she was a contributor of poetry to several anthologies, magazines, and newspapers.
Information from the Barry Ms.
- Poems. [1908?]
MILLER-JENNINGS, EULORA (MRS. RUFUS JENNINGS): ?-
Eulora Miller was born in Lafayette, Ind., probably in the late Fifties or early Sixties, since she was a younger sister of Melville W. Miller, who is known to have been born in 1856.
She attended the Lafayette schools and studied, for a time at least, at Purdue University. She served as librarian of the Lafayette Public Library in 1887-88 and married Rufus Jennings in 1890. Her later years were spent in California. Her recorded literary production consists entirely of plays.
de Hart–Past and Present of Tippecanoe County, 1909.
- Mrs. Oakley's Telephone. New
York, n.d.
- Tom's Fiancée. New
York, n.d.
- Dinner at the Club. New York,
n.d.
- Die Prinzessin Barnhof. New
York, n.d.
MILLIS, HARRY ALVIN: 1873-
Harry Alvin Millis , son of John and Maria Bruner Millis, was born in Paoli, Ind., on May 14, 1873, and graduated from Indiana University in 1895, receiving the A.M. degree in 1896. In 1899 he received the Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He married Alice M. Schoff in 1901.
After teaching at the University of Arkansas, Stanford University, and the University of Kansas, in 1916 he became professor of economics at the University of Chicago, serving as chairman of the department from 1928 to 1938. Later he served on the National Labor Relations Board, being appointed chairman in 1940.
Information from Who's Who in America.
- The Japanese Problem in the United States; an Investigation
for the Commission on Relations with Japan Appointed by the Federal Council
of the Churches of Christ in America. New York,
1915.
- Sickness and Insurance; a Study of the Sickness Problem and
Health Insurance. Chicago, 1937.
- Economics of Labor (withR. E. Montgomery). New York, 1938-45. 3 vols.
- How Collective Bargaining Works; a Survey of Experience in
Leading American Industries (with others). New
York, 1942.
MILLIS, WILLIAM ALFRED: 1868-1942.
William Alfred Millis , son of John and Maria Bruner Millis, was born at Paoli, Ind., on June 17, 1868, and graduated from Indiana University in 1889, receiving the A.M. degree in 1890. He was awarded the LL.D. degree by Franklin College in 1908 and the D.D. by Hanover College in 1927. He was first married to Laura Clark of Bloomington, Ind., on Aug. 27, 1889, and after her death to Harriett Harding of Crawfordsville, on June 9, 1921.
He served as superintendent of the public schools of Paoli, (1889-94), Attica, (1894-1900), and Crawfordsville, Ind. (1900-1908). After 1908 he was president of Hanover College. From 1895 to 1902 he was dean of the Winona summer school and in 1904-05 was a lecturer on education at Indiana University. He was on the faculty of Wabash College in 1900-01 and 1907-08. Dr. Millis was a Presbyterian minister, a director of McCormick Theological Seminary, and a lecturer on educational and social problems.
He died in Crawfordsville.
Information from Who's Who in America and Mrs. William Alfred Millis.
- God or Mammon; Hanover College Baccalaureate Sermon.
Hanover, Ind., 1910.
- page: 221[View Page 221]
- The Teaching of High School Subjects (withHarriett Millis.) New York, 1925.
- Half Hours with College Students.
Boston, 1926.
- The History of Hanover College from 1827-1927.
Hanover, Ind., 1927.
- Talks to College Students.
MILLS, CALEB: 1806-1879.
Caleb Mills , "father of the public school system of Indiana ," first, and longtime (1833-1879) member of the Wabash College faculty, was born in Dunbarton, New Hampshire, in 1806. He and his twin sister, Tamar, were the last of the eight children of Caleb Mills , described as a "wealthy farmer."
Reared on the family farm, he entered Dartmouth College in 1824 and graduated in 1828. After a year in Andover Theological Seminary he became a traveling agent for one of the Sunday School Union organizations and traveled through the Middle West and South, visiting, and apparently becoming interested in, the Indiana scene.
He returned to Andover, and was graduated in 1833. Shortly after his graduation he saw an advertisement in the HOME MISSIONARY JOURNAL for a qualified young man who could preach on Sundays in Crawfordsville, Ind., and could teach in the new college and teachers training school being organized there. Having already decided upon the new West as a home, he answered the advertisement, found immediate support from his Dartmouth classmate, Edmund O. Hovey, who was one of the founders of the new institution, and was accepted.
With a profession, a paying position and a home in view, he married Miss Sarah Marshall, a Dunbarton young lady educated far beyond the custom of her day, and the young couple (accompanied by three young women whose avowed aim was to "go west to teach") arrived in Crawfordsville in Nov., 1833.
In December Professor Caleb Mills welcomed the first preparatory class of twelve hopeful young Hoosiers to what would, as soon as they were prepared for admission, become Wabash College. Mills was the entire faculty during the first year.
Two years later, when enough students had been prepared for study at the college level, the Wabash College faculty was organized with Mills as professor of languages; eventually he confined himself to the teaching of Greek, serving until 1876.
There was plenty of work for all connected with the struggling institution, but Caleb Mills had been first impressed with the need of common school education for all in the Middle West and, according to C. W. Moores' Caleb Mills and the Public School System of Indiana, "he agitated and argued, in season and out … in the public press and from the pulpit, upon the street corner and in the classroom until his system was adopted and established."
Most effective weapon in his campaign against the reactionary Indiana legislators (and their even more reactionary constituents) was his series of six pamphlets, caption-titled Read, Circulate and Discuss and signed "One of the People." Every General Assembly for six years, beginning in 1846, found a fresh blast on its hands at the opening of each annual session, and the pamphlets were widely circulated throughout the state. Finally, as legislators are wont to do under the lash of persistent lobbying, the necessary acts were passed, and the first State Superintendent of Public Instruction was appointed in 1852.
Caleb Mills was the second to hold this office, and under his administration his system became effective. He helped to found the Indiana State Teachers' Association in 1854, and his campaigning eventually resulted in the establishment of many county "seminaries" and, eventually, in the state-operated teacher training colleges. He was interested in higher education for women and campaigned for an Indiana women's college throughout his public life.
In 1876 Caleb Mills (whose orchard and whose sound investments in Crawfordsville real estate had made him financially independent), resigned his professorship and devoted his remaining years to building up the Wabash College library collections.
He died in 1879.
Information supplied by Moores–Caleb Mills and the Public School System of Indiana and by Hopkins, Mrs. Louis B.–Caleb Mills (Ms. in the Wabash College Archives).
- Read, Circulate, Discuss. An Address to the Legislature of
Indiana at the Commencement of Its Session, Dec. 7, 1846. By "One
of the People." Indianapolis, 1846.
- (Read, Circulate and Discuss.) An Address to the Legislature
of Indiana, at the Commencement of Its Session, December 6th, 1847. Upon
Popular Education. By One of the People.
Indianapolis, 1847.
