Bates, Hervey -- Born 1795 at Fort Washington, Cincinnati, Ohio. Moved to Brookville, Franklin County, Indiana, approximately 1813; to Connersville; and to Indianapolis in 1822. Married Sidney Sedwick. Appointed Sheriff of Marion County by Jonathon Jennings; elected to two year term at that post following first county elections. Merchant. First president of the Indianapolis branch of the State Bank of Indiana; involved in the formation of the first insurance company.

Boon, Ratliff -- Born January 18, 1781, Franklin County, North Carolina. Attended public schools; gunsmith's apprentice. Married Deliah Anderson, 1801 (10 children). Moved to Kentucky ; to Boon Township, Warrick County, Indiana in 1809. Farmer. Presbyterian. Indiana Militia: 4th regiment, lieutenant, 1812; 10th regiment, captain, 1814, colonel, 1817; 1st regiment, major, 1815.

Political Career: Democrat. Warrick County Treasurer 1813-20; member territorial House of Representatives 1814-15. State House, 1816-17, 1817-18, (Warrick); Senate, 1818-19 (resigned May 27, 1819) lieutenant-goveRnor, 1819-22, 1822-24; governor, Sept. 12 - Dec. 4, 1822; U.S. House of Representatives, 1825-27, 1829-39; presidential elector, 1828. Lost for U.S. House of Representatives, 1826; lost for U.S. Senate, 1830, 1832, 1836-. Trustee for (Indiana University), 1829-33.

Fletcher, Calvin -- Born Feb. 4, 1798, Ludlow, Vermont of English ancestry. Attended academies at Randolph and Royalton, Vermont, and at Westford, Massachusetts. Moved to Ohio in 1817, studied law, admitted to Ohio bar in 1820; to Virginia in 1820; back to Ohio in 1820; and to Indianapolis in 1821. Married Sarah Hill, 1821 (11 children). Methodist. Teacher; lawyer, extensive land holdings; director, State Bank of Indiana, 1834-41; attorney for Indianapolis branch State Bank of Indiana, 1835; member of commission to reorganize the Second State Bank of Indiana, 1834; member of Sinking Fund Commission 1834-41; Indianapolis Colonization Society, manager 1829; Marion County Agricultural Society, treasurer, 1835.

Political Career: Anti-Jackson; Whig. Township Overseer of the Poor, 1822; Marion County prosecuting attorney, 1822-23; prosecuting attorney, 5th circuit, 1825-26; state Senate, 1826-27 (Hamilton, Hendricks, Madison, Marion and adjoining territory); state Senate 1827-28, 1828-29, 1829-30 (Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Madison, and Marion); state Senate 1830-31 (Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Madison, and Marion), 1831-32, 1832-33, (resigned 1833).

McCarty, Nicholas -- One of the first successful commercialist in Indianapolis. Born Sept. 26, 1795 in Moorefield, Harding County, Virginia; while still a youth, family moved to Pittsburgh following his father's death; moved to Newark, Ohio approximately 1814, clerking for Buckingham, an early Ohio merchant. Made superintendent of one of Buckingham's branch stores near Newark. He was able to attain his own store before leaving Ohio for Indianapolis, Indiana in 1823. Married Margaret Hawkins, 1828 (4 children). Extensive land holdings throughout central and northern Indiana, several branch stores established. It is reported of McCarty that in 1829, due to the freezing of the Ohio River, he hauled his entire season's stock from Philadelphia requiring 16 six-horse Conestoga wagons. He also dabbled in the ginseng trade with James Blake.

Morris, Morris -- Born 1780, Monongahela, Virginia of Welsh ancestry. Moved with parents to Fleming County, Kentucky. Married Rachel Morris, 1803, descendant of great-uncle John Morris, (8 children). Moved to Indiana 1821. Elected Auditor of State 1828, served in this position until 1844; commissioner, 1832, for construction of state capitol building completed in 1835.

Morris, Thomas Armstrong -- Morris Morris's 3rd son, Thomas Armstrong Morris, was a graduate of West Point in 1834, receiving a brevetted second lieutenant's commission. In 1835, Thomas Armstrong Morris was assigned by War Department to assist Major Ogden of the engineer corps in the construction of the National Road in Indiana and Illinois. T.A. Morris was responsible for the division between Richmond and Indianapolis. He resigned from U.S. service in 1836 and was resident engineer in charge of the Central Canal for the state.

Noble, Noah -- Born Jan. 15, 1794, Berryville, Clarke County Virginia of Scottish ancestry. Moved to Kentucky; to Franklin County, Indiana 1811; and to Indianapolis, 1825. Married Catherine Stull Van Swearingen, 1819 (3 children). Methodist. Freemason. Lawyer; farmer; merchant; operated a fulling mill; operated Brookville Hotel; director, Brookville branch, State Bank of Indiana; held an interest in the Steam Mill Company and a tannery in Indianapolis, 1828; agent, Hartford Fire Insurance Company, 1828. Indiana Militia: 7th Regiment, lieutenant colonel, 1817, colonel, 1820; 6th Brigade, brigadier general, 1825.

