PERRY COUNTY, INDIANA
BIOGRAPHIES
DOCTOR COMSTOCK
George Comstock was born in 1832, in
Perry County, Indiana, and there spent his entire life as an extensive
and successful farmer, passing away in 1915 on his large and productive
farm. During the war between the states he served as a soldier of the
Union, and throughout his life was known as a public-spirited and loyal
citizen. In politics he was a democrat, but did not care for public
office. His religious faith was that of the Christian Church, the
movements of which always received his whole-hearted support. Mr.
Comstock married Miss Cynthia Taylor, who was born in Perry County,
Indiana, in 1841, and died there in 1913. They became the parents of
the following children : Paulina, who died in Perry County, Indiana,
aged twenty-four years, as the wife of G. W. Carmichael, a farmer of
that county; George H., a lumber dealer of Southeastern Missouri, who
died at the age of thirty years; Daniel B., a farmer and stock raiser
and dealer of Perry County, Indiana, who died at the age of forty-two
years; LaFayette, a dairyman of Crawford County, Indiana; and Dr. L. E.
L. E. Comstock was primarily educated
in the rural schools of his native county, following which he attended
the high school at Hamilton, Indiana. In 1890 he commenced teaching in
the country schools of Perry County, being thus engaged for seven
years, following which he removed to Louisville, Kentucky, where, in
1897, he embarked in a mercantile venture. After four years he disposed
of his interests therein and entered the medical department of the
University of Louisville from which he was duly graduated in 1007 with
the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and in that year commenced practice
at Louisville, where he remained only a few months. On August I, 1907,
he came to Horse Cave, Kentucky, and here has carried on a general
practice in medicine and surgery to the present time. His offices are
situated in the Vetuzat Building on Front Street, where he has all the modern appliances and instruments
known to his calling. Doctor Comstock has continued to be a careful,
close and constant student of his profession and has spent much time in
research and investigation. In 1913 he took a post-graduate course at
the Chicago Polyclinic and again in 1916 at the same institution, and
in 1919 had a course at the Post-Graduate Hospital of Chicago,
specializing in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, as well as
the X-ray. He took a like course at the same institution in 1921. While
his practice is general in character, he has specialized to some extent
in the treatment of the eye, ear, nose and throat, and in X-ray work.
His practice is large and lucrative, and among his patients are to be
found members of the leading families of Horse Cave and the surrounding
country. Formerly he served as health officer of Horse Cave. He is a
member of the Hart County. Medical Society, the Kentucky State Medical
Society and the American Medical Association.
Doctor Comstock is the owner of a
modern residence on Guthrie Street, one of the desirable and
comfortable homes of the city. He was formerly the owner of a farm, but
this he sold in 1920. In several ways he is interested in business
matters in the community of his adoption, and at present has a one-half
interest in the leading pharmacy of the city, located on Front Street
and conducted under the style of the Comstock Drug Company. In politics
he is a democrat, and at present is serving as president of the Horse
Cave Board of Education, a place for which he is eminently fitted by
education and experience. His religious affiliation is with the
Christian Church, in which he is an elder. Doctor Comstock is
fraternally identified with Wallow Lodge No. 231, F. and A. M., of
Horse Cave, of which he is a past master; Bostwick Chapter No. 13, R.
A. M., Horse Cave, of which he is a past high priest; Horse Cave
Council No. 45, R. and S. M., of which he is a past thrice illustrious
master; and Glasgow (Kentucky) Commandery, K. T. During the world war
he took an active part in all movements, and assisted in the drives not
only through his efforts and abilities but through generous personal
contributions.
On June 18, 1806, Doctor Comstock was
united in marriage in Perry County, Indiana, with Miss Estella Lynch,
daughter of H. F. and Mary E. (Murphy) Lynch, residents of Perry
County, Indiana. Mr. Lynch was engaged in agricultural pursuits for
many years, but at this time is living in retirement, enjoying the
fruits of his early labors. Doctor and Mrs. Comstock are the parents of
two children. Orville L., born October 17, 1900, enlisted in the United
States Army in September, 1918, was sent to the S. A. T. C. at
Louisville, and was mustered out in December, 1918. He is now a junior
at the Louisville College of Dentistry. Emery F., born July I, 1908, is
attending the graded school at Horse Cave.
