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Marcus S. Claypool. For many years an active factor in the industrial interests of Delaware County, Mr. Claypool, through his diligence and business ability, has won success and placed his name high on the roll of leading men of the county. He was born in Wayne County, Indiana, August 1, 1851, his parents being Austin B. and Hannah (Petty) Claypool, both also natives of Indiana. Mr. Austin Claypool, whose birth occurred in Fayette County, became a prominent farmer and stock raiser, whose enterprise and sound judgment in industrial affairs not only promoted his individual prosperity but also advanced the public welfare. He was foremost in all the large public enterprises in eastern Indiana, and to his untiring efforts was due in a great measure the securing of the Fort Wayne and the Chicago, Hamilton & Dayton railroads through the eastern section of Indiana. Much of his time was devoted to agricultural interests, and he was also a prominent factor in the fairs and live stock exhibits of his community, devoting his energies to the development and upbuilding of the resources of his section of Indiana until his useful life was ended, his death occurring on the 16th of January 1906, when he had reached the eighty-third milestone of the journey of life. Mrs. Claypool, whose birth occurred in Wayne County, Indiana, is still living, and is a representative of a family who has been prominent in the history of eastern Indiana since a very early day.
Marcus S. Claypool attended the schools of Wayne County during his early boyhood days, later becoming a student in the high schools of Dublin and Connorsville, where at the latter place he studied under the preceptorship of Harvey Netting, a well known and efficient educator of that time and who had also taught Mr. Claypool's father. Being thus fitted for the higher institutions of learning, he then entered Asbury College, from which he was graduated in 1872. Thus equipped with a splendid educational training and many natural gifts, Marcus S. Claypool entered the business world for himself. Coming thence to Muncie, he became associated with the Muncie Bank, which had been organized in 1871 by A. J. Claypool, his uncle, where he remained for seven years. At this time the gold fields of Colorado attracted him, and he spent five years in that state in search of the precious metal, but the high altitude of that state proved detrimental to his health, and he returned to this city and associated himself with the Muncie Banking Company and later with the Burson Banking Company. In 1886, however, these banks retired from business. During all these years Mr. Claypool had been greatly interested in horses, having as early as the 1860s engaged in their breeding, and in 1887 he went into the business extensively, having ever since been numbered among the largest and most successful breeders of fine trotting and light harness horses in Indiana, while to him also belongs the honor of being the oldest breeder in Indiana. Among some of his famous horses may be mentioned Sable Gift, with a record of 2:10, and Alan, 2:11 ¼. During the long period of twenty-three years he has served as Secretary of the agricultural fair, while for fourteen years he has been a member of the Board of Agriculture, and for six years has been a member of the Live Stock Sanitary Commission. He is also extensively engaged in farming east of Muncie.
On the 14th of January 1880, Mr. Claypool was united in marriage to Elizabeth, a daughter of John W. Burson, a well-known and prominent resident of Delaware County. Mr. Claypool's fraternal relations are with the Delaware Lodge of Masons. He has always had an abiding interest in all matters that subserve the progress and well being of his fellow men, and he is recognized as a power for good in the community where his influence has been directed.
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