He was ordained a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1884, at the age of twenty-two. In 1886 he was made a priest, and in the meantime had held pastorates at Milwaukee and Greenfield, Wisconsin. During 1886-87 he was canon of the Cathedral at Milwaukee and in 1887-88 was rector at Whitewater, Wisconsin. On June 14, 1887, he married Miss Stevens, of Milwaukee.
Bishop Francis spent nearly ten years in the Far East, in charge of the Episcopal Cathedral at Tokyo and also as professor in Trinity Divinity School there. Returning from Japan in 1897 he. was appointed rector of Saint Paul's Church at Evansville, Indiana, in January, 1898, and from that was called to the post of Bishop of Indianapolis in September,1899.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
THOMAS RILEY MARSHALL was governor of Indiana from 1909 to 1913, and left that office to become vice president of the United States. These were the only elective offices he held throughout the forty odd years after his admission to the Indiana bar.
His mother was direct descendant of the famous Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Maryland, the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence. The founder of the family in Indiana was his grandfather, Riley Marshall, who located first in Randolph County and later in Grant County, where he acquired 640 acres of land, including the site of the present City of Marion.
Thomas Riley Marshall was born at North Manchester, Wabash County, Indiana, March 14, 1854. He attended public schools, and from there entered old Wabash College at Crawfordsville, where he was graduated A. B. in 1873 and A. M. in 1876 . While in college Mr. Marshall was made a Phi Beta Kappa, a fraternity of which his kinsman, Chief Justice John Marshall, was the founder.
He was admitted to the Indiana bar on his twenty-first birthday, in 1875. The previous year he had taken up his home at Columbia City, where for the next thirty years he gave an undeviating attention to a growing practice as a lawyer.
In 1880 he was induced to take the nomination for prosecuting attorney in what was then a strong Republican district and was defeated. In 1896 and 1898 he was chairman of the Twelfth District Democratic Committee.
Mr. Marshall achieved the distinction of leading the demoeratic party to victory in the State or Indiana in the campaign of 1908, and entered upon his duties as governor the following January. It is sufficient to say that Indiana had a thoroughly progressive administration during the next four years, and his record as governor not only strengthened the party in the confidence of the people so as to insure the victory of the state ticket in 1912, but it made Thomas R. Marshall one of the dominant figures in the middle west, and as such his selection as running mate of Woodrow Wilson was justified not only on the score of political expediency but by real fitness for the responsibilities and possibilities of that office. He was re-nominated for the office of vice president at the Saint Louis Convention of 1916 and his second term as vice president extended from 1917 to 1921. He died June 1, 1925.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
JOSEPH DOTY OLIVER, inventor of the Oliver Chilled Plow, was born in Roxburyshire, Scotland, and died at South Bend, Indiana, March 2, 1908.
James Oliver came to Indiana in 1836 and settled at Mishawaka in Saint Joseph County. Mr. James Oliver remained there for several decades, and in 1855 moved to South Bend, where he found a chance to invest in an established foundry, paying $88.76 of his sole cash capital of $100 for a one-fourth interest. Among the products of the foundry were cast iron plows, considered by farmers a decided advance over the old wood mold-board plows of earlier days. James Oliver's judgment convinced him that the cast iron plows were too heavy and not adapted to many soils, and he began experimenting and for twelve years put his inventive genius into the work, and finally evolved the Oliver Chilled Plow, which remains to this day the accepted implement of its kind the world over, and at the same time is a lasting testimonial to the perseverance, patience and constructive skill of its inventor.
His son Joseph D. Oliver succeeded him to head of the business.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
WILLIAM A. GUTHRIE was born in Jefferson County, Indiana, May 13, 1851. He grew up on a farm and attended schools at College Hill and Moore's Hill. On October 28, 1875, he married Miss Sarah Lewis, daughter of Dr. George Brown Lewis, at Dupont, Indiana.