Source: History of
Kentucky By William Elsey Connelley, Ellis Merton Coulter
Published by The American Historical Society, 1922
E. DUMBAULD
E. DUMBAULD, a successful farmer and
stock raiser, is a native of Perry County, Ohio, and the eldest of a
family of ten children (six sons and four daughters), born to Samuel
and Salcmia Dumbauld. The father was born in Westmoreland County.
Virginia, of German-Irish parentage. He was by occupation a farmer and
distiller, both of which vocations he followed in his native State. In
1836, he moved to Perry County, Ohio, where in 183«, he married
Salomia Wimer. September, 1854, he moved to Huntington County, Indiana,
and settled on a piece of land which he had previously purchased and
upon which he lived until his death, in 1870. He served as Trustee of
Union Township several terms, and was a man of prominence in the
community where he resided. Mrs. Dumbauld was born in Perry County,
Ohio, March 4, 1822, and is still living, having reached the ripe old
age of sixty-five years. E. Dumbauld was born December 5, 1839, and was
but a youth when the family moved to this township. He enjoyed the
advantages of a common school education, and on attaining his majority
began life for himself, choosing for his vocation agriculture which he
has since followed with the most gratifying success. April 13, 1862. he
was united in marriage with Miss Rebecca Crist, of Perry County, Ohio,
daughter of Philip and C. (Ream) Crist. This union has been blessed
with the birth of three children, viz.: William H., born November 25,
1863; Philip M., born August 23, 1867, and James M., born April
25,1875. Mr. Dumbauld, after his marriage, rented a farm in this
township, and the following year purchased forty acres of forest land
upon which he made his first improvements. He subsequently located upon
his present place where in addition to farming he has given a great
deal of attention to stock raising, being at this time one of the most
successful hog raisers in the county. He is a man of intelligence,
fully alive to all the interests of the public and for thirteen years
held the office of Township Trustee. He has stock in all the leading
enterprises of the county and takes an active interest in all that
tends to the internal improvement of the country. He and wife are
members of the Lutheran Church.
Source: History of Huntington
County, Indiana: From the Earliest Time to the Present, with
Biographical Sketches, Published by Walsworth Publishing Co., 1887
THOMAS THOMPSON
Thomas Thompson, farmer, section 5,
"Washington Township, was born near Somerset, in Perry County, Ohio,
February 24, 1815, son of William and Mary (McBride) Thompson. His
father was born in Ireland, and remained in his native country until he
was four years of age, when his parents brought him to America and
settled in Perry County. They were accompanied by their parents
(grand-parents of our subject), and all died in Perry County. Thomas
was married in October, 1838, to Eleanor Baird, daughter of Alexander
and Hannah (Huston) Baird, the former a native of America, and the
latter of Ireland. Eleanor was born in 1818, and died May 10, 1882, and
is buried in Providence Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson had three
children, William, born December 24, 1840; John Huston, born August 23,
1850, and Martha, wife of Elias Hays, and living in Madison Township.
William was a soldier of the civil war, enlisting in Second Illinois
Cavalry. He was discharged at Springfield, Illinois. After he was
mustered out he sent home his gun and has never since been heard from.
Huston was married March 8, 1882, to Rachel E. Brelsford, daughter of
David and Rebecca (Lucas) Brelsford. She was born in Tippecanoe County,
Indiana, January 26, 1858. Her father was born January 26, 1824, in
Butler County, Ohio, near Jacksonborough. He removed with his parents
to Tippecanoe County, where he grew to manhood. He then crossed the
plains to California, being 110 days on the road, and engaged in mining
two years. He then returned via Isthmus of Panama, with money enough to
purchase the old homestead, his parents having died during his absence.