- Read, Discuss and Circulate. An Address to the Legislature of
Indiana, on Common Schools, Showing the Advantages of a System of General
Education. By One of the People. Terre Haute,
1849.
- Read, Circulate and Discuss. An Address to the Legislature of
Indiana at the Commencement of the Session … By "One of
the People." Indianapolis, 1850.
- page: 222[View Page 222]
- Fifth Annual Message. By One of the People. Four Letters to
the Members of the Constitutional Convention, in 1852 ….
Indianapolis, 1852.
- Sixth Annual Address on Popular Education, to the Legislature
of Indiana. By One of the People. Indianapolis,
1852.
- Suggestions on the Formation of Character. An Address to
Youth, Delivered During Tours of County Visitation in 1856, by Caleb Mills,
Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of Indiana.
Indianapolis, 1857.
- Suggestions on the Revision of the Common School Law of
Indiana. Indianapolis, 1859.
- A Plea for a Female College for Indiana.
Crawfordsville, Ind., 1871.
- A Plea for Wabash College Library, and a Description of the
New Building. Crawfordsville, Ind., 1871.
- Read, Discuss, and Circulate! Educational Suggestions,
Prepared for the Consideration of the House Committee on Education, in the
Indiana Legislature, During the Session of 1873.
Indianapolis, 1873.
- New Departures in Collegiate Control and Culture.
New York, 1880.
MILLS, FRANK MOODY: 1831-?
Frank Moody Mills was born in Ladoga, Ind., in 1831. He was educated in the local schools and attended the Wabash College preparatory department before entering for his first work in the collegiate department in 1843.
At fourteen he had begun to learn the printing trade, and, when he left college in 1845, he took up the business seriously, being, variously, a newspaper, law book and periodical publisher in Springfield, Ill., and Des Moines, Ia. He also engaged in farming, merchandising and in the promotion and operation of traction and bus lines.
Mr. Mills was active throughout his life, serving as acting president of the Sioux Falls, Ia., traction system in his mid-nineties.
Information from Who's Who in America; Mills –Early Days in a College Town; and the Wabash College Archives.
- Something About the Mills Family and Its Collateral Branches
…. Sioux Falls, S. D., 1911.
- Home-Made Jinglets Cast in the Rough at Odd Times.
Sioux Falls, S. D., 1914.
- Early Days in a College Town and Wabash College in Early Days
and Now with Autobiographical Reminiscences. Sioux
Falls, S. D., 1924.
- The Notings of a Nonogenarian; a Study in Longevity.
Boston, n.d. [1926].
- Life and Services of Capt. Jacob Westfall.
MINTURN, JOSEPH ALLEN: 1861-1943.
Joseph Allen Minturn , widely known patent attorney, was born in Athens County, O., on June 20, 1861. He came to Indianapolis at the age of fifteen. He was educated at Pennsylvania Military College, majoring in civil engineering and chemistry and graduating with honors in 1880. After graduation he began to study law, was admitted to the Indiana bar and began practice as a patent attorney in the early Nineties. He served in the Indiana Legislature in 1901.
He enlisted for service in the first World War, was discharged because of his age (he was fifty-five) but appealed, was reinstated and served overseas in the Quartermaster Corps, being discharged with the rank of captain. Joseph Allen Minturn was an amateur painter, engraver and illustrator, illustrating some of his books. He died on Apr. 3, 1943.
Information from the INDIANAPOLIS STAR for Apr. 4, 1943.
- Inventor's Friend; or, Success with Patents
…. Indianapolis, 1893.
- Price-Regulation Under Patents.
Indianapolis, 1916.
- The American Spirit.
Indianapolis, 1921.
- Frances Slocum of Miami Lodge; the Dramatic Story of the
White Girl that Became an Indian Princess and Her Relation to the Stirring
Events Through which the Northwest Territory was wrested from the British
and Indians. Indianapolis, 1928.
- Brown County Ballads.
Indianapolis, 1928.
- Historical and Other Poems.
Indianapolis, 1939.
MITCHELL, JOHN FOWLER, JR.: 1883-
John Fowler Mitchell, Jr. , son of John F. and Minnie Belle Mitchell, was born in 1883. He studied at Butler and Yale Universities and returned to Greenfield, Ind., to operate the William Mitchell Printing Company which his grandfather had founded there.
Information from the Greenfield Public Library.
- The Rooster–Its Origin as a Democratic
Emblem. Greenfield, Ind., 1913.
- The Way There: a Morality Play in Four Acts (withMinnie Belle Mitchell). n.p. [Greenfield], n.d. [1914].
- Heroes of War, Past and Present.
Greenfield, Ind., 1918.
MITCHELL, MINNIE BELLE ALEXANDER (MRS. JOHN F.): 1863-
Minne Belle Alexander was born in Victoria, Tex., on July 24, 1863. Reared in Greenfield, Ind., she married John F. Mitchell, newspaper publisher of that place who was a schoolmate and childhood friend of James Whitcomb Riley. Mrs. Mitchell was long active in Indiana women's literary club work.
Information supplied by the Greenfield, Ind., Public Library.
- The Way There: a Morality Play in Four Acts (withJohn F. Mitchell, Jr.). n.p., n.d.
- Greenfield, the Historic Birthplace of the Nation's
Poet, James Whitcomb Riley. Greenfield, Ind.,
1925.
- Gray Moon Tale and Others.
Indianapolis, 1926.
- Hoosier Boy. Indianapolis, 1942.
MOFFETT, THOMAS CLINTON: 1869-1945.
Thomas Clinton Moffett , son of Samuel Schuman and Maria J. McKee Moffett, was born in Madison, Ind., on July 29, 1869. He received the B.S., A.M. and D.D. degrees from Hanover College in 1890, 1894 and 1910, respectively, and studied theology at Union Theological Seminary and at Free Church College, Edinburgh, Scotland.
He was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1893 and held pastorates at Flagstaff, Ariz., Raton, N. Mex. and Portland, Ore., from 1893 to 1901. He served as a missionary in Arizona from 1901 to 1906 and as Superintendent of Indian Work for the Presbyterian Board of National Missions, New York , from 1906 to 1928.
He died in 1945.
Information from Who's Who in America.
- The American Indian on the New Trail; the Red Man of the
United States and the Christian Gospel. New
York, 1914.
- The Bible in the Life of the Indians.
MONCRIEF, JOHN WILDMAN: 1850-1936.
John Wildman Moncrief , son of Jeptha and Grace Moncrief, was born in Wirt, Ind., on Sept. 10, 1850, and graduated from Denison University in 1873. He married Lucy L. Wood in 1878.
From 1873 to 1875 he was a tutor in history and Greek at Franklin College. He studied at the University of Leipzig in 1875-1876 and received the A.M. degree from Franklin College in 1876. He taught at Franklin College and Denison University until 1897, when he became an associate professor at the University of Chicago.
He died in 1936.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- Short History of the Christian Church for Students and
General Readers. New York, 1902.
