History of Richmond, (Wayne County) Indiana United States of America

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Mary Wright Plummer, librarian, was born at Richmond, Ind., in 1856; daughter of Jonathan Wright and Hannah Ann (Ballard) Plummer; granddaughter of John Thomas and Hannah (Wright) Plummer, and descended from the Plummers of Maryland, and the Ballards of Virginia. She was graduated from the Friends academy, Richmond, Ind., 1872; pursued special studies at Wellesley college, Mass., 1881-82, and took a course in library science at Columbia university, 1886-88, when she became head of the cataloguing department in the St. Louis Public library, and in 1890 librarian of the Pratt Institute Free library, Brooklyn, N.Y., of which she was also appointed director in 1896. She was president of the New York Library club, 1896-97; vice-president of the Long Island Library club, 1900-01, president, 1901-02; a member of the council, 1897-1901; vice-president of the American Library association, 1900, and a delegate to the International congress of libraries at Paris, France. 1900. Her published works include:Hints to Small Libraries (1894, 3d ed., 1902); Verses, (privately printed, 1896); Contemporary Spain as Shown by her Novelists (1899), and contributions to periodical literature.

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

William Henry Goode, educator, was born near Waynesville, Ohio, June 9, 1807; son of Philip and Rebekah (Hayes) Goode, and brother of Patrick Gaines Goode. He was educated by his father and at the Xenia academy. He was principal of the Gallatin county seminary, Kentucky, 1827-36; and of the New Albany seminary, Ind., 1836-42, and was the pioneer Methodist educator of Indiana. In 1836 he entered the ministry of the M.E. church, and in 1842 was transferred to the Arkansas conference and as principal of the Fort Coffee academy, began the work of education among the Choctaws. In 1844 he formed the Indian mission conference and soon after returned to Indiana, unwilling to follow his conference into the pro-slavery wing of his church. After twelve years in the itinerancy and a year as president of Whitewater college, he was appointed superintendent of missions in Kansas and Nebraska, and for ten years was engaged chiefly upon the frontier. His field of labor included all the region from Texas on the south and the Nebraska frontier on the north, between the state boundaries on the east and the Rocky mountains on the west. He traversed this territory from east to west twenty-seven times, visited all the frontier settlements in their infancy, and established missions among the Wyandots, Delawares, Shawnees and Kickapoos. His powers were virtually those of a bishop, and he placed more than one hundred ministers in permanent posts. In 1855 the Kansas and Nebraska conference was organized under his presidency in a cloth tent on the plains at Laramie. The Nebraska conference was formed by him in 1860 and the Colorado conference in 1864. The latter years of his life were passed at Richmond, Ind. He was forty years in the ministry, twenty-seven years a presiding elder, and was seven times elected to the General conference. He received the degree of D.D. from Indiana Asbury university in 1869. He published Outposts of Zion (1863). His son Philip Hayes Goode (1835-56) of Villiska, Iowa, served, 1861-65, in the Mississippi campaigns, was captain in the 4th Iowa battery and was wounded at Pittsburg Landing. Dr. Goode died at Richmond, Ind., Dec. 16, 1879.

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

James Mooney, ethnologist, was born in Richmond, Ind., Feb. 10, 1861; son of James and Ellen (Devlin) Mooney, of county Meath, Ireland, who removed to the United States in 1852. After attending the schools of Richmond he worked at the printer's trade for six years. He began the study of Indian ethnology in 1873, with the collection of material for an atlas and geographic dictionary of the native tribes of both Americas. He interested himself in Gaelic studies, and was an organizer and local officer of the Land League movement, 1880-81. In 1885 he removed to Washington, where his work received recognition from the Bureau of Ethnology, which published his list of tribes as the basis of the "Cyclopedia of Indian Tribes." Soon after he began researches among the Cherokees, and finally succeeded in discovering and securing the whole secret ritual of their priesthood, of which specimen formulas were published in the 7th annual report of the bureau in 1891. The entire number constitute the largest body of native aboriginal literature in existence. Later he turned his attention to the South Atlantic tribes. In 1890 he was commissioned to study the ghost dance among the plains tribes, believed to be contemplating a general uprising. In the next year he began extensive collections and industrial studies for the World's Fair, among the western tribes from Dakota to Arizona, following this with work for subsequent minor expositions. Having become interested in the Kiowas us a typical plains people he gave several years to that tribe with the purpose of embodying the results in a monographic series for the bureau of Ethnology. He is the author of: Indian Tribal Names and Synonyms North of Mexico (1885); Medical Mythology of Ireland (1887); Funeral Customs of Ireland (1888); Holiday Customs of Ireland (1889); Cherokee Ball Play (1890); Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees (1891); Siouan Tribes of the East (1894); The Messiah Religion and the Ghost Dance (1896); The Calendar History of the Kiowa Indians (1898); Myths of the Cherokee (1901); and numerous shorter papers.

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

Arthur Cunningham, librarian, was born in Richmond, Ind., Feb. 21, 1865; son of Joseph Arthur and Sarah Jano (Swaney) Cunningham; and a nephew of Mrs. Jane Cunningham Croly ("Jennie June"). He was graduated from DePauw university in 1887 and was instructor in Latin and assistant librarian in his alma mater from 1887 to 1890, when he was appointed librarian in the state normal school at Terre Haute, Ind. He was one of the founders of the Indiana library association, being its first vice-president and second president, and was also elected a member of the American library association. He was twice married, his first wife being Eleanor Piercy, who died May 9, 1892, and his second, Elizabeth Long, a professer of mathematics in the Indiana state normal school, to whom he was married March 29, 1894. The degree of A.M. was conferred upon him by De Pauw university in 1890.

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