In politics he is a Republican. In 1898 he was elected to the State Senate from Jefferson, Ripley and Switzerland counties, being one of the ablest members of that body during the sessions of 1889 and 1901. A distinction that will long attach to his name was the credit for introducing and bringing about the passage of the first and present pure food law. This law corresponds in all important essentials to the national food law, and both measures were written by the eminent Dr. Harvey Wiley. Mr. Guthrie was delegate to the Republican National Convention from his home district in 1908 and in 1916 was presidential elector. He was appointed by Governor Ralston and reappointed by Governor Goodrich a member of the state forestry commission.
Governor Goodrich appointed him on the Food Production and Conservation committee.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
JOHN W. FOSTER was born in Pike County, Indiana, March 2, 1836. After a thorough literary and professional training he was admitted to the Indiana bar, and he practiced law first at Evansville. He rose to the rank as lieutenant colonel in the Union army. He was Minister to Mexico, 1873-80; to Russia, 1880-81; to Spain, 1883-85, and Secretary of State under President Harrison, 1892-93. He died November 15, 1917.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
THOMAS A. HENDRICKS, one of the four great leaders of the Democratic party in Indiana from 1860 to 1885, was born near Zanesville, Ohio, September 7, 1819. His family removed to Indiana in 1832, and he graduated at Hanover in 1841. He was admitted to the bar in 1843; elected representative in 1848, senator in 1849, member of the Constitutional Convention in 1850. He was Commissioner of the Land Office from 1855 to 1859, United States Senator from 1863 to 1869, and Governor in 1872, being the first Democratic governor in any of the Northern states after the war. He was elected vice president as running mate of Grover Cleveland in 1884, and died in office.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
WILL H. HAYS, former postmaster general, 1921-22, and since then president of Motion Picture Products and Distributors of America, was born in Sullivan, Indiana, November 5, 1879, and there prepared for college. He was graduated from Wabash College, A. B., 1900, A. M., 1904, and was admitted to the Indiana bar. He located for practice in his native city, Sullivan, and from 1910 to 1913 was city attorney.
At an early age Mr. Hays became interested in politics from the inside. He was committeeman from his precinct before he was a voter; was chairman of the Sullivan County Republican Committee, and member of the State Advisory Committee 1904-08; chairman of the speakers' bureau Republican State Committee campaigns of 1906-08; district chairman of Republican State Committee, second district, 1910-14; chairman of Republican State Central Committee, Indiana; since 1914; chairman of Indiana State Council of Defense, 1917-18; chairman of Republican National Committee from February, 1918, until March 4, 1921; postmaster general of the United States in President Harding's Cabinet, March 4, 1921.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
BOOTH TARKINGTON, novelist and dramatist, was born at Indianapolis July 29, 1869. His grandfather, Rev. Joseph Tarkington, a native of Tennessee, came to Indiana with his parents in 1815, and located first at Harrison's Blockhouse (now Edwardsport, Knox County) and later in the wilds west of Bloomington. Joseph Tarkington was converted at a camp meeting in 1820, and entered the ministry of the Methodist Church in 1824, becoming in his long service one of the best known of the Methodist preachers in Indiana and Illinois. Booth Tarkington's father was Judge John Stevenson Tarkington, who was elected to the State Legislature in 1863, served as captain of Company A of the One Hundred and Thirty-second Indiana Infantry in the Civil war; and was elected judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit in 1870. Judge Tarkington is known locally for hjs geniality and as a student and a wit.
Judge Tarkington married Elizabeth Booth, a sister of Senator Newton Booth of California, for whom Booth Tarkington was named.