MONFORT, FRANCIS CASSATTE: 1844-?
Francis Cassatte Monfort , son of Joseph Glass and Hannah Congar Riggs Monfort, was born in Greensburg, Ind., on Sept. 1, 1844, and graduated from" Wabash College in 1864, receiving the A.M. degree in 1867. He studied theology at McCormick Theological Seminary and Lane Theological Seminary and in Europe. In 1883 he received the D.D. degree from the University of Wooster. He married Anna Louisa Hubbard on May 17, 1871.
Ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1870, he served as pastor of a church in Cincinnati but resigned in 1873 to become editor of his father's journal, THE HERALD AND PRESBYTER. In 1879 he resumed his ministerial work in Cincinnati, at the same time continuing his editorship.
Information from Who's Who in America and Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. IV.
- Sermons for Silent Sabbaths: an Offering to Christian
Families and Vacant Churches. Cincinnati. 1884.
- Socialism and City Evangelization. 1887.
- The Law of Appeals. 1893.
- Ecclesiastical Discipline. 1900.
- Applied Theology. Cincinnati,
1904.
MONROE, PAUL: 1869-
Born at North Madison, Ind., June 7, 1869, Paul Monroe , son of the Rev. William Y. and Juliet Williams Monroe, received the B.S. degree from Franklin College in 1890. From 1895 to 1897 he was a Fellow in Sociology at the University of Chicago and received the Ph.D. degree from that institution in 1897. In 1901 he was a student at the University of Heidelberg. page: 224[View Page 224] His other degrees include the LL.D., University of Peking (1913), Franklin College (1918), University of Brazil (1939), and the Litt. D., Columbia (1929) and University of Dublin (1933).
After two years as instructor in history at Teachers College, Columbia University, he became professor of the history of education there in 1899. He became professor emeritus in 1938.
During his long career as an educator Dr. Monroe served as President of the Educational Section of the American Social Science Association, and under appointment of the Bureau of Insular Affairs of the War Department he served as commissioner to report on the Philippine school system. His contributions to the study of the history of education gave him an international reputation and his written works have done much to establish the subject as important in the training of teachers in the U. S.
Besides his text books (omitted from the following list), his greatest contribution to the whole field of education, however, was his work as editor-in-chief of the five volume Encyclopedia of Education.
Information from the Madison, Ind., Public Library and Who's Who in America.
- A Source Book of the History of Education for the Greek and
Roman Period. New York, 1901.
- Thomas Platter and the Educational Renaissance of the
Sixteenth Century. New York, 1904.
- The American Spirit; a Basis for World Democracy (withIrving E. Miller). Yonkers-on-Hudson, N. Y., 1918.
- A Report on Education in China. New
York, 1922.
- China: a Nation in Evolution. Chautauqua,
N. Y., 1927.
- Essays in Comparative Education. New
York, 1927 and 1932. 2 vols.
- Founding of the American Public School System; a History of
Education in the United States from the Early Settlements to the Close of
the Civil War Period. New York, 1940.
MONTGOMERY, DAVID B.: 1845-?
David B. Montgomery was born in Owensville, Ind., on Oct. 20, 1845, and spent nearly all of his life in that place. He attended local schools and probably continued his education elsewhere, for he eventually became a minister in the Baptist Church and the scholarly research involved in the preparation of his three books is not of a sort likely to result from only an attendance in the Indiana elementary schools of the Fifties. His genealogical work is something of a collector's item.
Information supplied by the Owensville, Ind., Carnegie Library.
- General Baptist History.
Evansville, 1882.
- A Genealogical History of the Montgomerys and Their
Descendants. Owensville, Ind., 1903.
- Life and Labors of A. D. Williams.
Owensville, Ind., 1905.
MONTGOMERY, JAMES SHERA: 1864-
James Shera Montgomery , son of the Rev. William M. and Anna Newlove Montgomery, was born at Mt. Carmel, Ind., in 1864 and graduated from the Muncie, Ind., Academy in 1881. He then studied at De Pauw and Northwestern universities and at Oxford in England and in 1892 received the B.D. degree from Garrett Bible Institute. He was ordained to the Methodist Episcopal ministry in 1893.
The Rev. Mr. Montgomery was pastor of churches in Toledo, O., and in Minneapolis before becoming, in 1916, pastor of the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D. C. After 1921 he served as chaplain of the House of Representatives.
He was twice married: first to Emma Shortie in 1885, then to Elsie May Farnham on Apr. 21, 1924.
He was a contributor to religious papers and reviews and a lecturer on sociologic and literary subjects.
Information from Who's Who in America.
- John Ruskin, the Voice of a New Age.
Cincinnati, 1902.
- Memorial Day Oration, May 30, 1913, Delivered… at
Arlington Cemetery, Va., Washinyton, D. C.,
1913.
MONTGOMERY, MARCUS WHITMAN: 1839-1894.
Marcus Whitman Montgomery , son of Mathew Peter and Mary Sherwood Bull Montgomery, was born in Prattsburg, N. Y., on June 21, 1839. He was named for Dr. Marcus Whitman, of Oregon fame, who was an intimate friend of his father.
When he was less than a year old, he was brought to Jay County, Ind., by his parents. His father died when he was a boy in his teens he became stenographer for the Missouri Legislature. Returning to Indiana, now twenty years of age he founded a newspaper, page: 225[View Page 225] THE JAY TORCHLIGHT, and edited it for three years, publishing in it much Jay County history and starting at this time to collect material for his History of Jay County, Indiana.
He attended Liber College, where he met and married Mary Votaw, in 1859, and he graduated from Amherst College in 1869. After spending six years in business in Cleveland, O., he entered Yale Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1878. While a student at the seminary he wrote a history of the English Bible which was never published.
His first and only pastorate was with the Congregational Church in Fort Scott, Kan. In 1881 he became superintendent of Minnesota and North Dakota for the churches of the American Home Missionary Society and in 1884 superintendent of church work among U.S. Scandinavians. He twice visited Sweden and Norway and investigated the free-church movement there.
In 1887 he traveled to Utah to study the Scandinavian -Mormon population and, in consequence of this trip, wrote a widely published article which was an attempt to stem the tide of Scandinavian converts to Mormonism. He also wrote a book in this cause and made addresses.
At the time of his death, on Feb. 6, 1894, he was an instructor at Chicago Theological Seminary.
Information from the Portland Public Library.
- History of Jay County, Indiana.
Chicago, n.d. [1864].
- A Wind from the Holy Spirit in Sweden and Norway.
- The Whole Story about the Mormons.
- Mormon Delusion: Its History, Doctrine, and the Outlook in
Utah. Boston, n.d. [1890].
MONTGOMERY, RICHMOND AMES: 1870-
Richmond Ames Montgomery , who wrote under the pen name of Timothy Kilbourn, was born in Hendricks County, Ind., on July 16, 1870, the son of John Martin and Frances Caroline Wright Montgomery. After studying at De Pauw University and at Hanover College, he graduated from Miami University in 1893, and from McCormick Theological Seminary in 1896 and was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry. He married Mary Frances Allhands in 1897.
