HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY                      213

schools of the county. On the 30th day of May, 1875, he married Miss
C.  E. Summerville, of Clay county, and located, soon thereafter, at
Clinton, Vermillion county, to engage in the practice of law, but a few
months later, returned to Brazil to accept a deputyship under County
Auditor Jeff McAnelly, and continued in this position until June, 1881,
when he was elected county superintendent, and was re-elected in June,
1883. On the 18th day of July, 1880, his wife died, and on the 25th day
of April, 1881, he married Harriet Surber, of Indianapolis. After retir-
ing from county superintendency he engaged in newspaper work on
the Brazil Democrat and procured the first regular subscriber to the daily
edition. For a time, in the year 1891, he was in editorial charge of the
Owen County Democrat, at Spencer. In the same year he was appointed
superintendent of the Government Indian school at Sacaton, Arizona,
holding the position two years. Since locating in Arizona he has resided
practically all the time in Maricopa county, near Tempe. In 1903 he
was honored with the nomination for county superintendent on the
Republican ticket, but was defeated with the ticket, generally, since which
time he has been teaching, which has been, practically, his life work.
The subject of this sketch is the son of Samuel M. and Elizabeth (Lee)
Stewart, natives of Putnam county, Indiana, the former of whom died
June 8, 1896, aged 72 years, 1 month and 19 days, the latter, November
25, 1906, aged 77 years, 6 months and 2 days.

    Lucius Teter, native of Clay county, son of Hiram and Frances
(Ringo) Teter, born at Bowling Green, September 23, 1873, the family
locating at Brazil in the early part of 1877, at the time of the removal of
the county records, where the father engaged in banking and in the
practice of the law. Here Lucius attended the public schools, taking two
years of the high school course, when, in 1890, Mr. Teter, having been
appointed state bank examiner, the family moved to Danville, Hendricks
county, where Lucius took the third year of the course, graduating from
the Danville high school in the spring of 1891. The summer following
he spent in the country with the Ringos, in Cass township, as he had
repeatedly done before, taking a hand in the work on the farm. In the
same year he took the examination for license to teach and the following
winter, that of 1891-’92, taught on the Clay Prairie, in Posey township,
where he boarded with the well known farmer citizen U. W. (Wash)
Modesitt. At this point we quote a personal letter received recently
from him:
    “In September, 1892, I came to Chicago and started with a national
bank on La Salle street as messenger. Of course, you will understand
that the word ‘messenger’ as applied to a bank man is not quite the same
as the ordinary term, the duties being, particularly, that of collecting and
handling matters between the different banks.
    “There has been nothing remarkable about my career in Chicago. I
was connected with the Continental National and the American Trust
and Savings Bank, both prominent institutions of Chicago, and have
always had plenty of work to do. In 1902 I helped to organize the
Chicago Savings Bank and Trust Company, at which time I was made
cashier. Beginning the year 1907, I was made vice president and in
January, 1908, was elected president. I have been quite active in recent
years in various bankers’ associations, particularly in the savings bank
section of the American Bankers’ Association, of which section I am