He died May 18, 1881. Mrs. Thompson's mother was born August 28, 1827,
and died February 9,1878. Both are buried at Salem Cemetery, Tippecanoe
County. Mr. and Mrs. Huston Thompson have one child, Joe, born in
April, 1884. Mrs. Thompson is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church, and he is a Greenbacker in politics. Thomas Thompson came to
this county in 1841, and purchased 160 acres of land, thirty acres of
which had been cleared. A log cabin had been built by Thomas James. It
was made of hewed logs, and was a very nice one. He built his frame
house in 1861. He now has 100 acres under cultivation. His land was
first owned by John McBride, an uncle; the second owner was Thomas
James. Mr. Thomas has held the office of supervisor and school director
several years. He is a member of the United Presbyterian church, and in
politics he is a Republican.
Source: History of Clinton
County, Indiana: Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and
Towns, Published by Interstate Pub. Co., 1886
CHARLES W. HARTLOFF, M.
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Charles W. Hartloff, M. D. The name
Hartloff has been prominent in the medical annals of Evansville for
many years, having been borne by two men of distinction in the
profession, the late Dr. Richard Hartloff and his son and successor Dr.
Charles W. Hartloff.
The former was born in
Wermelskirchen, Rheinnfalz. Germany, in 1845. son of Frederick
Hartloff. who was a weaver by trade. In 1854 the latter came to
America, accompanied by his wife and son, and they were twenty-three
days in crossing the ocean on a sailing vessel. From the port of
Philadelphia they journeyed westward to Ironton, Ohio, and two years
later settled at German Ridge in Perry County, Indiana. Securing a
tract of timber land, Frederick Hartloff soon had the rude comforts of
a log house for his family, and with the industry characteristic of the
German settler continued his work until he had a fine farm with all the
improvements. Late in life he retired to Buffaloville in Spencer
County, where he died.
Dr. Richard Hartloff had the
rudiments of his education in his native laud, but from the age of nine
attended American schools both at Ironton, Ohio, and in Spencer County.
He finished his literary course in Wallace College at Berea, Ohio, and
from there entered the medical department of the University of
Louisville, where he was graduated with the M. D. degree in March,
1870. It is now nearly half a century since he began his work as a well
equipped practitioner at Evansville. He was a close student of his
profession, attending clinics and schools in New York and also going
abroad to study in Vienna. He was in practice thirty years, his useful
career being closed by death June 21, 1900.
He married Caroline Johann, a native
of Perry County, Indiana, and daughter of Frederick and Barbara Johann,
natives of German}' and early settlers in Southern Indiana. She died in
1875, leaving besides her son Charles a daughter, Emma Caroline, now
the wife of John F. Habbe of Indianapolis. Dr. Richard Hartloff married
a second wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Oliver, a native of Manchester, England,
who died in 1903. Her son by a former marriage is also deceased.
Charles W. Hartloff was born in
Council Township, Perry County, Indiana, in 1870, and in 1887 graduated
from the Evansville High School. He took the full academic course at
the University of Indiana, graduating A. B. in 1892. Later he entered
the medical department of the University of Michigan, from which he
received his diploma and degree in 1897. After a year of practice in
his home city he entered Johns Hopkins University, and then went
abroad, spending two years in travel and study, chiefly at the
University of Vienna, which then claimed some of the greatest figures
in medicine and surgery in the world.
Doctor Hartloff returned to
Evansville a few months before his father's death, and at once took up
his large practice, responsibilities for which his talents and
exceptional training admirably qualified him. For the past twenty years
he has had a very busy career. In addition to his private practice he
has served as secretary of the city board of health and of the board of
pension examiners, and is now chief medical inspector of the Evansville
schools. He is a member of the County and State Medical Societies, also
of the Ohio Valley, the American Medical Association, and the American
Public Health Association.
In 1896 Miss Annie Marie Kaiser, of
Port Huron, Michigan, became his wife. They have one daughter, Maryland
Elizabeth, who is a graduate of the Evansville High School, spent one
year in Penn Hall at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and is now a student
in the University of Michigan. Doctor Hartloff and family are members
of the St. John Evangelical Church. He is affiliated with Reed Lodge,
Free and Ancient Masons, Evansville Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Simpson
Council, Royal and Select Masons, LaVallette Commandery, Knights
Templar, Evansville Consistory. Scottish Rite, and Hadi Temple of the
Mystic Shrine. He is also an Elk, and is a member of the Evansville
Chamber of Commerce and the Country and Crescent Clubs.