From 1896 to 1917 he held pastorates in several midwestern states, and from 1917 until 1932 he served as president, successively, of Parsons College in Iowa, Centre College in Kentucky , Kentucky College for Women, and Lane Theological Seminary. From 1932 to 1940 he was on the faculty of Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Chicago.
Information from Who's Who in America.
- The Secret Place; Studies of Prayer.
Chicago, 1901.
- The Triumphant Ministry, Letters from Timothy Kilbourn to
Fred Gaynor. Philadelphia, 1914.
- The Winning Team of Centre College.
Danville, Ky., 1923.
- Thomas Dove Foster, 1847-1915. A Biography.
Cedar Rapids, Ia., 1929.
- Timeless Elements in Preaching. Inaugural Address as
Professor of Homiletics at the Opening of the 106th Year of the Seminary,
1935-1936, September 10, 1935. Chicago, 1936.
- Preparing Preachers to Preach. Grand
Rapids, Mich., 1939.
- Expository Preaching. New York,
1939.
- Reality in Religion; Studies of the Atonement of
Jesus. New York, 1941.
- Work-a-Day Religion.
- Lyman Beecher, a Study in Personality.
- The Masterful Man.
- The Open Door.
- The Challenge of the New Learning to the Church.
- The Function of the Christian Colleges.
MOODY, WILLIAM VAUGHN: 1869-1910.
" William Vaughn Moody , American poet and playwright, was born in Spencer, Ind., on July 8, 1869, the sixth of seven children. His father, Francis Burdette Moody, was a retired riverboat captain who had plied between Pittsburgh and New Orleans until his steamer was seized by the Southern troops at the beginning of the Civil War. His mother was Henrietta Emily Stoy, daughter of a pioneer Indiana family.
"When Moody was one year old the family moved to New Albany , on the Ohio River, and there he spent his boyhood. He began writing poems at fifteen, usually tearing them up as soon as they were written. After leaving high school, where he was editor of two newspapers, he studied drawing and painting for a year at the Pritchett Institute of Design in Louisville, Ky.
"The death of Moody's mother in 1884 and his father in 1886 broke up the family home, and he taught country school for a year near New Albany . During the next two years he prepared for college at the Riverview Academy, New York , earning his way by teaching.
"In 1889, at the age of twenty, Moody entered Harvard, his entire capital consisting of twenty-five page: 226[View Page 226] dollars. He supported himself by working at typewriting, tutoring, and proctoring, and in his senior year, having acquired enough points for graduation, he traveled in Europe as tutor to the son of a wealthy family. The trip was notable for a walking tour of the Black Forest and Switzerland , a winter spent in Florence, and a visit to Greece. Returning in time to read the class day poem, 'The Song of the Elder Brothers,' he was graduated in 1893.
"The next year he did graduate work at Harvard in medieval philology, earning his living by doing editorial work on Bulfinch's Mythology with his intimate friend, Robert Morss Lovett. The following year he was an assistant in the English department at Harvard and at Radcliffe College. The poems of this period were mostly in imitation of Keats, Browning, and Walt Whitman, and there were few of them that he did not later reject.
"After a summer of travel in Europe with Daniel Gregory Mason, Moody went to the University of Chicago in 1895 as instructor in English and rhetoric and he remained there seven years, attaining the rank of assistant professor in 1901. During those years his heart was never in his work, he longed for the vacations and leisure to write, and took frequent leaves of absence.
"In the spring of 1898 and the winter of 1899 he was in New York editing the Cambridge edition of Milton. The year 1900 he lived in New England, dividing his time between creative work and a textbook he was writing with Lovett. That year he made his debut in print with the publication of The Masque of Judgment, a lyrical drama in five acts. It had been begun three years before on a walking trip thru the Dolomite country of the Italian Tyrol. The summer of 1901 he went camping in the Rocky Mountains with Hamlin Garland. A collection of his Poems appeared in 1901.
"The publication of Moody's and Lovett's History of English Literature in 1902 liberated Moody from the drudgery of the classroom and permitted him to devote all his time to writing. John M. Manly, head of the English department at the University of Chicago, repeatedly scheduled courses for him, and he was offered full salary to lecture a single quarter a year, but he declined and taught no more classes after 1902, maintaining, however, a nominal connection with the university until 1907. He took a trip to Greece in 1902, spending much of his time reading Greek tragedy. The next few years he divided his time between Boston, New York, and Chicago . His New York home was in Waverly Place in Greenwich Village.
"In 1904 Moody published The Fire-Bringer, another lyrical drama intended as the first member of a trilogy on the Promethean theme, of which The Masque of Judgment was the second member. After this his work was sought by magazines …
"He went on a trip to Arizona with Ferdinand Schevill in 1905. He lived for a week at Orabi among the Hopi Indians and saw the spring dance at Walpi, and definitely planned his prose play, The Great Divide, which was based on a story from real life related to him by Mrs. Harriet Converse Brainerd of Chicago , who later became his wife. The play was written on his return from the trip. It is the story of the marriage by capture of a New England girl with an Arizona outlaw, providing a contrast between Eastern puritanism and the paganism of the West.
"The Great Divide made Moody's name known to the general public. He showed the play to Margaret Anglin, the actress, who gave it a trial performance in Chicago at the close of her season in the spring of 1906 under the title of A Sabine Woman. After the triumphant first act, she declined to go on with the play until Moody had affixed his name to a contract, while the audience waited tensely. He spent the summer at Cornish, N. H., revising the play, working with fierce concentration, and it was produced in New York by Henry Miller in the fall of 1906.
"Moody wrote with facility and thought it easier to write blank verse than prose. Poetry was his one ambition; all other undertakings were for the purpose of financial remuneration. He declined offers of assistance from friends, preferring to live poorly and have his independence. He helped support his sisters.
" 'Physically he was slightly above medium height,' recalls Lovett, 'graceful and well proportioned, in young manhood with a strength beyond his stature, and with great endurance. In college he wore a moustache; later in life, a Van Dyke beard. His hands were unusually deft and sensitive. His voice was clear and resonant.' He had blue eyes and a ruddy complexion. 'He was always a good companion, walking, swimming, riding, at a concert or art gallery, spending the night smoking before the fire or under the stars. I think he was at his best with one other person, or at least a small group …' In large groups he was inclined to be self-conscious and silent. He had a varied store of songs which he would render to the accompaniment of a guitar. He was very fond of tobacco. In literature he liked particularly the medieval French romances. page: 227[View Page 227] Returning to his early love, painting, he did, among other things, his own portrait.