Booth Tarkington attended Phillips Academy, Purdue and Princeton. In the class of 1893 at Princeton he was especially prominent in literary, musical and dramatic circles. He decided on literary work, but had many of the common disappointments of young authors before he finally won his spurs by The Gentleman From Indiana, first published in McClure's Magazine in 1897. This was followed by his romance Monsieur Beaucaire, which was even more popular in 1890, and from that time on his work has been in demand from the magazines and publishers. Both of these stories were dramatized; and Monsieur Beauvaire, in whose dramatization Tarkington collaborated with E. G. Sutherland, held the stage for months with Lewis Waller in the title role in England, and Richard Mansfield in the United States.
Among the more important of his numerous published works, in addition to those mentioned, are The Two VanRevels , 1902; Cherry , 1903; The Beautiful Lady and The Conquest of Canaan , 1905; His Own People and Cameo Kirby , 1907; Guest of Quesnay, Your Humble Servant, Spring Time , and The Man From Home (with Harry Leon Wilson), 1908; Beasley's Christmas Party and Getting a Polish , 1909; Beauty and the Jacobian , 1911; A Man on Horseback , 1912; The Turmoil , 1914; Penrod and Sam , and Seventeen , 1916; Mister Antonio and The Country Cousin , 1917; The Magnificent Ambersons , 1918; The Fascinating Stranger , 1923, etc. His plays have been very popular, and have been presented by the most notable actors of the period- William Hodge in The Man From Home . Nat Goodwin and Dustin Farnum in Cameo Kirby , May Irwin in Getting a Polish , Mabel Taliaferro in Spring Time , Ottis Skinner in Your Humble Servant , and James K. Hackett in A Man on Horseback .
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
ALBERT JEREMIAH BEVERIDGE was born in Highland County, Ohio, October 6, 1862. His father served in the Union army, at a sacrifice of business interests, and soon after the close of the Civil War, removed to Sullivan, Illinois, where business disaster followed him. Albert attended the common schools, but was early thrown on his own resources, and had the experiences of a ploughboy, a railroad hand, a teamster, and a logger; but he made his way through high school, and graduated from DePauw in 1885. After one more year of labor, as a cowboy in the west, he began the study of law at Indianapolis, in the office of McDonald & Butler, and from that time advanced rapidly in his profession and in politics, his gift of oratory being a strong lever in both. He was soon known throughout Indiana as a popular speaker, and in 1896 attracted national notice by his reply to Governor Altgeld of Illinois. There were four formidable candidates against him in the senatorial election of 1899, and most of the politicians thought that he had no chance of election; but the relative strength of his opponents, and the hostility which they developed toward each other, gave the prize to the popular young orator. His record in the United States Senate gave him reelection in 1905. In 1912 he followed the fortunes of Roosevelt, and was the Progressive candidate for Governor of Indiana.
The climax of his political career, and with it his greatest contribution to American life, came in the presidential year of 1912. In the Republican national convention of that year Mr. Beveridge, partly on account of his great prestige as a former leader in the United States Senate, was first and foremost in that unsuccessful attempt to commit the Republican party to those broad and vital issues which represented the progressive ideals of the nation. When that movement failed he joined with Roosevelt and others in establishing the national progressive party, and was chairman of the progressive convention in Chicago. In the course of one of his great speeches during that campaign Mr. Beveridge in arraigning the subtle and corrupt influences that so often perverted and stultified the old political parties, uttered that phrase concerning the power of "the invisible government," one of those rare descriptive phrases that have more than temporary currency in the coinage of political language.
Mr. Beveridge addressed himself to the world through various mediums, from the political rostrum, from the halls of the United States Senate and also through the newspaper and periodical press and more and more in later years through books. The range of his experience and versatile mental powers is well illustrated in a list of his more important literary productions. Some of them are: The Russian Advance , 1903; The Young Man and the World , 1905; The Bible as Good Reading , 1908; The Meaning of the Times , 1908; Work and Habits , 1908; Americans of Today and Tomorrow , 1909; Pass Prosperity Around , title of a great speech he delivered in 1912, What Is Back of the War , 1915. His most monumental work and the one upon which his fame as a historian and author will chiefly rest was his Life of John Marshall , chief justice of the United States, a four volume work.
