History of Dearborn County Indiana United States of America

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Charles Wesley Hargitt, educator, was born in Dearborn county, Ind., March 28, 1852; son of Thomas and Mary (Lyness) Hargitt, and grandson of the Rev. Thomas Hargitt. His ancestors on both sides immigrated to America from England early in the 19th century. He spent his boyhood on a farm and attended the district school. He removed to Indianapolis, Ind., in 1871, and was graduated from Moore's Hill college, Ind., in 1877. He entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, and for a time engaged successfully in that calling, meanwhile carrying on scientific studies. He took post graduate courses in the Massachusetts institute of technoloy and at Boston university, continuing his scientific work at the Marine biological laboratory and in the University of Indiana. He was professor of natural sciences at Moore's Hill college, 1885-88: of biology and geology at Miami university, Oxford, Ohio, 1888-91, and of biology at Syracuse university, N.Y., from 1891. He was associate director and lecturer of the Marine biological laboratory of the Brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, 1890-93, and in 1894 conducted investigations in the Naples zo?1ogical station, Italy. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Ohio university in 1890. He is the author of numerous scientific papers, reviews, etc., contributed to various scientific journals in Europe and America. He was elected a fellow of the American association for the advanceent of science, and a member of the American society of naturalists, the American morphological society, and of other scientific organizations. He was president of the New York State science teachers' association in 1898. He was married, July 26, 1877, to Susan E., daughter of the Rev. Enoch G. Wood, D.D. of Indiana.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Stephen Bowers, reformer, was born in Dearborn county, Ind., March 3, 1832. He received a common school education, and early in life joined the Methodist church, of which he became a preacher in the Indiana conference in 1856. In 1862 he enlisted in the Indiana infantry as a private and was promoted 1st lieutenant, and afterwards chaplain. He led his company in several battles in Kentucky in which he rendered efficient service. In-August, 1863, he resigned on account of failing health, due to exposure, and after his return from the army he continued in the active work of the ministry for more than twenty years, filling some of the most important positions in the Indiana conference and on the Pacific slope. He was awarded the degree of M.A. by the Indiana state university, and that of Ph.D. by the Willamette university, Oregon. In 1867 he was connected with the United States geological survey, with headquarters at Santa Barbara, Cal., was afterwards engaged in scientific work for the bureau of ethnology in Wisconsin, and was for several years connected with the mineralogical and geological survey of California. He subsequently devoted his time to journalistic work, and was made editor of the California Weekly Voice, a journal devoted to prohibition and the protection of the home. In the autumn of 1888 he canvassed southern California for the Republican party, but on its failure to enforce the temperance plank of the Chicago platform, he, in 1892, joined the People's party, and rendered the Populists good service. He was nominated by the party as a presidential elector-at-large in 1892. His writings, with the exception of a few published volumes, are fragmentary, though embracing a wide range, including theology, philology, geology, archaeology, and social science; and as a member of various scientific and other societies in America and in Europe he became recognized as a leading theologian, scientist and reformer.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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