"Moody was in perfect health until 1906 when he had an operation for the removal of a growth from his leg which had been injured in a severe fall while climbing Mount Parnassus four years earlier. (He was passionately fond of mountain-climbing.) The pain returned while he was on a trip to Italy in 1907, and in the spring of 1908, while living in New York , he had a serious attack of typhoid fever from which he never completely recovered. He spent that summer with Ridgely Torrence, the poet, on an island off the coast of Maine, and was nursed by Mrs. Brainerd, who became his wife in Quebec on May 7, 1909. There was a falling off in Moody's high spirits and his work after this, but he completed his second prose play, The Faith Healer, which had been forming in his mind since 1896 when he read newspaper accounts of Schlatter, a Western faith-healer. He called the play 'a queerish thing, at the antipodes from The Great Divide in method and feeling …' The Faith Healer was produced in St. Louis in the autumn of 1909, and in New York in Dec. 1909. Dramatically, it was less successful than its predecessor.
"After the play opened, he visited London and broke down badly. He wrote to a friend at home: 'The work which I did on The Faith Healer, together with the excitement of attending its production, came too soon after my typhoid convalescence.' Thereafter he was extremely ill.
"He died in Colorado Springs on Oct. 17, 1910, at the age of forty-one. He left unfinished The Death of Eve, intended to complete the trilogy of dramatic poems. His works were collected in 1912 in two volumes under the title Poems and Poetic Plays. Daniel Gregory Mason edited Some Letters of William Vaughn Moody and Robert Morss Lovett edited his Selected Poems in 1931 …"
Condensed from Authors Today and Yesterday.
- The Masque of Judgment: a Masque-Drama in Five Acts, and a
Prelude. Boston, 1900.
- Poems. Boston, 1901.
- History of English Literature (withRobert Morss Lovett). New York, 1902.
- The Fire-Bringer. Boston, 1904.
- The Great Divide: a Play. New
York, 1909.
- Gloucester Moors, and Other Poems.
Boston, 1910.
- The Faith Healer: a Play in Three Acts. New
York, 1910.
- Poems and Plays. Boston, 1912. 2 vols.
- Some Letters of William Vaughn Moody. (Edited byDaniel Gregory Mason.) Boston, 1913.
- Selected Poems. (Edited byRobert Morss Lovett.) Boston, 1931.
- Letters to Harriet; (edited byPercy Mackaye). Boston, 1935.
MOONEY, JAMES: 1861-1921.
Although little of his writing appears except in learned publications, serials, etc., James Mooney is worthy of far more than casual attention. The Dictionary of American Bioyraphy says of him, in part: "… [James Mooney], son of James and Ellin (Devlin) Mooney, was born at Richmond, Ind. He began his education in the common schools and later taught two terms. He was strongly interested in Indians, reading everything available on the subject, but his interest did not lead to any apparent avenue of support, and he entered the office of the RICHMOND PALLADIUM, where he worked both as a compositor and in an editorial capacity. After he had saved a little money he journeyed to Washington with a secret intent of going to Brazil to study the Indians of that country. In Washington he met Maj. J. W. Powell in 1885, and through him Mooney found an outlet for his enthusiasm in the Bureau of American Ethnology, where he remained for the rest of his life. His early Indian studies had taken the form of a list of tribes amounting to 3,000 entries and this came into use as material for the Handbook of American Indians … in the preparation of which he took an active part. In North Carolina he studied the language, folk lore, mythology, and material culture of the Cherokees (Myths of the Cherokees, Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology … 1895-96, 1900). At a fortunate juncture he discovered an ancient Cherokee ritual written in the Cherokee script (The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees, Seventh Annual Report … 1885-86, 1891). About 1890 the last ebullition of Indian raceconsciousness took place with the outbreak of the Ghost Dance–an endeavor to rehabilitate the Indian to his former status–and this phase of Indian life Mooney studied exhaustively (The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890, Fourteenth Annual Report… 1892-93, 1896). Some of his best years were spent in the investigation of the Kiowa (Calendar History of the Kiowa Indians, Seventeenth Annual Report … 1895-96, 1898), and at the time of his death he was engrossed with a large work on Kiowa heraldry. He also investigated the seemingly page: 228[View Page 228] anomalous presence of Siouan language tribes on the borders of the Virginia Algonquians and his research went far to clear up the history of the migrations of this great stock (The Siouan Tribes of the East, Bulletin 22 of the Smithsonian Institute, Bureau of Ethnology, 1894).
"Mooney's parents had come from Meath, Ireland, and he was deeply ingrained with Irish lore. One of his first papers was The Funeral Customs of Ireland (Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 1888, vol. XXV, 1888, pp. 1-56). His scientific writing was mostly confined to large, thoroughly prepared monographs. A particularly lucid style characterized his writing …"
In 1897 he married Ione Lee Gaut of Tennessee.
He died in 1921.
W. H., Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. XIII.
- Funeral Customs of Ireland.
Philadelphia, 1882.
- Myths of the Cherokees. Cambridge,
Mass., 1888.
- Cherokee Ball Play. New York,
1890.
- Cheyenne Indians, n.p. [Lancaster,
Pa.], 1907.
MOORE, ADDISON WEBSTER: 1866-1930
Addison Webster Moore was born in Plainfield, Ind., on July 30, 1866. His parents were John Sheldon and Adaline Hockett Moore.
Moore was educated in local schools and received the A.B. (1890) and A.M. (1893) degrees from De Pauw University. He received the Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1898. He married Ella E. Adams in 1891 and was an instructor and professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago from 1895 to shortly before his death, which occurred on Aug. 25, 1930.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- Functional Versus Representational Theories of Knowledge in
Locke's Essay. Chicago, 1902.
- Studies in Logical Theory (withJohn Dewey and others). Chicago, 1903.
- Existence, Meaning, and Reality in Locke's Essay and
in Present Epistemology. Chicago, 1903.
- Pragmatism and Its Critics.
Chicago, 1910.
- Creative Intelligence; Essays in the Pragmatic
Attitude (withJohn Dewey and others). New York, 1917.
MOORE, AMBROSE YOEMANS: 1822-1904.
A. Y. Moore came to South Bend, Ind., in 1849 as minister of the Presbyterian Church. As a resident of that city he was intimately acquainted with Schuyler Colfax, who was to become vice-president of the U. S. , and whose biographer he later became.
Dr. Moore left South Bend in 1854 and served as an instructor in Valparaiso College and later as treasurer of Hanover College.
Information from the South Bend Public Library; the Valparaiso Public Library; and the Northern Indiana Historical Society.
- The Life of Schuyler Colfax.
Philadelphia, 1868.
- History of the Presbytery of Indianapolis.
Indianapolis, 1876.
- Memorial Sermon, Sabbath, May 25, 1890.
Madison, Ind., 1890.
- History of Hanover College.
Indianapolis, 1900.
MOORE, EDWARD E.: 1866-1940.
