Wade - Isaac Ferris
Source: Crawfordsville Sunday Star, April 3, 1898 - thanks muches to Kim H for the obit of this very important Montgomery Countian :)
I. F. Wade died on Thursday morning at his home on South Washington street after a quick decline. It was thought at one time that he might be able to rally. He was born in Middletown, Ohio in 1811. He came to this city when it was only a government land office. His wife died fifty years ago and he never remarried. His living children are Mrs. E.W. Smock, of Denver, Colorado; Mrs. Stover, of this city, and Tip Wade, of Lafayette.
*Note - Masonic Cemetery Records list him as a Soldier
*Note - Occupation - Stone cutter (there are many tombstones in Montgomery county that have the name "Wade" as the carver of the stone)
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday 1 April 1898
At 11 o’clock Thursday morning I. F. Wade died at his residence on South Washington Street, after an illness of several weeks.
Mr. Wade was one of the oldest and most respected residents of the city, coming here in 1830. He was born at Middletown, Ohio, in 1811, and in 1831 he established here the Crawfordsville Record, of which The Journal is the lineal descendant. His paper was intensely Whig and continued in existence for a number of years, being for quite a while the largest paper in the state. Mr. Wade’s wife died nearly fifty years ago and he leaves three living children. The children are Mrs. E. W. Smock, of Denver, Col.; H. H. Wade, of Lafayette, and Mrs. M. A. Stover, of this city. - - s
Source: Indianapolis News Fri 1 April 1898 p 9
Crawfordsville, April 1 – The death of IF Wade in this city yesterday removed the last of the truly pioneer journalists of Indiana. Mr. Wade was in his 91st year and while he had not engaged in newspaper work for a number of years, he continued an active business life until taken with the illness that proved fatal. Mr. Wade established the Crawfordsville Record in 1831, a Whig paper, which finally was merged into the Crawfordsville Journal. The Record was a five-column folio and was printed on a Ramage press. The forms were inked by the only process then known to the craft – by means of “the balls.” The paper being the largest in the State, caused a sensation when it appeared and opposing Andrew Jackson as bitterly as it did, it was quoted all over the country. The Record obtained its paper supply from the paper mill at Madison and once during the heat of a campaign it was suppressed for several weeks by the fact that the roads became so bad that no freight wagons could travel. The paper could not be published on wall paper, as were some of the Southern papers in war times as wall paper was then unheard of in Indiana. The publication was simply suspended until the rains ceased and the roads dried up. In the meantime the election occurred and the Whigs were ingloriously beaten. The Democrats of the community saw in the Record’s misfortune a special dispensation of Providence. When Mr. Wade finally got his paper supply, he made things warm for the opposition. One of Wade’s daughters married AP Luse, the well-know Chicago type founder, who, while a student at Wabash College, learned the printer’s trade in the Record office. The second editor of the Record is also still living in Crawfordsville. He is George W. Snyder, who purchased the paper some years after its establishment. Mr. Snyder is nearly 90 years old and is an invalid, although still active mentally. Until about four years ago he was publisher of a small paper at Jamestown.