> > >> This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; >> it just has the insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not >> researching this family, just thought I would share. I do not know anymore >> about these families or these surnames. NOTE: I don’t know if there is any >> additional mention of this family in the book, it has no index. I do not want to >> sell this book. I am typing the biographies from it. >> >> Typed by Lora Radiches: >> >> >> >> Other surnames mentioned in the biography of RICHARD SEDGWICK are: >> Sedgwick, Smeltzer, Knollenberg, Sutton, Patton, Strickler, Bowman, Perry, Matthews, >> Bowman, Mason, Hughes, >> >> RICHARD SEDGWICK. The career of the late Richard Sedgwick, of Richmond, up >> to the time when his health failed in 1894, was an active and varied one, >> during which he took part in a number of pursuits, in all of which he made a >> success. A Home Guard during the war between the states, when only thirteen >> years of age, he later was a farmer and became the inventor, with his >> brother, of the first wire-weaving machine that was practical, and for years >> thereafter was engaged in the manufacture of this article. When illness caused his >> retirement from active business affairs he again took up farming, and was >> exceedingly prominent in the movements that made for civic betterment and >> advancement. From 1919 until his death, April 6, 1926, he lived in a beautiful >> residence at Richmond, where he is survived by his widow. Mr. Sedgwick was >> born May 18, 1850, in Wayne County, Indiana, a son of John and Margaret >> (Smeltzer) Sedgwick. His father was a well-to-do Wayne County farmer, and the >> boyhood of Richard Sedgwick was passed on the home place, his education being >> acquired in the common schools and at the Friends Academy, a Quaker >> institution, at Richmond. In 1863, although he was only thirteen years of age, he was >> accepted as a member of the Home Guards for service during the War Between >> the States, and when that struggle came to a close remained on the home farm >> and assisted his father. He spent the years 1873 and 1874 with a party >> doing survey work in the western part of the State of Oregon, and then returning >> to the home farm in Wayne County. Mr. Sedgwick and his brother Isham were >> natural mechanics, and after much experimental work invented; perfected and >> patented a wire-weaving machine, the first practical device of its kind ever >> made. This practically revolutionized the business of making wire fence, >> which had theretofore been laboriously performed by hand. The brothers started >> a factory at Richmond in 1878 and soon built up a large and prosperous >> business, with which Richard Sedgwick was identified until his retirement, >> because of ill health, in 1894, when he went to live quietly on his nine-acre plot >> named Sedgwick Place. Although he had retired, it must not be thought that >> Mr. Sedgwick cut himself off from connection with affairs. Indeed right up >> to the time of his final illness he was one of the most active and >> constructive men of the city, for the betterment and advancement of which he was a >> constant worker. He assisted in the organization of numerous factories, and was >> a member of the board of directors of the First National Bank. He was >> prominent in securing the electric railway on the west side; served on many >> committees engaged in public enterprises, and with George H. Knollenberg founded >> the Young Men’s Christian Association at Richmond, with which he continued >> to be connected all of his life, and to the building fund of which he made >> the first donation. He was an elder in Reid Memorial Church for thirty-five >> years and a generous contributor to all of its movements. Mr. Sedgwick was >> always deeply impressed with the value of land and owned two farms in Randolph >> County, this state, comprising 420 acres, in the spring of 1919 Mr. Sedgwick >> bought a residence at 42 South Fourteenth Street, Richmond, which he had >> remodeled, and in which he made his home until his death. He was a Republican >> in his political views, ‘but never asked for political office or public >> preferment. On October 15, 1884, Mr. Sedgwick was united in marriage with Miss >> Marcia E. Sutton, who was born at Richmond, a daughter of David Sutton, and >> she died September 15, 1916, having borne four children: Deborah, the wife of >> Henry Patton, of Richmond, Virginia; Margaret, the wife of Roy Strickler, >> of Lancaster, Ohio; John Richard, of New York City; and Theodore, of >> Hagerstown, Indiana. On October 12, 1918, Mr. Sedgwick married Mrs. Addle M. Bowman, >> who was born at Hagerstown, Indiana, daughter of Hannibal and Olive (Perry) >> Matthews, the former a native of Canandaigua, New York, and the latter of >> Northfield, Vermont. In young manhood Mr. Matthews removed from New York City >> to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was married to his first wife, and was an >> inventor of stoves and the owner of a stove and hardware store for many years. >> When an epidemic of cholera visited the city he moved to Hagerstown, >> Indiana, where he was a. shipper of live stock and grain and became one of the >> prominent men of his community. After the death of his first wife he married her >> half-sister. Mrs. Sedgwick acquired her education in the public schools of >> Hagerstown, and November 27, 1884, was united in marriage with Edward E. >> Bowman, who was born at Hagerstown, a son of John and Martha (Mason) Bowman. To >> this union there were born two children: Edith M., the wife of Robert >> Hughes, of Cambridge City, Indiana; and Rush A., of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Mr. >> and Mrs. Sedgwick had no children. Mrs. Sedgwick has been prominent in >> various enterprises at Richmond, where she is a member of the Woman’s Club, the >> Garden Club and various church societies. She belongs also to the Young Women >> ’s Christian Association and to an auxiliary whose purpose is to equip the >> Young Men’s Christian Association Building, and served as president of the >> auxiliary for some time. >> >