Source: Indiana and Indianans: A
History of Aboriginal and Territorial Indiana and the Century of
Statehood Published by The American historical society, 1919
JAMES WHIPPS
A practical and skillful farmer,
James Whipps, of Haddon township, is an able representative of the
horticultural and agricultural interests of Sullivan county. His highly
improved farm, lying south of Carlisle, contains the site of old Fort
Haddon, the fort itself having been located very near the house in
which Mr. Whipps lives. A son of Reuben Whipps, he was born, October 9,
1853, in Perry county, Ohio, of Irish ancestry. His grandfather Whipps
emigrated from Ireland to this country, bringing with him his wife and
children, locating in Perry county, Ohio, where he was engaged in
tilling the soil until his death.
Born in Ireland, in September, 1812,
Reuben Whipps came with the family to the United States, assisted his
father in establishing a home in Perry county, Ohio, and there resided
during the earlier years of his life. Coming from there to Sullivan
county, Indiana, he located in Haddon township on April 7, 1857. Buying
land just east of Carlisle, he improved a good homestead, and as a
tiller of the soil met with signal success, at the time of his death,
which occurred February 6, 1886, being owner of three hundred and
twenty-seven acres of valuable land. He was a Jacksonian Democrat in
politics, and an earnest supporter of the principles of his party. The
maiden name of his wife was Elizabeth Welch. She was born in Ireland,
January 10, 1822, a daughter of George Welch, who came to this country
with his family, and settled in Ohio, living first in Harrison county,
but spending the later years of his life in Perry county. Six children
were born of their union, namely: William and George residing in
California; John, a farmer; Thomas, deceased; James, of this sketch;
and Mary Ann, wife of Dudley Willis, of California.
Brought up on the home farm, James
Whipps received his early education in the district schools, which he
attended in the long winter terms, laboring on the farm during seed
time and harvest. He remained beneath the parental roof until thirty
years of age, when he moved to the farm which he now owns and occupies,
but which was then owned by his father. Continuing the improvements
already begun on the place, Mr. Whipps has now a valuable farm of
ninety-two acres, its land being highly cultivated, and one of the most
productive in the vicinity. Here he is raising both grain and stock,
and for the past eight years has made a specialty of raising potatoes
and strawberries for the home market, doing an extensive and lucrative
business in this branch of industry. He raises fine varieties of
strawberries, having the Warfield, Haviland, Sample, Excelsior, and
Senator Dunlap, all of which are especially fine, being pleasing to the
eye and of particularly rich flavor.
On October 9, 1883, Mr. Whipps
married Margaret McClure, who was born in Knox county, Indiana, August
6, 1858, and was there educated. After completing a course at the
Bruceville Normal School, she taught four years in Knox county, being a
teacher in the public schools of Oaktown for a year. Her parents, Hiram
and Rosella (Wilson) McClure, spent their lives in Knox county, being
farmers. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Whipps, namely:
Chellis O., born January 19, 1885, was graduated from the Carlisle high
school with the class of 1905, and is now assisting his father on the
home farm; and Clara E., born March 17, 1888, was graduated from the
Carlisle high school with the class of 1906. True to the political
faith in which he was reared, Mr. Whipps is an uncompromising Democrat.
He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the
Modern Woodmen of America, belonging to the Carlisle lodges of both
organizations. He and his wife and their son and daughter are valued
members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Source: A History of Sullivan County,
Indiana: By Lewis Publishing Company Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1909
JOHN CHRISTIAN DODSON.