Edward E. Moore , author, editor and newspaper publisher, son of Isaac and Josephine Snyder Moore, was born Mar. 12, 1866, on his father's farm near the Ohio River in Lawrence County, O. Edward was the seventh of a family of twelve children–six boys and six girls. Two of his elder brothers and one sister being school teachers, Edward early in life determined to acquire an education and qualify himself for the profession of teaching school. He made good use of his time, studied diligently in the short country school terms, and worked out his problems by the light of coal oil lamps at night. Graduating from the common school, he attended Holbrook Normal School in Lebanon, O., and realized his ambition to teach in the public schools at the age of twenty.
In the year 1890, after five years of successful work in the public schools of his native state, Edward and his younger brother, Elbert, purchased a small newspaper and printing office in College Corner, O., where for eight years they edited and published the COLLEGE CORNER CHRONICLE, an independent weekly newspaper. A large subscription list was built up for their paper in the populous adjoining counties of Preble and Butler , in Ohio , and Union, in Indiana . In 1898, having greatly increased their plant facilities and outgrown their territory, the brothers disposed of a part of their holdings and moved the newspaper equipment to Connersville, Ind., twenty miles away, where they enlarged their outfit and began the publication page: 229[View Page 229] of the CONNERSVILLE COURIER, which they sold to new management five years later.
Edward Moore studied law and was admitted to the bar but never engaged in the practice of law. He was elected Indiana state senator in 1908 and served two terms in the upper branch of the Legislature during the administration of Gov. J. Frank Hanly. Much of his effort as a member of the Legislature was devoted to the enactment of legislation favorable to higher educational advantages in the public school system of the state.
About the year 1911 or 1912 he took employment with the Osborne Calendar Company, New York , and was sent to Los Angeles, Calif., as the company's state representative. Concluding his contract with this company, he embarked in the real estate brokerage business in Los Angeles, then "booming," where marked success rewarded his efforts. He virtually grew up with the city and became a part of it the rest of his life.
He died in his Los Angeles home on Oct. 23, 1940.
Supplied by Elbert Moore (brother).
- A Century of Indiana. New York,
n.d. [1910].
- Words Fitly Spoken.
Indianapolis, n.d. [1912].
- Guiding Stars, Indianapolis,
n.d. [1913].
MOORE, ROBERT WEBBER: 1862-
Robert Webber Moore , son of Cameron and Mary Jane Webber Moore, was born in Delphi, Ind., on Dec. 14, 1862, and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1887. He also studied in Europe and at the University of Chicago and in 1915 received the L.H.D. degree from Hamilton College. In 1887 he married Alice Booth Wheeler, who died in 1938.
For two years, 1887-1889, he taught Latin and French at Georgetown College, Ky. , and after 1890 he was on the faculty of Colgate University as professor of German and French.
He lectured extensively on Germany and German literature, and on China and was a reviewer of German books for the NATION. He was also a frequent commencement speaker.
Information from Who's Who in America.
- History of German Literature. Hamilton, N.
Y., 1900. (8th ed.)
- Weimar, the Athens of Germany. Hamilton, N.
Y., 1908.
MOORES, CHARLES WASHINGTON, JR: 1862-1923.
Charles Washington Moores, Jr. , was born in Indianapolis Feb. 15, 1862. He was the son of Charles Washington and Julia Dumont Merrill Moores and the grandson of Samuel Merrill. After graduation from Wabash College in 1882 he studied law at Central Law School, Indianapolis , and began the practice of law in 1883. He was a lecturer at the Indiana Law School and at the Indiana University School of Law, a U. S. commissioner, and a member of the law firm of Pickens, Moores, Davidson and Pickens. In 1896 he married Elizabeth Nichols of Philadelphia . In addition to his books he was also the author of articles which were published in various law journals and magazines. He died in 1923.
Information from Dunn–Indiana and Indianans, Who Was Who in America; and the Indianapolis Public Library.
- Caleb Mills and the Indiana School System.
Indianapolis, 1905.
- The Life of Abraham Lincoln for Boys and Girls.
Boston, 1909.
- The History of Indiana for Boys and Girls.
Boston, 1909.
- The Life of Christopher Columbus for Boys and Girls.
Boston, 1912. (Also
published under the title, The Story of Christopher Columbus.)
- Lincoln Selections. 1913.
- President Lincoln At Home.
- Abraham Lincoln, Lawyer. Greenfield,
Ind., 1922.
MORAN, THOMAS FRANCIS: 1866-1928.
Thomas Francis Moran , son of John and Mary Moran, was born in Columbia, Mich., on Jan. 9, 1866. He received his early education in the public schools and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1887, being admitted to the Michigan bar in the same year. In 1895 he received the Ph.D. degree from Johns Hopkins University. He married Louise R. Upham on Aug. 5, 1896.
From 1887 to 1892 he was superintendent of schools at Elk River, Minn., and after 1895 was associated with Purdue University as professor of history and head of the department of history and economics. For many years he was the university's representative on the Western Intercollegiate Conference. He was also active in campus affairs, especially the establishment of the Purdue Memorial Union and the organization of the semi-centennial in 1924. Dr. Moran was a recognized page: 230[View Page 230] authority on English and American constitutional history, had a nation-wide reputation as a scholar, speaker, and writer, and, in addition to the books listed below, was the author of many textbooks (in collaboration with Dr. James A. Woodburn of Indiana University) and contributed to reviews and educational publications on political and historical topics.
He died on Oct. 21, 1928.
Information from the Purdue University Libraries; Who Was Who in America and Thomas Francis Moran. A Memorial.
- The Rise and Development of the Bicameral System in
America. Baltimore, 1895.
- The Theory and Practice of the English Government.
New York, 1903.
- The Formation and Development of the Constitution.
Philadelphia, n.d. [1904].
- American Presidents; Their Individualities and Their
Contributions to American Progress. New York,
n.d. [1917].
- The History and Government of Indiana (withJames A. Woodburn). New York, 1920.
- Constitution of Indiana, with Questions and Notes (withJames A. Woodburn). New York, 1926.
- The Ethics of Politics; an Address Delivered …
Before the Phi Beta Kappa Club of Purdue University, March 21, 1927,
n.p., n.d. [1927].
- The Character and Ideals of Abraham Lincoln
…. n.p. [Indianapolis], n.d. [1927].
- Active Citizenship (withJames A. Woodburn). New York, 1928.
- Our United States (withJames A. Woodburn and H. C. Hill). New York, 1930.
MORGAN, DICK THOMPSON: 1854-1920.
Dick Thompson Morgan , son of Valentine and Frances Thompson Morgan, was born in Prairie Creek, Ind., on Dec. 6, 1854, and graduated from Union Christian College in 1876, receiving the M.S. degree in 1882. He graduated from Central Law School in Indianapolis in 1880. On May 30, 1878, he married Ora Heath.
Following his graduation from law school he practiced law in Terre Haute, Ind., and in 1880-81 was a member of the Indiana Legislature. From 1882 to 1886 he was editor and publisher of the TERRE HAUTE COURIER.
He was an attorney for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad for three years, then in 1889 settled in Guthrie, Okla. From 1909 to 1921 he was a member of Congress from that state.
