HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY                      121

energy, perseverance, patience and strong mentality. Moreover, the
analytical power and inductive train of thought necessary to the lawyer
enables him to readily understand any situation and to combine its parts
into a whole. Possessing the requisite characters of the able lawyer,
Mr. Shattuck has attained distinction at the bar and, moreover, is a factor
in corporate business interests, while in public life as mayor of Brazil his
service has been characterized by all that is progressive in municipal
affairs. His record stands in contradistinction to the old adage that a
prophet is never without honor save in his own country, for Mr. Shattuck
is a native son of the city which has honored him by election to its chief
office and which through the consensus of public opinion accords him
prominence as a representative of the legal fraternity.
    Mr. Shattuck was born June 2, 1871, his parents being Volney B. and
Henrietta Bessie (Pearce) Shattuck. The father, a native of Vigo
county, Indiana, was born March 10, 1846. His paternal grandfather,
Benjamin F. Shattuck, was born in New York, June 4, 1813, and in 1820
became a resident of Vigo county, Indiana, whence he removed to Clay
county in 1847. His first wife died June 25, 1851, and on the 18th of
May, 1852, he wedded Marian James, a native of Monroe county, Ken-
tucky, born November 20, 1830. By his first marriage he had seven chil-
dren. He resided in Williamstown, Clay county, until the autumn of
1855, when he took up his abode upon the present site of the city of
Brazil, purchasing a large tract of land. As the years passed he pros-
pered in his business pursuits and left to his family a valuable estate.
By his second marriage there were born eight children. The death of the
husband and father occurred June 14, 1871, and for some time he was
survived by his widow, who managed the business interests of the estate.
The family are all members of the Christian church and the name of
Shattuck has in this county been synonymous with progress in material,
intellectual and moral lines.
    Volney Shattuck, father of our subject, was born in Vigo county,
March 10, 1846, and was reared upon the home farm, early becoming
familiar with all the duties and labors incident to its development. His
educational privileges were somewhat limited owing to the primitive con-
dition of the schools of that time, yet by industry and application he man-
aged to acquire a fair business education and through reading and observa-
tion as the years have gone by has constantly broadened his knowledge.
In 1864, at the age of eighteen years, he responded to the country’s call
for troops, joining the One Hundred and Thirty-third Indiana Infantry,
after which he was stationed at Bridgeport, Alabama, until the cessation
of hostilities. When the war was over he returned home and engaged
in teaming and in the livery business. Later he established a grocery
store, but as the venture did not prove remunerative he sold out in 1877.
He afterward filled the office of deputy under Sheriff Hagart and also
under Sheriff Lankford, and, subsequently was appointed to a position on
the police force. In the spring of 1881, when the police force was reduced
to two patrolmen, the choice of the board was for Mr. Shattuck and
Charles Hutchinson. He has been an officer loyal to the public interests
in every respect and over the record of his official career there falls no
shadow of wrong nor suspicion of evil.
    On the 16th of September, 1869, Mr. Shattuck was married to Miss
Bessie Pearce, a native of Ross, Herefordshire, England. She was a mem-
ber of the Christian church and lived a life loyal to its teachings, passing