Ashley R. Cadwallader

    Ashley R. Cadwallader, grain and commission merchant, was born in Montgomery County, Indiana, January 11, 1854, and is a son of Jesse W. and Minerva J. (Silver) Cadwallader, the former a native of Indiana, the latter of Ohio. Three brothers of the Cadwallader family came to America from Wales at the close of the seventeenth century. When Ashley was one year old, his parents removed from Indiana to Ottawa, Minnesota, and thence, after five years, came to West Lebanon, where they have since resided.

    Ashley's whole education was comprised in that obtained from the district school. He began teaching when he was seventeen years old, and attended two terms at Wabash College. His last teaching was at West Lebanon, in 1878-79, when he was Principal of the high school. Afterward, in partnership with his brother, he began mercantile business at West Lebanon, which was continued five years. In 1881, the firm erected the West Lebanon grain elevator; this is now owned by Mr. Cadwallader, who is the largest grain merchant of the place.

    He was married, September 19, 1877, to Miss Laura C. Fleming, daughter of James M. and Sarah C. Fleming. Mr. Cadwallader is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and Master of Lodge, 352. He is politically, a Republican; a member of the Christian Church and Superintendent of the Sabbath School.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883.