He died on July 4, 1920.
He published and annotated several law books not listed here.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- Land Credits–a Plea for the American
Farmer. New York, 1915.
MORGAN, THOMAS JEFFERSON: 1839-1902.
" Thomas Jefferson Morgan (Aug. 17, 1839-July 13, 1902), soldier, Baptist clergyman, educator, and denominational leader, … [was] the son of Rev. Lewis Morgan and his third wife, Mary C. Causey (or Cansey), he was born in Franklin, Ind. His grandfather had been a slaveholder, but his father was an anti-slavery advocate and a leader in religious, political, and educational matters. Thomas,was fitted for college in the preparatory school of Franklin College and received the degree of A.B. from that institution in 1861, though he left in his senior year to enlist in the Union army. After three months' service, he took charge of public education at Atlanta, Ill., but on Aug. 1, 1862, was appointed first lieutenant in the 70th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. His period of military service continued for over three years. Prominent in the enlistment of negro troops and eloquent in their defense, he became lieutenant-colonel of the 14th United States Colored Infantry on Nov. 1, 1863, and colonel on Jan. 1, 1864. He commanded a division at the battle of Nashville and was brevetted brigadier- general, Mar. 13, 1865 …
"After leaving the army he entered Rochester Theological Seminary, graduating in 1868. He was ordained a Baptist minister, at Rochester, N. Y., in 1869, but held only one brief pastorate–at Brownville, Nebr., 1871-72. From 1872 to 1874 he was president of the Nebraska Normal School at Peru; from 1874 to 1881, he taught homiletics and ecclesiastical history in the Baptist Union Theological Seminary, Chicago , spending several months in Germany in 1879; from 1881 to 1883 he served as principal of the New York State Normal School at Potsdam, and from 1884 to 1889, as principal of the State Normal School at Providence, R. I. In the latter year, he was appointed commissioner of Indian Affairs by President Harrison …
"In 1893 he renewed his denominational activity, accepting the position of corresponding secretary of the American Baptist Home Missionary Society, in which position he served until his death almost a decade later … Under his skillful promotion, schools page: 231[View Page 231] for thousands of negro men and women were established and equipped. He was editor of the BAPTIST, HOME MISSION MONTHLY, 1893-1902 … In 1870 he married Caroline Starr …"
Condensed from C. H. M., Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. XIII.
- Reminiscences of Service with Colored Troops in the Army of
the Cumberland, 1863-65. Providence, R. I.,
1885.
- What Is the True Function of a Normal School?
Boston, 1886.
- Educational Mosaics: Collected from Many Writers of Thoughts
Bearing on Educational Questions of the Day.
Boston, 1887.
- Studies in Pedagogy. Boston,
1889.
- The Present Phase of the Indian Question.
Boston, 1891.
- A Plea for the Papoose, n.p., n.d. [1892].
- Man or Baboon? New York, n.d.
[1895].
- Patriotic Citizenship. New York,
1895.
- The Negro in America and the Ideal American Republic.
Philadelphia, 1898.
MORRIS, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: 1810-1867.
B. F. Morris , born in 1810, was a resident of Indiana for most of his active life. W. R. Holloway reports him as having been a resident of Indianapolis in 1830, where he was one of the founders of the Indiana Historical Society and was elected its first secretary. The title of one of his books indicates his occupation of the Presbyterian pastorate in Rising Sun, Ind., in 1846. He died in 1867.
Information from Holloway, W. R.–Indianapolis. A Historical and Statistical Sketch of the Railroad City and Walker–Beginnings of Printing in the State of Indiana.
- Addresses, Delivered at the Sunday School Celebration of the
Fifty-Fourth Anniversary of American Independence, in Indianapolis, on
Saturday, the 3d of July, 1830 (withGov. James Brown Ray). Indianapolis, 1830.
- A Discourse on the Christian Character and Influence on
Washington, Delivered in Rising Sun, Indiana, on Sabbath, Feb. 22,
1846. Rising Sun, Ind., 1846.
- Our Country. Three Discourses, on National Subjects. By Rev.
B. F. Morris, A.M., Pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Rising Sun,
Ind. Lawrenceburg, Ind., 1848.
- Address on Agriculture … Delivered Before
Agricultural Society …. Rising Sun,
Ind., Oct. 1852.
- The Life of Thomas Morris; Pioneer and Long a Legislator of
Ohio, and U. S. Senator from 1833 to 1839. Edited by His Son.
Cincinnati, 1856.
- Historical Sketch of Rising Sun, Indiana, and the
Presbyterian Church. A Fortieth Anniversary Discourse, Delivered September
15, 1856. Cincinnati, 1858.
- Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the
United States, Developed in the Official and Historical Annals of the
Republic. Philadelphia, 1864.
MORRIS, GEORGE DAVIS: 1864-
George Davis Morris , son of William Frampton and Mary Ellen Swain Morris, was born in Elwood, Ind., on May 25, 1864, and graduated from Indiana University in 1890. In 1895 he received the A.M. degree from the same institution. He also studied in France , at the University of Paris and the University of Grenoble. He married Emma Zeiss of Oxford, Ind., on Dec. 27, 1899.
After teaching in Kansas for a year and Colorado for two years, in 1893 he came to Indiana University as instructor in French and from 1919 to 1938 was professor of French there. He translated and edited several books of French and English literature not listed here.
Information from Who's Who in America.
- Fenimore Cooper et Edgar Poe D'Après La
Critique Française du Dix-Neuvième Siecle.
Paris, 1912.
MORRISON, HENRIETTA ATHON (MRS. JAMES): ?-
Henrietta Athon Morrison , who wrote under the pen name of Hetty Athon Morris, lived in Indianapolis and was the wife of James Morrison and mother of Dr. Frank A. Morrison. Her father, Dr. James S. Athon, was once prominent in Indiana politics. A writer of sketches and poems for newspapers and periodicals, she published one book.
Information from the Indianapolis Public Library and from Parker and Heiney–Poets and Poetry of Indiana.
- My Summer in the Kitchen.
Indianapolis, 1878.
MORRISON, SARAH ELIZABETH: ?-?
Born in Indiana , Sarah Elizabeth Morrlson was educated privately. She was a resident of Philadelphia in the early 1900's.
page: 232[View Page 232]Information from Who's Who in America.
- Chilhowee Boys. New York, 1893.
- Chilhowee Boys in War Time. New
York, 1895.
- Chilhowee Boys at College. New
York, 1896.
- Chilhowee Boys in Harness. New
York, 1898.
MORRISON, SARAH PARKE: 1833-1916.
Sarah Parke Morrison , daughter of John I. Morrison, was born at Salem, Ind., in 1833 and was educated at Mount Holyoke Seminary and Indiana University, graduating from the latter institution in 1869 and receiving the A.M. degree in 1871. She was the first woman graduate of the university.
She taught English literature at Indiana University from 1873 to 1875 and was later a resident of Knightstown, Ind.
