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HISTORY OF
INDIANAPOLIS & MARION CO.,
INDIANA
By
B. R. SULGROVE -
ILLUSTRATED.
PHILADELPHIA
L. H. EVERTS & CO.
1884
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WILLIAM
HANNAMAN - The Hannaman family are of German
nationality, Christopher, the grandfather of
William, having been a native of Prussia. He
married Mary O'Neal, whose birthplace was Dublin,
Ireland. This union transmitted to their descendants
the sturdy qualities of both the German and the Irish races.
William Hannaman, the father of the subject of this
biographical sketch, was a resident of Cherry Vally, N. Y.,
and married Mary Fletcher, of Harrison County, Va.
Their son, William was born Aug. 10, 1806, at
Adelphia, Ross Co., Ohio, and at the age of twenty-two
removed to Indianapolis, where, having previous acquired the
trade of a printer, he was for several years employed in the
office of the Indiana Journal. In 1833 he
embarked with Caleb Scudder in the drug business,
which was continued uninterruptedly until 1863. He
also, with his partner, erected a carding-machine and
oil-mill on the arm of the canal at its junction with the
White River, and manufactured the first flaxseed oil in the
locality. Mr. Hannaman was for many years
school commissioner, a director of the State Bank of
Indiana, located at Indianapolis, trustee of the State
University, and identified with many benevolent and
charitable enterprises. He was made president of the
Indiana Branch of the Sanitary Commission during the late
war, and disposed of his interest in the drug business that
he might devote his time and energies exclusively to the
humane work. The admirable management of his
department and the good it accomplished is in a large degree
due to the gratuitous and efficient service of Mr.
Hannaman, who on retiring from his labors in behalf of
the soldiers was appointed by Governor Morton State
military agent for the purpose of collecting soldiers'
claims. In 1871 he became a member of the firm of
Smith & Hannaman, brokers, and continued this business
connection until his death, which occurred of pneumonia, at
the Hot Springs of Arkansas, on the 6th of December, 1880.
Mr. Hannaman was married on the 28th of August, 1833,
to Rhoda A. Luse, whose birth occurred Feb. 25, 1812,
and her death September, 1876. In the summer of 1879
he was again married to Mrs. A. F. Berry, who is
still living. Of seven children but two survive their
father, Henry G., of Indianapolis, and Mary E.,
of Dakota.
Source: History of Indianapolis & Marion County,
Indiana - Published by B. R. Sulgrove - Philadelphia:
L. H. Everts & Co.
1884 ~ Page 162 |
MR.
ABRAM W. HENDRICKS, a cousin of the ex-Governor, is
well up towards sixty, but none the less a close student and
indefatigable worker. He is held by the profession to
be one of the most thoroughly-read lawyers in the country,
and was so well esteemed twenty-six years ago that he was
nominated by the Republican party for the Supreme Bench.
He was born in Westmoreland County, Pa., and came to
Madison, to his uncle in 1839. He studied law with
Governor William Hendricks, and graduated at the
Lexington (Kentucky) Law School. For some years he was
a partner of William McKee Dunn, late
judge-advocate-general. He came to Indianapolis in
1866, to join his cousin, Thomas A., and Mr. Hord,
when the firm became Hendricks, Hord & Hendricks, now
Baker, Hord & Hendricks.
Source: History of Indianapolis & Marion
County, Indiana - Published by B. R. Sulgrove - Philadelphia:
L. H. Everts & Co.
1884 ~ Page 214f |
OSCAR B. HORD,
attorney-general of the State from 1862 to 1864, and for
twenty years a partner of Governor Hendricks, was
born in Kentucky near Maysville, where he was brought up.
He studied law with his father, and came to Greensburg, in
this State, in 1849. In 1852 he was made prosecuting
attorney, serving two terms. Some years later he and
the late Col. Gavin, his partner, made a digest of
the statues of the State, which was greatly needed, and gave
its authors a substantial professional reputation at once.
In 1862, Mr. Hord was elected attorney-general and
removed to Indianapolis, forming a professional connection
with Mr. Hendricks which has never been sundered
since, except during the latter's term as Governor
(from 1873 to 1877). Mr. Hord is one of the
hard-working men of the Indianapolis bar, and stands second
to none in the care he gives his cases and thoroughness of
his investigation of the law. He is one of the
steadiest of friends and most genial of companions, as well
as one of the first lawyers of the State. He was born
in 1829.
Source: History of Indianapolis & Marion County,
Indiana - Published by B. R. Sulgrove - Philadelphia:
L. H. Everts & Co.
1884 ~ Page 214f |
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