John Christian Dodson, of Cambridge
City, was born, August 12, 1869, on a farm near Tell City, Perry
county, Indiana. He is a son of Joseph N. and Emma (Gengelback) Dodson,
the father being of a pioneer family of Perry county. John C. Dodson
was educated in the common schools of Perry county, Central Normal
College, and Indiana University, receiving the degree of Bachelor of
Arts in 1898 and that of Bachelor of Law in 1901. In the meantime he
had taught in the district schools, as principal at Troy and at
Cambridge City. On July 4, 1901, he opened an office in Cambridge City,
where he has since practiced. He is a Mason, a Knight of Pythias and a
Democrat. On October 20, 1906, he married Mary Agnes Barefoot and they
have two children, Barbra Emma and Ruth Agnes.
Source: Courts and Lawyers of Indiana
By Leander John Monks, Logan Esarey, Ernest Vivian Shockley Published
by Federal Pub. Co., 1916
Sol
H. Esarey. There are few law firms in Indianapolis that enjoy as good a
prestige and more select practice than that of "Watson &
Esarey, whose offices are in the Pythian Building. The members of this
firm are Ward H. Watson, James E. Watson and Sol H. Esarey.
The junior member of the firm was for
a number of years assistant reporter for the Supreme Court of Indiana,
and is a man of wide legal training and experience. He was born in
Perry County, Indiana, May 17, 1866. No other family has been known so
long or so prominently in Perry County as the Esareys. It is said that
his great-great-grandfather, John Esarey was either the first or the
second permanent white settler in that part of the state. The
grandfather, Jesse Esarey, lived his entire life in Perry County.
Associated with his name are a long list of pioneer activities. He was
a miller, owning and operating the first grist mill in Perry County,
the machinery of which was operated by horse power. He also had
the first lumber and saw mill in the county, and was the first to
introduce steam power in the operation of such a mill. He was also
a man of affairs viewed from a public standpoint. He was a whig and
later a republican, a strong temperance man when temperance
advocates were few, and served as captain of the Home Guards of
Perry County. He reared a large family of twelve children, all of whom
grew to manhood and womanhood. One of them was John C. Esarey,.
father of the Indianapolis lawyer. John C. was born in Perry County in
1842 and made his life occupation farming. He is still living, at the
age of seventy-five, and enjoying the best of health. He has done much
to develop Perry County's life in religious and educational affairs. As
a republican he served two terms as township trustee and one term
as county commissioner and has been deeply interested in the
Methodist Church. In 1864 he enlisted in Company G of the
Fifty-third Indiana Infantry, and joined his regiment at Atlanta,
Georgia, participating in Sherman's March to the sea and thence
through the Carolinas until the surrender of Johnston's army after
the battle at Benton-ville, North Carolina. At the close of the war he
received his honorable discharge at Indianapolis, and going back to
Perry County took up the vocation which has busied him to the present
time. He married Barbara Ewing, and they had nine children, eight
of whom are still living.
The second oldest of the family, Sol
H. Esarey was born in Perry County May 17, 1866, and largely through
his own exertions acquired a liberal education. He attended
the Academy at Rome, Indiana, the Central Indiana Normal School at
Danville, where he was graduated with the class of 1890, and had
his legal education in Boston University Law School, graduating
LL. B. in 1902. Mr. Esarey practiced law at Cannelton, Indiana, and was
one of the leading lawyers of that locality until 1905. In the
latter year he removed to Indianapolis to take up his duties as
assistant reporter of the Supreme Court, and was chiefly known to
the local profession of the capital city in that capacity until 1913.
Mr. Esarey is a stanch republican, and during his residence at
Cannelton he served as a member of the School Board and was a leader in
establishing and building the Cannelton Public Library, the first
institution of that kind between Evansville and New Albany. He is a
member of the Knights of Pythias fraternity, the Modern Woodmen of
America and other orders. For a number of years he has been a
member of the Methodist Church at Indianapolis, and for the
last two years has taught a large Bible class of young ladies.
During his practice at Cannelton Mr. Esarey established the
principle affirmed by decision of the Supreme Court of the right
of a tax payer to compel a public official to return money unlawfully
obtained. April 8, 1893, at Cannelton, he married Miss Emma L. Clark.