She died in 1916.
Information from Indiana University, 1820-1904, and Dunn–Indiana and Indianans, Vol. II.
- A Monody to a Father's Memory.
Cambridge, Mass., 1891.
- Among Ourselves: to a Mother's Memory; Being a Life
Story of Principally Seven Generations. Plainfield,
Ind., 1901, 1902,
1904. 3 vols.
- Sicily; a Poem Dedicated to the Memory of Dante
Alighieri. Richmond, Ind., 1910.
MORROW, JACKSON: 1849-1930.
Jackson Morrow , son of Charles and Sarah Lamb Morrow, who moved to Howard County in 1845, was born on a farm south of Kokomo, Ind., on Mar. 3, 1849.
When he was eight years old, he attended a two months' term of winter school in a log cabin, and when he was fifteen, he attended Kokomo Normal School for the fall term. At sixteen he was licensed to teach. For two years he taught a country school near Alto during the winter and attended Kokomo Normal during the fall terms. He entered the University of Michigan when he was nineteen and graduated four years later. In 1873 he married Mary E. Henderson. They lived on his farm in Harrison Township, Howard County, and he taught school when he was not farming.
Mr. Morrow held several public offices, including those of trustee, county surveyor, civil engineer of Kokomo , and police commissioner. His first wife died in 1891, and in 1905 he married Mrs. Myra Bird. They moved to Kokomo in 1898.
Mr. Morrow died at his farm on Aug. 5, 1930.
Information from the Carnegie Public Library of Kokomo .
- History of Howard County, Indiana.
Indianapolis, 1909. 2
vols.
MORTON, OLIVER THROCK: 1860-1898.
Oliver Throck Morton was born at Centerville, Ind., on May 23, 1860, the son of Oliver P. Morton, the Civil War governor of Indiana, and Lucinda M. Burbank Morton. He was educated at Yale and Oxford universities.
In 1886 he was admitted to the Indiana bar and in 1891 was appointed clerk of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He was editor and owner of the old INDIANAPOLIS DAILY TIMES.
He died in 1898.
Information from Houghton Mifltin–A Catalogue of Authors, 1899.
- The Southern Empire. With Other Papers.
Boston, 1892.
MOTE, CARL HENRY: 1884-1946.
Carl Henry Mote , son of Oliver P. and Emma Alice Thomas Mote, was born in Randolph County, Ind., on June 25, 1884. He attended Indiana University for two years, graduated from De Pauw University in 1907, and spent two years, 1910-12, at the Indiana University Law School.
After engaging in school administrative work for two years, in 1909 he became city editor of the MUNCIE STAR and in 1910 a reporter for the INDIANAPOLIS STAR. From 1911 to 1913 he was editor of the INDIANAPOLIS SUN. In 1913 he was appointed to the state legislative bureau, leaving it in 1917 to become secretary of the public service commission. He was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1921 and began his practice as a utility attorney in Indianapolis.
In 1942 he testified before a federal grand jury in Washington that was investigating seditious activity. Mr. Mote had attacked both President Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie during the 1940 campaign.
In 1944 he was chairman and principal speaker of the page: 233[View Page 233] America First Party national convention. Elected president of the National Farmers Guild in 1944, he headed the faction which broke off in 1945 and became the United Farmers of America, after Mote was ousted from the guild presidency by the board of directors. He edited a monthly magazine, AMERICA PREFERRED, which was pro-isolationist, anti-New Deal, and anti-foreign.
Mr. Mote was twice married: first to Mary Hook in 1914, from whom he was divorced in 1932, then to Blanche Shaw on Apr. 2, 1936, from whom he was divorced in 1941. He died on Apr. 29, 1946.
Information from Who's Who in America and the Indianapolis Times.
- Learning to Earn; a Plea and a Plan for Vocational
Edu-cation (withJohn A. Lapp). Indianapolis, 1915.
- Industrial Arbitration; a World-Wide Survey of Natural and
Political Agencies for Social Justice and Industrial Peace.
Indianapolis, 1916.
- The New Deal Goose Step. New
York, 1939.
- Christmas Message. 1940 Model.
Indianapolis, 1940.
- "Revolution and the Triple A"; An Address
… Before Corn Belt Liberty League, Claypool Hotel, Indianapolis,
Oct. 3, 1940. n.p., 1940.
- Christian Morality and Our "New Social
Order." n.p., 1941.
- G.O.P. "Fifth Column" Finds the Fleshpots;
Autopsy on Antics and "Loyal Opposition" of Comrade
Wendell L. Willkie. n.p., 1942.
MURRAY, CHARLES THEODORE: 1843-1924.
Charles Theodore Murray was born in Goshen, Ind., Mar. 30, 1843. His parents were Charles Lefferts and Ann Maria Spriggs Murray.
Murray served three years in the Union forces during the Civil War. He attended Indiana University as a member of the class of 1869 and received the LL.B. degree from Columbian (now George Washington) University in 1870. On May 25, 1871, he married Ada M. Nealy.
He established the SOUTH BEND HERALD in 1874 and took an active, and apparently ultra-partisan, part in politics; he was shot through the right lung during a political altercation over the Hayes-Tilden campaign, and his obituary appeared next morning in his own paper. Murray survived both the wound and possible embarrassment over his staff's editorial error, however, to become Washington correspondent for the ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT, PITTSBURGH DISPATCH, PHILADELPHIA TIMES and NEW YORK HERALD and a writer for McCLURE'S MAGAZINE, the INDIANAPOLIS NEWS and other papers and periodicals. He was a founder of the Gridiron Club.
In his later years Murray resided in Wardensville, W. Va.
Information from Who's Who in America.
- Sub-Rosa: a Novel. New York,
1880.
- Summer Girls. 1885.
- Autobiography of a Pair of Pistols.
- The Cashier.
- A Modern Gypsy. New York, 1897.
- Mlle. Fouchette; or, the Monkey and the Tiger.
Philadelphia, 1902.
MURRAY, LOIS LORINA ABBOTT (MRS. SAMUEL): 1826-?
The ancestors of the subject of this sketch left New England in 1807 in company with about thirty families and came west to establish a home in central Ohio. I. F. Abbott, one of the young emigrants, married a daughter of Samuel Everiett, who had bought for the colony the land where Granville, O., is now located. Lois Lorina Abbott was the first child of this marriage, being born Mar. 3, 1826.
One of her poems states she taught school when she was fifteen years old. When she was about twenty-one, her parents moved to Rochester, Ind., and after two years, in 1850, moved to Goshen, Ind.
She married Samuel Murray in 1851, and in 1860 the couple left Indiana to settle in Kansas. Hardships and affliction were their lot there, but with the aid of her deep religious faith Mrs. Murray survived her troubles.
In 1878, after death and marriages had taken her own family from home, she returned to Goshen, Ind., where her mother resided.
Information from Murray–Incidents of Frontier Life.
- Incidents of Frontier Life. Goshen,
Ind., 1880.
