214                         HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY


now president. I have never been possessed of any money that was of
any help to me in my work. The fact is, the first few years I was here
I had a very hard time financially. I have been interested in banking
more from the practical and professional standpoint than from the stand-
point of a man of wealth, and whatever I have done in it has been from
the professional standpoint.” His high standing in the banking world
is evidenced by the fact that he is president of the savings bank section
of the American Bankers’ Association. He is also a member of the
Union League, Chicago Athletic, Bankers’, Quadrangle and Congrega-
tional clubs and the Indiana Society.
    On the 23d day of October, 1900, Mr. Teter married Clara H.
Lodor, of Philadelphia. They have two children. The family home is
at 5637 Woodlawn avenue.

    John F. Rizley, a native of Clay county, born at Bowling Green,
in the month of January, 1839, son of ex-Sheriff John Rizley, attended
the schools of his time, including the county seminary, and later entered
Wabash College, Crawfordsville, with his fellow student James H.
Seaton. In 1857, when Judge Eckles was appointed supreme judge of
the Territory of Utah, by President Buchanan, Rizley, then but eighteen
years of age, accompanied him as private secretary. In 1860 he entered
the law office of Daniel W. Voorhees, at Terre Haute, and while there
married the sister, Miss Mary Voorhees, and in the fall of 1863 went to
New York, where he located in the practice of his adopted profession,
and was deputy commissioner of internal revenue, New York, in 1869.
In 1885, he was appointed minister to Denmark, by President Cleveland,
which position he filled with credit to himself and honor to his country.
He is said to have made a success and competency in the practice in the
Empire City. His location is 120 Broadway. Mr. Rizley delivered the
oration at Bowling Green, July 4, 1862.

    James F. Congleton, a native of Clay county, eldest son of Job C.
and Margaret (Donham) Congleton, born in Perry township, in the year
1862, came up on the farm, attended the public schools, making good use
of his opportunities and time in acquiring the qualifications to teach in
the public schools of his native township. Having married, about the
year 1885 he accompanied his father-in-law, Henry W. McNamar, and
family to the extreme Northwest, locating in Washington. Soon there-
after the parents and family joined them in their adopted state. Recently,
the subject of this sketch, whose home is at Spokane, was elected a mem-
ber of the state senate. The parents are dead. Job Congleton, who was
trustee of Perry township from 1876 to 1878, is remembered by many
surviving Clay countians.

    Nathan C. Martin, native of the state of Ohio, the family emigrating
to Indiana in 1864, locating in Clay county, on the farm, three miles
southeast of Bowling Green, in the years of his youth. Having taught
one or more terms of public school, he read law with Enos Miles, at
Bowling Green, then located at Knightsville at some time in the year
1871, to engage in the practice. In the month of May, 1872, he aided
in founding the Clay County Enterprise, Knightsville’s pioneer weekly
paper, of which he became editor when the proprietorship passed into the
hands of the Watsons. At some time in the following year, having