He died April 27,1927, leaving his Life of Lincoln to be published posthumously."
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931
HON. SAMUEL M. RALSTON, governor of Indiana from 1913 to 1917, was born December 1, 1857, on a farm near New Cumberland, Tuscarawas County.
In 1865, when he was in his eighth year, his parents moved to Owen County, Indiana, where he lived until 1873. Financial reverses, resulting from the panic of that year, overtook his father, who had been a successful farmer and livestock dealer, and served to deprive the growing boy, then sixteen years old, of many advantages he otherwise would have enjoyed.
Samuel knew trials and difficulties without number on the farm, in the butcher business and in the coal mine, but he bore them cheerfully and never ceased in his efforts to fit himself for a higher calling. For seven years he taught school during the winter months and attended school during the summer. He was graduated August 1, 1884, in the scientific course of the Central Indiana Normal College at Danville, Indiana. Mr. Ralston read law in the office of Robinson & Fowler at Spencer, Owen County, Indiana. He took up his legal studies in September, 1884, and was admitted to the bar in the Owen Circuit Court January 1, 1886. In the following June he entered upon the practice of his profession at Lebanon, Boone County, Indiana. Here he enjoyed a paying practice until he went to the governor's office.
Politically Mr. Ralston was always identified with the Democratic party. He was his party's candidate for joint senator for Boone, Clinton and Montgomery counties in 1888. Twice he was a candidate for secretary of state, respectively in 1896 and 1898, and was defeated for the nomination for governor in 1908 by Vice President Thomas R. Marshall.
In 1912 there were expressions allover the state that now had come the time to nominate "Sam Ralston" for governor. When the convention assembled in Tomlinson Hall March 17, 1912, no other name than that of Samuel M. Ralston, was presented for governor, and his nomination followed by acclamation.
Mr. Ralston was elected governor by an unprecedented plurality. Governor Ralston's remarkable strength of body and mind, his quick and sure insight into the intricacies of civic machinery, his readiness for instant action, gave him a wonderful, mastery over the details of his office and made him a most excellent judge of state and economic problems. Courage and determination marked his conduct while in office.
During the great street car strike in Indianapolis in October and November, 1913, the governor called out the entire National Guard. He refused to put the troops into the streets to force the immediate action of the cars, but demanded that the street car company through him treat with the strikers. His firmness won the day. His services as arbitrator were effective and the City of Indianapolis returned to normal life.
Under the leadership of Governor Ralston the Legislatures of 1913 and 1915 passed many acts for the protection of the working man and the betterment of his working and living conditions, and the protection of society. Laws were passed providing for the prohibition of the sale of habit-forming drugs, for the conservation of our natural resources, development of livestock industry, prevention of tubercu1osis, for industria1 aid to the blind for the regulations of hospital and tenement houses, and for securing a supply of pure water and the establishment of children's playgrounds. In 1915 there was passed, with the support of the governor, a law that effectually stamped out the social evil and abolished the redlight district. Two of the outstanding pieces of constructive legislation of his administration were the Public Utilities Law and the Vocational Educational Act.
For many years Indiana carried a heavy debt. It had been an issue in every campaign of more or less consequence for forty years, but no party and no leader had been willing to take a stand for its early liquidation. Governor Ralston was, and before his administration closed the state paid the last cent it owed, and for the first time in eighty years was out of debt.
Realizing the important part good roads play in our civilization, Governor Ralston in 1914 appointed a non-partisan highway commission, composed of five distinguished citizens of the state.
Under his administration a State Park system was inaugurated and Turkey Run, picturesque and beautiful, was saved to the state and generations to come.
Great as were the services he rendered the state there was no bluster or pretense about the centennial governor. He pursued the even tenor of his way and his acts met with the approval, with but few exceptions, of the entire press of Indiana. He died October 14, 1925.
INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Vol. 3
By Charles Roll, A.M.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931