Contributed by Barbara Ziegenmeyer
William
L. Sandage. The history of Indiana industry contains many noted and
honored names, and there is place alongside the greatest of them for
the Sandage family. William L. Sandage, one of the prominent
manufacturers and inventors of the state, undoubtedly inherits
some of his ability at least from his father, the late Joshua Sandage,
who though he never achieved the fame that is associated with many of
the wagon and plow manufacturers, supplied much of the inventive
genius and skill which has brought so much fame to several industrial
centers of the Middle West.
Joshua Sandage, now deceased, was
born in Indiana and from early youth conducted a country blacksmith
shop at his home in Perry County. Even while there he was a recognized
mechanical and inventive genius. His invention largely took the
direction of the making of plows. During the war in his home county of
Perry he organized and was first lieutenant of a company which he hoped
to take into the regular service. With that company he joined the
troops that drove the Confederate raider Morgan out of Indiana.
However, he was never assigned to regular duty, but with his
company was stationed at Indianapolis and formed part of the Home
Guards organization on duty at Camp Morton. This organization served
without pay.
During the early 70s Joshua Sandage
took his family to Moline, Illinois, and there became identified with
the great plow manufacturing industry which has made the names of
Moline and Bock Island synonymous with plow manufacture. At that time
plow making was in its infancy. Joshua Sandage was
patentee of the first steel plow made at Moline. He also devised and
was the first to use the process of the drop hammer for welding the
plow The patent office also records him as the patentee of the Sandage
steel wagon skein. On account of his success and ingenuity in the plow
industry he was called to South Bend, Indiana, and a short time
afterward organized what was known as the Sandage Brothers
Manufacturing Company. He spent the rest of his life in that city. His
enthusiasm and ambition were contented with the working out of
processes that in his case had their own reward, and apparently he
did not have the business ability to capitalize all the fruits of his
genius. His widow is still living.
A son of these parents, William L.
Sandage was born in Perry County, Indiana, in 1866. He had the
advantage of his father's companionship and direction in the mastery of
mechanical trades, and was an efficient journeyman from early youth.
His education was acquired in the schools of Moline and South Bend. Mr.
Sandage developed his ability along the special line of die casting. In
1900 he came to Indianapolis, and that city has been his home for
nearly twenty years. In 1905 he established the die casting business
that, beginning on a small scale, has developed into the present Modern
Die and Tool Company, the largest and most successful plant of its kind
in the Middle West.
The plant was a particularly valuable
unit in America's history because of its chief product, what is known
as the bronze back bearing, invented by Mr. Sandage, and known
commercially, as the Victor bearing. With a normally large activity and
demand for this product, the industry was forced to expand in every
department through the exactions of the war, and it was a recognized
war industry and supplied the government under contract with large
quantities of Victor bearing for military trucks, tractors,
aeroplanes, automobiles and other machinery used for war purposes.
That the company is not a big manufacturing corporation is due to the
unwillingness of Mr. Sandage to accept many tempting offers to use his
plant as the basis of an extensive corporate stockholding concern,
since he has preferred to continue his individual ownership on the
successful basis which he established a number of years ago and which
is a credit to his name. Mr. Sandage is now greatly assisted and
relieved of many of the exacting details of the business by his
son-in-law H. C. Weist, a young business man of great capability who
has brought both skill and enthusiasm into the business.
In the field of invention and other
achievements to Mr. Sandage's credit is the National Voting Machine.
With the manufacture of this product he is not now connected, however.
His business for a number of years has been an important accessory of
the great automobile industry of America, and he is himself an
enthusiast on the subject of automobiles and understands
practically every phase of automobile manufacture and the business in
general. The employment of automobiles for pleasure purposes has
constituted perhaps his chief recreation. He was one of the pioneer
members of the Hoosier Automobile Club and similar organizations in
various other cities and states. He belongs to the Chamber of
Commerce, and other Indianapolis civic organizations, including
the Indianapolis Rotary Club.
At South Bend Mr. Sandage married
Miss Laura Klingel, daughter of Jacob Klingel. The Klingel family for
over half a century have been identified with the show business in
South Bend. Mr. and Mrs. Sandage have a daughter, Katharine,, wife of
Mr. H. C. Weist, and they have one son, William H. Weist.