Political Career: Anti-Jackson; Whig. Franklin County Sheriff, 1820-24; Franklin County collector of county and state revenue, 1823; receiver, U.S. Land Office at Indianapolis, 1825-29; commissioner, Indianapolis and Whitewater Turnpike, 1828; commissioner, Michigan Road, 1830; governor, 1831-37. Lost for U.S. Senate 1836.

Ray, James Brown -- Born Feb. 19, 1794, Jefferson County, Kentucky of Irish ancestry. Studied law; admitted to the bar in 1818. married Mary Riddle, 1818 (2 children) - died 1823; married Esther Booker, 1825 (5 children). Moved to Ohio; and to Brookville, Franklin County, Indiana in 1818. Lawyer, merchant 1835-36 -- owned a tavern, published newspaper, The Hoosier, Greencastle, Putnam County 1833.

Political Career: Anti-Jackson Independent 1828-33; Democrat after 1833. State House 1821-22 (Franklin); Senate 1822-23, 1823-24, 1825 (Franklin). Governor 1825-1831. Indian Treaty Commissioner 1826. Lost for U.S. House of Representatives 1824, 1831 -.

Smith, Oliver Hampton -- Born Oct. 23, 1794, Smith's Island, near Trenton, New Jersey of English ancestry. Attended country schools; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1820. Married Mary Bramfield, 1821 (3 children). Society of Friends. Moved to Pennsylvania; to New York; to Dearborn County, Indiana in 1817, and to Fayette County. Lawyer; farmer; land speculator. Founded the village of Yorktown, Delaware County; built fulling mill, saw mill, and grist mill.

Political Career: Pro-Jackson; Whig. State House of Rep. 1822-23 (Fayette). Prosecuting attorney 3rd district, 1824-26; U.S. House of Representatives, 1827-29; Lost for U.S. House, 1831; 1833; lost for U.S. Senate 1832.

Tipton, John -- Born Aug. 14, 1786, Sevierville, Sevier County, Tennessee of Irish ancestry. Married Martha Shields 1807 (4 children) - divorced 1817; married Matilda Spencer 1825 (4 children). Not a church member. Freemason. Moved to Harrison County, Indiana in 1807; to Fort Wayne, Allen County in 1823; and to Logansport, Cass County in 1828. Farmer; repaired guns; extensive land holdings; surveyor; director, Corydon branch State Bank of Indiana 1821; owned saw and grist mills in Cass County 1828. Organized Eel River Seminary Society, Logansport, 1828-29. Purchase Tippecanoe Battleground and gave it to the state. Indian Wars: Harrison County "Yellow Jackets," captain 1811. Militia: 5th regiment, major, 1812; lieutenant colonel, 1813; colonel, 1814; 3rd Brigade, brigadier general, 1817, major-general 1822.

Political Career: Democrat. Justice of Peace Harrison County 1810; Harrison County Sheriff, 1816-19; member of commission to select site of new capital, 1820; State House of Rep. 1820-21, 1821-22; member commission to determine Indiana-Illinois boundary 1821; U. S. Indian Agent for Miami and Potawatomi tribes, 1823-31; Allen County agent, 1824-25; negotiator of Indian treaties, 1826, 1828, 1836; U. S. Senate 1831-39.

Wallace, David -- Born April 4, 1799, Lewistown, Mifflin County Pennsylvania of Scottish ancestry. Moved to Ohio 1804; to Franklin County, Indiana in 1822; to Fountain County in 1832. Attended public schools; U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York, graduated 1821; studied law, admitted to the bar in 1824. Married Esther French Text., 1824 (4 children) -died 1834; married Zerelda G. Sanders, 1836 (3 children). Methodist. Freemason. Lawyer. U.S. Army: artillery lieutenant, 1821-22. Indiana Militia: 7th Regiment, lieutenant, 1824, captain 1825; colonel 1827. Taught Mathematics at West Point 1821-22.

Political Career: Anti-Jackson; Whig. State House of Rep. 1828-29; 1829-30; 1830-31 (Franklin County); lieutenant governor, 1831-37.

Yandes, Daniel -- Born January 1793 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Enlisted in 1813, serving under troops directed by W.H. Harrison in northern Ohio, served 6 month enlistment. Re-enlisted in 1814 but again did not see active service. Married Anna Wilson 1815 (11 children). Moved from Pennsylvania to a farm near Connersville, Fayette County, Indiana in 1818; in spring of 1821 he moved Indianapolis. It is reported that he came to Indianapolis with around $4,000 in capital, a sum that made him the largest capitalist for the next decade. Active in the early development of commercial and manufacturing interests in the city. He and his brother-in-law erected the saw- and grist-mill on the bayou southwest of the city building a dam across White River at the head of an island across from the Old Cemetery. In 1823, Yandes & Wilkens established first tannery in county. In 1825, Yandes joined in partnership with Franklin Merrill in a store. About 1831, he entered a mercantile partnership with Edward T. Porter. By 1833, he and Samuel Merrill, State Treasurer and brother to former partner Franklin, dug a mill-race along Fall Creek and constructed a saw-, grist-mill, and cotton spinning factory. Politically a Whig and served as first treasurer of Marion County.

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