In 1917 Mr. Sandage bought a
beautiful country home known As Walnut Hill, on the Illinois State
Road seven miles north of the center of Indianapolis. There he and Mrs.
Sandage and their daughter and her husband have most happy and restful
surroundings for their domestic life. The residence is on an estate of
several acres. The charm is enhanced by the beautiful floral and
arboreal growth surrounding the residence, which is both costly and
commodious, possessing every comfort and convenience, and
arranged with all that perfect taste and
good artistic proportions
could demand.
Contributed by Barbara Ziegenmeyer
Daniel
S. Goble, M. D. A physician and surgeon at Evansville, where he has
been in practice since 1906, Doctor Goble is a man of high standing in
his profession, and the confidence of the public and his fellow
practitioners in his ability is attested to by the fact that he is now
serving as president of the Vanderburg County Medical Society.
Doctor Goble was born in Clark
Township of Perry County, Indiana. His ancestors were pioneers in
Perry County. His great-grandfather was a native of Massachusetts and
served in the Revolutionary war; later removing to North Carolina.
The grandfather Will Goble came to Indiana from North Carolina
possibly the state of his birth.
At that time Ohio was the only state
north of the Ohio River, and Indiana was a territory. There was no
railroads and Will Goble followed one of the pioneer trails over the
Blue Ridge Mountains and across the states of Tennessee and Kentucky to
Indiana. He located in what is now Clark Township of Perry County. This
was then a wilderness, filled with Indians who claimed it as their
hunting ground. He acquired a tract of land and began the tremendous
task of making a farm. He was in every way fitted for pioneer
life, being of strong athletic build, a tireless worker, yet very fond
of sports and hunting. The Indians frequently pitted their
fleetest runners against him in foot races. He and his wife spent their
last years in Perry County.
Daniel Goble, father of Doctor Goble,
was also born in Clark Township and grew up amid pioneer scenes. He
attended rural schools when it was the custom for the teacher to board
around in the families of the pupils. Reared on a farm he inherited
land, and his good judgment and ability enabled to build up one of the
best farms in Perry County. He died at the age of eighty-one and was
buried in the Lan-man cemetery, on the farm where he had lived since
his marriage.
Daniel Goble was married to Louisa
Lanman, a native of Clark Township, daughter of George Lanman and
grand-daughter of John Lanman. John Lanman was one of the
first settlers of that township and owned one of the first horse mills
operated for the public in Perry County. Mrs. Louisa Goble died at the
age of sixty years, the mother of the following children: George, John,
Keith, Daniel S., Susan, Martha and Sarah.
Doctor Goble spent his youth in the
environment of his father's farm. He attended district schools,
and finished his literary education in the Central Normal College
at Danville, Indiana. He began his life of usefulness as a teacher at
the age of seventeen, and taught five terms in Perry County.
In the meantime he was diligently
studying medicine under Doctor Lomax of Bristow, Indiana, and
subsequently entered the Kentucky School of Medicine at
Louisville, where he graduated with the class of 1892. In 1907 he
took a post-graduate course in the same institution. Doctor Goble was
in practice at Chrisney, Indiana, until he sought a larger and better
field for his skill and experience and removed to Evansville in 1906.
Beside his official association with the Vanderburg Medical
Society, he is a member of the Indiana State and the Ohio Valley
Medical Associations and is for 1919 Vanderburg County's Health
Commissioner.
He is affiliated with Evansville
Lodge, No. 64, Free and Accepted Masons, and Orion Lodge Knights of
Pythias. He and wife are active members of Olivet Presbyterian
Church.
He married in 1893 Oma R. Cooper, a
native of Perry County. Her father, Gabriel Cooper, for many years was
a prominent and successful teacher in that county.
Doctor and Mrs. Goble have two
daughters, named Mildred and Marjorie.
Source: Indiana and Indianan's Volumn
4 by Jacob Piatt Dunn
Contributed by Barbara Ziegenmeyer